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1) Getting to Innovation: How Asking the Right Questions Generates the Great Ideas Your Company Needs
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As an acknowledged guru in the field of creativity and innovation, Arthur VanGundy has inspired businesses in a variety of industries to generate more original, cutting-edge ideas. Getting to Innovation is a detailed guide to achieving the critical first step in formulating creative and useful ideas-i.e., asking the right questions that define the challenges facing any organization. Readers will discover: * how to write positioning and rationale statements...
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An international IT consultant offers a vital new way to think about information technology and the future of your business.
Our world is driven by ever-changing technologies. With greater globalization, dependence on foreign labor, and physical separation of various functions, businesses of all sizes are increasingly reliant on their IT departments. So why are so many companies still reluctant to invest in IT?
The problem lies in perceived business...
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Does it seem you've formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can't get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution-an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company's core capabilities. In Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution, authors Jeanne W. Ross, Peter Weill, and David C. Robertson show you how.
The key? Make tough decisions about which...
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Business leaders, large and small, need to learn a new game with very different rules. They must accept an ever-changing and uncertain landscape, but a landscape that can be constantly leveraged for greater profitability. They must believe that their companies are caterpillars with the potential to become butterflies. The Caterpillar's Edge shows why we must embrace a future of flux. It exposes the addictions that chain us to our past and the truths...
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ADB's corporate strategic framework Strategy 2030 calls for strengthening of its country-focused approach and promoting knowledge management to apply innovative approaches in the bank's operations. This manual outlines the necessary steps for preparing the dynamic country knowledge plan to deliver demand-driven knowledge and ensure options for "just-in-time" knowledge support consistent with the country partnership strategy. The manual elaborates...
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Despite the current hype around big data, there is no denying that its potential to benefit organisations, businesses and customers is enormous. The articles in this eBook aim to give practical guidance for all those who want to understand big data better and learn how to make the most of it. Topics range from big data analysis, mobile big data and managing unstructured data to technologies, governance and intellectual property and security issues...
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Succeeding in the Network Economy
Peter F. Drucker has inspired and educated managers and influenced the practice of management for generations. Writing across six decades, Drucker was one of the first business thinkers to understand the new rules as well as the skills required for success in the network economy.
In this collection of essays, Drucker offers timeless insights on what it takes to lead a profitable enterprise in a time when networks...
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"Should be read by anyone interested in understanding the future," The Times Literary Supplement raved about the original edition of The Social Life of Information. We're now living in that future, and one of the seminal books of the Internet Age is more relevant than ever.
The future was a place where technology was supposed to empower individuals and obliterate social organizations. Pundits predicted that information technology would spell the...
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The must-read summary of Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney's book: "The Two-Second Advantage: How We Succeed by Anticipating the Future".
This complete summary of the ideas from Vivek Ranadive and Kevin Maney's book "The Two-Second Advantage" shows that the challenge of the future is to become better at predictive analysis. This summary highlights that if you can combine the right information at the right time and in the right context just far enough...
10) What's Your Digital Business Model?: Six Questions to Help You Build the Next-Generation Enterprise
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Digital transformation is not about technology--it's about change.
In the rapidly changing digital economy, you can't succeed by merely tweaking management practices that led to past success. And yet, while many leaders and managers recognize the threat from digital--and the potential opportunity--they lack a common language and compelling framework to help them assess it and guide them in responding. They don't know how to think about their digital...
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The must-read summary of Jonathan Low and Pam Kalafut's book: "Invisible Advantage: How Intangibles Are Driving Business Performance".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jonathan Low and Pam Kalafut's book "Invisible Advantage" explains how every business has intangible assets, such as customer loyalty or brand equity, which do not appear on financial statements but add significant value to your company. In their book, the authors demonstrate...
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"Truth Warriors is packed with fascinating stories, novel insights, and practical tips for every leader who has something worth fighting for." -Liane Davey, New York Times bestselling author of You First and The Good Fight
This book will help you navigate conflict and make better decisions. As author Christi Scarrow points out, all of us have the opportunity to make decisions that count, whether in our professional or personal lives. To do so, we...
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Are you staking your organization's reputation and success on technologies and systems that actually weaken its ability to thrive?
As teams struggle to out-perform, new software offers opportunities to improve business growth. Yet millions of dollars and hours of productivity are wasted each year as companies fail to manage change in a cloud technology-led world.
The problem isn't the people or software, it's a lack of confidence and knowledge. Enable...
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The must-read summary of Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster's book: "Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Philip Evans and Thomas Wurster's book "Blown to Bits" argues that within most traditional business models, there is a trade-off between richness and reach. In their book, the authors highlight that the Internet has the ability to remove this trade-off by being able to...
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The must-read summary of Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris' book: "Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning".
This complete summary of the ideas from Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris' book "Competing on Analytics" shows how the key to beating the competition in today's market is making use of the information available about the business environment to out-think your rivals. In their book, the authors explain how you can use analytics...
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The must-read summary of Larry Downes and Chunka Mui's book: "Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance".
This complete summary of the ideas from Larry Downes and Chunka Mui's book "Unleashing the Killer App" shows that killer apps are compelling new commercial products and services that are created when new technologies, products and services combine in radical ways. They transform industries, redefine markets and devastate...
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The must-read summary of Kenneth McGee's book: "Heads Up: How to Anticipate Business Surprises and Seize Opportunities First".
This complete summary of the ideas from Kenneth McGee's book "Heads Up" shows how there is no such thing as a genuine "surprise" in business - every potential disaster-in-the-making has some advance warnings. In his book, the author explains that the key to picking up these signs is to use real-time data to your advantage,...
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This book provides specialists and executives with a clear, yet practical set of recommendations to meet the challenges of digital transformation and ensure long-term success as a leader in a primarily digital business world. The authors describe the fundamental principles of digitization and its economic opportunities and risks, integrating them into a framework of classic and new management methods. The book also explores how increasing digitization...
19) Summary: Blueprint to the Digital Economy: Review and Analysis of Tapscott, Lowy and Ticoll's Book
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This complete summary of the ideas from Don Tapscott, Alex Lowy and David Ticoll's book "Blueprint To The Digital Economy" shows that the digital economy — computers teamed with communication networks — has the potential to transform almost every consumer and business activity. These changes are having the effect of forcing organizations to amend notions and practices about the nature of competition, the process by which wealth is created and...
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The must-read summary of Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian's book: "Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy".
This complete summary of Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian's book "Information Rules" reveals that the assumption that informational goods are subject to different economic laws is false. New guidelines and theories are simply re-worked versions of principles already established in the past and, therefore, an understanding...
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