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Scenario planning helps organization leaders, executives and decision-makers envision and develop strategies for multiple possible futures instead of just one. It enables organizations to become resilient and agile, carefully calibrating their responses and adapting quickly to new circumstances in a fast-changing environment. This book is the most comprehensive treatment to date of the scenario planning process. Unlike existing books it offers a thorough...
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Strategy is only as brilliant as its execution. Strategy execution is the last competitive advantage, and strength, speed and agility in execution are more important than a perfectly mapped-out strategy based on feasibility and predictability.
80% how-to with 50 innovation methods and new business models.
Strategy = Execution is for leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs who view strategy execution as their principal job instead of strategy definition....
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It's getting tougher to develop a winning formula in today's business world. Competition is fierce. Customers are demanding, fickle and unpredictable and employees are looking for insightful and caring leadership. In response, extreme energy in most organizations is spent on trying to develop the "perfect" strategy or Plan that, due to its superb strategic essence, is viewed by all as a "slam dunk" to succeed. Unfortunately, the Plan, regardless of...
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Since early 2013, we have been helping companies understand how digital has a potentially disruptive impact on their future. We advise CEO's from news media, radio and TV, banks, HR, automotive, retailers and many other industries on digital transformation. As international economists, consulting companies and opinion makers are increasingly talking about the importance of digital disruption, we are starting to feel the acceleration in interest in...
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Rob McMaster poured his heart and soul into his father's business for 38 years, but at 54 was concerned that he lacked a successor. Intent on early succession planning, Rob established a formal Employee Share Ownership Plan to transfer ownership of his company to his employees. Then the unthinkable happened: Rob was struck with severe and debilitating health challenges just as the economy faltered and manufacturing industries were struggling.
When...
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In Inclusion: STILL the Competitive Business Advantage, Shirley Engelmeier continues her contributions to thought leadership on the importance of inclusion in an environment that has been roiled with new discussion–and new dissent–amid rapidly changing demographics, continually emerging technology and a global economy that is continually shifting to favor newly emerging market powerhouses. Within this framework one thing remains a constant–the...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 The author attended his first big investment conference and heard a prominent hedge fund manager predict that low-cost, systematic investment strategies would become available to the public. This would lead to a sea change in the investment management industry.
#2 The author was a finance rookie, and could not understand why experienced investors would not be excited...
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David Broadbent presented a number of theories round a case study at the OMG 'BPM Think Tank' in November 2008 in Putten, Netherlands. The main points were that lots of organisations suffer from some or all of the following: • No Cross-functional communication or co-operation. • No understanding of the end-to-end process • No ownership of the end-to-end process • Blame culture • Silo mentality • Resistance to change • Lack of process...
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As we approach the twenty-first century, the requirement for
business planning has never been clearer. Organizations today
stood up to with expanding aggressive weights, perpetually
requesting clients, and quickening and intermittent change.
Given the new economic substances, planning can't be a
dynamic activity or a formal movement. Planning must shape
the establishment guaranteeing that the business will involve
those activities required to set...
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Strategy essentially involves competing to be unique. It is the key to achieving goals through proper planning, resourcing, implementation and evaluation of various strategy management tactics. The strategy is essentially the choices an organization makes, that defines what markets to be served and how to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The strategy involves taking basic directional decisions for organizational purposes and missions....
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Over the last fifteen years, every major aspect of our lives has changed because of Facebook. You may not like Facebook, but you can't deny its success. And, to a large degree, that success stems from the "move fast" ethos. The entire culture of Facebook is, built for speed.
Move Fast is an exploration of modern software strategies and tactics through the lens of Facebook. Relying on in-depth interviews with more than two dozen Facebook engineers,...
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Think tanks and research organizations set out to influence policy ideas and decisions-a goal that is key to the very fabric of these organizations. And yet, the ways that they actually achieve impact or measure progress along these lines remains fuzzy and underexplored. What Should Think Tanks Do? A Strategic Guide for Policy Impact is the first practical guide that is specifically tailored to think tanks, policy research, and advocacy organizations....
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Planning today is plagued by a lack of imagination. It's often difficult, when working with a business, organization, or any group of people, to upend traditional thinking and unlock new ideas and new possibilities. If you are a strategic planner, or anyone charged with managing growth or facilitating change, it is important to add to your arsenal tools that will allow you to break unhealthy groupthink, avoid old patterns, and escape narrow safe...
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A new approach to designing simple and powerful strategy by harnessing organizational talent and creativity.
Strategy is important, but it's not easy to come up with fresh ideas needed for success, let alone bring them to life. Uncertainty about the future, the pressure of competition, risk aversion, and those boring planning meetings employees sit through sap confidence and enthusiasm and produce timid templates for maintaining status quo.
This...
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The airline industry is in freefall with COVID-19 restrictions closing international borders. Experts predict that half of the world's airlines could face bankruptcy. What should the airlines do? International consultant and author Ron Bartsch applies 20-20 Thinking and comes up with the solution-start a new domestic airline.
So much about our world has changed beyond recognition in 2020 as the coronavirus upends our lives. We are now faced with...
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With unique and proven strategies for wealth accumulation, “More Wealth, Less Taxes” is designed for individuals seeking ways to pay lower taxes during their lifetime, especially during retirement.
As a veteran in the financial services industry, Lance Belline knows how essential it is to save strategically and understand how the tax code works. More Wealth, Less Taxes is his guide for anyone who wants to go from "good" to "great" financially....
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Fast paced, enjoyable to read and even more fun to look at, Your Exit Map: Navigating the Boomer Bust is a new kind of business book for the 21st century. Modern technology and the Internet combine to surpass the drab, text filled "drone tomes" that fill too many business owners' shelves.
Over 200 illustrations, photos, graphs and cartoons take the reader through the historical shifts that created a generation of Boomer entrepreneurs, and the equally...
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Will you be able to retire while you're still young enough to enjoy it?
Are you working hard but not producing the results you'd like?
You need a way to work smarter, not harder. You need leverage.
In “The Leverage Equation: How to Work Less, Make More, and Cut 30 Years Off Your Retirement Plan”, former hedge fund manager and five-time author Todd Tresidder unpacks the principles, strategies, and tools you need to grow your wealth in time to...
99) Road to nowhere
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For years, Wardsville sat nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, a peaceful small town. The kind of place where neighbors care for each other. But that's until unexpected funding arrives to build a road into town. With millions to be gained in land and development deals--and millions to be lost for those in the road's way--everyone has something at stake. Suddenly, this quiet town is torn in two as neighbor turns on neighbor. The fate...
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Strategy essentially involves competing to be unique. It is the key to achieving goals through proper planning, resourcing, implementation and evaluation of various strategy management tactics. The strategy is essentially the choices an organization makes, that defines what markets to be served and how to gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace. The strategy involves taking basic directional decisions for organizational purposes and missions....
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