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Corporate Vision and Rapid Technological Changeby Peter Swann; Jas Gill
Routledge 1993; US$ 200.00This book examines the role of strategic visions of future technological development in the evolution of market structure. more...
Creative Technological Changeby Ian McLoughlin
Routledge 1999; US$ 77.95Exploring the organisational challenges posed by new technology, This book draws on a wide range of thinking from organisation theory, innovation studies and the sociology of technology. more...
Corporate Voodooby Rene Carayol; David Firth
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2001; US$ 24.95Corporate Voodoo offers a framework for creating a Fast Business, either from scratch or when working with an old economy legacy organisation. And it extends its Fast Principles from work into the whole of life to answer the question: what are the sources of personal power, happiness and success in a Fast world? more...
Innovation as Strategic Reflexivityby Jon Sundbo; Lars Fuglsang
Routledge 2002; US$ 198.00This book presents a new view of innovation, seeking to disclose how strategic reflexivity is embodied in specific innovation practices and management roles. more...
Future Proofingby David Birchall; George Tovstiga
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002; US$ 12.99Fast track route to understanding and managing the future. Covers all the key aspects of future proofing, from identifying alternative scenarios and tracking technology change to developing a blueprint for action and communicating it within the organization Examples and lessons from benchmark businesses, including ABB, Shell and Anglo American, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Gary Hamel, Peter Senge and Chris Argyris Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the... more...
Technology Managementby Amy Zuckerman
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002; US$ 12.99Fast track route to managing technology Covers the key areas of technology management from knowing which technology trends count and managing technology change, to devising the right level of technology training and and selecting technologies that match your business strategy. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including ACUNIA, Nextel, and Seven-Eleven Japan and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Marc Adreesen and Timothy Berners-Lee Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide more...
E-Peopleby Sue Weekes; Scott Beagrie
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002; US$ 12.99Fast track route to mastering the online people strategies that will help you manage the workforce more effectively Covers the key areas of online people strategies, including how Web-based technology can streamline and automate traditional HR tasks, transform HR into a more strategic function and help to build a more effective and motivated workforce Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including BP, Exult, Getty Images, IBM, ICL and Oracle, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including David Ulrich, Peter Drucker, David Cannon, Christopher Boone and John Sullivan Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide more...
Taking Ideas to Marketby Tim Jones; Simon Kirby; Anna Soisalo
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2002; US$ 12.99Fast track route to successfully taking new ideas to market Covers the key areas of innovation, from generating new concepts and selecting the best opportunities to managing a new product launch and ensuring effective delivery Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including ABB, eBay, 3M and Zara, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Edward de Bono, John Kao, Robert Cooper, Gary Hamel and Clayton Christiansen Includes a comprehensive resources guide more...
Strategic Innovationby Nancy Tennant Snyder; Deborah L. Duarte
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 50.00Strategic Innovation offers a flexible, customizable template that managers, executives, and business leaders can use to introduce an effective innovation strategy throughout their organization. The authors, Nancy Tennant Snyder and Deborah L. Duarte, provide the tools needed to craft a workable strategy for embedding innovation as a core competency across an enterprise. Instead of innovation for innovation's sake, the authors offer a proven business-focused way to change a culture from point-in-time innovations from a few to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyone. Based on the real-life example of Whirlpool a solid company with a significant track record and global reach— Strategic Innovation shows how the... more...
Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Winsby Richard Farson; Ralph Keyes
Simon & Schuster 2003; US$ 14.99Success in today's business economy demands nonstop innovation. But fancy buzzwords, facile lip service, and simplistic formulas are not the answer. Only an entirely new mindset -- a new attitude toward success and failure -- can transform managers' thinking, according to Richard Farson, author of the bestseller Management of the Absurd , and Ralph Keyes, author of the pathbreaking Chancing It: Why We Take Risks , in this provocative new work. According to Farson and Keyes, the key to this new attitude lies in taking risks. In a rapidly changing economy, managers will confront at least as much failure as success. Does that mean they'll have failed? Only by their grandfathers' definition of failure. Both success and failure are steps toward... more...