Criterios e indicadores de la excelencia en la innovación empresarial

Criterios e indicadores de la excelencia en la innovación empresarial
Author: Jaime del Rey, Jaime Laviña
Publisher: EOI Escuela de Organización Industrial
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8488723938

El presente libro se centra en la gestión de la innovación en la empresa y la posibilidad de diseñar criterios e indicadores específicos para este ámbito. A partir del análisis de los modelos de gestión y evaluación de la innovación, elaborados por instituciones nacionales e internacionales competentes en la materia, la publicación se orienta hacia la actividad innovadora en la empresa. El libro incluye un recorrido histórico sobre el desarrollo del concepto de la I+D+i para profundizar después en los instrumentos de evaluación de la innovación empresarial. Actualmente, los indicadores existentes para la medición de la I+D+i están orientados a la evaluación del esfuerzo, los resultados y la eficiencia de la innovación de países, regiones u organizaciones supranacionales, pero son de difícil aplicación en el ámbito empresarial. Para ello se analizan también algunos modelos propuestos por varias empresas o entidades privadas. La segunda parte se dedica al análisis de una relación estructurada de criterios e indicadores, que sin llegar a formar propiamente un modelo, puede constituir una base sólida para la evaluación de la innovación empresarial desde la perspectiva de la excelencia. Las opiniones de los expertos que han participado en el análisis ofrecen una visión coherente que permite identificar y priorizar aspectos que se resumen en las conclusiones del trabajo.

Innovación y mejora continua según el modelo EFQM de excelencia

Innovación y mejora continua según el modelo EFQM de excelencia
Author: Joaquín Membrado Martínez
Publisher: Ediciones Díaz de Santos
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2002-10-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9788479785307

El modelo EFQM de Excelencia, como conjunto de criterios que recogen buenas prácticas de gestión de organizaciones excelentes, se ha convertido desde su aparición en 1991, en un referente utilizado cada vez por más empresas y organizaciones europeas que tratan de mejorar su gestión para mejorar sus resultados, y en definitiva elevar sus niveles de competitividad. Este libro pretende mostrar el Modelo EFQM de Excelencia, más que como una herramienta mágica 'per se', como un sistema coherente de prácticas que, correctamente utilizado, permite a las empresas y organizaciones estructurar y sistematizar la innovación y la mejora continua como elemento fundamental de su gestión. El texto recoge, a partir de la estructura del Modelo, la interpretación libre del autor, así como numerosos ejemplos prácticos de organizaciones líderes que tienen asumida la mejora continua y la innovación para aumentar su competitividad. INDICE: Planteamiento estratégico de la calidad total. Evolución del término/concepto de la calidad total. Los grandes modelos de Excelencia. El modelo Deming. El modelo de Excelencia de los Estados Unidos 'Malcolm Baldrige'. El modelo Iberoamericano de Excelencia en la Gestión. El Modelo EFQM de Excelencia. Liderazgo. Política y estrategia. Personas. Alianzas y recursos. Procesos. Resultados en los clientes. Resultados en las personas. Resultados en la sociedad. Resultados clave. Autoevaluación y planificación. Proceso de puntuación y consenso. El Modelo EFQM de Excelencia versión pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMES). El Modelo EFQM de Excelencia para el sector público y organizaciones del voluntariado. ISO 9001: 2000 y Modelo EFQM de Excelencia. Casos prácticos del Modelo Europeo.

Benchmarking Water Services

Benchmarking Water Services
Author: Enrique Cabrera Jr
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2011-03-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1843391988

Benchmarking has become a key tool in the water industry to promote and achieve performance targets for utilities. The use of this tool for performance improvement through systematic search and adaptation of leading practices, has expanded globally during the past decade. Many ongoing projects worldwide aim to address different needs and objectives, in varying contexts, with outstanding results and impact. Benchmarking Water Services provides valuable information to everyone interested in benchmarking in the water industry. The text is aimed at utilities considering joining a benchmarking project, experienced practitioners in charge of organizing a benchmarking exercise, consultants, regulators and researchers. The document is presented with a clear practice oriented approach and can be used as a how-to-benchmark guide presented from different perspectives (participants, organizers, supervising bodies). Readers will gain practical insight on real life benchmarking practices and will benefit from the experiences gained in some of the leading benchmarking projects of the water industry (including the IWA-WSAA benchmarking efforts, the European Benchmarking Co-operation and the several benchmarking projects carried out in Austria and Central Europe). The manual also presents the new IWA Benchmarking Framework, which aims to harmonize the terms used to describe benchmarking and performance indicators practices in the water industry, guaranteeing a more fluent and efficient communication. This Manual of Best Practice is edited by the IWA Specialist Group on Benchmarking and Performance Assessment, and co-published by AWWA and IWA Publishing. Praise for Benchmarking Water Services: "The continual trend of conceptual to specifics throughout the book provides for an educational experience each time the book is either casually perused or carefully studied." "The authors (Cabrera, Haskins and Fritiz) diligently pursue the focus of improvement." "Benchmarking Water Services is an in depth and practical ‘must have’ guide for any utility currently engaged in or planning to develop a benchmarking process" - Gregory M. Baird (2012) Benchmarking: An International Journal 19:2. More information about the book can be found on the Water Wiki in an article written by the author: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/TheNewIWABenchmarkingFramework A Spanish language version of this book is available as a free eBook: http://www.iwawaterwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Articles/eBookTitlesfromIWAPublishingFreetoDownload-Volume2#HBenchmarkingParaServiciosdeAgua

