BUSINESS planning
BUSINESS planning
Marketing in the Age of Google is a guide to harnessing the power of online search and incorporating search into business strategies. It is important to understand search, build a successful search...
In Mastering Turbulence, Joseph McCann and John W. Selsky provide a framework for organizations to survive conditions of uncertainty, or turbulence—any surprise, shock, natural disaster, or windfall...
Business forecaster and author Mary O’Hara-Devereaux borrows a metaphor from the old American West, “navigating the badlands,” to describe the journey that business and industry finds itself on in the current...
In Performance Dashboards, author Wayne Eckerson demonstrates how organizations can implement performance dashboards to keep employees focused on what is relevant about their organizations and help...
In Plan B, David Kord Murray contends that one of the worst problems in business is the failure of detailed strategic plans that have taken a great deal of time and money to develop. The problem is...
In Predictable Success, Les McKeown explains that any business, any organization—any group of any sort—that grows and reaches for success is going to go through certain steps and will have to endure...
Putting differences to work – creating an environment where diverse individuals can work more effectively to drive innovation and performance – has unlimited potential benefits. Unfortunately, however, organizations...
When it becomes necessary to search for cost efficiencies and business improvement ideas, company leaders tend to focus on fine-tuning processes (the hows) rather than focusing on what companies actually do and why...
After years of success, McDonald’s suffered a slow decline, falling out of favor with consumers. This can largely be attributed to the fact the brand did not focus on enduring profitable growth. McDonald’s created a...
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...
