Wicked World advocates the need to acknowledge the complex contexts in which managers, professionals and policymakers operate. Conventional tools do not serve us well in these new contexts, and regularly, aggravate the situation. This book offers a systemic perspective in exploring complex challenges and a sensemaking framework to deal with interconnected, persistent problems. Looking beyond the problem; seeking deeper patterns and linkages to other problems; realizing that cause and effect m...

Long-term Finance and Capital Markets - Exercises and cases.

Exercises and cases to the book Corporate Financial Management (isbn 9789059014244).

This is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services.

The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of

what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates.

The central argument is that managers and entrepreneurs designing servic...

Where can a hospital apply principles from the airline sector?

How can a car manufacturer use tools from the video game industry?

What can an event organiser learn from the railways?

Cross-industry innovation is a clever way to jump-start your innovation efforts by drawing analogies and transferring approaches between contexts, beyond the borders of your own industry, sector, area or domain.

Not invented here refers to the phenomenon of people blocking out ideas from the outside, it also indicate...

Service design is a rapidly growing area of interest in design and business management. There are a lot of books on how to get started, but this is the first book that describes what a ‘good’ service is and how to design one. This book lays out the essential principles for building services that work well for users. Demystifying what we mean by a ‘good’ and ‘bad’ service and describing the common elements within all services that mean they either work for users or don’t.

A pract...

The book consists of three parts. The first is about finding your true north and pinpointing the problem that needs to be solved. Part two is about getting everyone to act. And in part three, you’ll learn how to transform yourself and your organisation.

The book’s authors each have over +20 years of experience working for technology giants and industry pioneers, HP and Microsoft. As a result, the authors know firsthand the pains of working in organisations that are constantly transformin...

Twenty years after he wrote Bezieling en Kwaliteit in Organisaties, Daniel Ofman, the creator of the Core Quadrant, has tackled the conditions needed to allow enthusiasm and commitment to flourish within organizations. His clearly argued contention is that organizations must set limits on what they strive to achieve and must decide if and when change itself should be a goal in its own right. His integrated approach towards life, work and organization provides insights into why traditional man...

Which roles and practices do you adopt to effectively guide businesses towards a sustainable future? And what skills and competencies do you need to establish sustainable transformation? In '7 Roles to Create Sustainable Success', Carola Wijdoogen shares the insights of 25 professionals around the world and her own experiences as Chief Sustainability Officer of Dutch Railways (NS), which she helped transform into a climate-neutral, circular and inclusive railway company. For example, the Neth...

In today’s world, sustainability is reshaping the business paradigm projects are contributing to.

And project managers need to be ready for this in order to deliver successful projects.

The development towards sustainability requires a 'systems change' that impacts organizations at all levels. As projects shape the future, they play an instrumental role in realizing these changes. In this context, the traditional task-oriented nature of project management, with a narrow focus on delivering...