Posted by admin on 11 Nov 2009 at 4:23 am under Business
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"…the ‘innovation movement’ is gathering momentum"… three "critical" preconditions [are] needed to foster innovation, including "creating time and space in people’s lives for reflection, ideation and experimentation." –IndustryWeek, May 1, 2008
"…the ‘innovation movement’ is gathering momentum"… three "critical" preconditions [are] needed to foster innovation, including [...]
Posted by admin on 21 Oct 2009 at 9:53 am under Business
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…Ghemawat warns…that businesses suffer when they follow such globalization logic too far. The real state of the world is neither globalized nor local…It is semiglobalized, and will remain so for decades to come. –Reuters News, December 13, 2007
…a reasoned guide. –The Financial Times, October 11, [...]
Posted by admin on 21 Oct 2009 at 9:33 am under Business
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A complete and flexible guide to strategic planning —specifically designed for nonprofits
Strategic planning is one of the most powerful management tools available to help your organization do a better job —if you know how to use it. This comprehensive book/disk set shows you how to create and implement an effective strategic [...]
Posted by admin on 26 Aug 2009 at 9:35 am under Business
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From Library Journal
Losing and winning are two extremes by which businesses are often measured. Brandenburger (Harvard Business Sch.) and Nalebuff (Yale Sch. of Management) argue that most businesses and their transactions lie somewhere between the two poles. Their liberating message is that your competitor does [...]
Posted by admin on 26 Aug 2009 at 9:25 am under Business
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Presenting a revolutionary approach to developing strategic vision in business and in life, a guide for managers, entrepreneurs, and investors explains how to apply creative and intuitive skills to corporate practices. Reprint.
From AudioFile
Author and president of an [...]
Posted by admin on 14 Aug 2009 at 8:12 am under Business
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From Publishers Weekly
In this rousing call to arms, the authors business school professors at Dartmouth and the University of Maryland, respectively lay out three persuasive reasons why corporations need to increase their global presence. First, global opportunities and threats can appear anywhere, so it’s best [...]
Posted by admin on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:40 am under Business
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Future success? or future shock? Only companies that plan ahead will survive the changes in business today–and tomorrow.
Order Simplified Strategic Planning: The No-Nonsense Guide for Busy People Who Want Results Fast: Robert W. Bradford, Brian Tarcy form Amazon.
Posted by admin on 18 Jul 2009 at 1:30 pm under Business
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Winning in business today is not about being number one–it’s about who “gets to the future first,” write management consultants Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad. In Competing for the Future, they urge companies to create their own futures, envision new markets, and reinvent themselves.
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Posted by admin on 17 Jul 2009 at 9:38 am under Business
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From Publishers Weekly
By burying their titular 10 rules in a small final chapter, Govindarajan and Trimble commit the first deadly sin of business writing: ambiguity. Before that, readers can be forgiven for believing there are only three fundamental principles for stewarding innovative projects within established [...]
Posted by admin on 29 Jun 2009 at 11:16 am under Business
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Spawned by a 10-year study of 2,000 firms conducted at Bain & Company, a global consultancy specializing in business strategy, Profit from the Core is based on the fundamental but oft-ignored maxim that prolonged corporate growth is most profitably achieved by concentrating on a single core business. [...]
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