In The Wise Company, legendary management experts Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi highlight how various companies have confronted the challenge of rapid change to create new products and new ways of doing business that benefit employees, consumers, and society.
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This book explains how to combine Lean (including Hoshin Kanri) with Digital solutions to maximize sustainable performance that complies with people's and planet's performance expectations and needs. Organisations have always strived to perform the best and be the most sustainable. In this respect, Lean systems and other proven recipes still make sense, and are still far from having delivered t…
This edition combines clear statistical methods with a proven approach that presents a problem, then a scenario. Updated applications reflect the latest developments in business and statistics today. You work with more than 350 new and updated business examples, approximately 50 new and updated cases and hands-on exercises that highlight statistics in action.
Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology is a highly regarded textbook that addresses project management across all industries. First covering the essential background, from origins and philosophy to methodology, the bulk of the book is dedicated to concepts and techniques for practical application. The systems development cycle is used as a framework to discuss project manag…
This book offers the latest theory and evidence from innovation processes, and discusses how they can, and must, connect to the organization as a whole in order to have real long-term value
Management: A Practical Introduction empowers students to develop their career readiness. Developed to help students read and learn management with a purpose, it takes a student-centered approach. This is the first product to uniquely integrate a strategic career readiness theme throughout to address employers' concerns about students graduating without being career ready.
This book addresses global digital data governance from polycentric perspectives. Theories of (global) digital data governance remain little consolidated, with monodisciplinary accounts and different approaches focusing on actors, processes and norms.
This Element relates the dynamic capabilities framework to important concepts from the business and economics literature, demonstrating how it applies to today's business challenges. It also offers a capabilities perspective on a theory of the firm. Most existing theories of the firm caricature today's business enterprise.
Digital Transformation: Understanding Business Goals, Risks, Processes, and Decisions shows how to avoid such issues via careful consideration of what an enterprise really needs. Unlike many other books on digital transformation, the authors do not dwell on database design or the details of implementing information systems. Instead, they emphasise the importance of a clear understanding of all …
Brand Management: Mastering Research, Theory and Practice is a valuable resource for those looking to understand how a brand can be conceptualized and thus managed in all its complexity. Going beyond the "quick fixes" of branding, it offers a comprehensive overview of brand management theories from the last 35 years.
The book begins with an extended discussion of applied theory, including the theory building process, to help the reader appreciate how theory can connect to the practice of crisis communication. This discussion is followed by chapters each explaining a theory and using an evidence-based approach to explore how that theory illuminates and applies to crisis communication practice.
Principles of Strategic Communication, Second Edition is ideal as a core text for undergraduate students in strategic communication courses within media, communication, marketing and advertising programs.The accompanying online resources feature chapter summaries, useful links to examples of strategic communication in action, suggested further reading and sample test questions.
A wake-up call to motivate and inspire leaders, this book is a proactive approach to crisis planning and management that guides leaders step by step through a field-tested approach that will empower them to be more effective and less defensive when facing a crisis.
This book also provides insight into some of the (often noto-rious) operational risk events that have occurred in the past 10 years, with analysis of the JPMorgan Whale event, the Archegos Credit Suisse event, the UBS and Société Générale unauthorized trading scandals, the reputational risk events related to LIBOR and the recent Australian Banking scandals, the Knight Capital technology mis…
Innovation shouts from advertisements for products ranging from hairspray to hospital care. It nestles deep in the heart of our history books, pointing out how far and for how long it has shaped our lives. And it is on the lips of every politician, recognizing that our lifestyles are constantly shaped and reshaped by the process of innovation
Crisis communication is the life blood of crisis management: when communication is ineffective so is the crisis management effort. This book emphasizes the role of communication throughout the crisis management process. W. Timothy Coombs uses a three-staged approach to crisis management - pre-crisis, crisis, and post-crisis.
The new fifth edition of Information Technology Control and Audit has been significantly revised to include a comprehensive overview of the IT environment, including revolutionizing technologies, legislation, audit process, governance, strategy, and outsourcing, among others. This new edition also outlines common IT audit risks, procedures, and involvement associated with major IT audit areas. …