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Book Transforming business organisations for longevity

Download or read book Transforming business organisations for longevity written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Business Organisations for Longevity

Download or read book Transforming Business Organisations for Longevity written by S. S. Bhakar and published by . This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRANSFORMING BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS FOR LOGEVITY: Challenges and Opportunities has been organized to cover innovations and transformation of organizations on functional basis. The book has been divided into five sections. The first section includes research papers on innovation in financial management. The second section includes research papers on innovations in General Management and transformational effects of improved operations and production practices followed by the third section on innovating Human Resource Management for organizational transformation and survival. The fourth section deals with Marketing Management innovations that support and facilitate organizational transformation and survival. The fifth section contains chapters on application of IT in transforming management to transform organizations for improving their longevity.

Book The Living Company

Download or read book The Living Company written by Arie de Geus and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book raises a fundamental question, What are companies & what are they for? Whereas the standard answer is that companies are organizations that carry out economic processes to produce goods or services, he argues that such narrow thinking leads to management practices & priorities that are detrimental to everyone--from shareholders to employees to stakeholders--often leading to the demise of firms. Today's scarce resource is knowledge, which is created by a company's human assets. As a result, management's top priority must be the optimization of human resources & its knowledge-creation ability to ensure the longevity of the firm. The author explores the theme of organizational learning & identifies four key elements to organizational survival & renewal: sensitivity to the environment (a company's ability to learn & adapt), cohesion & identity (a company's innate ability to create a community & a persona), tolerance (the ability to build constructive relationships with other entities), & conservative financing (the ability of a firm to govern its growth & evolution). Together, these four factors are essential to growth & viability. Winner, The Edwin G. Booz Prize for the Most Innovative, Insightful Management Book of 1997, The Financial Times/Booz-Allen & Hamilton Global Business Book Awards. A Business Week Best Business Book of the Year. Named as one of the Best Business Books of the Year by the Financial Times. "With a light touch & an interesting variety of examples, de Geus employs biological metaphors in order to analyze corporate management [&] provides an interesting challenge to basic assumptions about the way companies work."--Business Week "The Living Company earns a spot as one of this year's best business books."--Quality Digest "This profound & uplifting book is for the leader in all of us."--Dr. James F. Moore, Author of The Death of Competition "In contrast to the common gaggle of management books, few of which can truthfully be called thought-provoking, The Living Company is one that deserves a read."--Training "Arie de Geus has written an excellent book that gives senior executives & board members provocative insights into success."--Directors & Boards "A seminal book that will initiate far-ranging discussions regarding the nature & purpose of the company."--National Productivity Review

Book Dual Transformation

Download or read book Dual Transformation written by Scott D. Anthony and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game-changing disruptions will likely unfold on your watch. Be ready. In Dual Transformation, Scott Anthony, Clark Gilbert, and Mark Johnson propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming your business in the face of imminent disruption. Dual Transformation shows you how your company can come out of a market shift stronger and more profitable, because the threat of disruption is also the greatest opportunity a leadership team will ever face. Disruptive change opens a window of opportunity to create massive new markets. It is the moment when a market also-ran can become a market leader. It is the moment when business legacies are created. That moment starts with the core dual transformation framework: Transformation A: Repositioning today’s business to maximize its resilience, such as how Adobe boldly shifted from selling packaged software to providing software as a service. Transformation B: Creating a new growth engine, such as how Amazon became the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services. Capabilities link: Fighting unfairly by taking advantage of difficult-to-replicate assets without succumbing to the “sucking sound of the core.” Anthony, Gilbert, and Johnson also address the characteristics leaders must embrace: courage, clarity, curiosity, and conviction. Without them, dual transformation efforts can founder. Building on lessons from diverse companies, such as Adobe, Manila Water, and Netflix, and a case study from Gilbert’s firsthand experience transforming his own media and publishing company, Dual Transformation will guide executives through the journey of creating the next version of themselves, allowing them to own the future rather than be disrupted by it.

Book Disruption  Change and Transformation in Organisations

Download or read book Disruption Change and Transformation in Organisations written by Andrew Day and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the psychological and social dynamics of continuous, disruptive and discontinuous change. It examines the emotional strain and challenges of disruption, studies the nature of organisational transformation and examines what can be done to develop an organisation’s capacity to adapt and thrive in turbulent environments. An organisation’s long-term survival increasingly rests on its adaptive capacity, ability to continuously change and transform itself. Yet, people experience ongoing and fundamental change to be disorientating and unsettling as it challenges accepted assumptions and identities. This book assists leaders and change practitioners understand these dynamics, help people to make sense of change and to create the conditions that enable people to self-organise and creatively adapt. With case studies and personal accounts from individuals and companies, this is an ideal resource for practitioners and managers dealing with organisational change, as well as students, academics and researchers.

