Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The Attacker's Advantage
Turning Uncertainty into Breakthrough Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
The phenomenon of uncertainty is not new; what is new is its intensity and potential to change industries and destroy companies. Business leaders can be on the defensive, or they can be on offense, prepared to lead decisively. The ability to deal with uncertainty is perhaps the paramount skill leaders...
by Ant Hive Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
This is a Summary of Jim Collins and Jerry Porras' Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary CompaniesDrawing upon a six-year research project at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras took eighteen truly exceptional and long-lasting...
Understanding Novelty in Organizations
A Research Path Across Agency and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Providing a first tentative understanding of novelty and a set of implications for organizations to manage it, this book focuses on the potential offered by emergent novelty, namely novelty which is neither designed nor pursued. The author asks how organizations might increase their abilities and...
Intelligent Enterprise
A Knowledge and Service Based Paradigm for Industr
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 1992
In this penetrating study of how knowledge-based services and technology are revolutionizing the economy and every corporate strategy, James Brian Quinn argues that the successful companies of the 90's -- whether in manufacturing or services -- will derive their competitive edge not from ephemerally...
Competing for a Sustainable World
Building Capacity for Sustainable Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Sustainable innovation requires more than a clear vision and commitment. It requires effective execution and implementation based on an ongoing systematic process of engaging stakeholders to generate the evolving information critical for guiding decision-making, developing and implementing business...
Enterprise Risk Management
A Common Framework for the Entire Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Enterprise Risk Management: A Common Framework for the Entire Organization discusses the many types of risks all businesses face. It reviews various categories of risk, including financial, cyber, health, safety and environmental, brand, supply chain, political, and strategic risks and many others....
Unknown Values and Stakeholders
The Pro-Business Outcome and the Role of Competition
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
This second edition demonstrates that there are more conditions and actors prevalent in the economy than are considered today, and builds a balanced view of responsibility that would not be shunned by corporate executives. The wider economic responsibilities of organizations have been identified for...
by Michael A. Hitt, Susan E. Jackson, Salvador Carmona
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Many strategies fail not because they are improperly formulated but because they are poorly implemented. The Oxford Handbook of Strategy Implementation examines the crucial role of implementation in how business and managerial strategies produce returns. In this wide-ranging collection of essays,...
by Sir Cary L. Cooper, Sydney Finkelstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Advances in Mergers and Acquisitions stands out from the competition due to its focus on three key characteristics: studies from scholars in different countries, with different research questions, relying on different theoretical perspectives. Such a broad and inclusive approach to mergers and acquisitions...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
These ten chapters explore sequential aspects of the M & A process, from the pre-combination phase, to issues that should be taken into account when considering a merger or acquisition, to post-merger integration concerning the determinants of acquisition performance.
by Belen Villalonga
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Strategy and finance are closely interrelated in the practice of management. With the increased informational demands resulting from regulatory changes such as Sarbanes Oxley and Regulation Fair Disclosure, the boundary between the roles of CEO and CFO has become blurred. Moreover, the global financial...
Next Generation Business Strategies for the Base of the Pyramid
New Approaches for Building Mutual Value, Portable Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
More and more enterprises are seeking to craft winning "base of the pyramid" (BoP) ventures, serving the world's four billion poorest customers while alleviating poverty at the same time. Early first-generation ventures focused primarily on selling products to this massive and growing under-served...
Greening the Supply Chain
A Guide for Asian Managers
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
This book deals with a major environmental concern across the globe: to ensure sustainable environment development along with efficiency across businesses. It explores how different types of environmentally sustainable practices should be adopted at different stages of supply chains. It details how...
by Nikos Mourkogiannis
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
In Purpose, world-renowned thought leader Nikos Mourkogiannis turns the entire idea of leadership on its head and shows that the choice between values and success is no choice at all. Mourkogiannis argues that companies must satisfy the need for purpose--a set of values that defines an organization...