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- vorgestellt werden die modernsten Managementkonzepte, Hilfsmittel und Methoden, die auch in technologieintensiven Unternehmensbereichen einwandfrei funktionieren - Schwerpunkte liegen auf Prozeßintegration, Managementwerkzeugen und Personalentwicklung
Competing effectively in a complex global marketplace requires more than just having technological parity with foreign countries. It also requires the effective management of that technology, the people, the organizations, processes, and overall resources. Modern management tools have been developed that can respond to this challenge, but many of today's busy managers, caught up in the necessary rush to generate new products, processes, and services, haven't heard the good news. Hans Thamhain's Engineering Management gets the good word out - clearly and forcefully. He skillfully combines 20 years of R&D and technical management experience with eight years of field research, to show you how t...
Investigating the societal, economic, financial and reputational costs of hubristic leadership, with insights into the characteristics and causes of this phenomenon, and recommended safeguards to avoid hubris from happening in the first place. As research into hubristic leadership becomes increasingly popular following recent political developments, the book adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to investigating this form of leadership. Outlining what causes hubristic leadership in the first place, the author looks at how it’s potentially destructive consequences can be anticipated and avoided through an informed stance of moderation, critical analysis and reflexivity. Examples are drawn from business and politics including the Lehmann Brothers, BP and Deepwater Horizon, Blair and Bush in the Iraq Invasion, NASA, and Donald Trump. Ideal reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students in business and management, leadership, and organizational behaviour. Check out the Hubris Hub for further information on hubristic leadership, including a regularly updated blog written by author Eugene Sadler-Smith.
Gives you an enterprise-wide view of technology to help you manage your business as a system: optimize investments in technology; achieve efficient business integration; and monitor and measure TM effectiveness. Detailed case studies illustrate the TM efforts of such organizations as Motorola and Digital Equipment.