Strategy books
Time to think strategically! Take a step back and learn how to analyze and use your business tools to the fullest thanks to our strategy books! These books will teach you about strategy planning and their implementation.
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Change Management for Leaders and Managers
Change management is a large topic because changing people and organisations is complex! Most leaders and managers will be involved in change and will benefit from understanding the key elements.
Bad writing and how to avoid it
This book may make you laugh out loud, but it will also highlight the dangers of sloppy writing and the necessity to write to achieve unambiguous clarity.
Content Marketing: Implementation
Content Marketing (CM) can make a substantial positive difference to overall marketing effectiveness. This book shows how get it right and integrate it into contemporary marketing communications.
Strategic Management
This textbook introduces the reader to the different approaches and schools within strategic thinking as well as the tools used to investigate the strategic environment surrounding a business.
IT Strategy & Technology Innovation
This book will give you the knowledge you need to create high quality IT strategy, aligned to the business goals of your organization.
Strategic Communications in the Digital Age
Is it possible to fully avoid the Internet these days? Is it possible to hide ourselves, our privacy and our lives from digital communications?
Strategic Management of Human Capital
This book will give practical insights to help employers gain enduring competitive advantage in the global competition for talent.
How to Write a Business Plan That Really Works
This book, with its companion books Raising Business Finance for Entrepreneurs Parts 1 and 2, takes the reader through the process of planning a great business.
Making the Business Case
Do you have an idea for a business? This book will help you to determine how to go about turning your idea into reality and cash.
How to build a subscription business
The book contains many examples and 40 cases of successful subscription businesses from around the World.
Commercial Awareness for Managers
The term “Commercial Awareness” can sometimes be used as a substitute for business knowledge.
Setting Your Vision And Defining Your Goals
This book will guide individuals and business owners alike through the process of establishing a personal mission statement that helps provide clarity and a sense of purpose.
Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis
This book evaluates the origins of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) as a guide for further study.
Making the Most of Big Data
Drawing on an extensive analysis of literature this guide provides an introduction to Business Intelligence(BI) initiatives from the practitioner's perspective.
Blended Learning
Explore the advantages of choosing a blended learning approach to training and how to introduce it for the maximum benefit of both your organisation and your learners.
How to start the Ultimate Online Business
Thinking of starting a business? Have a PC, Internet connection, and a dream? The web has made creating a company easier than ever. Turn your big idea into big bucks with this easy how-to-guide.
Company Valuation and Share Price
This book provides a guide to company share valuation in today’s volatile markets using asset values, earnings, dividend policy, cash flow analysis and behavioural theory.
Working Capital Management
This book critically evaluates the traditional accounting concepts of working capital within the context of strategic financial management underpinned by wealth maximisation criteria.
The Capital Asset Pricing Model
This book evaluates the development of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) based on the Sharpe CAPM and Ross four-factor APT, underpinned by Modigliani and Miller's "law of one price".
Non-Cooperative Games
Part I of An Introduction to Game Theory gives a thorough presentation of the non-cooperative theory. Knowledge of Mathematics corresponding to one semester of university studies is required.
Contract Lifecycle Management
This book takes the lifecycle of a purchase from initial concept to final end of contract and places each stage in relation to the strategic and operational choices offered to managers.
Amazon Prime
This book is about how has managed to create one of the most successful and inspirational subscription business by changing not only how we purchase, but also why and when we purchase.
Company Valuation and Takeover
This book provides an investor’s guide to company share valuation in today’s volatile markets.
Cooperative Games
Part II of An Introduction to Game Theory gives a thorough presentation of the cooperative theory and can be read before Part I. Knowledge of Mathe- matics corresponding to one semester of university
Strategic Financial Management: Part I
In a world of geo-political, social and economic uncertainty, strategic financial management is in a process of change, which requires a reassessment of the fundamental assumptions that cut across the
Lift off Agile teams – Team Transformation Process
This book contains a set of tools and techniques to help Scrum Masters, facilitators, Agile Coaches and Agile practitioners to lift off Agile teams.
How to improve your company’s performance
This book is about auditing and improving the performance of your small, medium-sized or large company.
Strategic Financial Management: Part II
Strategic Financial Management: Part II is one of the great eBooks available to download from our website.
Working with Uncertainty
This book provides a catalyst to a process that can make a positive difference and take you forward.
