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This volume explores the impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on management consulting, highlighting technology breakthroughs like robotics, IoT, biotechnology, and AI. It discusses how these changes affect consulting practices and the shift from human-supervised to fully autonomous AI systems.
This book examines digital transformation, highlighting the pitfalls of technology-centered approaches and the importance of organizational factors. It suggests starting with transformation using methods like BPM, SEAM, or OD. The volume evaluates performance improvements, risks and ways technology can support organizational goals.
This volume explores the potential and challenges of collaborative ventures in public goods like education and health. It examines building cooperative relationships, balancing collaboration and competition, and managing mergers. The book highlights the role of management consultants and the European context.
This volume addresses the education of management consultants, highlighting the need for better training to handle business complexities. It critiques current training methods and emphasizes academia's role in providing critical thinking skills. Chapters offer examples of innovative programs and reflections on academia's potential impact.
Organizational Change and Global Standardization: Solutions to Standards and Norms Overwhelming Organizations takes an organizational change approach to the overflow of standards and norms, looking at how to deal effectively and ethically with four kinds of standards and norms businesses face when they go global: (1) accounting & finance (2) international & world trade,(3) social and (4) safety & quality & environment. It is part of a larger problem faced by not only business, but every sort of organization - how to live with the epidemic of standards and norms, often in conflict, many just unnecessary, and a few that are quite helpful and important. There are good reasons to have Internatio...
This set of multi-reference works is meant to be read together as the five volumes interlace one another like the laces of a shoe in the famous painting by Vincent van Gogh. Who will wear the shoes is a question long debated in art history and philosophy. If we take these five volumes from different points of view on the theory and practice of business storytelling then we have a crisscrossing, a new and impressive dialogue for the reader. This set is presented as a new way to lace up the laces of business storytelling.Volume 1 aims to recount narratives in a variety of ways so that the precepts of entrepreneurial storytelling can be made accessible to a variety of audiences — academic, pr...
This volume, the first in the Research in Management Consulting series, captures the latest thinking in management consulting. It addresses the role of consultants in organizational change efforts and revisits past frameworks and intervention models, updating Henri Savall and Véronique Zardet’s work on mastering "hidden costs."
A volume in Research in Management Consulting Series Editor Anthony F. Buono, Bentley University The reprint of Henri Savall's classic Work and People, originally published in French in 1974, is part of the Research in Management Consulting series effort to look backward as well as forward in examining trends, perspectives, and insights - especially from different countries and cultures - into the world of management consulting. Savall's insights into the complexity of organizational life were groundbreaking, articulating the need to examine both economic and social factors as part of the same analysis, assessing technical and behavioral patterns through the lens of an integrated framework. ...