Managing Einsteins: Leading High-Tech Workers in the Digital Age

Today's new breed of technologically skilled employees often acts and thinks differently than their counterparts. And while break-the-rules approaches and attitudes can be helpful and even necessary for innovative, out-of-the-box thinking, they can also be a nightmare for managers. Managing Einsteins walks managers through proven best methods to optimize the skills, abilities, and knowledge of the new economy workforce--without stifling the creativity and innovative spirit needed for success. Written by two of today's top high-tech management experts, this clear, easy-to-read guide combines strategies for managing and team building with tips and pointers for building better communication between techies and non-techies, coaching for better performance, and more. The helpful skills and effective guidelines in Managing Einsteins will help managers "bridge the gap," providing: Antidotes for correcting problems in the workplace "Knowledge tests" for each topic covered Insights from top tech leaders including Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and Andy Grove

Business & Money

Ivancevich, John M.

Duening, Thomas N.

Management & Leadership

McGraw=Hill

Recognizing the unique needs of the technology startup, Duening focuses on intellectual property development, funding, and marketing/selling more than other texts in this market. Extensive use of technology examples, case studies, and assignments keeps the book relevant and motivating for engineering students.

Technology Entrepreneurship: Creating, Capturing, and Protecting Value

Hisrich, Robert A.

Lechter, Michael A.

Academic Press

The focus of this book is on technology ventures ― how they start, operate, and sometimes exit profitably. In short, it covers all the elements required to launch a successful technology company, including discussion of cutting-edge trends such as "entrepreneurial method" and "lean startup," emphasis on the ideation process and development of an effective business plan, coverage of product and market development, intellectual property, structuring your venture, raising capital, sales and marketing, people management, and even strategies for exiting your venture. This is not another armchair book about entrepreneurship. It’s a working guide for engineers and scientists who want to actually be entrepreneurs.

Technology Entrepreneurship: Taking Innovation to the Marketplace

Technology Entrepreneurship: Taking Innovation to the Marketplace, Third Edition provides a practical toolkit for potential entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds that will help them navigate complex issues such as raising capital, IP protection, product development, and more. The book's structure follows the entrepreneurial process in a step-by-step way, defining key terms and helping readers without business qualifications engage with the activities addressed. In addition, it covers a discussion of current trends and developments relevant for tomorrow’s entrepreneurs. In-depth information on the practicalities of technology entrepreneurship are combined with experience from academics to provide a unique resource on how to approach this crucial subject.

Finance

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is becoming the new revolution as company's of all sizes are seeking to take advantage of this source of competitive advantage. This book provides a step-by-step approach to understanding the application of Business Process Outsourcing, assessing the BPO opportunity in the company, and then managing the transition to BPO. It serves as a guide to implementing BPO and as a reference source to solving the variety of issues that may arise during a BPO initiative. Each chapter features a case study, insight from a practitioner, focus on how BPO affects people, and ethical considerations. * Discusses both the how and why of business process outsourcing with a straightforward "how to" approach. * Provides managers with the tools to analyse the BPO opportunities for their own firms, as well as techniques and strategies for managing a BPO initiative. * Empowers businesses of all sizes to take advantage of this all-encompassing business revolution.

Business Process Outsourcing: The Competitive Advantage

Click, Rick L.

Economics

wiley

This book will provide the fundamentals of business process outsourcing for the busy executive who needs to get up to speed. It will have such features as checklists, tips and techniques, and case studies. * Written in a user friendly style that allows senior level financial executives to get a solid foundation of what business process outsourcing is and how it can benefit their companies. * Provides managers with the tools to analyse the BPO opportunities for their own firms, as well as techniques and strategies for managing a BPO initiative. * Shows managers how a BPO strategy can save the company money and create jobs domestically. * Both authors are consultants and advisers to industry-leading companies and frequent speakers at business forums and conferences.

Essentials of Business Process Outsourcing

Management: Skills, Application, Practice, and Development provides students with the core skills they need to manage and lead in business, presented in realistic models and cases. Opportunities for debate, discussion, problem-solving, and analysis are all built into the text, which aims to give students with little or some experience a window into the world of management and the kinds of situations they will face as they continue in business.

Management: Skills, Application, Practice, and Development

Ivancevich,John

Atomic Dog

Managing Organizations: Principles and Guidelines

In the 21st century, managers will play a crucial role in operating organizations of every conceivable size, in every industry classification, and in many geographical locations. As teachers of management, Duening and Ivancevich have learned along with their students that managerial concepts that fit so well in one setting are often misaligned in other settings. The practice of management is challenging, simple, mysterious, rewarding, and frustrating all at the same time. Managing Organizations: Principles &amp; Guidelines will invite your students' interest, continuous learning, and attention to managerial tasks, responsibilities, and functions.

Atomic Dog Pub Inc

Managing Organizations: Principles & Guidelines

In Entrepreneurism: Exploring Entrepreneurship from a Business Process Perspective, Thomas Duening and William Sherrill provide students with a thorough introduction to entrepreneurship, from a business process perspective, which covers the topics taught in an entrepreneurship course as they relate to revenue, cost, and capital. Students are encouraged to understand business from the point of view of the Chief Executive Officer. Whether students aspire to run their own company, or to join up with others who will take on more of a leadership role within an entrepreneurial venture, or to enter a corporate career and leverage the resources available within an enterprise as an intrapreneur, the ideas presented in this text will be of great value to them.

Entrepreneurism: Exploring Entrepreneurship from a Business Process Perspective

Sherrill, William

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

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Managing Einsteins: Leading High-Tech Workers in the Digital Age

Technology Entrepreneurship: Creating, Capturing, and Protecting Value

Technology Entrepreneurship: Taking Innovation to the Marketplace

Technology Entrepreneurship: Taking Innovation to the Marketplace

Business Process Outsourcing: The Competitive Advantage

Essentials of Business Process Outsourcing

Management: Skills, Application, Practice, and Development

Managing Organizations: Principles and Guidelines

Managing Organizations: Principles & Guidelines

Entrepreneurism: Exploring Entrepreneurship from a Business Process Perspective