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...
Turbocharge How To Transform Your Business As A Heartrepreneur (R)
by Terri Levine
Built to Last examines 18 exceptional and long-lasting companies, including General Electric, Boeing, Disney, Hewlett-Packard and Proctor & Gamble, and compared each with one of its closest but less successful competitors, in order to discover exactly what has given it the edge over its rivals.Companies need two basic things to beat the competition: a guiding philosophy and a challenging mission. Built to Last provides a blueprint for success for companies around the world, who can learn how to...
Management Development in Poland (Routledge Revivals)
From 1990 onwards, the pace of change in Poland has been rapid, and the degree on international involvement has significantly increased. This text examines the role of "outsiders" in helping Polish individuals and institutions to develop a range of management education and training initiatives. Between 1991 and 1997 a range of international donors worked with Polish counterparts to change the management education and training system in Poland, in order to build sustainable business/training orga...
Entrepreneurship and Innovation During Austerity: Surviving Beyond the Great Recession
by Dr Ian Chaston
A key challenge companies face today is the transformation from a command & control structure to a "freedom, time and supportive collaboration" model. The old world of command and control did a fine job addressing the needs of the smoke-stack industrial companies of the 19th century, but entirely fails the fast-moving, highly innovative growth corporations of today. This book shows you how today's most successful companies form a kind of leadership sandwich, with top and bottom layers fundamenta...
Disrupt Bias, Drive Value (Center for Talent Innovation)
by Ripa Rashid and Laura Sherbin
Over the past decade, increasing competition has created immense opportunities for businesses globally. As such, it important to research new methods and systems for creating optimal business cultures. Cases on Quality Initiatives for Organizational Longevity is a scholarly publication that examines cases on practices in organizations and how they have facilitated transformation over the years. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as customer loyalty, benchmarking, and employee tra...
Prerequisites for Healthy Organizational Change
by Per Oystein Saksvik
The Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking (Routledge International Handbooks)
This Handbook presents Systems Thinking applied to management and policy. It shows both the diversity of the field and also patterns that unify this diversity. It offers a rich resource of approaches, theories, methodologies and methods to tackle complex ecological, social and organizational problems. It is widely held that Systems Thinking has undergone three somewhat distinct "waves" (or paradigms) of development. The first wave, from the 1950s to the 1970s, focused primarily on using expert,...
Can a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? ! And your journey to a magnetic culture starts by recognizing that good culture simply isn’t enough to drive top performance. With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are re-evaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. People are searching for teams with purpose, a compelling vision, and a sense of belonging where the...
The Digital Transformation Playbook (Columbia Business School Publishing)
by Dr David Rogers
The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
by W Edwards Deming
The name W. Edwards Deming is synonymous with the most insightful views, ideas, and commentary on management and quality control. Referred to as "the high prophet of quality" by the New York Times, Deming was instrumental in the spectacular rise of Japanese industry after World War II and influenced many of the world's most innovative managers in the ensuing decades. His original ideas led directly to the creation of relationships with suppliers and a plethora of quality initiatives.Now, with Th...
This book is concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose. Human survival has always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. People have a deep need to be creative and to belong. By creating positive organisations we can fulfil these needs and build a worthwhile society. Such organisations do not occur by chance; a positive organisation is created by the hard work of leaders and members and influenced by the way the organisation is designed...
From a leading business scholar comes this analysis of strategies and practices for sparking innovation within several of the world's major companies. Willard Zangwill's study of the innovation he addresses world-class practices of leading companies like General Electric, 3M, Canon, and others, providing a multi-step strategy for cultivating new products and development. Zangwill also explains the philosophy behind concurrent engineering, rapid learning cycles, target pricings, and more-in orde...