Guide to management ideas and gurus / Tim Hindle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hindle, Tim.

Series:

The economist Guide to management ideas and gurus

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management.

Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Profile, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featurtes the ideas that have and continue to underpin the management of business. This title also includes entries on the most influential business thinkers. Entries on ideas include: Active Inertia; Disruptive Technology; Genchi Genbutsu; The Halo Effect; The Long Tail; Pareto Principle; Six Sigma;, Skunkworks; SWOT analysis; and, Thin Slicing.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Introduction

Part 1 Management Ideas

Active inertia

Activity-based costing

Balanced scorecard

Barriers to entry, exit and mobility

Benchmarking

Brainstorming

Branding

Business modelling

Business planning

Business process re-engineering

Cannibalisation

Champion

Change management

Cherry-picking

Clustering

Competitive advantage

Convergence

Core competence

Corporate governance

Corporate social responsibility

Cost-benefit analysis

Crisis management

Cross-selling

Culture

Customer relationship management

Decentralisation

Delayering

Differentiation

Disruptive technology/ innovation

Diversification

Downsizing

E-commerce

Economies of scale and scope

Empowerment

Enterprise resource planning

Entrepreneurship

The experience curve

Flexibility

Flexible working

Franchising

Game theory

Genchi genbutsu

The glass ceiling

Globalisation

Growth share matrix

The halo effect

The Hawthorne effect

Hierarchy of needs

Human resources transformation

Innovation

Just-in-time

Kaizen

Keiretsu

Knowledge management

Leadership

Lean production

The long tail

Management by objectives

Management by walking about

Mass customisation

Mass production

Matrix management

Mentoring

Mission statement

Niche market

Offshoring

Open-book management

Operations research

Outsourcing

Performance-related pay

Planned obsolescence

Portfolio working

Private equity

Product life cycle

Quality circle

Scenario planning

Scientific management

Segmentation

The Seven Ss

Six Sigma

Skunkworks

Span of control

Strategic alliance

Strategic planning

Succession planning

Supply-chain management

Sustainability

SWOT analysis

Synergy.

Talent

Theories X and Y

Tipping point

Total quality management

Triple bottom line

True and fair

Unique selling proposition

Value chain

Value creation

Vertical integration

Viral marketing

The virtual organisation

Vision

Zero-base budgeting

Part 2 Management Gurus

Igor Ansoff

Warren Bennis

Marvin Bower

Warren Buffett

Dale Carnegie

Alfred Chandler

Clayton Christensen

Jim Collins

Stephen Covey

W. Edwards Deming

Peter Drucker

Henri Fayol

Pankaj Ghemawat

Sumantra Ghoshal

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth

Gary Hamel

Michael Hammer

Charles Handy

Geert Hofstede

Elliott Jaques

Joseph Juran

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Robert Kaplan and David Norton

Philip Kotler

Theodore Levitt

James March

Abraham Maslow

Konosuke Matsushita

Elton Mayo

Douglas McGregor

Henry Mintzberg

Akio Morita

Ikujiro Nonaka

Kenichi Ohmae

Taiichi Ohno

Robert Owen

C. Northcote Parkinson

Richard Pascale

Laurence Peter

Tom Peters

Michael Porter

C.K. Prahalad

Richard Rumelt

E.F. Schumacher

Peter Senge

Herbert Simon

Alfred Sloan

Frederick Winslow Taylor

Alvin Toffler

Robert Townsend

Dave Ulrich

Pierre Wack

Max Weber

William Whyte.

Notes:

At head of title: The economist.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Contains:

Economist.

ISBN:

1-281-72147-6

9786611721473

1-84765-039-2

OCLC:

298124809