Business Strategy Books

Are you falling behind your competitors? Are you too slow getting your products to market? Are your overheads too high? These are just some of the challenges that companies face. However, initiating successful change strategies is far from easy. 70% of all change programmes fail. This book shows how you can make sure that when change happens (and it frequently does) your company is ready for it. .

The Truth About Innovation transforms today's most important innovation research into 50 proven truths . Max Mckeown delivers plain, powerful advice on how to: *increase creativity *encourage collaboration *co-create with customers *overcome indifference *make ideas into money *thrive on change...and much more. This is the definitive, evidence-based guide to innovations - a set of bedrock ...

Henry Mintzberg's views are a breath of fresh air which can only encourage the good guys. The Observer My favourite management book of the last 25 years? No contest. The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning. Tom Peters, managment guru Strategy is the most prestigious but also the most confusing part of business. Managers are constantly bombarded with new jargon and the latest fads promising the ..

A good business plan should impress potential financial backers by clarifying aims, providing a blueprint for the future of a company and a benchmark against which to measure growth. This book explains the process, and includes guidance on: producing cash flow forecasts and sample business plans; expanding a business; and planning the borrowing.

Contains the thinking on how to get by in the global economic downturn. This title presents a practical toolkit containing practical advice to help business owners to weather the economic storm and emerge triumphant. It also includes practical tips.

Guides your business in the right direction no matter who you are or how your job description reads, whether you're part of a large corporation or a one-person show.

Exploring Corporate Strategy: Text & Cases, 8/e Over 750,000 students worldwide have used this best-selling book to understand and explore strategic management through their academic and professional careers. Available in two versions (Text and Text & Cases),Exploring Corporate Strategyhas established a reputation as a pre-eminent textbook in its field, based upon the expertise of authorship, ..

Starting with the premise that there's only one chance ever to make a good impression, this book covers several issues involved in producing a plan - from profiling competitors and forecasting market development, to the importance of providing clear and concise financial information.

A guide to fostering creativity and business innovation, this title shows how an individual can become an experienced architect, storyteller, caregiver or cross-pollinator... just four of the ten characters that can be adopted in different situations to create a broader range of solutions to business problems.

Challenges what you thought you knew about competing in the crowded market place. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves spanning more than a hundred years and thirty industries, the authors argue that lasting success comes from creating 'blue oceans': untapped new market spaces ripe from growth.

The ultimate purpose of developing a business plan is to have a successful business. In the long run, it is fruitless to write a business plan that can raise the funds you seek if your enterprise is so poorly conceived it is bound to fail.

Intended for those whose goal is raising start-up finance for a new business, requesting venture funding from a corporate parent or directing operational management, this book helps them deliver the information that the decision-makers are really looking for. It helps focus your attention on strategic planning as well as on operational controls.

Outlines sixty tools to help find inspiration and create concepts. This book shows how to: create growth opportunities; solve problems; and, enhance a team's performance. It is suitable for those involved in innovation, sales, marketing, advertising, business development or new product development.

The authors claim to show how lean thinking with a new definition of value can breathe life into a company or economic activity, doubling productivity and sales whilst stabilizing employment, by providing a step by step plan based on in depth studies of fifty lean companies around the world.

Michael E. Porter shows how competitive advantage can be defined in terms of relative cost and relative prices, thus linking it directly to profitability, and presents a whole new perspective on how profit is created and divided.

An in-depth examination of Toyota's unique business strategies. Six years ago Toyota was an embarrassment. Now they are the auto-industry leader.

Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? This book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology both between Japanese companies and between companies based in the US, Europe, Australia, India and China.

Discusses advanced planning steps required for a successful initial public offering (IPO) in a global environment. This book outlines 11 techniques to follow in planning for an IPO.

A text in the field of change management. It is suitable for those who want to understand why change happens, how it happens and what needs to be done to make change a welcome rather than a dreaded concept. It also offers insights into the many frameworks, models and ways of approaching change.

Offers a comprehensive framework for understanding and implementing strategic management to meet a growing need for effective strategic action at various levels of organizations. This book discusses several approaches on how firms shape their strategies and generate strategic initiatives.