Download or read book Development of a consulting approach based on value innovations for management consulting business of small and medium sized companies in Germany written by Carsten Siegemund and published by diplom.de. This book was released on 2008-04-28 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: Using the new theory Blue Ocean Strategy of strategic behaviour the author is designing a consulting approach for management consulting business of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany. The Blue Ocean Strategy challenges companies to break out of their current market by finding new unknown market space. The purpose of the dissertation is to describe the current competitor s markets as the status quo the participants perceive in their usual strategic approach, to identify then the key success factors and methods of the new theory Creating of Blue Oceans as the alternative and mold the main issues of this approach into a consulting product. The objectives are: 1. Identification of issues which could be described as key success factors for this new theory. 2. The strengths and weaknesses of the Blue Ocean Strategy approach. 3. Identifying SMEs as a target customer group and the value of the Blue Ocean approach for these target customers. 4. A consulting approach for management consulting of SMEs. The developed consulting concept could be offered to customers within their range of consulting services or be used as an internal measurement in consulting companies to find new areas for business development. In order to meet the aims of this dissertation the following structure is chosen: Chapter 1: The chapter 1 introduces the aims and objectives of this dissertation, its motivation, limitations and structure. Chapter 2: In chapter 2 the general business strategies for competing on defined market and the sorts of innovations are explained. Chapter 3: In chapter 3 the terms of red oceans and blue oceans are defined and later explained how they relate to the used business strategies on the markets. Chapter 4: In chapter 4 the theory of Blue Oceans Strategy will be presented on an abstract level to familiarize the reader with the key factors and main issues of this approach. Chapter 5: In chapter 5 the common definition of small and medium-sized enterprises will be presented in a first step to follow up with the illustration of the current situation for the SMEs in Germany, referring to the results of interviews with market participants or observers and studies of literature. Chapter 6: In chapter 6 the consulting concept based on value innovation will be designed. To understand in which way the approach differs from other consulting services, there will be a short introduction into [...]

Download or read book Blue Ocean Strategy for Small and Mid sized Companies in Germany written by Carsten Siegemund and published by Diplomica Verlag. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does value innovation play an important role for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)? Innovation, besides imitation, is the foundation to conduct business and produce goods and services. Each company needs at least at one point or another during its lifecycle innovation to stay competitive within a market. Its importance increases throughout time because of new companies accessing existing domestic markets by overcoming the market barriers and the international integration of markets for global trading. Aside the well-known forms of innovation, a new type called value innovation was developed and published in 2005. This new category is embedded as an essential part in a strategy theory recognized as Blue Oceans . This blue ocean strategy challenges companies to break out of their current market space.But is this kind of innovation really new and usable for general management consulting? The term value innovation is not new within business science. However value innovation is used at a smaller scale. Nevertheless its meaning within the new theory which defines a new way to develop previously unidentified markets is crucial. It requires an overall new perspective of the management to plan and carry out its business processes. Therefore its advantages are only evident in a general strategy approach. Can this concept be turned into a consulting model to support SMEs? Why are SMEs the right target group? Small companies often seek a market niche which can be attained by differentiation in order to survive in competitive markets. Usually the managers are using business strategies like cost cutting or differentiation of products, processes or services to find this niche. This approach originates from the assumption that a group of buyers within the market is accessible or need the traded goods or services at another level of quality, prize, design or function. Could this new theory help establish new niches?The study will find answers to the questions m

Download or read book Enabling Innovation written by Sabina Jeschke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The capability to innovate in an on-going manner is emerging as a decisive key factor in today's world of business and work. The ability to stay competitive is becoming identical with the ability to innovate. This book originated from the research and development project “International Monitoring” and outlines the topic of innovative capability from a practice-oriented angle. Contributions of German and international experts offer an enlightening glimpse behind the scenes of innovations. The central issue is not the description of features of successful innovation processes or how innovations can be efficiently controlled and managed, but under which conditions they can emerge in the first place. In what way can individuals, organizations, networks and societies be enabled to continuously induce innovations?

Download or read book Sustainability of Young Companies Contemporary Trends and Challenges written by Marek Jabłoński and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensuring the sustainability of early stage companies and increasing awareness of the need for balancing targets against different stakeholder groups among young companies are not well developed. Young companies, in the first place, want to achieve financial success very often without regard for aspects such as the environment, positive relationships with employees, suppliers or other stakeholder groups, fulfilling requirements of labor law, etc. Another issue is that of companies whose business models are based on actuarially-preferred concepts, such as sharing economy, sustainable development, e-comers, e-commerce, renewable energy, social media, and others. A key issue is the resignation of companies from an approach to business, based on the foundations of classical economics to the sharing economy. Theory and practice seek new solutions in the sphere of value sharing in these new areas of sharing, and innovative forms of its implementation. Intriguing is the relationship of these business models with sustainability issues, as well as wondering how technology can influence sustainability. A contemporary approach to consumer value fits in with the assumption of a shared economy. It is interesting how it affects the assumptions of sustainability of business. The ongoing changes in the value system of potential consumers create new conditions for the design of sustainability business models and creation of innovation.

