Download or read book The Art of Profitability written by Adrian Slywotzky and published by Business Plus. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinarily new business slant on how companies can generate greater profits in 23 compact lessons with ongoing tutorials between two fictitious individuals. In the past, companies taught their employees about quality. In today's unstable economy, employers must stress the importance of profitability. Now with scores of examples from the global marketplace, the bestselling coauthor of The Profit Zone and Profit Patterns takes you to a higher level in the art of business. Each of the twenty-three chapters in this concise, challenging book presents a different, powerful business model...and a provocative dialogue between an extraordinary teacher called David Zhao and his young protégé. Revealed are the invisible but significant governing principles that allow businesses to survive and prosper in any economic climate. By participating in each session with the exuberant, challenging master, you too will learn how your company and your competitors generate profit...what approach best applies to your profit-making strategy...what specific actions your organization can take in the next ninety days to improve its bottom line...and more.

Download or read book The Profitability Test written by Harborne W. Stuart, Jr. and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way to determine whether a business strategy will lead to profitability. This book teaches readers to understand profitability in a systematic way, equipping them to provide logically coherent answers to questions about whether a new venture will be profitable, if changes in business strategy will generate an increase in profits, or if “staying the course” will result in continued profitability. Unlike books by business gurus that offer one-size-fits-all advice, this book starts from the premise that you, the reader, are in the best position to make difficult judgments about your business. It shows how to turn these judgments into coherent analysis, presenting state-of-the art theory for understanding business strategy from an economic perspective. The basic building block is the value that is created when the buyer and seller make a deal. In simple terms, if a company is to be profitable, it must make a favorable deal with each and every customer. After setting out key principles and applying them to market situations, the book teaches readers to apply the analysis to their own businesses—in other words, to create their own business game, the main ingredients of which are people and the value that they can create. It addresses how to integrate strategic moves into the book's theory of value creation and competition in order to address the sustainability of a company's profits, the effectiveness of the “invisible hand,” and restrictions to competition. Optional appendixes explain the relevant mathematics.

Download or read book The Profit Zone written by Adrian J. Slywotzky and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that answers the most fundamental question in business: Where Will I Make a Profit Tomorrow? Why do some companies create sustained, superior profits year after year? Why are they always far ahead of their competitors in discovering the ever-changing profit zones of their industry? Why do others languish as their traditional way of doing business turns into a no-profit zone? The Profit Zone provides the answers. It is a brilliant, original, and practical explanation of how and why high profit happens.

Download or read book The Business of Design written by Keith Granet and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Business of Design debunks the myth that business sense and creative talent are mutually exclusive, showing design professionals that they can pursue their passion and turn a profit. For nearly thirty years, consultant Keith Granet has helped designers create successful businesses, from branding to billing and everything in between. Unlike other business books, The Business of Design is written and illustrated to speak to a visually thinking audience. The book covers all aspects of running a successful design business, including human resources, client management, product development, marketing, and licensing. This timely update on the tenth anniversary of the first edition includes new content on social media, working from home, and understanding and working with different generations, essential tools in today's ultracompetitive marketplace.

Download or read book Managing Customers for Profit written by V. Kumar and published by Pearson Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading marketing expert V. Kumar shows how to use Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) to target customers with higher profit potential...manage and reward existing customers based on their profitability...and invest in high-profit customers to prevent attrition and ensure future profitability. Kumar introduces customer-centric approaches to allocating marketing resources for maximum effectiveness...pitching the right products to the right customers at the right time...determining when a customer is likely to leave, and whether to intervene...managing multichannel shopping...even calculating a customer's referral value.

Download or read book The Art of Business Value written by Mark Schwartz and published by IT Revolution. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you really understand what business value is? Information technology can and should deliver business value. But the Agile literature has paid scant attention to what business value means—and how to know whether or not you are delivering it. This problem becomes ever more critical as you push value delivery toward autonomous teams and away from requirements “tossed over the wall” by business stakeholders. An empowered team needs to understand its goal! Playful and thought-provoking, The Art of Business Value explores what business value means, why it matters, and how it should affect your software development and delivery practices. More than any other IT delivery approach, DevOps (and Agile thinking in general) makes business value a central concern. This book examines the role of business value in software and makes a compelling case for why a clear understanding of business value will change the way you deliver software. This book will make you think deeply about not only what it means to deliver value but also the relationship of the IT organization to the rest of the enterprise. It will give you the language to discuss value with the business, methods to cut through bureaucracy, and strategies for incorporating Agile teams and culture into the enterprise. Most of all, this book will startle you into new ways of thinking about the cutting-edge of Agile practice and where it may lead.

