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Future in sight: 100 of the most important trends, implications and predictions for the new millennium
more urgent. This theme is also reflected in The Civilized Market: Cor-
porations, Conviction and the Real Business of Capitalism, IVAN ALEXANDER, Capstone (1997), 250 pp., £18.99. A successful entrepreneur provides a critique of the myths of capitalism, arguing that while capitalism is still the engine of progress and wealth it will collapse if it continues to ignore tolerance, civilized values and social responsibility. Another personal journal through the age-old forces that the author believes continue to threaten democracy is contained in On the Eve
qf the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreaso[l, CONORCRUISEO'BRIEN,Free Press (1994), 166 pp., £7.99. All these books have important messages and their ideas urgently need to be taken to a wider audience.
The End of Japan Inc.: And How the New Japan Will Look, CHRISTOPHER
important to read the ethics chapter and the approach needs to be integrated with overall knowledge-management strategies.
Future in Sight: 100 of the Most Important Trends, Implications and Predictions for the New Millennium, BARRY HOWARD MINKIN, Simon & Schuster (1995), 256 pp., £15.99. A detailed account of 100 trends that are changing our society: global, demographic, technological, marketing, financial, economic, political, legal and organizational. Uses a 'TIPs' (trends/ implications/predictions) system for both businesses and society at large. The author has over 25 years of experience as a futurist and global management consultant. Essential reading as a stimulant to further thinking, rather than the last word on any of the subjects considered.
WOOD, Simon & Schuster (1994), 240 pp.. £15.99. Argues that we are now witnessing the shattering of Japan's post-war economic miracle. A bubble that is now badly deflated. Worth (re)reading to che('k against recent developments. According to an (optimistic?) analysis of recent trends and future expectations Japan's miracle is due to be replaced by
Publishing (1995), 249 pp., £30.00.
TreHds that are Shaping our Future,
Long Wave Theory, Edited by CHRISTOPHER FREEMAN, Edward (1996), 678 pp., £140.00.
Corporate Intelligence: From Back Ops to Boardrooms, How Businesses Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Succeed in the Global Marketplace, LARRY KAHANER, Simon & Schuster (1996), 300 pp., £16.99. Reveals the methods, case studies and systems that businesses can use today in order to establish and improve their intelligence operations. Particularly
Programme: Putting Theory into Practice A Step-by-Step Approach, SIMON WOOTTON and TERRY HORNE, Kogan Page (1997), 128 pp., £12.99. A useful collection of 24 strategic cases are contained in Cases in Strategic Management, DAVIDW. GRIGSBYand MICHAELJ. STAHL, Blackwell Business (1997), 454 pp., £19.99. Strategic Planning: What
Every Manager Must Know, A Step-byStep Guide, GEORGE A. STEINER, Free Press (1997), 383 pp., £9.99. Paperback version of a classic study of the subject originally published in 1979. A discussion of a wide variety of more recent critical issues is contained in the sixteen papers in Dynamics of Com-
Global Expansion in the Information petence-Rased Competition: Theory Age: Big Planet, Small World, THOMAS and Practice in the New Strategic ManJ. HOWARD, International Thomson agement, Edited by RON SANCHEZ,AIME
A general introduction (using a "slightly irreverent style") to going global in the world of today/tomorrow, particularly for those whose experience The Coming Russian Boom: A Guide has previously been essentially to New Markets and Politics, RICHARD parochial. A practical guide to many of LaYARD and JOHN PARKER, Simon & the issues is also contained in ManSchuster (1996), 380 pp., £18.99. Gloaging Information, DAVID A. WILSON, bal trends are usefully monitored by Butterworth-Heinemann (1997), 2nd Vital Signs 1997: The Environmental ed., 193 pp., £15.99. Lt::STERR. BROWN,MICHAELRENNERand CI IRISTOPHER FLAVIN, W.W. Norton/Worldwatch Institute (1997), 165 pp., £10.99.
much of the latest theory and practice in the field. Uses interesting and challenging cases. Perhaps a greater emphasis on strategy and learning would have been useful? Other approaches are reflected in Flexible Strategic Management, AUDLEYGENUS, International Thomson Business Press (1997), 178 pp., £15.99, which places flexibility at the centre of the analysis of strategy and focuses on the problems of implementation. Sound, sensible and readable. Also Strategic Planning. The Nine Step
Elgar
Reproduces thirty-three of the classical papers on the subject.
HEENE and HOWARD THOMAS, Pergamon (1996), 403 pp., £65.00.
Quality is the Focus of Successful TQM: Inside Stories from European Quality Award Winners, Edited by KLAUS J. ZINK,Gower (1997), 224 pp., £39.50. A useful exercise that briefly examines how some (eleven) of Europe's best known companies set about planning and implementing their own TQM programmes, but more attention needs to be given to learning, knowledge and the people issues.
The Social Challenge of Job Creation: Combating Unemployment in Europe, Edited by JORDI GUAL, Edward Elgar (1996), 240 pp., £49.95.
