The effective organization

the nuts and bolts of business values

The Effective Organization explores the issues and challenges of levering information technology to respond more effectively to client needs and objectives both within a company and a market. Based on examples of successes and failures over the last decade, it provides a forum for discussion ...

Dynamic enterprise architecture

how to make it work

This book presents an approach to enterprise architecture, which enables corporations to achieve their business objectives faster. Focusing on the governance of IT in the organization, it provides tangible tools, advice and strategies for implementing and designing the architectural process within a corporation that will ...

Managing and organizations

an introduction to theory and practice

Managing and Organizations is a comprehensive, engaging, and accessible textbook that brings the most recent theoretical developments to bear on management practice, while explaining organizational and management issues from a practical standpoint. Vignettes from a variety of material, including films, novels, and newspapers illustrate key ...

La organización focalizada en la estrategia

cómo implementar el Balanced Scorecard

"Tener una excelente estrategia es muy importante para las organizaciones en el mundo competitivo de los negocios de hoy. Pero en la nueva economía se hace más importante que nunca la habilidad de las organizaciones para ejecutar esa estrategia y lograr así los resultados buscados ...

The Oxford handbook of organization theory

meta-theoretical perspectives

ÍNDICE: Five sets of questions are raised in the handbook, each one of which is dealt with in a separate section: 1) What does a science of organizations consist of? What counts as valid knowledge in organization theory and why? How do different paradigms view ...

La organización por dentro

por qué las personas y las organizaciones se comportan como lo hacen

¿Qué clase de directivo es usted? ¿Cómo consigue que las personas cambien o aprendan nuevos modos de proceder? ¿Cuál es el secreto de un buen equipo? Tanto si es usted un director general como si es un encargado de un centro de trabajo, tanto si ...

Managing organizational change

a multiple perspectives approach

Managing Organizational Change, by Palmer/Dunford/Akin, provides managers with an awareness of the issues involved in managing change, moving them beyond "one-best way" approaches and providing them with access to multiple perspectives that they can draw upon in order to enhance their success in ...

Best practices in leadership development and organization change

how the best companies ensure meaningful change and sustainable leadership

In this important book, successful organizations#including well-known companies such as Agilent Technologies, Corning, GE Capital, Hewlett Packard, Honeywell Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, MIT, Motorola, and Praxair#share their most effective approaches, tools, and specific methods for leadership development and organizational change. These exemplary organizations serve ...

Y ahora ¿qué?

claves para gestionar una crisis ¡y salir fortalecido!

En la mayoría de los casos existe un denomimador común:los directivos,los empresarios, viven el día a día convencidos de que "eso a nosotros jamás nos ocurrirá".Mayúsculo error, porque "eso" ocurre. Entonces, entre la desesperación y la impotencia,salta la gran cuestión:Y ...

Capabilities for strategic advantage

leading through technological innovation

In a competitive environment rivals will quickly respond to changes and improvements. This new contribution demonstrates that companies need to have a methodology for developing strategy with regard to future technology. New technology needs to be integrated into a strategic process and companies who are ...

Many unhappy returns

one man's quest to turn arround the most unpopular organization in America

When Charles O. Rossotti became commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, the agency had the largest customer base--and the lowest approval rating--of any institution in America. Mired in scandal, caught in a political maelstrom, and beset by profound management and technology problems, the ...

Beyond control

managing strategic alignment through corporate dialogue

Technology has made it possible to apply a new management philosophy. Leaders can let go and still be in control. They can involve key people without losing momentum. Companies can consistently measure organizational capability over time, and accurately benchmark 'soft' management areas, and a virtual ...

The high performance organization

creating dynamic stability and sustainable success

Increased global competition, aided and abetted by technology, has meant that organizations in every sector are having to compete on the basis of speed, cost, quality, innovation, flexibility and customer- responsiveness. If organizations wish to be able to compete successfully in the global marketplace, they ...

Designing the customer-centric organization

a guide to strategy, structure, and process

Designing the Customer-Centric Organization offers todayâ #s business leaders a comprehensive customer-centric organizational model that clearly shows how to put in place an infrastructure that is organized around the demands of the customer. Written by Jay Galbraith (the foremost expert in the field of organizational ...

(E)Evolution

organizations and the dynamics of the environment

(R)Evolution studies the adaptation of industrial organisations to the dynamics of the environment by drawing an analogy with evolutionary biology, by extensively studying literature in management science, and by case studies. These investigations have lead to the insight that companies might evolve slower than ...

Estrategia de innovación

El objetivo de este libro es proporcionar a los estudiantes y directivos los conceptos y herramientas relacionados con la tecnología y la innovación. El resultado es un manual simultáneamente teórico y práctico. Es teórico porque agrupa de forma coherente las ideas y propuestas de los ...

Leadership and the art of change

a practical guide to organizational transformation

Most books on leadership and organizational change focus on descriptive theory and research, simplistic and questionable gimmicks, or on biographical sketches of successful leaders whose character students are encouraged to emulate. Business students find the first kind of book boring. Faculty find the second kind ...

La estrategia de la ardilla

el poder de las fábulas como motor del cambio empresarial

Una mirada deliciosa y refrescante sobre la gestión empresarial, con múltiples aportaciones sobre cómo los cuentos crean significado y son capaces de inspirar incluso a los directivos más cínicos a tomar la iniciativa. Después de leer este libro, su mensaje central perdurará en la cabeza ...

Empresas valiosas

del capital intelectual a la generación de valor

ÍNDICE: Introducción.- 1. Capital intelectual.- 2. Capital intelectual- Estrategia.- 3. Caso Unión Fenosa.- 4. Conclusiones.- 5. Bibliografía.

Knowledge based business

Surveys of knowledge management initiatives reveal that it is becoming one of the highest priorities in more and more companies, reflecting the recognition that a company's knowledge and how it is nurtured and managed can dramatically increase a firm's competitive advantage. This book ...