Creating Collaborative Advantage

A guide to collaborative impact for leaders in industry, government, and social change networksOur world is facing unsustainable global trends—from climate change and water scarcity to energy insecuri

The trend toward increasing computer and network capabilities into an expanding number of devices and device types in our networks are creating an “Internet of Things (IoT)”. Consequently, this techno

Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees' knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book, J.-C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees. These 'strategic conversations' make employees partners in the strategy development process, engaging them to help shape the organization's future. The result is transformational: instead of strategy being a dry, periodic planning exercise for the few, it becomes a dynamic and continuous act of co-creation enriched by the many. Case studies illustrate how leading organizations have used strategic conversations to build sustained competitive advantage, create innovative business models, make better decisions under uncertainty, reduce the need for change management, and enhance employee engagement. The book will appeal to managers, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and teachers and student

Most organizations fail to take full advantage of their employees' knowledge, initiative, and imagination. In this accessible and practical book, J.-C. Spender and Bruce Strong provide a guide for building entrepreneurial workforces through carefully designed conversations between management and employees. These 'strategic conversations' make employees partners in the strategy development process, engaging them to help shape the organization's future. The result is transformational: instead of strategy being a dry, periodic planning exercise for the few, it becomes a dynamic and continuous act of co-creation enriched by the many. Case studies illustrate how leading organizations have used strategic conversations to build sustained competitive advantage, create innovative business models, make better decisions under uncertainty, reduce the need for change management, and enhance employee engagement. The book will appeal to managers, entrepreneurs of all stripes, and teachers and student

Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy looks at how digitisation is radically changing the way we buy and experience products and services. Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity, including the need to design and scale future business models to better fit 'lived lives', creating value as well as increasing worth so that new markets can emerge. The book provides a conceptual framework and practical advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to develop future products and services that take advantage of connectivity and serve contexts better. With its accessible language, numerous case examples and illustrations to illuminate challenging concepts, this book is an important resource for business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students of service science, business and engineering.

Creating New Markets in the Digital Economy looks at how digitisation is radically changing the way we buy and experience products and services. Sharing her unique perspective of both business and academia, Irene Ng examines the implications of digital connectivity, including the need to design and scale future business models to better fit 'lived lives', creating value as well as increasing worth so that new markets can emerge. The book provides a conceptual framework and practical advice to equip readers with the knowledge they need to develop future products and services that take advantage of connectivity and serve contexts better. With its accessible language, numerous case examples and illustrations to illuminate challenging concepts, this book is an important resource for business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers, as well as students of service science, business and engineering.

Have you ever noticed that most of the advice about creating great customer service comes from the world of big business? It suggests that in order to develop excellence you need to learn from global

Offering an innovative approach to coaching psychology, this book proposes a form where the coach and the coaches are less concerned with solutions and more concerned with creating space for (self-) r

Get the confidence and tools to take advantage of this growing method of investingTax liens sales and tax deed auctions, conducted by governmental agencies for delinquent taxes on real estate, are not

Creating a Coaching Culture for Professional Learning Communities will help you build a collaborative coaching culture that ensures all adults learn in a way that keeps the focus on student learning.

How to use Strategic Learning to rapidly respond to change and gain a sustainable advantage over your competitors What's even harder than creating a breakthrough strategy? Making it stick. As companie

In this groundbreaking book, Tom Wolff spells out six proven principles for creating collaborative solutions for healthy communities. The Power of Collaborative Solutions addresses contemporary social

Keeping your organization on top in today’s competitive business environment requires that everyone, from the janitor to the CEO, operate at the highest levels. High performance is no longer a competi

Companies that consistently negotiate more valuable agreements in ways that protect key relationships enjoy an important but often overlooked competitive advantage. Until now, most companies have soug

This new text lpresents a wealth of ideas and methods for using collaborative, strengths-based practice by social workers or counselors. It looks at the conditions, factors, and practices that most of

This easy-to-read, practical text covers a broad theoretical range and attempts to narrow the gap between theory and practice to provide realistic and collaborative management options. It promotes a m

The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm.Competitive

Competing in a Service Economy is a hands-on guide to creating services, with illustrative examples from service-oriented companies including Disney, Ericsson, IKEA, National Association of Convenienc

Taking advantage of electronic information bases, Altheide, whose previous interpretive studies of the mass media are well known, uses a "tracking discourse" method to show how the nature and use of t

Directing Actors is a method for establishing creative, collaborative relationships with actors, getting the most out of rehearsals, troubleshooting poor performances, and giving briefer directions.Ms

Creating civic will by engaging citizens on the toughest public problems helps break legislative and bureaucratic gridlock and restores trust in public institutions. This book shows you how to do it.-

[This book is] a valuable contribution to the vital task of getting people to see the business world as a complex, interconnected ecosystem, rather than as a sharp-elbowed race to the bottom.' Rory Su

Based on the popular international collaborative art project, this guide to creating portraiture in multiple mediums and styles teams hundreds of portraits with tips and insights on the artistic proce

Presenting 17 tools developed through rigorous design science research, this book bridges the relevance gap within network management. In so doing, it proposes a novel system-framework and establishes

In this collaborative effort between a Princeton classics professor (Ober) and a knowledge management practitioner (Manville), the authors argue that the "underappreciated organizational genius" of th

