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How smart companies are opening up strategic initiatives to involve front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Why are some of the world’s most successful companies able to stay ahead of disruption, adopting and implementing innovative strategies, while others struggle? It’s not because they hire a new CEO or expensive consultants but rather because these pioneering companies have adopted a new way of strategizing. Instead of keeping strategic deliberations within the C-Suite, they open up strategic initiatives to a diverse group of stakeholders—front-line employees, experts, suppliers, customers, entrepreneurs, and even competitors. Open ...
This book explains how to use Lean principles to drive innovation and strategic portfolio planning. It outlines simple yet powerful visual Lean tools that can enhance idea generation and product development. It discusses customer value in the form of the benefits customers desire and walks readers through the processes of using Lean techniques to effectively evaluate the quality of any prospective marketing opportunity. Filled with examples that readers can easily relate to, it includes examples from a variety of industries including healthcare.
This pioneering book will familiarize you with benchmarking techniques that can be used to gauge and improve the performance of hospitality and tourism businesses anywhere! With compelling case studies drawn from hotel management, environmental systems, and destination practices, it examines important aspects of benchmarking, including satisfaction barometers, indicator development, and finding/networking with benchmarking partners.
Behind the Scenes of China’s Success Have you heard about flying taxis in China, robo-cars navigating through bustling cities, eco-friendly trains that travel at the speed of airplanes, and the government’s plans to establish colonies on the moon and Mars by the 2030s? What might seem like visionary science fiction is already becoming reality in China. In The Secrets of China’s Success, you’ll discover how China has managed to stay so far ahead of the Western world in the major technologies of the future as well as much more you didn’t know about this country of 1.4 billion people. The practical guide takes you on a journey through contemporary China, offering a unique and surprisi...
This study presents an inquiry into the power of the subconscious, explaining how it works and how it can help you in your everyday life.
The Digital Transformation Playbook: What You Need to Know and Do is anindispensable resource for you and your organization as you embark on theexciting and challenging journey of digital transformation. It features insightfulideas and best practices that drive digital transformation. Contributorsinclude leading thinkers and practitioners drawn from around the world.
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The formula that transforms the probability of success when growing your business with M&A The M&A Formula brings together decades of research and case studies from recognised leaders into a model that anybody can use to grow their business using M&A, no matter large or small. Whether you see it as avoiding the painful failure that currently runs at a Global average of over 50%, or stacking the cards in your favour, business model-driven M&A will definitely help you win by either seizing opportunities from your competition, or failing fast – before it really hurts you. M&As fail because the thinking surrounding them fails the rigour of scientific examination; by observing the results of co...
This book provides rigorous analysis of the wide range of questions surrounding the role of international institutions in governing global business, especially multinational enterprises (MNEs). The analysis, both theoretical and empirical, focuses on the corporate governance of MNEs and to what extent their management takes into account the negative effects of their activities. Also discussed are: how nation states and international institutions control the activities of MNEs, and how the role and strategies of international institutions can be changed to minimise any negative effects without hampering the positive aspects and effects of MNEs. Besides the general questions of corporate gover...
A pioneering guide to understanding and leading workforce ecosystems, which include not only traditional employees, contractors, and gig workers, but also partner and complementor organizations that work with companies to accomplish enterprise and individual goals. Who is your workforce? This was a simple question when most organizations focused on hiring full- and part-time employees, but now organizations engage with both internal and external collaborators including subcontractors, freelancers, app developers, marketplace sellers, and others. As technology enables new, more efficient forms of working, and roles become more project- and outcomes-based, workforces are evolving into workforc...