Negotiate at home and abroad
Win-Win? This shows you how it works – especially across culture gaps that can spoil deals or relationships. Design and drive a gentle but dynamic process, using empathy and influence.
Talent Retention
Skilled people are the core of a successful business. This practical book reveals how leading companies tackle retention and gives you five proven methods to inspire the best talent to stay with you.
Strategic Debtor Management and Terms of Sale
This book critically evaluates the strategic financial and marketing significance of credit terms management.
How to Improve Your Production: Part I
This book (in 2 parts) is about the various types of production controls deemed necessary for organizing, managing, running and auditing an effective production process.
Social Media And Business Intelligence
Social Media is already very well known and widely used, but there is still a great deal of misunderstanding as to how it can be used effectively by business organizations.
Communication in the CSR Context
This book is an attempt to shed light on the communication process in the CSR context and to establish the link between the communication tools to be used and the engagement process to be developed.
How to Improve Your Production: Part II
This book (in 2 parts) is about the various types of production controls deemed necessary for organizing, managing, running and auditing an effective production process.
How to get the most from coaching
When you are facing a dilemma, the last thing you need is a bad coaching experience. This book takes a step-by-step approach to understanding coaching, finding a coach and maximising the experience.
Introduction to Customer Journey Mapping
Customer Journey Maps are paramount for successful customer-centric business optimisation. This eBook gives you practical tools to get your journey mapping started.
Conflict, Discipline & Grievance
Managers should know how to handle different conflict situations in a satisfactory conciliatory manner. Conflict can be interpersonal, group or organisational.
Conducting Transatlantic Business
This book describes the law in a cultural perspective to make you aware of some very important distinctions when conducting business across the Atlantic.
Business Blogs
This book discusses why businesses need a blog and then goes on to explain how to go about creating, maintaining and promoting it.
The adventures of an IT leader
Whether or not you have a technical background, this guide and handbook will offer you many situational challenges, resolutions and lessons for both seasoned and aspiring leaders.
Understanding Social Media
Social Media is the buzz about town. Almost everyone with internet access is using social media in some form or the other.
Risk Management Made Easy
This book differs from most other risk management books - and it’s not nearly as dull!
Managerial Technology Evaluation
The book introduces a meta-process for managers who need to carry out technology selections. The book particularly covers visual methodology evaluation and also includes an example application.
The ‘Duty of Care’ Management Approach: Part 1
This is the first part of the two-part book on ‘Duty of Care’. It contains a systematic approach to caring better for your company’s assets, systems, data and people.
Business Intelligence for Business Analysts
The journey into business intelligence for the business analyst is through the lens of the business where requirements, models and tasks are documented, analyzed and validated.
Implementing ‘Duty of Care’ Duties: Part 2
This is the second part of the two-part book on ‘Duty of Care’. It contains several Plans, Policies and Audit Questionnaires to review and improve management’s Duty of Care tasks.
Thinking Strategically
Strategic management is a widely studied field because it is through strategy that organizations attempt to reach their goals and out-think the competition.
Measuring Performance at the Workplace
This book: Measurement Choices points to the need for new metrics in all industrial sectors; private, public and not-for-profits.
Technical Services in Facility Management
This book introduces the reader to Facilities Management and covers important aspects of managing Technical Services in a facility. Recommended for students and professionals exploring a career in FM.
Meetings, Selection & Appraisal Interviews
Managers spend a good deal of time organizing meetings. They need to acquire effective meeting skills. A selection interview assesses a candidate’s suitability for a particular job. Performance app
Introduction to International Business
Introduction to International Business: People Places, and Ideas examines of the economic, social, and logistical aspects of global business.
Improving Performance with Balanced Scorecard
This book describes how to control better and improve your Company’s Strategy and Performance by the use of the concepts and perspectives contained in the Balanced Scorecard Framework.
A guide to Content Marketing
Content Marketing (CM) can make a substantial positive difference to overall marketing effectiveness. This book shows how get it right and integrate it into contemporary marketing communications.
Managing your SME more effectively Part II
PART II contains the management controls required to facilitate you to provide optimal operational support to production and customer functions of your SME (described in Part I).
Understanding why Teams Underperform
Need to understand why teams underperform? This eBook explains why and provides practical advice about how to identify and fix performance problems.
Positive Change
This title provides practical, proven approaches and techniques to coping with change and to planning, implementing and making the change process work successfully.
