Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The Network Challenge (Chapter 15)
The Business Model as the Engine of Network-Based Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
Zott and Amit explore the role of business models in creating value through networks. They review earlier, firm-centric views of value creation, including Porter’s value chain, the resource-based view, and the transaction costs approach. They point out that business models go well beyond classic views...
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Post-Financial Crisis Era
CSR Conceptualisations and International Practices in Times of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Bringing together normative and instrumental CSR conceptualizations, practice based examples and international case studies, this edited volume brings together important contributions on the conceptualizations of CSR post financial crisis. Including coverage of a variety of practices in developing...
Hope Is Not a Method
What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Since the end of the Cold War, the United States Army has been reengineered and downsized more thoroughly than any other business. In the early 1990s, General Sullivan, army chief of staff, and Colonel Harper, his key strategic planner, took the post-Cold War army into the Information Age. Faced with...
Firms of Endearment
How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
Today’s best companies get it. From retail to finance and industries in between, the organizations who recognize that doing good is good business are becoming the ultimate value creators. They’re changing their culture and generating every form of value that matters: emotional, experiential, social,...
by Dev Patnaik, Jagdish N. Sheth, Rajendra S. Sisodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy , first edition, explains how companies can challenge themselves to meet their customers more than halfway. The author's original approach walks helps readers shift their thinking and their companies' thinking beyond the borders...
Let Go To Grow
Escaping the Commodity Trap
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2005
Management Made Simple
Ideas of a former McKinsey Partner
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
Our societies have come to the end of the road. We need a fundamental reconstruction of the
systems and institutions that now govern us and redefine the roles of all the players with a stronger focus on making things work by respecting the human dimension. This is not a choice between socialism, and...
Managing Corporate Communications in the Age of Restructuring, Crisis and Litigation
Revisiting Groupthink in the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Corporate executives, lawyers, and board of directors suffer from groupthink when confronted with a crisis, restructuring or litigation, which results in a communications meltdown that hurts a company’s number one asset—its reputation. This failure to understand how to communicate in distressed situations...
by Stephen P. Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
In the Third Edition of the bestselling book, The Truth About Managing People, bestselling author Stephen Robbins shares even more proven principles for handling virtually every management challenge. Robbins delivers 61 real solutions for the make-or-break problems faced by every manager. Readers...
by Harvard Business Review, John P. Kotter, Michael E. Porter
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How can management cure health care’s ills? This digital collection, curated by Harvard Business Review, includes the ideas and best practices for transforming health care in these books and articles: Leading Change, Redefining Health Care, The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care,” HBR’s 10...
by Yves Levant, Olivier De La Villarmois
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Une formation d’ingénieur, la participation aux deux guerres mondiales, des inventions aussi diverses qu’une pédale pour automobile ou une méthode d’évaluation des coûts, voilà résumée en quelques mots la vie de Georges Perrin (1891-1958). Le destin de Georges Perrin est même lié à...
Effective Multi-Unit Leadership
Local Leadership in Multi-Site Situations
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
There is a growing recognition of the increasing importance of ’local leadership’ practice within multi-unit service contexts, given the threat to costly land-based retail infrastructures from smart technologies. Multi-site organizations are economically significant, but currently under-researched...
by Charles Babcock
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
Increase efficiency while saving money with “on-demand” computing
The biggest game-changing force in business since the creation of the Internet, cloud computing simplifies and lowers the cost of operations while providing flexibility and power you never dreamed possible. Make your strategic...
Corporate Level Strategy
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
The challenges faced by diversified corporations—firms that operate in more than one industry or market—have changed over the years. In this new edition, Olivier Furrer helps students of corporate strategy to consider the impact of critical changes in resources, businesses and headquarters roles...