Business strategy

Project managers tend to believe their cost estimates - whether they have exceeded budgets in the past or not.

Why Prediction Markets Are Good for BusinessFrom selecting the lead actress in a Broadway musical, to predicting a crucial delay in the delivery of Boeings 787 Dreamliner months before the CEO knew about it, to accurately forecasting US presidential electionsprediction markets have realized some amazing successes by aggregating the wisdom of crowds.

This book describes the next generation of business applications in the innovative new SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA (SAP S/4HANA), exploiting the revolutionary capabilities of the SAP HANA in-memory database.

This is the first detailed view of the managerial accountant's role and responsibilities in organization setting.

Filled with stories of successful social change leadership in diverse contexts, this book demonstrates that the best change agents love the people involved most of all.

Virtual teams can be traced back to the 1990s with the debauched development of communication technologies as well as the fast extension of the internet.

One book for the entire journey: How to digitally transform your organization Innovation in the face of major external change is critical for any organization's success, but attempting to do so often leads to more questions than actions: Where do you start?

Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion.

Your go-to-guide to delivering effective and transformative change that lasts All too often, change efforts fail to deliver on their promise.

This book provides detailed examination of start-up companies which entered the smartphone industry following the revolution triggered by Apple with its iPhone in 2007.

Practical Customer Success Management is a complete "e;handbook for CSMs"e;, written by a customer success expert who has coached and trained many hundreds of customer success managers across the globe.

Three years ago, the first Liquid Legal book compelled the legal profession to reassess its identity and to aspire to become a strategic partner for corporate executives as well as for clients.

Business and Economics of Port Management is a comprehensive but concise textbook and reference for insights into the workings of port industry from the business and economics perspectives.

Dieses erste deutsche Standardwerk zur „Wirtschaftsästhetik“ analysiert, wie Unternehmen Ästhetik und Kunst als Inspirationsquelle nutzen und als Werkzeug zur Wertschöpfung ein-setzen.

This book addresses the gap between the espoused importance of organizational human capital and how it is actually reported and assessed.

Jobs that were once well-defined are now multifaceted.

Across organisations and communities there are leaders who manage to get things done through their ability to understand how a network of individuals connect, who to talk to and how to bring people together in the right constellation of effort.

In diesem Buch wird, auch anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele, ein in vielen Jahren praktischer Arbeitszeitberatung entstandenes und bewährtes Verfahren zur Entwicklung flexibler Schichtsysteme vorgestellt.

The study of the ethical issues related to computer use developed primarily in the 1980s, although a number of important papers were published in previous decades, many of which are contained in this volume.

The day-to-day world of crude oil traders is not usually open to outsiders.

This innovative book combines theoretical and practical perspectives with the power of storytelling to present a new understanding of leadership as a concept and endeavour in the small business organisation.

This book reviews a range of reports written by fraud examiners after completing internal investigations.

Most books on business strategy approach the subject from a corporate perspective, covering topics such as the vision for the business, the marketplace, competition and differentiation.

Eine große Zahl sanierungsfähiger Familienunternehmen, die sich in einer Krisensituation befinden, gehen in die Insolvenz, weil sich bisweilen Familiengesellschafter den Ratschlägen erfahrener Krisenmanager verschließen.

This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world.

In the global business environment, new organizational forms come and go but in today's multinational corporations the headquarters-subsidiary link remains the primary channel by which the firm is managed.

Since the introduction of the One Belt, One Road initiative (OBOR), first proposed in late 2013, international scholars have begun to study this new policy and its implications in the global age.

This book offers examples and practical advice for analysis conducting assumption-based planning.

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren't truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events.

Equip yourself to navigate organizational politics in the world of software development.

Female Ambition traces the development of women in the workplace, and focuses on a host of critical issues such as current governmental legislation and the family unit, family-responsible companies, personal leadership and the management of time in the workplace and at home.

This book is a comprehensive review of the current state of digital innovation, Internet activity and e-business in the life sciences arena and a practical guide for managers planning, developing and implementing e-strategies in the pharmaceutical industry.

The Chinese characters for "e;danger"e; and "e;opportunity"e; form the word "e;crisis"e;.

In the last ten years, the Resource-Based View (RBV) has become an important theoretical approach in strategic management.

The role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations is increasingly attracting attention.

This book takes a strategic approach and provides a comprehensive review of books and papers about human resource management (HRM) and labor relations management in China, especially since China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001.

Provides a working knowledge of sustainable business development and its key methods and techniques.

Planning and management for tourism growth is becoming essential in the context of sustainable development.

SMEs are significant job creators and drivers of innovation and competition in most economic sectors.

The way in which products and services are delivered to consumers, through branches and retail outlets, or more generally through a network of distribution channels, remains fundamentally important for maintaining a competitive advantage for a very wide range of businesses.

Choosing the right market for your innovation is the biggest, and trickiest, question for innovators.

Over $5 trillion will be spent on technology in the financial services sector in the next three years.