Cristiano Antonelli 
New Information Technology and Industrial Change: The Italian Case [PDF ebook] 

Digital communication has altered the flow of global information, evolved consumer values and changed consumption practices worldwide. These challenges in the marketplace are being driven by internat …

This very concise and straightforward book is aimed at top executives in virtually any industry who are either new to the concept of Lean and its benefits to them or who have stalled in their transfo …

The retail sector is an integral part of a national economy. From the political economy perspective, all consumer goods have surplus values locked up in them; the surplus values are not realized unti …

Achieve any cost goals in half the time and achieve stable production with quality designed in right-the-first-time.　 Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develo …

People do their best work when they are motivated. This may sound obvious, but while people managers instinctively agree with the centrality of motivation at work and its impact on employee engagemen …

The early explorers up through those of the early part of the last century were the supreme users of management practices that have been formalized today. Their expeditions had all the character …

Why do some leaders succeed and others fail? Is there a magic ingredient that the leaders must consider in their career journey to ensure the joy ride does not turn into a nightmare? What is the key …