Book Industry Forward and Technology Transformation in Business and Entrepreneurship

Download or read book Industry Forward and Technology Transformation in Business and Entrepreneurship written by Mohd Nor Hakimin Yusoff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, bringing together selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Business and Technology (InCEBT) on the overarching theme of ‘Industry Forward and Technology Transformation in Business and Entrepreneurship’, provides the audience some preliminary understanding of the current and emerging trends in entrepreneurship and business activities. This includes the usage of information and digital technology in business, competition in a digital economy, its challenges and opportunities, and transformation of business and entrepreneurship for the forward industry.

Book Emerging Innovation  Business Transformation in the New Normal

Download or read book Emerging Innovation Business Transformation in the New Normal written by Muhammad Usman Tariq, Ph. D., Rommel Pilapil Sergio, Ph. D. and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Emerging Innovation: Business Transformation in the New Normal, 111 Compact Case Studies, readers are taken on an enlightening journey through the rapidly changing business landscape. This comprehensive collection of compact case studies offers a unique perspective on how companies across various industries have adapted and thrived in the face of unprecedented challenges brought on by the global pandemic. With a sharp focus on innovation, adaptability, and resilience, each case study provides valuable insights into the strategies and tactics employed by businesses to not only survive but also excel in this new normal. The book's 111 compact case studies have been meticulously curated to present a diverse range of sectors, geographic locations, and company sizes, ensuring that readers can relate to and learn from the experiences of others. From leveraging cutting-edge technology and redefining business models, to fostering employee engagement and implementing robust risk management practices, this book is an essential guide intended for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and professionals looking for ways and routes to traverse these uncharted waters and emerge more robust than ever. Whether you are a seasoned executive, an aspiring entrepreneur, or one who is simply curious about the intricacies of business transformation in challenging times, this book is a must-read. Get ready to be inspired, informed, and equipped with the knowledge that will take your organization to soaring heights even amid the uncertainties of the new normal.

Book Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia

Download or read book Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia written by Pongsak Hoontrakul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the uneven economy in Asia, showing how the pace of economic transformation affects prosperity and the emerging middle class. Using the Lewis turning point and the long run cycle of the rise and fall of nations as a framework, it demonstrates how demographic trends, digitization rates and consumer preferences creates business opportunities in a disruptive and uncertain world. This includes moves toward promoting Eurasian integration, restructuring of state-owned enterprises, green economy, and the digital economies – ecommerce, fintech and sharing economy. Vanity capital, longevity and leisure economies are also discussed. The author explains what drives creative disruption, technical innovation and their effect on manufacturing, consumers, businesses, and sustainability. It is essential reading for students, academics, executives, and business persons wanting in-depth coverage of the economic landscape in Asia.

Book The 100 Year Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lynda Gratton
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2020-05-28
  • ISBN : 152662284X
  • Pages : 299 pages

Download or read book The 100 Year Life written by Lynda Gratton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will your 100-year life look like? A new edition of the international bestseller, featuring a new preface 'Brilliant, timely, original, well written and utterly terrifying' Niall Ferguson Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time? Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse – life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing, and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers. Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways. The 100-Year Life is here to help. Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew J. Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis as well as a raft of solutions, showing how to rethink your finances, your education, your career and your relationships and create a fulfilling 100-year life. · How can you fashion a career and life path that defines you and your values and creates a shifting balance between work and leisure? · What are the most effective ways of boosting your physical and mental health over a longer and more dynamic lifespan? · How can you make the most of your intangible assets – such as family and friends – as you build a productive, longer life? · In a multiple-stage life how can you learn to make the transitions that will be so crucial and experiment with new ways of living, working and learning? Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and featuring a new preface, The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes what to expect and considers the choices and options that you will face. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.

