The author outlines a planning and implementation methodology that involves: forming an outsourcing team to study options; determining how outsourcing fits with long-term strategies; analyzing present and future costs and performance; selecting providers; negotiating terms; helping employees make the transition; and managing provider relationships. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (b…
In this incisive study, a business analyst lances today's usual management practices and reveals what cutting-edge companies are doing to survive and flourish in today's chaotic business world. Profiles over 70 inspiring success stories that demonstrate the "commandments" at work. Respected analyst Matthew Kiernan offers his Eleven Commandments of 21st Century Management, a collection of visio…
Enchantment, as defined by bestselling business guru Guy Kawasaki, is not about manipulating people. It transforms situations and relationships. It converts hostility into civility and civility into affinity. It changes the skeptics and cynics into the believers and the undecided into the loyal. Enchantment can happen during a retail transaction, a high-level corporate negotiation, or a Faceboo…
As a result of the sustained economic downturn, the current business context is creating a huge opportunity for any company who wishes to get ahead of the competition and become a leader. In fact, successful leaders are already developing smart strategic initiatives to create value and gain a sustainable competitive advantage. Do you want to develop your own Business Strategy and beco…
Organizations today face a stark choice: change or fail. Transformation has become the only constant of the business landscape, and those companies that cannot adapt are doomed. But Karl SchoemerÂ’s New Reality program is here to help businesses make the tough choices that will lead to success. This book includes practical tools to help managers and employees: * Adapt to change *…
Imagine, if you can, the world of business - without corporate strategy. Remarkably, fifty years ago that’s the way it was. Businesses made plans, certainly, but without understanding the underlying dynamics of competition, costs, and customers. It was like trying to design a large-scale engineering project without knowing the laws of physics. But in the 1960s, four mavericks and their …
In a global, complex, and competitive world, developing a plan without testing it against market reaction is like walking blind into a minefield. War gaming is a metal detector for a company. Yet war games run by the large consulting firms are kept secret and cost millions. For the first time, this book makes them accessible to every product and brand manager, every project leader, every mar…
DRIVEN: If we can better understand how the success or failure of a business is driven by its plans and actions, then we can greatly improve how we run our businesses and value companies. DRIVEN is about RETURN DRIVEN STRATEGY, a framework for business analysis and planning prioritization and the culmination of a ten-year research project studying and categorizing the root causes of thousands o…
"Hank Moore's Business Tree is the most original business model of the last 40 years."--Peter Drucker "Any serious organization would do well to listen to this man. He speaks of genius, creativity, and plain common sense." --George H.W. Bush, former president of the United States "Hank Moore works miracles in changing stuck mindsets. He empowers knowledge from without by enthusing execut…