Management Challenges In The 21st Century

Bol Partner

Management Challenges for the 21st Century looks afresh at the future of management thinking and practice. This astonishing new book from the world's leading management guru revolves around two fundamental issues that are occurring simultaneously: changes in the world economy, and shifts in the practice of management. These developments, especially in developed countries, are crucial in exploring and understanding the challenges of the future. Management Challenges for the 21st Century focuses in on the key questions for all businesses: What are the new realities? What new policies are required of companies and executives in order to deal with these changes? Facing a whole swathe of issues head-on in his usual clear-sighted style, Drucker offers up a prescient and informed analysis that will help every executive to build a proactive strategy for the future. It is written by one of the world's leading management gurus; and deals with the pressing challenges facing all organizations in the 21st century. It offers clear-sighted analysis and advice.

Bol

Management has many aspects with many challenges. The goals: increasing profit, growth, efficiency remain unchanged, but the solutions are improved. Novelties in psychology, sociology, engineering and IT need and also generate the new tools and solutions. This book collects works around four important topics: corporate strategy, project management, sustainable development and information management. The authors are related to the University of Miskolc as former or present researchers: István Szintay (corporate strategy); Róbert Marciniak (shared services); László Berényi (public sector and sustainability); Csaba Deák and László Barna (project management); Éva Ligetvári (project portfolio management); Kriszitna Szegedi (CSR); Nikolett Deutsch (innovation and sustainability); Péter Sasvári (corporate IT and technology transfer); Zsolt Harangozó (operations and lean management); Michael Schwandt (risk management). The book highlights some actual and interesting issues of the authors' research activity, including theoretical and empirical results.