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"To start a successful business, you need a comprehensive toolbox full of effective financial and business techniques at your fingertips.Entrepreneurial Finance provides the essential tools and know-how you need to build a sturdy foundation for a profitable business. This practical road map guides you from crafting a meaningful business plan to raising your business to the next level. It offers potent methods for keeping firm financial control of...
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The principal author of Business Plan Pro, the country's bestselling business plan software, simplifies the business planning process and reveals how to create business plans that grow with the business. Providing adequate guidance for every situation and every stage of business, readers are trained to ignore the traditional, formal cookie-cutter plans that other business planning resources offer and to focus on tailoring a plan to their company;...
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Pub. Date
2014
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1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages)
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English
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One of the world's foremost experts on the topic of the future of work and human capital, Lynda Gratton argues that global corporations can be major players in changing the world, with their massive networks of human resources, varieties of expertise, and vast organizational skills. In The Key, Gratton shows how companies like IKEA, Nike, Vodaphone, and Unilever are devising innovative ways to tackle critical social issues, and she describes how...
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2015
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1 online resource (ix, 240 pages)
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English
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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO MAXIMIZING LIMITED RESOURCES TO INNOVATE AND GROW Trying to accomplish too much with too few resources has become almost customary in business today. More often than not, though, all that we "accomplish" is delayed projects, mass confusion, and missed opportunities--not the achievement of business goals. The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook helps you tackle the critical challenges of resource management...
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
2015.
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1st Edition.
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1 online resource (vii, 224 pages)
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English
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The proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any organization's DNA to drive sustainable growth In today's ultra-competitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. Think to Win helps business leaders expand strategic thinking out of the purview of "the elite few" and into the company culture as whole. It offers a simple, proven approach to...
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2010
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1 online resource (xix, 153 pages : illustrations)
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THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIME The secret to business success today is employee and talent development. Companies that invest in branding and creating smart, self-reliant, "upgradeable" talent are the ones that will lead their industries in the future. Perfect Phrases for Employee Development Plans has hundreds of ready-touse phrases for ensuring your employees stay motivated and competitive, develop teamwork and sound work...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 30 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Every business needs a business plan but how do you put one together? Jay, a clothes designer, and Robin, in the forestry business, explain how they wrote their business plans. Objectives: the business plan has to state what the business has been set up to do. Marketing: the plan describes the product, who it's aimed at, how they'll buy it and at what price. Production: the production plan outlines how they'll make their product. Resources: will the...
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"Do you dream of making a living doing what you love but find the process of creating a viable business plan like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Jennifer Lee knows what it?s like to make the entrepreneurial leap ? and how to do it successfully. The key is using, rather than stifling, imagination and intuition. Lee?s illustrated, colorful worksheets and step-by-step instructions are playful yet practical, transforming drudgery into joy....
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McGraw-Hill Education
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2017.
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1 edition.
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1 online resource
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THE JOURNEY MATTERS AS MUCH AS THE DESTINATION. Scrap the map and go full throttle. Most leadership books tell you how to set and achieve goals. This one is different. This one is written by a communications leader who's as passionate about riding motorcycles as she is about running her business. Her name is Elise Mitchell, and she wants to tell you about her journey-from starting her own agency to building a world-class brand to enjoying the...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 49 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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When Brad Smith took over as CEO, Intuit founder Scott Cook advised him to “Question everything.” Using this as his mantra, Smith set out to create innovative business structures that built on Intuit's strengths and retained market dominance in spite of an explosion in social media, unforeseen technology shifts, and radical changes in consumer expectations. In this highly informative presentation, Smith shares secrets that have led to revolutionary...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Why do we need creativity? The world is full of daunting problems, and so are our workplaces. We need solutions. While the scientific method we all learned in school has value for discovery, a similar process for invention is not widely taught—yet is a critical component of true innovation. Dr. Seelig’s model for the “Innovation Engine” allows us to alternate between discovery and invention. It incorporates the internal strengths of imagination,...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 30 min. 6 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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This film looks at businesses, what they are and how they work. And how are they changing under social and environmental pressures? --TYPES OF BUSINESSES: Key to the development of businesses is the idea of limited liability. There are two main types of limited companies - public and private, but there are many other kinds of organisations, too - from sole traders to co-ops. The film examines how businesses are divided into functional departments...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, 25 min. 2 sec.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
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English
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Three businesses and three business plans. Why did they need them? What did they put in them? Were they worth it? 1. Aims and objectives: Every business plan should have a company's aims and objectives. The Croft Tea Room has the ambitious aim of helping to regenerate the run-down area of St Mary Cray. And linked to a firm's aims will be a description of its product or service. In the case of the Spoonfed company this is a website where you find...
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Kanopy Streaming
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2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 48 min., 55 sec.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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How do growth leaders such as Procter & Gamble, GE, and Amazon consistently achieve above-average organic growth? These companies pursue a disciplined, systematic process that distributes innovations across a spectrum of risk, ensuring that they balance incremental growth with breakthrough opportunities. For most companies, notes Professor Day, minor innovations make up 85% to 90% of their development portfolios. While necessary for continuous improvement,...
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McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 online resource (xxxiv, 284 pages)
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English
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Rocket tells the story of how sixteen remarkable business leaders created great brands. Leslie Wexner tells you how he turned a two-store chain into a $6.5 billion worldwide brand called Victoria's Secret, and Howard Schultz shares how he took his passion for a little coffee shop in Seattle and grew it into a 22,000-store chain, just to name two. Every story is connected to a "how-to" lesson, and by the end, you'll have what you need to turn your...
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"Fueled by growing consumer demand for new tastes, cleaner ingredients, health benefits, and more convenient ways to shop and eat, the business of specialty food is taking off at full speed. This step-by-step guide tells creative cooks and aspiring entrepreneurs how to make sure they're not left behind. Armed with a detailed overview of the specialty and gourmet food industry including how it differs from other food businesses, today's and tomorrow's...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
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xiii, 306 pages : illustrations, ; 22 cm
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English
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In the fall of 1999, John Doerr met with the founders of a start-up whom he'd just given $12.5 million, the biggest investment of his career. Larry Page and Sergey Brin had amazing technology, entrepreneurial energy, and sky-high ambitions, but no real business plan. For Google to change the world (or even to survive), Page and Brin had to learn how to make tough choices on priorities while keeping their team on track. They'd have to know when to...
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Nolo
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©2000
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v. : ill., forms ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a small business in California and guiding it safely through its first year and beyond."--Reference & Research Book News. Current forms can be downloaded from the Nolo.com website.
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