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

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    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....

Authors: Mark L. Herman. Mark D. Frost.
Hardcover, 264 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2008-11-13
Edition: 1

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    Business is war. Here�s how to win it�with. field-tested strategies from the world�s. leading wargamers at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Today, wargaming is used at the highest levels of government and business to provide leaders with the. sharpest competitive edge--to anticipate the future. and beat the enemy. In Wargaming for Leaders, Mark. Herman, world-renowned wargame developer for. Booz Allen Hamilton with coauthors Frost and Kurz,. explores the strategies learned from wargames. designed and staged for the U.S. Army, global corporations,. and nonprofit groups, revealing how these exercises. have made for significant decisions and. competitve advantage.....

Authors: Jean-Noel Kapferer. Vincent Bastien.
Hardcover, 384 pages
Publisher: Kogan Page
Publication Date: 2009-02-28


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Authors: Charles Grantham. Jim Ware. Cory Williamson.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: AMACOM
Publication Date: 2007-09-12


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    The rules are changing. The work we do - and where and how we do it - is undergoing a revolution. In order to thrive in the global economy, companies need a whole new business model - one that enables them to embrace new technology, understand the ever-changing workforce, and rethink the way they structure traditional work environments. "Corporate Agility" provides the blueprint and shows companies how they can anticipate the needs of these workers and attract and retain the best talent....

Authors:
Hardcover, 414 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2000-01-15
Edition: 2

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    Over 525,000 Copies of the Portable MBA Series Sold

Learn the best new ideas in BUSINESS STRATEGY from the brightest lights in the field

This Second Edition of the phenomenally successful Portable MBA in Strategy brings you the latest developments in strategic thought, analysis, and implementation from an all-star team of teachers, authors, and consultants. Harvard's Michael E. Porter shows you how to enhance competitive advantage through a global strategy. C. K. Prahalad explains how to create and leverage core competencies-a strategy that has led many organizations to overwhelming success. Jeffrey Sampler of the London Business School demonstrates how the Internet and the rapidly evolving e-business economy challenge many of our fundamental ideas about strategy.

H. Kurt Christensen and Anil Gupta map strategy alternatives for the corporate organization and its business units. Irene Duhaime demonstrates the relevance of strategy for small businesses. And John F. Mahon, Barbara Bigelow, and Liam Fahey explore political strategy-the need to manage relationships with the concerned segments of the public, trade associations, governmental agencies, community groups, and other stakeholders.

You'll find penetrating insights about strategy-making from David Collis of Yale, George Day of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Ellen Hart of Gemini Consulting, and many others. To take advantage of the newest, most innovative, most effective ideas in business strategy from minds that thrive on the cutting edge, start reading The Portable MBA in Strategy, Second Edition today....

Authors: Yves L. Doz. Jose Santos. Peter Williamson.
Hardcover, 258 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 2001-11-15
Edition: 1st

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    Becoming a global company once meant penetrating markets around the world. But the demands of the knowledge economy are turning this strategy on its head. Today, the challenge is to innovate by learning from the world . This book provides a blueprint for companies ready to embrace this new globalization challenge. In "From Global to Metanational", international business and strategy experts Yves Doz, Jose Santos, and Peter Williamson introduce a radically different kind of company - the metanational - defined by three core capabilities: being the first to identify and capture new knowledge emerging all over the world; mobilizing this globally scattered knowledge to out-innovate competitors; and, turning this innovation into value by producing, marketing, and delivering efficiently on a global scale. The authors explain why traditional global strategies are no longer sufficient to differentiate leading competitors, what the knowledge economy means for managers, and why opportunities to leverage globally dispersed knowledge are growing. Most important, they outline exactly how managers can build a metanational advantage for their own organizations by: prospecting for and accessing untapped pockets of technology and emerging consumer trends from around the world; leveraging knowledge imprisoned in a multinational's local subsidiaries; and, mobilizing this fragmented knowledge to generate innovations, profits, and shareholder value. Drawing from the experiences of pioneering metanationals including STMicroelectronics, ARM, Acer, Nokia, Shiseido, and PolyGram, the book shows how today's multinationals can use their existing global networks to gain an important head start in the global game - and how newcomers can leapfrog traditional competitors by rapidly building a new-style metanational corporation. Must-reading for every leader - from the CEO of a new global venture, to the executive of a currently successful multinational, to the founder of an e-business startup getting ready to 'go global' - this pathbreaking book shows how to reshape strategies to compete and win in the global knowledge economy. Author Bio: Yves Doz is Timken Professor of Global Technology and Innovation at INSEAD. Jose Santos is Professor of International Management at INSEAD. Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management and Asian Business at INSEAD's Euro-Asia Centre....

