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1 online resource (258 pages) |
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Front Cover; Business Climate Shifts: Profiles of Change Makers; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; PART ONE Change Isn't What it Used to Be; Chapter 1 Phase Shifts: Managing Chaos and Convergence in Today's Business Environment; Chapter 2 Identifying the Drivers of Organizational Performance in Your Company; PART TWO The Change Makers; Chapter 3 No Simple Shell Game: How (and Why) Royal Dutch Shell is Reinventing Itself at Both the Global and Local Level; Chapter 4 Only the Vigilant Survive: The SmithKline Beecham Merger Story |
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Chapter 5 We Were Profitable but Not Competitive: The Premier Bank Reengineering StoryChapter 6 Plane Talk about Change: How Lord Colin Marshall Transformed British Airways Into a Customer-Service Powerhouse; Chapter 7 The Learning Leader: How AlliedSignal Uses Learning to Drive Business Transformation; Chapter 8 Delivering the Future: The Changing Face of Today's Postal Service; Chapter 9 Managing Growth in a Shrinking Marketplace: How British Ae |
| Summary |
Business Climate Shifts: Profiles of Change Makers contains a wealth of CEO wisdom about how companies today can successfully manage change in response to rapidly changing business conditions. Includes a compelling overview of the factors and forces driving rapid and often "discontinuous" change in business today - e.g. globalization, the disruptive influence of new technologies, growing electronic connectivity among far flung financial markets, and the rise of e-business among others -- and assesses the short and long-term significance of these trends for the long-term viability of |
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Print version record |
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Chief executive officers -- Case studies
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Management -- Case studies
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Organizational change.
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Industrial management.
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Decision making.
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decision making.
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Chief executive officers
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Decision making
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Industrial management
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Management
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Organizational change
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Trahant, William J
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Koonce, Richard
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| ISBN |
9780080500485 |
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008050048X |
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