Esta obra pretende aportar algo innovador a la gestión estratégica de la empresa. Explica de una manera asequible el proceso de reflexión estratégica que lleva a una compañía a replantearse todos los aspectos clave de su negocio. Describe e integra los conceptos y herramientas básicos para la gestión de una empresa, explicando además los motivos por los cuales son esenciales, así como sus interrelaciones. Aunque presenta un proceso completo y complejo, trata de simplificar al máximo cada concepto para facilitar su comprensión y asimilación. La secuencia en que se presentan las diferentes etapas, así como la doble y constante perspectiva de análisis y decisiones, favorece asimismo la comprensión y asimilación. En definitiva, el libro ofrece a empresarios y directivos (actuales y futuros) esquemas mentales claros, imprescindibles para enfrentarse a un entorno tan cambiante e imprevisible como el que la actualidad ya les depara y que el futuro no suavizará.

"Strategic Thinking: An Executive Perspective provides an overview of the major issues in strategy development for corporate executive programs and for practice-oriented executive MBA programs. Any book on such a vast subject as strategy must make compromises and trade-offs. This book is no exception. The choices of what to include, where, and at what level of depth were guided by the book's primary objective as a companion volume to case analysis in an executive setting with a global outlook."--Jacket.

In this textbook, Heizer (business administration, Texas Lutheran U.) and Render (operations management, Rollins College) provide a broad introduction to the field of operations management. A sampling of topics includes operations strategy for competitive advantage, forecasting, design of goods and services, human resources, e- commerce, project management, inventory management, and maintenance. The CD-ROM contains video case studies, lecture notes, Excel OM and Extend software, and additional practice problems. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Now in its revised and expanded second edition - including over 20 new chapters - this comprehensive textbook remains a unique and accessible description of the current and developing diagnostic and treatment techniques and technologies comprising in vitro fertilization (IVF). Arranged thematically in sections, each chapter covers a key topic in IVF in a sensible presentation. Parts one and two describe the planning, design and organization of an ART unit and IVF laboratory and equipment and systems, respectively. The sections that follow provide detailed descriptions of IVF techniques, embryo culture methods, sperm processing and selection, insemination procedures, micromanipulation, embryo evaluation, cryopreservation, and embryo transfer. Concluding sections address issues of management and regulation of ART labs across the globe, as well as special topics and emerging techniques and devices. Chapter authors, all experts in the field, contribute their expertise from around the world. With the addition of learning key points and review questions at the beginning and end of each chapter, this new edition of In Vitro Fertilization is a readily accessible, high quality instructional resource for reproductive medicine trainees at all levels. Practicing reproductive endocrinologists, urologists, and embryologists also will find value in the book, as will infertility researchers.

If you think more strategically than your competitors, your company will win the competitive battle in the mid or long term. This book explains simply and clearly the elements, concepts, analyses and interrelationships that make up this strategic thinking, and shows how to employ it in your business or organization.

Esta publicación es fruto de la reflexión de, fundamentalmente, docentes del ámbito de la comunicación y de la publicidad basada en la necesidad de aunar fuerzas para ofrecer una obra de conjunto que intenta ver la publicidad como un hecho global y no solo aislado de la comunicación comercial. La presente obra profundiza en el valor de la publicidad y su importancia contemporánea, desde una perspectiva holística y con el objetivo de querer ser una publicación didáctica y de reflexión.