The ABC of XYZ

The ABC of XYZ
Author: Mark McCrindle
Publisher: The ABC of XYZ
Total Pages: 11
Release: 2011
Genre: Australia
ISBN:

"Based on more than a decade of research, The ABC of XYZ is designed for educators, business managers and parents who want a short and lively introduction to Australia's living generations. The book explores what a generation is, how its definition has changed over the years, and the trends that are emerging for the future. It examines generational conflicts in the school, home and workplace, and the ways in which they can be understood and resolved, and what might be beyond Z. Written by one of Australia's foremost social researchers, this revised edition of The ABC of XYZ reveals the truth behind the labels and is essential reading for anyone interested in how our current generations live, learn and work."--Cover.

The North American Mosaic

The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.

Land Tenure and Rural Development

Land Tenure and Rural Development
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: FAO
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This publication deals with key issues in land tenure, especially as they relate to food insecurity and rural development situations. Land tenure issues are frequently ignored in rural development interventions, with often long-lasting, negative results. This guide is designed to assist technical officers in governments and civil society in understanding why and how land tenure issues should be considered in rural development projects. It analyses important contexts such as environmental degradation, gender discrimination, and conflicts, where land tenure is currently of critical concern.

Ethical Formation

Ethical Formation
Author: Sabina Lovibond
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674040342

Sabina Lovibond invites her readers to see how the practical reason view of ethics can survive challenges from within philosophy and from the antirationalist postmodern critique of reason. She elaborates and defends a modern practical-reason view of ethics by focusing on virtue or ideal states of character that involve sensitivity to the objective reasons circumstances bring into play. At the heart of her argument is the Aristotelian idea of the formation of character through upbringing; these ancient ideas can be made contemporary if one understands them in a naturalized way. She then explores the implications that arise from the naturalization of the classical view, weaving into her theory ideas of Jacques Derrida and J. L. Austin. The book also discusses two modes of resistance to an existing ethical culture--one committed to the critical employment of shared norms of rationality, the other aspiring to a more radical attitude, grounded in hostility to the universal. Lovibond tries to determine what may be correct in this second, admittedly paradoxical, tendency. This is a timely and valuable effort to connect the most advanced forms of thinking in the analytic tradition and in the Continental tradition, and to extend our understanding of the intimacies and resistances between these two prominent strands of contemporary philosophy.

Hijacking Environmentalism

Hijacking Environmentalism
Author: Richard Welford
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134176708

This text demonstrates how businesses and institutions continue to operate outside the ecological carrying capacity of the environment, and highlights the need for participation and social innovation on their part. It asserts that senior executives and middle management in large corporations have often sought, deliberately or unconsciously, to block the advancement of environmentalism. Industry has reconstructed the more radical environmental agenda to suit its own purposes, in effect hijacking it, by taking it out of its traditional discourse and placing it in a liberal-productivist framework. The book concludes by examining the way forward for more sustainable business, presenting new models that place greater emphasis on issues such as equity and ethics.

Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation

Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation
Author: Hosu, Ioan
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522509542

Succeeding in the modern business world is a multi-faceted endeavor that involves numerous parts. By implementing effective strategies, companies can strive toward achieving a competitive advantage. Digital Entrepreneurship and Global Innovation is a pivotal reference source for the latest academic material on strategic entrepreneurship initiatives to facilitate organizational growth and success, focusing on the role of digital technologies in business environments. Highlighting theoretical frameworks, industry perspectives, and emerging methodologies, this book is ideally designed for professionals, practitioners, upper-level students, and researchers involved in the field of entrepreneurship.