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Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization: Concepts (Paperback)

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Michael A Hitt has contributed to Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization: Concepts as an author.
Michael A. Hitt is a Distinguished Professor and holds the Joe B. Foster Chair in Business Leadership at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He has more than 260 publications including 26 co-authored or co-edited books. He has been recognized as one of the ten most cited scholars in management over a 25-year period in an article published in the 2008 volume of the Journal of Management. His books include those focused on downscoping, mergers and acquisitions as well as COMPETING FOR ADVANTAGE, 2E (South-Western, 2008); and UNDERSTANDING BUSINESS STRATEG

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   Title: Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization: Concepts
   Publisher: South Western Educational Publishing
   Author: Michael A Hitt, R Duane Ireland, R Duane Ireland
   Edition: Paperback
   Edition Number: 8
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0324581122
   EAN: 9780324581126
   No. of Pages: 389
   Publish Date: 2008-01-31
   Binding: Paperback

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Jumping the S- Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There (Hardcover)

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Recently, bestselling management books have focused on providing a recipe for greatness. Others have sought to unlock the secrets of long- term success. But a detailed analysis at the intersection of the two, one that explains how some companies manage to achieve repeated peaks of business performance, has been missing–until now.

Accenture’s Paul Nunes and Tim Breene have found that what matters is not just what you do to reach the top of one successful business–climbing your current S-curve. Equally important are the moves you must make on the way to your next business–making the jump to your future S-curve.

Jumping the S-Curve reveals crucial insights for making such transitions, including:

    Why traditional strategic planning won’t allow you to find the “big- enough” market insights that are critical to superior performance
    Why your top team must be refreshed before performance starts to wane
    Why you need much more talent than you think, especially “serious talent” that will find you worthy of their time

Filled with original practical advice, Jumping the S-Curve demystifies how companies can thrive with one successful business after another, through both good times and bad.

About the author:
Paul Nunes is the Executive Director of Research and an executive research fellow in the Accenture Institute for High Performance Business. He is the coauthor the award-winning book Mass Affluence and numerous articles.

Tim Breene is Accenture’s former Chief Strategy and Development Officer and current head of the company’s digital marketing initiative. Breene and Nunes coauthored the Harvard Business Review article “The Chief Strategy Officer.”

Table of Contents:

    Chapter 1 High Performance: The Business of Jumping S-Curves
    Part One: Climbing a Curve
    Chapter 2 A Big Enough Market Insight
    Chapter 3 Threshold Competence Before Scaling
    Chapter 4 Worthy of Serious Talent
    Part Two: Jumping to a New Curve
    Chapter 5 Hidden S-Curves
    Chapter 6 Edge-Centric Strategy
    Chapter 7 Top Teams that Change Ahead of the Curve
    Chapter 8 Hothouse of Talent
    Chapter 9 Sharp Curves Ahead

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   Title: Jumping the S- Curve: How to Beat the Growth Cycle, Get on Top, and Stay There
   Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
   Author: Tim Breene, Paul Nunes
   Edition: Hardcover
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1422175588
   EAN: 9781422175583
   No. of Pages: 288
   Publish Date: 2011-2-24
   Binding: Hardcover

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Prime Movers: Define Your Business or Have Someone Define It Against You (Hardcover)

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Prime Movers: Define Your Business or Have Someone Define It Against You
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Prime Movers Define Your Business or Have Someone Define it Against You ‘Prime Movers provides the missing piece in the business strategist’s armoury. The world already knows how to explore the business rent landscape around an existing business idea. But in this dynamic era tomorrow’s business will be different from today’s. Here finally is a reframing guide that will allow you a helicopter view of tomorrow’s business landscape.’ Kees Van Der Heijden, GBN, Author of Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation ‘RamA-rez and Wallin offer a groundbreaking theoretical and practical analysis of practices that allow “prime movers” to shape their industry and to drive environmental changes. Prime Movers is a highly innovative book, opening up promising avenues for a better understanding and implementation of practices for the creation of sustainable superior organizational performance. A “must-read” for theorists, researchers, and practitioners who want to think about the create a prosperous future for their organization. Congratulations to the authors – a great book.’ Aime Heene, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University ‘.provides an important intellectual framework aimed at the level of firms operating in business systems, and has much to say to those working on strategy implementation and organizational learning as well as those who think in terms of strategy as “value production” rather than “value co-production.”‘ Wim Overmeer, Duxx Graduate School of Business Leadership, Monterrey ‘.discards the old concept of value chain, and develops a new relational theory of value creation based around the final customers’ interactions with the offering and otheractivities. The resulting concepts are robust and particularly helpful in understanding the new behaviors and goals of recent Internet companies.’Ian Page, Hewlett Packard Research Labs Business Strategy
This book deals with the frameworks between customers and suppliers. These frameworks link a customer’s own value creating activities to the competencies and resources of the supplying firm(s). Both the short term (financial) and long term (knowledge) benefits to using this approach are discussed.

