[PDF] Competitive Drivers For Improving Future Business Performance eBook

Author : Martins, Carlos
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 16,25 MB
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1799818454

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The globalized economy, dominated by the diffusion of innovation and social, political, and economic changes, allows people and knowledge to flow without knowing what lies ahead. As new economies emerge and technologies impose significant changes, the internationalization of markets and industries has made defining its delimitation more difficult. Competitive Drivers for Improving Future Business Performance is a conceptualized reference source that discusses the use of digital skills to manage change in volatile contexts and provides fundamental understanding of competitive advantage to guarantee superior performances. To assure this level of performance, a set of choices (drivers) must be created ensuring operational efficiency, innovative products, customer knowledge-base, and focused branding. Featuring research on topics such as consumer experience, strategic leadership, and flexible technologies, this book is ideally designed for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, academicians, consulting professionals, researchers, industry professionals, and students seeking coverage on how to improve competitive performance in an era of uncertainty.

Author : Lawrence Maisel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 35,10 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118240154

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Discover the breakthrough tool your company can use to make winning decisions This forward-thinking book addresses the emergence of predictive business analytics, how it can help redefine the way your organization operates, and many of the misconceptions that impede the adoption of this new management capability. Filled with case examples, Predictive Business Analytics defines ways in which specific industries have applied these techniques and tools and how predictive business analytics can complement other financial applications such as budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting. Examines how predictive business analytics can help your organization understand its various drivers of performance, their relationship to future outcomes, and improve managerial decision-making Looks at how to develop new insights and understand business performance based on extensive use of data, statistical and quantitative analysis, and explanatory and predictive modeling Written for senior financial professionals, as well as general and divisional senior management Visionary and effective, Predictive Business Analytics reveals how you can use your business's skills, technologies, tools, and processes for continuous analysis of past business performance to gain forward-looking insight and drive business decisions and actions.

Author : Michael E. Porter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1416595848

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Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter’s “diamond,” a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of “clusters,” or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter’s theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,81 MB
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309044782

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Effective design and manufacturing, both of which are necessary to produce high-quality products, are closely related. However, effective design is a prerequisite for effective manufacturing. This new book explores the status of engineering design practice, education, and research in the United States and recommends ways to improve design to increase U.S. industry's competitiveness in world markets.

Author : Michael S. Deimler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118591704

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The world faces social, political, and economic turmoil on an unprecedented scale—along with unsettling levels of turbulence and volatility. Market leadership today is less of a predictor of leadership tomorrow. Therefore, senior executives today must strive to own the future. In Own the Future, The Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s most prestigious and innovative management consulting firms, offers a roadmap. Drawing on the firm’s experience advising organizations on how to achieve and sustain competitive advantage, this book offers 50 ideas to help readers chart their organization’s path to future leadership. The articles are organized along ten attributes critical to success in the current environment—adaptive, global, connected, sustainable, customer-first, fit to win, value-driven, trusted, bold, and inspiring. The future may be unknowable, but The Boston Consulting Group offers insights from its 50 years of practice on how readers can position their organization to win—to change the game and to own the future.

Author : Niklas Baier
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3346153517

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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Review of Business Studies, grade: 1.3, Technical University of Munich (TUM School of Management, Chair for Management Accounting), language: English, abstract: The bachelor thesis combines theories, literature, lab and field experiments, event studies from the industry, and its very own empirical research to argue from both, a strategic as well as a financial perspective, that an inimitable organizational culture of intrinsic motivation and meaningful work may constitute a source of competitive advantage within the War for Talent. The thesis strives at highlighting the importance for firms to adapt to the newly emerged competitive environment that the ongoing War for Talent has created by considering their people as their most valuable asset for the success of the organization, as already hinted at throughout "The Art of War" by Sun Tzu in 500 BC; hence the reference in the title of this thesis. After a brief review of the circumstances that led to the emergence of the War for Talent and first implications for the industry, it is argued from a strategic perspective why motivated talent depicts the key resource for competitive advantage and why conventional extrinsic incentive measures aimed at maximizing productivity are no longer effective. Afterwards, a proposition will be made of how capitalizing on intrinsic motivation, human’s inner drive to accomplish inherently interesting and challenging tasks, fostered through a framework of meaningful work, might be the decisive driver to get ahead in the quest for talent. A second string of argumentation draws a connection between meaningful work and superior financial performance. This proposition is then tested by an empirical analysis, comparing the financial performance of publicly traded companies featured on the 2017 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For list against a control portfolio and the broad market, confirming significant differences for cumulative stock returns.

Author : Richard Hodge
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2006-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071501681

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Reinvent the Sales Process in Your Own Organization “Today’s sales professionals have to find a way to contribute to their customers’ ability to satisfy their own customers and achieve their critical business goals.” --Dale Hayes, Vice President of Sales, UPS “The old world of buying them a scotch and having a great dinner is not enough.... The speed of change, the availability of information to your customers, and aggressive global competition has produced a new playing field.” --Rick Cheatham, Sales Director, Information Processing & Systems Division, Avery Dennison Let the world’s best sales forces show you a new way of selling that redefines success. Today’s competitive edge belongs to the salespeople who deeply understand their customers’ businesses and who accelerate the rate at which their customers realize tangible business results. The Mind of the Customer explores the ways leading companies like UPS, Toyota, Nokia, and others achieve exceptional performance. The book builds on the proven performance-improvement training techniques of The Real Learning Company to supply sales and marketing professionals with a dynamic, straightforward plan to: Improve profitability Raise productivity Increase customer satisfaction Rich graphical models illustrate key concepts, while contributions from industry leaders provide eye-opening perspectives on how sales in changing--and how you can create competitive advantage amidst that change.

Author : Marc Wouters
Publisher : McGraw Hill
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0077147286

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This book is an adaptation of the successful US text Cost Management by Hilton, Maher and Selto, written specifically for an international audience.Major improvements include:Diverse and truly international examples of organizations - Examples used throughout the book are from all over the world and represent manufacturing, retail, not-for-profit, and service firms in many different countries. Completely restructured and rewritten text - The book has been rewritten, restructured and also shortened significantly to align content closer with international courses. Integral use of spreadsheets - Spreadsheet software is used for explaining techniques and making applications more realistic. In depth research - Summaries of international research studies that address important cost management issues have been updated and more references to recent research findings have been added. Intuitive explanation of accounting - The authors show directly how events impact the balance sheet and profit and loss account.

Author : Mark Daniell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2004-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0230522858

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This book provides a step-by-step approach to all of the essential elements of strategy. It outlines a 21-step approach, with a 30+ slide strategy presentation for readers to apply themselves. By following the examples in the book, the reader will be able to construct a world-class strategy and to present it in an effective manner. The approach integrates diagnosis, design, and implementation into one seamless flow from insight to action.