Download or read book Creating A Business Plan Pocket Mentor Series written by Harvard Business School Press and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Developing a Business Case written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-12-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you decide on the best course of action for your company to take advantage of new opportunities? By building a business case. This book provides a framework for building a business case. You'll learn how to: Clearly define the opportunity you'll want to address in your business case Identify and analyze a range of alternatives Recommend one option and assess its risks Create a high-level implementation plan for your proposed alternative Communicate your case to key stakeholders
Download or read book Developing a Business Case written by Harvard Business School Press and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you decide on the best course of action for your company to take advantage of new opportunities? By building a business case. This book provides a framework for building a business case. You'll learn how to: Clearly define the opportunity you'll want to address in your business case Identify and analyze a range of alternatives Recommend one option and assess its risks Create a high-level implementation plan for your proposed alternative Communicate your case to key stakeholders
Download or read book Executing Strategy written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day on the job, you face common challenges. And you need immediate solutions to those challenges. The Pocket Mentor Series can help. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify your strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable, concise guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with speed, savvy, and effectiveness. The latest volume in the series: Executing Strategy That strategy you've defined for your group is brilliant--promising better market share, higher profits, or some other impressive business result. But your strategy won't deliver the expected outcomes if you and your group don't execute it that is, if you don't put it into action by implementing the right strategic initiatives. This volume helps you master the challenging art of strategy execution. You'll learn how to: -Craft action plans for the strategic initiatives required to meet your goals -Keep your action plans on course despite the inevitable setbacks and surprises -Cultivate employees' sense of ownership and accountability for your plans -Create a group culture in which everyone views strategy as their job
Download or read book Creating a Business Plan written by Harvard Business School and published by Harvard Business School Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every business needs a business plan--a plan to meet the expected and unexpected opportunities and obstacles the future holds. This book will help you take a long, hard look at each element of the plan and show you how to communicate the right message to the right people, and maximize the chances of getting your business launched.
Download or read book Managing Teams written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading teams is an essential skill every manager must possess. To do it effectively, you must know how to instill commitment in your team, improve communication among group members, and diagnose common problems that can derail a team. In this book, you'll find valuable advice and proven strategies for managing teams, including how to: · Diagnose common problems that can impede team progress · Take corrective measures to remove team problems and improve performance · Resolve team conflicts · Promote interdependence within teams
Download or read book Creating Business Plans HBR 20 Minute Manager Series written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-crafted business plan generates enthusiasm for your idea and boosts your odds of success--whether you're proposing a new initiative within your organization or starting an entirely new company. Creating Business Plans quickly walks you through the basics. You'll learn to: Present your idea clearly Develop sound financial plans Project risks--and rewards Anticipate and address your audience's concerns Don't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.
Download or read book Preparing a Budget written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A budget is a financial action plan for an organization. This guide will teach you how to: - Forecast future business results, such as sales volume, revenues, and expenses - Reconcile those forecasts to organizational goals - Obtain organizational support for your proposed budget - Fine-tune your budget over time
Download or read book Giving Presentations written by and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving presentation the basic, decide what to say, plan for visuals .... Tip and tools, test yourselt, to learn more.
Download or read book Developing Employees written by Harvard Business School. Press and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness. Managing employee growth is critical to your organization's success. But to develop your employees effectively, you must have certain skills, such as the ability to seek out opportunities, set goals, and provide feedback. This volume teaches you to: � Assess developmental needs � Understand and take into account differences between your employees � Use a Performance and Potential grid to determine next steps � Conduct a career development discussion
Download or read book Executing Innovation written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pocket Mentor series offers immediate solutions to the challenges managers face on the job every day. Each book in the series is packed with handy tools, self-tests, and real-life examples to help you identify strengths and weaknesses and hone critical skills. Whether you're at your desk, in a meeting, or on the road, these portable guides enable you to tackle the daily demands of your work with greater speed, savvy, and effectiveness. Ideas are not enough: successful innovation requires people to pick up where the creative process leaves off. These people must take the creative idea and apply it to a real-life problem to design a new product, service, or process. They must construct a carefully articulated vision for the project, draw up a feasible financial plan, and advocate the project over the whole course of its development and implementation. This book teaches you how to execute an innovation from start to finish: - Develop a vision statement that stands up to evaluation criteria - Build a strong business case to the stakeholders who will be affected - Manage both explicit and hidden resistance to change - Sustain the passion around your idea and keeping its momentum going
