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Business Model Generationby Alexander Osterwalder; Yves Pigneur
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2010; US$ 20.27Business 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...
Next 100 Years, Theby George Friedman
Allison & Busby 2010; US$ 8.34The New York Times Bestseller If you think you know where the world is headed, think again Mexico making a bid for global supremacy? Poland becoming America?s closest ally? World War III taking place in space? It might sound fantastic but all these things can happen. In The Next 100 Years , George Friedman, author of the huge bestseller America?s Secret War offers a lucid, highly readable forecast of the changes we can expect around the world during the 21st century. He predicts where and why future wars will erupt, and how they will be fought; which nations will gain and lose economic and political power; and how new technologies and cultural trends will alter the way we live in the new century. more...
Essays in Econometrics: Volume 2, Causality, Integration and Cointegration, and Long Memoryby Clive W. J. Granger; Eric Ghysels; Norman R. Swanson; Mark W. Watson; Peter Hammond; Alberto Holly
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 50.00These essays by Clive W. J. Granger span more than four decades and cover major topics in causality, integration, cointegration, and long memory. The introduction by Eric Gysels, Norman R. Swanson, and Mark W. Watson places the essays in context and demonstrates their enduring value. more...
Essays in Econometrics: Volume 1, Spectral Analysis, Seasonality, Nonlinearity, Methodology, and Forecastingby Clive W. J. Granger; Eric Ghysels; Norman R. Swanson; Mark W. Watson; Peter Hammond; Alberto Holly
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 48.00These essays by Clive W. J. Granger span more than four decades and cover major topics in spectral analysis, seasonality, nonlinearity, methodology, and forecasting. The introduction by Eric Gysels, Norman R. Swanson and Mark W. Watson places the essays in context and demonstrates their enduring value. more...
Strategic Managementby Paul W. Dobson; Ken Starkey; John Richards
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 45.00This highly popular introduction to strategic management has now been revised to take account of the latest developments in the field. New edition of a highly popular introduction to strategic management. Provides a clear framework for understanding the issues in corporate strategy, supported by current case examples. Revised to take account of the latest development in the field. Now features twelve new cases. Includes new chapters on issues relating to the resource-based view of the firm, innovation, learning, and the ‘new economy’. Includes a new concluding chapter looking at present and future issues in strategic management. Continues to combine the latest management concepts with and emphasis on current business... 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$ 21.78Within 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...