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Author : Jan Wallander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789171509109
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Decentralisation - why and how to make it work : the handelsbanken way written by Jan Wallander and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charlie Dawson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000365034
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Customer Copernicus written by Charlie Dawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some companies are great for customers – not only do they care but they change whole markets to work better for the customers they serve. Think of Amazon, easyJet and Sky. They make things easier and improve what really matters – obvious, surely? They have also enjoyed huge business success, growing and making plenty of money. The Customer Copernicus answers the question that follows – if it’s obvious and attractive why is it so rare? And then it answers a second question, because Tesco, O2 and Wells Fargo were like this once. Why, having mastered it, would you ever stop? Because all three did, and two ended up in court. The Customer Copernicus explains how to become and how to stay customer-led. Essential reading for leaders and teams who want their organisations to stay competitive by developing a more purposeful and innovative culture.
Author : Steve Morlidge et al
Publisher : Beyond Books Press
ISBN 13 : 1739176715
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book The Viable Map Workbook written by Steve Morlidge et al and published by Beyond Books Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Budgeting is an idea that has been around for nearly two decades, and many members of the community have written books about the concepts and how to put them into practice. It has become clear, however, that companies attracted to these ideas have sometimes struggled to implement Beyond Budgeting, often because they have not understood the subtlety or the full implications of the ideas and how to execute change. In addition, those of us leading the Beyond Budgeting movement want to have the biggest impact on the world that we possibly can. And to do this we need to find a way to help as many people as possible to join us in putting these ideas into practice, without investing as much time and effort as we have getting to grips with them. The Viable Map is based on an idea that we have worked with for a number of years that helps people to describe their current management model in terms that made it easy for them to see what they needed to do to bring it into line with Beyond Budgeting principles. The original ideas have been improved and extended to create a methodology that helps managers and leaders to better understand Beyond Budgeting at a practical level, to describe their existing model, diagnose what is wrong with it and design a better one. The key idea in the book is that an organisation’s management model must be coherent, in other words be a good ‘fit’ both the nature of the environment in which it operates and the qualities of its people. Thus, its management processes (as defined by the Beyond Budgeting process principles) must be more adaptive when the environment is unpredictable and have a more devolved culture (as defined by the Beyond Budgeting leadership principles). The map itself is a simple grid upon which people can plot their Management Model and the book provides detailed guidance on how to do with with reference to typical practices and methods and how to help ensure coherence, in principle and in practice. It also describes typical ‘patterns’ to look out for, good and bad, and some real-life examples. In summary it will help people translate interest in Beyond Budgeting ideas into practical action and provides a methodology to help guide and coach companies through the transition.
Author : Gerrit Broekstra
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137414723
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Building High-Performance, High-Trust Organizations written by Gerrit Broekstra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vanguard companies have evolved to a higher level of decentralization originating in the enabling-and-autonomy paradigm. A new kind of deep leadership is practiced by these spirit-driven organizations. This book brings together theory and case studies to cover historical origins and developments of both types of decentralization.
Author : Elaine Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317429931
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Performance Management and Control written by Elaine Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance management is key to the ongoing success of any organisation, allowing it to meet its strategic objectives by designing and implementing management control systems. This book goes beyond the usual discussion of performance management in accounting and finance, to consider strategic management, human behaviour and performance management in different countries and contexts. With a global mix of world-renowned researchers, this book systematically covers the what, the who, the where and the why of performance management and control (PMC) systems. A comprehensive, state-of-the-art collection edited by a leading expert in the field, this book is a vital resource for all scholars, students and researchers with an interest in business, management and accounting.
Author : Niels Kroner
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857190970
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book A Blueprint for Better Banking written by Niels Kroner and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Blueprint for Better Banking" takes a fresh look at the financial crisis. It sets out to answer specifically what the mistakes were that banks made and how this could have been avoided. What is unique about this book is a detailed description of a large bank that operates very differently from its peers and that has, as a result, steered clear of the areas that have brought many other banks into trouble. This provides a number of insights into how a more resilient, post-credit crunch banking system should look. The first section begins with an overview of existing explanations of the crisis and why they remain partly unsatisfactory. It then sets out an alternative framework based around seven behavioural patterns of imprudent banking. These 'Seven Deadly Sins' have caused most banking crises, including the current one, and while they come in different shapes and forms they remain essentially the same. This book examines why they remain extremely tempting to bankers, often with the enthusiastic support of their shareholders and no meaningful objection by regulators. The second and main part of the book is a new and extensive description of the management practices at Svenska Handelsbanken, one of the top 25 banks in Europe. It not only survived the Swedish banking crisis in the 1990s without asking for support, but it has also remained stable during the latest crisis. Handelsbanken did not have to raise capital or ask for government support and its shares have been the best performing European bank stock by a wide margin. The bank has traditionally been run by management practices that are diametrically opposed to so-called 'best practice' in the industry. The book investigates how Handelsbanken operates without bonuses and examines their unique organisation, strategy discussion, risk management and capital markets communication. In effect, the book describes how Handelsbanken ensures that it does not fall for any of the Seven Deadly Sins. Niels Kroner has conducted over fifty interviews with Handelsbanken executives and competitors, and also draws on his inside experience of many other institutions to bring out the important differences between the 'Handelsbanken way' and common practices at other banks. The final part summarises what other banks and financial institutions can learn from Handelsbanken and how its model may offer a solution that other potential regulatory changes may not.
