Organisaties kennen steeds meer onzekerheid over de toekomst, door diverse maatschappelijke en technologische ontwikkelingen, waardoor organisaties genoodzaakt zijn om steeds nauwer samen te werken, zelfs met concurrenten. Zij zijn daardoor in hun voortbestaan steeds meer afhankelijk van de mate waarin zij in hun eigen organisatie én met partners uit hun keten, netwerk en cluster op strategisch niveau hierover in gesprek zijn. Zij moeten daarvoor een strategische conversatie voeren.
Een strategische conversatie is een continu, actiegericht collectief leerproces over strategische thema’s dat zich ontwikkelt op basis van dialoog (om verschillende toekomstgerichte trends en ontwikkelingen te onderzoeken) én discussie (om de geschiktste strategische opties te vinden).
Strategische conversatie is een leerproces waarin diepgaand inzicht wordt verkregen in de (toekomstige) context en de relevante actoren en krachten daarin. Zij verschaft managers de mogelijkheid om te anticiperen op een reeks van mogelijke toekomsten, door strategische opties te ontwikkelen en verschillende strategieën te testen, met diverse interne en externe belanghebbenden. Maar waar sommige organisaties al openstaan voor het gezamenlijk detecteren van trends en ontwikkelingen, zullen nog maar weinig organisaties het aandurven om met derden de strategie te delen en gezamenlijk strategische opties te testen. Maar hoe doe je dat? Dit boek beschrijft wat strategische conversatie is en hoe je dat organiseert binnen een organisatie, en tussen verschillende organisaties in een keten, netwerk of cluster. [Bestellen]
Ключевые модели менеджмента. 60 моделей, которые должен знать каждый менеджер
Operational Excellence new approach Nowadays everyone is required to deliver unique products and services of the highest quality at the lowest price, with guaranteed delivery – this is what the market demands, but how does your organization respond to this? Operational Excellence nieuwe stijl (Operational Excellence – The New Approach) illustrates how you can translate these demands into price, productivity, quality, flexibility, speed and innovation. [Buy here]
To Excell = To optimize and to innovate Organizations today must simultaneously focus on producing products and providing services efficiently (operations) as well as effective innovation (exploration). More and more organizations are aware of the fact that the only way in which they can differentiate themselves is if they manage to combine optimization with innovation. But optimization carried out in parallel to innovation seems paradoxical: a focus on working efficiently (operations) comes at the expense of innovation (exploration) and vice versa. An increasing number of managers are wrestling with the question of how their organization can be simultaneously efficient and innovative. In Dutch. [Buy here]
Supply chain management is a priority for any organization. Customers must be supplied with the right products at the right time at the lowest possible cost and the highest possible quality. But why does one company succeed while others fail? Insight into the operation, opportunities and impracticalities of the supply chain and managing these is the key to success. The Praktijkboek supply chain management (A Practical Guide to Supply Chain Management) describes how to create a winning logistics chain in a world in which innovations and globalization are continuously gaining in importance. It provides managers and consultants with concrete pointers for the actual implementation and realization of innovations in supply chain management, and shows how to manage the often conflicting objectives in the chain, and the complexity and uncertainty that often characterizes these supply chains. The authors establish the relationship between the strategic importance of logistics for the market positioning of an organisation and the social implications of logistics-based operations. In Dutch. [Buy here]
Striving for internal efficiency of operations in a company is no longer enough. Firms are pressured to collaborate in the same value chain and streamline their operations in order to reduce cost and improve responsiveness to the customer, to reconfigure chains and networks. Reconfiguration of such a chain, possibly a network, of firms is a formidable task. This book addresses such fundamental questions as how to form geographical clusters, how to measure and allocate synergetic advantages, and how to coordinate a supply chain. It presents an overview of the lessons learned from the various projects in the KLICT program ‘Reconfiguration of chains and networks’ that serve as stepping stones towards answering the above questions. It provides practical tools such as a roadmap to initiate, develop, and maintain supply chain collaboration and guidelines to select the appropriate supply chain coordination concept. It provides a detailed analysis and discussion of such contemporary supply chain collaboration concepts, such as Efficient Consumer Response, Vendor Managed Inventory, Supply Chain Synchronization, and Factory Gate Pricing, and guidelines to select the most suitable in a given situation. This book is a result of the KLICT research programme.
Key Management Models (2nd edition). Management models – love them or hate them, they crop up all the time. Models provide a framework for improving business performance, so if you’re a manager, or studying business, then it’s really important you know what they are and how to use them. Key Management Models has the winning combination of brevity and clarity, so it is the essential guide to all the management models you’ll ever need to know about. [Buy here]
Brazilian-Portugese edition: Modelos de Gestão.
Italian edition: Modelli di management. Idee e strumenti.
