Strategic Planning

Without a doubt, the COVID-19 era has forced the retail sector to rethink the way it conducts business. Customer experience has largely shifted into the digital realm, and questions have emerged about how to best optimize and evolve business operations...

Businesses often find themselves trapped in a competitive dogfight, scratching and clawing for market share with products consumers view as largely undifferentiated. Conventional wisdom suggests that dogfights are to be expected as marketplaces mature,...

Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behaviour. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational...

A hands-on guide for using research, experimentation and testing for new products; from idea through to post-launch. You want to make products that matter. Products that strike a chord with your target audience. To do that, you will need to connect with...

Who are your next customers - not just the ones you are serving today but the ones you'll need three, five, ten years from now? How do you figure out what goods and services will attract them in the future? How do you figure this out ahead of your...

This lively and comprehensive introduction to organisational behaviour demonstrates how research into human behaviour can be applied in the workplace. It assumes no prior work experience, instead asking students to draw on everyday occurrences and...

Named a Top 10 Business Strategy Book of 2018 by Inc. magazineIn his pioneering book Seizing the White Space, Mark W. Johnson argued that business model innovation is the most proven path to transformational growth. Since then, Uber, Airbnb, and other...

Most business models are transactional. They are focused on a specific exchange. They match riders with drivers, sellers with buyers, hosts with travelers. They thrive on enormous scale, huge distribution networks, and brand recognition. But then along...

There are many books on Organisational Development which come at the subject in similar ways, but to the reflective practitioner who is curious about their practice there is a common disconnect between the simplicity of theory and the messiness of...

Anyone who has spent time in an organization knows that dysfunctional behavior abounds. Conflict is frequently avoided or pushed underground rather than dealt with openly. At the same time, the same arguments often burst out again and again, almost...

In 1984, R. Edward Freeman published his landmark book, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach, a work that set the agenda for what we now call stakeholder theory. In the intervening years, the literature on stakeholder theory has become vast and...

The $22 trillion opportunity that can be unlocked only if you rethink everything you think you know about people over sixty.In the time it takes you to read this, another twenty Americans will turn sixty-five. Ten thousand people a day are crossing that...

"Outstanding business insights in a work brimming with energy and vitality." -Kirkus Reviews In this visual guide to thriving in the midst of chaos, scientist, entrepreneur and "Reinvention Guru" Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva brings together the insights...

Credit Data and Scoring: The First Triumph of Big Data and Big Algorithms illuminates the often-hidden practice of predicting an individual's economic responsibility. Written by a leading practitioner, it examines the international implications of US...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781523000142Author Bill PriceFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Berrett-Koehler PublishersPublisher Berrett-Koehler Publishers

With a pedigree going back over ten years, The Definitive Handbook of Business Continuity Management can rightly claim to be a classic guide to business risk management and contingency planning, with a style that makes it accessible to all business...

Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990660538Author R Michael AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Executive Joy!Publisher Executive Joy!Weight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A new, comprehensive playbook for innovation from the New York Times bestselling author of Reverse Innovation, Vijay GovindarajanIn his seminal book The Three-Box Solution, Vijay Govindarajan offered an amazingly simple and highly effective framework for...

In the twenty-first century, there is no single prescription for business strategy development, choice and implementation. The challenges facing firms, not-for-profit organizations and the public sector are significant and call for creativity,...

Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more...

800-CEO-Read Sales Book Of The Year for 2015 | Forbes 15 Best Business Books of 2015 | "The chapters, (46 of them in this 256 page book) are quick and concise, and it is easy to pick it up anywhere and find a nugget of easily actionable advice, but the...

Most books on business strategy approach the subject from a corporate perspective, covering topics such as the vision for the business, the marketplace, competition and differentiation. However, the reality is that most managers work in sub-units or...

This book offers a practical, fact-based approach to explain how enterprises deliver performance over time. Rigorous methods explain how to quantify the growth, decline and interdependence within the organisation's resources and capabilities as well as...

Design thinking is widely recognized as an alternative approach to innovation, but it can be challenging to implement, often conflicting with organizational structures, cultures, and processes. The practice of design thinking calls for a new mindset that...

NEW from the bestselling HBR's 10 Must Reads series. Learn why bad decisions happen to good managers--and how to make better ones. If you read nothing else on decision making, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the...

The next two decades will see more waves of technological disruption than the previous fifty. Adaptability and understanding of technological changes are now mission-critical to every business. Disruptive Technologies offers a three-step framework...

"Hampshire's book is aimed at the lay reader and its pages are peppered with practical advice and illustrative case studies" - Irish Times Business leaders are often too busy to familiarise themselves with the benefits and risks of technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525575603Author Ram CharanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint CurrencyPublisher CurrencyWeight(grams) 357gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 145mm * 24mm

"Refreshingly thought-provoking..." - The Financial Times The essential playbook for the future of your business What To Do When Machines Do Everything is a guidebook to succeeding in the next generation of the digital economy. When systems running on...

Don't get left behind: learn how to consider long-term and environmental perspectives through strategic design. Get ready to make a difference! This book is your ultimate guide, packed with practical tools and strategies to create positive change...

When it comes to strategy, how should we define victory? For centuries, Eastern and Western thinkers have grappled with this question, offering different answers. What can we learn from this difference? In The Art of Strategy, Moon provides a novel and...

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive, digital and globalized business landscape.An integrative framework, 'The Four Rs of Competitive Success', is introduced, which covers the four core pillars of global...

This book provides a broad introduction to the field of pricing as a tactical function in the daily operations of the firm and a toolbox for implementing and solving a wide range of pricing problems.Beyond the theoretical perspectives offered by most...

Is your company ready for the next wave of analytics?Data analytics offer the opportunity to predict the future, use advanced technologies, and gain valuable insights about your business. But unless you're staying on top of the latest developments, your...

Changes in technology, customer demands, competition, and the social character challenge organizations to innovate and change. How they change depends on their leaders, and their knowledge, and philosophy. To create a better future for organizations and...

WINNER: CMI Management Book of the Year Awards 2015 - Innovation and Entrepreneurship Category (1st edition) Many organizations approach customer-centic marketing and innovating their business strategy in isolation to one another, missing...

Push past resistance to discover and own new business territories Think Like a Futurist shows how to track changes, explore questions, and engage in new thinking that connects today's pressures with tomorrow's realities. Cecily Sommers shows how to...

Digital transformation is much more than building a digital infrastructure to gather and process data. It is about understanding how digital technologies enable the creation of innovative services and products. It is about identifying new competitive...

Get an insider's perspective into how this 110-year old world leader in beauty built on its legacy to transform itself into a digital and tech powerhouse Digital Makeover: How L'Oreal Put People First to Build a Beauty Tech Powerhouse examines...