100+ Management Models: How to Understand and Apply the World's Most Powerful Business Tools by Trompenaars, Fons; Coebergh, Piet Hein;

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The one-stop resource to 100+ powerful management methods

100+ Management Models offers a quick overview of the key features and potential applications of each of the most important models in nine different categories: sustainability, innovation, strategy, diversity, customers, human resources, benchmarking, leadership, and implementation. Each section concludes with a summary of the key dilemmas that tend to emerge from the particular function, along with analysis of potential solutions.

Fons Trompenaars is a world expert on international management and the author of the global bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture. He is a recipient of the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
Piet Hein Coebergh is an expert in formulating and communicating corporate strategy. He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Leiden, and managing consultant at Coebergh Communications & PR.

The one-stop resource to 100+ powerful management methods

100+ Management Models offers a quick overview of the key features and potential applications of each of the most important models in nine different categories: sustainability, innovation, strategy, diversity, customers, human resources, benchmarking, leadership, and implementation. Each section concludes with a summary of the key dilemmas that tend to emerge from the particular function, along with analysis of potential solutions.

Fons Trompenaars is a world expert on international management and the author of the global bestseller Riding the Waves of Culture. He is a recipient of the International Professional Practice Area Research Award by the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
Piet Hein Coebergh is an expert in formulating and communicating corporate strategy. He is a lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences, Leiden, and managing consultant at Coebergh Communications & PR.

Table of Contents:

Preface xi
Introduction 1
The Goals of this Book 1
Evolution of Management Theories and Models 3
Conceptual Models: Handle with Care 11
Applying Models in Practice 14
Dilemmas 14


PART 1 SUSTAINABILITY 25
Model 1 Stakeholder Management, Edward Freeman (1984) 29
Model 2 Seven Levels of Sustainability, Richard Barrett (1998) 31
Model 3 The Seven Faces of Mount Sustainability, Ray Anderson (1999) 33
Model 4 The Bottom of the Pyramid, C.K. Prahalad (2002) 36
Model 5 Cradle to Cradle, William McDonough and MichaelBraungart (2002) 38
Model 6 The Sustainable Value Framework, Stuart Hart andMark Milstein (2003) 40
Model 7 Multiple Stakeholder Sustainability, Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams (2010) 43
Reflections on Sustainability 47


PART 2 INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 73
Model 8 Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1975) 77
Model 9 Adaption-Innovation Inventory, Michael Kirton (1976) 79
Model 10 The Entrepreneurial Process, Jeffry Timmons (1989) 81
Model 11 Disruptive Innovation, Clayton Christensen (1995) 84
Model 12 Serious Play, Michael Schrage (1999) 86
Model 13 Open Innovation, Henry Chesbrough (2003) 88
Model 14 Reverse Innovation, Vijay Govindarajan (2009) 91
Reflections on Innovation and Entrepreneurship 93


PART 3 STRATEGY AND POSITIONING 123
Model 15 Product/Market Growth Matrix, Igor Ansoff (1957) 127
Model 16 3C: Company, Customer, Competition, Kenichi Ohmae (1975) 129
Model 17 Crafting Strategy, Henry Mintzberg (1978) 132
Model 18 Five Forces, Michael Porter (1979) 134
Model 19 7S: Tom Peters, Robert Waterman, Julien Phillips (1980) 136
Model 20 Core Competencies, Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad (1990) 138
Model 21 Brand Equity, David Aaker (1991) 141
Model 22 Value Discipline, Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema (1993) 143
Model 23 Blue Ocean Strategy, W. Chan Kim and Ren