Seis Sigma para directivos

Managing change and transition

Dealing with change and crisis is difficult in any business environment, let alone one as turbulent as managers face today. Managing change and transition offers comprehensive advice and tools for controlling stress levels and sharing information during transition. Packed with timely answers, this is an ...

Learning by design

building sustainable organizations

Learning is an essential process for attaining and maintaining sustainability at both the individual and business level. Establishing a learning organization requires a wholehearted and sustained endeavour. This text facilitates such an endeavour by providing both a coherent framework for analysis and practical models for ...

Making sense of organizational change

This text offers a way of understanding the processes of organizational change. Rather than being structured as a "how to" book, it provides the reader with practical insights and skills for managing (or resisting) organizational change. Its strength lies in three key areas. Firstly, and ...

Enterprise programme management

delivering value

Many large scale projects are delivered over schedule and over budget. Programme management is a new approach to maximize the likelihood of successful change management. While being based around a set of techniques this book describes an approach to programme management that outlines the skills ...

Reingeniería y cambio organizativo

teoría y práctica

En este libro se reflexiona sobre el concepto de reingenería y las diferencias y/o relaciones con otras herramientas de gestión de empresas según los aspectos organizativos de las misma. Una importante parte del mismo se centra en la implantación de la reingeniería; se presentan ...

De la empresa jurásica a la e-mpresa e-volucionada

un nuevo modelo organizacional nacido de Internet y la Gestión del Conocimiento

Es un libro que provoca una profunda reflexión gracias a numerosos casos de empresas que lo hacen atractivo tanto para directivos como para académicos. Los autores plantean una tesis evolutiva como metáfora de las organizaciones, desde una empresa jurásica adaptada a la era industrial hasta ...

Organization structure

cybernetic systems foundation

Organization Structure: Cybernetic Systems Foundation utilizes a cybernetic systems framework for the study of organizations using GST (General Systems Theory) and presents a comprehensive formal view of organizations assessing regulation, coordination and adaptation managements. The use of GST in this book is in sharp contrast ...

Managing complex mergers

real world lessons in implementing succesful cross-cultural mergers and acquisitions

Everybody knows that most mergers regularly fail to deliver the promised benefits, in fact many actually destroy value. This is especially so where there are complex clashes of corporate or national culture to take into account. And yet the potential prize of a successful operation ...

El cambio en las organizaciones

un modelo dinámico e integrador

Este libro es el resultado de la investigación realizada, a lo largo de cinco años (1995-1999), sobre el cambio en las organizaciones. El texto que se presenta está basado en la tesis doctoral del propio autor, defendida en octubre de 1999. A partir del original ...

Organizational change in 100 days

a fast forward guide

In an age of rapidly changing technology, shifting global opportunities, and activist shareholders, executives are expected to respond quickly. These executives are seeking tools that will allow them to keep a step ahead of changes in the business environment, because they are critically aware of ...

Handbook of organizational learning and knowledge management

A state-of-the-art, international handbook for a field of inquiry that is still emergent and yet occupies a central position in contemporary management and organization theory. Marjorie Lyles and Mark Easterby-Smith draw together analyses and critical commentary from the leading experts on organizational learning and knowledge ...

The Blackwell Handbook of principles of organizational behavior

This international handbook identifies and explains 29 management principles - that can be applied to all types of work situations. It is based on knowledge accumulated by numerous experts over many years of research and consulting. The chapters cover a wide range of topics including: selection ...

Construir equipos de trabajo en la era de la conexión

Conocimiento y gestión

la gestión del conocimiento para la mejora de las personas y de las organizaciones

Este libro versa sobre el concepto de conocimiento desntro de las organizaciones, analizando tanto las teorías que vieron aparecer dicho concepto como los factores que intervinieron en la formulación del mismo. También estudia los diferentes modelos explicativos del capital intelectual, y ofrece una visión de ...

The wisdom of teams

creating the high-performance organization

Motorola relied heavily on teams to surpass its competition in building the lightest, smallest, and highest-quality cell phones. At 3M, teams are critical to meeting the company's goal of producing half of each year's revenues from the previous five years' innovations. Kodak's ...

The diversity scorecard

evaluating the impact of diversity on organizational performance

'The Diversity Scorecard' is designed to provide step-by-step instructions, worksheets and examples to help diversity executives and managers analyze and track the impact of their diversity initiatives to mobilize the organization for strategic culture change. Diversity is not a program; it is a systemic process ...

Global logistics and distribution planning

strategies for management

Effective logistics and distribution is essential to the long-term success of a company and is an area of constant innovation. Taking an international perspective, this book outlines the current situation and provides useful ideas and practical information on trends. This edition has been updated to ...

Gestión del conocimiento y calidad total

En el libro que aquí se presenta, en los dos primeros capítulos, se trata de clarificar conceptos y sistematizar las diversas metodologías y enfoques surgidos en este campo de estudio. Tras la delimitación de las diferentes nociones y modelos relacionados con la gestión del conocimiento ...

Los obreros del Polo

una cadena de montaje en el territorio

Los obreros del Polo parte de una afirmación que nos bombardea desde hace años en los medios de comunicación, y, también, en las ciencias. Se dice y repite que el trabajo está en vías de desaparición, que cada vez es menos necesario en la "sociedad ...