Strategy & Competition

The power and application of strategic thinking Do you process the: - Techniques for appraising and improving business performance? - Ability to identify the key issues for change and the skills to successfully implement change within your business - Confidence in the practical use of strategic anal... More

On the surface, strategic management appears to be quite straightforward: it is all about deciding some medium-to long-term goals, bringing together the resources, devising a plan and schedule, and then getting on with it. However, in the real world it isn't quite this simple. In this thorough and a... More

'The Knowledge Engine' includes a wealth of practical tools that organizations can use to put each step of the knowledge-performance cycle into actual practice. An "After Action Review," for instance, helps explore lessons learned from performance and a "Peer Review" gets what others know into the p... More

A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of people each year who consider setting up a small business or becoming self-employed. 'Business Planning' outlines the options and risks involved in setting up a business. The importance of thorough planning is often overlooked and only b... More

The first step in starting up a business is to draw up a detailed plan. Most providers of finance for start-ups or expansion insist on seeing a business plan before they will even consider the necessary funding. It is also necessary for entrepreneurs to clarify their aims and objectives, and a plan ... More

High marks for THREE CLICKS AWAY "Three Clicks Away contains critical information for both new and experienced web managers. Topics as far ranging as creating an effective strategy, staffing, organizing projects, launching an e-commerce site, and managing for growth and scale are all covered intell... More

this book provides practical and straightforward tools and techniques to show you how to analyse your business in a way that makes the real drivers of future success clear. It equips you with unique approaches that make weighty decisions remarkably easy. 17 key analysis tools and a step-by-step guid... More

Now that consumers are more brand conscious than ever, championing the brand is at the heart of winning business strategies. Nothing is as important if a company is to prosper.Brand warriors brings together some of the top brand custodians in the business to talk about the strategies they employ to ... More

The Purpose of Strategic Enterprise Management Systems is to explore the implications of the emerging SEM offerings for finance professionals and the management accounting and control activities they support in organizations. In particular the book argues that SEM is not just a technological issue b... More

Action, not theory, is the key word in this unusually straightforward approach to business strategy that offers managers guidance on the all-important matter of the implementation of a strategy-on which success or failure so often hangs. Planning to win' is Steve Smith's term for a management system... More

Building Tomorrow's Company is about a new and revolutionary phase in market-based capitalism. This new inclusive approach is about balancing short-term priorities and shareholder value with sustainability, corporate social responsibility and environmental accountability. The basic message is that i... More

Managers of today seem stuck on single issues or themes in the way they run and plan for their companies. In this groundbreaking book, Robert Heller argues you need the very opposite of single-theme management for survival in the 21st century. You need "fusion management," which combines the thrust ... More

As the challenges facing you become inevitably tougher, the key to survival and success is to learn how to reshape and reposition your company. This book sets out clear strategies for re-defining your company`s strengths and wrong-footing your competitors. With the help of real-life case-studies and... More

This pocket series brings the clarity for which The Economist is famous to the complex subjects that those in business and the professions need to understand.Pocket Strategy is in three sections Essays on what strategy is, strategy consultants, the secrets of growth, globalisation and other strategi... More

The first book to focus on practising rather than preaching that people are our greatest asset. Oraganizations are not just machines driven by data and rationality. They consist of groupings of human emotion which can work for-or against-the organizaiton. Almost all organizations put too much emphas... More