Managing Innovation or Operations Management for MBAs

Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change

Author: Joe Tidd

Managing Innovation provides readers with the knowledge to understand, and the skills to manage, innovation at the operational and strategic levels. Specifically, it integrates the management of market, organizational and technological change to improve the competitiveness of firms and effectiveness of other organizations. The management of innovation is inherently interdisciplinary and multifunctional and Tidd, Bessant & Pavitt provide an integrative approach to the subject.

• Two new perspectives are introduced through which to re-examine material presented in each chapter: sustaining versus disruptive innovation (a greater emphasis will be placed on disruptive innovation) and organizations versus networks (greater discussion of the network issues raised in each chapter).

• Provides more treatment of innovation in services.

• Greater internationalization of case examples will be provided e. g. more examples will be included from Asia and Latin America.

• Introduces discussion of the relationship between innovation and the environment.

Table of Contents:

1	Key issues in innovation management	3
2	Innovation as a management process	65
3	Developing the framework for an innovation strategy	111
4	Positions : the national and competitive environment	131
5	Paths : exploiting technological trajectories	169
6	Processes : integration for strategic learning	205
7	Learning from markets	239
8	Learning through alliances	285
9	Managing the internal processes	347
10	Learning through corporate ventures	425
11	Building the innovative organization	467
12	Creating innovative new firms	523
13	An integrative approach to innovation management	559

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Operations Management for MBAs

Author: Jack Meredith

What every MBA needs to know about OM

Operations is one of the most important factors in whether an organization survives in the international marketplace. While not everyone will be solving quantitative operations problems, every manager will confront important operations issues that will have a critical impact on the success of their organizations.

Revised to reflect the growing importance of soft and hard technologies, as well as the rise of service organizations and the global economy, this Third Edition of Jack Meredith and Scott Shafer's Operations Management for MBAs focuses on what MBAs need to know about operations in their careers. This includes:
* Six sigma improvement projects
* Project management
* Enterprise resource planning
* Lean management
* Outsourcing and offshoring
* Supply chain management
* Process design and planning

Emphasizing the strategic role of these operations topics, the authors keep the needs of marketing, finance and other majors in mind, and show how a basic understanding of operations is important to all career paths. The text's clear and concise overview of key concepts makes it the perfect complement to cases and readings on OM.

New Features of the Third Edition
* New chapter on Six Sigma.
* Expanded coverage of ERP, lean manufacturing, and outsourcing.
* A stronger emphasis on the strategic role of operations topics, including more strategic examples and expanded material in Chapter 2: Strategy, Operations, and Global Competitiveness.
* New appendix on Crystal Ball with two solved example problems.
* More service examples throughout the text.
* New internationalexamples, as well as many revised problems and cases with an international focus.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	The Nature of Operations	1
Ch. 2	Business Strategy and Global Competitiveness	20
Ch. 3	Quality Management	63
Ch. 4	Product/Service Design	99
Ch. 5	Transformation System Design	134
Ch. 6	Capacity and Location Planning	179
Ch. 7	Schedule Management	229
Ch. 8	Supply Chain Management	256
	Ch. 8 Supplement: The Beer Game	281
Ch. 9	Inventory Management	285
Ch. 10	Material Requirements Planning	308
Ch. 11	Just-in-Time Systems	333
Ch. 12	Project Management	358
	App. A	399
	Index	401