Download or read book Successful Diversity Management Initiatives written by Patricia Arredondo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1996-05-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just when you think you′ve read all about managing diversity and you′ve concluded that there is nothing new to say, Patricia Arredondo′s book offers a fresh, insightful, and helpful blueprint for beginning and moving forward with a diversity initiative. Successful Diversity Management Initiatives not only outlines specific steps for a managing diversity process but also discusses the rationale for procedures, identifies potential roadblocks, and explores how barriers could be managed. Patricia Arredondo gives specific examples based on her research and her experiences within organizations so that the reader obtains an integrative and systematic perspective about the issues involved. Reading this book is essential for all management educators, organizational change teams, and consultants in the field interested in getting up-to-speed about the issues. Also, managers and executives who are engaged in gaining competitive advantage through the talents and abilities of the changing workforce and knowing about the needs of their diverse customers, will gain insight into the very real factors affecting their organizations. --Anna Duran, Ph.D, Principal, Anna Duran & Associates & Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University "In this book Dr. Patricia Arredondo really captures the kind of experiences we have had as to what works and what doesn′t in shaping a diversity initiative. Her concrete suggestions provide a very useful road map leading to a successful diversity initiative." --William Watkins Jr., Executive Vice President, and Director of Economic Development, Narragansett Electric Thousands of organizations are beginning to address the issue of workforce diversity management. This important new book helps answer questions typically raised by these organizations as they face diversity-related change. Why should we do this? How will we know we are being successful? What kind of change can we expect? Successful Diversity Management Initiatives presents specific phases and steps to help plan, direct, and manage strategic organizational development. Serving as a developmental model for change, this model emphasizes on-going evaluation and clarification during each phase and proposes a prototype for measuring both qualitative and quantitative results. Vignettes based on organizational experiences are used to demonstrate how particular steps in the model occur and how they hold generic value. Intended for practical application, the book is supported by case examples, summaries at the end of each chapter that include a checklist for organizational self-assessment, models, and a glossary. Successful Diversity Management Initiatives is appropriate for professionals who have responsibility for designing and implementing programs as well as graduate students in organizational development, industrial psychology, and human resources.
Download or read book Playing to Win written by Alan G. Lafley and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains how companies must pinpoint business strategies to a few critically important choices, identifying common blunders while outlining simple exercises and questions that can guide day-to-day and long-term decisions.
Download or read book Critical Landscape Planning During the Belt and Road Initiative written by Ashley Scott Kelly and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China-Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and conservation of these landscapes, this book provides history, planning pedagogy and interdisciplinary framing for working alongside the often-opaque planning, design and implementation processes of large-scale infrastructure. It complicates simplistic notions of development and urbanization frequently reproduced in the Laos-China frontier region. Many of the projects and sites investigated in this book are recent "firsts" in Laos: Laos's first wildlife sanctuary for trafficked endangered species, its first botanical garden and its first planting plan for a community forest. Most often the agents and accomplices of neoliberal development, the planning and design professions, including landscape architecture, have little dialogue with either the mainstream natural sciences or critical social sciences that form the discourse of projects in Laos and comparable contexts. Covering diverse conceptions and issues of development, including cultural and scientific knowledge exchanges between Laos and China, nature tourism, connectivity and new town planning, this book also features nine planning proposals for Laos generated through this research initiative since the railway's groundbreaking in 2016. Each proposal promotes a wider "landscape approach" to development and deploys landscape architecture's spatial and ecological acumen to synthesize critical development studies with the planner's capacity, if not naive predilection, to intervene on the ground. Ultimately, this book advocates the cautious engagement of the professionally oriented built-environment disciplines, such as regional planning, civil engineering and landscape architecture, with the landscapes of development institutions and environmental NGOs.
