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Managing Technological Innovation
Technology management as a field came together during the 1980s in response to the question of how society could deliberately create new technology and exploit it in economic development. This updated edition introduces technology management, covers the importance of managing information technologies, and compares them to existing physical technologies.
Executive Strategy
A modern theory of executive strategy for the information age The information revolution has radically transformed virtually every aspect of business today. Yet, no book has fully addressed its impact on strategic management-until now. In Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology, Frederick Betz builds on his pioneering work concerning the management of technical innovation to explore the powerful relationship between traditional strategic management and today's computer and communications technologies. By adapting established strategy-related concepts and processes to the strategic management challenges faced by companies in the information age, this book offers re...
Iconic Designs
Iconic Designs is a beautifully designed and illustrated guide to fifty classic 'things' – designs that we find in the city, in our homes and offices, on page and screen, and in our everyday lives. In her introduction, Grace Lees-Maffei explores what makes a design 'iconic', and fifty essays by leading design and cultural critics tell the story of each iconic 'thing', its innovative and unique qualities, and its journey to classic status. Subjects range from the late 19th century to the present day, and include the Sydney Opera House, the Post-It Note, Coco Chanel's classic suit, the Sony WalkmanTM, Hello KittyTM, the typeface Helvetica, the Ford Model T, Harry Beck's diagrammatic map of the London Underground and the Apple iMac G3. This handsome volume provides a treasure trove of 'stories' that will shed new light on the iconic designs that we use without thinking, aspire to possess, love or hate (or love to hate) and which form part of the fabric of our everyday lives.
Managing Product Families
The Innovation Imperative: Strategies for Managing Product Models and Families by Susan Sanderson and Mustafa Uzumeri traces the new competitive challenges to the patterns appearing in product variety and change. The authors successfully illustrate these patterns through a series of case studies that help to classify and explain the growing competitive challenge of "dynamic competition." Manufacturers are being forced to respond to new and different competitive challenges. The Innovation Imperative will make you aware of the patterns in global competition and inspire you to create new strategies and management styles.
Design Beyond the Human
A collection of transdisciplinary essays by scholars and designers which explore humanity's relationship with the planet, its ecosystems and inhabitants, now and in the future
Product Design and Development
This text presents a set of product development techniques aimed at bringing together the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the enterprise. The integrative methods facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
The Art of M & A Integration
This timely and information-packed book delivers input from literally dozens of executives who have been involved in mergers and acquisitions. Let Alexandra Reed Lajoux, along with dozens of executives, show you how to anticipate and plan for critical events, intuitively address each situation as it arises, and guarantee success for yourself and your company in the rough and tumble, world of postmerger operations.
Management Science
Issues for Feb. 1965-Aug. 1967 include Bulletin of the Institute of Management Sciences.
