Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The Network Challenge (Chapter 11)
Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and strategizing. Motivated by real examples...
Execution Excellence
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
A hands-on guidebook for making your strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance
Execution Excellence is the practitioner's guide to real-world implementation. Designed by a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) thought leader with 30 years of experience and over...
by T. Klikauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Written in the European tradition of Kant's philosophical trilogy on critique and Hegel's concept of ethical life it outlines the great traditions in ethical philosophy: Aristotelian virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, and utilitarianism. It presents modern ethics from Nietzsche, Adorno, and Habermas to Kohlberg's stages of moral development.
by Jean Garner Stead, W. Edward Stead
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
“Sustainable strategic management” refers to strategic management policies and processes that seek competitive advantages consistent with a core value of environmental sustainability.This book has been specifically written as a text to augment traditional graduate and undergraduate management...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Examines the alternative belief systems which contemporary organizational actors live by and through which they seek to find meaning within the dominant (neo)capitalist social order. This volume marks an attempt to move the study of belief forward within management and organization studies.
Combo Prospecting
The Powerful One-Two Punch That Fills Your Pipeline and Wins Sales
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
In a world where everyone is completely inundated by phone calls, drop-ins, pop-up ads, and junk mail, how can you and your product begin to make its impression known in the business world? How do you break through to impossible-to-reach executive buyers who are intent on blocking out the noise that...
by David A. Grootenhuis
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2001
A Practical Guide to Project Management is a clear, concise tool for busy managers to help them plan, organize and execute projects.
Written by an experienced and successful project manager, it offers insight into how to lead a group through a defined process and reach the desired goals. While...
Purchase Order Management Best Practices
Process, Technology, and Change Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
In todays competitive business climate, companies with effective procurement strategies are beginning to separate themselves from the competition. Successful purchase order management (POM) is now a critical core competency and organizations in all industries have started investigating tools and techniques...
Don't Avoid Gaps, Lead Through Them
People-Centered Leadership, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Too often, leaders see a 'gap' as a problem or something to avoid. In his work with leaders and organizations at growth-transition points, Scott Patchin has become convinced that the basic challenge of leadership comes down to creating and managing the gaps - those spaces between where you are now...
The Strategy Paradox
Why committing to success leads to failure (and what to do about it)
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2007
A compelling vision. Bold leadership. Decisive action. Unfortunately, these prerequisites of success are almost always the ingredients of failure, too. In fact, most managers seeking to maximize their chances for glory are often unwittingly setting themselves up for ruin. The sad truth is that most...
The Differentiated Workforce
Translating Talent into Strategic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009
Do you think of your company's talent as an investment to be managed like a portfolio? You should, according to authors Becker, Huselid, and Beatty, if you're interested in strategy execution.
Many companies fall into the trap of spending too much time and money on low performers, while high...
by Jeffrey Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
You can’t ask for more than efficient, effective operations.
Or can you?
Given today’s business landscape—increasing customer demand, global competition, lower trade barriers—being good isn’t enough. This groundbreaking guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to transform...
Corporate Success
A Fresh Focus on Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Organizations spend huge amounts of time developing strategies, and yet so many of them fail to yield positive results. The truth is, even the best strategies will not succeed if they are not fully adopted. For this to happen, employees must know exactly what personal behaviors align with the new...
Organizations
Social Systems Conducting Experiments
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
to do to ensure survival, and (2) principles for designing organizational structures in such a way that they can realize the required functions adequately. In the course of their elaboration, we will show that these principles are general – i.e., that they hold for all organizations. 1.5 Conceptual...