Book Stage  Not Age

    Book Details:
  • Author : Susan Wilner Golden
  • Publisher : Harvard Business Press
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 163369948X
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Stage Not Age written by Susan Wilner Golden and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty. In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that threshold, and that number will continue to grow. In fifteen years, Americans aged sixty-five and over will outnumber those under age eighteen. Nearly everywhere in the world, people over sixty are the fastest-growing age group. Longevity presents an opportunity that companies need to develop a strategy for. Estimates put the global market for this demographic at a whopping $22 trillion across every industry you can imagine. Entertainment, travel, education, health care, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, product design, tech, financial services, and many others will benefit, but only if marketers unlearn what they think they know about this growing population. The key is to stop thinking of older adults as one market. Stage (Not Age) is the concise guide to helping companies understand that people over sixty are a deeply diverse population. They're traveling through different life stages and therefore want and need different products and services. This book helps you reset your understanding of what an "old person" is. It demonstrates how three people, all seventy years old, may not even be in the same market segment. It identifies the systemic barriers to entering this market and provides ways to overcome them. And it shares the best practices of companies that have successfully shifted to a Stage (Not Age) mentality. This practical guide prepares companies and marketers for an inevitable shift they can't ignore.

Book Strategic Digital Transformation

Download or read book Strategic Digital Transformation written by Alex Fenton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging technologies are having a profound impact upon business as individuals and organisations increasingly embrace the benefits of the ‘always on’ attitude that digital technologies produce. The use of the web, apps, cloud storage, GPS and Internet-connected devices has transformed the way we live, learn, play and interact – yet how a business can fully benefit from this transformation is not always clear. In response, this book enables students and business leaders to take a strategic and sustainable approach to realising the value of digital technologies. It offers results-driven solutions that successfully transform organisations into data-driven, people-focused businesses capable of sustainably competing at a global level. Split across four key parts, the material moves through understanding digital business to planning, implementing and assessing digital transformation. The current challenges facing all small organisations, including limited resources, financial pressures and the lack of dedicated IT departments, are explored. The authors consider the ways in which innovation can increase competitive advantage, how innovative business models can create new opportunities and how a data-driven perspective can release embedded value within the organisation. Contemporary international case studies and examples throughout each chapter bridge theory with practical application and systematically document the patterns of activities that enable success. This textbook is a vital resource for postgraduate and undergraduate students of digital business, innovation and transformation. By showing how to initiate digital transformation across an organisation, it will prepare business owners, directors and management of small- and medium-sized businesses to take strategic advantage of new and emerging technologies to stay ahead of their competition.

Book Effective Implementation of Transformation Strategies

Download or read book Effective Implementation of Transformation Strategies written by Angelina Zubac and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the processes and cognitions used by managers to successfully implement strategies while navigating the strategy and change interface. It applies the latest thinking from the resource-based literature, in particular the idea that high performing organisations have become adept at honing and utilising value creating dynamic capabilities. Key processes and cognitions help organisational leaders sense opportunities and threats as well as shrewdly seize strategic opportunities to advantageously enhance performance. The book also adopts an institutional view; that is, it assumes that organisations must satisfy their stakeholders while navigating a range of influences, including other organisations, markets, laws, quality standards, conventions, and cultural norms. This book conceptualises corporate strategy as an amalgam of four fundamental strategies: the organisation’s financial, customer value creation, resource, and non-market strategies. These strategies address the capital, product and services, and resource markets as well as various non-market institutions. Successfully integrating and implementing these four strategies allow organisations to enable their employees’ multidisciplinary talents. By approaching strategy in this way, the book demonstrates why it is important to monitor changes to the organisation’s strategic context and helps it identify the practices, collaborations, and projects necessary to achieve spectacular strategic change.

Book The Longevity Economy

Download or read book The Longevity Economy written by Joseph F. Coughlin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oldness: a social construct at odds with reality that constrains how we live after middle age and stifles business thinking on how to best serve a group of consumers, workers, and innovators that is growing larger and wealthier with every passing day. Over the past two decades, Joseph F. Coughlin has been busting myths about aging with groundbreaking multidisciplinary research into what older people actually want-not what conventional wisdom suggests they need. In The Longevity Economy, Coughlin provides the framing and insight business leaders need to serve the growing older market: a vast, diverse group of consumers representing every possible level of health and wealth, worth about $8 trillion in the United States alone and climbing. Coughlin provides deep insight into a population that consistently defies expectations: people who, through their continued personal and professional ambition, desire for experience, and quest for self-actualization, are building a striking, unheralded vision of longer life that very few in business fully understand. His focus on women-they outnumber men, control household spending and finances, and are leading the charge toward tomorrow's creative new narrative of later life-is especially illuminating. Coughlin pinpoints the gap between myth and reality and then shows businesses how to bridge it. As the demographics of global aging transform and accelerate, it is now critical to build a new understanding of the shifting physiological, cognitive, social, family, and psychological realities of the longevity economy.

