I've learned a great deal from the first two editions of Simon Benninga's Financial Modeling, and the Third Edition offers both new topics and updated coverage of topics from earlier editions. The book gives clear, well-illustrated instructions for using Excel software to solve finance problems, ranging from basic to highly sophisticated, in both corporate finance and investments. The many exce…
Is downsizing the answer to solving corporate woes? Why is my company not growing? Why do companies fall sick, recover and subsequently succumb to the same ailments? If these questions sound familiar, chances are your company is in a slump and it does not seem like the situation will improve any time soon. Like many companies, yours has fallen sick due to corporate viruses such as global econom…
This is packed with practical, action-oriented principles, tools, and techniques for making your strategic plan a reality. At its core, the book pinpoints and explains the 18 keys to strategy implementation. Derived from both the author's extensive experience and in-depth interviews with CEOs, these are the essential steps for developing and enacting the strategic plan tasks - and for successfu…
The phrase "information overload" had become a commonplace even before the Internet changed the way we think about knowledge distribution. In our newly digital world, where cell phones, palm devices, and email are ubiquitous, the most precious commodity of all is attention. Companies that can't command the attention of their customers and employees will suffer in what Thomas H. Davenport and Jo…
What's the difference between organizations and managers that fail and those that succeed? It's simple: successful managers and organizations do a better job of implementing those basic management practices that get results. In this book, Clint Longenecker and Jack Simonetti draw on the wisdom of over two thousand high-performing managers to show you how to improve not only your own performance…
Either create less clutter or make more sense of it faster than the competition-and you win. But how do you make sense of the clutter? In Simplicity, Bill Jensen offers a highly engaging and practical approach to competing in the fast-paced information age. Drawing on a ground-breaking study of over 2,500 people in more than 450 companies, Jensen presents new tools and strategies for applyin…
Over the next decade, two out of every three companies will face the challenge of their corporate lives: redefining their core business. Buffeted by global competition and facing an uncertain future, more and more executives will realize that they must make fundamental changes in their core even as they continue delivering the goods and services that keep them in business today. "Unstoppable" s…
The Balanced Scorecard has risen to the performance measurement challenge of the private sector and is equally well-equipped to facilitate a rapid and dramatic transition of twenty-first-century nonprofit and public organizations." —from Chapter Two The emphasis today on demonstrated organizational performance is not limited to private-sector corporations. Public and nonprofit agencies a…