This insightful guide, which has proven hugely popular around the world in hardback, not only includes the most significant ideas that have influenced the management of business over the past century, but it also includes entries on the most influential business thinkers of the past and present. Entries on ideas include: Active Inertia; Disruptive Technology; Genchi Genbutsu (Japanese for "Go and See for Yourself"); The Halo Effect; The Long Tail; Pareto Principle ; Six Sigma;, Skunkworks; SWOT analysis; Thin Slicing; Tipping Point; Triple Bottom Line.
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Defines the essentials of successful marketing through concise essays on the value of brands, advertising and goods for the future. It also includes an A-Z of marketing concepts and key terms from attributes and concept testing, to psychographics and value analysis.
Strategy is back in fashion but more difficult than ever for business managers in the complex and fastmoving environment that they have to operate in todayNo single subject has dominated to so great an extent the thinking of managers, consultants and management theorists as corporate strategy. Without a clear and viable strategy a company cannot succeed. It influences every aspect of a company's from what it sells and to whom and how, to how it organises its finances and the people it employs. Pocket Strategy sets out a clear path through the intricacies of business strategy Concise essays on * Strategic issues for 21st century * Approaches to managing growth * What e-commerce strategy is right for your business * The global company * Managing change * Managements their uses and their dangers An A-Z of key terms and concepts * From ABC method and Alliance, to Strategic control and Window dressing Wide ranging lists and appendixes
