The business innovation concepts and tools guide essential for the 21st century executive.
We are currently defining a new school of management. Some elements that would integrate this new school include innovation, intra/entrepreneurship, digital transformation, exponential technologies and humanism. The XXI century executive needs to incorporate new theories, methodologies, models and tools to complete those he or she already knows and uses from classical management.
This book synthesizes the complete history of classic management, provides the fundamental elements of business innovation and poses relevant challenges for 21st century professionals. The book includes the 100 business innovation concepts that any executive and entrepreneur should know as part of their business toolkit.
- Introduction
- A book with an artistic creative format
- How have the concepts been selected?
- Management
- Management activities
- Classical schools
- Scientific management school
- Empirical school
- Administrative management school
- Bureaucratic management school
- Human relations school and behavioural science school
- Human relations school
- Behavioural science school
- Quantitative school, decision making school, mathematics school
- Structuralist school, situational school, systems school
- Structuralist school
- Situational or contingency school
- Systems school
- Schools of management from 1980
- Theory Z
- Total quality management
- Process reengineering
- Theory of excellence
- School of Strategic Management
- From competitive strategy to creating non-existent markets
- Innovation
- Origin of innovation
- Definitions of «innovation»
- Innovation evolution
- Diffusion of innovations and the S curve
- Innovation categories
- Sources of Innovation
- Organizations forms and innovation dimensions
- Innovation metrics
- The function of innovation
- Innovation process
- Business model innovation
- Business innovation holistic conceptual framework
- Challenges for the 21st century manager
- Exponential technologies
- Artificial intelligence and centaurs
- Big data, foresight and humanism
- Strategic drift and VUCA
- Aversion to change
- To connect business strategies with innovation
- McKinsey´s horizons of growth
- Organizational ambidexterity
- Functional silos
- Change in the work world
- 3Cs Complex problem solving, critical thinking and creativity
- From focus for specialization to the resurgence of polymathy and the Medici effect
- Lead diversity in the creative process of innovation
- Meditation and creativity to nurture innovation
- The great barrier to business innovation
- Leaders that scare away talent
- The 21st century manager and the holistic business vision
- 100 business innovation concepts
- Subject index
- Bibliography
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