The Power of Management Innovation: 24 Keys for Accelerating Profitability and Growth (Mighty Managers Series) - Hardcover

Feigenbaum, Armand; Feigenbaum, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 007162578X ISBN 13: 9780071625784

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2009

Synopsis

The world’s most profitable companies share two things in common: quality of management and management capital. Combining leadership passion for creating growth and profitability (quality of management) and the effective deployment of resources for accelerating growth (management capital) is the formula for thriving in the 21st century.

The Power of Management Innovation is a clear roadmap for delivering these critical drivers of success to your own organization. Incorporating the most pertinent points from his classic book The Power of Management Capital, creator of the TQM movement Armand V. Feigenbaum, along with systems management and technology expert Donald S. Feigenbaum, lays out 24 actionable keys for applying systematic management and leadership models to your company, including how to:

• Foster constant innovation throughout your company
• Integrate the newest technology resources
• Create, expand, and redefine your market
• Combine the power of hard and soft assets
• Diffuse responsibility through all levels of operations
• Eliminate obstacles to product and service value
• Operationalize your commitment to quality
• Create strategic alliances and partnerships
• Focus on customers, investors, and other stakeholders

Apply the insights of The Power of Management Innovation and you’ll soon find yourself leading―not following―the pack in today’s enormously demanding and brutally competitive business environment.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Armand V. Feigenbaum is President & CEO, General Systems Co., Inc. and the originator of Total Quality Control, which was conceived and completed while he was earning his doctoral degree from MIT. He is the recipient of the 2007 National Medal for Technology and Innovation and numerous other medals and honors from quality associations around the world.
Donald S. Feigenbaum is Executive Vice President and COO, General Systems Co., Inc. and an acknowledged world leader in systems management and engineering. He has published numerous influential works in the field of systems technology.

From the Back Cover:

Essential management insights fromthe creator of the TQM movement

To be a pacesetting company in today’s extraordinarily competitivebusiness world, you must integrate the latest, most innovative managementtools.The Power of Management Innovation will help you

• Promote innovation
• Grow through opportunism
• Manage wisely—and innew ways
• Keep aware and agile
• Lead with heart and head
• Manage better, not more
• Find and fix disconnects
• Deploy technologystrategically
• Lead your value chain
• Cultivate best practices
• Use new managementmodels

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 007162578X
• ISBN 13: 9780071625784
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128