Download or read book The Three Box Solution written by Vijay Govindarajan and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Innovate and Execute Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet the performance requirements of the existing business—one that is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader’s innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for allocating the organization’s energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls “the three boxes”: • Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability • Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices, and attitudes that could inhibit innovation • Box 3: The future—Convert breakthrough ideas into new products and businesses The three-box framework makes leading innovation easier because it gives leaders a simple vocabulary and set of tools for managing and measuring these different sets of behaviors and activities across all levels of the organization. Supported with rich company examples—GE, Mahindra & Mahindra, Hasbro, IBM, United Rentals, and Tata Consultancy Services—and testimonies of leaders who have successfully used this framework, this book solves once and for all the practical dilemma of how to align an organization on the critical but competing demands of innovation.

Download or read book Managing the Future written by Haridimos Tsoukas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, leading authors explore ways in which organizationscan develop their ability to manage the future. An exploration of the ways in which organizations can developtheir ability to manage the future. Consists of ten papers written by authors from both sides ofthe Atlantic and from Asia, all of whom are distinguished scholarsin the fields of strategy or organizational learning. Addresses key questions about how organizational foresight canbe conceptualized and developed, and the extent to which it ispossible. The papers are prefaced by a foreword from Spyros Makridakisand an introduction from the editors. Helps to shape a new research agenda, and so will be ofinterest to academics, as well as to students andpractitioners.

Download or read book The Future of the Past written by Alexander Stille and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing look at the cultural consequences of technological change and globalization Space radar, infrared photography, carbon dating, DNA analysis, microfilm, digital data bases-we have better technology than ever for studying and preserving the past. And yet the by-products of technology threaten to destroy--in one or two generations--monuments, works of art, and ways of life that have survived thousands of years of hardship and war. This paradox is central to our age. We use the Internet to access and assess infinite amounts of information--but understand less and less of its historical context. Globalization may eventually benefit countries around the world; it will also, almost certainly, lead to the disappearance of hundreds of regional dialects, languages, and whole societies. In The Future of the Past, Alexander Stille takes us on a tour of the past as it exists today and weighs its prospects for tomorrow, from China to Somalia to Washington, D.C. Through incisive portraits of their protagonists, he describes high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; efforts to preserve Latin within the Vatican; the digital glut inside the National Archives, which may have lost more information in the information age than ever before; an oral culture threatened by a "new" technology: writing itself. Wherever it takes him, Stille explores not just the past, but our ideas about the past, how they are changing--and how they will have to change if our past is to have a future.

Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology written by Charles E. Orser, Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to today’s historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field. The broad range of topics covered in this volume allows for specificity within individual chapters, while building to a cumulative overview of the field of historical archaeology as it stands, and where it could go next. Archaeological research is discussed in the context of current sociological concerns, different approaches and techniques are assessed, and potential advances are posited. This is a comprehensive treatment of the sub-discipline, engaging key contemporary debates, and providing a series of specially-commissioned geographical overviews to complement the more theoretical explorations. This book is designed to offer a starting point for students who may wish to pursue particular topics in more depth, as well as for non-archaeologists who have an interest in historical archaeology. Archaeologists, historians, preservationists, and all scholars interested in the role historical archaeology plays in illuminating daily life during the past five centuries will find this volume engaging and enlightening.

