Bücher der Reihe Management for Professionals

This book offers practical guidance on how to industrialize business solutions. It provides real-life examples globally collected from both multi-national and smaller firms and will help companies to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

This book presents an integrated approach to monitoring projects in progress using Earned Value and Earned Schedule Management combined with Schedule Risk Analysis. Includes two software tutorials to facilitate application of the project management concepts.

Capitalism produced entrepreneurs and property rights, the two basic pillars of innovation and growth. proposes the framework of dominant, science-driven and high-tech industry for innovation management and gives insights into intellectual property rights, industrial designs and technical risk management.

This book presents the interrelationship between customer knowledge management, customer focus and soft skills. It also provides concrete advice on how the management of customer knowledge can be optimized.

This book bridges the research and practice of global talent management. An open and inclusive approach is used in assessing the challenges of global talent management, strategies to overcome these challenges, and in charting opportunities for future talent management.

In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be "productive", but it is far less clear what this exactly means.

Talent Relationship Management

This book offers an essential manual for project managers, project management offices (PMO's), trainers and consultants, addressing the psychological side of project management. It adds a psychological perspective to personnel management, decision-making, information and knowledge management and communication in project work.

This book develops an IT strategy for cloud computing that helps businesses evaluate their readiness for cloud services and calculate the ROI.

This book examines a wide range of factors that govern innovation in organizations. It presents a business model that eases communication between the three stakeholders of an innovation: inventor, decision maker and organization.

All organizations, institutions, business processes, markets and strategies have one aim in common: the reduction of transaction costs. It tracks transaction costs to enable a scientific approach instead of a widely used "state-of-the-art" approach, working to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

This book emphasizes that leadership is a task, one that has left evolutionary - and thereby enduring - traces in us.

How an organization manages its information is arguably the most important skill in today's dynamic and hyper-competitive environment. (2) enterprise content management (company-wide management of unstructured information, including document management, digital asset management, records management, and web content management);

Social, Local, Mobile

This book describes the journey of developing and implementing a global knowledge sharing strategy at the multinational project development and construction company Skanska.

Selecting a suitable production control policy is a challenging task for managers because the superiority of one control over the other is controversial. This book analyzes pull production systems and provides a guideline to choose and implement a proper control policy in production processes.

This book will appeal to anyone engaged in business process transformation, be it business process management professionals, change managers, sponsors, program managers or line managers.

This book explores the many facets of building and operating an SAP infrastructure exploiting Cloud technologies, describing and discussing the latest challenges and suitable solutions, and outlining future trends. Includes practice-oriented case studies.

This book revisits the concept of reputation, bringing it up to date with the era of social media and demonstrating the significance of a good reputation for making sustainable business.

Customers consider many crucial factors, even subconsciously, when purchasing a product or engaging a service provider, consequently building a sense of trust which is decisive towards their user experience through to customer experience.

Each of the six unique cases serves as an independent teaching case for undergraduate and graduate students, describing the particular service design, operations management, innovation, supplier management, and social responsibility within the context of an Asian last-mile logistics service provider.

This book presents a new management model that has evolved in Silicon Valley. This book imbibes latest results from a year-long study of Google's approaches to management, and finds similar principles being applied at companies including, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Tesla Motors, and Apigee.

This book provides a fundamental and practical introduction to Enterprise Engineering, demonstrating how to employ this approach to map the essence of an organization at the core level of internal cooperation.

This book explores the theoretical foundations and applications of military operational logistics (OpLog). OpLog theory has two facets: qualitative and quantitative.The qualitative facet is imbedded in the theory of operational level of war or operational art.

It provides conceptual frameworksand simple tools for identifying and addressing the complexities of managinggeographically dispersed, virtually linked organizations, which may have grownorganically or inorganically into a potpourri of multiple cultures,capabilities and practices.

This book compiles brand new case studies on the intricacies and market entry strategies of different companies in China. With a special focus on marketing, positioning, and branding, this book presents issues and solutions of both large multinationals and small niche market players.