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The 4th Industrial Revolution is well underway. Our lives are changing at an exponential rate, resulting in a multi-faceted, deeply interconnected world. The digital revolution is integrating multiple technologies, which is leading to unprecedented paradigm shifts in the economy, management, and society. Entire systems across countries, industries, and societies are being transformed, triggering a transformation that is unlike anything humankind has ever experienced. Given the confluence of dramatic changes in organizational life, triggering emerging technology breakthroughs such as robotics, the internet of things, biotechnology, materials science, data science and big data, and quantum com...
The 13th volume in the RMC series, The Changing Paradigm of Consulting, is based on the best papers presented at the Academy of Management’s Management Consulting Division’s fourth international conference (2009) on the underlying dynamics within the fast-paced world of business and management consulting. Held in Vienna, Austria, the conference brought together academicians, consultants and organizational practitioners to examine the changes taking place within the consulting field. The book’s 19 chapters are divided into five sections that explore the emergence and implications of this new paradigm, delineating and illustrating the paradigm shift taking placing within consulting, expl...
This volume is part of an ongoing partnership between the Research in Management Consulting book series and the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR), located in Ecully, France, on the outskirts of Lyon. The socio-economic approach to management (SEAM) provides a pathway to creating more engaged, more responsible and responsive, and more productive organizations. In many respects this volume reflects a culmination of ISEOR’s work, drawing together Henri Savall and Veronique Zardet’s insights and framing them in the context of strategy creation and, just as if not more important, strategy implementation. This volume casts SEAM in the context of strategy development ...
This volume is part of the ongoing collaboration between the RMC series and the Socio-Economic Institute for Firms and Organizations (ISEOR), a French intervention-research think tank co-directed by Henri Savall and Véronique Zardet. Building on an earlier collaboration on the ISEOR approach – Socio-Economic Intervention in Organizations: The Intervener-Researcher and the SEAM Approach to Organizational Analysis (IAP, 2007) – Buono and Savall bring together over 30 talented intervener-researchers to explore and examine the ongoing evolution of the Socio-Economic Approach to Management (SEAM). This volume revisits the application of SEAM in the context of intervention challenges in the w...
Whereas digital transformation, considered from the standpoint of strategy, suggests a direct link with business benefits, questions linger about the implementation of digital technologies that often result in a lack of return on investment. Many consulting trends adopt a technology-centered approach, assuming that AI, IoT, data analytics, or robotics, would lead to business performance. Yet, most of the time, organizational factors are neglected, especially hidden costs or hidden work. Moreover, unexpected consequences are overlooked, such as resistance to change. Digital transformation is a practical problem for managers. Are IS implementation approaches such as agile methods to Socio-Tech...
Konventionelle hierarchische Organisationen vermögen den komplexer und dynamischer werdenden Anforderungen unserer Umwelt nicht mehr ausreichend Rechnung zu tragen. Mechanistische Kontroll- und Steuerungsmethoden versagen zunehmend. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit untersucht die Motive, warum sich Unternehmen von der klassischen Organisationsform verabschieden und mit neuen Organisationsformen von Arbeit experimentieren und den aus der Transformation resultierende Nutzen für das Unternehmen. Untersucht wird, wie sich "neue" Organisationsformen nun von konventionellen Unternehmen unterscheiden. Welche anderen Praktiken weisen sie auf und setzen sie im Unternehmensalltag ein? Welche Bedingungen...
Polymers in Organic Electronics: Polymer Selection for Electronic, Mechatronic, and Optoelectronic Systems provides readers with vital data, guidelines, and techniques for optimally designing organic electronic systems using novel polymers. The book classifies polymer families, types, complexes, composites, nanocomposites, compounds, and small molecules while also providing an introduction to the fundamental principles of polymers and electronics. Features information on concepts and optimized types of electronics and a classification system of electronic polymers, including piezoelectric and pyroelectric, optoelectronic, mechatronic, organic electronic complexes, and more. The book is desig...
Von 2003 bis 2013 wurden von den Regierungschefs aus Bund und Ländern mehrere E-Government-Vorhaben initiiert, die alle föderalen Ebenen um-fassten. Zieladressat war ein Großteil der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung. Der finanzielle Aufwand für die Projekte betrug jeweils mehrere Millionen Euro, doch nur wenige der Vorhaben waren erfolgreich. Die Ursachen für das Ergebnis sind bisher nur wenig erforscht. In dieser Arbeit wird der Innovationsverlauf von vier der Vorhaben nachgezeichnet und analysiert. Die Fallrekonstruktionen basieren auf rund 4.000 ausgewerteten Dokumenten, Interviews und Sekundärliteratur zu den Fällen. Zwei der untersuchten Vorhaben waren erfolgreich, zwei sind gescheit...