1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBSOBE00038245

Autore

Quadri, Goffredo

Titolo

I tragici greci e l'estetica della giustizia / Goffredo Quadri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Firenze : La nuova Italia, 1936

Descrizione fisica

227 p. ; 20 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779305103321

Autore

Tellis Gerard J

Titolo

Unrelenting innovation : how to build a culture for market dominance / / Gerard J. Tellis ; foreword by Vijay Govindarajan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, Calif., : Jossey-Bass, 2013

San Francisco, CA : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2013

ISBN

1-118-41690-2

1-283-89333-9

1-118-42039-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 332 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Warren Bennis signature series

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

658.4

658.4/063

658.4063

Soggetti

New products

Diffusion of innovations

Creative ability in business

Technological innovations

Strategic planning

Market share

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Unrelenting Innovation; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; Foreword; Chapter 1 Why Incumbents Fail; Why Incumbents Fail to Innovate Unrelentingly; Paradox of the Incumbent's Curse; Telling Examples; The Preeminence of Culture; Traits for Innovation; Practices for Innovation; Culture as a Primary Explanation; Basis for the Book; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Willingness to Cannibalize Successful Products; Why Incumbents Are Reluctant to Cannibalize Products; Organizational Factors; Why Willingness to Cannibalize Is Important; Finite Growth of Current Products; Increasing Rate of Innovation

Limitations of AcquisitionsChallenge of Technological Change; Understanding Technological Evolution; On Which Level to Innovate?; What Is the Pattern of Evolution?; On Which Dimension of Performance to Focus?; Blinded to an Opportunity: Microsoft Keywords?; Crippled by Fear of Piracy: Sony MP3 Player; Decline of an Innovator: Eastman Kodak; A Cycle of Cannibalization: Gillette's Innovations in Wet Shaving; Late Move: HP Tablet; Conclusion; Chapter 3 Embracing Risk; Sources of Risk: Innovation's High Failure Rate; The Reflection Effect: Asymmetry in Perceived Risk

The Hot-Stove Effect: Learning from FailureThe Expectations Effect: Hope Versus Reality; Innovation's Gain-Loss Function: Type 1 and 2 Errors; Case Histories; Gambling on an Embryonic Market: Toyota's Prius; Initial Stage: Striving for Kakushin (''Rapid Innovation'')-Aim High; Experimentation-Undaunted by Failure; Slow Takeoff-A Testament of Toyota's Faith and Patience; Eventual Success; Gambling on Growth: Amazon.com; Gambling on Vision: Facebook; Hatch of an Idea in a Dorm Room; Bet on Silicon Valley; Risk-Loving Hacker Culture; News Feed Crisis; To Sell or Not to Sell

Opening the Site to Third-Party ApplicationsRisk Rewards; Gambling on Scale: Federal Express; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Focusing on the Future; Why Future Focus Is Tough; Hot-Hand Bias; Availability Bias; Paradigmatic Bias; Commitment Bias; Planning for the Future; Predicting and Managing Takeoff; Targeting Future Mass Markets; Predicting Technological Evolution; Analyzing Emergent Consumers; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Incentives for Enterprise; Traditional Incentives: Winning Loyalty; Asymmetric Incentives: Turning Failure into Success; Making Incentives Work: Economics and Psychology of Incentives

Moral IncentivesSocial Incentives; Fairness of Incentives; Framing Incentives; Power of Incentives: IBM's Transformation; Incentives for Enterprise: Google; Perks, Options, and Awards; Time Off to Explore: Structure and Fruits of 20% Off; Challenge of Talent Retention; Incentives for Loyalty: General Motors; Technology Troubles; Labor and Union Priorities; Incentives for Innovation: 3M; Structuring Team Incentives: IBM's Learning from Online Gamers; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Fostering Internal Markets; Characteristics of Markets; Markets as Idea Generators; Markets as Talent Pools

Markets as Efficient Resource Allocators

Sommario/riassunto

The hands-on guide for fostering relentless innovation within your company Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. Organizations must be willing to cannibalize successful products, embrace risk, and focus on the future. Organizations build these traits by providing incentives for enterprise, empowering pro



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00293448

Autore

INTERNATIONAL COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE : 5. : 1997

Titolo

Polysemy in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the Fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference : Amsterdam, 1997 / edited by Hubert Cuyckens, Britta Zawada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, : Benjamins, 1997

ISBN

90-272-3683-6

Descrizione fisica

294 p. ; 22 cm

Disciplina

401.43

Soggetti

GRAMMATICA COGNITIVA - Congressi

POLISEMIA - Congressi

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia