"Learn how managers have transformed their teams and companies into envied high performance organizations in this guide to nurturing successful managers at your organization, informed by the author's ten-year study of applications of his High Performing Organization (HPO) Framework"--

Sixteen international academics and researchers report findings from the Innovative Forms of Organizing (INNFORM) program, a collective endeavor of an international research network lead from Warwick Business School, UK, and involving six other European universities and one each from the U.

The decision about where an organization should be headed couldn & rsquo;t be more basic. Yet many organizations & ndash; both public and private & ndash; have fuzzy statements of purpose. How about yours? Do you know where you are headed? Is it the right place to go?. Learn how to be proactive by defining and justifying where you should head before deciding how to get there. To help you in the process, this book introduces the concepts and tools underlying "mega thinking and planning.". In 10 chapters, the author details three fundamentals for defining and delivering organizational su.

Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge deals with the very basics of productivity and cost performance - including abridgement of time, increase in speed, enhancement of capabilities, increase in sensitivity and precision, enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness, alteration of size, reduction of costs and increase in revenue, among others. This book consists of five parts - Introduction, Case Studies of Super Effects in Management Functions, Case Studies of Global Scale Super Effects Realized, Case Studies of Super Effects in Marketing Domains, and Conclusion: The Road to Realizing the Super Effect - featuring more than fifty successful cases of productivity surge or super effects, including risk-driven ones. Productivity surge herein means a dramatic reduction of costs, at least by one-tenth, while maintaining effectiveness or discontinuous increase in effectiveness by at least 10 times, while keeping the costs the same. Cases highlighted in the book are instrumental and valuable for the organizations worldwide to evaluate processes, avoid unnecessary failure and work towards future success.

Industries sometimes are dominated by one market leader for many years. These successful companies are called 'Summer Champions' by Carol Velthuis, referring to the natural seasonal cycle of businesses.