Posts Tagged ‘Business’

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life [ABRIDGED/AUDIO CD] [AUDIOBOOK]

Here is THE audiobook recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, folli[Read More]

Business Marketing Management: B2B

Emerging trends are changing today's business marketing. Are you ready to compete? BUSINESS MARKETING MANAGEMENT takes you inside the world of business marketing experts, showing you what you need to know to be successful. The textbook highlights the similarities between consumer goods and business-to-business marketing, presents a managerial rathe[Read More]

Business and Society: Ethics and Stakeholder Management

Introduce your students to important and diverse stakeholder management and ethical frameworks for considering and protecting critical stakeholder interests with the latest edition of BUSINESS AND SOCIETY. Students learn how responsible business decision makers balance and protect the interests of various stakeholders, including investors, employee[Read More]

Strategic Planning for the Family Business: Parallel Planning to Unite the Family and Business

From small start-ups to giant multinationals, from the Mom-and-Pop owned barber shop to Ford, family owned businesses continue to dominate the world economy. But regardless of size, running a successful family firm presents unique challenges, and many fail to survive the transition to the next generation. Here is a practical, comprehensive guide to[Read More]

Small Business Management: Entrepreneurship and Beyond

Small Business Management provides a balanced introduction to both entrepreneurship and small business management with a focus on achieving and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage as a small organization. Current issues including global opportunities, service, quality and technology are highlighted throughout the text. The streamlined f[Read More]

The Big Book of Small Business: You Don’t Have to Run Your Business by the Seat of Your Pants

Your shoes are charred from stomping out brush fires. You have nightmares about UFOs--Unreachable Financial Objectives. All-star interviewees turn into duds. Meetings cause more problems than they solve. The office is a ghost town at 5:01 p.m. Does this sound familiar? Tom Gegax knows what that is like. Years after running his Tires Plus [Read More]

Strategic Management & Business Policy: Achieving Sustainability (12th Edition)

A class-tested approach to Strategy with new focus on environmental sustainability. Introduction to Strategic Management and Business Policy; Scanning the Environment; Strategy Formulation; Strategy Implementation and Control; Introduction to Case Analysis; Web Chapters: Other Strategic Issues; Cases in Strategic Management This text equips reader[Read More]

Small Business Management: An Entrepreneur’s Guidebook

Operating any business is complex and challenging, but it provides interesting, creative, and rewarding experiences. Small Business Management, Sixth Edition, takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business. While employing current research and theory, Small Business Management takes a pragmatic â[Read More]

Cost Management: Strategies for Business Decisions

Hilton/Maher/Selto (HMS) is for instructors who want to teach students to manage costs and not just account for costs. HMS maintains that, "Costs don't just happen," and with a pro-active approach toward costs, managers who understand cost implications as well as accountants can add value to an organization. Hilton, Maher, Selto focuses on having s[Read More]

Effective Small Business Management (9th Edition)

This book provides you a pathway to launching a new, small business successfully. The edition provides information on the right way to launch and mange a small business with the staying power to succeed and grow. This book is for the new venture entrepreneur who wants to explore the possibilities, the challenges, and the rewards of owing a bus[Read More]

Small Business Management: Launching and Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures (with Printed Access Card)

Realize your dreams of small business success with this market-leading SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: LAUNCHING AND GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES, 15E. This innovative book provides the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources essential for success throughout your management career. This edition's solid coverage of t[Read More]

Fundamentals of Financial Management (with Thomson ONE – Business School Edition)

Count on the renowned author team that's First in Finance to deliver a unique balance of clear concepts, contemporary theory, and practical applications that ensures a thorough understanding of today's corporate finance and financial management. Brigham/Houston's FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, 12E presents a solid, focused foundation in fina[Read More]

Business Driven Technology

Business Driven Technology discusses various business initiatives first and how technology supports those initiatives second. The premise for this unique approach is that business initiatives should drive technology choices. Every discussion first addresses the business needs and then addresses the technology that supports those needs

Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution



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 processes you must execute well, then implement the IT systems needed to digitize those processes. Citing numerous companies worldwide, the authors show how constructing the right enterprise architecture enhances profitability and time to market, improves s… More >>
Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution

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