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81. |  Business Strategy and Applications in Enterprise IT Governance By: Wim Van Grembergen; Steven De Haes Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 11-OCT-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Business Strategy and Applications in Enterprise IT Governance Within the IT-related business domain, it is important to advance theory building and practices regarding management and governance issues. Business Strategy and Applications in Enterprise IT Governance emphasizes how organizations enable both businesses and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT enabled corporation investments. This publication distributes leading research that is both academically executed and relevant for practice in the professional IT and business community....
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82. |  By: Dr Tony Grundy Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 21-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Demystifying Strategy Demystifying Strategy provides you with not only the basic strategic tools and techniques but also a thorough understanding of the entire process of strategic thinking and management. Using tips, guidelines and exercises it helps you to assess your own strategic mind and covers key topics such as: the different perspectives on strategy, economic analysis, dynamic competitive positioning, designing and evaluating options, implementation, managing the strategy process and how to nurture your strategic mind. Aimed at executives, entrepreneurs and also...
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83. |  By: Josephine Hofmann; Matthias Knoll Publisher: dpunkt Publication Date: 15-APR-2012 Insert Date: 20-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategisches IT-Management Systematisches strategisches Planen, Gestalten und Unterhalten von Informationssystemen, -architekturen und Datenmodellen ist zentrale Aufgabe der obersten Managementebene. Denn IT ist ein kritischer Faktor für den nachhaltigen Geschäfts- bzw. Organisationserfolg, egal ob es um die Unterstützung interner Prozesse oder das Angebot IT-basierter Dienstleistungen und Produkte geht.HMD 284 gibt einen aktuellen Abriss über entsprechende Ansätze und Erfahrungen und thematisiert dabei Fragen der ROI-Ermittlung und der IT-Governance genauso wie die des Architektur- und Servicemanagements, der...
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84. |  Competition, Strategy, and Modern Enterprise Information Systems By: Madjid Tavana Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 30-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 18-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Competition, Strategy, and Modern Enterprise Information Systems Providing a central organization for shared information, large businesses continue to rely on enterprise information systems to offer quality service when deadline with large volumes of data. Competition, Strategy, and Modern Enterprise Information Systems provides extensive coverage on the organizational, managerial and technologies concerns of enterprise information systems and its executive competitiveness. This collection of original research aims to bring together a discussion for innovative ideas and developments in the EIS field. ...
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85. |  By: Alistair Croll; Benjamin Yoskovitz Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 11-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 14-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Lean Analytics Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an intrapreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers, decide what to build, how to monetize your business, and how to spread the word....
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86. |  Transformative Scenario Planning By: Adam Kahane Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 15-OCT-2012 Insert Date: 07-SEP-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Transformative Scenario Planning People who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They can’t solve their problems in their current context, which is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. Nor can they transform the system on their own or by working only with their friends or colleagues—systemic change requires the participation of actors from across the system, including strangers and opponents. But how can people work together if they don’t necessarily like, trust, or understand each other and disagree not only on what the solution is but even on...
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87. |  10 Steps to Successful Strategic Planning By: Susan Barksdale; Teri Lund Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Publication Date: 01-AUG-2006 Insert Date: 22-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 10 Steps to Successful Strategic Planning
Loaded with worksheets, exercises, tips, tools, checklists, and other easy-to-use and interactive learning aids, this book walks you through the process from beginning to end. Along the way, you will see how other organizations have planned their successs in many Case Study sidebars that enhance the easy-to-follow text.
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88. |  By: Jeffrey Russell; Linda Russell Publisher: American Society for Training & Development Publication Date: 01-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 09-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategic Planning 101
Strategic thinking strives to identify, explain, and learn from what is occurring now and integrate these insights into a formal plan. Strategic thinking means spontaneously discovering innovative strategies that a more formal plan could never have envisioned. This Infoline offers pointers on creating an effective and vibrant strategic plan. Thus, like a strategic plan, this Infoline doesn't provide you with answers so much as a map of future possibilities with keys for reading it that will help your organization move ahead creatively.
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89. |  Value Creation from E-Business Models By: Wendy Currie Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Publication Date: 01-OCT-2004 Insert Date: 07-AUG-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Value Creation from E-Business Models
Value Creation from E-Business Models provides a thorough analysis of what constitutes an e-business model. Unlike many e-business books available, this text draws together theoretical and empirical contributions from leading academic scholars in the field of management information systems. Divided into four parts, E-Business Models and Taxonomies; E-Business Markets; E-Business Customer Performance Measurement; and E-Business Vendor Applications and Services, this book is the critical dissection of E-Business that today's academic community needs. * World class academic contributors...
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90. |  By: Peter Sander Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 08-NOV-2011 Insert Date: 24-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What would Steve Jobs do? Lead and Succeed Like the World’s Greatest Business Innovator
There’s no accounting for Steve Jobs’s mind. He just didn’t think the way the rest of the world does. Regarded by many as the most innovative and influential business leader of our time, Jobs was a visionary beyond compare. He was why Apple is Apple and everyone else is everyone else.
We can’t transform ourselves into Steve Jobs. How he put his ideas into action, however, was systematic, efficient, focused, and smart. And this you can do.
What Would Steve Jobs Do? presents the six-part business model Jobs applied to make...
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91. |  By: Jeffrey W. Hayzlett; Jim Eber Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 13-DEC-2011 Insert Date: 24-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Running the Gauntlet Change your ATTITUDE. Change your BUSINESS. Change your FUTURE.
What’s stopping you from making the changes your business needs to thrive? The most dangerous move in business is the failure to make a move at all. The history of business is filled with companies that are no more because their leaders refused to enact change when the writing was on the wall. Fear. Apathy. Lack of personal responsibility. These simple human flaws can turn a good company into a dead company.