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Rafael Ramirez has contributed to Prime Movers: Define Your Business or Have Someone Define It Against You as an author.
Rafael Ramirez is currently Professor of Management at HEC, the leading French business school. Dr Ramirez, who holds a PhD from the Wharton School, has extensive consulting experience, working with companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Nissan Europe, Shell International, Rockwool, Telespazio, Wartsila -NSD, and Sonera. He was the Managing Director of SMG France prior to joining HEC. Dr. Ramirez co-authored the Harvard Business Review lead article From Value Chain to Value Constellation, which was elected one of the ten most requested strategy reprints by the Review’s readers. The follow-up book

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   Title: Prime Movers: Define Your Business or Have Someone Define It Against You
   Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
   Author: Rafael Ramirez, Rafael Ram Iacute Rez, Johan Wallin
   Edition: Hardcover
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0471899445
   EAN: 9780471899440
   No. of Pages: 350
   Publish Date: 2000-6-30
   Binding: Hardcover

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Strategic Intent (Paperback)

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Strategic Intent
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In this article, renowned management experts Gary Hamel and C. K. Prahalad introduce their approach to strategic planning in the face of tough competition. With advice on tailoring your company’s strategy and developing the will to win within your firm, this article helps you define a long-term strategy for your organization that captures employees’ imaginations and creates a clear path to success.

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Gary Hamel has contributed to Strategic Intent as an author.
GARY HAMEL is founder and chairman of Strategos. He is also a visiting professor of strategic and international management at the London Business School, and the Thomas S. Murphy distinguished research follow at Harvard Business School. He lives in Woodside, California.

C K Prahalad has contributed to Strategic Intent as an author.
Prahalad is Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan. A former manager in a multinational company. He received his D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

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   Title: Strategic Intent
   Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
   Author: Gary Hamel, C K Prahalad
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 142213654X
   EAN: 9781422136546
   No. of Pages: 101
   Publish Date: 2010-6-21
   Binding: Paperback

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Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now (Hardcover)

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Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now
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Renowned strategist, consultant, and author Stalk delivers his analysis of the issues that business organizations will face in the near future and what employers should be doing now to get ready for those changes.

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Jr George Stalk has contributed to Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now as an author.
George Stalk, Jr., is vice-president and director of The Boston Consulting Group in Chicago, Illinois, coauthor of “Kaisha, The Japanese Corporation, ” and author of “Time–The Next Source of Competitive Advantage,” which won the 1989 McKinsey Award for the best “Harvard Business Review” article of the year.

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   Title: Five Future Strategies You Need Right Now
   Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
   Author: Jr George Stalk, John Butman
   Edition: Hardcover
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1422121267
   EAN: 9781422121269
   No. of Pages: 120
   Publish Date: 2008-2-5
   Binding: Hardcover

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Ten Rules For Strategic Innovators: From Idea To Execution

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Ten Rules For Strategic Innovators: From Idea To Execution
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Even world-class companies, with powerful and proven business models, eventually discover limits to growth. That’s what makes emerging high-growth industries so attractive. Although they lack a proven formula for making a profit, these industries represent huge opportunities for the companies that are fast enough and smart enough.

But constructing tomorrow’s businesses while simultaneously sustaining excellence in today’s demands a delicate balance. It is a quest fraught with contradiction and paradox. Until now, there has been little practical guidance.

Based on an in-depth, multiyear research study of innovative initiatives at ten large corporations, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble identify three central challenges: forgetting yesterday’s successful processes and practices; borrowing selected resources from the core business; and learning how the new business can succeed. The authors make recommendations regarding staffing, leadership roles, reporting relationships, process design, planning, performance assessment, incentives, cultural norms, and much more.

Breakthrough growth opportunities can make or break companies and careers. Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators is every leader’s guide to execution in unexplored territory.

