Developed by Tim Lewko, a 25-year strategy veteran, MOVE shows leaders how to embed artificial intelligence (AI) directly into the strategy process and validate strategic bets, pressure-test assumptions, and adapt faster than the competition – all while maintaining control over final decisions.Traditional strategy frameworks cannot keep up with trade wars, supply chain disruptions, and shifting consumer behaviour, and leaders can no longer afford to wait for annual plannin...

Making Big Decisions Better is leading a global movement to equip present and next generation leaders with proven strategy tools that enable agile thinking that ignites stronger, more predictable, direct paths to profit.No more academic theories. These are real tools and a system that enables improved strategic thinking and leadership.This book bridges an unspoken gap in strategy thinking that until now, only provided leaders with just SWOT and Porter’s 5 Forces as the lang...

Developed by Tim Lewko, a twenty-five-year strategy veteran, MOVE shows leaders how to embed artificial intelligence (AI) directly into the strategy process and validate strategic bets, pressure-test assumptions, and adapt faster than the competition—all while maintaining control over final decisions.Traditional strategy frameworks cannot keep up with trade wars, supply chain disruptions, and shifting consumer behavior, and leaders can no longer afford to wait for annual p...

For many organizations, the word strategy conjures up endless ideas, concepts and tools - while the intent is correct, the awful reality is most companies do not have a simple, common definition of strategy or a simple approach to make the big decisions. Too many PowerPoints, not enough one pagers that can be put into practice. The lack of a common approach to strategy frustrates executives, creates conflict where there is none, fast-tracks dubious alternatives, lengthens decision-making a...

Scott Klososkys manifesto will prepare any organization to withstand the high-velocity onslaught of a world now heavily influenced by technology usage. In this hands-on guide to helping leaders effectively steer their organizations through wrenching infrastructure and social changes author Scott Klososky details the actions that leaders must take to keep their digital plumbingthe all-important technological infrastructure of their organizationsup-to-date. Readers will learn that the surviv...

In the first edition of this landmark book, business loyalty guru Fred Reichheld revealed the question most critical to your company’s future: Would you recommend us to a friend?” By asking customers this question, you identify detractors, who sully your firm’s reputation and readily switch to competitors, and promoters, who generate good profits and true, sustainable growth.You also generate a vital metric: your Net Promoter Score. Since the book was first publi...

The Balanced Scorecard translates a company's vision and strategy into a coherent set of performance measures. The four perspectives of the scorecard--financial measures, customer knowledge, internal business processes, and learning and growth--offer a balance between short-term and long-term objectives, between outcomes desired and performance drivers of those outcomes, and between hard objective measures and softer, more subjective measures. In the first part, Kaplan and Norton ...

If you’re starting a new business or planning your business’s future, there are plenty of things you should take into account. Strategic Planning For Dummies covers everything you need to know to develop a plan for building and maintaining a competitive advantage — no matter what business you’re in.Written by Erica Olsen, founder and President of a business development firm that helps entrepreneurial-minded businesses plan for a successful future, this handy guide covers a...

How do you keep your customers coming back-and get them to bring others?If you need the best practices and ideas for making your customers loyal and profitable--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are nine inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.This collection of HBR articles will help you:- Turn angry customers into loyal advocates- Get more people to recommend you- Boost customer satisfaction by satisfying your...

Over the last 25 years, Geoffrey Moore has established himself as one of the most influential high-tech advisors in the world—once prompting Conan O'Brien to ask "Who is Geoffrey Moore and why is he more famous than me?"Following up on the ferociously innovative ESCAPE VELOCITY, which served as the basis for Moore's consulting work to such companies as Salesforce, Microsoft, and Intel, ZONE TO WIN serves as the companion playbook for his landmark guide, offering a practical manual t...

Sell and Market Like a Pro!In this new edition of his classic book, Rain Making, Ford Harding reveals step by step how--even if you've never sold a product in your life--you can become a top performer in your organization. Filled with easy-to-use strategies, checklists, tables, and guides, this book shows you how to:Write articles for professional publicationsMake cold calls like a sales proNetwork to buil...

The global consumer product market is exploding. In 2006 alone, 150,000 new products were brought to market. Now for the bad news: of those, fewer than 5% were hits, and fewer than 15% will even exist five years from now.Written for small business owners and entrepreneurs looking for an inside track on new product development, New Product Development for Dummies offers you a unique opportunity to learn from two consummate insiders the secrets of successfully developing, ma...