Business strategy

How can businesses transform to achieve competitive advantage in a digital-enabled world?

SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Change & SustainabilityThe ability to renew competitive advantage with flexibility is essential for any business in today's turbulent world.

Approach the future as a conversation, not a declaration.

Effective evaluation and measurement of learning and development initiatives is critical to maximise the impact of training, identify gaps for improvement and ensure that efforts are aligned to the business' needs.

Conduct risk is at the core of behavioural regulation, a new approach to regulating financial services, whose new agencies and public prosecutors have spread rapidly across the world.

Analyze, plan and manage profitable channels to market with this economic framework, ensuring maximum leverage of channel partners at every stage of the go-to-market process, with this fully revised third edition of the global bestseller, Distribution Channels - an essential toolkit for strategizing new and existing routes to market.

Approach the future as a conversation, not a declaration.

In theory, the Internet allows all brands to market internationally.

Professional services firms - from the legal sector to accountancy, consulting and beyond - face increased disruption.

The definitive, classic account of the fall of the House of Baring and the ultimate rogue trader Nick Leeson.

First published in 1994 and now available as an ebook.

The consequences of a primary focus on shareholders over the last few decades has emphasized that that a new model of value creation is necessary.

Marketing has changed dramatically since the four classic Ps of the marketing mix (price, product, promotion and place) were proposed.

In today's hyper-connected world, any brand with a website or digital presence is 'global' by its very definition; yet in practice it takes an enormous amount of strategic planning and adaptability to successfully manage an international brand.

WINNER: CILIP's Knowledge and Information Management Award 2019 - Information Resources Print CategoryThe way an organization manages and disseminates its knowledge is key to informed business decision-making, effectiveness and competitive edge.

A supply chain is the process of all parties involved in fulfilling a customer request, while a value chain is a set of interrelated activities a company uses to create value and a competitive advantage.

FINALIST: Business Book Awards 2020 - HR & Management CategoryIn order to achieve sustainable competitive advantage, businesses need to unlock the skills, talent and capabilities of their people, both individually and collectively.

Who is McLaren's greatest nemesis?

WINNER: Independent Press Award 2020 - Technology CategoryBlockchain is the technology behind bitcoin and other crypto-currencies.

Disruptive technologies have the power to upend supply chains, adding uncertainty, cost, and complexity to any business.

How many presentations on innovation have there been recently?

Disruptive forces have rewritten the rules of business.

Sales enablement is a proven system for increasing revenue and productivity by creating integrated content, training and coaching for the sales function.

Implementing Key Account Management is a highly practical handbook that guides readers through the realities of rolling out a functional key account management programme.

Supply chains, including logistics, are the functional elements of an organisation's operations.

Managing changes to the supply chain comes with its unique challenges.

We are living in an age of continual motion and change, and as a result traditional strategy planning has become outmoded.

Practical Enterprise Risk Management addresses the real need for organizations to take more managed risks in order to maximize business strategies and achieve long term goals.

Creating a successful strategy, and the process of strategic thinking, is key to the growth plans of all businesses.

All organizations recognise the importance of strategy creation and execution: strategy is the process of developing the corporate future.

Few business strategy books talk about brand management and talent management under the same cover.

Risk management is not just a topic for risk professionals.

A good business model should describe how an organization creates and delivers value, meaning that financial modelling is a vital tool for business strategy, allowing hypotheses and scenarios to be translated into numbers.

A business continuity management system (BCMS) is a management framework that prepares the organization by developing business continuity strategies to meet its business and statutory obligations during an incident.

The Strategic Planning Workbook is an invaluable, ready-to-use guide to creating and implementing a strategic plan.

Every successful business starts with a clear, convincing plan.

One of the key success factors for any organization is effective strategic change - to ensure adaptability and increase productivity.

New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how do you create the right conditions for innovation?

Originally published in 1998.

Do you want to find the inspiration, passion and enthusiasm to become extraordinary?

Everything you need to know to become a first-class letter writer.

'Bower's book is a devastating indictment' Sunday Times'Explosive .

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2021 - LeadershipBestselling and award-winning author duo Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren are calling it out.

In a noisy, fast-paced marketing world, customer insight holds the key to creating memorable, purpose-driven marketing.

DISTINGUISHED FAVORITE: NYC Big Book Award 2021 - Marketing & PRMany organizations and leaders struggle to respond effectively to fast-evolving customer expectations driven by innovations in products, services and technologies such as AI and mobile.

Leading tech companies such as Netflix, Amazon and Uber use data science and machine learning at scale in their core business processes, whereas most traditional companies struggle to expand their machine learning projects beyond a small pilot scope.

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A lively, engaging and counterintuitive exploration of success stories from across the globe, and what Michelle Obama referred to as 'the flimsy difference between success and failure'.

Having a customer-centric business model has evolved from being a nice-to-have to a must-have for any organization.

While technology and geopolitical forces change the face of business today, the patterns and challenges of organizing humans to work together across organization, culture, language and time zone boundaries remain.