Systems & Planning

The author uses his research on the Fortune 500 to create a blueprint for turning good companies into spectacular ones.... More

The best-selling Built to Last answered the question of what it takes to build an enduring, great company from the ground up. Good to Great answers an even more compelling question: can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? Can a good company become a great one and, if so, how? After a... More

The Challenge Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How c... More

Why the most important trends in the world today are the smallest ones. In Microtrends, Mark Penn, an expert with over thirty years' experience in finding and motivating niche groups, reveals the true trends in our society today, uncovering what's really popular (which is not what we might think is ... More

Develop your personal skills by understanding how to sell effectively, with strategies to ensure success. This book includes the basics of selling from preparation through to managing a team, with 5-minute fixes and high-impact techniques plus a simple self-assessment exercise to help monitor progre... More

Kim and Mauborgne's blue ocean metaphor elegantly summarizes their vision of the kind of expanding, competitor-free markets that innovative companies can navigate. Unlike "red oceans," which are well explored and crowded with competitors, "blue oceans" represent "untapped market space" and the "oppo... More

A massive disconnect exists today between consumers and providers. As consumers, we have a greater selection of higher quality goods and services to choose from, yet our experience of obtaining and using these items is more frustrating than ever. At the same time, companies find themselves with...... More

More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization,... More

The McKinsey Way reveals McKinsey's closely guarded management techniques-tools that will help anyone at any level think like a McKinsey consultant. In these pages, former McKinsey analyst Ethan Rasiel presents powerful ways to approach and solve even the most intractable business problems-methods y... More

'Learn Six Sigma' explains how to impact your company's performance in each, by combining the strength of today's two most important initiatives - Learn Production and Six Sigma - into one integrated program. The first book to provide a step-by-step roadmap for profiting from the best elements of 'L... More

IN TODAY'S business environment, strategy has never been more important. Yet research shows that most companies fail to execute strategy successfully. Behind this abysmal track record lies an undeniable fact: many companies continue to use management processes-top-down, financially driven, and tacti... More