Quality management is essential to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to increase bottom-line results, save money and manage risks. Ray Tricker has already guided hundreds of businesses through the challenge and this new book, updated for the 2008 standard, provides: Relevant examples that put the concepts and requirements into a real-life context Down to earth explanations to h…
Eight essays by experts in the field explore all aspects of the work of modern nonprofit organizations and how managers can learn from the success of venture capitalists
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…
The Balanced Scorecard Management System has evolved from a simple management system to a fully-fledged framework for creating a strategy-focused organization. Remarkably popular in North America, Europe and Australasia, it is quickly growing in importance within Asia. This book provides a practical overview of how Asian companies are implementing balanced scorecards. In addition to over 15 cas…
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…
Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth?but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the playbook. Leaving the rhetoric to others, Johnson lays out an eminently practical framework that identifies the four fundamental building blocks that make business models work. In a series of in-depth ca…
Table of Contents : I . DECISION TO BECOME AN ENTREPRENEUR 1. Introduction to Entrepreneurship II. DEVELOPING SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IDEAS 2. Recognizing Opportunities and Generating Ideas 3. Feasibility Analysis 4. Industry and Competitor Analysis 5. Developing an Effective Business Model III. MOVING FROM AN IDEA TO AN ENTREPRENEURIAL FIRM 6. Building a New Venture Team 7. Assessing…