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 ...

Modelling the survival of financial and industrial enterprises

advantages, challenges and problems with the internal rating-based (IRB) method

Description: This book analyses the use of modelling in charting the survival of financial and industrial enterprises. The author shows how to use models effectively, and goes on to consider the pitfalls that can occur. The book contains plenty of practical examples, making this a ...

Cómo mejorar la calidad en un pequeño comercio

guía de implementación de la Espercificación AENOR de la Calidad de Servicio para el Pequeño Comercio

Managing technological change

a strategic partnership approach

Cadenas hoteleras. Análisis del top 10

Este libro analiza las diez megacadenas hoteleras más importantes del mundo, su historia, sus estrategias de crecimiento, su marketing...

El mito de la excelencia

A partir de una exhaustiva investigación de las tendencias de los consumidores actuales, los autores de este libro ponen en tela de juicio la estrategia de la mayoría de las empresas actuales que persiguen la excelencia en todos los aspectos de su actividad. Fred Crawford ...

The boundaryless organization

breaking the chains of organizational structure

In 1995 The Boundaryless Organization showed companies how to sweep away the artificial obstacles-such as hierarchy, turf, and geography-that get in the way of outstanding business performance. Now, in this completely revised edition of their groundbreaking work, management experts Ron Ashkenas, Dave Ulrich, Todd Jick ...

La empresa emergente, la confianza y los desafíos de la transformación

Focused energy

mastering bottom-up organization

In today's world of rapid change, companies must unleash energy at all levels to identify new opportunities. But unleashing energy creates centrifugal forces that can pull the organization apart. Setting energy in motion isn't enough-it has to be focused. No single theory can ...

Los innovadores de las grandes organizaciones

los personajes e ideas que influyeron en la creación de la empresa moderna