Making Sense of Business

Making Sense of Business

Author: Alison Branagan

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780749454869

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Enterprising individuals often feel that they need to acquire new skills and brush up on existing ones in order to achieve targets, make money, and avoid making elementary mistakes. This work offers expert guidance on such key skills as selling, presenting, and negotiating.


Making Sense of Incentives

Making Sense of Incentives

Author: Timothy J. Bartik

Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute

Published: 2019-10-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 0880996684

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Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.


Making Sense of Business Reference

Making Sense of Business Reference

Author: Celia Ross

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2020-07-15

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0838919421

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This is the guide to keep at your side when serving business students, job-seekers, investors, or entrepreneurs in your library.


Business Analysis and Design

Business Analysis and Design

Author: Paul Beynon-Davies

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-05

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3030679624

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This textbook offers an essential introduction to design orientation in business, which impacts the way management is undertaken world-wide. Design orientation, as it applies to business, is the process through which a designer analyses business as a system, identifies motivation for changing the system, and designs improvement for the organisation, as well as ways of implementing this improvement. It involves strategic and innovative thinking, communication with key stakeholders, and change management. This book provides coverage of critical tools for design which enable business professionals to analyse existing ways of organizing and to design new ways of organizing. The reader will learn how to develop a digital business model to organize private, public or voluntary work. In doing so, the reader will learn to critically evaluate the notion of digital innovation and understand the proper place of ICT within organization. The reader will learn how to: critically evaluate the relevance of digital innovation to domains of organisation develop digital business models to organize private, public or voluntary work construct business strategy and relate it to business models, motivation models, innovation management and change management Written by an expert in the field, this book is designed for both students and professionals. Each chapter contains an introduction, a section of key reading, and a summary, while a number of cases based on real-life examples are worked through as examples in the text, demonstrating the real-life application of the design theory discussed.


Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2

Making Sense of the Organization, Volume 2

Author: Karl E. Weick

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-01-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0470685328

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Making Sense of the Organization elaborates on the influential idea that organizations are interpretation systems that scan, interpret, and learn. These selected essays represent a new approach to the way managers learn and act in response to their environment and the way organizational change evolves. Readers of this volume will find a wealth of examples and insights which go well beyond thinking and cognition to explain action. The author's ideas are at the forefront of our thinking on leadership, teams, and the management of change. “This book engages the puzzle of impermanence in organizing. Through rich examples, evocative language, artful literature citing, and imaginative connecting, Weick re-introduces core ideas and themes around attending, interpreting, acting and learning to unlock new insights about impermanent organizing. The wisdom in this book is timeless and timely. It prods scholars and managers of organizations to complicate their views of organizing in ways that enrich thought and action.” - Jane E. Dutton, Robert L. Kahn Distinguished University Professor, University of Michigan


Making Sense of Business Reference

Making Sense of Business Reference

Author: Celia Ross

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 083891084X

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In times of recession, the library is more critical than ever for those who want to start a business and need to do research, and libraries are at the heart of a growing need to research business questions.


Making Sense of Strategy

Making Sense of Strategy

Author: Anthony D. Manning

Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780814426548

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Business strategy is not rocket science. Its about using pertinent information to make smart decisions, and doing it fast enough to keep your business ahead of the curve. And while many companies have embraced the 24/7 business paradigm, their strategies come from the 9-to-5 era. Plain and simple, most strategic planning efforts fail because they cant keep up with the evolving demands of the market.Standing apart from the piles of discarded management wisdom, Making Sense of Strategy provides real, practical insights and advice for 21st-century businesses. Top strategy consultant Tony Manning cuts through layer after layer of guru babble to bring the reader only the most genuinely valuable information: the questions that need to be asked, the principles that every organization and its people must adopt, and the tools that every company needs in order to develop their core business strategies and create profit. Mannings refreshingly streamlined approach to strategy encompasses: * The value of shared ideas* The importance of creating and sustaining unique communities for your products or services* The link between a companys values and those of its customers and shareholders* And why strategic management is ultimately a conversation, one that empowers its participants with a sense of purpose and ownership.A real-world, no-nonsense guide, Making Sense of Strategy is the key to turning plans into action - fast


Making Sense of Management

Making Sense of Management

Author: Mats Alvesson

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1446292126

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The first edition of Making Sense of Management set out to provide a fresh perspective on management that was both broad and critical, exploring how the disruptive and constructive potential of critical theory can be realized in organizations. Along the way, it has proven to be a landmark contribution to critical management studies. As well as setting the agenda for current research, this revised edition has been written to appeal to a broader readership and open up critical theory for the general management student. New sections on HRM, brands, identity, ethics and leadership have been fully developed alongside the rest of the text to reflect the current state of play in critical management studies. The second edition of Making Sense of Management will be of interest to students and researchers in critical management studies and students on general management courses with a critical perspective.


Making Sense of Change Management

Making Sense of Change Management

Author: Esther Cameron

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780749440879

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Written for academics and professionals alike, this book is an attempt to make change easier. It is aimed at anyone who wants to understand wy change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome, rather than a dreaded concept.


Business Sense

Business Sense

Author: Dan R. E. Thomas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0029324440

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In this detailed "operating manual" for managers, Thomas, who has devoted 20 years to studying the strategies, structures, and systems of successful companies, explains and illustrates how to choose the right business, create the right strategy, design the right organizational structure, implement the right systems, and get the right people. 50 drawings.