Business Strategy
Business Strategy
In Smart Growth, Edward D. Hess challenges commonly held business beliefs that businesses must grow or die, growth is always good, public companies should grow smoothly and continuously, and quarterly...
In The Negotiation Book, author Steve Gates describes the traits required to maximize the value of each business negotiation in order to become a Complete Skilled Negotiator. As the founder and CEO of...
In Deliver!, management adviser Jim Champy takes a close look at five very different case studies of enterprises that have found ways to cut costs, improve efficiencies, or integrate new, sometimes...
Many businesses claim to be in the forefront of corporate responsibility but in reality their concern is higher stock prices, and executive bonuses. Such companies are not responsible, and their corporate behavior is...
In Enterprise Project Governance, authors Paul C. Dinsmore and Luiz Rocha explain that large organizations need effective overall program and project management in order to succeed. Enterprise Project...
In his now-classic study, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning, Henry Mintzberg traces the origins of strategic planning, describes its demise, diagnoses why it failed, identifies important...
In Lean but Agile, authors William J. Rothwell, James Graber, and Neil McCormick offer different perspectives for organizations concerned with both planning for and meeting organizational work and...
Benjamin Franklin advocated living with frugality, inventiveness, and diplomacy. In Doing More with Less, Bruce Piasecki suggests that the solution to many social and business problems lies in those...
In Sales Growth, Thomas Baumgartner, Homayoun Hatami, and Jon Vander Ark explore ways in which a company can increase its sales revenue and profitability, even in a bad economy. Their insights involve...
Intellectual property is valuable, yet too many companies fail to maximize its worth. Corporations that extract the most value from their IP meet to discuss best practices of IP management at the ICM Gathering. The...
