Flevy Lasrado Books

Focusing on the United Arab Emirates, this book explores the sustainability of creativity and innovation in organizations, presenting a toolkit to identify strategic gaps. It emphasizes the importance of these elements as key drivers of competitive advantage and offers practical strategies for enhancing innovation. With a blend of best practices and original research, it serves as an essential resource for professionals committed to fostering sustainable development in the Middle East.

Focusing on sustainable business performance, this book compiles best practices from global excellence frameworks, supported by empirical studies. It explores the motives and benefits of implementing these frameworks across various regions, illustrated through comprehensive case studies that reflect their influence on work cultures, values, and beliefs. Aimed at academics in quality management, HRM, and international business, it highlights the critical role of human capital in achieving and maintaining global business excellence.

This book bridges two essential aspects of assessing and achieving business excellence in 21st-century organizations. The author argues that transnational companies face a twofold challenge: managing global knowledge networks and multicultural project teams on the one hand; and interacting and collaborating across boundaries using global communication technologies, on the other. The author also argues that this dual challenge calls for the creation of a business excellence program that fits and thrives within these multicultural environments. In response, he reviews corporate practices in quality management and business excellence frameworks that have been extensively used on a transnational scale to drive organizational performance. The book approaches quality management as an element that is no longer a choice, but has now become a necessity if companies want to compete in highly globalized environments.