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This landmark book begins with the premise that an organization must often fundamentally transform its business practices and organizational culture to fully align with and realize the value of product and process innovations. The methods and practices that are set forth give readers the tools to create the essential organizational transformations needed to meet the challenges of a complex, rapidly evolving global economy. Enterprise Transformation is organized into four parts: * Introduction to Transformation begins with an introduction and overview of the book. It then features a systems-oriented view of transformation as well as a theo-retical perspective on the forces that propel transformation and the nature in which transformation is pursued. * Elements of Transformation addresses issues of transformational leadership and organizational and cultural change. Next, it examines transformation principles and case studies relevant to manufacturing, logistics, services, research and development, enterprise computing, and quality management. * Transformation Practices focuses on transformation planning and execution, financing, bankruptcy, tax issues, public relations, and the lessons learned from a variety of transformation experiences. * Transformation Case Studies features detailed studies of Newell Rubbermaid, Reebok, Lockheed Martin, and Interface. This part also considers transformation in academia with an overview of fundamental change at Georgia Tech. These case studies demonstrate the application of principles and practices and their results. The authors of this contributed work are senior executives, leading consultants, and respected academics. Their experience in leading enterprise transformation and supporting management teams is unparalleled. Managers and executives from all industries, as well as business students, will learn about the critical tools needed to transform their organizations to keep pace with market demands and surpass competitors.

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Product Description: This book includes all of the papers presented at the NATO Symposium on Human Detection and Diagnosis of System Failures held at Roskilde, Denmark on August 4-8, 1980. The Symposium was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO and the Rise National Laboratory of Denmark...read more

Product Description: This series reports on advances in theory and applicants associated with understanding and improving the relationships and performance of humans and technology in complex sociotechnological systems where computer, communications and related technologies are central elements...read more

Product Description: This series reports on advances in theory and applications associated with understanding and improving relationships and performance of humans and technology in complex sociotechnical systems where computer, communications and related technologies are central elements.

Product Description: A collection of commissioned articles considering the areas of supervisory control of complex systems, the control of robotic systems in particular, and more widely the implication of this work for society as a whole. Application areas include safety and risk management, control of robots in manufacturing and environmental systems, and more generally the question of precise control from imprecise human input and judgement...read more

Product Description: You can get there from here. Based on research and consulting involving more than one hundred companies, this strategically oriented book provides the tools and techniques you need to chart your company's future according to where it stands right now.

Product Description: The principles of successful market-oriented and human-centered design are used to analyze the formation of a good business enterprise. Focusing on technology based enterprises, the author elaborates on the powerful methods for planning, organization and control; and on starting, growing and maturing organizations that create human-centered products and systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)