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Managing the Unknown

A New Approach to Managing High Uncertainty and Risk in Projects

By: Christoph H. Loch,Arnoud DeMeyer,Michael Pich

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Managing the Unknown

A New Approach to Managing High Uncertainty and Risk in Projects

By: Christoph H. Loch,Arnoud DeMeyer,Michael Pich

Managing the Unknown offers a new way of looking at the problem of managing projects in novel and unknown environments. From Europe's leading business school, this book shows how to manage two fundamental approaches that, in combination, offer the possibility of coping with unforeseen influences that inevitably arise in novel projects: * Trial-and-Error Learning allows for redefining the plan and the project as the project unfolds * Selectionism pursues multiple, independent trials in order to pick the best one at the end Managing the Unknown offers expert guidelines to the specific project mindsets, infrastructures, and management methods required to use these project management approaches and achieve success in spite of unforeseen obstacles. This book equips readers with: * Causal explanations of why unforeseeable factors in novel projects make traditional project planning and project risk management insufficient * Directly applicable management tools that help managers to guide novel and high-uncertainty projects * Real-world case studies of both successful and unsuccessful approaches to managing high uncertainty in novel projects

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118276825

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9781118276822

Ecosystem Edge

Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption

By: Peter J. Williamson,Arnoud De Meyer

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Ecosystem Edge

Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption

By: Peter J. Williamson,Arnoud De Meyer

To succeed in the face of disruptive competition, companies will need to harness the power of a wide range of partners who can bring different skills, experience, capacity, and their own networks to the task. With the advent of new technologies, rapidly changing customer needs, and emerging competitors, companies across more and more industries are seeing their time-honored ways of making money under threat. In this book, Arnoud De Meyer and Peter J. Williamson explain how business can meet these challenges by building a large and dynamic ecosystem of partners that reinforce, strengthen, and encourage innovation in the face of ongoing disruption. While traditional companies know how to assemble and manage supply chains, leading the development of a vibrant ecosystem requires a different set of capabilities. Ecosystem Edge illustrates how executives need to leave notions of command and control behind in favor of strategies that will attract partners, stimulate learning, and promote the overall health of the network. To understand the practical steps executives can take to achieve this, the authors focus on eight core examples that cross industries and continents: Alibaba Group, Amazon.com, ARM, athenahealth, Dassault Systèmes S.E., The Guardian, Rolls-Royce, and Thomson Reuters. By following the principles outlined in this book, leaders can learn how to unlock rapid innovation, tap into new and original sources of value, and practice organizational flexibility. As a result, companies can gain the ecosystem edge, a key advantage in responding to the challenges of disruption that business sees all around it today.

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Stanford University Press

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1503611868

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9781503611863

Process Theory

The Principles of Operations Management

By: Matthias Holweg,Jane Davies,Arnoud De Meyer,Benn Lawson,Roger Schmenner

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Process Theory

The Principles of Operations Management

By: Matthias Holweg,Jane Davies,Arnoud De Meyer,Benn Lawson,Roger Schmenner

The motivation for this book came out of a shared belief that what passed as 'theory' in operations management (OM) was all too often inadequate. In one respect, OM scholars were bending over backwards to make theories from other fields fit our research problems. In another, questionable assumptions were being used to apply mathematics to OM problems. Neither proved a good match with what the authors' had observed in practice. Successful operations were managed by considerations that were far more straightforward than much of what was being published. The authors of this book codify these practical considerations into a set of ten fundamental principles that bring together a century of operations management thinking. The authors then apply these principles to important topics such as process design, process improvement, the supply chain, new product development, project management, environmental sustainability, and the interfaces between operations management and other business school disciplines.

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Oxford University Press

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0192548743

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9780192548740

Building Excellence in Higher Education

Singapore’s Experience

By: Arnoud De Meyer,Jovina Ang

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Building Excellence in Higher Education

Singapore’s Experience

By: Arnoud De Meyer,Jovina Ang

Over the last 30 years, Singapore has developed a system of higher education that is the envy of many other countries and regions. How has Singapore developed such a highly performing education system? Was it planned? Was it mere luck? Written by Arnoud De Meyer, who is widely regarded as one of the pre-eminent management educators and leaders in higher education, the book focuses on Singapore as an in-depth case study of how to build a system of higher education, and specifically a portfolio of highly differentiated and diversified universities. He worked closely together with Jovina Ang during the preparation of the manuscript. This book is unique because it showcases several case studies of the emerging system of higher education, and it was written based on insights drawn from interviews with the key decision-makers and actors in the system from the past 20 years, including ministers and permanent secretaries of the Ministry of Education, and presidents and chairmen of the six universities. The success of this system can be attributed to several factors: the clarity of purpose of the decision-makers, with clear targets in cohort participation rate, commitment to significant funding for education and research, discipline of an intelligent and well-implemented governance system, flexibility in adjusting plans, and rapid and adaptive learning from overseas partners. In the last few chapters, the authors look at the future of the system and postulate how it should be adjusted to the changes in Singapore and the world. This unique book on educational strategy would be of particular interest to educational specialists and policy-makers in emerging countries who want to build a system of higher education, policy-makers in mature industrialised countries who are faced with the challenge of revamping their system of higher education, strategists who are interested in dynamic capability building and philanthropists who want to use education as an equaliser of social status.

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Routledge

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1000375854

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Inspire to Innovate

Management and Innovation in Asia

By: Arnoud De Meyer

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Inspire to Innovate

Management and Innovation in Asia

By: Arnoud De Meyer

Significant changes are taking place in Asia which suggest that innovation will be the major engine of future economic growth in the region, particularly in China and India. This book draws upon substantial research and interaction with senior managers in Asia and argues that effective innovation in Asia will require specific ways of managing innovation that will be different from existing models and approaches

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Springer

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0230512062

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Building Excellence in Higher Education

Singapore’s Experience

By: Arnoud De Meyer,Jovina Ang

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Singapore’s Experience

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Managing the Unknown

A New Approach to Managing High Uncertainty and Risk in Projects

By: Christoph H. Loch,Arnoud DeMeyer,Michael Pich

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A New Approach to Managing High Uncertainty and Risk in Projects

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Ecosystem Edge

Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption

By: Peter J. Williamson,Arnoud De Meyer

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Ecosystem Edge

Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption

By: Peter J. Williamson,Arnoud De Meyer

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Stanford University Press

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Inspire to Innovate

Management and Innovation in Asia

By: Arnoud De Meyer

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Management and Innovation in Asia

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Managing the Unknown

Managing the Unknown

Ecosystem Edge

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Building Excellence in Higher Education

Building Excellence in Higher Education

Inspire to Innovate

Inspire to Innovate

Building Excellence in Higher Education

Building Excellence in Higher Education

Managing the Unknown

Managing the Unknown

Ecosystem Edge

Ecosystem Edge

Inspire to Innovate

Inspire to Innovate

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