Strategic Design and Innovative Thinking in Business Operations

Strategic Design and Innovative Thinking in Business Operations
Author: Hasan Dincer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3319776223

Recently, rapid technological advances have been influencing the global business operations strategies at companies of all sizes like never before. At the same time, there has been a shift in business cultures due to the rising prevalence of matrix organizations and innovative thinking. This book investigates the role of these factors in shaping the business operations of tomorrow. To address the topic comprehensively, the editors have gathered expert contributions exploring the following dimensions: the business and organizational environment, strategic design, innovativeness and risk management. Discussing aspects ranging from customer selection to understanding regional, national and supranational market dynamics, the contributions will help readers understand both the complexity of and opportunities presented by designing operations.

Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America

Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America
Author: Edmund Amann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2024
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019764807X

Innovation, Competitiveness, and Development in Latin America provides a balanced and topical analysis of the successes and failures of development policy in post-war Latin America. Across nineteen chapters, experts in the economics and policy of Latin American development and policy identify the challenges at hand. They explore why the region is caught in a middle-income trap, where structural impediments frustrate the achievement of accelerated and sustainable growth. At the same time, potential actions are suggested for creating lasting progress. With fresh insights grounded in the reality of modern-day Latin America, this book offers scholars and professionals a crucial window into Latin America's long-term developmental trajectory.

The Road to Academic Excellence

The Road to Academic Excellence
Author: Philip G. Altbach
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2011-09-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0821388061

This book examines the experience of 11 universities in nine countries around the world that have grappled with the challenge of building successful research institutions in difficult circumstances and outlines key lessons of from this experience.

Future Of the Americas

Future Of the Americas
Author:
Publisher: Fondo Editorial de NL
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2004
Genre: Communication and education
ISBN: 9789709715019

Factors Affecting Firm Competitiveness and Performance in the Modern Business World

Factors Affecting Firm Competitiveness and Performance in the Modern Business World
Author: Vlachvei, Aspasia
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2016-09-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522508449

Economic and business growth is driven by the continuous re-evaluation and optimization of current policies and practices. By implementing more effective procedures, businesses can increase their levels of competitiveness. Factors Affecting Firm Competitiveness and Performance in the Modern Business World is an authoritative reference source for the latest scholarly research on the most appropriate measures and initiatives for firms to become more competitive within various sectors. Incorporating interdisciplinary perspectives through theoretical foundations and real-world case studies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, upper-level students, policy makers, and managers interested in the optimization of business performance.

Innovacities: impact of regional innovation systems on the competitive strategies of cities

Innovacities: impact of regional innovation systems on the competitive strategies of cities
Author: Scheel Mayenberger, Carlos
Publisher: Editorial Tadeo Lozano
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9587252195

The term innovation has been a concept excessively manipulated by government leaders, important businessmen, academicians, consultants and journalists, trying to sell a motive to those who want or need a change, whether they are accustomed to buying products in an exaggerated way with no other purpose than supporting consumer habits, or to those who practically do not need them. We have observed in innumerable cases of world stature that innovation is prompted by the desire to enter and remain in economies of marked consumer capitalism, and in all these cases it has been noted that if the entrepreneurs, companies, cities, regions or countries are not ready to promote and support innovation in a socially inclusive and democratic fashion, these efforts are useless and only superficial changes, not administered to democratize in any true depth, are achieved.

The Report: Mexico 2017

The Report: Mexico 2017
Author: Oxford Business Group
Publisher: Oxford Business Group
Total Pages: 300
Release:
Genre:
ISBN: 1910068829

Although economic openness left Mexico more exposed to the global financial crisis than some of its Latin American peers, its economic profile has since allowed it to bounce back as global trade and investment flows recover. Meanwhile, Mexico has avoided the recent economic weakness of more commodity-dependent economies in the region. At the same time, past structural reforms are starting to bear fruit and bode well for growth prospects in the medium to long term.