About The Author
Vijay Govindarajan (Winner: 2011 Breakthrough Idea Award) known as VG, is the Earl C. Daum 1924 professor of international business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He is one of the world-s leading experts on strategy and innovation.

Govindarajan has published nine books including international bestsellers Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators and The Other Side of Innovation. His most recent book, The Other Side of Innovation focuses on how to turn an innovative idea into a successful commercial business.

In 2008, Govindarajan took leave of absence from Tuck to join General Electric (GE) for 24 months as the company’s first Professor in Residence and Chief Innovation Consultant.

Govindarajan also worked with Jeff Immelt, GE-s CEO, to produce the Harvard Business Review article -How GE is Disrupting Itself- (September 2009). The article, written with Immelt and long-term collaborator Chris Trimble, introduced the concept of reverse innovation and is rated by Harvard Business Review as one of the ten big ideas of the decade, and is the title of his forthcoming book, (with Chris Trimble), to be published by HBR Press in April 2012.

Govindarajan is also responsible for posing the question that sparked a global challenge to build a $300 house.

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   Title: Ten Rules For Strategic Innovators: From Idea To Execution
   Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
   Edition Number: 1
   Language: English
   ISBN: 1422110583
   EAN: 9781422110584

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Factor Analysis at 100: Historical Developments and Future Directions (Paperback)

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Factor analysis is one of the success stories of statistics in the social sciences. The reason for its wide appeal is that it provides a way to investigate latent variables, the fundamental traits and concepts in the study of individual differences. Because of its importance, a recent conference was held to mark the centennial of the publication of Charles Spearman’s seminal 1904 article which introduced the major elements of this invaluable statistical tool. This new book evolved from that conference. It provides a retrospective look at major issues and developments as well as a prospective view of future directions in factor analysis and related methods. In so doing, it demonstrates how and why factor analysis is considered to be one of the methodological pillars of behavioral research.
Featuring an outstanding collection of contributors, this volume offers unique insights on factor analysis and its related methods. Several chapters have a clear historical perspective, while others present new ideas along with historical summaries. In addition, the book reviews some of the extensions of factor analysis to such techniques as latent growth curve models, models for categorical data, and structural equation models.
“Factor Analysis at 100″ will appeal to graduate students and researchers in the behavioral, social, health, and biological sciences that use this technique in their research. A basic knowledge of factor analysis is required and a working knowledge of linear algebra is helpful.

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Robert C Mac Callum has contributed to Factor Analysis at 100: Historical Developments and Future Directions as an editor.
Robert C. MacCallum, Ph.D. has had a long and distinguished career as a respected quantitative psychologist. His primary research interests involve the study of quantitative models and methods for the study of correlational data, especially factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and multilevel modeling. Of particular interest is the use of such methods for the analysis of longitudinal data, with a focus on individual differences in patterns of change over time. He teaches courses in factor analysis and introductory and advanced structural equation modeling. He currently serves as the p

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   Title: Factor Analysis at 100: Historical Developments and Future Directions
   Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
   Author: Robert Cudeck, Robert C Mac Callum
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 0805862129
   EAN: 9780805862126
   No. of Pages: 381
   Publish Date: 2007-3-6
   Binding: Paperback

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Secured Transactions: Ucc Article 9 Bankruptcy (Paperback)

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This text covers the law of the Uniform Commercial Code as it applies to personal property finance and the bankruptcy code. It employs the problem method supplemented by a selection of relevant cases on the subject.

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   Title: Secured Transactions: Ucc Article 9 Bankruptcy
   Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee College of Law
   Author: Robert M Lloyd, George W Kuney
   Edition: Paperback
   ISBN: 0615259227
   EAN: 9780615259222
   Publish Date: 2009-06-30
   Binding: Paperback

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Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions (Paperback)

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This book explains how to design a database for specific business functions common to most small businesses–including: Marketing and salesCustomer managementInventory managementQuality controlBudgetingFinancial tracking and analysisThe book is aimed primarily at the needs of small-to-medium size businesses that rely on Microsoft Office and related technologies. The accompanying CD-ROM includes pre-built database models for each of the business activities described in the book, ready to load into Microsoft Access. The databases work across multiple versions of Microsoft Access. The authors show how even non-technical readers can quickly customize these databases to meet their unique business needs. To that end, they present step-by-step interview processes that help tailor the database structure to specific business scenarios or industry requirements.

