Data mining

next generation challenges and future directions

Data mining, or knowledge discovery, has become an indispensable technology for businesses and researchers in many fields. Drawing on work in such areas as statistics, machine learning, pattern recognition, databases, and high performance computing, data mining extracts useful information from the large data sets now ...

W. E. Deming

critical evaluation in business and management

W. Edwards Deming's name is synonymous with Total Quality Management. His ideas were at first enthusiastically adopted by Japanese businesses. Deming is recognized as putting Japan on the road to leadership in international business and industry and was awarded the Second Order of the ...

Risk

how to make decisions in an uncertain world

Every business decision takes us into a future of opportunity and danger. To move forward with confidence, we need to get to grips with risk and uncertainty. Risk is a concise overview of the principles of risk management and decision making. It will help you ...

La toma de decisiones en la práctica

Ante la enorme dificultad que para el estudiante tienen las materias de carácter cuantitativo y, en especial, las relacionadas con la Matemática Financiera y la Teoría Decisional,ofrecemos al estudiante, y pensando exclusivamente en él,esta obra totalmente práctica de manera que,a través de ...

Herramientas para la toma de decisiones con Microsoft Excel

herramientas informáticas para la empresa

Etapas del proceso decisiorio. Cubo de decisión. Decsiones bajo incertidumbre. Árbol de decisión. Maximización- Minimización

Decision analysis for management judgment

In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis plays a key role in helping managers gain a greater understanding of the situations they face. This updated classic offers unrivalled coverage of the problems associated with unaided managerial decision making and the methods designed to overcome them ...

Performance drivers

a practical guide to using the balanced scorecard

A Practical Guide to Using the Balanced Scorecard performance drivers Nils-Goran Olve, Jan Roy and Magnus Wetter Since the groundbreaking work of Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton, the concept of the Balanced Scorecard has achieved increasing popularity in the business world. Previously, many ...

Advances in understanding strategic behaviour

Game Theory, experiments and bounded rationality: essays in honour of Werner Güth

This volume contains sixteen original articles documenting recent progress in understanding strategic behaviour. In their variety they reflect an entire spectrum of coexisting approaches: from orthodox game theory via behavioral game theory, bounded rationality and economic psychology to experimental economics. There are plenty of new ...

En la espiral de la innovación

modelo Benchmarking y experiencias de empresas innovadoras en España (Inditex, Ingenio, Irizar, MRW, e-Human@, Aldebaran Innovation, Pharma- Mar, Tecasa)

EN LA ESPIRAL DE LA INNOVACIÓN es un libro que plasma en un modelo de marketing, el mix de las empresas innovadoras más significativas del panorama español actual. El modelo utiliza siete variables: Cliente, Calidad, Comunicación, Proyecto, Tecnología, Estilo de Dirección y Conocimiento.. Y en ...

Enfoques económicos para el análisis de las organizaciones

Este libro presenta una introducción a los enfoques económicos para el análisis de las organizaciones más importantes en la actualidad. Los autores hacen un importante esfuerzo para sintetizar, sistematizar y dar coherencia a las distintas teorías y enfoques dentro de la economía de las organizaciones ...

Architectures of knowledge

firms, capabilities, and communities

Architectures of Knowledge seeks to demonstrate that a recognition of the importance of the role of knowledge in ecnomics may lead to a new conception of the firm and public policy. To construct an alternative theorisation of knowledge formation and knowledge governance in firms, the ...

The modern firm

organizational design performance and growth

The Modern Firm develops powerful conceptual frameworks for analyzing the interrelations between organizational design features, competitive strategy and the business environment. Written in a non-technical language, the book is nevertheless based on rigorous modeling and draws on numerous examples from the eighteenth century fur trading ...

Managing change/changing managers

The topic of change management presents students with many challenges. One of the most difficult is making sense of the plethora of guru and hero-manager literature. Managing Change/Changing Managers is an innovative textbook that encourages readers to rigorously question popular management theory, presenting a ...

How Canon got its flash back

the innovative turnaround tactics of Fujio Mitarai

Fujio Mitarai is one of the ablest, most clear-sighted corporate chieftains in the global economy today. Whether cutting unprofitable businesses, pursuing precedent-breaking partnerships or pushing path- breaking manufacturing innovations, Mitarai has immensely improved Canon's financial condition. This must-read book details how Mitarai achieved great ...

The economics of knowledge

A practical, step-by-step reference guide for improving your customer service through the nine rules of great service. Customer service is about much more than just serving customers. But what exactly is good customer service, and how do you go about delivering it? Designed to help ...

Business solutions on demand

transform the business to deliver real customer value

Based partly on IBM#s own transformation, and partly on the transformations that IBM has helped its clients to achieve, this ground- breaking book shows how companies can increase sales and improve margins by introducing a range of solutions INDICE 1.Business strategy and transformation ...

Building a knowledge driven organization

This is the first book to focus on the people side of knowledge management what it takes to get employees to contribute to a knowledge system. Robert Buckman explains how to orchestrate this culture change, drawing from the lessons learned by Buckman Laboratories the leader ...

Tales for change

using storytelling to develop people and organizations

The link between storytelling and the concept of change and transition is as old as some of the stories themselves. The frog turns into the handsome prince, the ugly duckling into a swan and Cinders into a princess. However, storytelling is not just the province ...

Making sense of change management

a complete guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational

Written for academics and professionals alike, this book is an attempt to make change easier. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome, rather than a dreaded ...

Organization development and transformation

managing effective change

Organization Development and Transformation is a paperback collection of 46 readings that focuses on how people function with and within organizations, and how to make the working relationship function best. This edition includes coverage of classic OD articles, coverage of topics such as self-directed teams ...