Download or read book Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink written by Jonathan L. S. Byrnes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companies around the world turn to MIT's Jonathan Byrnes for one reason: he can figure out where the profit is. He shows them which customers and businesses are cash cows, and which efforts are just a drain on resources. Most astonishingly, in each case he finds that roughly 40% of his client's businesses are unprofitable. We are transitioning from an era of mass markets to the Age of Precision Markets. Before, companies sought to distribute their products as widely as possible using arm's-length customer relationships. Broad metrics like aggregate revenues and costs were adequate. But today companies form different relationships with different sets of customers. Successful businesses create competitive advantages and sustained profitability by developing innovative relationships and new types of value. This is a double-edged sword: if customers are matched with the right relationships, sales and profits soar...but if they are matched poorly, profitability plunges. Islands of Profit in a Sea of Red Ink tells you how to rethink your business for maximum profit - what to do, what difficulties you'll encounter, and how to overcome them. This book gives you the roadmap and tools you'll need to be a highly effective manager in a new era of business.

Download or read book Demand Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It written by Adrian Slywotzky With Karl Web and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demand is one of the few economic terms almost everyone knows. Demand drives supply. When demand rises, it stimulates growth - jobs are created, the economy flourishes and society thrives. So goes the theory. It sounds simple, yet almost no one really understands demand, including the business owners, company leaders and policy makers who try to stimulate and satisfy it. DEMAND is a book with breakout general non-fiction potential which searches for clues as to where demand really comes from, and why, and how we might control it.

Download or read book The Personal MBA written by Josh Kaufman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-12-30 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master the fundamentals, hone your business instincts, and save a fortune in tuition. The consensus is clear: MBA programs are a waste of time and money. Even the elite schools offer outdated assembly-line educations about profit-and-loss statements and PowerPoint presentations. After two years poring over sanitized case studies, students are shuffled off into middle management to find out how business really works. Josh Kaufman has made a business out of distilling the core principles of business and delivering them quickly and concisely to people at all stages of their careers. His blog has introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the best business books and most powerful business concepts of all time. In The Personal MBA, he shares the essentials of sales, marketing, negotiation, strategy, and much more. True leaders aren't made by business schools-they make themselves, seeking out the knowledge, skills, and experiences they need to succeed. Read this book and in one week you will learn the principles it takes most people a lifetime to master.

Download or read book The Art of Preventing Stupid written by Matthew Neill Davis and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where most businesses fail, The Art of Preventing Stupid offers a system for leaders to solve common business problems before they happen. Author Matthew Neill Davis introduces the Preventing Stupid Method to running a business, a method that guides readers in identifying, categorizing, and prioritizing threats to and weaknesses in their business. This book details how to efficiently prevent and manage potential and present problems and helps business owners and managers learn how to create leads for a more profitable business. You will learn how to seize opportunities rather than wallow in problems that should never have made it to the surface. Forward-thinking risk management This book delivers bold business strategy rooted in forward-thinking risk management. It is about changing how leaders think, so they can run their business with confidence, effectiveness, and profitability. It shows struggling entrepreneurs how to weed out the stupid mistakes they’re making, so they can move forward. For those already running a business, it offers next-level risk management strategies to make work easier, more profitable, and more secure. ​Advice from a lawyer In The Art of Preventing Stupid, you’ll get a lawyer’s perspective and insight and the value of a fractional general counsel for the cost of a single book. Matthew Neill Davis of Davis Law, PLLC, a firm that has three times made the Law Firm 500 for being among the fastest-growing law firms in the nation, will show you how to make smart, meaningful changes to successfully grow your organization. With his extensive litigation and business representation experience and expertise in building and running custom legal departments for businesses and nonprofits, he has dedicated himself to helping business owners make smart business decisions.

Download or read book Service that Sells written by Jim Sullivan and published by Pencom. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is it. The bestselling book in food service history. Over the years it has been updated and, based on demand, kept printing. Today, hundreds of thousands of copies later, owners, managers, and operators are still using it for its "1,000 guaranteed ways to make your restaurant more profitable".

