Business strategy

A radical approach to growing high-quality talent--fastYou know that winning in today's marketplace requires top-quality talent.

The Definitive Guide to Doing Business in AfricaFor global and Africa-based companies looking to access new growth markets, Africa offers exciting opportunities to build large, profitable businesses.

The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs.

Essential reading selected from the pages of Harvard Business ReviewYou want the most important ideas on management all in one place.

Is Silence Killing Your Strategy?

Move Beyond Trade-Off ThinkingWhen it comes to our hardest choices, it can seem as though making trade-offs is inevitable.

The best of Peter F.

This collection highlights the most important ideas and concepts from Michael E.

You think you have a winning strategy.

Competencies At Work will equip readers to understand, build, and implement competency models as a foundational and integrating element in talent management systems.

Most individuals who move into leadership positions expe-rience the modern day version of trial by ordeal.

This managerial book goes beyond the traditionalthoughts on this subject.

Strategic Bootstrapping is about helping entrepreneurs sift through the "e;noise"e; regarding bootstrapping a start-up.

So many of us have asked ourselves-what's a business model?

Striving for excellence in customer service is to gain the competitive advantage.

In a world facing economic recession, more and more professionals, teams, organizations, and inter-organizational networks are facing the need to restructure and renew themselves with the primary purpose of profitably to add even higher value to their bottom line.

The word innovation is often used today regarding China, as if the concept were new to the Eastern country.

We live in an increasingly global economy in which the effects of shrunken economies, broadened communication, and widespread meteorological incidents associated with climate change are leaving virtually no one untouched.

Every business aspires to be competitive and profitable in its market.

Finally, a book comes along that provides a unique yet simple and powerful approach to understand the business model and the critical role strategic management has in supporting it.

Research and development (R&D) supply chains are often designed without the process discipline and rigor that typically characterize the development of products emerging from R&D programs.

Nonprofit Organizations need strategies to be effective, but the available tools for making strategy were developed primarily for business organizations.

If you're a manager of a supply chain operation, or a student learning about supply chain management, this book will provide not only an overview of supply chain management but also a framework for subsequent, more detailed study in various aspects of supply management.

This book provides a short, concise overview of lean work design, which sees lean systems as the result of a systematic implementation of appropriate work processes.

Learn time-tested, research-proven practices that generate creativity and innovation, helping you and/or your organization get a leg-up on the competition.

Pricing analytics uses historical sales data with mathematical optimization to set and update prices offered through various channels in order to maximize profit.

Virtually every business seeks to increase its profit from customers, but few business executives realize that a universal principle governs their customer profitability.

This book will focus on the up-front activities required for product and service differentiation, the learning methodologies that contribute to arriving at that differentiation, and the role that technology plays in implementing the process.

Over the next decade, the economies of the Middle East will continue to be characterized by rapid growth, political turmoil, and increasing competitive intensity.

This book explores how naturally connected organizations ( NCOs) can survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world using the principles of natural connectivity, organic growth and collaboration.

This book is about using business intelligence as a management information system for supporting managerial decision making.

The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era.

This book outlines a cost-effective process for dynamic strategic planning in the domain of the small entrepreneurial firm.

Targets are an important part of our work life, whether we are setting them or meeting them.

This book offers an alternative to the traditional approach by focusing on building the change capacity of the entire organization in anticipation of future pressures to change.

Contemporary sales organizations are spending billions of dollars or euros on sales technologies with the objective of streamlining the sales process, enhancing sales force productivity, and improving customer relationships.

Customers are increasingly demanding higher levels of speed and quality, yet leaders often focus mainly on reducing the costs of operations.

This book is designed to meet important needs of each segment; (1) the business plan serves as a means for college students to learn about the major functions of business and how they are interrelated, (2) entrepreneurs need a business plan to provide direction in the organization and launch of a new business and secure initial capital from funding sources, (3) consultants need a user-friendly business plan format to assist clients that have limited or no business experience, and (4) instructors and trainers need a turn-key text with supplements that require no lecture and little prep-time to teach student how to write a business plan.

Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage.

Conversations About Job Performance details the Communication-Centered Approach (CCA) to performance appraisal that is focused on its most challenging part-the appraisal interview.

This book identifies the six key practices of successful internationalists and posits that recognizing them will have a profound effect on corporate mindset and how global companies plan and execute cross-border strategies.

A mythology has arisen in American business that being 'tough' and unreasonable are keys to extracting high productivity from employees.

This book will focus on the fundamental steps of business planning within a managerial accounting framework, those being: (a) the business model, (b) volume and process flow, (c) product and service costing, (d) revenue and pricing, and (e) investment value.

This outstanding new title introduces at a high level the actual relationships between branding, strategy, and corporate performance.

This book outlines a critical approach to developing employee talent within your company-strategy dynamics.

This book uses a balanced blend of frameworks and illustrations to teach you how to tackle the challenge of driving performance into the future.

Doug Hall shares data-proven methods that can make sales, marketing, and business development measurably more effective.

This book is your guide to ensuring future generations know what you know and can apply it in their time.

If you are an entrepreneur starting a new venture, this book provides the information you need to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees.

Stop pushing products-and start cultivating relationships with the right customers.