Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation: How to Create Shareholder Value
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No matter what industry your company competes in, you need to have a firm understanding of how to create a direct link between shareholder value and critical business processes in order to improve performance and achieve long-term value. Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation contains the information and expertise you need to do just this–and much more.
Create Your Own Employee Handbook With CD : A Legal & Practical Guide
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Whether a business has only one employee or several thousand, managers, HR professionals and business owners need to provide their workers with a handbook that spells out the company’s benefits, policies, procedures and more. Create Your Own Employee Handbook provides all the information and sample forms users need to create their own reader-friendly policy guide. Each chapter covers a different topic, including: at-will employment - hiring - pay and payroll - workdays and hours - performance evaluations - benefits - discrimination and harassment - complaint policies and investigations - leave - health and safety - substance abuse - privacy in the workplace - discipline. Each chapter first explains the legal and practical considerations that apply to its topic then supplies sample policies which readers can tailor to meet their needs. A CD-ROM lets readers cut-and-paste policies to create their own handbook.
Driving Your Company’s Value
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Driving Your Company’s Value: Strategic Benchmarking for Value is a step-by-step book presenting a valuation-oriented methodology that helps companies maximize shareholder value. It offers clear, concise, and concrete methods for management to create and preserve value, complete with case study applications. In an easy-to-read format, it brings together the aspects of the Financial Accounting Standards Boards’ new performance measurements, the balanced scorecard, and the new guidelines on fraud detection and Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). * Identifies the critical decisions that most effectuate growth and value. * Covers the easy and reliable ways to monitor value of an entity. * Demonstrates how management can apportion and allocate resources to achieve the highest value.
Leading at the Edge of Chaos: How to Create the Nimble Organization
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Praise for Leading at the Edge of Chaos If your organization is facing any anticipated chaotic event in the next six months— and who isn’t— you should read Daryl Conner. His tough-minded definitions of winners vs. losers will make you think twice. — Craig E. Weatherup, Chairman and CEO, The Pepsi-Cola Company Conner’s new book is thoroughly original and useful on the mastery of leading change. — Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University o Southern California, and author of Organizing Genius Daryl Conner has done it again! The leading authority on managing change has given us what we need right now. Leading at the Edge of Chaos offers prescriptive advice for leading in today’s world, where the tempo and thrust of change has escalated. A must read for anyone who is still breathing and leading. — Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager(r) Delightful and thought-provoking . . . [links] deep organizational research with useable ‘real world’ advice . . . I would recommend this book to others— senior line leaders and their management teams. — Kenneth Schwenke, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Aramark Corporation In the new reality in which the human need for control is continuously assaulted by escalating change, Daryl Conner provides [organization leaders] . . . steps to take . . . in clear language and vivid images, with psychological insight and knowledge born out of broad hands-on experience. — Judy Bardwick, author of In Praise of Good Business and Danger in the Comfort Zone Every executive who is leading constant change in their organizations should read thisbook. — Don Beattie, Chief Executive, Personnel, The BOC Group (U.K.) Gone are the days when innovations and new ventures were incremental in scope and sequential in nature. In their place is ‘perpetual unrest, ‘ unending, fundamental changes . . . — Daryl Conner In his 1993 classic, Managing at the Speed of Change, Daryl Conner showed managers how to implement business innovations on time and under budget. In this groundbreaking new book, he shows them how to ride the whirlwind. The tempo of change has sped up to a dizzying pace over the past few years. Globalization, rapid-fire technological innovation, and mounting pressure for shareholder value have pushed the markets into a state of ceaseless turmoil. What was cutting-edge change management theory just five years ago now seems naive. Success amidst such a maelstrom of change calls for much more than what change management models have to offer. It calls for a radically new kind of organization, nimble enough to adapt instantly to changing market conditions, and piloted by leaders versed in the art of Leading at the Edge of Chaos. This book is not about decision making; it is about execution. It is not about predicting change; it is about adapting to it at a moment’s notice. Internation
Real Epublishing, Really Publishing!: How to Create Digital Books by and for All Ages
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Taking advantage of revolutionary yet readily available technology, Real ePublishing, Really Publishing! will help you transform your classroom into its very own publishing company.
The Power of Unfair Advantage: How to Create It, Build It, and Use It to Maximum Effect
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Silicon Valley insider and author of High Tech Start Up reveals what unfair advantage is–that mysterious quality that separates the successful company from the nine out of ten that fail.
Lifecycle of a Technology Company
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This book helps to create a solid foundation for those who are in the technology sector. It allows the entrepreneur to understand more deeply the legal milieu in which they operate and provides venture capitalists with a better understanding of the ration
Customer Care Excellence: How to Create an Effective Customer Focus
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Customer loyalty is essential to the long term financial success of a business, but with more choice than ever before, customers today have high expectations of products and services. Businesses need a top-notch customer services system in place, and Customer Care Excellence explains how to achieve just that. In clear, practical language, this book explains how to develop and sustain a customer-service focus within a company. Emphasizing both strategic and practical aspects of customer care, Customer Care Excellence explains how gaining customer commitment and motivating employees to deliver an excellent service at all of a company’’s touch points can ensure successful results and satisfied customers. This new edition includes material on how online technology has affected customer service and employee and customer engagement, illustrated with new examples from Tesco and eBay.
Ten Steps to Innovation Heaven: How to Create Future Growth and Competitive Strength
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Innovation promises a lot, and companies of all sizes may recognize its potential, yet successful implementation remains a challenge. This book highlights the key reasons why companies fail in innovation and how they can avoid it, and then presents a practical, 10-step framework for planning and implementing successful innovation projects. With genuine insights and a deep understanding of the factors that make or break a project, the vital role of business innovation is made accessible to any reader for any company.
How to Use a Consultant in Your Company
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In this chaotic age of new technologies, downsizing, and reengineering, managers and executives are relying more and more on the consultant. Hiring the right consultants for your company and making effective use of them is a vital skill, and yet there has been a lack of guidance on this topic ? until now. How to Use a Consultant in Your Company delivers expert advice and practical guidelines on how to successfully create and manage the client/consultant relationship ? to your advantage. The book is based on the authors’ previous work entitled Managing the Consultant: A Corporate Guide. Incorporating more than fifty percent new material, this book emphasizes the management aspects of the consultant. The updated version includes new material on the following subjects: what are Internet consultants; where does contracting out differ from consulting; where is it the same; can consultants be “temps”; evaluating consultants; billing and payment arrangements; controlling costs and fees; contacts with competitors; antitrust and trade regulations; using the contract to guide retention; and noncompete clause. This is a hot topic as the market has grown significantly due to downsizing and reengineering - and companies today would rather hire specialists on a job-by-job basis as opposed to full-time to avoid paying long-term benefits.John McGonagle and Carolyn Vella provide up-to-the-minute information on: Defining your consulting needs Finding and selecting the right consultants Managing the paper trail?corporate policies, contracting issues Working with an individual consultant or an entire firm Handling disputes, lawsuits, and complaints Evaluating consultants Including forms and other materials for help in developing formal policies, billing procedures, and more that you can adapt to fit your own situation, How to Use a Consultant in Your Company is the one-book-fits-all solution for anyone responsible for getting the most out of their company?s consultant. John J. McGonagle Jr., JD (Blandon, PA), is a management consultant and the author or coauthor of eleven business books. Carolyn M. Vella (Blandon, PA) is the founder of The Helicon Group and its current divisions.