Guide to management ideas and gurus [[electronic resource] /] / Tim Hindle

• Autore: Hindle Tim
• Pubblicazione: London, : Profile, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 658
• Soggetto topico: Industrial management; Management
• Note generali: At head of title: The economist.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part 1 Management Ideas -- Active inertia -- Activity-based costing -- Balanced scorecard -- Barriers to entry, exit and mobility -- Benchmarking -- Brainstorming -- Branding -- Business modelling -- Business planning -- Business process re-engineering -- Cannibalisation -- Champion -- Change management -- Cherry-picking -- Clustering -- Competitive advantage -- Convergence -- Core competence -- Corporate governance -- Corporate social responsibility -- Cost-benefit analysis -- Crisis management -- Cross-selling -- Culture -- Customer relationship management -- Decentralisation -- Delayering -- Differentiation -- Disruptive technology/ innovation -- Diversification -- Downsizing -- E-commerce -- Economies of scale and scope -- Empowerment -- Enterprise resource planning -- Entrepreneurship -- The experience curve -- Flexibility -- Flexible working -- Franchising -- Game theory -- Genchi genbutsu -- The glass ceiling -- Globalisation -- Growth share matrix -- The halo effect -- The Hawthorne effect -- Hierarchy of needs -- Human resources transformation -- Innovation -- Just-in-time -- Kaizen -- Keiretsu -- Knowledge management -- Leadership -- Lean production -- The long tail -- Management by objectives -- Management by walking about -- Mass customisation -- Mass production -- Matrix management -- Mentoring -- Mission statement -- Niche market -- Offshoring -- Open-book management -- Operations research -- Outsourcing -- Performance-related pay -- Planned obsolescence -- Portfolio working -- Private equity -- Product life cycle -- Quality circle -- Scenario planning -- Scientific management -- Segmentation -- The Seven Ss -- Six Sigma -- Skunkworks -- Span of control -- Strategic alliance -- Strategic planning -- Succession planning -- Supply-chain management -- Sustainability -- SWOT analysis -- Synergy. ; Talent -- Theories X and Y -- Tipping point -- Total quality management -- Triple bottom line -- True and fair -- Unique selling proposition -- Value chain -- Value creation -- Vertical integration -- Viral marketing -- The virtual organisation -- Vision -- Zero-base budgeting -- Part 2 Management Gurus -- Igor Ansoff -- Warren Bennis -- Marvin Bower -- Warren Buffett -- Dale Carnegie -- Alfred Chandler -- Clayton Christensen -- Jim Collins -- Stephen Covey -- W. Edwards Deming -- Peter Drucker -- Henri Fayol -- Pankaj Ghemawat -- Sumantra Ghoshal -- Frank and Lillian Gilbreth -- Gary Hamel -- Michael Hammer -- Charles Handy -- Geert Hofstede -- Elliott Jaques -- Joseph Juran -- Rosabeth Moss Kanter -- Robert Kaplan and David Norton -- Philip Kotler -- Theodore Levitt -- James March -- Abraham Maslow -- Konosuke Matsushita -- Elton Mayo -- Douglas McGregor -- Henry Mintzberg -- Akio Morita -- Ikujiro Nonaka -- Kenichi Ohmae -- Taiichi Ohno -- Robert Owen -- C. Northcote Parkinson -- Richard Pascale -- Laurence Peter -- Tom Peters -- Michael Porter -- C.K. Prahalad -- Richard Rumelt -- E.F. Schumacher -- Peter Senge -- Herbert Simon -- Alfred Sloan -- Frederick Winslow Taylor -- Alvin Toffler -- Robert Townsend -- Dave Ulrich -- Pierre Wack -- Max Weber -- William Whyte.
• Sommario/riassunto: Featurtes the ideas that have and continue to underpin the management of business. This title also includes entries on the most influential business thinkers. Entries on ideas include: Active Inertia; Disruptive Technology; Genchi Genbutsu; The Halo Effect; The Long Tail; Pareto Principle; Six Sigma;, Skunkworks; SWOT analysis; and, Thin Slicing.
• Titolo autorizzato: Guide to management ideas and gurus
• ISBN: 1-281-72147-6; 9786611721473; 1-84765-039-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910678451803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II