Download or read book Least Cost Utility Planning Initiative written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Development and Applications and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book ARPA Rome Laboratory Knowledge based Planning and Scheduling Initiative Workshop Proceedings Tuscon Arizona February 21 24 1994 written by and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1994 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Case Based Planning written by Kristian J. Hammond and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence, Volume 1: Case-Based Planning: Viewing Planning as a Memory Task focuses on the processes, methodologies, and techniques employed in viewing planning as a memory task. The publication first elaborates on planning and memory and learning from planning. Discussions focus on learning from cases, learning plans, learning to predict failures, case-based planning, structure of case-based planning, and learning from planning. The text then elaborates on planning from memory and planning Thematic Organization Packets (TOPs) and strategies, including TOPs in understanding and planning, TOPs and strategies, and function of memory. The manuscript takes a look at modifying and repairing plans, case-based planning, and planning and planners. Topics include CHEF as a program, case-based planning as planning and learning, noticing and explaining the failure, storing the plan, different situations for altering plans, and introduction of failure. The publication is a vital reference for researchers interested in viewing planning as a memory task.
Download or read book Good Strategy Bad Strategy written by Richard Rumelt and published by Currency. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world. Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to—and approach for—overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect. Yet, Rumelt shows that there has been a growing and unfortunate tendency to equate Mom-and-apple-pie values, fluffy packages of buzzwords, motivational slogans, and financial goals with “strategy.” In Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, he debunks these elements of “bad strategy” and awakens an understanding of the power of a “good strategy.” He introduces nine sources of power—ranging from using leverage to effectively focusing on growth—that are eye-opening yet pragmatic tools that can easily be put to work on Monday morning, and uses fascinating examples from business, nonprofit, and military affairs to bring its original and pragmatic ideas to life. The detailed examples range from Apple to General Motors, from the two Iraq wars to Afghanistan, from a small local market to Wal-Mart, from Nvidia to Silicon Graphics, from the Getty Trust to the Los Angeles Unified School District, from Cisco Systems to Paccar, and from Global Crossing to the 2007–08 financial crisis. Reflecting an astonishing grasp and integration of economics, finance, technology, history, and the brilliance and foibles of the human character, Good Strategy/Bad Strategy stems from Rumelt’s decades of digging beyond the superficial to address hard questions with honesty and integrity.
Download or read book Taking Brand Initiative written by Mary Jo Hatch and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking Brand Initiative offers a revolutionary approach to corporate branding that looks beyond the marketing value of brands company-to-customer and the HR significance of brands company-to-employee. It places the management of brands at the senior level of management as it radiates throughout the organization. In this groundbreaking book, international branding thought leaders, Mary Jo Hatch and Make Schultz explain how a company's brand is just as important to ÒoutsidersÓÑpoliticians, suppliers, and analysts as it is to company insiders. They show how only the corporate brand can integrate all the company's staff functions and provide a vision for competition and globalization.
Download or read book Strategic Planning Playbook written by Ed S Joseph a Stuart and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congratulations! Your organization's leader has just told you to prepare and conduct a strategic planning session for the entire organization. Now what? This book is short and simple, yet it will guide you through the strategic planning process and make you a hero for leading this seemingly overwhelming process.
Download or read book The AMA Handbook of Project Management written by Paul C. Dinsmore and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A must-read for any project management professional or student. Projects are the life blood of any organization. Revised to reflect the latest changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK(R)) and the Project Management Professional Exam(R), the fourth edition of The AMA Handbook of Project Management provides readers with a clear overview of a complex discipline. Covering everything from individual projects to programs and strategic alignment, it addresses: Project initiation and planning Communication and interpersonal skills Scheduling, budgeting and meeting business objectives Managing political and resource issues Implementing a PMO Measuring value and competencies. The book compiles essays and advice from the field's top professionals and features new chapters on stakeholder management, agile project management, program management, project governance, knowledge management, and more. Updated with fresh examples, case studies and solutions to specific project management dilemmas, it remains an essential reference to the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master.
Download or read book Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation written by Stella George, PhD and published by Project Management Institute. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation: A Closer Look investigates the processes involved in implementing one particular type of management innovation—project management—and how these innovations must evolve and be modified in order to deliver value. The book was written by three internationally recognized project management researchers/practitioners. Their extensive experience in the classroom and in the field shows through in how they are able to present complex concepts and make them highly relevant to project managers of all levels. Project Management Implementation as Management Innovation: A Closer Look begins by exploring the book's key concepts, including “innovation events,” “intervention,” and “simple” and “complex” innovation journeys.
