Key Management Models (Financial Times Series) - Softcover

Steven Ten Have; Wouter Ten Have; Frans Stevens; Marcel Van Der Elst; Fiona Pol-Coyne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273662015 ISBN 13: 9780273662013

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2002

Synopsis

Management models – love them or hate them, they're at the heart of management thinking and practice. They have two main purposes. The first is to provide a framework for improving business performance. The second is to help managers and management consultants get away with murder by intimidating the uninitiated with buzzwords and acronyms.

Key Management Models

takes the reader through each of these essential management tools in a clear, structured and practical way by answering the following key questions:

• What’s the big idea?
• When do I use it?
• In the final analysis, is it any good?

From essential management tools like kaizen, overhead value analysis and benchmarking, to models developed by Gods of management thinking like Belbin, Handy, Kotter and Mintzberg, you'll find dozens of new ways to improve your business and from now on you’ll never have to admit you don't know your way around risk reward analysis.

About this title

About the Author

Steven Ten Have is the Vice Chairman of the board of directors of Berenschot, a leading European management consultancy.

From the Back Cover

Management models - love them or hate them, they're at the heart of management thinking and practice. They have two main purposes: to provide a framework for improving business performance; and to confuse the uninitiated with buzzwords and acronyms.

You've heard of balanced scorecards, CRM, just-in-time and SWOT? How about the Deming cycle, parenting advantage or socio-technical organizations? Even if you have, can you describe them clearly and do you know how you can use them in your business?

"Key Management Models" takes the reader through each of the essential management tools in a clear, structured and practical way. It provides comprehensive coverage of the main tools, and of the models developed by the Gods of management thinking: Belbin, Handy, Kotter and Mintzberg.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273662015
• ISBN 13: 9780273662013
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240