The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage (Kaplan Robert S.)(Pevná vazba)

The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage (Kaplan Robert S.)(Pevná vazba)

In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the

The Behavior Breakthrough: Leading Your Organization to a New Competitive Advantage (Jacobs Steve)(Pevná vazba)

What s the secret to superior execution? Is it brilliant strategy? Better processes? Superior technology? No. None of these suffices individually, or even in combination. To perform well over the long term, to make everyone s valiant efforts work and stick, you need another ingredient, something

Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance (Porter Michael E.)(Pevná vazba)

The essential complement to the pathbreaking book Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Advantage explores the underpinnings of competitive advantage in the individual firm. Competitive Advantage introduces a whole new way of understanding what a firm does. Porter's groundbreaking

Strategy Maps: Converting Intangible Assets Into Tangible Outcomes (Kaplan Robert S.)(Pevná vazba)

More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused

Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy (Magretta Joan)(Pevná vazba)

Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter's frameworks are the foundation. But while everyone in business may know Porter's name, many

Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change (Hrebiniak Lawrence)(Pevná vazba)

Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. The Second Edition of Making Strategy Work delivers a powerful framework every leader can use to overcome the obstacles to successfully deploying business strategy. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence

Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-To-Execution Gap (Leinwand Paul)(Pevná vazba)

How to close the gap between strategy and execution Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don't have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally

Big Zero - The Transformation of ZBB into a Force for Growth, Innovation and Competitive Advantage (Timmermans Kris)(Pevná vazba)

On Competition (Porter Michael E.)(Pevná vazba)

For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update

The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community Your Competitive Advantage (Spinks David)(Pevná vazba)

'A tactical primer for any business embarking on the critical work of actively building community.'--Seth Godin, Author, This is Marketing 'This book perfectly marries the psychology of communities, with the hard-earned secrets of someone who's done the real work over many years. David Spinks is

MBA Admissions Strategy: From Profile Building to Essay Writing (Gordon Avi)(Pevná vazba)

MBA Admissions Strategy is a guide to the four aspects of a successful, competitive business school

Making Great Strategy: Arguing for Organizational Advantage (Carroll Glenn R.)(Pevná vazba)

Making strategy requires undertaking major--often irreversible--decisions aimed at long-term success in an uncertain future. All leaders must formulate a clear course of action, yet many lack confidence in their ability to think systematically about their strategy. They struggle to apply the

Operations Research and Networks (Finke Gerd)(Pevná vazba)

This book presents the principal concepts of operations research (OR), the tools for the planning support and the management of various types of networks. The term 'network' is meant to include physical networks, for instance road and rail networks, as well as logical networks that are used in the

Ace It!: How Sales Champions Win New Business (Weiss Bernie)(Pevná vazba)

Looking for a competitive advantage that will set you apart from your colleagues and competition and take your sales game to the next level? Learn how sales champions win new business. Learn how they Ace It! With increased technological disruption and competitive pressure straining even the most

Strategic Business Models: Idealism and Realism in Strategy (Betz Frederick)(Pevná vazba)

As strategic business models are important to understand the transformative operations of an enterprise system, for present and future competitiveness, Betz's exploration into both manufacturing and financial firms, along with retailing firms and conglomerates, broadens the business

The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation (Kaplan Soren)(Pevná vazba)

** WINNER of BEST BUSINESS BOOK, International Book Awards ** Every purchased copy of the book includes access to the free downloadable Invisible Advantage Toolkit! The Invisible Advantage shows how any organization can create a culture of innovation--an environment that promotes freethinking, an

Operations Management and Sustainability: New Research Perspectives (de Boer Luitzen)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction to the theme and the book Poul Houman Andersen & Luitzen de Boer Section I: SOM Strategy and Management Sustainable operations Strategy and Management: an introduction chapter to section I Poul Houman Andersen Flexibility of environmental regulations and the impact on operations

Strategic Risk Management: New Tools for Competitive Advantage in an Uncertain Age (Godfrey Paul C.)(Pevná vazba)

This book presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an ever more volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Organizations typically

Supernova Advisor Teams: A Pathway to Excellence (Knapp Robert D.)(Pevná vazba)

Teams are the principal building blocks of the strategy of successful organizations. The focus of your organization may be on service, quality, cost, value, speed, efficiency, performance, or any other similar goals, but teams remain the central methodology of most organizations across sectors

Talent Wins: The New Playbook for Putting People First (Charan Ram)(Pevná vazba)

Radical Advice for Reinventing Talent--and HRMost executives today recognize the competitive advantage of human capital, and yet the talent practices their organizations use are stuck in the twentieth century.Typical talent-planning and HR processes are designed for predictable environments,

Information Governance: Concepts, Strategies and Best Practices (Smallwood Robert F.)(Pevná vazba)

The essential guide to effective IG strategy and practice Information Governance is a highly practical and deeply informative handbook for the implementation of effective Information Governance (IG) procedures and strategies. A critical facet of any mid- to large-sized company, this

Searchers - The Quest for the Lost of the First World War (Sackville-West Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Future-Proof Software-Systems: A Sustainable Evolution Strategy (Furrer Frank J.)(Pevná vazba)

Presents a successful strategy for the management of complexity, change and uncertainty in large software systems ('Managed Evolution')Provides direct guidance via principle-based architecting for the working architectOffers a deep insight into the software

The Product Manager's Desk Reference, Third Edition (Haines Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive guide to product management--updated for a more digital, more global, more competitive business landscape The digital age is here to stay. That means the pace of business change will only increase and competitive forces will challenge you, and your role as a product manager. This is