Author : Ulla Sebestyén
Publisher : Parmatur HB
ISBN 13 : 9163924595
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Agile Multi-Project Management written by Ulla Sebestyén and published by Parmatur HB. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Friberg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262528193
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Managing Risk and Uncertainty written by Richard Friberg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2015-11-13 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive framework for assessing strategies for managing risk and uncertainty, integrating theory and practice and synthesizing insights from many fields. This book offers a framework for making decisions under risk and uncertainty. Synthesizing research from economics, finance, decision theory, management, and other fields, the book provides a set of tools and a way of thinking that determines the relative merits of different strategies. It takes as its premise that we make better decisions if we use the whole toolkit of economics and related fields to inform our decision making. The text explores the distinction between risk and uncertainty and covers standard models of decision making under risk as well as more recent work on decision making under uncertainty, with a particular focus on strategic interaction. It also examines the implications of incomplete markets for managing under uncertainty. It presents four core strategies: a benchmark strategy (proceeding as if risk and uncertainty were low), a financial hedging strategy (valuable if there is much risk), an operational hedging strategy (valuable for conditions of much uncertainty), and a flexible strategy (valuable if there is much risk and/or uncertainty). The book then examines various aspects of these strategies in greater depth, building on empirical work in several different fields. Topics include price-setting, real options and Monte Carlo techniques, organizational structure, and behavioral biases. Many chapters include exercises and appendixes with additional material. The book can be used in graduate or advanced undergraduate courses in risk management, as a guide for researchers, or as a reference for management practitioners.
Author : Ulla Sebestyén
Publisher : Parmatur HB
ISBN 13 : 9151955326
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The Principles of Agile Management written by Ulla Sebestyén and published by Parmatur HB. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we go through the basic principles that every manager needs to understand in order to practice agile management. Changes are often small and seamless, but sometimes big and dramatic. Agility is to create, exploit and endure changes in circumstances. An agile business is able to successfully create effects in the market and take advantage of the opportunities that arise. In order to survive in the long term, both resilience and adaptability are needed. Being able to establish this balance is what agile management is all about. Major changes in the market are impossible to predict, but we know for sure that they will occur. We just don’t know when and what will change. Recessions and financial crashes return in cycles. While other dramatic world events are much more difficult to prepare for and realize the consequences of. So how can a company adopt the resilience it needs to not only survive, but also thrive in the tumultuous periods? In this book we will show how the principles of agile management can help companies keep pace with changes in the world around them. We start with basic knowledge about adaptation to explain how organizations work and then explores the principles behind agile management backed up with examples and useful methods and practices. The book also points out characteristics of an agile business that can be used for self-assessment. We believe in people’s initiative and their ability to act. With knowledge, curiosity and feedback, the journey towards the agile business can start.
Author : Stefan Sveningsson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107121701
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Managerial Lives written by Stefan Sveningsson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between experience, situation and identity in the managerial life.
Author : Frank Hartmann
Publisher : McGraw Hill
ISBN 13 : 1526848325
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (268 download)
Download or read book EBOOK: Management Control Systems, 2e written by Frank Hartmann and published by McGraw Hill. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBOOK: Management Control Systems, 2e
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192865277
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Triumph of Emptiness written by and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, considerable time and effort is devoted to appearance, both for individuals and organizations; the right look, an impressive title, a favourable connection. The focus is on the surface, with considerations of substance often overlooked. In this book, Mats Alvesson demystifies some popular and upbeat claims about a range of phenomena, including the knowledge society, consumption, branding, higher education, organizational change, professionalization, and leadership. He contends that a culture of 'grandiosity' is leading to numerous inflated claims. We no longer talk about plans but 'strategies'. Supervisors have been replaced by 'managers', and managers are referred to as 'executives'. Management itself is about 'leadership'. Giving advice is 'coaching'. Companies become 'knowledge-intensive firms'. This book views the contemporary economy as an economy of persuasion, where firms and other institutions increasingly assign talent, energy, and resources to rhetoric, image, branding, reputation, and visibility. This second edition uses a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership in the 21st century. Exploring new areas such as strategic management in higher education, title inflation, and the increasing imbalance between knowledge, manual, and care work, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole.