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Teresa Hennig is a Microsoft Access MVP, President of the Seattle Access group (www.SeattleAccess.org) since 1999, and the President of the Pacific Northwest Access Developer Group (www.PWNADG.org) since 2002. Her two monthly newsletters reach readers nationwide. She is the lead author of the highly regarded Access 2007 VBA Programmer’s Reference (Wrox). Truitt L. Bradly is a Microsoft Access MVP; as an accountant, analyst, and developer, Truitt has developed insurance and health care database applications using Access and SQL Server. He was Technical Editor for Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA (Que). Larry Linson is a Microsoft Access MVP; he is a software developer and project manager focusing on database application development with Microsoft Access. He founded (and continues to be Co-Leader of) the Microsoft Access Special Interest Group in the North Texas PC User Group.Leigh Purvis is a Microsoft Access MVP, and proprietor of Database Development. His primary focus is working with Microsoft Access, either natively or in conjunction with MS SQL Server. He contributes to several online forums as well as writing the occasional article and FAQ.Brent Spaulding is a Microsoft Access MVP. He has designed database systems for a wide range of business areas using Access, SQL Server, as well as JET and ACE desktop database engines. He co-authored Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA (Que).

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All authors are Microsoft Access MVPs—each with their own community platforms for promoting the book.The accompanying CD-ROM includes working Access database models for for real-world business activities, like marketing, sales, and customer support.The book more than pays for itself by providing ready-to-load databases that can be quickly customized—saving countless hours of development time.The database models are independent of specific releases of Microsoft Access, ensuring a long and profitable sales life.

Contents :

Foreword.Introduction.Part I Introduction and Basic Concepts.Chapter 1 Overview and Road Map.Chapter 2 Elements of a Microsoft Access Database.Chapter 3 Relational Data Model.Part II Dealing with Customers and Customer Data.Chapter 4 People, Organizations, Addresses.Chapter 5 Customer Relationship Management.Chapter 6 Marketing.Chapter 7 Sales.Part III Producing and Tracking the Goods & Services.Chapter 8 Production and Manufacturing.Chapter 9 Inventory Management.Chapter 10 Services.Part IV Tracking and Analyzing Financial Data.Chapter 11 Accounting Systems: Requirements and Design.Part V Independent Areas.Chapter 12 Accounting: Budgeting, Analysis, and Reporting.Chapter 13 Managing Memberships.Chapter 14 Implementing the Models.Chapter 15 SQL Server and Other External Data Sources.Part VI Appendices.Appendix A Field Properties.Appendix B Relationships, Joins, and Nulls.Appendix C Resolving Relationship Triangles.Appendix D Measures: Financial and Performance.Appendix E References and Resources.Appendix F What’s on the CD-ROM.Part VII Bonus Material.Chapter B1 Knowledge: Intellectual Property, Structural Capital, and Intellectual Capital.Appendix BA Database and Business Terms.Appendix BB Gathering Requirements.Appendix BC Data Warehousing Concepts.Appendix BD Database Platforms.Index.

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   Title: Microsoft Access Small Business Solutions
   Publisher: Wiley India Pvt Ltd
   Author: Brent Spaulding Leigh Purvis Larry Linson Truitt Bradly Teresa Hennig
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 8126525916
   EAN: 9788126525911
   No. of Pages: 792

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Treaty Series 2305 I: 41093- 41102 (Includes CD- ROM) (Paperback)

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In accordance with Article 102 of the Charter and the relevant General Assembly Resolutions, every treaty and international agreement registered or filed and recorded with the Secretariat since 1946 is published in the United Nations Treaty Series. At present, the collection includes about 30,000 treaties reproduced in their authentic languages, together with translations into English and French, as necessary. The Treaty Series, where treaties are published in the chronological order of registration, also provides details about their subsequent history (i.e., participation in a treaty, reservations, amendments, termination, etc.). Comprehensive Indices covering 50-volume-lots are published separately. A Standing Order service is available for the series and out-of-print volumes are available on microfiche.

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   Title: Treaty Series 2305 I: 41093- 41102 (Includes CD- ROM)
   Publisher: United Nations
   Author: Bernan
   Edition: Paperback
   Language: English
   ISBN: 9219002949
   EAN: 9789219002944
   No. of Pages: 504
   Publish Date: 2008-6-25
   Binding: Paperback

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