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A-Z of Management Concepts and Models.
Title:
A-Z of Management Concepts and Models.
Author:
Lovingsson, Karlof &.
ISBN:
9781854184146
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (442 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction: Management -- Activity-based costing (ABC) -- Agenda analysis -- Balanced scorecard -- Barriers -- Benchmarking -- Board work -- Boston matrix (BCG matrix) -- Branding -- Business model (business logic) -- Untitled -- Capital rationalization -- Communication -- Competence -- Competitive edge -- Conjoint analysis (simulated trade-off situations) -- Control systems -- CRM -- Culture -- Customer relations -- Customers -- Decentralization -- Decision methodology -- Deregulation -- Development -- Displayed thinking (graphic visualizing) -- Distribution -- Diversification -- Effectiveness -- Entrepreneurship -- EVA - Economic Value Added -- Experience curve -- External environmental analysis -- Facilitation -- Fair process -- Gap analysis -- Goals -- Industry -- Insourcing -- Intellectual capital -- Internal demand -- Investment -- Just-In-Time, JIT (efficient production) -- Kaizen - continuous improvement -- Knowledge Management (KM) -- Lean production -- Learning organization -- Make/Buy analysis -- Management systems -- Market -- Market analysis -- Market attractiveness and strategic position -- Market share -- McKinsey's 7s model -- Mintzberg's five structures -- Mintzberg's strategy analysis -- Motivation -- Needs -- Organic growth -- Organization -- Outsourcing -- PDCA (Plan, Do, Check and Act) -- PDS (Problem Detection Study) -- Performance management -- PIMS (Profit Impact of Market Strategy) -- Planning chart -- Policy -- Porter's competitive analysis -- Porter's five competitive forces -- Porter's generic strategies -- Portfolio -- Positioning -- Price -- Process orientation -- Processes -- Product life cycle -- Productivity -- Profitability -- Quality -- Rationalization -- Relative cost position -- Resources - costs, capital and people -- Risk analysis -- The S-Curve -- Sales force -- Scenario.

Segmentation and differentiation -- Service companies and knowledge companies -- Service management system -- Six Sigma -- Stakeholder analysis (stakeholder model) -- Strategic focus areas and type situations -- Strategy - historical perspective -- Strategy - three types -- Strategy -- Sustainable development -- Taylorism - Scientific management -- Teambuilding -- The strategic process -- The strategic success factors of Collins and Porras -- Time-based competition -- Value -- Values -- Value analysis -- Value-based management -- Value chain -- Vertical integration -- Vision -- Yield management -- Zero-base planning -- Index -- Contents.
Abstract:
An A to Z of all the essential concepts and models applied in business and management, from Balanced scorecard and the Boston matrix to Experience curve, Kaizen, McKinsey's 7S model, Market analysis, Porter's generic strategies, Relative cost position, Sustainable development to Yield management and Zero-based planning.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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