Offers practical and insightful advice on how to increase productivity through creativity and innovation. This book provides readers with the strategies and confidence necessary to encourage the growth of creative thought within their business.

This is a guide for development managers on how to research, evaluate and use information, fast, and become competent investigators. It is published as a course book for the Open University course Capacities for Managing Development .

Introduces business, economics and strategic product development. Using case studies from innovative organizations, such as ABB, and successful start-ups, such as NDC, Day4Energy, and Metoxit, this title illustrates how the integration of different engineering and business disciplines can power innovation in the design process.

The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of technologies. Companies that don't use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them.

Gives guidelines for designing products and their manufacturing processes to improve financial performance while benefiting the global environment. Drawing upon the experiences of US corporations, this title provides a framework, based on sound management principles.

In From Concept to Consumer, renowned product developer Phil Baker reveals exactly what it takes to create great products and bring them to market. Baker's product successes range from Apple's PowerBook to the Stowaway portable keyboard, the most successful PDA accessory ever created. Here, he walks you through the entire development process, showing how to develop products holistically, ...

Some countries are earlier than others in the development and introduction of environmental innovations. Often, the leadership in technological development is accompanied by a leadership in environmental policy. The book provides an analysis of lead markets for innovations such as fuel cells, photovoltaics, and others. Contributions of innovation economics, policy analysis and environmental ...

This volume provides a range of empirical studies that compare how Japanese and American firms manage critical aspects of technology development and deployment. Among the industries discussed are electronics, pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

This is a guide for development managers on how to research, evaluate and use information, and become competent investigators. It is published as a course book for the Open University course Capacities for Managing Development .

Offering an introduction to management research, this book covers various aspects of research in practice, with insights into the process of selecting a research approach and the practical, philosophical and methodological implications that ensue. It also uses examples drawn from published management research to illustrate methodologies.

The MBA Handbook is a solid support guide for students studying for their MBA, providing advice about the whole MBA process, including choosing a course and examining post-MBA job opportunities. It can be used either to support a specific study skills unit on the course or as student reference and support beyond the classroom - it therefore has a lot of value for distance-learning students.

A guide to studying research methods which discusses broad research issues and theoretical concepts critical to research in addition to the general concepts relating to research methods. It explains the basics of quantitative and qualitative analysis and research to students.

Praise for Wired to Care Wired to Care will convince you that businesses succeed with their hearts as much as their heads. Dev Patnaik has given us just what we need for the lean years ahead. MALCOLM GLADWELL, author of Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point Wired to Care describes how to recover the basic human abilities of empathy that may be buried by your day-to-day business routines. Dev

With over 100 entries on key concepts and theorists, this title provides full coverage of the field, explaining fundamental concepts and introducing new and unfamiliar terms. It also offers definitions, examples in the field of management studies, and, criticisms and possible future directions.

Helps organizational researchers in locating the technical aspects of organizational research in the wider context of the relevant personal, epistemological, theoretical, historical, ethical, and political issues. This book reviews contemporary issues, debates, field practice, and trends across the domain of organizational research.

Many books discuss high-tech decision making, but this is the only book I know of that provides a systematic approach based on objective analysis. --Matthew Scarpino, author of Programming the Cell Processor This book offers a unique approach to analyzing business strategy that changes the focus and attitude to a lively and fun exercise of treating business strategy as a game. --Dave ...

Suitable for those with a minimum of mathematical and statistical knowledge, this book offers an approach to understanding and using quantitative methods and statistics. It includes a discussion of the business context, statistical analysis of data, survey methods, and reporting and presenting research.

Why do some firms continually make poor R&D decisions while others can deliver a stream of successful products and services? This title stresses the importance of evaluating trade-offs, investigating alternatives, and getting buy-in across functions to ensure that decisions are viable from both technological and managerial perspectives.

This book describes how the Steelcase company transformed the role of R&D within the company and explains the framework and techniques used to implement this strategy.

Provides tools of analysis so that students can take a critical perspective of innovations they encounter, both in the media and in their working lives. This book aims to define innovation, identify its main characteristics, and outline the processes that organisations go through to carry out innovation.