Wired magazine editor and bestselling author Chris Anderson takes you to the front lines of a new industrial revolution as today's entrepreneurs, using open source design and 3-D printing, bring manufacturing to the desktop. In an age of custom-fabricated, do-it-yourself product…
In 'Traction', successful entrepreneurs Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares offer a comprehensive overview of the various ways startups can achieve strong, sustainable growth, and a guide to choosing the ones that will make the difference to your business. Why do so many startups …
Management consulting: a guide to the profession
This guide offers an introduction to professional consulting, its nature, methods, organizational principles, behavioural rules, and training and development practices. The modern information- and knowledge-based economy is constantly creating new opportunities and challenges fo…
Firm growth. This concept has interested researchers for generations. Economists have sought to predict and measure firm growth using a host of different variables, while strategic management scholars depict growth as the result of clever analyses and rational resource exploitat…
Business Process Management (BPM) has emerged as a popular management framework. Based on survey results of Japanese and Korean companies' BPM practices, this book demonstrates how to build BPM as a holistic management model by addressing the importance of BPM views, the effecti…
This volume is a collection of thought leadership pieces written by leaders in business, academia and consulting firms from around the world. It offers a compliation of knowledge from people across industries and across the globe on a variety of strategic issues facing executive…
This volume draws upon logic in order to evaluate strategic plans. It begins with an explanation of the elements of logic and how these can be applied to basic decisions, develops a framework for the analysis of company strategic development, including themes such as globalizati…
In this sequel to "The 80/20 Principle", the author reveals how things really work - the universal, powerful patterns in nature, society, organizations and markets, the power laws - that can be applied successfully to life and business today. Drawn from every element of the sci…
Many change management programmes designed to implement new technology are unsuccessful. The author draws upon a number of perspectives in change management and organisational strategy to show that failure is often not to do with technical factors but because of resistance of th…
The myth of innovation is that brilliant ideas leap fully formed from the minds of geniuses. The reality is that most innovations come from a process of rigorous examination through which great ideas are identified and developed before being realized as new offerings and capabil…
There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few 'must reads' for anybody seriously interested in the role of management within the firm. Origin…