Download or read book Understanding Marketing written by and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest volume in the series: Understanding Marketing Businesses soar when everyone in the organization adopts a marketing mind-set?an awareness of who the company's customers are, what they want, and how the organization can serve them profitably. But marketing's a big subject. How might you demystify it for yourself and your group if you don't have a marketing background? This volume provides the concepts and examples you need. You'll learn how to: -Define a target market -Identify and understand your toughest competitors -Develop a marketing strategy that lays out "the four Ps": product, promotion, pricing, and "place" (distribution) -Test new product or service ideas with customers -Get the most from relationship marketing
Download or read book HBR Guide to Building Your Business Case written by Raymond Sheen and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You've got a great idea that will increase revenue or productivity--but how do you get approval to make it happen? By building a business case that clearly shows its value. Maybe you struggle to win support for projects because you're not sure what kind of data your stakeholders will trust, or naysayers always seem to shoot your ideas down at the last minute. Or perhaps you're intimidated by analysis and number crunching, so you just take a stab at estimating costs and benefits, with little confidence in your accuracy. To get any idea off the ground at your company you'll have to make a strong case for it. This guide gives you the tools to do that"--
Download or read book Improving Business Processes written by Harvard Business Review and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In challenging times, companies must serve their customers faster and more efficiently. This makes improving your business processes more critical than ever. In this book, you'll learn key steps for carrying out a business process improvement initiative, including how to: -Plan a business process improvement initiative -Analyze and redesign a current process that needs improvement -Obtain the resources needed to change a process -Develop a systematic approach for creating and implementing change
Download or read book Getting to Plan B written by John Mullins and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it. As John Mullins and Randy Komisar explain in Getting to Plan B, new businesses are fraught with uncertainty. To succeed, you must change the plan in real time as the inevitable challenges arise. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who stick slavishly to their Plan A stand a greater chance of failing-and that many successful businesses barely resemble their founders' original idea. The authors provide a rigorous process for stress testing your Plan A and determining how to alter it so your business makes money, solves customers' needs, and endures. You'll discover strategies for: -Identifying the leap-of-faith assumptions hidden in your plan -Testing those assumptions and unearthing why the plan might not work -Reconfiguring the five components of your business model-revenue model, gross margin model, operating model, working capital model, and investment model-to create a sounder Plan B. Filled with success stories and cautionary tales, this book offers real cases illustrating the authors' unique process. Whether your idea is for a start-up or a new business unit within your organization, Getting to Plan B contains the road map you need to reach success.
Download or read book Business Plan Writing Guide written by Devon Wilcox and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 Amazon Best Seller: The Ultimate Guide To Writing A Game Changing Business Plan In Under 3 Hours! So you have an idea for a start up, an idea that could potentially be worth millions, even billions! Maybe its for a software program, a multi-platform app, perhaps a new niche retail store. This idea could change your life, and even more, it can change the world! So, now what? How do you turn that idea in a real life thriving business? How do you take some chicken scratch on a napkin and turn into a dollar symbol? Do you need to have your MBA, a CEO as your mentor, or $200 million in seed money? No! What you need is far more simple and it can be created in as little as 3 hours! What you need is a Business Plan. As simple as it sounds, a Business Plan is a "plan" for your business. Think of it as the blueprint for a house. It will show you how to go from start to finish while showing you all of the pieces you will need along the way. A business plan will take an idea or concept for a business and can turn into a reality within as little as 3 hours. In order to create a successful, sustainable business you need a defined and developed strategy for acquisition of funds, market analysis, advertising, structure, scaling as well as several other elements. Your initial creation will by no means be a final copy, however, it will serve as a point to build from that will expand in line with the growth and vision of your business. One of the keys to creating a successful business is the manner in which you implement your Business Plan. In order to to do this, you NEED a Business Plan that is all inclusive, a plan that will account for future growth while being realistic about current position. In this book, I'll teach you EVERYTHING you need to know so that you can build such an amazing business plan that it will turn your idea into a profitable and sustainable business model overnight! Broken down into simple and easy to understand concepts, This Book Will Guide You From Start To Finish While You Create Your Business Plan. I'll show you exactly what should be in your Business Plan and what is simply a waste of time. Through practical examples and easy to replicate implementation, I will help you create the foundation of a business that will be able to succeed for years and years to come. With some sneaky tricks I have developed over the years, you'll literally be able to "short circuit" the path to creation of your business plan and come out the other end with a far better finished product than you could have ever imagined. Start your business off on the right foot and learn how to make a stand out, amazing Business Plan with this book today! Here Is A Preview Of What You'll Learn... The Principles & Philosophies of A Successful Business Plan The Tools & Techniques That Can Help You Build You Business Plan (Hint: Not What You Think) Tips & Tricks To Ensure Your Business Plan Does Not Limit Development & Growth How To Complete Research That Will Allow You To Be In Control of Your Target Market How To Utilize Your Business Plan To Start Your Dream Idea NOW! The Top Mistakes to AVOID That Beginners Make With Business Plans Much, much more! Our Personal Guarantee We are so confident that methods outlined in this book will help you create an amazing Business Plan that we are willing to let you try the methods risk-free! If you are not fully satisfied with your results, simply let us know and we will provide a 100% full refund. That's right, a 100% Money-Back Guarantee! What reason do you have to not give this book a try? Scroll Up & Click The "Add To Cart" Icon On The Right Side Right Now! ClydeBank Media LLC All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Managing Change written by and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to remain competitive in increasingly aggressive markets managers must adopt a positive attitude towards change. Successful managers know how to embrace change with an open mind and use it as a stimulus for new ideas, enthusiasm and progress.
