The Google Model: Managing Continuous Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World (Steiber Annika)(Pevná vazba)

The Google Model: Managing Continuous Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World (Steiber Annika)(Pevná vazba)

This book shows how companies like Google have reinvented the common practice in management in order to continuously innovate in fast changing industries. With the ever-increasing pace of change, reinventing existing management principles could become a necessity and prove crucial in the long-term

Designing Performance Measurement Systems: Theory and Practice of Key Performance Indicators (Franceschini Fiorenzo)(Pevná vazba)

Given our rapidly changing world, companies are virtually forced to engage in continuous performance monitoring. Though Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) may at times seem to be the real driving force behind social systems, economies and organizations, they can also have far-reaching normative

Managing Innovation in Healthcare (Barlow James)(Paperback)

Across the world, the demands placed on health systems are growing rapidly. Developed countries face the challenge of providing services to an ageing population with changing health needs, while countries with developing health systems must find ways of ensuring their populations are provided with

Built to Innovate: Essential Practices to Wire Innovation Into Your Company's DNA (Weber Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Drive and leverage continuous innovation to meet the challenges of digital disruption, changing markets, evolving customer needs, and increasingly fierce competition A major question on the mind of every business leader today is: What can I do to create extra value for my company and the customers

Managing Silence in Workplaces (Vemuri Sivaram)(Pevná vazba)

Silence within the workplace restricts change, transformation and the innovation of organizations. It can also be detrimental to the health and well-being of individual employees. Managing Silence in Workplaces investigates the costs of silence to the individual, the organization and society at

The New Geography of Innovation: Clusters, Competitiveness and Theory (Tinguely Xavier)(Pevná vazba)

Innovation is the main engine of competitiveness. However, in a world in which everything goes faster, the inherent nature of the innovation process has changed. This book assesses both the theoretically and empirically intertwined relationship between innovation, clusters and multinational

Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean (Verganti Roberto)(Pevná vazba)

Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical

Innovation in Real Places: Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World (Breznitz Dan)(Pevná vazba)

A challenge to prevailing ideas about innovation and a guide to identifying the best growth strategy for your community. Across the world, cities and regions have wasted trillions of dollars on blindly copying the Silicon Valley model of growth creation. Since the early years of the information

The Handbook of Continuous Crystallization(Pevná vazba)

Improvements in continuous crystallization technologies offer chemical industries significant financial gains, through reduced expenditure and operational costs. This book is first authoritative guide to the field, covering fundamental and applied knowledge, process intensification, scaling up,

Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World (Weick Karl E.)(Pevná vazba)

Improve your company's ability to avoid or manage crises Managing the Unexpected, Third Edition is a thoroughly revised text that offers an updated look at the groundbreaking ideas explored in the first and second editions. Revised to reflect events emblematic of the unique challenges that

Own it! 3 Workbook - Annie Cornford

We live in a rapidly changing world. With Own It!, teens develop the confidence and competencies they need to forge their own path in this ever-evolving global landscape. From developing critical and creative thinking skills and social/emotional aptitudes to working effectively in a group, Own it!

Own it! 4 Workbook - Higgin Eoin

We live in a rapidly changing world. With Own It!, teens develop the confidence and competencies they need to forge their own path in this ever-evolving global landscape. From developing critical and creative thinking skills and social/emotional aptitudes to working effectively in a group, Own it!

Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (Keller Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

A revolution in cooking Sous vide is the culinary innovation that has everyone in the food world talking. In this revolutionary new cookbook, Thomas Keller, America's most respected chef, explains why this foolproof technique, which involves cooking at precise temperatures below simmering, yields

You Are Mighty - A Guide to Changing the World (Paul Caroline)(Pevná vazba)

The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation (Nonaka Ikujiro)(Pevná vazba)

High-velocity change is the fundamental challenge facing companies today. Few companies, however, are prepared to continuously innovate-because they focus on the short-term and do not emphasize the wisdom needed to make sure that their interests are aligned with those of society. Practical wisdom

The Affinities (Wilson Robert Charles)(Paperback)

In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic,

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities - Changing Our World(Pevná vazba)

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as other experienced practitioners and renowned

Wild: Adventure Cookbook (Glover Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

JAMES BEARD AWARD FINALIST Winner of the 2018 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in Innovation for Australia Bringing rich flavors to the great outdoors, this mouthwatering collection of recipes by Sarah Glover evokes the sights, smells, and tastes of the Australian wilderness. Sarah Glover loves to

Managing Teams for Dummies (Brounstein Marty)(Paperback)

In the ever-changing world of work, the idea of spending some orall of your time working in teams is becoming more and more common.From solving problems, to tackling projects, to providingorganizational leadership, the roles and importance of teamscontinue to grow. Leading a team is no easy job,

The Fifth Wave: The Evolution of American Higher Education (Crow Michael M.)(Pevná vazba)

America's research universities lead the world in discovery, creativity, and innovation--but are captive to a set of design constraints that no longer aligns with the changing needs of society. Their commitment to discovery and innovation, which is carried out largely in isolation from the

Innovation in Financial Services - A Dual Ambiguity(Pevná vazba)

This book gathers together some of the most up-to-date thinking in the growing field of innovation in services and more particularly, in financial services. It explores the peculiarities of innovation in financial services firms and surrounding market players, discusses the open nature of the

Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results (Rother Mike)(Pevná vazba)

'Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress--and what it takes to make it a real part of

Impact - Reshaping capitalism to drive real change (Cohen Sir Ronald)(Pevná vazba)

Changing the world and making a profit can go hand in hand. The Bestselling Business Book The Financial Times Best Economics Books of 2020 A Must Read Book From The Godfather Of Impact Investing - Forbes a powerful case for a movement that is gaining traction in society - Andrew Jack, The Financial

The Life Scientific: Detectives (Buckley Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we really know about their lives beyond the lab? Based on interviews for the hit BBC Radio 4 series, The Life Scientific: Detectives reveals the life and work of some of the foremost scientists in the world, from Nobel laureates to the next