企業如何降低成本？ 價值活動又如何創造有形的客戶價值？ 在企業面對其他競爭者亟欲分一杯羹的同時，該如何因應？ 本書將提供深入、結構性的分析答案。競爭優勢——以低成本提供產品（服務），或是以與眾不同的效益獲得溢價——正是企業成功或失敗的基礎。但是，究竟企業如何達到低成本地位？如何與眾不同？ 波特教授在他的另一本著作《競爭策略》中說明了「產業與競爭者分析」的技術。在本書中則進一步解釋「企業如何建立並維持競爭優勢」。詳細說明：企業經理人如何評估本身的競爭地位？如何採取特定行動提升競爭地位？ 本書提供企業經理人，藉由成本或差異化創造競爭優勢的重要概念與實用工具。書中所提出的「價值鏈」概念更是強而有力的分析工具。它能夠協助經理人界定並分析研發、生產、行銷、銷售通路等方面，企業藉以形成競爭優勢的各種基本價值活動。 透過價值鏈分析，波特展現出： 如何了解成本特性？如何創造並持續成本優勢？ 如何辨別會創造客戶價值的因素？如何成功地採行差異化策略？ 如何選擇對企業有益的技術策略，以及技術領導廠商的優缺點？ 如何分辨良性與惡性競爭對手？如何藉由競爭對手改善企業的競爭地位？ 如何劃分產業區段，並藉以形成持續、有利可圖的焦點化策略？ 如何因應未來的不確定性？情境模擬該如何進行？ 面對挑戰者時應該如何防禦？何時該進行攻擊性策略？ 波特的理論，早已是知名商學院的必修課程。對於想領先群倫、以及想尋找策略規劃指南的經理人而言，《競爭優勢》是不容錯過的經典之作。

How to co-create―and why: the emergence of media co-creation as a concept and as a practice grounded in equity and justice.Co-creation is everywhere: It’s how the internet was built; it generated massive prehistoric rock carvings; it powered the development of vaccines for COVID-19 in record time. Co-creation offers alternatives to the idea of the solitary author privileged by top-down media. But co-creation is easy to miss, as individuals often take credit for―and profit from―collective forms of authorship, erasing whole cultures and narratives as they do so. Collective Wisdom offers the first guide to co-creation as a concept and as a practice, tracing co-creation in a media-making that ranges from collaborative journalism to human–AI partnerships. Why co-create―and why now? The many coauthors, drawing on a remarkable array of professional and personal experience, focus on the radical, sustained practices of co-creating media within communities and with social movements. They explore

Public service innovation, defined as the adoption of new technology and methods of service delivery, is at the heart of public management research. Scholars have long studied public and private sector innovation as distinctive phenomena, arguing that private sector innovation aims to increase firms' competitive advantage, while public sector innovation purports to improve governance and performance. The public-private dichotomy overlooks the complex way how organizations interact with each other for service delivery. Public services are increasingly delivered through the web of collaborative networks, in which organizations compete and cooperate simultaneously. This Element explores how coopetition, namely the simultaneous presence of competition and collaboration, shapes innovation in the health care sector. Analyzing panel data of 4,000+ American hospitals from 2008 to 2017, this Element finds evidence that coopetition catalyzes the technology and service process innovation and offe

Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Interest in policy entrepreneurs has grown over recent years. Increasingly, they are recognized as a unique class of political actors, who display common attributes, deploy common strategies, and can propel dynamic shifts in societal practices. This Element assesses the current state of knowledge on policy entrepreneurs, their actions, and their impacts. It explains how various global forces are creating new demand for policy entrepreneurship, and suggests directions for future research on policy entrepreneurs and their efforts to drive dynamic change.

本書是非營利管理譯叢中的一種。作者將嚴謹的理論與實際案例結合起來，創造出一個有用的、實用的、一站式的資源，涵蓋的主題包括協作優勢理論的原則、管理目的、人員結構與動態、身份問題、理論應用；本書的主要特點包括豐富的理論、直接源於實踐、用簡單的語言解釋、並在仔細研究的基礎上對協作的挑戰有一個連貫的發展的理解。這個重要的文本將是所有學生，學者和管理人員學習或工作的無價之寶。本書共分為三個部分。第一個部分是

Collaborative Stage Directing: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Positive Theatre Environment focuses on the director’s collaboration with actors and the creative team, and the importance of communic

The Untold StoryWhile most people refer to HealthCare.gov as “just a website,” few knew what it took to launch and what went into creating it. So much oversimplification went into a public discussion

The digital economy encompasses more than half the world, and in today's business market, those with a technology background have an advantage. This textbook provides students who already have digital expertise with a solid foundation in business and entrepreneurship in order to launch and run a business. Using a logical, objective-based structure, the book guides students to a comprehensive and practical understanding of innovation and entrepreneurship. Chapters progress through the steps in creating a successful digital business: framing the business, promotion and sales, delivery and operations, value capture, growth and scalability, intellectual property and protection, and leadership and structure. Features include: learning objectives, introductions, conclusions, tables and figures, highlighted key terms, and analysis and design exercises in each chapter; a wide range of real-world examples; a rolling case study of a hypothetical digital business that models the concepts covered