The writing on the wall has never been clearer than it is now—and marketing phenomenon Jeffrey Hayzlett is on a mission...
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92. |  By: Linda Gorchels Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 13-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 24-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Forget “business as usual.”
Don’t believe everything you read about “best practices.”
There is no “magic bullet.”
When your market changes, you have to change your strategy and take control of your own success. You have to renew your business model.
In a global market that is constantly evolving, you can’t expect “magic bullets” or “best practices”—or any stand-alone business philosophy that many books and gurus offer—to guide your company through good times and bad. Instead you need to take an active role in reviewing and retooling your strategies. You need to stop thinking “business...
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93. |  The Growing Business Handbook, 14th Edition By: Adam Jolly Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Growing Business Handbook, 14th Edition The Growing Business Handbook is a superb reference tool for all businesses with growth potential, filled with invaluable insights and guidance from SME specialists in finance, HR, marketing, innovation, people and IT, as well as help on enterprise risk and useful legal advice. It is the reference source of choice to help you ensure and manage business growth, particularly in challenging economic conditions. Now in its 14th edition, this book looks at all the areas ripe for exploitation by your growing business and discusses ways you can manage the associated...
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94. |  Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy By: Daniel Denison; Robert Hooijberg; Nancy Lane; Colleen Lief Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leading Culture Change in Global Organizations: Aligning Culture and Strategy
Filled with case studies from firms such as GT Automotive, GE Healthcare China, Vale, Dominos, Swiss Re Americas Division, and Polar Bank, among others, this book (written by Dan Denison and his co-authors) combines twenty years of research and survey results to illustrate a critical set of cultural dynamics that firms need to manage in order to remain competitive. Each chapter uses a case as a means to illustrate an important aspect of culture change focusing on seven common culture-change dilemmas including creating a strategic alignment, keeping strategy simple, and more.
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95. |  Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions, Second Edition By: Babette E. Bensoussan; Craig S. Fleisher Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 17-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 20-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Analysis Without Paralysis: 12 Tools to Make Better Strategic Decisions, Second Edition Since the publication of the original edition, the importance of
interpreting business data has become mission critical for
professionals in all types of businesses. These professionals
have discovered the benefits of business analysis to address their
organizations most crucial strategic and tactical challenges.
The Second Edition of this successful guide to business analysis,
shows readers how to apply analytical tools without having to mire
themselves in advanced math or arcane theory. Analysis Without
Paralysis teaches readers the fundamentals of business analysis
through the use of 12...
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Measure the Impact of Online Marketing (Collection) By: Melanie Mitchell, Jamie Turner, R. Scott Corbett, Michael Tasner Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 26-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 05-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Measure the Impact of Online Marketing (Collection) Understand the Business Value
You’re Getting from Social Media, so You Can Optimize It:
Now, Tomorrow, and for Years to Come
Four great books show you how to capture the
data you need to drive better results from social and online
marketing—and use that data to improve ROI, quickly and
continuously. In SEO & PPC: Better Together, Melanie
Mitchell shows how to use SEO and pay-per-click together to achieve
better results than either can deliver alone. You’ll learn
how to integrate SEO and PPC in campaigns that engage more
consumers and use data from both to improve the performance of
each....
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Strategic Planning and New Product Development By: Frank A. Tillman; Deandra T. Cassone Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 31-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 05-JUL-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Strategic Planning and New Product Development In Strategic Planning and New Product
Development, world-class decision support experts Frank A.
Tillman and Deandra T. Cassone present a complete corporate
strategic planning model for selecting new products: a model that
can be used to systematically manage and evaluate business and/or
new product opportunities from conception to commercialization.
Tillman and Cassone’s model captures input on goals and
objectives from all levels of the organization, translates these
goals and objectives into clear decision criteria, and generates
metrics that can be used to measure the success of...
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98. |  Implementing New Business Models in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations By: Te Fu Chen Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-DEC-2010 Insert Date: 27-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Implementing New Business Models in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations As technology continues to evolve, existing business models become limited with respect to complexity and speed. Accordingly, significant transformation has shaped the economy and business environments in recent decades.Implementing New Business Models in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations: Technologies and Applications provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on a new platform of business models and then explores the relationship between the new Business 2.0 alliance and Web 2.0....
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99. |  Systémique et entreprise: Mettre en œuvre une stratégie de changement, 3e édition By: Jacques-Antoine Malarewicz Publisher: Pearson France Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 23-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Systémique et entreprise: Mettre en œuvre une stratégie de changement, 3e édition
Réorganisation, promotion, départ ou recrutement. . . Dans l'entreprise, la conduite du changement ne peut se résumer à des directives ou à des procédures. Son succès dépend avant tout de la capacité des dirigeants et des consultants à agir sur les groupes dont toute société est constituée. Quel que soit le modèle de l'organisation, les compétences relationnelles des managers jouent ainsi un rôle capital.
La systémique, caractérisée par l'étude des relations à l'intérieur des groupes humains, est un outil de choix pour aider à la mise en oeuvre des stratégies de changement....
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100. |  By: George Labovitz; Victor Rosansky Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 29-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 13-JUN-2012 Slots: 1.0 | The alignment tools you need to win in today’s complex, fast-paced business world
“In The Power of Alignment, Labovitz and Rosansky showed us that organizational alignment was essential for success. They helped us focus on mission accomplishment while driving out cost. In Rapid Realignment they show us again how great leaders are working alignment every day!”
—ADMIRAL VERN CLARK, former Chief of U.S. Naval Operations
“What are the enablers of business success? A clear plan, effective execution, and a willingness to adapt quickly are important, but the big enabler is talented, engaged,...
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