Download or read book A methodology for planning sustainable supply chain initiatives written by Kucht Campos, Juliana and published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication presents a methodology for planning sustainable supply chain initiatives, consisting of three scopes, each with its appropriate mechanism and background theory. The first one “Acting In” structures organizational practices in a “Framework for Managing Sustainable Supply Chain Practices”. The second scope “Acting Out” compares practices from 32 recognized sustainability leaders from five different industries through a “Benchmarks Practices Bank”. The third scope “Acting Beyond” supports defining and managing a portfolio of sustainable supply chain practices through a “Practices Portfolio Planning Matrix” which provides a list of opportunities for the exchange of knowledge between Germany and Brazil. The methodology significantly supports supply chain decision makers in planning initiatives and visualizing collaboration opportunities within a firm, industry and shared value chain perfective. As companies become more global, challenges also become greater, thus, a more systematic and holistic approach can lead the way for developing more innovative solutions. In der folgenden Doktorarbeit wird eine Methodologie zur Planung von Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen im Bereich Supply Chain entwickelt, die aus drei Haupthandlungsfeldern besteht und für welche jeweils der theoretische Hintergrund, sowie geeignete Mechanismen aufgezeigt werden. Der erste Bereich, das sog. „Acting In“, strukturiert organisatorische Tätigkeiten und integriert diese in einen Rahmen, dem „Framework for Managing Sustainable Supply Chain Practices“. Der zweite Bereich - „Acting Out“ - vergleicht verschiedene Verfahren von 32 anerkannten, im Bereich Nachhaltigkeit führenden Unternehmen mit Hilfe der Datenbank “Benchmarks Practices Bank”. „Acting Beyond“ - der dritte Bereich - hilft dabei ein Portfolio mit nachhaltigen Maßnahmen im Supply Chain Bereich zu definieren. Hierfür wird die “Practices Portfolio Planning Matrix” eingeführt, welche gleichzeitig interessante Möglichkeiten zum Wissensaustausch zwischen Deutschland und Brasilien aufzeigt. Die erarbeitete Methodik ist sowohl für die Forschung, als auch für die Anwender im Supply Chain Bereich von großer Bedeutung. Die hier entwickelten Mechanismen unterstützen die Entscheider in den Unternehmen bei der Planung von Nachhaltigkeitsinitiativen im Supply Chain Bereich und verdeutlichen Kooperationsmöglichkeiten auf verschiedenen Ebenen: innerbetrieblich, auf derselben Wertschöpfungsstufe und über die gesamte Wertschöpfungskette hinweg. Da die Unternehmen immer globaler agieren, werden die Herausforderungen größer. Daher kann eine systematischere, ganzheitlichere Herangehensweise ein Ansatz sein, wenn es um die Entwicklung von innovativen Lösungen geht.
Download or read book Strategic Planning Initiative written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Thinking Strategically in Turbulent Times An Inside View of Strategy Making written by Alan M. Glassman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An emergent approach to organizational strategy making assumptions that few organizations actually realize the goal of deliberative, top-down strategic planning, and that effective strategy making occurs on a continual basis and is a shared activity of the entire organization. This innovative book provides the first in-depth look at how real organizations are formulating and implementing strategic change under this new paradigm. The authors have dug deep into three large and varied organizations (Hewlett-Packard, the California State University system, and the County of Los Angeles) and identified each one's efforts to develop a new strategic planning process better-suited to match the current pace of change and environmental unpredictability. The book is filled with vignettes, quotes, and real-world examples that illustrate the trend toward faster, more adaptive strategic planning processes. It is relevant for a wide range of business, governmental, and non-profit settings, and should be required reading in any course on strategic planning.
Download or read book Strategic Planning Initiative written by New York (State). Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Planning Department and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Comprehensive Plan written by David Rouse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The practice of comprehensive planning is changing dramatically in the 21st century to address the pressing need for more sustainable, resilient, and equitable communities. Drawing on the latest research and best practice examples, The Comprehensive Plan: Sustainable, Resilient, and Equitable Communities for the 21st Century provides an in-depth resource for planning practitioners, elected officials, citizens, and others seeking to develop effective, impactful, comprehensive plans, grounded in authentic community engagement, as a pathway to sustainability. Based on standards developed by the American Planning Association to provide a national benchmark for sustainable comprehensive planning, this book provides detailed guidance on the substance, process, and implementation of comprehensive plans that address the critical challenges facing communities in the 21st century.