Strategic Management: Total Quality & Global Competition, MICHAELJ. STAHL Discusses the role of labour market and DAVIDW. GRIGSBY,Blackwell Business (1997), 300 pp., £19.99. A valuable textbook that incorporates
institutions and the nature of their interaction with other economic and social regulations. Also provides a broad assessment of the policy alter-
Long Range Planning Vo|. 30
December 1997
porations, Conviction and the Real Business of Capitalism, IVAN ALEXANDER, Capstone (1997), 250 pp., £18.99. A successful entrepreneur provides a critique of the myths of capitalism, arguing that while capitalism is still the engine of progress and wealth it will collapse if it continues to ignore tolerance, civilized values and social responsibility. Another personal journal through the age-old forces that the author believes continue to threaten democracy is contained in On the Eve
qf the Millennium: The Future of Democracy Through an Age of Unreaso[l, CONORCRUISEO'BRIEN,Free Press (1994), 166 pp., £7.99. All these books have important messages and their ideas urgently need to be taken to a wider audience.
The End of Japan Inc.: And How the New Japan Will Look, CHRISTOPHER
important to read the ethics chapter and the approach needs to be integrated with overall knowledge-management strategies.
Future in Sight: 100 of the Most Important Trends, Implications and Predictions for the New Millennium, BARRY HOWARD MINKIN, Simon & Schuster (1995), 256 pp., £15.99. A detailed account of 100 trends that are changing our society: global, demographic, technological, marketing, financial, economic, political, legal and organizational. Uses a 'TIPs' (trends/ implications/predictions) system for both businesses and society at large. The author has over 25 years of experience as a futurist and global management consultant. Essential reading as a stimulant to further thinking, rather than the last word on any of the subjects considered.
WOOD, Simon & Schuster (1994), 240 pp.. £15.99. Argues that we are now witnessing the shattering of Japan's post-war economic miracle. A bubble that is now badly deflated. Worth (re)reading to che('k against recent developments. According to an (optimistic?) analysis of recent trends and future expectations Japan's miracle is due to be replaced by
Publishing (1995), 249 pp., £30.00.
TreHds that are Shaping our Future,
Long Wave Theory, Edited by CHRISTOPHER FREEMAN, Edward (1996), 678 pp., £140.00.
Corporate Intelligence: From Back Ops to Boardrooms, How Businesses Gather, Analyze, and Use Information to Succeed in the Global Marketplace, LARRY KAHANER, Simon & Schuster (1996), 300 pp., £16.99. Reveals the methods, case studies and systems that businesses can use today in order to establish and improve their intelligence operations. Particularly
Programme: Putting Theory into Practice A Step-by-Step Approach, SIMON WOOTTON and TERRY HORNE, Kogan Page (1997), 128 pp., £12.99. A useful collection of 24 strategic cases are contained in Cases in Strategic Management, DAVIDW. GRIGSBYand MICHAELJ. STAHL, Blackwell Business (1997), 454 pp., £19.99. Strategic Planning: What
Every Manager Must Know, A Step-byStep Guide, GEORGE A. STEINER, Free Press (1997), 383 pp., £9.99. Paperback version of a classic study of the subject originally published in 1979. A discussion of a wide variety of more recent critical issues is contained in the sixteen papers in Dynamics of Com-
Global Expansion in the Information petence-Rased Competition: Theory Age: Big Planet, Small World, THOMAS and Practice in the New Strategic ManJ. HOWARD, International Thomson agement, Edited by RON SANCHEZ,AIME
A general introduction (using a "slightly irreverent style") to going global in the world of today/tomorrow, particularly for those whose experience The Coming Russian Boom: A Guide has previously been essentially to New Markets and Politics, RICHARD parochial. A practical guide to many of LaYARD and JOHN PARKER, Simon & the issues is also contained in ManSchuster (1996), 380 pp., £18.99. Gloaging Information, DAVID A. WILSON, bal trends are usefully monitored by Butterworth-Heinemann (1997), 2nd Vital Signs 1997: The Environmental ed., 193 pp., £15.99. Lt::STERR. BROWN,MICHAELRENNERand CI IRISTOPHER FLAVIN, W.W. Norton/Worldwatch Institute (1997), 165 pp., £10.99.
much of the latest theory and practice in the field. Uses interesting and challenging cases. Perhaps a greater emphasis on strategy and learning would have been useful? Other approaches are reflected in Flexible Strategic Management, AUDLEYGENUS, International Thomson Business Press (1997), 178 pp., £15.99, which places flexibility at the centre of the analysis of strategy and focuses on the problems of implementation. Sound, sensible and readable. Also Strategic Planning. The Nine Step
Elgar
Reproduces thirty-three of the classical papers on the subject.
HEENE and HOWARD THOMAS, Pergamon (1996), 403 pp., £65.00.
Quality is the Focus of Successful TQM: Inside Stories from European Quality Award Winners, Edited by KLAUS J. ZINK,Gower (1997), 224 pp., £39.50. A useful exercise that briefly examines how some (eleven) of Europe's best known companies set about planning and implementing their own TQM programmes, but more attention needs to be given to learning, knowledge and the people issues.
The Social Challenge of Job Creation: Combating Unemployment in Europe, Edited by JORDI GUAL, Edward Elgar (1996), 240 pp., £49.95.
Strategic Management: Total Quality & Global Competition, MICHAELJ. STAHL Discusses the role of labour market and DAVIDW. GRIGSBY,Blackwell Business (1997), 300 pp., £19.99. A valuable textbook that incorporates
institutions and the nature of their interaction with other economic and social regulations. Also provides a broad assessment of the policy alter-
Long Range Planning Vo|. 30
December 1997