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Explains how to make money in an open innovation landscape. This book provides a diagnostic instrument enabling you to assess your company's current business model, and explains how to overcome common barriers to creating a more open model. It also offers examples of companies that have developed such models - including Procter and Gamble and IBM.

(Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)

The information revolution has made for a radically more fluid knowledge environment, and the growth of venture capital has created inexorable pressure towards fast commercialisation of technologies. Companies that don't use the technologies they develop are likely to lose them.

(Hardback, First Trade Paper Edition)

Shows how companies can use their business model to identify an enlightened role for R&D in a world of abundant information, manage and access intellectual property, advance their current business, and grow their future business. This book shows how open innovation can unlock the latent economic value in a company's ideas and technologies.

(Hardback)

China has matured as a market - and the game has changed. This title explains how you can achieve superior execution in China - through operations including talent management, product development, information technology, procurement, supply-chain management, manufacturing, and sales, marketing, and distribution.

(Hardback)

Thompson explains how organizations use prediction markets to change how business gets done. The successes and failures of these companies, along with the roadblocks they face and overcome, provide a roadmap for leaders brave enough to test their expertise.

(Hardback)

Provides a six-stage strategic plan to guide managers through the transformation from a hierarchical organization to an IT-enabled network organization. The authors aim to help managers to avoid the classic pitfalls that cause the failure of most organizational transformations.

(Paperback, New edition)

Aims to tackle the fundamental business issue facing managers: how to continue to create value as competition intensifies.

(Paperback)

Wondering how the most accomplished leaders from around the globe have tackled their toughest challenges This work includes 12-14 essays by some of the top leaders in industry, the public sector, and academia on the most pressing issues they've faced.

(Hardback)

From launching start-ups to taking on the family business to helping kids in the Arabian Gulf to harnessing new technology and developing clean energy - this title reveals how the next generation of ideas, aspirations, and practices are shaping business and redefining leadership around the world.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Offers a way to think about and manage innovation that improves the odds of success. This book offers advice on when to pursue cash flow indirectly by first pursuing other benefits, such as brand and knowledge. It also presents a list of decisions and activities to achieve a high return on innovation.

(Hardback)

Highlights the various sources of emotional energy unique to organizations and the discipline companies need to follow their chosen paths. This book provides guidelines for managers seeking to reshape their practices to achieve better performance from their own workforces and gain the resulting competitive edge.

(Paperback)

Designed to provide advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the relevant topics in business. This title is suitable for managers seeking to expand skills and a professional looking to broaden knowledge base, and helps them prepare for a formal performance meeting with a direct report, and create a development plan.

(Hardback)

Breaks down the key components of the Emerson management process and shows how this core process enables Emerson to address and overcome major challenges ranging from technological discontinuities to intense global competition. This book covers leadership, management and competitiveness that can be applied in various companies or industries.

(Hardback)

From emerging technologies to changes in consumer tastes, tremendous opportunities and threats often begin as weak signals from the periphery. How good is your organisation at sensing, interpreting and acting on these signals This book helps an organization see further to seize the opportunities and avoid the risks that come from the periphery.

(Paperback)

Persuasive people generate real value for their companies by turning ideas into action. But persuasion isn't easy: it takes practice, patience, and psychological savvy. This book enables you to: build your credibility; adapt your pitch to your audience; win your listeners' minds and hearts; and, overcome resistance to your proposals.

(Paperback)

A guide for managers, consultants, and business students. For nearly half a century, Peter Drucker has inspired and educated managers - and influenced the nature of business - with his landmark articles in the "Harvard Business Review". This work gathers together a collection of his work.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Provides a framework for analyzing, choosing, and implementing e-business enterprises. This book describes eight atomic business models. It introduces the e-business model schematic and shows how leaders can assess their business models, identify the models that suit them, and combine those models to create value propositions for customers.

(Hardback)

Reveals how Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, and companies including Palm and NTT DoCoMo, have orchestrated industry innovations to support their products - and, in the process, established dominant market positions. This book shows how firms can orchestrate innovation to ensure their own competitive futures, and drive the evolution of their industry.

(Hardback)

The focus of this book is how developing nations can learn to compete successfully in the global economy by applying the principles of competitive analysis. Seven key patterns of underperformance are identified and principles and practices are offered for overcoming them.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Recommends a useful agenda for CEOs - one that not only require them to rebuild their tarnished reputations, but to partner with government in charting a course. It contains understandings for anyone who wants to understand better the context for the changes sweeping over our country. and our world, and the role private enterprises must play.

(Hardback)