Key Management Models

The most influential management models in the world from activity-based costing to value chain analysis: what they mean and when to use them.

Management models — love them or hate them, they're at the heart of management thinking and practice. They have two main purposes. The first is to provide a framework for improving business perfromance. The second is to help managers and management consultants to get away with murder by intimidating the uninitiated with buzzwords and acronyms.

Key Management Models takes the reader through each of these essential management tools in a clear, structured and practical way by answering the following key questions:

• What's the big idea?
• When do I use it?
• In the final analysis, is it any good?

From essential management tools like kaizen, overhead value analysis and benchmarking, to models developed by Gods of management thinking like Belbin, Handy, Kotter and Mintzberg, you'll find dozens of new ways to improve your business and from now on you'll never have to admit you don't know your way around risk reward analysis.

• Activity-based costing
• Adizes' PAEI management roles
• Ansoff's product/market grid
• The balanced scorecard
• The BCG matrix
• Belbin's team roles
• Benchmarking
• The Berenschot project management model
• Business process redesign
• The capability maturity model
• Change quadrants
• The chaos model
• Competing values of organizational effectiveness
• Competitive analysis: Porter's five forces
• Compliance typology
• Core competencies
• Core quadrants
• Covey's seven habits of highly effective people
• Customer marketing and relationship management
• The Deming cycle
• The EFQM model
• Eisenhower's effective time management
• EVA — economic value added
• The fifth discipline
• Four competencies of the learning organization
• Generic competitive strategies
• The gods of management
• Greiner's growth model
• Hofstede's cultural dimensions
• Just-in-time
• Kaizen
• Kay's distinctive capabilities
• Kotter's eight phases of change
• Kraljic's purchasing model
• Levers of control
• MABA analysis
• The Malcom Baldbridge Award
• The marketing mix
• Maslow
• The 7-S framework
• Mintzberg's configurations
• Mintzberg's management roles
• The neurotic organization
• Nolan's IT growth stages
• Overhead value analysis
• Parenting advantage
• The purposive change model
• Risk reward analysis
• Scenario planning (Shell)
• Schols of strategy synthesis
• The seven forces model
• Sociotechnical organization
• SWOT analysis
• Value-based management
• The value chain
• Value disciplines

A excellent book about different models, even though they try to sneak in some proprietary stuff from their employeer from time to time.