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Future ready : how to master business forecasting /

Currently, managers are facing an unprecedented level of instability in their businesses. Future Ready improves managers' ability to anticipate and manage the future with tools to 'go beyond budgeting.' This non-technical guidebook offers techniques on developing an effective manageme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morlidge, Steve
Otros Autores: Player, Steve, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Section I 'Why?' : Why Change? Everyone Knows the Trouble I've Seen
  • Forecasting Disease, the Symptoms and the Remedy
  • Section II Principles : Mastering Purpose
  • the Cassandra Paradox
  • Mastering Time
  • Delay and Decision
  • Mastering Models: Mapping the Future
  • Mastering Measurement
  • Learning to Love Error
  • Mastering Risks: How the Paranoid Survive
  • Section III 'Praxis' : Mastering Process: The Mother of Good Fortune
  • Theme #1 Recipe for success: tips and traps
  • Theme #2 Coordination in a complex system : how different can we be?
  • Theme #3 'Whose job is it anyway?' Roles and responsibilities
  • Section IV Transformation : Implementation: Beginnings and Endings
  • Beyond Forecasting: The Biggest Barrier
  • Beyond Budgeting: A New Management Model?
  • Conclusion: Reconnection
  • Appendix 1
  • Design Principles : A summary
  • Appendix 2
  • Important concepts in systems and cybernetics.