In this unpredictable economy, The Phoenix Effect: 9 Revitalizing Strategies No Business Can Do Without provides practical, strategic options to improve a struggling business or to further strengthen a healthy business. Carter Pate, a renewal specialist at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, and Harlan Platt, a renowned professor of business and finance at Northeastern University, collaborate here to prov…
In the new economy knowledge management is vital. Knowledge management allows companies to leverage their most precious assets, collective know-how, talent and experience. Only by focusing on these precious resources can companies handle new market challenges and opportunities. But hype and confusion plague knowledge management. This book gives you everything you need to know as well as a fr…
Describes the basics of the current knowledge movement in the organizational world. Drawing on the examples of over thirty firms, the authors explain what knowledge in an organization is, how managers can analyze and measure it, and what is the proper way to utilize it for greater efficiency. They categorize knowledge work into the four categories of accessing, generating, embedding, and transf…
This book shows exactly how to put theory into practice, sharing the tools used and the experience and insights gained by two leading knowledge management practitioners. In Learning to Fly, Chris Collison and Geoff Parcell share their experiences from BP, one of the world's leading knowledge organisations. It is a practical, pragmatic workbook packed with hints and tips to help managers put kno…
The best plan is useless without effective execution The future of business has become so unpredictable that your five-year plan may be irrelevant next week. To succeed in the modern market, you must constantly assess your progress and adapt on the fly. Agility, flexibility, continual learning, and adaptation are the new rules of business success. A differentiating strategy is crucia…
Buku ini berisi pemanfaatan rerangka "balanced scorecard" sebagai inti sistem perencanaan laba jangka panjang "(long-range profit planning)". Dengan rerangka "balanced scorecard", sistem perencanaan jangka panjang difokuskan untuk mendongkrak kemampuan perusahaan dalam menghasilkan kinerja keuangan. Sistem perencanaan laba jangka panjang yang terdiri dari sistem perumusan strategi, sistem peren…
Winner, Axiom Business Book Awards: 2011 Best Business Technology Book Buoyed by the success of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, thousands of companies of all sizes are fundamentally rethinking how they do business. They are creating vibrant ecosystems and, in the process, reaping big rewards. In the tradition of The Long Tail, The Age of the Platform demonstrat…
Building on his experience with more than one hundred consulting projects in fields ranging from health care to manufacturing, from utilities to financial services, Schoemaker shows how major corporations throughout the world have used his pathbreaking methodology to prepare for an uncertain future and profit from it. In this first comprehensive approach to the subject, Schoemaker shows the rea…
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 …