Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The First Mile
A Launch Manual for Getting Great Ideas into the Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
You have a great idea, now what?
That first mile-where an innovation moves from an idea on paper to the market-is often plagued by failure. In fact, less than one percent of ideas launched by big companies end up having real impact. The ideas aren’t the problem. It’s the process.
The...
Business Execution for RESULTS
A Practical Guide for Leaders of Small to Mid-Sized Firms
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
"Business Execution for RESULTS" was named Judges' Choice Winner in the Management category of the 2014 Small Business Book Awards. The awards celebrate the best business books that appeal to entrepreneurs, managers, and their employees. The Winners were chosen by an expert panel of 24 judges...
Map the Future
How to Create Great Strategies Using Market, Competitive, and Technology Information
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
“Even before finishing the book, I had written a stream of emails to my professional colleagues, making suggestions for new approaches in our projects, based on the examples I had just read.” —David W. Wood, Technology Planning Lead, Accenture Mobility
Map the Future is a how-to book...
by Gin Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
A writer’s career path is challenging enough without the additional dangers of stumbling blindly into the various literary swamps, scams and unnecessary detours. A business plan tailored to your specific needs can serve as a map that guides you through the dangers and keeps you focused on your destination.This...
Business Strategies for Electrical Infrastructure Engineering
Capital Project Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
With the principles of business strategies in mind, the analysis of cost containment plans, project risk evaluation, and the wide-range of quality planning techniques is essential for the integration of renewable generation and capital-intense endeavors in the current electrical infrastructure. Business...
The Strategic Planning Process
Understanding Strategy in Global Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Strategic management is a field that has diversity in approach and scope, but relative homogeneity in pedagogy. This book, a refreshed edition of its successful predecessor, brings something different to the field, by concisely introducing it with a focus on doing business in the Middle East and North...
Design Works
How to Tackle Your Toughest Innovation Challenges through Business Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
High-profile business leaders in organizations around the world now use approaches and methods from the design world to drive breakthrough innovation and growth.
How can you translate design thinking into doing in a way that will lead to bigger breakthroughs and business strategies for success?
Design...
The Art of War for Small Business
Defeat the Competition and Dominate the Market with the Masterful Strategies of Sun Tzu
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Over two and a half millennia ago, Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu taught that size alone does not guarantee victory--strategy, positioning, planning, and leadership all play equally significant roles in overpowering the opposition. Today, this classic treatise is perfect for adapting to the world...
Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery
A Standards-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Business Continuity from Preparedness to Recovery: A Standards-Based Approach details the process for building organizational resiliency and managing Emergency and Business Continuity programs. With over 30 years of experience developing plans that have been tested by fire, floods, and earthquakes,...
Advancing Sustainability at the Sub-National Level
The Potential and Limitations of Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Sustainability notions have been widely embraced by planners. However, the question of what can planners contribute to the advancement of such notions has not received much attention until now. This volume examines the potential contribution of planning to the advancement of sustainability at sub-national...
by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Become an Expert on the Work Breakdown Structure!
The basic concept and use of the work breakdown structure (WBS) are fundamental in project management. In Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises, author Gregory T. Haugan, originator of the widely accepted 100 percent rule,...
by Brian H. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
This tool kit provides a framework and tools for conducting rapid assessments to prepare city economic development plans in Asian cities. An analytical framework guides the reader through a series of steps for three analytical and assessment processes. These are designed to prepare economic profiles;...
Employed for Life
21st-Century Career Trends
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Employed for Life: 21st-Century Career Trends is the first book to explore career development from the viewpoints of firm managers, HR professionals, recruiters, job seekers, and employees. It examines such topics as new developments in recruiting and career development; the ways social, cultural,...
by Margareta Nelke
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
This book is aimed at guiding managers towards systematic approaches to improve and facilitate necessary strategic business development and planning. Conditions in the workplace for the Library and Information Services (LIS) are rapidly changing: many organizations are experiencing budget restrictions...