Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Strategic Planning

Jerry's perplexed. He's about to get a five million dollar order, which means a lot to his $22 million company. But he's not happy. Lately, it seems like the more the company sells, the more money it loses.

CONUNDRUM: a complex problem

Infrastructure is the right combination of management, planning and systems that enables top performing companies to execute what they plan.

The conundrum for troubled or average companies is:

"If a company can't execute because of "lack" of infrastructure, how does a company execute the steps it needs to take in order to "develop"...

"Aligned Yellow Bricks" demonstrates the critical need for strategic vision when creating and maintaining balanced organizational structures and aligned workplace activities. Author Bob Woodward illustrates the effectiveness of this approach by citing descriptive examples from the mythical Professor Marvel Manufacturing Corporation to better-known business giants including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, and General Electric.

The framework for establishing goal-based structural alignment and building a strategic roadmap can be found in the following questions: What are the primary...

Con-sis-ten-cy n 1: degree of firmness or resistance to movement 2: measure of harmony, regularity or steady continuity 3: harmony of conduct or practice with the plan

Is the frustration of executing consistent business plans becoming a burden? Whether you're the manager of a small company or the CEO of a large public firm, author Mark Turner provides real techniques and solutions to help identify and eliminate what he calls "The Consistency Gap."

"The Consistency Gap" focuses on two key elements that have the power to unravel all the devotion and dedication in any enterprise:...

Doing business in China requires attention to a broad range of issues. While many executives focus on local conditions, others train their eyes on regional and national developments. By painting a picture of the entire Chinese landscape, this book provides western corporate decision makers with tools for crafting a sustainable China business strategy. The comprehensive analyses presented herein will not only enable business executives to rationalize their China investment but also help them communicate their China business plan to stakeholders, building corporate consensus and support....

The tools of business are dynamic-capital, people, markets and ideas-all are living entities in a constant state of flux. To take these tools-to work with them and reorganize them in new and different ways to produce a positive effect in your life and your organization-is the essence of the creative process. How to get there? This work will provide a working map for the journey toward your own potential. 'A lucid gateway to Joseph Campbell's monomyth of the hero's journey, particularly as it can be applied to one's career. Ginger Grant is an excellent interpreter of this invaluable but...

Advanced praise for "10 Steps to Success"- '.outstanding, insightful and very timely for the newer agent. It also serves as a reminder to the veteran agent as well. Your ideas are easily understood and should be accepted by those who read the book. This should help many " -David Carter, sales director, "Midland East American Family Insurance Group"

Learn how to be a successful insurance agent with the simple techniques in "10 Steps to Success." Author Daniel S. Fowler utilizes his thirty years of experience in the insurance business to illustrate how to work smarter rather than harder...

Whether you are the sole proprietor of a small professional services firm or a business development manager with a corporate giant, the chances are good that lead generation is at the top of your list of marketing priorities. For most businesses, getting new business is challenging and, executed poorly, can consume time and financial resources far more quickly than sales are able to sustain. And it seems to get tougher with every passing year. Competition increases. Choices proliferate. Buyers are savvier, and they have access to more information than ever before. This handbook contains ideas...

Just Noodles takes a different tack on strategic planning and adapts its principles to fit the needs of small business. Strategic theory taught in business schools and used in practice is designed for the Fortune 500 company. However, the theory is the same and equally applies to both the corporate giant and the family business. This text compiles relevant economic, strategic and game theory principles and explains them in a useful and understandable format for the small business. Theoretical knowledge is coupled with experience and insight to offer steps used in finding solutions to problems...

"Aligned Yellow Bricks" demonstrates the critical need for strategic vision when creating and maintaining balanced organizational structures and aligned workplace activities. Author Bob Woodward illustrates the effectiveness of this approach by citing descriptive examples from the mythical Professor Marvel Manufacturing Corporation to better-known business giants including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, and General Electric.

The framework for establishing goal-based structural alignment and building a strategic roadmap can be found in the following questions: What are the primary...

Con-sis-ten-cy n 1: degree of firmness or resistance to movement 2: measure of harmony, regularity or steady continuity 3: harmony of conduct or practice with the plan

Is the frustration of executing consistent business plans becoming a burden? Whether you're the manager of a small company or the CEO of a large public firm, author Mark Turner provides real techniques and solutions to help identify and eliminate what he calls "The Consistency Gap."

"The Consistency Gap" focuses on two key elements that have the power to unravel all the devotion and dedication in any enterprise:...

Doing business in China requires attention to a broad range of issues. While many executives focus on local conditions, others train their eyes on regional and national developments. By painting a picture of the entire Chinese landscape, this book provides western corporate decision makers with tools for crafting a sustainable China business strategy. The comprehensive analyses presented herein will not only enable business executives to rationalize their China investment but also help them communicate their China business plan to stakeholders, building corporate consensus and support....

Surfing the Edge of Chaos is a brilliant, powerful, and practical book about the parallels between business and nature--two fields that feature nonstop battles between the forces of tradition and the forces of transformation. It offers a bold new way of thinking about and responding to the personal and strategic challenges everyone in business faces these days.

This path-breaking new textbook brings together the two key areas of business policy and industrial economics to provide students with a powerful new framework for understanding the factors which influence a firm's choice of strategy and the market consequences of these strategic choices.
An ideal text for students of business strategy and industrial economics. A lecturer's manual is available free of charge to adopters.

Strategic Management is a new and up to the minute text and cases book for students of strategy based on combined new editions of the highly successful, Business Policy and Cases in Business Policy. Including six new chapters and an extensive selection of new cases, Stategic Managemnent retains the consise and accessible approach of the previous editors of the text and cases.
The text is designed to give a clear and attractive introduction to the subject of strategy and business policy and all the material presented has been tried and tested on a variety of...

Images of Strategy develops an innovative and multi-faceted approach to strategic management which will enable students to use and develop interesting and wide-ranging applications alongside some of the latest ideas and analysis.

• An innovative and multi-functional approach to strategic management.
• Approaches strategy from different viewpoints: functional, eg technology and systems management, marketing, accounting and HRM, and analytical, eg organization theory, game theory and knowledge management
• Helps students to analyse, integrate and apply the...

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

A major work of history, The Great Tax Wars is the gripping, epic story of six decades of often violent conflict over wealth, power, and fairness that gave America the income tax. It's the story of a tumultuous period of radical change, from Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War through the progressive era under Theodore Roosevelt and ending with Woodrow Wilson and World War I. During these years of upheaval, America was transformed from an agrarian society into a mighty industrial nation, great fortunes were amassed, farmers and workers rebelled, class war was narrowly averted, and...

Strategy Safari, the international bestseller on business strategy by leading management thinker Henry Mintzberg and his colleagues Bruce Ahlstrand and Joseph Lampel, is widely considered a classic work in the field.

No other book synthesizes the entire history and evolution of strategic management in so lively and entertaining a fashion. Since the initial publication of Strategy Safari, managers, consultants, and academics all over the world have found this book an indispensable and delightful tool--it has been translated into more than ten languages, including Chinese,...