Download or read book Strategic Optimization of Medium Sized Enterprises in the Global Market written by Vemi?, Milan and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To maintain a competitive edge against other businesses, companies must ensure the most effective strategies and procedures are in place. This is particularly critical in smaller business environments with fewer resources. Strategic Optimization of Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Global Market is a critical scholarly resource that highlights the optimization of management functions, such as working capital and marketing, and how to implement sustainable business management practices in the global world market. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as social entrepreneurship, marketing optimization, and globalization, this book is geared towards business managers, medium-sized enterprises, policy makers, business professionals, and upper-level students seeking current research on the performances of medium-sized enterprises across the world and their broader supply chain.

Download or read book Business Information Systems Workshops written by Witold Abramowicz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business information systems is a rapidly developing domain. There are many topicsthatdeserveattentionbuthavenotyetfoundaplaceincanonicalresearch. Workshops give researchers the possibility to share preliminary ideas, ?rst - perimental results, or to discuss research hypotheses. Discussions held during presentations strengthen the paper and prepare it for publication. From our - perience, workshops are a perfect instrument with which to create a community aroundvery speci?c researchtopics, thus o?ering the opportunity to promote it. Topics that do not ?nd critical feedback at the main International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS) may experience fruitful discussion when confronted with a well-focused audience. Over the last few decades, business informationsystems have been one of the most important factors of the transition toward a knowledge-based economy. At the same time they have been subject to continuous rapid development and innovation driven both by industry and by academia. For the last 12 years these innovations were carefully observed but also shaped by researchers attending BIS yearly.

Download or read book Sustainability of Fossil Fuels written by Pavel A. Strizhak and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The energy and fuel industries represent an extensive field for the development and implementation of solutions aimed at improving the technological, environmental, and economic performance of technological cycles. In recent years, the issues of ecology and energy security have become especially important. Energy is firmly connected with all spheres of human economic life but, unfortunately, it also has an extremely negative (often fatal) effect on the environment and public health. Depletion of energy resources, the complexity of their extraction, and transportation are also problems of a global scale. Therefore, it is especially important nowadays to try to take care of nature and think about the resources that are necessary for future generations. For scientific teams in different countries, the development of sustainable and safe technologies for the use of fuels in the energy sector will be a challenge in the coming decades

Download or read book ECIC2011 Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on on Intellectual Capital written by Geoff Turner and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of presenters at the 3rd European Conference on Intellectual Capital (ECIC 2011). The Conference is hosted this year by the University of Nicosia in Cyprus. The Conference Chair is Geoff Turner from the University of Nicosia and the Programme Chair is Clemente Minonne from the School of Management and Law, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland. The opening keynote address is given by John Girard from Minot State University in the USA. John will address the question Social Knowledge: Are we ready for the future? The second day of the conference will be opened by Ludo Pyis from AREOPA in Belgium who will consider Intellectual Capital Accounting: how to measure the unmeasurable. We also look forward to a Knowledge Cafe on the topic of What intellectual capital ideas and developments do you expect to live and see? facilitated by Helen Paige from The Paige Group, South Australia.

Download or read book Organizational Change Innovation and Business Development written by Magdalena Popowska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a collection of different views and perspectives, featuring both theoretical and empirical contributions, to provide deep insight into the role of innovation and of non-technological innovation (NTI) in contemporary business. It illustrates how NTI encourages organizational development as well as competitive advantage. Chapters display a variety of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, including case studies, best practices, surveys, novel approaches to interpretations, concepts and theories. Together they contribute to a significant extension of the existing knowledge on non-technological innovations and their role in organizations. This volume highlights the effects of marketing and organizational innovation strategies on companies’ innovation and overall performance, while demonstrating that the effects of NTI may vary depending on the phase of the innovation process, and how it differs within small, medium and large enterprises from manufacturing and service industries. It explores the bidirectional relationship between technological innovation (TI) and NTI, and considers the competences needed to implement NTI. The book is written for scholars and academic professionals from a wide variety of disciplines addressing issues of organizational change and innovation, new management techniques and strategies, and the sustainable growth of organizations. It may also be an interesting source of knowledge for graduate and postgraduate students in management.

Download or read book Service Business Costing written by Markus B. Baum and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​ Service firms have high overhead costs which are difficult to assign to individual services. To bring transparency to their value chain, they need costing approaches that help them find their own improvements. Markus B. Baum explores current theory and practice of value chain approaches and cost accounting to develop a costing approach with a suitable instrument for the allocation of fixed and overhead costs for a service firm. He describes the service business costing (SBC) approach. This hybrid-costing model has a hierarchical structure in terms of consolidation and allocates cost and revenues on the lowest hierarchical level possible to ensure that all costs and income are assigned to activities from which they originated.

