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How does ride-sharing apps affect the steel industry? How is the delivery apps affecting the food services industry? How Youtube changed the media industry? To answer these questions, we need to understand how different industries are linked together and more importantly how they collectively create the value for the end-user — for which the end-user wants to pay.
This is the topic of this book.
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Curing Corporate Short-Termism is a guide for senior managers who want to encourage more investment in the future of their companies, all while maintaining discipline around profitability and capital productivity. Many corporate practices create stiff headwinds for managers trying to grow their business. This book explores the process of developing a "culture of ownership" that overcomes these obstacles, including prescriptive methods on how to better...
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The Billion Dollar Byte equips high-level businesspeople and technologists with the tools and strategies to leverage Big Data to drive ethical "Good Profit." Traditional legacy companies need a framework for making data strategy central to their business models in the same way that the newer Digital Native companies have. The Billion Dollar Byte provides that framework by providing concrete models for creating smart data infrastructures, accurately...
4) The Nine Principles of Agile Planning: Create Nimble and Dynamic Forecasting in Your Organization
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The Nine Principles of Agile Planning teaches CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, and Finance leaders the secret to building nimble and dynamic forecasts within their organizations. The Nine Principles blend real-world processes, people, and cloud tech to get your business forecasting the right way. By adopting the Nine Principles, you can create world-class forecasting that reacts to real-time changes in your business, reduces project risk, and makes you a forecasting...
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Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix. Large companies can start new ventures. You have ideas, talent, brand, capital-you have customers, you can strike back.
In “The Unicorn Within”, Mach49 founder and CEO Linda Yates empowers large companies to beat startups at their own game, to build a pipeline and portfolio of new ventures to...
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The new M&A bible.
Few actions can change the value of a company-and its competitive future-as quickly and dramatically as an acquisition. Yet most companies fail to create shareholder value from these deals, and in many cases they destroy it. It doesn't have to be this way.
In The Synergy Solution, Deloitte's Mark Sirower and Jeff Weirens show acquirers how to develop and execute an M&A strategy-end to end-that not only avoids the pitfalls that so...
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The must-read summary of Adrian Slywotzky's and Richard Wise's book: "How To Grow When Markets Don't".
This complete summary of the ideas from "How to Grow When Markets Don't" shows that for many years, the answer for growth creation was thought to be product innovation — a better product. However, as every company creates more and more products, ever faster, this is proving more difficult. Customers are not willing to buy another product just...
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The must-read summary of Richard E. S. Boulton, Barry D. Libert and Steve M. Samek's book: "Cracking The Value Code: How Successful Business Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Richard E. S. Boulton, Barry D. Libert and Steve M. Samek's book "Cracking The Value Code" shows that successful organizations are creating value in completely new and original ways today which take advantage of the opportunities...
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The must-read summary of Donald Laurie's book: "Venture Catalyst: The Five Strategies for Explosive Corporate Growth".
This complete summary of the ideas from Donald Laurie's book "Venture Catalyst" shows that, regardless of the ebb and flow of the economy, business leaders are responsible for achieving two sometimes conflicting goals: meeting Wall Street expectations and developing new technologies and products. In his book, the author explains...
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The new playbook for innovation and startup success is emerging from beyond Silicon Valley-at the "frontier."
Startups have changed the world. In the United States, many startups, such as Tesla, Apple, and Amazon, have become household names. The economic value of startups has doubled since 1992 and is projected to double again in the next fifteen years.
For decades, the hot center of this phenomenon has been Silicon Valley. This is changing fast....
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This complete summary of the ideas from Zeynep Ton's book "The Good Jobs Strategy" tells you how most companies believe that they need to keep costs down and pay employees very little to keep their prices low. According to Zeynep, this is a 'bad jobs strategy'. A 'good jobs strategy' involves investing in people and paying them more. By offering them better pay and more benefits, they will be more motivated to work hard. These companies have an enthusiastic...
12) Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups
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Capturing the ecommerce edge in customer growth and retention has been a decades-long battle between eRetail startups and large traditional retailers. The two face different sets of challenges and those challenges are constantly evolving in our digital world. “Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups” expands on this current industry shift in one of the most accessible, intriguing business...
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