    "Metanational" is the term that Jose Santos, Peter Williamson, and Yves L. Doz--management and technology professors at the international INSEAD graduate school of business--coined to describe a new type of global corporation. It refers, they explain in From Global to Metanational, to "a company that builds a new kind of competitive advantage by discovering, accessing, mobilizing, and leveraging knowledge from many locations around the world." And as they unveil and dissect the concept, it becomes apparent that it may indeed be an apt description for those worldwide enterprises most likely to succeed in our rapidly changing times. Based on interviews with 36 companies from America, Asia, and Europe (including long-established firms like 3M and Toyota and newcomers like Acer and Shiseido), the authors describe innovative ways to efficiently tap into "pockets of technology, market intelligence and ... specialist knowledge scattered around the world," rather than relying solely on input from a home nation or a few select locales. They explore how trailblazers are identifying this information wherever they find it, parlaying it into new products, services and processes, and merging the result with all sales, distribution, and marketing efforts. Anyone involved in multinational business should find this both provocative and potentially useful. --Howard Rothman...

Authors: Marc H. Meyer. Alvin P. Lehnerd.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Free Press
Publication Date: 1997-03-05


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    Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization among different products and product lines. At last, in this timely book, Marc H. Meyer and Alvin P. Lehnerd provide a formula for turning products into profits, enabling companies to design technologically superior products more easily. Their solution is, in two words, PRODUCT PLATFORMS. They argue that firms must focus their energies on developing families of products simultaneously which share common components and technology.

The authors describe how the champions of product development separate themselves from less sophisticated companies by building entire families of strong products from a single "platform" of common product structures, technologies, and automated product processes. These successful companies recognize and respond to new market opportunities by integrating core skills and technology in the form of new products. In this easy-to-read and practical book, the authors masterfully elucidate this dynamic and forward-thinking strategy which enables companies to develop innovative products faster, more cheaply, and with less effort.

Drawing on in-depth case studies and personal experience with successful companies such as Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Black & Decker, and Boeing, Meyer and Lehnerd show managers how to create extraordinary products and thereby set the standard for combined value and cost leadership in their products. They argue that when a company's products are robust—highly functional, elegant in their design, reasonably priced, and a pleasure to use—the corporation will be equally robust. More importantly, The Power of Product Platforms reveals the methodology and organizational approach for designing, developing, and revitalizing strong products that enable the firm to make the transition from one generation of technology to the next. The authors also explain how well-designed product platforms can generate streams of derivative products through a continuous systematic process of renewal.

Meyer and Lehnerd apply this methodology to a broad range of industries; manufacturing in both consumer and industrial markets, software firms, and Internet information services providers.

This clear prescription for transforming the bottom line by aggressively managing product development and innovation will become required reading for large and small corporations alike, including entrepreneurs, all of whom depend on the excellence of their new products for growth.

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Authors: Steve Kaplan.
Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2007-02-01


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    In business, there's no standing still. The trick is to become an elephant—big enough to make a difference, healthy enough to withstand financial currents, strong enough to influence your market—and smart enough to avoid the pitfalls of growth.

With Be the Elephant, bestselling author Steve Kaplan provides the business-growing playbook for every entrepreneur, CEO, sales professional, small business owner, and manager alike. The strategy, the process, the toolbox.

Written in a friendly, no-nonsense style, Be the Elephant takes the mystery and the fear out of growing bigger. It shows you how to address potential downsides, point by point, and provides a 25-question quiz to gauge your buisness's current health. There are lessons in strengthening sales, a business's front line. Vertical and horizontal growth. Risk versus reward. How to avoid the twin dilemmas inherent in growth—grow too slowly and wither, or grow too fast and lose control. And finally, how to chart it and start it, from developing an all-important USP—unique selling proposition—to avoiding the Five Killer Mistakes that can ruin a company.

And from there, how to go forth and Be the Elephant...

Authors: Walter J. Salmon. Jay William Lorsch. Gordon Donaldson. John Pound. Jay Alden Conger. David Finegold. Edward E. Lawler.
Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 2000-01


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    This title 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. Corporate governance can raise many difficult leadership, strategy, and policy questions within an organization. "Harvard Business Review on Corporate Governance" is an essential reference, focusing on both policy and strategic challenges, for senior managers working with boards or dealing with governance issues. This is a "Harvard Business Review" Paperback....

Authors: Darren Rovell.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: AMACOM
Publication Date: 2005-08-08


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    Gatorade invented the sports drink 40 years ago, and it has been first in the marketplace (by a long shot) ever since. But it's more than just a thirst quencher and a dominant brand. "First in Thirst" is the story of a phenomenon that grew from the practice fields of college football into a true icon of the way we play, watch, and experience sports - from the Pee Wees to the pros. Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Gatorade's invention, "First in Thirst" is equally a sports story, from its invention and testing with the University of Florida Gators to the "gatorade bath" and its near-universal appeal to athletes, coaches and sports fans everywhere....