Download or read book Cracking the Code Leveraging Consumer Psychology to Drive Profitability written by Steven S. Posavac and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique contribution of Cracking the Code is its spotlight on how the knowledge of consumer psychology principles can be used to improve managerial decision making and organizational performance. Research on consumer behavior typically has a narrow focus and does not offer reliable and practical direction for marketers. Taken collectively, however, the conclusions of research streams can provide valuable information from which managers can base their decisions. The contributing authors of Cracking the Code offer a set of rules for managerial action that has been distilled from reviews of research areas in which they are experts. The book contains systematic, prescriptive advice based on state-of-the-art knowledge from multiple research lines regarding how consumers think and choose. The chapters cover fundamental topics such as new product management, marketing mix strategy, marketing communications and advertising, social media, and experiential marketing.

Download or read book Farming for the Long Haul written by Michael Foley and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming in the ruins of the twentieth century -- A short, unhappy history of business advice for farmers -- Subsistence first! -- Land for the tiller -- Soil, civilization, and resilient farmers through the centuries -- Resourceful farmers -- Woodlands and wastes -- It takes a village: leisure, community, and resilience -- Getting a living, forging a livelihood -- Farmer, citizen, survivor: politics and resilience

Download or read book Value Migration written by Adrian J. Slywotzky and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that successful new companies are taking on established businesses by developing superior business designs, and argues that the key is anticipating customer priorities

Download or read book Profit Patterns written by Adrian J. Slywotzky and published by Crown. This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a successful coach, Slywotzky uses ingenious diagrams and brief explanations to show readers how to make sense of profit patterns that are changing the way companies do business and make money. 100 illustrations.

Download or read book Built for Use Driving Profitability Through the User Experience written by Karen Donoghue and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2002-03-22 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first practical guide to linking business strategy with the art and science of user experience and online design It has becoming increasingly clear that the big winners in the E-business arena are those that practice customer-centric design. While there are a multitude of good books on the art and science of user interface and website design, until Built For Use, there were none that focused on user experience from the corporate strategist's and marketing manager's perspectives. Drawing upon her work as a user-experience strategist for numerous Fortune 1,000 firms, Karen Donoghue explores the dynamics of business strategy and user experience in a concise, jargon-free manner for nontechnical managers. With the help of fascinating and instructive before-and-after case studies, she helps managers become fluent in the language of user-experience; identifies user-experience and designstrategy best practices; explains how to determine what customers want; and much more.

Download or read book Win Win Selling Unlocking Your Power for Profitability by Resolving Objections written by Doug Brown and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Objections have been a part of life since humans first began to communicate.The funny thing is, in all that time, most people haven't learned how to handle them. However, objections are nothing to be feared. Doug Brown wrote Win-Win Selling for you to learn how to resolve objections by getting to the heart of the matter - the human aspect. In this book, you will. - Get Tools for You to Win Over a Buyer Without an Argument- Discover the Most Important Ingredient for You to Succeed in Sales- Learn How to Resolve Objections While Also Increasing Your Numbers- Explore New Methods for You to Address the Personal Demands of a Buyer- Understand the Behaviorism of the Sale for you to Build Rapport with a Buyer If you have been in business for any length of time, you've encountered an objection or two (thousand!). You have experienced something that instantly opened your eyes to a world of new possibilities.This book will build on that premise - that a world of new possibilities will open up for you when you learn how to handle objections easily in a win-win fashion.You're familiar with the concept of win-win, right? A win-win is where there is a positive outcome for both, and both people want that outcome.What you hold in your hands contains game-changing methods for handling objections. Using these methods will result in higher sales conversions and happier customers - both win-wins.From Bestselling Author Russ Whitney's Foreword: "Most seasoned salespeople will know that when we hear objections like those, it's usually about the money and whether they can afford it, or whether they want to spend it on your product or service. In this book, Doug takes objections and resolution to a whole new level. This is not an ordinary book at all. It takes one of the most important parts of the science of selling and breaks it down in a unique way that will help you to improve your closing ratio and increase your sales in a big way. The other thing I like about this book is that Doug used these very strategies to close me, not only on reading it, but then, writing this foreword. His approach was remarkable; it left me with a good feeling and happy to be a part of this great new approach to handling and resolving objections. Here is one other thing that told me Doug and his new book were onto something: One of my objections with Doug about this book was that it wasn't big enough to be a book. I thought it was more of a special report or a pamphlet. Doug resolved that objection, as well. He explained to me that his goal was not to write a whole book about general sales as most of them are just that. He wanted to focus just on this specialty, which is a thorough understanding and a whole new approach to resolving objections and not overcoming them. Doug, you've produced a work of art here for anyone in the sales profession."