Foresight & Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region

Foresight   Strategy in the Asia Pacific Region Author: Luke van der Laan
Publisher: Springer

This book explores the importance of strategy and how to make it work in an environment characterised by constant change. With a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region, anticipated to become the epicentre of global economic activity, it offers insights into the optimisation of economic potential and social cohesion ...

Low-tech Innovation

Low tech Innovation Author: Oliver Som
Publisher: Springer

This book highlights the economic relevance of the so-called low-tech industries and firms. Non R&D intensive firms continue to be the economic backbone of several developed industrial countries. They form the core of National Innovation Systems and contribute significantly to growth and employment. However, due to their lack of ...

Organizational Semiotics

Organizational Semiotics Author: Kecheng Liu
Publisher: Springer

Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems covers such issues as: -Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on; -Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce; -'Architecture' of ...

Social Innovation

Social Innovation Author: A. Nicholls
Publisher: Springer

Focusing on social innovation broadly conceived in the context of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in their global context this book is organised to address three of the most important themes in social innovation: strategies and logics, performance measurement and governance, and finally, sustainability and the environment....

Co-Creation and Learning

Co Creation and Learning Author: K.B. Akhilesh
Publisher: Springer

This book introduces readers to co-creation --- a complex, value-based, context-driven and collaborative effort to develop new paradigms, products and services to satisfy human wants. Co-creation is built not only around the perceptions of challenges, cause-and-effect relationships and constraints, but also around available alternatives for dealing with or overcoming those ...

Global Perspectives on Women’s Leadership and Gender (In)Equality

Global Perspectives on Women   s Leadership and Gender  In Equality Author: Elena V. Shabliy
Publisher: Springer Nature

This interdisciplinary volume discusses women’s global leadership and women’s rights advancement, identifying gender inequality as a persisting societal challenge and a major barrier to human development. Drawing on intersectionality as an important analytic and methodological tool, the contributors analyse women’s leadership roles across the world, featuring perspectives ...

Building the Digital Enterprise

Building the Digital Enterprise Author: Mark Skilton
Publisher: Springer

The digital economy is at a tipping point. This practical book defines digital ecosystems, discusses digital design using converging technologies of social networking, mobility, big data and cloud computing, and provides a methods for linking digital technologies together to meet the challenges of building a digital enterprise in the new ...

Software Product Management

Software Product Management Author: Timo Wagenblatt
Publisher: Springer

This book is for product managers, product owners, product marketing managers, VPs and Heads of Product, CEOs, and start-up founders. In short, it serves anyone interested personally or professionally in software product management. You’ll learn how to plan, coordinate and execute all activities required for software product success. It ...

Achieving Sustainable Business Excellence

Achieving Sustainable Business Excellence Author: Flevy Lasrado
Publisher: Springer

Compiling the best practices of business excellence frameworks around the world, this new book addresses the need for innovative research on sustainable business performance. Using detailed empirical studies, the authors outline the motives and benefits of the implementation of such frameworks in different geographical regions. Comprehensive case studies showcase how ...

Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains

Strategic Planning for Dynamic Supply Chains Author: Shardul S. Phadnis
Publisher: Springer Nature

This book presents a strategic decision-making process (i.e., scenario planning) to help managers build supply chain infrastructures that can adapt to uncertain shifts in the business environment. The authors detail the process for developing and applying scenarios for strategic planning in organizations playing three different roles in supply chains. ...

Cybernetic Approach to Project Management

Cybernetic Approach to Project Management Author: Bogdan Lent
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

This book attempts to reflect the project reality as closely as possible, covering the ISO 21500:2012 standard that has just been introduced and the benefits from the best contributions worldwide and also providing the concise yet powerful tool box. It shall be easy to use and intuitively supportive of project managers. ...

A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation

A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation Author: Aristide van Aartsengel
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

This book enables enterprise business leaders - from CEOs to supervisors - to understand what "Continuous Improvement" is, why it is probably the best answer to improved business performance in years, and how to put it to work in the unique environment of a specific organization. The book examines what ...

True Profit!

True Profit Author: Hermann Simon
Publisher: Springer Nature

Real profit after taxes is the most important management target. Profits are the cost of survival and the creators of new value. In this book, celebrated management thinker Hermann Simon brings clarity to the jungle of profit concepts and balance sheets. He sheds light on the performance of numerous companies ...

Rethinking the Future of Europe

Rethinking the Future of Europe Author: Stefan Schepers
Publisher: Springer

Rethinking the Future of Europe has brought together three contrasting collections of contributions: the incrementalist perspective concerning the step by step development of Europe, the more radical reform/restructuring approach to the future of Europe, and a view of Europe from the outside....

Rethinking the Future of Europe

Rethinking the Future of Europe Author: Stefan Schepers
Publisher: Springer

Rethinking the Future of Europe has brought together three contrasting collections of contributions: the incrementalist perspective concerning the step by step development of Europe, the more radical reform/restructuring approach to the future of Europe, and a view of Europe from the outside....

eSports is Business

eSports is Business Author: Tobias M. Scholz
Publisher: Springer

The global phenomenon of eSports has experienced exponential growth in recent years, gaining interest from the media, sports and technology industries. Being born digital, global and agile, competitive gaming appeals to a young and emerging audience, and therefore the management of businesses within the eSports industry requires a unique strategy. ...

Implanting Strategic Management

Implanting Strategic Management Author: H. Igor Ansoff
Publisher: Springer

Coming more than 25 years after the last edition, this edition of the groundbreaking Ansoff work on the concepts and practical implementation of strategic management provides up-to-date case studies and simplified figures and offers a comprehensive approach to guiding firms through turbulent environments. In this age of digital transformation, the ability ...

New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change

New Horizons in Positive Leadership and Change Author: Satinder Dhiman
Publisher: Springer Nature

This edited volume provides managers, as well as students, with the best practices in effectively leading the 21st century workforce and managing change. It applies positive principles arising from the newly emerging fields of positive psychology, positive change, and positive organizational studies to the field of leadership and change; offering ...

Leadership - What Really Matters

Leadership   What Really Matters Author: Daniel F. Pinnow
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

What does really matter for daily leadership? How would a good and effective manager be characterized? Daniel F. Pinnow describes in a very illustrative way the essentials of collaborating with people in the business environment. This standard reference book exists as a 4th edition in German and is also available ...

Leadership Unplugged

Leadership Unplugged Author: J. Moore
Publisher: Springer

For managers, talk IS action. This ground-breaking book argues that what senior executives do should rest squarely on what they say. The logical conclusion is that organizations are a network of conversations - between employees, employers, suppliers and customers - the only thing executives can influence is the debate, discussion ...

Championing Women Leaders

Championing Women Leaders Author: Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj
Publisher: Springer

Championship is the key differentiator between women who achieve leadership roles and those who don't. This book examines the reasons why championing works and why it is so important for female executive development in particular, and provides a user-friendly guide to develop workplace champions for female leaders in any organization...