Provides the management system for companies to invest in the long term - in customers, in employees, in product development, and in systems - rather than managing the bottom line to pump up short-term earnings. This title attempts to change the way you measure and manage your business.

Drawing from a wider range of disciplines than is often the case in media management research, this fully revised third edition of the classic textbook on strategy in the media offers a compelling introduction to theories of strategy and management. Â

This comprehensive introduction examines key theories, practices and debates and treats international, strategic and contemporary issues as central to the study and practice of Human Resource Management.

This groundbreaking book describes the Lean journey as it extends to a business area that is mission critical, yet has been virtually untouched by the Lean transformation. Lean for Sales: Bringing the Science of Lean to the Art of Selling provides sales professionals, and their management teams, with a structured, fact-based approach to boosting sales close rates and delivering improved business value to customers. The time-tested Lean selling techniques described in this book have been prove...

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From the authors of Click and former Google Ventures partners, Sprint presents a unique five-day process for solving tough problems, proven at more than a hundred companies.

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?

"This book is of the kind you always wanted but didn't think would or could ever exist: the universal field theory of problem solving." Tom Sommerlatte Typically today's tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work - all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookbook-style access to the most important tools, in...

Work as we know it is changing. Even before Covid-19, the days when we're held accountable to a nine-to-five office job were pretty much done. But what does it really take to set out on your own and build something new?

This book is a ticket to change, to actually Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier. The knowledge and resources it provides work as a compass to help navigate the shallows and depths of running a successful and yet meaningful business - putting personal fulfillment first a...

De betaalbaarheid, toegankelijkheid en kwaliteit van de zorg staat onder druk als gevolg van toenemende zorgconsumptie en economische ontwikkelingen. Innovatie biedt de oplossing voor de grote zorgvraagstukken. Het antwoord ligt in het versterken van de innovatiekracht van de sector en zorginstellingen op specifieke aandachtsgebieden. De innovatiekracht kan alleen versterkt worden door een andere benadering, het stimuleren van ondernemerschap en een concrete innovatie-agenda die met de sector...

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