Book A New Global Agenda

Download or read book A New Global Agenda written by Diana Ayton-Shenker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Global Agenda: Priorities, Practices, and Pathways of the International Community explores the most compelling issues of our time, highlighting key strategies, initiatives, and calls to action. Taking up where the former annual series, A Global Agenda: Issues Before the U.N., left off, this book sets the work of the U.N. in the context of cross-sectoral perspectives and multi-stakeholder partnerships. To catalyze regenerative solutions for People, Society, and Planet, A New Global Agenda engages visionary thought leaders, advocates, and innovators spanning international policy, academia, private sector, and civil society. This is a must-read for scholars, students, practitioners and global citizens shaping our world today. A New Global Agenda is edited by Diana Ayton-Shenker, editor and author of A Global Agenda: Current Issues Before the General Assembly of the United Nations (published with the United Nations Association; Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, and 2001 Editions). Ayton-Shenker is the Global Catalyst Senior Fellow at The New School, and CEO of Global Momenta. Contributions by: T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Laurie Adams, Karen J. Alter, Gina Bria, Gillian Christie, Michael A. Cohen , Peter Dietrich, Hall Gardner, Russ Gaskin, Pape Amadou Gaye, Eban Goodstein, Jensine Larsen, L. Hunter Lovins, Alynna Lyon, Lars Fogh Mortensen, Alex Neve, Karen Lund Petersen, Courtney C. Radsch, Harpinder Sandhu, Lena Simet, Joel Simon, Ramesh Thakur, Gracey Vaughn , Mary R. Watson , Derek Yach, and Andrew Zolli.

Book Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era

Download or read book Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era written by Georgios I. Doukidis and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Researchers, business people and policy makers have recognized the importance of addressing technological, economic and social impacts in conjunction. For example, the rise and fall of the dot-com hype depended on the strength of the business model, on the technological capabilities avalable to firms and on the readiness of the society and economy, at large, to sustain a new breed of business activity. Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era addresses this challenge by assembling the latest thinking of leading researchers and policy makers in key subject areas of the information society and presents innovative business models, case studies, normative theories and social explanations.

Book The Z Factor

Download or read book The Z Factor written by Alex Sterling and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step Into the Future: Master the Workforce Evolution Imagine a future where ambitious startups and storied corporations alike are brimming with vivacious talent who've never known a world without the internet; a workforce that values authenticity, digital literacy, and social responsibility. This is not the makings of a distant utopia, but the imminent reality of "The Z Factor: Transforming Business for the Next Generation". At the heart of this revolutionary book lies the emergence of Generation Z--the digital natives reshaping the very fabric of the modern workplace. Delve into the nuanced understanding of what the Z factor truly entails and how it's permanently altering corporate landscapes. Your guide through this journey will be an immersive tapestry of insights, profiling a generation defined not only by their virtual fluency but also by their drive for innovation, sustainability, and a deep-seated desire for meaningful work. Unveil the portrait of Gen Z by exploring their values and expectations, and mastermind strategies that resonate with this new wave of employees. Recognise that recruiting this avant-garde talent requires more than just traditional methods. Learn how leveraging social media and digital platforms is crucial in attracting and engaging these trailblazers. The technological prowess of Gen Z is unrivalled--an asset for any forward-thinking business. Understand how to harness disruptive technologies, such as AI and VR, and cultivate cybersecurity and privacy infrastructures that align with the expectations and skills of the Gen Z worker. Redefine leadership by learning how to foster flexible hierarchies that pave the way for mentorship and collaborative growth. Discover how creating inclusive and agile workspaces can balance the dichotomy of physical and remote arrangements, and how this balance can amplify productivity and satisfaction across the board. Delving into "The Z Factor" is akin to holding a crystalline orb that offers a clear vision of the decisive shifts required in corporate philosophies to flourish in today's multicultural, intergenerational, and digital-first world. This book is not simply a manual but a transformational journey that promises to equip leaders, HR professionals, and visionary entrepreneurs with the knowledge and tools to thrive amidst the inevitable rise of Gen Z. Don't merely adapt to the changes--embrace and lead them. "The Z Factor: Transforming Business for the Next Generation" is your companion to inspire, challenge, and pioneer the workplace of tomorrow.

Book Strategic Leadership

Download or read book Strategic Leadership written by Brian Leavy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a concise, thematic strategy text which will help students to see organizations from the perspective of the Chief Executive and to understand and debate the challenges, opportunities and issues which constitute the role of the CEO.