The Experts Teach: Negotiating Skills
In "The Experts Teach: Negotiating Skills", we bring together 25 articles from the top experts on negotiations.
Introduction to Game Theory
This textbook provides an overview of the field of game theory which analyses decision situations that have the character of games.
What is the PESTLE Analysis?
This eBook describes the PESTLE Analysis, a method you can use to identify the external factors that influence an organization.
Fundamentals of executive leadership coaching
How to unlock your leadership potential by taking your skills to a new level: Gravitas, Values, Vision, People, Change, Being.
Negotiation deconstructed
This book shows that it is not only important to be able to negotiate. It also shows how you can plan and manage the process in order to increase the likelihood of achieving the outcome you want.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Part I
Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR as we will call it throughout this book) is a concept which has become dominant in business reporting.
How to Train your Mentor
It is hard to know what to do when you are in the middle of a mentoring relationship, as a Mentee, and are uncertain whether you are getting the best value from your Mentor. This book will help you wi
Corporate Social Responsibility: Part II
Corporate Social Responsibility: Part II is one of the great eBooks available to download from our website.
Content Marketing: Further development areas
Content Marketing (CM) can make a substantial positive difference to overall marketing effectiveness. This book shows how get it right and integrate it into contemporary marketing communications.
Leadership in Miniature
This eBook provides a practical and accessible view of leadership for busy managers and leaders. It doesn’t only focus on what leaders do, but on who they are, and how they can be more effective.
What is the Boston Matrix?
This eBook describes the Boston Matrix, an approach to product portfolio planning based on relative market share and market growth.
Introduction to Statistical Process Control
This book covers the introduction to quality, an the seven (7) basic Statistical Process Control (SPC) Tools, the Problem Solving Process (PSP) and how can be SPC Tools be used in lieu with the PSP.
Digital Training @Work
This book focuses on improving organizational interactions and employee learning through communication strategies associated with effective digital training and development experiences.
What is the Ansoff Matrix?
This eBook describes this strategic planning tool that helps managers to devise their product and market growth strategies.
Achieving Better Implementation of Controls
This book describes how to achieve better implementation of controls. The Human Aspects of Management Controls: Part I, details the approach and Part II presents a set of tools to support this effort.
Strategic Workforce Management Made Easy
Strategic Workforce Management is about "Getting the right number of people with the right competencies in the right jobs at the right time". This e-book intends to make SWM easy.
Managing your SME more effectively Part I
Part I contains the management controls required to enable you to organize and run your production, make and sell products and serve your customers.
Corporate Social Responsibility: Part III
Corporate Social Responsibility: Part III is one of the great eBooks available to download from our website.
Tools Supporting Better Implementation of Controls
This book describes how to achieve better implementation of controls. The Human Aspects of Management Controls: Part I, details the approach and Part II presents a set of tools to support this effort.
A Health & Well-being Strategy
The book shows how to make a business case for developing a health and wellbeing strategy, who to involve and ways to implement.
Learn How to Speed Read
The more you have to read, the less time you have for everything else, so a faster reading speed pays back with every document. In this book, we give you a practical toolkit to speed up your reading.
When Does & How Does Creativity Happen?
The subconscious plays a vital role in creativity. Many famous inventions were inspired by dreams or serendipitous events. Creative people tend to be avid notetakers. Brainstorming is a great way t
GDPR and Travel Industry
The guide for managers of travel and tourist companies to ensure better compliance with GDPR and avoid fines and other sanctions.
The Essential Guide to Candidate Experience
Candidate experience is the journey from job application to employment. This guide will help HR professionals, recruitment practitioners to understand, create and measure great candidate experience.
Priming and Promoting a Creative Approach
No organisation can afford to remain static. It must change, develop and move forward and that means ideas: a constant flow of good, relevant and practical ideas to fuel the process.
Managing your Meeting Mortals
In general we attend 6 meeting types and encounter 15 personalities & private agendas. Being able to more efficiently recognise & manage these people will result in more focused & beneficial meetings,
9 ways to understand what motivates us
This e-book offers numerous hints and tips to help you better understand yourself and others.
The Top 5 Soft Skills of Project Management
When we talk about the skills of project management, the focus is usually on the so-called ‘hard skills’. However, just as important are those essential soft skills that can make or break a project.