Business and Management

Engaged employees are more productive, motivated and resilient, yet gaining financial support to develop engagement is harder than ever as budgets are being squeezed and everyone is being asked to do more with less.

Lateral thinking can help you transform your ability to generate ideas, unlock the creative potential of your team and make your organization more innovative.

Securing sponsorship and other sources of funding for events is becoming increasingly competitive, making differentiation and delivery vital.

Many manufacturing and distribution companies are moving from the traditional 'forecast push MRP' to demand-driven supply chain management (SCM).

Motivated staff are the lifeblood of every business.

Malcolm McDonald on Key Account Management explores the challenges of winning, retaining and developing key accounts.

Logistics and supply chains play a vital role in the overall success of retail management.

Using e-business technologies to manage supply chains increases the efficiency and performance of logistics, production, distribution and other related activities.

The growth of the Internet has had a profound effect on the way business is carried out, and has provided an unprecedented opportunity for third-party individuals and organisations to attack brands with relative ease.

Contract management is a key management skill, yet it is underplayed in most organizations, which usually default to project management skills as a proxy for contract management skills.

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

The Employer's Handbook 2017-18 has established itself as a source of reliable, unambiguous guidance for all small- to medium-sized employers in the UK, clearly identifying the legal essentials and best-practice guidelines for effective people management.

In order to buy well it is important to understand a few basic principles and apply a series of tools and approaches in given situations.

In a world of political and economic uncertainty where stress and unhappiness are on the rise, improving employee wellbeing has never been more important.

A primer for marketing professionals and students, the second edition of Malcolm McDonald On Marketing Planning provides a clear guide to marketing planning.

The management of logistics and supply chain operations is of vital importance in the defence sector.

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.

Inspirational leaders make us want to achieve more.

Project managers leading international projects must deliver value and align the project outcomes to the wider strategic goals of the organization.

The pressure on professional service firms and their professionals has never been higher.

The role of a contracting professional begins well before the award of a contract and doesn't end until the benefits of the acquisition have been realised, long after the deliverables arrive in a box on a loading dock.

Advanced Customer Analytics provides a clear guide to the specific analytical challenges faced by the retail sector.

The TV Brand Builders is the definitive account of how the biggest television networks, channels and programmes are created as brands, with rare privileged access to the marketing strategies and creative thinking behind culturally defining TV promos, digital and social media campaigns and design identities.

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.

It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models.

Advertising Transformed is the ultimate guide to advertising in the 21st century.

This book is about action, results and leadership.

With the rate of change in organizations at an all-time high, the need for strong organization design has never been more pressing.

One of the hallmarks of maturity as a coach is awareness of how your values, beliefs, and other factors affect your coaching interventions.

Group Coaching is everything you need to run successful coaching sessions effectively.

There's a well-known saying: what doesn't get measured doesn't get done.

Price is the most significant factor affecting the profitability of every business, profit centre or department.

The Lean Practitioner's Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and concepts of Lean and the practical use of the tools.

In a working life of 35 years, a manager can expect to make at least 10 job changes - or transitions - where the demands for rapid business delivery and effective leadership will only increase with each new job.

Imagine a workplace where people are energized and motivated by being in control of the work they do.

With a growing demand for psychometric testing in the coaching profession, coaches and practitioners alike need to understand the psychology underpinning the tests as well as how to select and apply them effectively.

While substantial advances have been made in the L&D profession over the last decade, evaluation remains by far the weakest part of the L&D cycle.

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

Anyone involved in sales faces huge challenges these days, from fierce global competition and increased pressure on margins to the power of internet-savvy buyers and difficulties with getting time with prospective buyers.

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

The training and development needs of any workforce vary dramatically between the generations and levels even so far as the style of communication needed to be effective.

The Winning Bid is an easy-to-read practical guide which will teach the reader how to think like a professional bid manager.

A recent report for the CIPD indicated that stress is now the more common cause of long-term sick leave in the UK for the first time ever.

What do Coca-Cola, McDonald's, IBM, Microsoft and Virgin all have in common?

Facilitating Reflective Learning: Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision is written by two leading experts in the field.

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

The Mindful International Manager tackles the management situations that international managers have to handle every day.

Operating under tight budget constraints and with an ever-increasing range of tools and technologies to choose from, PR professionals have never been under so much pressure to justify their decisions.

Ethical Leadership shines a light on the role of both culture and ethics in organizations by making the issues more transparent, accessible and above all, connected.