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Innovating the Corporationby Thomas D. Kuczmarski; Arthur Middlebrooks; Jeffrey Swaddling
McGraw-Hill 2000; US$ 34.95Intended as a dynamic, hands-on guide, this book offers a comprehensive look at strategic planning, understanding a company's innovation vision, and building an innovation team. Includes profiles of well-known companies that have adopted an innovation plan. more...
Corporate Reputationby Leslie Gaines-Ross
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008; US$ 39.95Praise For Corporate Reputation: 12 Steps to Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation "In a sea of business books, Corporate Reputation is a beacon of light for all leaders and future leaders looking for direction in the treacherous waters of a volatile business environment. It delivers a message that's provocative, insightful, and needs to be heard." —Heidi Henkel Sinclair, Director of Communications, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation "Every CEO, senior executive, and, increasingly, board member now appreciates the importance of building and protecting a company's reputation. Anyone who depends upon or shapes a company's reputation—customers, employees, news media, NGOs, and bloggers—will benefit from reading Dr. Gaines-Ross's... more...
Taking Brand Initiativeby Mary Jo Hatch; Majken Schultz
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2008; US$ 29.95Taking Brand Initiative offers a revolutionary approach to corporate branding that looks beyond the marketing value of brands company-to-customer and the HR significance of brands company-to-employee. It places the management of brands at the senior level of management as it radiates throughout the organization. In this groundbreaking book, international branding thought leaders, Mary Jo Hatch and Make Schultz explain how a company's brand is just as important to ÒoutsidersÓÑpoliticians, suppliers, and analysts as it is to company insiders. They show how only the corporate brand can integrate all the company's staff functions and provide a vision for competition and globalization. more...
The Power of Pullby John Hagel; John Seely Brown
Basic Books 2010; US$ 27.50Three celebrated thinkers and business consultants explain the striking implications of our shift from a Push economy to a Pull economy more...
Strategic Reconfigurationsby Stuart Wall; Carsten Zimmerman; Ronald Klingebiel
Edward Elgar Publishing 2010; US$ 40.00Offers insights into the organisational realities of strategic reconfigurations in uncertain markets, advancing the dynamic capability perspective. This book integrates dynamic capabilities with organisational realities as well as with adjacent theories of strategic innovation and entrepreneurship. more...
Corporate Reputationby Ronald J. Burke; Graeme Martin; Cary L. Cooper
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 134.95According to Ernst & Young, the investment community believes that up to 50 percent of a company's value is intangible based mostly on corporate reputation. This book contains academic content along with practical contributions, developed by those serving as consultants or working in organizations specialising in corporate reputation and its management or recovery. Any book that is going to do justice to a subject that is so complex and intangible needs imagination, depth and range, and this is exactly what the contributors bring with them. more...
Improving Business Process Performanceby Joseph Raynus
CRC Press 2011; US$ 79.95The managerial practices that drove industry for decades have become increasingly insufficient to support the increasing rate of change. Without adequate quantitative understanding of the progress made to achieve organizational goals, corporations quickly lose their competitive edge. They are constantly challenged to reshape their operations, improve performance, and adapt swiftly to new markets and opportunities. Yet with new methodologies and frameworks such as BPM, BPI, Six Sigma, Lean, and Executive Dashboard, many question where to begin. This text surveys and integrates quantitative approaches that have become very popular in recent years: Goal Driven Measurements (GQM), Business Process Management (BPM), Lean Methodology, and the Balanced... more...
Organization Designby Christine Irwin; Patricia Cichocki
Kogan Page 2011; US$ 44.95Organization Design provides a complete road map to design and delivery and covers areas including: job design, sizing the organization and change management. more...
New Industrial Geographyby Trevor J. Barnes; Meric S. Gertler
Routledge 1999; US$ 240.00The New Industrial Geography focuses on the most important industrial-geographical changes that have taken place in Europe and North America over the last twenty years. It brings together some of the leading scholars in the field. more...
Organisational Learning and Effectivenessby John Denton
Routledge 1998; US$ 60.95Based upon indepth case studies of companies such as Coca-Cola and 3M this book is an original and comprehensive analysis of learning organisations. Includes interviews with over seventy managers and eployees. more...