Auditing for managers

the ultimate risk management tool

At a time when many organizations are cutting their internal auditing departments, it's imperative that every manager understands the fundamentals of internal audits. This book is designed as a corporate resource to help managers and their teams set standards for self- auditing, risk management ...

Breakthrough business results with MVT

a fast,cost-free "Secret Weapon" for boosting sales, cutting expenses, and improving any business process

MVT(TM) (Multivariable Testing) has been heralded as a breakthrough business tool in major publications such as Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Business-Week. Although MVT could become one of the most widely used management tools and has been applied by leading companies ...

Managerial economics

a problem-solving approach

Managerial economics, meaning the application of economic methods in the managerial decision-making process, is a fundamental part of any business or management course. This textbook covers all the main aspects of managerial economics: the theory of the firm; demand theory and estimation; production and cost ...

Toma de decisiones y gobierno de organizaciones

En este libro se expone un modelo de "toma de decisiones" que ayuda al directivo a abordar los problemas a los que se enfrenta en su tarea de gobierno;se analiza el proceso de toma de decisiones y su impacto en las organizaciones.La dirección ...

Gestión de riesgos corporativos

marco integrado

Este documento, emitido por el Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) formado por representantes de la American Accounting Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Financial Executives International, Institute of Management Accountants y The Institute of Internal Auditors, se ha constituido como ...

Inteligencia intuitiva

¿por qué sabemos la verdad en dos segundos?

En este libro revolucionario, el periodista estadounidense Malcolm Gladwell nos explica cómo pensamos sin pensar, de dónde proceden las decisiones que parece que tomamos en dos segundos, pero que no son tan simples como aparentan. ¿Por qué algunas personas son brillantes tomando decisiones y otras ...

Innovation happens elsewhere

open source as business strategy

It's a plain fact: regardless of how smart, creative, and innovative your organization is, there are more smart, creative, and innovative people outside your organization than inside. Open source offers the possibility of bringing more innovation into your business by building a creative community ...

Managers of innovation

insights into making innovation happen

ÍNDICE: Preface Part I: Introduction:. Innovation: Problems and Possibilities. The Current State of Knowledge about Innovation Part II: Managers' Accounts of Innovation:. From Tight Control to the Edge of Anarchy: Managing Innovation in Telecommunications. Managing Creative Workers in an Innovative Way. Contrasting Approaches to Innovation ...

Innovation management

strategy and implementation using the pentathlon framework

Designed primarily for students on MBA and executive education courses, this practical text introduces a new 'pentathlon' framework for discussing the key issues in managing innovation. Presenting key theoretical findings and showcasing best practice from successful organizations through more than sixty international case examples, the ...

Managing innovation

integrating technological, market and organiztional change

Managing Innovation provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage, innovation at the operational and strategic levels. Specifically, it integrates the management of market, organizational and technological change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations. The management ...

Insight in innovation

mannaging innovation by understanding the laws of innovation

Innovation is an ancient art, may be as old as 500,000 years, but managing innovation is a relatively young management technique, only a few decades old, and has received much less attention than other aspects of innovation such as creativity, entrepreneurship or venturing. This ...

Think, play, do

technology, innovation, and organization

The book outlines a new way of thinking about innovation. Traditional definitions of 'research', 'development' and 'engineering', imply a progressive linearity which doesn't exist in reality. They are also associated with organizational departments, which are breaking down where once they existed, and are in ...

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 ...

Creatividad e innovación en empresas y organizaciones

técnicas para la resolución de problemas

El libro, además de explicar una serie de principios y de ideas sobre el concepto de creatividad, presenta una metodología para la resolución creativa de problemas, y ofrece una serie de técnicas, hasta 60, para abordarlos con mentalidad creativa. Algunas de estas técnicas son conocidas ...

Career warfare

10 rules for building a successful personal brand and fighting to keep it

As the youngest-ever CEO of John Hancock Financial Services and the bestselling author of Brand Warfare, David D'Alessandro knows plenty about breaking away from the pack. "In Career Warfare", this ultimate insider tells the true story of how he learned the unwritten rules of ...

A bias for action

how effective managers harness their willpower, achieve results, and stop wasting time

In "A Bias for Action", Sumantra Ghoshal and Heike Bruch reveal that only 10 per cent of managers act purposefully to get truly important work done. "A Bias for Action" shows that great managers produce results not by motivating others, but by engaging their own ...

IT governance

how top performers manage IT decision rights for superior results

Firms with superior IT governance have more than 25% higher profits than firms with poor governance given the same strategic objectives. These top performers have custom designed IT governance for their strategies. Just as corporate governance aims to ensure quality decisions about all corporate assets ...

El shock del management

la revolución del conocimiento

The seven-day weekend

a better way to work in the 21st Century

Email and paperwork have invaded homes. Most people know how to work on Sunday evening. But no one yet knows how to go to the cinema on Monday afternoon. A new way to work is needed. Since "Maverick!" was published, the growth and success of ...

Management