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More than Bricks in the Wall: Organizational Perspectives for Sustainable Success
This book illustrates different organizational perspectives for achieving sustainable corporate success. Its contributions cover a range of research areas that have been developed at Prof. Gilbert Probst's Chair of Organization and Management at the University of Geneva over the past twenty years. By analyzing current research questions and highlighting corresponding managerial challenges, this book provides a comprehensive view on corporate growth, change management, crisis management, knowledge management, and managing corporate boundaries.
International Leadership
This edited volume strives to support leaders in successfully leading their teams, projects and organizations across borders in an increasingly boundaryless world. From both an academic’s and a practitioner’s perspective, the book focuses on international leaders and their potential to be or become enablers of international success, for and within their respective organizations. The authors are a curated selection of established experts, seasoned leaders, and new voices showcasing novel research, best practices, and business cases. The contributions are assigned to three sections, corresponding to the three core challenges of international leadership: Leading international organizations, leading international teams, and (self)leadership with intercultural excellence. An additional section is dedicated to case studies, exhibiting these challenges in practice. The Foundation of the Swiss Society for Organization and Management (SGO) as well as Innosuisse – Swiss Innovation Agency supported the creation of this book.
Driving Strategic Change in Financial Services
Annotation Financial services businesses are leading the way towards the global economy, yet they are in a state of turbulence. Where financial services are today, other industries such as electronics, computers, telecommunications, & air transport will be in the near future. This book describes why this is happening & how companies are tackling the challenge of this volatile environment. The first part describes the causes of this volatility through new government regulations, shifts in customer behavior, the impact of new technology, & more aggressive global competition. The second part of the book contains case study material from international companies including managing the portfolio of a global financial services organization & corporate development for an international bank. Driving Strategic Change in Financial Services is an essential tool for understanding the global climate in financial services & for mastering the task of developing an international company. Executives, policy-makers, & managers in banking & other markets such as electronic commerce will find valuable insights & useful case material. Features.
Successful Management by Motivation
Motivated employees play a crucial role in creating a companys sustainable competitive advantage. Successful Management by Motivation shows that in a knowledge-based society, this goal cannot be achieved by extrinsic motivation alone. Pay for performance often even hurts because it crowds out intrinsic motivation. To succeed, companies have to find ways of fostering and sustaining intrinsic motivation. With the help of in-depth case studies, representative surveys, and analysis based on a large number of firms and employees, this work identifies the various aspects of motivation in companies and shows how the right combination of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation can be achieved.
Taming Giant Projects
Giant projects often end in giant failures. From the ancient tower of Babel to the recent Transrapid Train, giant projects stumble from crisis to crisis. Based on an analysis of the technical, time, and financial goals from case studies (Olympic Games, university hospitals, and a huge wind energy converter), four success factors in managing giant projects are identified: Formulation and change of goals, basic configuration, socio-political environment, and management structure and capacity. The book focuses on the crucial role of the project owner and the relations among the four success factors. It offers recommendations and guidance on successfully completing giant projects to owners, project managers and contractors.
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Intelligent Networks
Intelligent Networks: Telecommunications Solutions for the 1990s addresses the telecommunications perspective of the 1990s and the problems involved in the transition from where we are now to where we should be within the next decade. It will appeal to managers as well as specialists interested in how communications and information technologies will evolve during the coming five to seven years. Valuable information on how they can use the new products becoming available to their company's advantage is also provided. This book is divided into two parts: Part 1 focuses on the strategic aspects of Intelligent Networks, while Part 2 looks into the dynamics and mechanics of computer networks and ...
Customer Value Generation in Banking
The banking sector is undergoing a process of fundamental transformation – mainly due to the challenges of digitalization, insistent customers, regulation and a volatile economic environment. This book provides an in-depth understanding of the underlying logic of 21st century’s banking environment and helps to develop a roadmap for the successful transformation of contemporary business models. The authors introduce the ‘Zurich model for a customer-centric banking architecture enabling the reader to develop a sustainable business model which copes with the challenges of this information age. They identify customer behavior traps in such an environment; introduce adequate strategic instruments and cornerstones for providing added value through financial services, and provide core factors for conducting a successful transformation process.
Client Value Generation
Client Value Generation Die Geschäftsmodelle der Banken haben ein Verfallsdatum. Differenzierung, die über die Industrialisierung hinaus geht, wird nötig. Das Machtverhältnis zwischen Bank und Kunden hat sich verschoben - Qualität und Preis-/Leistungsverhältnis der Bankdienstleistungen werden transparenter und kundenseitig konsequenter eruiert. Innovative Geschäftsmodelle fördern die Margenerosion – der Kunde braucht die Bank immer weniger. Dieses Buch legt die Eckpfeiler – u. a. effektive Kundenzentrierung und ein „Win-Win“ zwischen Kunden und Bank - der zukünftigen Erfolgsmodelle im Banking dar und zeigt die heutigen Denkfallen und notwendige Schritte für Zukunftsfähigke...
Musterbrecher
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die im Rahmen ihrer Führungstätigkeit ungute Gefühle erleben und nicht länger bereit sind, als Marionetten ihrer Führungsreflexe zu funktionieren. Es plädiert für musterbrechendes Denken, für die Veränderung der inneren Haltung gegenüber Führung. Die 3. Auflage enthält aktualisierte Beispiele sowie die Fortführung der aus den ersten beiden Auflagen bereits bekannten Geschichten. Außerdem wurden neue Beispiele aufgenommen und das letzte Kapitel, das die Grundidee des Experimentierens als Weg zum Musterbruch einführt, deutlich erweitert.