Download or read book Future Trends in Production Engineering written by Günther Schuh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology. These themes represent not only the key focus for the scientific work of the WGP, but also the central themes of the first annual conference in June 2011, whose paper is publically available in this volume. Such themes, including electric mobility, medical technology, lightweight construction, and resource efficiency, as well as mass production ability have all been identified as future, large-scale, and long-term drivers of change. Future trends influence changes sustainably and fundamentally; they permeate society, technology, economics, and value systems and have an effect in virtually all areas of life. The WGP has, as part of its research, established for itself the goal of not only observing these emerging changes, but also of supervising and influencing their development in order to ensure steady progress, secure sustainability, and shape the future.

Download or read book The Student City written by Leo van den Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow. They are seen as an 'invisible population' with little say in local policy and decision-making. Co-operation between educational institutions and city planners is often missing and cities tend to neglect the universities' foreign relations. This volume argues that the importance of human capital in the competitiveness of cities demands pro-active, integral city policies targeting this community. Bringing together nine case studies of European cities (Rotterdam, Utrecht, Eindhoven, Munich, Lyon, Lille, Venice, Birmingham and Helsinki), it puts forward a comprehensive strategic plan of action, aiming at the integration of student communities in urban development. The book analyses the essential characteristics of the relationship between students and their host communities, as well as the role of higher education institutions and other actors in building the 'student friendly' city.

Download or read book Industry 4 0 in SMEs Across the Globe written by Julian M. Muller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) digitalization is becoming more mature and stands to significantly contribute to the full development of the agenda of Industry 4.0. Although national digitalization programs have their own goals, the common focus is on the role of SMEs in global value chains. Since SMEs are known to have challenges around Industry 4.0 implementation, this book integrates experiences from 14 countries worldwide. Industry 4.0 in SMEs across the Globe: Drivers, Barriers, and Opportunities provides an in-depth overview of Industry 4.0 in SMEs, covering various national, historical, and geographical settings in nine European countries: Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Serbia, and the UK, complemented by five other countries from around the world: Brazil, China, India, Iran, and the U.S. Each chapter describes the national digitalization program, along with barriers, drivers, and opportunities to implement Industry 4.0 in local SMEs. It subsumes the findings across these countries to identify common themes and clusters of drivers, barriers, and opportunities. The book concludes that there are common approaches of SMEs across the world to adopt Industry 4.0, which are to be understood to increase industrial competitiveness globally. This book is a great resource for digitalization leaders and laggards, business consultants and researchers, as well as Ph.D. and master’s students from industrial engineering and manufacturing backgrounds. Policy makers can also use the contents to better understand the commonalities and differences of national digitalization programs and further support SMEs in their digitalization process.

Download or read book 16th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance written by Dr Paul Griffiths and published by Academic Conferences International limited. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 16th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2020) hosted by ACI and EM-Normandie Business School, Oxford, UK, UK on 26 – 27th October 2020. The Conference Chair Dr Paul Griffiths, EM-Normandie Business School, Metis Lab. Oxford, UK

Download or read book ICICKM2011 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Knowledge Management Organisational Learning written by Vincent Ribiere and published by Academic Conferences Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fit for Growth written by Vinay Couto and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical approach to business transformation Fit for Growth* is a unique approach to business transformation that explicitly connects growth strategy with cost management and organization restructuring. Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC’s Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth. This approach gives structure to strategy while promoting lasting change. Examples from Strategy&’s hundreds of clients illustrate successful transformation on the ground, and illuminate how senior and middle managers are able to take ownership and even thrive during difficult periods of transition. Throughout the Fit for Growth process, the focus is on maintaining consistent high-value performance while enabling fundamental change. Strategy& has helped major clients around the globe achieve significant and sustained results with its research-backed approach to restructuring and cost reduction. This book provides practical guidance for leveraging that expertise to make the choices that allow companies to: Achieve growth while reducing costs Manage transformation and transition productively Create lasting competitive advantage Deliver reliable, high-value performance Sustainable success is founded on efficiency and high performance. Companies are always looking to do more with less, but their efforts often work against them in the long run. Total business transformation requires total buy-in, and it entails a series of decisions that must not be made lightly. The Fit for Growth approach provides a clear strategy and practical framework for growth-oriented change, with expert guidance on getting it right. *Fit for Growth is a registered service mark of PwC Strategy& Inc. in the United States

Download or read book Boosting Innovation written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This book was released on 1999 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how technology policy makers in OECD countries are making practical use of the concept of clusters and suggests how government policies to foster innovation might best be refocused.