Finally, a business guide that kicks ass!Forget the jargon and hype: there are five—and only five—ways to achieve exponential growth in your business. Are you ready to kick ass?The 5 Kick-Ass Strategies Every Business Needs is the ultimate business-growth guide. Filled with actual case studies, visual elements and strategic steps, this book will set you on a course to reach—and exceed—your growth goals.In this no-holds-barred handbook, Robe...

A series of shifts are happening in our economy: Millennials are trading in conventional career paths to launch tech start-ups, start small businesses that are rooted in local communities, or freelance their expertise. We are sharing everything, from bikes and cars, to extra rooms in our homes. We now create, buy and sell handcrafted products in our local communities with ease. Globally recognized entrepreneur, founder of Taproot Foundation and CEO of Imperative, Aaron Hurst, ...

Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth. Solving Problems with Design Thinking details ten real-world examples of managers who successfully applied design methods at 3M, Toyota, IBM, Intuit, and SAP; entrepreneurial start-ups such as MeYou Health; and government and social sector organ...

This book addresses the No 1 challenge of all major luxury brands today: How can these brands pursue their growth yet remain luxury? How do you reconcile growth and rarity?Kapferer on Luxury offers a selection of the most recent and insightful articles and original essays on the luxury growth challenge from Jean-Noël Kapferer, a world-renowned luxury analyst. Each chapter addresses a specific issue relating to the luxury growth challenge s...

Eleventh in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 189 economies, Doing Business 2014 measures regulations affecting 11 areas of everyday business activity: • Starting a business • Dealing with construction permits • Getting electricity • Registering property • Getting credit • Protecting investors • Paying taxes • Trading across borders • Enforcing contracts • Closing a business • Employing workers The report updates all indicators as of June 1, 2013, ranks economies on ...

Partnering with a Purpose90% of business partnerships fail to meet their goals!The problem? The partnership was not set up for success and was doomed before it ever got off the ground.Partnerships can be very effective and efficient ways of growing your business- expanding into new geographies or new vertical markets, building out your product line, or extending service coverage- but only if they are planned for and implemented correctly.Partnering with a Pu...

If you want salient advice about your startup, you’ve hit the jackpot with this book. Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup management, primarily for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community.You’ll find 72 posts from successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, such as Fred Wilson, Steve Blank, Ash Maurya, Joel Spolsky, and ...

The Manual sets out the values, principles and activities for Leadership and Business Development. The idea is to encourage individuals to realise their personal goals and company vision. The Manual is designed to give a practical guide to the skills, attitude, and activities for developing and leading successful business development.

In the development of products we tend to segregate the actual position of the corporation and the products, while we should considered both. In a clear evaluation of where the corporation is and where the portfolio is management can determine points of product development needs and market penetration. This book is a theoretical review and application of such activities.

This volume examines how foreign firms, which are entering or operating in various Asian countries, have responded to the obstacles and opportunities which were identified in the preceding volumes of this series. There is an overview chapter and seven case studies of Canadian and American-based businesses.The studies cover a variety of sectors such as telecommunication, finance, and engineering services. The authors highlight a range of issues that have to be resolved when operatin...

Breaking new ground in its innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative methods, the book essentially argues that another sort of growth is indeed possible. While offering specific insights for regional leaders and analysts of metropolitan areas, the authors also draw a broader – and quite timely – set of conclusions about how to scale up these efforts to address a U.S. economy still seeking to recover from economic crisis and ameliorate distributional divisions.

Find out how Amazon conquered the world in just 50 minutes!In less than two decades, Amazon grew from a startup to become the world leader in online shopping, with hundreds of millions of customers around the world. However, the future did not always look so bright for the internet giant: its unconventional business model initially left investors worried, and it had to overcome the burst of the internet bubble that led to the collapse of many other young tech compa...