Giles Hutchins

The Nature of Business (eBook, ePUB)

Redesigning for resilience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This enlightening book sets out a new business paradigm to help inspire businesses to thrive.

In The Nature of Business, management consultant Giles Hutchins presents the challenges to the prevailing 'business as usual' model, explains the pressing need for transformational change, and reveals the concepts and mindsets necessary to inspire the businesses of tomorrow.

Going beyond current approaches to responsible and green business, Hutchins focuses on the emergence of new ways of operating and creating value in an increasingly volatile and interconnected world. He makes the compelling case that the 'Firm of the Future' should seek to mimic behaviours and organisations found in nature, which offer fitting models for businesses capable of flourishing in chaotic and uncertain times. A firm of the future, he argues, builds resilience, optimises, adapts, integrates systems, navigates by values and supports life-building activities. It is a business inspired by nature.

Showcasing the pioneers of the new paradigm through examples and case studies, The Nature of Business presents the tools and techniques required to effect the transformation to a business fit for purpose and fit for the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857840509
• Artikelnr.: 39478110

Autorenporträt

Giles Hutchins is a management consultant with over 15 years of business and IT transformation experience, now working as Global Head of Sustainability Solutions for Atos International. Giles is the co-founder of a group of specialists in 'Business Inspired By Nature' called Biomimicry for Creative Innovation (BCI). He is passionate about exploring ways of applying nature's inspiration to sustainable business transformation. Drawing on a range of theories and practices, he applies them to the challenges businesses face today, providing practical insight and guidance to help organisations redesign for resilience in these volatile times.

Giles regularly engages with a number of leading non-profit organisations, such as the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Earthwatch, Schumacher College and The World Wildlife Fund, and guest-lectures at leading universities and presents at conferences on sustainable business.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Transformational times call for transformational change
Nature as teacher
Firm of the future
Sustainability and the firm of the future
Human nature and nurture
Catalysts for transformation
Techniques for transformation
Inspiration for transformation
Conclusions
Notes
Further reading
Index