CORPORATIONS -- Growth

CORPORATIONS -- Growth

 
Answering the Ultimate Question Owen, Richard | Brooks, Laura Jossey-Bass , 2009 Business Strategy, Customer Focus, Management

Net Promoter - a multi-faceted program focused on increasing company growth through focused enhancement of customer loyalty - has been implemented in organizations worldwide. Many leading companies have demonstrated...

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Be the Elephant Kaplan, Steve Workman Publishing , 2006 Business Strategy

In Be the Elephant, marketing guru and best-selling author Steve Kaplan offers a detailed playbook for successfully growing businesses of all sorts and sizes, while exploring the ways a growing...

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Big Change At Best Buy Gibson, Elizabeth | Billings, Andy Davies-Black Publishing , 2003 Business Biographies, Management

In 1966, Minneapolis-based Best Buy Co., Inc. began as a single small store, selling audio and stereo components. Today it is considered North America's number one consumer electronics retailer, offering the widest...

 
 
Bigger Isn't Always Better Tomasko, Robert M. AMACOM , 2005 Innovation, Productivity

A big business is a successful business, or so goes contemporary thinking. In Bigger Isn't Always Better, Robert M. Tomasko, discusses his belief that growth does not necessarily mean getting bigger. He believes that...

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Breakthrough Davidson, Bill John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2004 Innovation, Management

Success is, unfortunately, not self-perpetuating. Once a company reaches the level of industry incumbent, and must not only defend its market share among established players in the industry, but also operate in a...

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Building A Knowledge-Driven Organization Buckman, Robert H. McGraw-Hill , 2004 Human Resources, Management, Productivity

If knowledge is power, then knowledge shared is knowledge multiplied. For many years, the knowledge that Buckman Laboratories, an international specialty chemical company in business since 1945, brought to its...

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By the Numbers Nichols, Judith E. Bonus Books , 1991 Marketing

Rather than a theoretical examination, By the Numbers is a how-to guide which shows what demographics and psychographics really mean and how to apply them. This work is for those who do not have a sound business plan...

 
 
Conquer the Chaos Mask, Clate | Marineau, Scott John Wiley & Sons, Inc. , 2010 Entrepreneurship

Most small business owners start their businesses in order to become their own boss, and to free themselves from the confines of a corporate job. What entrepreneurs tend to find is that once they are free from a 9-5...

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Corporate Lifecycles Adizes, Ichak Prentice Hall Press , 1989 Management

The interrelationship of flexibility and controllability are the causes of growth and aging. "Problems" arise from the relative deficiency in either flexibility or self-control. Management's function is to lead the...

 
 
Designing the Customer-Centric Organization Galbraith, Jay R. Jossey-Bass , 2005 Customer Focus, Leadership Development, Management, Productivity

Studies show that, because sales to existing customers are more profitable than sales to new customers, today’s businesses are recognizing that establishing long-term customer relationships is the best way to ensure...

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