| Title : | Shaping things to come : Strategies for creating alternative enterprises | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Colin Coulson-Thomas, Author | | Publisher: | Dublin : Blackhall Publishing | | Publication Date: | 2001 | | Pagination: | xi, 202 p. | | Size: | 25 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-901657-87-6 | | General note: | Colin's latest book Shaping Things to Come is aimed at people who are prepared to question. With customers demanding greater responsiveness to their particular requirements and bespoke products and services, the emphasis within many companies is shifting from retrenchment and restructuring to innovation, corporate venturing and the generation of new income streams. | | Class number: | 658.406 | | Abstract: | Employees in the front line are expected to think and act like entrepreneurs at a time when many of them are seeking more control over their lives and greater personal fulfilment as well as economic success. Colin shows us that there are alternatives to bland consensus and lowest common denominators and urges us to escape from prisons and traps of our own making.
Shaping Things to Come provides checklists for distinguising fundamentals from fads, substance from surface and reality from illusion. It contains exercises for crafting new offerings and tools for striking a different balance between action and reaction, complexity and simplicity, activity and reflection, and change and continuity. Checklist are also provided for challenging contemporary assumptions, along with exercises for formulating new marketplace offerings aimed at the unfulfilled and those who aspire to be distinctive. Shaping things to Come is for innovators, explorers and pioneers who dare to be different. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; 1. The New Millenium; 2. Issues and Trends; 3. Fads and Fundamentals; 4. Surface and Substance; 5. Reality and Illusion; 6. Action and Reaction; 7. Speed and Time; 8. Complexity and Simplicity; 9. Systems and Structures; 10. People and Processes; 11. Activity and Reflecion; 12. Change and Continuity; 13. Prisons and Traps; 14. Options and Choices; 15. Information, Knowledge and Understanding; 16. Vision and Values; 17. Roles and Relationships; 18. Working and Learning; 19. Individuals and Organisations; 20. Citizens and Communities; 21. Helps and Hinders; 22. Freedom and Fulfilment; Appendix; Index. |
Shaping things to come : Strategies for creating alternative enterprises [printed text] / Colin Coulson-Thomas, Author . - Dublin : Blackhall Publishing, 2001 . - xi, 202 p. ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-1-901657-87-6 Colin's latest book Shaping Things to Come is aimed at people who are prepared to question. With customers demanding greater responsiveness to their particular requirements and bespoke products and services, the emphasis within many companies is shifting from retrenchment and restructuring to innovation, corporate venturing and the generation of new income streams. | Class number: | 658.406 | | Abstract: | Employees in the front line are expected to think and act like entrepreneurs at a time when many of them are seeking more control over their lives and greater personal fulfilment as well as economic success. Colin shows us that there are alternatives to bland consensus and lowest common denominators and urges us to escape from prisons and traps of our own making.
Shaping Things to Come provides checklists for distinguising fundamentals from fads, substance from surface and reality from illusion. It contains exercises for crafting new offerings and tools for striking a different balance between action and reaction, complexity and simplicity, activity and reflection, and change and continuity. Checklist are also provided for challenging contemporary assumptions, along with exercises for formulating new marketplace offerings aimed at the unfulfilled and those who aspire to be distinctive. Shaping things to Come is for innovators, explorers and pioneers who dare to be different. | | Contents note: | Acknowledgements; 1. The New Millenium; 2. Issues and Trends; 3. Fads and Fundamentals; 4. Surface and Substance; 5. Reality and Illusion; 6. Action and Reaction; 7. Speed and Time; 8. Complexity and Simplicity; 9. Systems and Structures; 10. People and Processes; 11. Activity and Reflecion; 12. Change and Continuity; 13. Prisons and Traps; 14. Options and Choices; 15. Information, Knowledge and Understanding; 16. Vision and Values; 17. Roles and Relationships; 18. Working and Learning; 19. Individuals and Organisations; 20. Citizens and Communities; 21. Helps and Hinders; 22. Freedom and Fulfilment; Appendix; Index. |
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