Corporate Strategy: A Resource-Based Approach (1998) by David J. Collis examines the resource-based view (RBV) of corporate strategy, offering a thorough framework for understanding how organizations can utilize their internal resources and strengths to achieve competitive advantage. Instead of focusing on external market conditions, the book emphasizes the strategic importance of internal reso…
Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation (1996) by Robert A. Burgelman, Clayton M. Christensen, and Steven C. Wheelwright provides a thorough exploration of how businesses can manage technological progress and innovation to gain and maintain a competitive edge. The book underscores the need to integrate technology strategy with corporate strategy across different organizational levels,…
This book provides management students and practising managers with an understanding of managing the complexities of organizational change effectively. It discusses the techniques and methods that can be used to aid such change.
In Venture Catalyst , Don Laurie offers an insider's perspective on the explosive world of corporate venturing through interviews with such pioneers as Roger Ackerman of Corning, David Wetherell of CMGI, and Mitch Kapor of Accel. Moreover, he offers a practical framework for identifying new sources of growth, launching and managing ventures, balancing the tension between established discipline …
(Pearson Education) Shows how knowledge about the dynamics of the innovation process can lead to competitive advantage and how it will create value for companies, including its shareholders, customers, and employees.
The landmark book that defines successful product development-revised, updated, and expanded for the next generation of product leaders. Presents a novel, practical perspective on how to think about a company and reinvent it without losing the value and knowledge embedded in the current organization.
This book is dedicated to those alliance managers who have... - Had the courage to build their careers on cooperation; - Empowered others with little desire for recognition or reward; - Faced challenges against often daunting odds; - Followed a vision, seen it shattered, picked it up, and tried again; - Left a legacy for others to build their dreams on; - Dared traverse uncharted waters w…
The Big Book of Humorous Training Games offers a unique approach to employee training by incorporating humor as a core element in learning activities. Compiled by Sharyn Weiss and Doni Tamblyn, this collection presents a wide array of training exercises designed to enhance essential workplace skills such as communication, innovation, teamwork, and stress reduction. The book emphasizes the role …
Christensen's earlier book examined how focusing on profits can destroy even well-run corporations, while this book focuses on companies expanding by being "disruptors" who are able to outpace their entrenched competition. The Innovator's Solution addresses a wide range of issues, including: - How can we tell if an idea has disruptive potential? - Which competitive situations favor incum-b…
This helpful resource contains tools and tricks to help companies excel in dynamic markets and provide groundbreaking products and services. The authors refer to this as innovation rather than strategic planning, but the truth is somewhere in-between: through a proven five-phase discovery process --for staging, aligning, exploring, creating, and mapping--strategic innovation will become a co…
In much of our lives, our mind operates on autopilot. Rather like the tourist who repeats the same words louder each time the local doesn't understand, we often tend to think and behave in set ways, even if it doesn t get us what we want. However, once we can spot our mental habits, we can change them. And, as result, we are more likely to: make the right things happen; come up with original id…
Asian Advantage is the most comprehensive and up-to-date strategic resource for managers and executives expanding their operations in Asia. Packed with current data on business, economic, cultural, and political conditions in each of the region's 14 most active countries, Asian Advantage provides a blueprint for doing business in the world's fastest growing area. Many books on Asian business ta…
In Call Me Ted, you'll hear Ted Turner's distinctive voice on every page. Always forthright, he tells you what makes him tick and what ticks him off, and delivers an honest account of what he's all about. Inspiring and entertaining, Call Me Ted sheds new light on one of the greatest visionaries of our time.
A marketing expert and author of the best-selling The End of Marketing as We Know It demonstrates the power of renovation over innovation within a business environment, explaining how to revitalize marketing strategies, improve growth, and retool one's business in order to improve the chance for success.
TrendSmart identifies twenty-one key trends that are transforming today's business environment. Louis Patler examines changes in consumer preferences, workforce behavior, and marketing approaches that disrupt conventional business practices. The book provides practical guidance and strategies for business leaders and organizations to anticipate and respond to these developments effectively. By …
The Innovator's Dilemma addresses the challenge that established companies face when disruptive innovations emerge, threatening their existing business models. Clayton M. Christensen explores the reasons why leading firms often struggle to adopt new technologies or innovations that initially seem less promising but eventually transform entire industries. Through empirical case studies and theor…
Business Think trans forms "workers" into businesspeople with provoca tive, powerful new rules that will help you: Make winning strategic business decisions, Have colleagues trust your judgment and leadership, Leverage and utilize your talents, Become highly influential and relevant, Create business value
"The Art of the Start" by Guy Kawasaki is the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs and visionaries who dream of turning their grand ideas into reality. Unleash your inner creativity and learn the essential skills needed to start anything, from startups to multinational organizations, with proven strategies from one of businesss' top strategists.
Tells how to commmunicate with a difficult boss, covers raises, motivation, career image, presentations, and teamwork, and suggests guidelines for running meetings
Focus, Al Ries explains, is the key factor in cor-porate competitiveness that can make your com-pany number one in the marketplace. Too many companies are hooked on growth, resulting in point-less mergers and acquisitions in the name of "syn-ergy" or misguided line extensions that dilute brand strength. Their managers need to focus, or these companies will suffer.