Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
If You're in a Dogfight, Become a Cat!
Strategies for Long-Term Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Businesses often find themselves trapped in a competitive dogfight, scratching and clawing for market share with products consumers view as largely undifferentiated. Conventional wisdom suggests that dogfights are to be expected as marketplaces mature, giving rise to the notion that there are "bad"...
by Harvard Business Review
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Once a year, Harvard Business Review’s editors examine the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past twelve months to select the most definitive articles we’ve published-those that have provoked the most conversation, the most inspiration, the most change. Now these highly curated collections...
The American Retail Value Proposition
Crafting Unique Experiences at Compelling Prices
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
The American economy is profoundly dependent on the success of its retailers and the strength of its consumer spending. Yet, how do leading retailers create value for their customers?
To a large extent this has been accomplished by streamlining operations and a decades-long focus on cost cutting...
Value Creation
The Definitive Guide for Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Increasing disruption, diminishing returns, and demanding Customers require business leaders to create more Value, remain relevant, and stay ahead of competition. CEOs have to evolve a “Value Creation” culture for the company so as to properly balance the interests of Customers, Employees, Investors,...
The Risk Factor
Why Every Organization Needs Big Bets, Bold Characters, and the Occasional Spectacular Failure
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Our most revered business icons of the last few decades are the bold risktakers, such as Richard Branson, Elon Musk, and Steve Jobs. Yet in today's stock market-driven economy, companies are playing it safe, with too many leaders focused on short-term gains, rather than value creation. The result...
by Don Debelak
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR THE RIGHT SITUATION—EVERY TIME
Your new business strategy isn’t going to sell itself. It’s up to you to convince top decision makers to take the organization in the right direction. This is the most important presentation of your career, and your choice of words and...
IT Business Partnerships: A Field Guide
Paving the Way for Business and Technology Convergence
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
"A must-read for any IT leader." As a career CIO and founder of CIOMentor, Joseph Topinka draws on his own experiences implementing IT Business Partnership Programs to present an actionable, how-to field guide to true business technology convergence. IT Business Partners: A Field Guide will help you...
Managing IT as a Business
A Survival Guide for CEOs
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
With Managing IT as a Business you'll get practical advice on how to unleash the full potential of this critical function so that companies can derive maximum benefit. It offers a proven plan for bridging the gap between CEOs and CIOs that has, until now, impeded their ability to work together in...
The Analytical Marketer
How to Transform Your Marketing Organization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
How to lead the change
Analytics are driving big changes, not only in what marketing departments do but in how they are organized, staffed, led, and run. Leaders are grappling with issues that range from building an analytically driven marketing organization and determining the kinds of structure...
by Harvard Business Review, Thomas H. Lee, Daniel Goleman
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals.
If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones for healthcare...
Lords of Strategy
The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2010
Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy.
Remarkably, fifty years ago that's the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering...
by Harvard Business Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2018
The essential guide for managers to learn how to think strategically, focus on the big picture, and develop the mindset they need to be ready to step up to leadership.
Shows managers how to develop their strategic thinking skills and integrate strategic thinking into their daily work.
Provide...
Transform and Thrive - A step by step guide for successful execution of transformation projects and programs
A step by step guide to successfully executing organization transformation projects and programs'
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2017
This book is aimed at increasing the success rate of transformation projects and programs. It focuses on providing project management practitioners and business leaders with the qualitative information and knowledge to deliver the envisaged ‘value’ to organizations by successfully executing transformation...
by John Tennent, Graham Friend, The Economist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Full of practical help on how to build the best, most flexible, and easy-to-use business models that can be used to analyze the upsides and downsides of any business project, this new edition of the Guide to Business Modeling is essential reading for the twenty-first century business leader. This...