Always change a winning team

why reinvention and change are prerequisites for business success

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.

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 ...

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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 ...