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Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries
Every two years, the Olympics wins world attention with contests
and celebrations. The success story of the world's most watched
event, best recognized symbols, and most enduring brand has many
valuable lessons for the business world. An entire constellation of
talent and teams works behind the scenes to strengthen the Olympics
and keep it relevant in a changing world. Veteran sports business
journalist and MBA Max Donner gives readers a useful guide to the
key success factors that make the Olympics an exceptional
institution. The Olympic Sports Economy incorporates exclusive case
studies and reports from sports management conferences to
illustrate the most important business practices and trends of the
Olympics today. The text also reports objectively about recent
controversies and challenges, as well as ways that readers can
explore constructive solutions. The Olympic Sports Economy
highlights the role the Olympics has played as a model for over
six-hundred other international multi-sport competitions and
introduces ideas from important trends in Olympic sports that can
also benefit other organizations.
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon
Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming
that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the
77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological
changes that felled most of its competitors over the years. Today,
HP is in the throes of a seventh transformation to secure its
continued survival by splitting in two independent companies: HP
Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Based on extensive primary
research conducted over more than 15 years, this book documents the
differential contribution of HP's successive CEOs in sustaining the
company's integral process of becoming. It uses a comprehensive
strategic leadership framework to examine and explain the role of
the CEO: (1) defining and executing the key tasks of strategic
leadership, and (2) developing four key elements of the company's
strategic leadership capability. The study of the strategic
leadership of HP's successive CEOs revealed the paradox of
corporate becoming, the existential situation facing successive
CEOs (that justifies the book's empathic approach), and the
importance of the CEO's ability to harness the company's past while
also driving its future. Building on these novel insights, the book
shows how the frameworks used to conceptualize the tasks of
strategic leadership and the development of strategic leadership
capability can serve as steps toward a dynamic theory of strategic
leadership that animates an evolutionary framework of corporate
becoming. This framework will be helpful for further theory
development about strategic leadership and also offers practical
tools for founders of new companies and CEOs and boards of
directors of existing companies who intend to create, run or
oversee companies built for continued relevance, longevity and
greatness.
Over the last decade, digital technology has made deep inroads into
every walk of life, but perhaps nowhere more than in the world of
business. Technology now plays an enhanced role in driving business
success, creating an entirely new paradigm in which business and
technology are inseparable. Enterprises must ride the digital wave
without losing their grip on the business basics to stay afloat. In
this environment, business outcome is heavily dependent on the
close alignment between business and technology. Aligning
Technology with Business for Digital Transformation is a guide to
discovering the power of business-technology alignment. Gleaned
from decades of experience with global corporations that have
shaped the current business-technology landscape, it covers an
indispensable organizational requirement in a simple and relatable
way. The book focuses on developing alignment as the foundation for
a successful digital enterprise. Interlaced with real-life examples
and anecdotes, it should help not only organizations in unlocking
their true potential but also individuals in building the skills
and aptitude necessary for succeeding in the digital world.
The force-multiplying power of business-technology alignment is
acknowledged among the biggest contributors to enterprise success
in the digital age. Even so, it is a missed opportunity in most
organizations, or at best, restricted to a unidimensional
coalition. Successful digital enterprises define alignment between
business and technology along multiple dimensions. They invest in
this alignment at the level of their culture, strategy, structure,
process, intellect (innovation), function, and tactics. A
systematic understanding and embracement of these seven dimensions
of Business Technology Alignment is at the core of a successful
digital enterprise. Using familiar workplace paradigms and
relatable examples, this book builds on each dimension of
business-technology alignment towards strengthening the foundation
on which a successful digital enterprise stands, using tricks and
tips not found in textbooks and classrooms. If you are, or aspire
to be, in an organization that relies on a convergence of business
and technology to achieve success, this book is meant for you. It
builds upon fundamental ideas in a manner designed to strike a
chord in everyone-from interns to entrepreneurs.
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have been widely acknowledged
to be an important agent of development because of their potential
for addressing unemployment, inequality, and poverty, as well as
promoting inclusiveness in economic development. The sector is
critical for achieving the country's sustainable growth. However,
there is a lack of research on the adaptations SMEs are making in
today's technologically driven market. Challenges and Opportunities
for SMEs in Industry 4.0 is a collection of innovative research on
the methods and applications of modern business development and
innovative strategies for small and medium enterprises in the age
of smart industrialism. This book features a wide range of topics
including business intelligence, collaborative manufacturing, and
organizational networking. This reference source is ideally
designed for managers, policymakers, economists, entrepreneurs,
strategists, researchers, industrialists, academicians, educators,
and students.
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