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Change or die! With this stark claim begins the journey through the corporate lifecycle. Why do so many companies fail? Why do managers struggle to recognize change early or hesitate to take vigorous action? Why – and how – must the traditional lifecycle concept be modernized if it is still to provide valid orientation?
In this essay, Roland Berger CEO Burkhard Schwenker analyzes the challenges facing managers today and explores their implications for good management. Corporate management, he argues, must once again become more direct, more personal, more entrepreneurial. His experienced and thoughtful analysis is complemented by insightful, candid interviews with renowned entrepreneurs and business leaders, conducted by journalist Mario Müller-Dofel. Finally, Schwenker outlines an agenda calling for action in six specific areas. |
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 Financial Engineering with Finite Elements (The Wiley Finance Series)The pricing of derivative instruments has always been a highly complex and time-consuming activity. Advances in technology, however, have enabled much quicker and more accurate pricing through mathematical rather than analytical models. In this book, the author bridges the divide between finance and mathematics by applying this proven mathematical... | | Special Edition Using Microsoft Office Word 2003More than any other, this book offers systematic, real-world guidance for experienced Word users, based upon the types of print and electronic documents you actually create, and the productivity challenges you actually face. It goes far beyond the basics, offering hundreds of advanced tips and techniques for maximizing productivity, automating... | | Sax2Think of this book as if it were really called Everything You Wanted to Know About SAX. It provides a quick tutorial, while also serving as a complete refer ence that explains how to use this popular XML API effectively and efficiently. You’ll find motivations for every programming interface and see how to build components for your... |
The Google Way: How One Company Is Revolutionizing Management as We Know It
Shortly after World War I, Ford and GM created the large modern corporation, with its financial and statistical controls, mass production, and assembly lines. In the 1980s, Toyota stood out for combining quality with continuous refinement. Today, Google is reinventing business yet again-the way we work, how organizations are controlled,... | | | | Designing with Data: Improving User Experience with Large Scale User Testing
Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Facebook have all used data-driven design techniques to improve the user experience of their consumer products. With this book, you’ll learn how improve your design decisions through data-driven A/B testing, and how you can apply this process to everything from small design tweaks to large-scale UX... |
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