Bücher der Reihe Management for Professionals

This book presents an innovative and integrated approach to the theory and practice of corporate governance, offering a set of instruments - developed and tested by the author - that boards can use to apply effective strategic direction and control.

This book presents an evidence-based discussion of two critical areas that are gaining importance in the business world and personal development alike: namely, coaching and being a coach.

This book provides a practical approach to designing and implementing a Knowledge Management (KM) Strategy. The knowledge pyramid represents the usual concept of knowledge transformations, where data is transformed into information, and information is transformed into knowledge.

It draws from a large number of best practices of companies from automotive to railway, to convince other functional departments and higher management that supply management plays the most fundamental role in any organization due to the high number of value adding activities which are coming from suppliers.

Business model innovations are conceived and implemented by a special type of entrepreneur: business model pioneers. This book presents 14 compelling case studies of business model pioneers and their companies, who have successfully introduced new business ideas to the market.

This book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers.

This book demonstrates the challenges for Corporate Communications in the era of the Industrial Internet and the Internet of things, and how companies can adapt their communication strategies to meet them.

This book answers questions such as: How do you market green electricity or bio-methane?

This book introduces the basic principles for applying enterprise resource planning (ERP) to business needs. Describes the use of ERP for monitoring and controlling business processes; offers practical solutions to the design and implementation of ERP.

Business architecture professionals, researchers, and others working in the field of strategic business management will benefit from this comprehensive volume and its hands-on examples of successful business architecture management practices.

This book shows how business process management (BPM), as a management discipline at the intersection of IT and Business, can help organizations to master digital innovations and transformations.

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.

As such, CEOs need to adopt new business models for these established industries, while many companies have to reinvent themselves by developing new products for new markets. Issues such as organizational transformation, new product development, implementing a new organizational spirit, and many more are discussed.

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.

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) decision to require aviation organizations to adopt Safety Management Systems poses a major problem especially for small and medium sized aviation companies. Furthermore, the book highlights the importance of Corporate Risk Management independent of Safety Management Systems based on ICAO.

This book explores leadership and management in social sector organizations, which include, NGOs, non-profits, social enterprises, social businesses, and cross-sector collaborations focusing on advancing human dignity and social justice.

How should firms' control systems be designed and used to formulate and implement strategies that will contribute to competitive advantage and sustained high performance?

This book takes the reader on a tour of the eight stages of HR development, introduces the critical factors, and highlights many practical recommendations for strategic HR development practice in business. Includes case studies and checklists.

The transformation of the IT industry towards the model of an IT factory is the core theme of this book, which takes the latest findings from applied research, consulting and IT business practices and combines them into a consistent and innovative approach to IT services.

As new business models emerge from the crucible of globalization, new technology, and changing demographics, this volume explains why change management can be so challenging and describes successful practical techniques for strategy implementation.

This book is designed to help practitioners and academics to assess the added value of HR practices. It provides hands-on recommendations for choosing effective means to manage HR and specific suggestions aimed at facilitating the measurement of HR practices' impact on value creation.

This reference book shows how the Zero Outage method leads to more stability in operations, more reliability in projects and, ultimately, to greater customer satisfaction.

This book demonstrates, in detail, why annual performance appraisals might still work in hierarchical environments, but largely fail in agile ones.

This book presents strategies that put the customer at the center of an enterprise. It broadens the definition of customer value beyond tangible benefits and price to include both tangible and intangible benefits and total ownership costs, while embracing a variety of unique customer needs.

While this process has become a "no-brainer" for investment professionals, the market standard on this essential topic has not yet been laid out in a comprehensive form that covers all the major aspects of real estate due diligence: legal, tax, financial and technical issues.

Exploring how Chinese companies are experiencing emerging business trends and seizing opportunities brought by technology innovation, this book offers case studies of seven Chinese companies: 3DMed, Wechat from Tencent, Shanghai GM, CP Group, Alibaba, AutoNavi and ICBC, and helps fill the gap between 'Innovate in China' and the limited case studies.

This book provides managers, leaders and practitioners with a dynamic framework that links several variables associated with performance management which can be applied across organizations and industries worldwide.

This book combines scientific research and professional insights on brand and marketing strategy development in major emerging growth markets. With emerging markets at the center, major paradigm shifts are explained such as 'one world strategies'.

This book describes a maximally simple market risk model that is still practical and main risk measures like the value-at-risk and the expected shortfall.

This book introduces the structure, economic arguments, and business strategies for entrepreneurship in sport. The book will be useful for sports organizations, athletes and government organizations promoting the use of entrepreneurship to generate competitive advantages on the global marketplace.