Businesses compete in many ways, including nonmarket areas like corporate responsibility. Learn how to sharpen your firmÂ’s competitive edge. Baron’s integrated approach combines the disciplines of economics, political science, law, and ethics to provide a deeper understanding of the managerial issues that arise in the business landscape. The seventh edition includes four new chapters on…
Today's marketplace is fueled by knowledge. Yet organizing systematically to leverage knowledge remains a challenge. Leading companies have discovered that technology is not enough, and that cultivating communities of practice is the keystone of an effective knowledge strategy. Communities of practice come together around common interests and expertise- whether they consist of first-line man…
Good employees are your organization's most valuable resource. But attracting, developing, and retaining talented people requires and environment where people are energized and connected to their work, and where they take the initiative the often difficult journey to real empowerment at all levels of the organization and create a kind of "volunteer employee" workforce--employees who choose to w…
How can business leaders avoid being blindsided? Jim Harris has been helping organizations and leaders all over the world successfully identify and respond faster to emerging trends. In Blindsided! he brings these skills directly to you, highlighting best practices by interviewing dozens of business leaders and innovators - to get first hand insight into the processes they have successfully use…
Niven offers tips for businesses on how to use Balanced Scorecard more effectively for performance measurement. He explains the basics, how to use the system, implementing a team, training, communication planning, developing a strategy map, assessment, setting targets, cascading, budgeting, compensation, and corporate governance. Results and how to report them are discussed, and the book conclu…
More than 75% of the average company's market value comes from intangible assets that traditional metrics don't measure. The Balanced Scorecard is a revolutionary performance measurement system that allows organizations to quantify critical intangible assets, such as people, information and culture. Now the people who first developed the Balanced Scorecard, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norto…
How do firms compete? How do firms earn above normal returns? What's needed to sustain superior performance long term? An increasingly powerful answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. These are the skills, processes, routines, organizational structures, and disciplines that enable firms to build, employ, and orchestrate intangible…