Tag: Business Plan

Business Plans That Work arms entrepreneurs and small business owners with an easy-to-follow template for writing persuasive business plans, along with proven models that can be used to analyze potential business opportunities from initial idea to viable venture. This value-packed book will show both entrepreneurs and current business owners how to:

• Determine what to include in each plan, why, and for whom
• Recognize and avoid common pitfalls in the process
• Use the renowned “Timmons Model” to analyze potential business opportunities

Book Details:

Paperback: 128 pages

Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (April 1, 2004)

Language: English

Author: Jeffry Timmons, Andrew Zacharakis and Stephen Spinelli

Category: Business Books

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Technology Entrepreneurship is:

• rich in case studies, examples, and in-chapter elements that focus on the challenges of launching and operating a technology venture;
• a more in-depth examination of intellectual property development and management than is common in business-focused entrepreneurship texts;
• a more in-depth treatment of valuation, deal structuring, and equity preservation issues than is common in business-focused entrepreneurship texts;
• extensive discussion of technology management and continuous innovation as a competitive advantage;
• addresses the issue of leading, managing, motivating, and compensating technical workers;
• spends more time on the fundamentals of marketing and selling, as these are elements of entrepreneurship often most neglected by engineers and scientists.

Book Details:

Hardcover: 590 pages

Publisher: Academic Press (October 1, 2009)

Language: English

Author: Thomas N. Duening, Robert A. Hisrich and Michael A. Lechter

Category: Business Books, Entrepreneurship Books

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Leading Strategy Execution demonstrates to senior executives ways they can inspire their employees to execute essential company strategies.  Having a good strategy isn’t enough to guarantee a company’s success; executives and managers need to ensure that their strategies are implemented correctly throughout the company and that all staff are on board.

The book is divided into three sections:

1. Energy of Engagement: This section demonstrates how to engage and energize employees so that they want to implement company strategy, and so that they accept their role and contribution towards making the strategy a success.

2. Energy of Change: This section illustrates ways in which executives can persuade employees to alter their habits, which may have been reinforced over a number of years by business processes and systems. Managers will learn how to give staff the exact skills and confidence needed to apply the new ways of thinking that are required to turn today’s new strategy into tomorrow’s business culture.

3. Energy of Management: This section reveals to executives how to energize and employ the middle managers within the business. It explains how to ensure that middle managers focus company strategy and become ambassadors of change rather than inertia.

Book Details:

Hardcover: 216 pages

Publisher: Kogan Page (June 28, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Suresh Mistry, Christine Antunes, Christophe Korda and Philippe Korda

Category: Business Books, Business Strategy Books

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Are you looking for a great idea or some inspiration to start a new venture or to help you grow your existing business? This book contains 100 great business ideas, extracted from the world s best companies.

Ideas provide the fuel for individuals and companies to create value and success. Indeed the power of ideas can even exceed the power of money. One simple idea can be the catalyst to move markets, inspire colleagues and employees, and capture the hearts and imaginations of customers. This book can be that very catalyst. Each idea is succinctly described and is followed by advice on how such an idea can be applied to the reader s own business situation. A simple but potentially powerful book for anyone seeking new inspiration and that killer application.

Book Details:

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Corp/Ccb (December 1, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Jeremy Kourdi

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Layoffs. Sales slumps. Dangerously low morale. Extreme cash tightness. Reorganizations.

It’s a scary world out there. Times are as tough as they’ve been in decades. More than ever before, companies are struggling to make ends meet, having to cut costs, lay off employees, delay new endeavors—and focus almost exclusively on SURVIVAL. And until now, there’s never been a good, clear, step-by-step guide for businesses facing such sudden turns for the worse.

THIS BOOK MAY SAVE YOUR BUSINESS.

Written by WORSE-CASE SCENARIO creator and entrepreneur David Borgenicht, bestselling new business superguru Mark Joyner, and many other business experts, you’ll learn:

• How to Stay in Business When You Can’t Make Payroll
• How to Fend Off an Employee Coup
• How to Perform Emergency Surgery on Your Overhead

Book Details:

Paperback: 208 pages

Publisher: Wiley (September 28, 2009)

Language: English

Author: David Borgenicht and Mark Joyner

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Co-created by 470 “Business Model Canvas” practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model–or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you’ll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition.

Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you’re ready to change the rules, you belong to “the business model generation!”

Book Details:

Paperback: 288 pages

Publisher: Wiley (July 13, 2010)

Language: English

Author: Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

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