Drive meaningful change, align your mission and vision, and achieve your nonprofit's goals with this in-depth, six-stage strategic planning guide for nonprofits. In Pursuing Impact, scholar and former nonprofit executive director Alicia Schatteman shares her unique experience and expertise to help organizations navigate the complexities of ......
If you think that entrepreneurs are born and not made, it may be because you never learned the steps to starting a business.John Vinturella, who has more than forty years of experience as an entrepreneur, explores how to sharpen business skills, identify opportunities, and take an orderly approach to business planning in this guide to becoming ......
Business incumbents constantly face disruption threats. Most of them have embarked on the digital transformation journey. Around 70 percent of transformation projects fail. One of the many reasons of failure is a lack of clear and concrete Digital Strategy.This book contains a comprehensive Digital Strategy Framework for business incumbents, ......
Organization Development: The Process of Leading Organizational Change, Sixth Edition offers a comprehensive look at individual, team, and organizational change, covering classic and contemporary organization development techniques. Today's practitioners seek a solid foundation that is academically rigorous, but also relevant, timely, practical, and grounded in OD values and ethics. In this bestselling text, author Donald L. Anderson provides students with the organization development tools they need to succeed in today's challenging environment of increased globalization, rapidly changing technologies, economic pressures, and evolving workforce expectations. The new Sixth Edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. New cases, chapter learning objectives, examples, sections on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and the impact of COVID-19 on the workplace provide readers with the latest information on OD best practices.
Inclusion, Collaboration and Digital Change in Practice
This book offers a holistic introduction to Organizational Change Management through a distinct and timely perspective of organizational change agency. It takes a highly practical and unique approach, with cutting-edge chapters on digital transformation, creativity, power and inclusivity and diversity. Key features include: Case Studies based on real companies, which can be used to study chapter topics across a variety of international contexts, industries, and organizational forms. Experiential and Discussion Activities which provide an opportunity to gain invaluable insight needed in the workplace. This textbook is suitable for Undergraduate or Postgraduate students, as well as a practitioner audience. Dr Danielle A. Tucker is a Reader (Associate Professor) in Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex. Dr Stefano Cirella is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex, and Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento. Dr Paul R Kelly is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex.
Applying Agile Principles to Drive Organizational Success
A group of eminent software developers gathered at a Colorado ski lodge in 2001, codifying The Agile Manifesto, a philosophy for efficiently accomplishing technical work. In this accessible, real-world-example-laden, and unexpectedly entertaining book, The Agile Enterprise explains how to apply The Agile Manifesto's ideas company-wide.The wisdom ......
Digital Business: Strategy, Management & Transformation covers all the essentials for understanding and doing business in a digital world within a single comprehensive textbook, including an introduction to the digital business environment, cutting-edge coverage of data and artificial intelligence, and an exploration of the latest digital tools and platforms and emerging and enabling technologies such as blockchain and Web 3.0. The text explores all types and scales of digital business, from small, innovative start-ups and disruptors that are 'born digital', to the digital transformation of traditional large-scale businesses. Readers will also learn how these businesses strategise, operate and manage themselves, user experiences and customer relationships within an ever-increasing digital environment. Consideration is also given to the ethical and legal components of doing digital business with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals in mind. This textbook includes a rich source of learning features and activities making it suitable for business students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and setting students up for success on graduation in a fast-changing, digitalised and technology-led business world. Annmarie Hanlon teaches digital marketing and is Course Director for the MSc Marketing and Leadership at Cranfield School of Management in the UK. You can follow her updates at twitter.com/annmariehanlon and LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/annmariehanlon
From Data to Decision: A Handbook for the Modern Business Analyst provides readers with a comprehensive guide to understanding the inherent value of business analytics, building critical skill sets to conduct effective analyses, deriving valuable insight from analyses, and guiding management and other personnel toward well-informed, strategic ......
Taking a truly international approach, Strategic Management offers you comprehensive coverage of all the core areas of business strategy in a reader-friendly way. Thoroughly updated and with the addition of four brand-new authors, the tenth edition features: * Balanced treatment of prescriptive and emergent models of strategic management. * Application of strategic theory to key areas such as technology and innovation, sustainability, entrepreneurial and public sector strategy. * Cutting-edge content on navigating change in the strategic environment, digital transformation strategies and the role of strategic groups. * 15 brand new case studies showcasing real-life examples from recognisable brands such as Coca-Cola, Airbnb, Apple, Tesla, Toyota, Alibaba, Samsung, Starbucks and UK banks, plus updated case material throughout. * A range of practical tools to support your learning, including summaries of key strategic principles, strategic project ideas, critical reflections, questions and further reading. Suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate study. Professor Richard Lynch is Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management at Middlesex University, London. Dr Oliver Barish is Lecturer in Management at Birkbeck Business School, Birkbeck, University of London. Dr Vinh Sum Chau is Senior Lecturer in Strategy at Kent Business School, University of Kent. Dr Charles Thornton is Lecturer in Service Operations Management and Business Strategy at Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth. Dr Karl Warner is Lecturer in Strategy at Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow.