Download or read book The Complete Total Competitiveness Theory written by Dirceu (Dirk) Maramaldo and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dirk is a graduate Civil Engineer from the Mackenzie University (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Automobile Engineer from the General Motors Institute - GMI (Flint, Michigan - USA) and has specialized courses on Psychology, Human Relations, Human Development, Marketing, Business Strategy and Business Administration from Brazil and abroad. In his executive career in the Automotive and Railway industries in Brazil, he was Director of Product Engineering and Quality Control of Chrysler Brazil. He was also head of the Product and Marketing Committees for Chrysler Brazil and Argentina. Dirk was President of Fresinbra Industrial S.A., the Brazilian subsidiary of Westinghouse Airbrakes / American Standard Co. and was simultaneously Director of all the other American Standard Corp. companies in Brazil. At this time he was, by invitation, a member of the Young Presidents Club (Paris, France), which is exclusive for large company Presidents under 40 years of age. In 1982 he was the founder and only President of DM-PRODUTIVISMO S/C LTDA. a consulting firm specializing in Value Analysis and Value Engineering, business development, competitiveness, quality and management techniques. During this period, Dirk had as clients many of the largest companies in Brazil (the 100 largest of Exame Magazine), and was Member of the Council for industries, hospitals and commerce companies. Among his international clients, Dirk consulted for Leighton Contractors (Asia) in Hong Kong and for John Holland Group, in Camberra and Sidney, Australia. Dirk was responsible for the introduction of new techniques in Brazil like Value Analysis and Engineering and the Theory of Constraints, and developed successful new productivity, quality and competitiveness techniques, implemented with impressive results in companies in Brazil, China and Australia. Dirk published articles on Management in the U.S.A., Europe, Japan, China and several Latin American countries. He was awarded in 1988 by SAVE International the Value Engineering Merit Award and in 1997 with a Special Recognition Award by SJVE - The Society of Japanese Value. He was also merit awarded by several Universities in Brazil, Argentina and Chile.

Download or read book Managing the Future written by Stephen M. Millett and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to forecasting and strategic planning for organizations

Download or read book Brilliant Time Management written by Mike Clayton and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it’s getting on top of your workload, finding the time to start something new or simply making more time to relax, Brilliant Time Management will help you to get there. Based on over 20 years of managing time effectively, Mike Clayton shares with you winning principles that helped him launch two successful businesses, lead and manage teams of people, juggle a busy family life with a demanding career, and much more. Discover how to take control of your time and achieve more than you ever thought possible – with time to spare!

Download or read book Product Management in Practice written by Matt LeMay and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product management has become a critical connective role for modern organizations, from small technology startups to global corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product management is about building products that people love. The real-world practice of product management is often about difficult conversations, practical compromises, and hard-won incremental gains. In this book, author Matt LeMay focuses on the CORE connective skills— communication, organization, research, execution—that can build a successful product management practice across industries, organizations, teams, andtoolsets. For current and aspiring product managers, this book explores:? On-the-ground tactics for facilitating collaboration and communication? How to talk to users and work with executives? The importance of setting clear and actionable goals? Using roadmaps to connect and align your team? A values-first approach to implementing Agile practices? Common behavioral traps that turn good product managers bad

Download or read book Ride the Waves Volume Ii written by Tracy Friesen and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you find yourself feeling upset, frustrated, or overwhelmed more often than you think is good for you? You're not alone. Tracy works with people every day who struggle with the same feelings you do. But now theres a way you can overcome these emotional setbacks and begin feeling more inspired, confident, and sure of yourself in as little as 5 minutes a day! In Ride The Waves, youll find 366 ways to master your emotions, and develop the wisdom and inspiration you need to achieve what you really want in life. Thats one for every day of the year! Youll awaken your inner power a little more every day, as Tracy leads you step-by-step through this journey of discovery into how you create your reality through the choices you make. Yes, Life really is all about choice and every choice we make is a conscious decision. Ride the Waves shines the bright light of truth on the fact that we are each responsible for our own life. Its up to you to create the life you want! Grab Ride the Waves today and let Tracy show you how to take control of your life one emotion at a time!

Download or read book The Past Present and Future of Sustainable Management written by Stephen Cummings and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We might think sustainable management is a new idea, created in the 1960s by enlightened modern scientists. We might think that it puts us on a new path, beyond what management was originally about. But this is not true. Sustainable management is as old as civilization and was a foundation stone of management science as it was formed in the first decade of the 20th century. Recovering this forgotten past provides deeper roots and greater traction to advance sustainable management in our own times. This book charts a history of sustainable management from premodern times, through the birth of management science as an offshoot of the conservation movement, to the present day. The authors argue that modern tools like Triple Bottom Line reporting and multiple Sustainable Development Goals may be less useful than a return to a more fundamental and holistic view of management.

Download or read book Memory and the Management of Change written by Emily Keightley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the mnemonic imagination creatively uses the resources of photography and music in the registering and management of change. Looking in particular at major transitions and turning points, it covers key issues of identity for the remembering subject and key scales of remembering in vernacular milieus. The book explores the connections of memory and remembering with transformations in intimate relationships, migration and spatial mobilities, loss and bereavement involving loved ones or those with whom close affinities are felt, resulting in a volume that helps fill the gap in memory studies caused by lack of sustained ethnographic work. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on the processes and practices of remembering in everyday life, it demonstrates how the mnemonic imagination is central to the management of change and transition, and how its cross-temporal interanimations of past, present and future are fostered and facilitated by the visual and sonic resources of photography and recorded music.

Download or read book New quality management for the nonprofit sector written by Guido Cuyvers and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a long time, quality has been the center of attention in the nonprofit sector, influenced by all kinds of developments in society. Due to, among other things, the interference of the government and the increasing competition, all divisions in the nonprofit sector are obliged to work systematically with their quality. Quality has become necessary. However, as more people gain experience with quality assessments, visitations, and accreditations, so does the criticism. This has to do with how quality is assessed and with the criteria that are used. We will examine this critically in this book. Many questions remain unanswered, and contradictions have not been resolved. Moreover, it is no easy task to have all noses pointing in the same direction. In short, there is still work to be done. This book broadens the traditional vision of quality and quality assurance to a vision and approach that is compatible with the support of the organization’s missions in the nonprofit sector. Incidentally, we will speak of quality development rather than quality assurance. The use of the term ‘quality development’ hopes to inspire people to look differently at quality and how their organization deals with it. Furthermore, this book provides nonprofit organizations with methodologies and tools that can help in the process of permanent quality development. The pursuit of quality for nonprofit organizations is approached from a development perspective and a broader social context. This distinguishes it from the traditional quality management manuals. It offers a constructive and appreciative approach that is compatible with the specific mission of various nonprofit organizations (such as education, health care, social work, and government). The approach is also integral because everyone in the organization, as well as the external partners, is involved.

Download or read book How Organizations Manage the Future written by Hannes Krämer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering edited collection explores the question of how organizations manage the future. Moving away from traditional research which focuses on the past, the editors problematize the future as an inherent but under-examined part of organizing. Arguing that the future acts as both a driver of and a performative result of organizing, the book asks how organizations conceptualize and deal with the future and what processes are in place to handle things to come. With empirical research examining the practices, discourses and concepts that play key roles, organizations and their approaches are scrutinized. A timely compendium of theoretical discussion and practical implications on the relevance of the future, this book is essential reading for those interested in organization, sociology and management studies.

Download or read book Social Development as Preference Management written by Rachel Karniol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Karniol engagingly presents social development in children through the language of preference management. Conversational excerpts garnered from around the world trace how parents talk about preferences, how infants' and children's emergent language conveys their preferences, how children themselves are impacted by others' preferences, and how they in turn influence the preferences of adults and peers. The language of preferences is used to crack into altruism, aggression, and morality, which are ways of coming to terms with other people's preferences. Behind the scenes is a cognitive engine that uses transformational thought – conducting temporal, imaginal, and mental transformations – to figure out other people's preferences and to find more sophisticated means of outmanoeuvring others by persuading them and playing with one's own mind and other people's minds when preferences are blocked. This book is a unique and sometimes amusing must-read for anyone interested in child development, language acquisition, socialisation, and communication.

Download or read book Preserving the Past to Protect the Future written by United States. National Archives and Records Administration and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dysfunction Interrupted written by Ph. D. Audrey R Sherman and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to be introduced to Positive and Cognitive Psychology combined with the techniques used by emotionally successful people everywhere to get your life back on track. You will learn to eliminate the symptoms of depression, anxiety and anger that are keeping you unhappy and stuck.

Download or read book Discourse as Structure and Process written by Teun A. van Dijk and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the structures of discourse and what are the functions of these structures in the communicative context? This volume explains how and why discourse is organized at various levels. The multidisciplinary contributions illustrate that discourse analysis goes far beyond the linguistic answer of designing grammars and goes hand in hand with the study of their uses and functions in the social context. Comprehensive and accessible, the volume covers a huge variety of discourse genres, including written and spoken, and storytelling and argumentation. The chapters also illustrate the necessity to examine the mental processes of the language users: How do people go about producing, understanding and remembering text or talk? The book stresses that both discourse and its mental processing have a social basis and can only be fully understood in relation to social interaction.