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Book Synopsis

Marcel van Assen is a senior consultant at the Operations Management group of Berenschot. His industrial consulting experience covers a range of manufacturing, supply chain, and strategic issues, from operational excellence to value-innovation based on strategic conversation, roadmapping and foresight.

Marcel is also an assistant professor of manufacturing management at the Department of Management of Technology and Innovation Department of RSM Erasmus University. He has written several books and articles on operations and innovation management. He holds an MSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Twente, an MSc in business administration (strategy and organisation) from the Open University, and a PhD in business administration from RSM Erasmus University. In addition he is associate member of ERIM (Erasmus Research Institute of Management).

Gerben van den Berg read business administration at the University of Groningen.

Table of Contents

About the authors

Publisher's acknowledgements

Preface

Using this book

Part 1: Corporate and business strategy

1 Ansoff’s matrix and product market grid

2 BCG-matrix

3 Strategic dialogue

4 BHAG

5 Blue ocean strategy

6 Business model canvas

7 Business scope (Abell)

8 Competitive analysis: Porter's five forces model

9 Core competencies

10 Internationalisation strategy framework

11 Road-mapping

12 Scenario planning

13 Strategy maps

14 SWOT analysis

15 Value-disciplines

Part 2: Organisation and governance

16 7-S Framework

17 Balanced scorecard

18 Benchmarking

19 Organisational growth model (Greiner)

20 Offshoring/outsourcing

21 Organisational configurations (Mintzberg)

22 Overhead value analysis

23 Risk management

24 The value chain

Part 3: Finance

25 Activity-based costing

26 Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)

27 Discounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV)

28 DuPont scheme

29 Economic value added (EVA) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC)

30 Financial ratio analysis: liquidity, solvency and profitability ratios

31 Investment stages

32 Real options theory

33 Risk-reward analysis

34 Value-based management

Part 4: Marketing and sales

35 4Ps of marketing (Kotler)

36 Branding pentagram

37 Client pyramid (Curry)

38 Crowdsourcing

39 Customer journey mapping

40 MABA analysis

41 Social network analysis

42 Stakeholder management

Part 5: Operations, supply chain management and procurement

43 Business process redesign

44 House of purchasing and supply

45 Kaizen/Gemba

46 Lean thinking/just-in-time

47 Purchasing model (Kraljic)

48 Root cause analysis/Pareto analysis

49 Six sigma

50 The EFQM model

51 Value stream mapping

Part 6: Innovation, technology management and e-business

52 Diffusion model

53 Disruptive innovation

54 Hype cycle

55 Innovation circle

56 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®)

57 Stage-Gate model

58 Strategic IT-alignment model

59 The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®)

Part 7: Human Resources (HR) and change management

60 Change quadrants

61 Compensation model

62 Eight phases of change (Kotter)

63 HR business roles

64 Motivational insights

65 Six thinking hats (De Bono)

66 Socially engineered change

67 Team roles (Belbin)

68 The Deming cycle: plan–do–check–act

Part 8: Leadership and (inter)cultural management

69 Bottom of the pyramid

70 CAGE distance framework

71 Competing values

72 Core quadrants

73 Cultural dimensions (Hofstede)

74 Culture dimensions (Trompenaars)

75 Focus-energy matrix

76 Seven habits of highly effective people (Covey)

77 Situational leadership

Appendix: Model matrix and categorization

Index

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      Publisher: Pearson Education
      Publication Date: 12/25/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781292081762, 978-1292081762
      ISBN10: 1292081767

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Marcel van Assen is a senior consultant at the Operations Management group of Berenschot. His industrial consulting experience covers a range of manufacturing, supply chain, and strategic issues, from operational excellence to value-innovation based on strategic conversation, roadmapping and foresight.

      Marcel is also an assistant professor of manufacturing management at the Department of Management of Technology and Innovation Department of RSM Erasmus University. He has written several books and articles on operations and innovation management. He holds an MSc in mechanical engineering from the University of Twente, an MSc in business administration (strategy and organisation) from the Open University, and a PhD in business administration from RSM Erasmus University. In addition he is associate member of ERIM (Erasmus Research Institute of Management).

      Gerben van den Berg read business administration at the University of Groningen.

      Table of Contents

      About the authors

      Publisher's acknowledgements

      Preface

      Using this book

      Part 1: Corporate and business strategy

      1 Ansoff’s matrix and product market grid

      2 BCG-matrix

      3 Strategic dialogue

      4 BHAG

      5 Blue ocean strategy

      6 Business model canvas

      7 Business scope (Abell)

      8 Competitive analysis: Porter's five forces model

      9 Core competencies

      10 Internationalisation strategy framework

      11 Road-mapping

      12 Scenario planning

      13 Strategy maps

      14 SWOT analysis

      15 Value-disciplines

      Part 2: Organisation and governance

      16 7-S Framework

      17 Balanced scorecard

      18 Benchmarking

      19 Organisational growth model (Greiner)

      20 Offshoring/outsourcing

      21 Organisational configurations (Mintzberg)

      22 Overhead value analysis

      23 Risk management

      24 The value chain

      Part 3: Finance

      25 Activity-based costing

      26 Capital asset pricing model (CAPM)

      27 Discounted cash flow (DCF) and net present value (NPV)

      28 DuPont scheme

      29 Economic value added (EVA) and weighted average cost of capital (WACC)

      30 Financial ratio analysis: liquidity, solvency and profitability ratios

      31 Investment stages

      32 Real options theory

      33 Risk-reward analysis

      34 Value-based management

      Part 4: Marketing and sales

      35 4Ps of marketing (Kotler)

      36 Branding pentagram

      37 Client pyramid (Curry)

      38 Crowdsourcing

      39 Customer journey mapping

      40 MABA analysis

      41 Social network analysis

      42 Stakeholder management

      Part 5: Operations, supply chain management and procurement

      43 Business process redesign

      44 House of purchasing and supply

      45 Kaizen/Gemba

      46 Lean thinking/just-in-time

      47 Purchasing model (Kraljic)

      48 Root cause analysis/Pareto analysis

      49 Six sigma

      50 The EFQM model

      51 Value stream mapping

      Part 6: Innovation, technology management and e-business

      52 Diffusion model

      53 Disruptive innovation

      54 Hype cycle

      55 Innovation circle

      56 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®)

      57 Stage-Gate model

      58 Strategic IT-alignment model

      59 The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF®)

      Part 7: Human Resources (HR) and change management

      60 Change quadrants

      61 Compensation model

      62 Eight phases of change (Kotter)

      63 HR business roles

      64 Motivational insights

      65 Six thinking hats (De Bono)

      66 Socially engineered change

      67 Team roles (Belbin)

      68 The Deming cycle: plan–do–check–act

      Part 8: Leadership and (inter)cultural management

      69 Bottom of the pyramid

      70 CAGE distance framework

      71 Competing values

      72 Core quadrants

      73 Cultural dimensions (Hofstede)

      74 Culture dimensions (Trompenaars)

      75 Focus-energy matrix

      76 Seven habits of highly effective people (Covey)

      77 Situational leadership

      Appendix: Model matrix and categorization

      Index

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