This book offers insights on an emerging management challenge – increasing and overwhelming complexity. It outlines a conceptual framework developed by IMD on the drivers of complexity – diversity, interdependence, ambiguity and flux – that allows readers to understand the core threads of complexity and identify what needs to be managed. In addition, it provides solutions on specific issues in a variety of industries and a range of markets including China, India and other developing nations. The content is empirically tested with executives in the classroom, and the emphasis throughout is on new, relevant solutions for managers and executives based on a profound set of illustrations and real life examples.
Book Details:
- Author: Ulrich Steger
- ISBN: 9780470510728
- Year Published: 2007
- Pages: 312
- BISAC: BUS085000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Organizational Behavior
About the Book and Topic:
This book offers insights on an emerging management challenge – increasing and overwhelming complexity. It outlines a conceptual framework developed by IMD on the drivers of complexity – diversity, interdependence, ambiguity and flux – that allows readers to understand the core threads of complexity and identify what needs to be managed. In addition, it provides solutions on specific issues in a variety of industries and a range of markets including China, India and other developing nations. The content is empirically tested with executives in the classroom, and the emphasis throughout is on new, relevant solutions for managers and executives based on a profound set of illustrations and real life examples.
Strategies, organizations, projects and initiatives often fail because of the overwhelming complexity involved in globally active organizations. Although hugely prevalent in the business field, complexity has been the subject of few books. There is a need for a book that shows how to grapple with complexity, understand it and manage through it effectively.
FIRST TO MARKET: Managing complexity currently emerges as a hot topic in executive education, yet few books on the topic currently exist as well as offering a thorough discussion of the issues, the book will also include a practical framework that helps readers not only understand complexity but also manage it. CONTRIBUTOR REPUTATION: Presents the compound knowledge of top class professors from one of the worlds leading business schools includes contributions from Jena-Pierre Lehmann, Ralf Seifert, John Ward, Peter Lorange, Georges Haour, Michael Yaziji, Jean-Pierre Jeannet, Don Marchand and Kazuo Ichijo NEW GLOBAL CONTENT: The content of the book is absolutely new and has been tested empirically and in the classroom; it offers a truly global perspective on managing complexity, including the very latest insights on China, India and several other developing nations around the globe. IMD SUPPORT: Those attending courses at IMD choose the school for its insights into the real-world issues and concerns that confront them in the workplace; IMD series books are developed to meet the needs of this community of experienced practitioners, and there will be ongoing sales to IMD for use in its courses
About the Author
Ulrich Steger holds the Alcan Chair of Environmental Management at IMD. Switzerland, and is Director of the school’s research project on Corporate Sustainability Management. He also directs major partnership programs including DaimlerChrysler and Allianz, and is or has been on the boards of several major organizations including Volkswagen, where he was in charge of worldwide environmental strategy. Prior to becoming involved in management education he was Minister of Economics and Technology in the German state of Hesse, with particular responsibility for transport, traffic and energy. Wolfgang Amann is a Fellow in Strategic Direction and International Business at Henley Management Centre, UK. He joined Henley from IMD, and has also been visiting fellow at the Wharton School and Indian Institute of Management. Prior to pursuing his PhD he worked for DaimlerChrysler and subsequently in management consulting. He has directed, delivered and contributed to open and in-company programs and courses on strategy, internationalization and governance in the US, Europe, China and India. His recent case study series on Hindustan Lever in India won the 2006 Oikos sustainability case competition. IMD is one of the worlds leading business schools, with a particular focus on developing state-of-the-art concepts for the experienced manager.