Proceedings of 2012 3rd International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (Iemi2012)
by Runliang Dou
Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment. Advances in Spatial Science.
Deliver exceptional results from your IT department using Agile approaches. Agile methodologies and practices have been proven over the past two decades to increase the relevance, quality, flexibility and business value of software solutions. The IT departments of many large and successful organizations (including Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and BT) have all delivered productivity gains through the adoption of Agile approaches. It worked for them, but will it work for you? Everything you want to k...
In this book, the authors integrate the three dominant approaches to organizational development-learning, performance, and change-to create a dynamic lens through which to analyze any HRD program or initiative.
Productive Reflection at Work
This book is an accessible entry point into the theory and practice of work reflection for students and practitioners. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, it covers management, education, organizational psychology and sociology, drawing on examples from Europe, the Middle East, North America and Australia. It traces reflection at work from an emphasis on training, through a focus on how organizations learn, to a concern with the necessary learning groups to operate effectively. It emphasizes p...
What the Best Ceos Know: 7 Exceptional Leaders and Their Lessons for Transforming Any Business
by Jeffrey Krames
Making Sense of Innovation in the Built Environment (Spon Research)
by Natalya Sergeeva
This book offers a new understanding of innovation in the built environment. The ways meaning of innovation is constructed has important implications for policymakers, project managers, academics and students. Through a longitudinal research study into innovation in firms and projects, the book addresses some key themes, challenges and concerns that practitioners face when managing innovation in the built environment. It examines the key drivers for innovation in the construction, engineering an...
Knowledge in Organisations (Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy)
by Laurence Prusak
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Organizational Learning at Work, Embracing the Challenges of the New Workplace
by John Sterman
TOYOTA Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lean Management
by Gabriel Iqbal
Inner Warrior, The: Developing the Courage for Personal and Organisational Change
by Beverley Stone
Organizational Innovation (History of Management Thought S.)
“Innovation” is the hottest buzzword in business. But what if our obsession with finding the next big thing has distracted us from the work that matters most? “The most important book I’ve read in a long time . . . It explains so much about what is wrong with our technology, our economy, and the world, and gives a simple recipe for how to fix it: Focus on understanding what it takes for your products and services to last.”—Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media It’s hard to avoid innovation ...
Strategic Reconfigurations
This path-breaking book provides unique insights into the organisational realities of strategic reconfigurations in uncertain markets, thus advancing the dynamic capability perspective. Dynamic capabilities continue to excite academics. It is a perspective that promises explanations of competitive advantage, but its full potential remains somewhat hidden behind abstract notions. This eloquent volume seeks to overcome the challenge by combining the theory and practice of organisational resource...
In this third edition of their best-selling classic, authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal explain the powerful tool of "reframing." The authors have distilled the organizational literature into a comprehensive approach for looking at situations from more than one angle. Their four frames view organizations as factories, families, jungles, and theaters or temples: The Structural Frame: how to organize and structure groups and teams to get resultsThe Human Resource Frame: how to tailor organizati...
What's in this book?Open this book and you will...- Overcome barriers - Control costs - Monitor progress - Get resultsLearn to manage change:- Recognizing the need- Making the right decisions- Leading the change- Middle Management- The proactive plan- The reactive plan- Communicating the change- Tools for Change ManagementWhat are Bullet Guides?The answers you need - now.Clear and concise guides in a portable format. Information is displayed in an easy-to-read layout with helpful images and tab...
Perspectives on Organizational Change in Asia (Journal of Organizational Change Management)
Designing for Growth Field Book, The: A Step-By-Step Project Guide
by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie