Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The Wide Lens
What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
How can great companies do everything right - identify real customer needs, deliver excellent innovations, beat their competitors to market - and still fail?
The sad truth is that many companies fail because they focus too intensely on their own innovations, and then neglect the innovation...
The Mathematical Corporation
Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
The most powerful weapon in business today is the alliance between the mathematical smarts of machines and the imaginative human intellect of great leaders. Together they make the mathematical corporation, the business model of the future*.*
We are at a once-in-a-decade breaking point similar...
Fast/Forward
Make Your Company Fit for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The leading companies of the past twenty years have all harnessed the power of information to gain competitive advantage. But as access to big data becomes ubiquitous, it can no longer guarantee a leg up. Fast/Forward makes the case that we are entering a new era in which firms that understand the...
The Upside
The 7 Strategies for Turning Big Threats into Growth Breakthroughs
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Today, when your fortunes can literally change overnight, the new strategic imperative is making your moment of maximum risk your moment of maximum opportunity. In The Upside, Adrian Slywotzky provides bold and original ideas for growth breakthroughs as well as the practical tools to use Monday morning,...
Managing People & Performance
Fast Track to Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
A top team needs top players, but successful managers also know how to get the best possible performance out of every member of their team, whatever their personality or skill set. To build a high performance team you need to know your team members individually and be able to motivate them to work together...
The Leadership Contract Field Guide
The Personal Roadmap to Becoming a Truly Accountable Leader
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Commit to great leadership and implement it today
The Leadership Contract Field Guide provides a practical blueprint for implementing the Leadership Contract. Reading is one thing, but new ideas cannot be useful until they are put into practice—so now it is time to commit. Review the major...
The Vulnerability of Corporate Reputation
Leadership for Sustainable Long-Term Value
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The Vulnerability of Corporate Reputation explores the role that reputation plays in the success and failures of companies. This book focuses on the traditional topic of reputation risk management, the process of reputation, reputational excellence and examines leaders whose reputation and foresight could benefit the organization they steer.
The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise
Volume 1: Africa and Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise. Through a systematic review of each country, this quick-to-access reference guide showcases the similarities and differences in each region. Every...
The Alignment Factor
Leveraging the Power of Total Stakeholder Support
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
The importance of creating a favourable impression is hard to overstate in all walks of life - in business it's vital to achieve strategic goals. Customers, journalists, bloggers, investors, governments and other groups are all important stakeholders in an organizations performance and in persuasively...
Bubbleology
The Amazing Science of Stock Market Bubbles
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2002
There are only two types of stocks: those safe from bubbles and those that are not. This is a fact of investing many discovered as they saw their fabulous gains whittled away by the extreme calamity of the Internet sector.
But what about the future? Is there a way for investors to capture the...
Supply Chain Management
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
In order to keep up with the constant changes in technology, business have adopted supply chain management to improve competitive strategies on a strategic and operational level. Supply Chain Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a reference collection which highlights the...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Providing a central organization for shared information, large businesses continue to rely on enterprise information systems to offer quality service when deadline with large volumes of data. Competition, Strategy, and Modern Enterprise Information Systems provides extensive coverage on the organizational,...
Business Partnerships and Organizational Performance
The Role of Resources and Capabilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
In the rapidly changing business world, only a small percentage of firms are able to survive and prosper despite recessions, industrial evolutions and economic changes. An often-asked question is: What determines a firm’s sustainable competitive advantage? One of the most popular competitive strategies...
Strategic Management
A Stakeholder Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach was first published in 1984 as a part of the Pitman series in Business and Public Policy. Its publication proved to be a landmark moment in the development of stakeholder theory. Widely acknowledged as a world leader in business ethics and strategic management,...