Author : John Seddon
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1482278448
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Freedom from Command and Control written by John Seddon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Command and Control is failing us. There is a better way to design and manage work - a better way to make work work - but it remains unknown to the vast majority of managers." An adherent of the Toyota Production System, John Seddon explains how traditional top-down decision making within service organizations leads to managers
Author : Niels Kroner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906659318
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (593 download)
Download or read book A Blueprint for Better Banking written by Niels Kroner and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Svenska Handelsbanken' takes a fresh look at the financial crisis. It sets out to answer specifically what the mistakes were that banks made and how this could have been avoided. What is unique about this book is a detailed description of a large bank that operates very differently from its peers and that has, as a result, steered well clear of areas that have brought many other banks into trouble. This provides a number of insights into how a more resilient, post-credit crunch banking system should look like. The first section starts with an overview of existing explanations of the credit crunch and why they remain partly unsatisfactory. It then sets out an alternative framework around seven behavioural patterns of financial institutions of imprudent banking. They have caused most banking crises, including the current one, and while they come in different shapes and forms they remain essentially the same. This book examines why the Seven Deadly Sins remain extremely tempting to bankers, often with the enthusiastic support of their shareholders and no meaningful objection by their regulators. The second and main part of the book is a new and extensive description of the management practices at Svenska Handelsbanken, a universal bank operating in a number of countries in Northern Europe. Handelsbanken is one of the top 25 banks in Europe. It was not just the only bank that survived the Swedish banking crisis in the 1990s without asking for government support - it has also done very well in the 2008/2009 crisis. Handelsbanken did not have to raise capital or ask for government support and its shares have been the best performing European bank stock by a wide margin. Despite its large size Handelsbanken has, in many ways, acted as a shock absorber, not a shock amplifier, to the financial system.
Author : Mats Alvesson
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1782832025
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Stupidity Paradox written by Mats Alvesson and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Functional stupidity can be catastrophic. It can cause organisational collapse, financial meltdown and technical disaster. And there are countless, more everyday examples of organisations accepting the dubious, the absurd and the downright idiotic, from unsustainable management fads to the cult of leadership or an over-reliance on brand and image. And yet a dose of stupidity can be useful and produce good, short-term results: it can nurture harmony, encourage people to get on with the job and drive success. This is the stupidity paradox. The Stupidity Paradox tackles head-on the pros and cons of functional stupidity. You'll discover what makes a workplace mindless, why being stupid might be a good thing in the short term but a disaster in the longer term, and how to make your workplace a little less stupid by challenging thoughtless conformity. It shows how harmony and action in the workplace can be balanced with a culture of questioning and challenge. The book is a wake-up call for smart organisations and smarter people. It encourages us to use our intelligence fully for the sake of personal satisfaction, organisational success and the flourishing of society as a whole.
Author : Carl-Gustav Lindén
Publisher : Helsinki University Press
ISBN 13 : 9523690310
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (236 download)
Download or read book Kingdom of Nokia written by Carl-Gustav Lindén and published by Helsinki University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingdom of Nokia tells a fascinating story of corporatism in Finland. How did the mobile phone giant Nokia make the Finnish elite willing to serve the interests of the company? Nokia became a global player in mobile communications in the 1990s, and helped establish Anglo-Saxon capitalism in Finland. Through its success and strong lobbying, the company managed to capture the attention of Finnish politicians, civil servants, and journalists nationwide. With concrete detailed examples, Kingdom of Nokia illustrates how Nokia organised lavishing trips to journalists and paid direct campaign funding to politicians to establish its role at the core of Finnish decision-making. As a result, the company influenced important political decisions such as joining the European Union and adopting the euro, and further, Nokia even drafted its own law to serve its special interests. All this in a country considered one of the least corrupt in the world.
Author : Stefan Tengblad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811053146
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Resilience Framework written by Stefan Tengblad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book puts forward a carefully crafted theoretical framework that makes a substantial contribution to the field of organizational resilience. It is a framework that goes far beyond the traditional crisis management perspective (accidents, scandals, etc) to an investigation of the characteristics and factors that make organizations viable over time. The book creates a much-needed link between human resource management and organizational development on the one hand, and the literature about risk and crises management and resilience engineering on the other. The book assembles several robust social science theories such as evolutionary theory, complexity theory, and institutional theory, as well as concepts from management theory such as followership, organizational trust, open innovation, and serendipity management into a coherent framework. It also integrates important models from the field of resilience engineering that have not previously been included in the research on organizational resilience. Several new models are used to present the theoretical framework, models that have relevance for researchers as well as practitioners. In addition to the theoretical framework, all chapters are set in various practical environments that both illustrate the use of resilience resources and align with the framework itself.
