Before you can achieve sustainable, profitable business innovation, you need to understand where you stand now: your strengths, weaknesses, and best opportunities for improvement. Now, discover how to do this, and how to integrate assessment into a complete innovation framework that works.Assessing Your Innovation Capability is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough team-based approach to innovation: one that links business, design and eng...

When business models collide with the real world, it's often necessary to make rapid and decisive changes. Entrepreneurs call this pivoting – and it is not easy. Now, learn how to leverage design and learning skills to prepare for pivots, manage them effectively, and integrate them into a complete innovation framework that works!Business Model Execution - Navigating with the Pivot is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough approach...

Most great opportunities fail. The #1 reason: companies can't effectively scope their best opportunities. Scoping is where failure rates are highest. Now, discover how to use design thinking to radically improve the way you scope opportunities, and integrate opportunity development into a complete innovation framework that works.Design Process and Opportunity Development is part of Philadelphia University's breakthrough approach to innovation: one that lin...

In Never Bet the Farm two leading entrepreneurs, Anthony Iaquinto and Stephen Spinelli, turn much of the so-called expert advice for entrepreneurs on its head. They show that by preparing for setbacks and using a framework that can help reduce risks and simplify decision making, entrepreneurs can increase their probability for success. They refute the idea that there is an ideal entrepreneurial “type,” and show that luck can be as important as a business plan in many enterprises. Above all...

Today's top experts in entrepreneurship deliver a streamlined, step-by-step guide for crafting effective business plans"Timmons is one of the two most powerful minds in entrepreneurship in the nation." --Success BusinessPlans 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 ...

Turn your great idea into BIG PROFITS with a powerful, persuasive business plan!With any endeavor, good planning is the key to good results—especially in the launch of a new business or product. Business Plans That Work gives you an easy-to-follow template for conceptualizing, writing, focusing, and revising a business plan that converts your business idea into financial profit.A virtual blueprint for entrepreneurial success, this new edition of th...

New tools for managing complexityDoes your organization manage complexity by making things more complicated? If so, you are not alone.According to The Boston Consulting Group’s fascinating Complexity Index, business complexity has increased sixfold during the past sixty years. And, all the while, organizational complicatedness-that is, the number of structures, processes, committees, decision-making forums, and systems-has increased by a whopping f...

The QuickStudy Management guide can be helpful for students or corporate executives. The guide contains a full array of management topics from ethics to globalization.

Ever wondered what it takes to become a successful professional? This book grabs you by your wrist and guides you to success. It reinforces that a team always outsmarts loners. The heuristic methodology followed in this book in a simple easy-to-follow allows you to refer to the book anytime. The ideas are imbibed in a list format to enable easy reading. Have a successful career.

In today's cluttered marketplace, consumers are faced with too many choices. They are bombarded with too much information. And retailers provide them with too little advice. Because of this, consumers find it increasingly hard to make informed decisions. And as a result, building loyalty and finding new customers is an impossible challenge. Today, to be relevant, you can't go on treating all customers the same way. You need to focus on them, on their needs, on who they are and why they nee...

The Management Study Brief provides an introduction to management concepts, theories and practices. It is intended as a quick reference for business professionals, including employees, managers, group leaders, team leaders, and students of business or business management. This Study Brief contains key terms and definitions, a brief history and short profiles of major contributors to management theories and principles that have greatly influenced and shaped today’s management styles and pra...

Employee engagement makes a difference. HR professionals know this intuitively and so do leaders. They want employees to care about their work and actively engage with the job and the organization. But now we know that employee engagement is not just something that makes intuitive sense. It also reaps financial rewards. This section provides case studies, hard data about what is effective, and proven techniques for increasing employee engagement in the important work of the organization in...