Pubbl/distr/stampa	Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, , 2018
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (345 pages)
Disciplina	004
Soggetto topico	Information technology Diffusion of innovations
ISBN	1-5386-5318-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNISA-996280352303316

Autore	Setili Amanda <1959->
Edizione	[First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (259 p.)
Disciplina	658.4/012
Soggetto topico	Strategic planning Diffusion of innovations Organizational change
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-118-96443-8 1-118-96444-6
Classificazione	BUS000000
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 What Is Agility-and Why Is It Valuable?; What Is Agility?; Business Models Are Evolving Fast-with New Winners and New Losers; What Kind of Companies Need to Be Agile?; What We See in Agile Organizations; Changes in Technology, Culture, and the Economy Are Driving the Need for Greater Agility; Globalization; Microcultures; Collaboration; Technology Changes; Transparency and Customer Power; Commoditization; Increase Agility Where It Makes the Most Difference; Where Is Agility Most Important in Your Business? Chapter 2 See Through Your Customers'' Eyes: How to See What Your Competitor Can''tExperience What Customers Do, Firsthand; Put Customers to Work; Get out of the Office and into the Field; Give Customers a Reason to Talk, Then Listen In; Encourage the Unexpected; In Conclusion; Chapter 3 Right Customers, Right Value, Right Time: Identify Your Most Attractive Customers and Pivot with Them; Your Customers Can Show You the Way; Assess Growth and Profitability by Customer; When You See Fast Growth or High Profitability, Find Out What's Behind It Look for Customers Who Are Using Your Products in an Unusual WayDirect Resources Toward Your Most Attractive Customers; Your Products Can Show You the Way; Market Share as an Indicator of Opportunity; The Magic Matrix: Looking at Product and Customer Performance Simultaneously; Segment Customers According to Why They Are Using Your Products; Niches and Microcultures Reveal New Opportunities for Growth; Observe "Outlier" Customers; Continuous Customer Intelligence: Harnessing Data to Gain Up-to-the-Minute Foresight; Automate Customization; In Conclusion Chapter 4 Love the Problem: Dig Deep to Find New InsightsObserve the Customers' Daily Environment, the Tools They Use, and the People They Interact With; Observe and Interview Customers to Identify Opportunities in Business-to-Business Markets; What to Observe; Whom to Talk To; What to Find Out; Enlist the Customer as Collaborator; Know What Problems You Are Trying to Solve; Understand Your Customers' Hearts, Minds, Habits, and Values; Understand How Your Customers Vary Across Cultures and Geographies; In Conclusion Chapter 5 Turn Trends into Opportunities: Stop Preparing for the Future and Create ItHow Can We Best Assess and Respond to Market Change?; What Types of Market Change Do We Need to Be Concerned About?; Pressure on margins; Pressure on revenue; International opportunities; Macroeconomic changes; Reshoring; New technologies; Regulatory changes; How Can We Best Identify and Prioritize the Marketplace Changes That May Affect Our Business?; Anticipate What Might Happen Next; Prioritize and Take Action; What Action Is UPS Taking to Respond to the Changes in Its Business Environment? Investment in Customer Collaboration
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910458427103321

Autore	Laudicina Paul A
Edizione	[1st edition]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina	658.4/03
Soggetto topico	Strategic planning Organizational change Decision making Change (Psychology) Diffusion of innovations
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-118-41671-6 1-283-59892-2 9786613911377 1-118-42030-6
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Praise for Beating the Global Odds; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Global Brain Freeze; More Has Become (Much) Less; Think Pinball, Not Roulette; Disorientation and Decision Analysis; Chapter 2: Fast and Fickle; Lumbering Giants; Watch Out for Those Tuning Out and Checking Out; Chapter 3: Rudderless World; Tea Party, Occupy Movements: Birds of a Feather?; Privatizing the Gains, Socializing the Losses; The Three Deficits; Inescapable Trilemma?; The Case for Values-Based Leadership; Chapter 4: Lighten the Load and Make It Sesame Street Simple Sesame Street SimpleCockpit Confusion; Chapter 5: Repair Your Social Fabric; The Three-Line Whip; The Pause Principle; All in the Family; Chapter 6: Don't Wait for the Next Big Thing; Innovation: Slowing Down or Speeding Up? (I Think the Latter); Knowledge Hatcheries; Offer a Prize; Fighting Complexity with Complexity; Coming Soon: Information Overload, Tamed and Ready to Serve You?; Chapter 7: Open the Aperture; Vary Your Information Diet; Be Wary of Conventional Wisdom and the Usual Experts; The Problem of Being Right Too Early; Tap into Remarkable People and Places Chapter 8: Turning Pixels into a Clearer PicturePowerfully Imagined and Rigorously Researched: The Structure of Scenario Thinking; Counterfactuals and Other Futures Thinking; Envisioning the Future to Inform the Present; TOP GEAR; TERMINUS; FLATLINE; CONTROL-ALT-DELETE; The Coming Chinese Commonwealth?; Pulling It All Together and Getting Ready to Beat the Global Odds; Epilogue; Afterword; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910461868203321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (287 p.)
Disciplina	338/.064
Altri autori (Persone)	GripenbergPernilla SegercrantzBeata SveibyKarl Erik
Collana	Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations
Soggetto topico	Technological innovations - Economic aspects Diffusion of innovations Research, Industrial
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-280-66251-4 9786613639448 0-203-12097-3 1-136-32453-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Challenging the Innovation Paradigm; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Series Editor Introduction; Preface; 1. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm:The Prevailing Pro-Innovation Bias; Part I Problematizing Innovation; 2. On the Limits of What Can Be Said about 'Innovation': Interplay and Contrasts Between Academic and Policy Discourses; 3. καινοτομιά: An Old Word for a New World, or the De-Contestation of a Political and Contested Concept; 4. The Unintended and Undesirable Consequences: Neglected by Innovation Research Part II Understanding the Systemic Nature of Innovation5. Accelerating the Innovation Race: Do We Need Reflexive Brakes?; 6. Innovation and the Global Financial Crisis: Systemic Consequences of Incompetence; 7. Weak Signals for Opting Out of the Innovation Race; Part III Exploring Unintended Consequences of Innovation; 8. Do Major Innovation Models Consider Unintended Consequences? A Review and Revised Framework; 9. From Autonomous Craftsmen to Compliant Resources: Implications for Undesirable Consequences of Innovation; 10. Organizational Innovations: An Exploratory Study of Negative Effects 11. Information and Communication Technology as an Exporter of CO2 Emissions12. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm: Conclusions, Practical Implications, and Future Research; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465485503321