Product Description: This book examines planning as the critical influence on performance at work and in organizations.   Bridging theory and practice, it unites cutting-edge research findings from cognitive science, social psychology, industrial and organizational psychology, strategic management, and entrepreneurship, and describes the practical applications of these research findings for practitioners interested in improving planning performance in organizations...read more

Product Description: A business's overall strategy may be set at board level, but many people throughout the organisation will be involved in deciding that strategy and implementing it—making decisions that are strategic in nature.On these decisions hangs the future of the business: how successful it is, even whether it is successful...read more

Product Description: While there are numerous project management books on the market and a number on business processes and initiatives, there has been a lack of comprehensive guides to successfully manage business process improvement (BPI) projects, until now...read more

Product Description: The Knowledge Enterprise is a unique second edition about mastering business innovation. Industry-leading companies reveal the secrets and lessons of transition leadership, the importance of customer engagement and the power of open innovation...read more

Product Description: All the basics you need to design a successful business plan Whether you're starting your first business or you're a serial entrepreneur, you know how important a good business plan is to your business's ultimate success. Bad or non-existent business plans are a primary cause of business failure...read more

A guide to business planning, suitable for students and entrepreneurs alike. It brings together the processes and procedures required to write a business plan. With an emphasis on practicality, it contains 20 assignments with several worksheets and examples from the business plans of successful entrepreneurs.

Product Description: This book offers a practitioner's guide to the extensive and comprehensive use of data, data analysis, explanatory and predictive models and methods, and management based on facts, in support of business decisions and actions. Includes real-world case studies.

NOTE: This ISBN Is the 19th Edition which does not Include the Case Study Book. It includes only Concepts and Readings (GOP) The distinguishing mark of the 19th edition is its enriched and enlivened presentation of the material in each of the 12 chapters, providing an as up-to-date and engrossing discussion of the core concepts and analytical tools as you will find anywhere. There is an accompanying line-up of exciting new cases that bring the content to life and are sure to provoke interesting classroom discussions, deepening students' understanding of the material in the process. While this 19th edition retains the 12-chapter structure of the prior edition, every chapter – indeed every paragraph and every line – has been re – examined, refined, and refreshed. New content has been added to keep the material in line with the latest developments in the theory and practice of strategic management. In other areas, coverage has been trimmed to keep the book at a more manageable size. Scores of new examples have been added, along with 16 new Illustration Capsules, to enrich understanding of the content and to provide students with a ringside view of strategy in action. The result is a text that cuts straight to the chase in terms of what students really need to know and gives instructors a leg up on teaching that material effectively. It remains, as always, solidly mainstream and balanced, mirroring both the penetrating insight of academic thought and the pragmatism of real-world strategic management. Thompson 19e, your best case scenario!

Product Description: A strong business model is the bedrock to business success. But all too often we fail to adapt, clinging to outdated models that are no longer delivering the results we need.   The brains behind The Business Model Navigator have discovered that just 55 business models are responsible for 90% of the world's most successful businesses...read more

Provides entrepreneurs with the tools to start a successful new venture in a global marketplace. This book is organised to follow the process of new venture creation, from recognising an opportunity to testing a business concept in the marketplace to creating a company, and implementing the concept through the writing of a business plan.

Product Description: Opportunity-Centred Entrepreneurship connects theory and practice in a whole new way. Other entrepreneurship texts are primarily research and theory oriented, and simply tack on real-world examples, while this book offers a stronger practical approach...read more

Product Description: The most damning charge frequently levelled at strategic planning is that of irrelevance. Paul Hunter’s The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy is an antidote to conventional methods of strategic management that are renowned for being sporadic, biased, poorly articulated and rarely implemented with total success...read more