Managers are significant actors in contemporary organizations and yet there is very little deep-level analysis of what managers do, and how they understand their managerial selves and social situations. Instead of evaluating management techniques according to their internal logic and systematic...

Companies--especially more complex organizations--require standard, documented processes and procedures to achieve high levels of quality and productivity. Yet excessive processes can result in strangulation and inefficiency. Successful Business Process Management provides a succinct, accessible...

The era of the comfy, offsite strategy retreat is over-who has the time? Beset by rapid change, leaders have to build the strategy airplane while they fly it. Agile organizations use execution (i.e., performance) to drive strategy. Laura Stack, bestselling author of What to Do When There's Too...

A fresh approach to succeeding with innovation, grounded in insights about rapidly changing customers, competitors and technologies Written by a director at the award-winning global innovation firm frog design, this vital book shows business leaders and managers how to accomplish truly effective...

Agile manufacturing is defined as the capability of surviving and prospering in a competitive environment of continuous and unpredictable change by reacting quickly and effectively to changing markets, driven by customer-designed products and services. Critical to successfully accomplishing AM...

Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to ArtificialIntelligence -- Chapter 2: The Dark Side of AI -- Chapter 3: Machine Learning in Healthcare -- Chapter 4: Natural Language Processing in Healthcare -- Chapter 5: Robotics in Healthcare -- Chapter 6: Data in...

Intro -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- About the Author -- Gratitudes -- Introduction -- LEAD A QUEST -- USING THIS BOOK -- Notes -- Part I: Default Thinking and the Kraken of Doom -- 1: The Anatomy of Default Thinking -- PATTERNS -- SYSTEMS -- TEMPLATES -- NORMS -- PRECEDENTS -- Notes -- 2: The...

Key Features:Best practices for dealing with operational and enterprise riskExamples of risk management as a competitive advantage for an enterpriseExamples of how risk management best practices add long term shareholder value.