Strategic Business Management

Discover how to transform from a traditional to a digitally driven organization based on DBS Bank, which has been recognized by Harvard as one of the top 10 digital transformations of the last decade and as the world's best bank by the most prestigious banking awards. World’s Best Bank provides you with a strategic guide to leveraging digitalization and create better experiences for your customers. It’s based on unique and exclusive interviews of DBS C-suite conducted in person by the author.

Leadership endurance is all about growing through the pain, self-doubt, and the loneliness that inevitably will besiege anyone who seeks the challenge of leadership. If you want practical, time-honored, strategic help to rise above the challenges you will face as a leader, this audiobook is for you. Forged by his own missteps and successes, and founded on solid, biblical principles exemplified in the lives of the greatest leaders of all time, Leadership Endurance is for any leader who feels called to a lifetime of service in the leader's chair.

Unlock the power of emotional intelligence in leadership with this insightful guide! This book offers a comprehensive exploration of emotional intelligence, divided into several sections that delve into its key aspects. We begin with foundational concepts, providing you with a clear understanding of what emotional intelligence is and why it is essential for effective leadership. From there, we dive into communication strategies designed to foster open and honest dialogue within your team.

Higher education has arrived at a crossroads. Demographic changes, a significant student mental health crisis, and AI are just a few factors that will disrupt the industry as we know it in the next decade and beyond. Either colleges and universities figure out how to evolve alongside student needs, technology, and the labor market, or they continue to fall behind due to archaic and unenterprising processes and cultures.

Whether you're just starting to explore circularity, or you are already actively advancing a circular business agenda, this book caters to your unique journey. It introduces a set of circular business model patterns as a pathway to transformation and creating value in a circular economy. It offers over 100 real-world case studies of circular business model innovation to highlight emerging trends, new opportunities, and the pathway to sustainable change.

Sightline spells out the why and the how of collaborative strategy building. It pragmatically explains how to establish a clear destination with your team, while staying flexible about the routes you take to get there. With an emphasis on community building organizations, it’s a go-to resource for leaders craving clarity and conviction when responsiveness and adaptability are also required.

An introduction for everyone. In this rich, fascinating—surprisingly accessible—introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics (aka machine learning) works, and how it affects everyone every day. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, the book serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques.

What will the world look like in 2020? Paul Cornish and Kingsley Donaldson guide us through a maze of global uncertainty in this fascinating look at the future. With the world already struggling to contain conflicts on several continents, with security and defence expenditure under huge pressure, it's time to think the unthinkable and explore what might happen

Rapidly grow your business while staying sane, focused, and fulfilled.

Companies emerge from smart people with clever ideas. However, vision alone is not enough, as only one out of three companies lasts 10 years. It takes a systematic approach to make a company sustainably successful. In Your Company Is Your Castle, Sandeep Chennakeshu, a business transformation veteran, compares building a company to that of a medieval castle that has withstood the test of time, having weathered nature's elements and hordes of invaders.

Built to Deliver distills 30 years of hands-on school system transformation into an eight-step execution framework. Whether you're leading a public school district, charter or private school network, community college, university, or education nonprofit, this framework helps turn bold strategy into measurable, daily action—so plans aren’t just made, they’re fulfilled. Most plans don’t fail from lack of effort. They fail in the gap between vision and execution. Built to Deliver helps close that gap.

For decades, a fundamental flaw has flourished in the strategic operating model of the modern corporation—a Great Distancing from the needs and expectations of customers. For some, such as Blockbuster, AOL, and Kodak, this flaw has been disastrous. Meanwhile, those that have woven the customer deeply into their culture have prospered—with increased revenues and more fulfilled employees.

What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationships they have built with you. Most important...is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort?

LaJuan “Mr. FourAm” Payne went from surviving one of America’s toughest neighborhoods to closing millions in acquisitions as a respected strategist—no trust fund, no MBA. In this battle-tested guide, he hands you the exact blueprint he used to build lasting wealth.

Skip the paid consulting firms and gain the knowledge that every Dealership vendor, agent and administrator wont share. This is the one book that every Dealer in America needs to listen to. Where you are a powersports, independent or franchise dealer, this book will change you financial outlook and how your Dealership treats vendor relationships. The industry has spent too little time selling and too much time being sold. I've transfer my more than 20 years in the automotive industry into a invaluable resource guide to help Dealers navigate the waters of an unyielding volume of vendors.

Reimagining Industry Growth offers listeners a blueprint to harnessing the power of leading industry associations as strategic partners. By utilizing those partnerships, business leaders will become able to leverage the collective strength of the supply chain to overcome challenges, address uncertainty, mitigate risks, and position their industries for growth. The book provides an overview of strategic partnerships, how they work, and how they can be applied to industry relationships with trade associations.

Our world is constantly buffeted by new and dramatic changes we can't fully grasp. No one is fully prepared for the challenges, crises, and risks that lie ahead. The Extreme Future is a blueprint for what's next and how to navigate these changes.

What are the best B2B companies doing differently to achieve growth? This is the primary question that you will get an answer to by listening to Revenue Growth Platform. Based on the authors’ 20+ years of personal experience from sales transformation projects, as well as their research and interviews, they now share both their strategic insights about business models and tactical ideas for improving and scaling marketing, sales, and customer success.

The right pricing strategy can change the entire trajectory of a business, a market, and even society at large. To help you create your best pricing strategy efficiently and confidently, two leaders from BCG are introducing fresh perspectives on pricing that take you far beyond the realm of mind-numbing numbers.

Obwohl Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) derzeit in aller Munde ist, setzen bislang nur wenige Unternehmen die Technologie wirklich erfolgreich ein. Der Experte für KI-Implementierung im Unternehmen Dr. Tawia Odoi erklärt verständlich, was sich hinter KI verbirgt und welche immensen Vorteile sie gegenüber herkömmlicher Software bietet. Ihm geht es darum, Berührungsängste abzubauen und KI endlich zu verstehen und anzuwenden. Sein Hörbuch zeigt die treibenden Kräfte auf und benennt auch mögliche Hindernisse.