Authors: Adrian J. Slywotzky.
Hardcover, 326 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 1996-01


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    According to Slywotzky, value migration is the flow of economic and shareholder value away from an increasingly outmoded business design toward others that are better equipped to create utility for customers and profit for the company. This book describes the skills that managers will need to identify value shifts in their own industries and to craft the key moves that will determine their ability to achieve and sustain value growth....

Authors: Hugh Courntney. Jane Kirlsnd. Patrick Viguerie. De Geus Arie P.. Claton M. Christensen.
Paperback, 218 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 1999-02
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    This book presents leading minds and landmark ideas in an easily accessible format. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, "The Harvard Business Review Paperback" series delivers the fundamental information today's professionals need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. "Harvard Business Review on Managing Uncertainty" presents leading-edge ideas to help managers make strategic decisions in an increasingly uncertain world. It includes the landmark piece "Competing for the Future" by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. It is a "Harvard Business Review" paperback....

Authors: Dana Gaines Robinson. James C Robinson.
Paperback, 349 pages
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Publication Date: 1996-01-01


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    The traditional training process confuses training activity with performance improvement by focusing on employees' learning needs, rather than on their performance needs. Traditional programs focus on developing excellent learning experiences, while failing to ensure that the newly acquired skills are transferred to the job. Thus, to be effective, training professionals must become "performance consultants, " shifting their focus from training delivery to the performance of the company and its individual contributors. Dana & Jim Robinson describe an approach suitable for use in any organizational setting or industry and with any content area. Dozens of useful tools, illustrative exercises, and a case study that threads through the book show how the techniques described are applied in an organizational setting....

Authors: William Rosenberg.
Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Lebhar-Friedman Books
Publication Date: 2001-11-25


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    It all started when Bill Rosenberg took a leap of faith and bet his future on a donut....

Authors: Deena B Katz.
Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Bloomberg Press
Publication Date: 2009-01-14


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    Deena Katz is a true leader in the financial planning community. The author of two of the best-selling practice-management books for advisers and a popular keynote speaker at industry conferences, she is also chairman of Evensky & Katz, one of the top planning firms in the country. Now Katzs acclaimed Deena Katz on Practice Management and Deena Katz's Tools and Templates for Your Practice have been combined and expanded into one updated volume that gives advisers access to the industry's leading insights and innovations from the best practices of her own firm and those of other nationally known advisers....

Authors: Kees van der Heijden.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date: 1996-10-24
Edition: 1

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    "Kees van der Heijden has written the most comprehensive, detailed and insightful guide to understanding the business environment in a way most useful to business. No one has mastered the art of bringing that insight to bear in the real world of business with greater depth than Kees." Peter Schwartz, Chairman, Global Business Network; author of The Art of the Long View.

The only constants in the current business environment are turbulence and change. When initially developed at Royal Dutch/Shell, scenario planning helped companies understand external change — change in markets, the competitive arena, technology, demographics and so on. In this book, Kees van der Heijden takes the art of scenario planning one giant step further. After showing you how to understand how the world around you is changing, he then shows you how to move your organization to meet the future by linking scenario thinking and your Business Idea in an ongoing strategic conversation. The result is a learning organization with the finely honed ability to track the marketplace and business environment. How Scenarios will help you think through the way forward, and keep you thinking as you move.

• Understand the basis of an organizations success — articulate its central business idea
• Break out of the organizations restrictive "thinking box" — take a wider perspective, scenaric view
• Develop scenarios as alternative ways of interpreting the present — see beyond current range of vision
• Become clearer about the many apparently unrelated developments — build a systemic framework using a story line
• Be more secure with the future — understand uncertainty
• Do it by using a practical methodology
• Nurture and sustain an ongoing strategic conversation throughout the organization

"The span of this book is unusually wide: it goes from the philosophy of scenario thinking to the minute practicalities of how to do it. This book is, in my view, the best guide in a field where it is easy to go astray and where guidance is precious." Pierre Wack, Former Head of Scenario Planning, Royal Dutch/Shell...

Authors: Cynthia Scott.
Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Crisp Learning
Publication Date: 1993-07-26
Edition: 1

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    The leader of today has a vision for tomorrow: a vision that is clear, achievable, motivating, and exciting. Managing by vision allows an organization to create its future. This book shows managers how to develop organizational vision, values, and mission to build team spirit and productivity....

Authors: B. Joseph Pine.
Hardcover, 333 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 1992-11
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The mass production of standardized goods was the source of America's economic strength for generations and became the model for successful industries. Today, that model is a major cause of the nation's declining competitiveness. As Joe Pine makes clear, innovative companies are embracing a new paradigm of management - mass customization - that allows them to create greater variety and customization in their products and services at competitive prices, or better. He explains mass customization in its historical context, demonstrates why mass production cannot work in turbulent industries, and outlines how new forms of competition have led to greater variety and customization. Based upon academic and field research, his work is a thoughtful analysis and commentary on when and how managers in both service and manufacturing industries can make the transition to mass customization. He details the strategies, methods, and organizational transformations required to develop, produce, market, and deliver individually customized goods and services, and shows managers how to analyze their own industries to determine if they should shift to mass customization....

Authors: Tim Phillips.
Paperback, 246 pages
Publisher: Kogan Page
Publication Date: 2007-05-01


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    Knockoff exposes the truth behind the fakes and uncovers the shocking consequences of dealing in counterfeit goods. Traveling across the globe, Tim Phillips shows that counterfeiting isn't a victimless crime; it is an illegal global industry undermining the world's economies. Based on interviews with victims, investigators, and the people who sell counterfeits, Knockoff reveals the link between what we see as "innocent" fakes and organized crime. Phillips describes in detail how the counterfeiters' criminal network costs jobs, cripples developing countries, breeds corruption and violence, and kills thousands of people every year. He shows that by turning a blind eye to the problem, we become accomplices to theft, extortion, and murder....

Authors: Franklin Becker. Fritz Steele.
Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publication Date: 1995-04-21
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Create workspace that supports business strategies

Space is an organization's second most valuable asset. Yet little attention is paid to how it supports the new ways in which today's organizations operate---teamwork, flattened hierarchies, telecommuting, collaborating across functions. Workplace by Design shows CEOs and managers alike how to put aside and rethink conventional, awkward notions of space utilization based on hierarchy and status--notions that pit people against each other in turf wars, tear apart teams, and tie up company cash. Using illustrative examples from Digital Equipment Corporation, Steelcase, and others, the authors show how team environments, non-territorial offices and other strategies can support business objectives, energize employees, and produce a more competitive organization....