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For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic «The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,» as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social responsibility, and CEO leadership. This collection...
| Автор | Michael E. Porter |
What can you control? Who have you, as a company, historically been when you've been at your best? Where can you go to verify the info? Do you effectively measure and reward individual and team performance? What qualifications and skills do you need? This valuable Production Control Manager self-assessment will make you the trusted Production Control Manager domain adviser by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Production Control Manager challenge. How do...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
All companies must grow to survive–but only one in five growth strategies succeeds. In Profit from the Core, strategy expert Chris Zook revealed how to grow profitably by focusing on and achieving full potential in the core business. But what happens when your core business provides insufficient new growth or even hits the wall? In Beyond the Core, Zook outlines an expansion strategy based on putting together combinations of adjacency moves into areas away from, but related to, the core...
| Автор | Chris Zook |
What are the key enablers to make this Software test engineering move? What tests verify requirements? How do you manage unclear Software test engineering requirements? Have those circumstances changed? What are the necessary qualifications? This one-of-a-kind Software Test Engineering self-assessment will make you the accepted Software Test Engineering domain leader by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Software Test Engineering challenge. How do I reduce...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
If you're a general manager or CFO, do you feel you're spending too much on IT or wishing you could get better returns from your IT investments? If so, it's time to examine what's behind this IT-as-cost mind-set.In The Real Business of IT, Richard Hunter and George Westerman reveal that the cost mind-set stems from IT leaders' inability to communicate about the business value they create-so CIOs get stuck discussing budgets rather than their contributions to the...
| Автор | Richard Hunter S. |
More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's research demonstrated how growth-seeking incumbents must develop the capability to deflect disruptive attacks and seize disruptive opportunities.In The Innovator's Guide to Growth, Scott Anthony, Mark Johnson, Joseph Sinfield, and Elizabeth Altman take the subject to the next level:...
| Автор | Mark W. Johnson |
How has directory server usability improved? Are you storing your policy data separate from your user data directory server? Does the solution have the ability to integrate with enterprise Active Directory servers to determine users and build user, role, and business unit policies? Does the system support integration with multiple Active Directory servers? What directory server are your applications designed for? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
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, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the Balanced Scorecard into action.Now, using their ongoing research with hundreds of...
| Автор | Robert S. Kaplan |
Have you achieved Self service store improvements? Has a cost center been established? What is the problem and/or vulnerability? How do you gather Self service store requirements? How can you negotiate Self service store successfully with a stubborn boss, an irate client, or a deceitful coworker? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Generation to Generation presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. The book asks questions, such as: what is the difference between an entrepreneurial start-up and a family business, and how does one become the other? How does the meaning of the...
| Автор | John A. Davis |
In the past few months, what is the smallest change you have made that has had the biggest positive result? What was it about that small change that produced the large return? Are all key stakeholders present at all Structured Walkthroughs? Which Theory of governance data should be retained? Is the cost worth the Theory of governance effort ? How has the Theory of governance data been gathered? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Building value in our global economy increasingly demands creating new opportunities and solving new problems. In a nutshell, that's what inventors do. Just as software has driven growth and opened new markets over the past generation, invention is poised to become the X-factor for the future. With a foreword by former Microsoft research chief Nathan Myhrvold, this groundbreaking book takes us inside the laboratories and inside the minds of some of today's leading inventors to...
| Автор | Evan I. Schwartz |
Was a Method of analysis charter developed? Who is responsible for ensuring appropriate resources (time, people and money) are allocated to Method of analysis? What are the operational costs after Method of analysis deployment? Why is Method of analysis important for you now? How would you define the culture at your organization, how susceptible is it to Method of analysis changes? This exclusive Method Of Analysis self-assessment will make you the trusted Method Of Analysis domain authority...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Starting in the decade of 2030, actual demographic milestones of the U.S. population will mark the most transformative period in our country’s history, thanks in large part to: a) Baby Boomers aging into their twilight years; b) advancements in technology; and c) an ever-increasing illegal immigrant population requiring, and in some instances demanding, that social services (including voting rights) be afforded them even though they have never provided any contribution to the public coffers...
| Автор | Rodney Schultz |
How can the phases of Healthcare quality development be identified? Why is Healthcare quality important for you now? What are the success criteria that will indicate that Healthcare quality objectives have been met and the benefits delivered? What Healthcare quality requirements should be gathered? How can the value of Healthcare quality be defined? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group,...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game—changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative—they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results.Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a compelling and provocative answer: we rely far too exclusively on analytical thinking, which...
| Автор | Roger L. Martin |
What should the next improvement project be that is related to Disaster risk management? How do you mitigate Disaster risk management risk? Is the impact that Disaster risk management has shown? What are the success criteria that will indicate that Disaster risk management objectives have been met and the benefits delivered? What new services of functionality will be implemented next with Disaster risk management ? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Great companies stumble and fall when they lose it. Highfliers crash when a competitor notices they don't have it. Start-ups shut down if they can't develop it. «It» is a strategy so powerful and an execution-driven mindset so relentless that companies use it to gain more than just competitive advantage–they achieve an industry dominance that is virtually unassailable and that competitors often try to explain away as unfair. In their «hardball manifesto,» authors George Stalk and Rob...
| Автор | John Butman |
An organizationally feasible system request is one that considers the mission, goals and objectives of the organization, key questions are: is the Information Modelling solution request practical and will it solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity to achieve company goals? How do you deal with Information Modelling changes? What is the extent or complexity of the Information Modelling problem? Do you have any cost Information Modelling limitation requirements? Do the Information...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic control systems, Simons identifies three new control systems that allow strategic change: belief systems that communicate core values and provide inspiration and direction, boundary systems that frame the strategic domain and...
| Автор | Robert Simons |
In this visionary book, C. K. Prahalad and Venkat Ramaswamy explore why, despite unbounded opportunities for innovation, companies still can't satisfy customers and sustain profitable growth. The explanation for this apparent paradox lies in recognizing the structural changes brought about by the convergence of industries and technologies; ubiquitous connectivity and globalization; and, as a consequence, the evolving role of the consumer from passive recipient to active co-creator of value....
| Автор | C. K. Prahalad |
Is the Organizational communications documentation thorough? How is Organizational communications project cost planned, managed, monitored? What have been your experiences in defining long range Organizational communications goals? What are the expected Organizational communications results? Do you cover the five essential competencies: Communication, Collaboration,Innovation, Adaptability, and Leadership that improve an organizations ability to leverage the new Organizational communications in...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
How do you go about comparing Constraint learning approaches/solutions? Do the Constraint learning decisions you make today help people and the planet tomorrow? How will success or failure be measured? Would you rather sell to knowledgeable and informed customers or to uninformed customers? What are the success criteria that will indicate that Constraint learning objectives have been met and the benefits delivered? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Transform and enhance your working relationships through mindful co-working. Are you making the most of your co-working relationships? Most of us work with others and spend as much time with colleagues as we do with our families – so it's important our working relationships run smoothly. By helping workers become more attuned to their colleagues, mindful co-working removes the pressure and stress of competition from working relationships to make them both more enjoyable and more...
| Автор | Clark Baim |