The Manager's Pocket Guide to Mega Thinking and Planning
Author: Roger Kaufman
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1610140222
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The Assessment Book
Author: Roger A. Kaufman
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 1599961288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndividuals, teams and organizations make decisions everyday intended to improve performance. But, too often, they rush into finding the solution before defining the problem. This book contains seven self-assessments designed to help you define the issue of "what to accomplish" before deciding "how to accomplish it." With these seven assessments, you can collect, analyze and interpret the data necessary to confirm your suspicions before making recommendations. Do you feel there is neglect of the strategic planning process in your organization? Is it time to move into E-learning? Does your corporate culture require change? Avoid jumping to conclusions - gather the facts first and be sure you are headed where you want to end up before selecting how to get there. In nine chapters, the authors present seven self-assessments: Strategic Thinking and Planning; Needs Assessment and Your Organization; Corporate Culture and Your Organization; Evaluation and Your Organization; Performance Improvement Competencies; Performance Motivation to Change; Organizational Readiness for E-learning. Each instrument uses a unique dual response - "what is" and "what should be" - format with performance-related questions. The book includes instructions on how to complete the surveys, decide what the results mean and use the results. Also included is a glossary of terms used that focuses on results and payoffs instead of the process, activities and interventions applied.
Change, Choices, and Consequences
Author: Roger A. Kaufman
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 087425924X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to be proactive by defining and justifying where you should head before deciding how to get there. To help you in the process, this book introduces the concepts and tools underlying mega thinking and planning. The decision about where an organization should be headed couldn't be more basic. How about yours? Do you know where you are headed? Is it the right place to go?
Mega Events, Urban Transformations and Social Citizenship
Author: Naomi C. Hanakata
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-07-26
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1000599574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides theoretical and empirical perspectives on the urban impact of mega-events globally. It takes mega-events as an instance to analyse urban transformations and their effects on citizenship. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, the book presents innovative and multidimensional analyses of mega-events with an international selection of case studies. The work provides a grounded theorisation of mega-events in the first part and scrutinizes its practices and processes in the second. Each chapter explores mega-events as crucial drivers and accelerators of urban and citizenship transformations. Rather than just focusing on a staged momentum, this book takes stock of the ‘before’ and ‘after’ that these events imply for the urban condition. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in urban studies, human geography, economics, architecture, planning, sociology, political science. It will also appeal to professionals and policy makers engaged in the planning, hosting and management of mega-events.
Needs Assessment for Organizational Success
Author: Roger Kaufman
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Published: 2013-02-25
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1607287366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis valuable title links the fundamental training design technique of a needs assessment as a basis for all organizational improvement initiatives. Based on an Organizational Elements Model (OEM),authors Kaufman and Guerra-Lopez approach fully complete needs assessment as including not just needs and wants, but also societal value. Incorporating the model to add to the traditional ADDIE design process, this book provides new insight in managing the needs assessment process to structure performance improvement across all aspects of measurement and supportive decision-making tools.
Implementation and Management of Performance Improvement Plans
Author: Robert Carleton
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Published: 2009-12
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1599961881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is an effective, step-by-step plan for improving performance on a large-scale and getting the results and payoffs you desire. If you have a group, a group of groups or an entire organization that needs an intervention, you'll find this book invaluable. Implementation and Management of Performance Improvement Plans begins in the middle – in the implementation phase of performance improvement plans rather than the design or planning phases. This is because, according to the author, implementation is where something useful happens ... or doesn't. Performance improvement aimed at individuals and groups is different. Here you'll learn about common basic misconceptions and errors other leaders make when shifting focus from individual to group and how not to go down the same road. Covered in this cutting-edge resource are six key topic areas: How to approach improvement in a systematic way and "do it right"; How to bring the entire organization into an alignment that adds value over time and keep it there; How project management stitches everything together – from planning through implementation to value added; How to ensure every group being targeted by the plan is fully aware of what is intended and how it applies to them; How to achieve the "holy grail" of performance improvement – measurable improvements and the measurable increase of commitment.
Mega Cities
Author: Lothar Beckel
Publisher: GEOSPACE Beckel Satellitenb. GmbH
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 3853130518
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMega-city Growth and the Future
Author: Roland J. Fuchs
Publisher: United Nations University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9789280808209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines a range of issues related to the mega-city phenomenon. Part one deals with the growth of mega-cities and explores demographic issues, labour force change in the big cities of Asia, the effect of macroeconomic forces on the world city system, and the relations between technology and the city. In part two, the discussion focuses on the economic and social consequences of mega-city growth. Part three looks at the crucial issue of the management of mega-cities, taking up such issues as infrastructure financing, land and shelter needs, transportation, and environmental management. The final chapter examines priority urban management issues in developing countries and derives a research agenda for the 1990s. (Adapté du résumé de l'éditeur).
Capital Intelectual
Author: Mariano L. Bernardez
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 655
ISBN-13: 1434398331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEl término "capital intelectual" se confunde con frecuencia - e incluso indistintamente- con "propiedad intelectual", "tecnología" o "ideas". "innovación" de carácter científico. Además de las ideas e invenciones de naturaleza tecnológica o científica, el capital intelectual incluye un enorme acervo de ideas y componentes socioculturales, expresadas en las marcas comerciales, las experiencias del cliente, los modelos de negocio y organización e inclusive las cadenas de valor y ecosistemas que las producen. Este libro ha sido diseñado como un manual comprensivo y de aplicación práctica para empresarios y gerentes de diversas áreas funcionales que deseen detectar, desarrollar y aplicar el capital intelectual de sus organizaciones y ecosistemas de negocios en tanto en su dimensión tecnológica como comercial. Los conceptos, modelos y herramientas de este libro -ejemplificados con los casos de empresas líderes y modelo de diferentes giros de actividad- permiten al lector detectar y valuar el capital intelectual tecnológico y comercial, tácito y explicito, planificar el desarrollo de las diez formas de propiedad intelectual y organizar su comercialización mediante la creación y desarrollo de marcas.
Risk Habitat Megacity
Author: Dirk Heinrichs
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2011-10-09
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 3642115446
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMegacity development and the inherent risks and opportunities for humans and the environment is a theme of growing urgency in the 21st century. Focusing on Latin America where urbanization is most advanced, this book studies the complexity of a ‘mega-urban system’ and explores interrelations between sectors and issues by providing an in-depths study of one particular city, Santiago de Chile. The book attempts to (i) focus on the emergence of risk in megacities by analyzing risk elements, (ii) evaluate the extent and severity of risks, (iii) develop strategies to cope with adverse risks, and (iv) to guide urban development by combining concepts with empirical evidence. Drawing on the work of an interdisciplinary and international consortium of academic and professional partners, the book is written for scholars in cross-cutting areas of urban, sustainability, hazard, governance and planning research as well as practitioners from local, regional and international organizations.
