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Business Model Generationby Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 34.95Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation . Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will... more...
Benefit-Cost Analysisby Harry F. Campbell; Richard P. C. Brown
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 30.00This book offers the perfect introduction to benefit-cost analysis. It closely integrates the theory and practice of benefit-cost analysis using a spreadsheet framework. For further information please visit http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/bca more...
The Extreme Futureby James Canton
Penguin Group Inc. 2006; US$ 12.99A renowned global futurist prepares businesses and individuals for the radical changes on the horizon An advisor to three presidents spanning over thirty years, Dr. James Canton identifies probable outcomes and future trends in business, technology, environment, terrorism, population, and medicine to help companies and individuals prepare for the coming complex and volatile global changes, including: ? How climate change and energy trends will reshape the planet ? How astounding medicine trends will enhance people?s lives ? How the rise of China will bring on a new global power struggle In the tradition of Future Shock, Megatrends , and The Tipping Point, Extreme Future is the essential forecasting handbook for navigating the... more...
Synergyby Andrew Campbell; Michael J. Goold
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1998; US$ 32.95Synergy is the business strategist's major goal - but why is it so difficult to achieve? The authors of this book argue that there are four biases which prevent managers from making good decisions. They offer instead, the idea of four mental biases as antidotes. more...
The Ultimate Business Guru Bookby Stuart Crainer
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1998; US$ 14.75This work provides summaries of the strategic business thinking of a range of business 'gurus', along with an assessment of the impact that these thinkers have had on the business world. It is intended to offer a fast path into the ideas of those who have made a difference. more...
The 500 Year Deltaby Jim Taylor; Watts Wacker; Howard Means
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 1998; US$ 14.75This work offers insights into the evolving business future, over the next 500 years. It asks, 'How will the accelerating pace of technology transform the way people view themselves and organize their lives?', and, 'Why will the workplace of the future only be occupied by owners and temps?'. more...
New Directions in Corporate Strategyby Garry Twite; Michael O'Keeffe
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 27.22Within firms both large and small, thoughts on strategy have undergone profound changes in the 1990s. The way decision makers come to understand why some firms compete successfully and others fail, and the role managers play in each firm's fate, is very different to the 1980s. This text offers an introduction to the approaches which have made the greatest contribution to the new directions in strategic thinking. more...
Eurofuturesby David Smith
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2004; US$ 37.50"Few issues lend themselves better to multi-scenario planning than the future of Europe. Here David Smith has filled a glaring gap. He has done so with breadth of vision, open-mindedness, and an authorative command of this complex subject. It is a combination that makes this thoughtful book a must for business planners and policy makers. It also uniquely appeals to Europhiles and Euro-sceptics alike." —Bill Jamieson, Sunday Telegraph "At a time when Europe’s future is the subject of a grand experiment, this detailed exploration of what the results might be is invaluable. Everyone will find something to agree with — or disagree with — in Eurofutures. Either way it provides an immense amount of food for thought." —Diane... more...
The 21st Century Managerby Di Kamp
Kogan Page 1999; US$ 14.95In examining how to be a successful manager in the coming century, Di Kamp emphasizes the need to continue to learn and set an example. The main premise is that the most powerful thing a manager does is to 'be'. The 21st Century Manager provides a route map which demonstrates how to discard conventional thinking and outdated theory and also assimilate fresh ideas, creative activities, flexibility, responsiveness, and adaptablility; qualities distinguishing the manager of the next millennium. more...
Russia 2010by Daniel Yergin; Thane Gustafson
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1994; US$ 11.95From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, The Prize, this book analyzes one of the most important events of the 20th and 21st centuries - what comes next after the collapse of the Soviet Union. It uses the management technique of scenario planning to build four stories of the future. more...









