Leaders must be able to transform their organisations regularly to deliver long‐term competitive advantage, in an environment where organisational change is becoming more frequent, complex and risky. Failure rates are high because organisations install new systems, processes or practices, but...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I Introduction -- An Open Letter to Healthcare Leaders -- Eliminating Waste Will Transform American Healthcare -- A Brief History of Lean -- Part II Implementation -- The "Lean House" and Model Lines -- Standard Work -- Your Lean Action Plan -- Building...

In this book, David Miller makes a comprehensive analysis of an economy in which market mechanisms retain a central role, but in which capitalist patterns of ownership have been superceded. He provides a clear, coherent statement of the theoretical basis of market socialism, and justifies it as...

Chapter 1. The Need to Change the Way we Work -- Chapter 2. Breaking Through -- Chapter 3. Active Management and Governance -- Chapter 4. Analysing the Real-World Landscape -- Chapter 5. The Automated Future -- Chapter 6. The BTRM as a Universal Business Management Framework.

This paper examines the factors that influence the evaluation practices of American philanthropic foundations, using an institutional theory framework. To this end, it explores the literature, contributed by both the academic community and esteemed philanthropic practitioners, that informs...