Download or read book Unlocking Opportunities for Growth written by Ian C. MacMillan and published by Pearson Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008-07-09 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is a must for any Business Development Manager, Corporate Strategist, R&D Director, and anyone else who is accountable for growth in a corporation. It is an easy read that is practical and not fraught with useless academic theories.” Ron Pierantozzi, Ph.D., CEO of PPT Research and Former Director, Business Development, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. A Breakthrough Approach to Investing in Business Innovation Most companies analyze investments using tools that bias them against real innovation and lead them to avoid their best opportunities. This book introduces a breakthrough alternative: Opportunity Engineering. Drawing upon recent advances in financial analysis, but without requiring a lot of math, the authors show how to engineer the risk out of uncertain opportunities so you can pursue more high-payoff innovations. You’ll learn how to escape from the “go/no-go vise” and implement more flexible decision-making that considers all the business alternatives, models, and opportunities associated with each project. You’ll learn how to systematically structure high-potential projects to limit downside exposure and boost your potential upside. The authors show how to define the scope of investment opportunities, identify key drivers of potential profits, document assumptions, design out major risks, and tease out key challenges and vulnerabilities. Using these techniques, you can escape the mindset that limits you to low-impact innovations and begin pursuing serious growth opportunities--and make business uncertainty work for you, not against you. Why companies avoid their best opportunities for innovation Getting past risk-averse analysis that snuffs out experimentation and innovation Systematically engineering your opportunities Capturing the upside, slicing out the downside Beyond rigid “go/no-go” decisions How flexible, staged innovation creates more opportunities for delivering value Constructing an engineered growth portfolio of innovation investments Optimizing your mix of core-enhancing investments and high potential “long shots”

Download or read book Unlocking the Growth written by Michael Harvey and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book teaches the power of invitation. It may sound simple, but we are so caught up in our busy church livesthat we have missed it.

Download or read book System1 written by John Kearon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Human beings make decisions in two ways. One is slow, deliberate and calculating. The other is fast, instinctive and emotional. And the fast one is in the driving seat. Psychologists call it System 1. This book shows how businesses can achieve profitable growth by devising their marketing for System 1 decision-making. It reveals how designing for System 1 can unlock success across innovation, advertising, brand building and shopper marketing. It brings together years of work on how people buy, and how to get them buying you."--

Download or read book Fit for Growth written by Vinay Couto and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical approach to business transformation Fit for Growth* is a unique approach to business transformation that explicitly connects growth strategy with cost management and organization restructuring. Drawing on 70-plus years of strategy consulting experience and in-depth research, the experts at PwC’s Strategy& lay out a winning framework that helps CEOs and senior executives transform their organizations for sustainable, profitable growth. This approach gives structure to strategy while promoting lasting change. Examples from Strategy&’s hundreds of clients illustrate successful transformation on the ground, and illuminate how senior and middle managers are able to take ownership and even thrive during difficult periods of transition. Throughout the Fit for Growth process, the focus is on maintaining consistent high-value performance while enabling fundamental change. Strategy& has helped major clients around the globe achieve significant and sustained results with its research-backed approach to restructuring and cost reduction. This book provides practical guidance for leveraging that expertise to make the choices that allow companies to: Achieve growth while reducing costs Manage transformation and transition productively Create lasting competitive advantage Deliver reliable, high-value performance Sustainable success is founded on efficiency and high performance. Companies are always looking to do more with less, but their efforts often work against them in the long run. Total business transformation requires total buy-in, and it entails a series of decisions that must not be made lightly. The Fit for Growth approach provides a clear strategy and practical framework for growth-oriented change, with expert guidance on getting it right. *Fit for Growth is a registered service mark of PwC Strategy& Inc. in the United States

Download or read book Unlocking Growth written by Madhavan Ramanujam and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breakthrough framework for outperforming revenue growth – from the world’s leading pricing consultancy Leading executives say their top concern is achieving and sustaining, profitable growth. Yet many CEOs report that their growth levels are stuck frustratingly below what they know their company is capable of, and that they often investing in growth initiatives without seeing the returns they were hoping for. Others achieve astonishing growth for a while, only to come crashing back to earth. Why? Companies lack the right framework to find true product-market-price fit – not just in the short term, but sustainably. Coming to the rescue, Unlocking Growth: Breakthrough Pricing Strategies to Acquire, Monetize, and Retain Customers offers a roadmap for business leaders seeking consistent, sustainable improvement to their sales numbers. By putting price strategy at the center of their efforts, executives will find a far more effective way to attract new customers, optimize sales, and promote greater loyalty and lifetime value. Readers will find hard-won lessons from the field brought together as a unified, intuitive framework that will allow you to make immediate improvements to your growth roadmap. Written with the CEO in mind, Unlocking Growth is your manual to the alchemy of successful growth – learning from the best the right way to acquire, monetize, and retain. Discover how to specifically diagnose the areas where your company’s growth strategy is falling short Learn how to combine winning price models with magic price points to power customer acquisition, with special attention to the use of “free” Identify a better approach to penetrating more deeply with your customer base by differentiating your offering and innovating your product the right way Keep more customers, keep them happy, and keep them longer, by employing “the science of stickiness” and fighting churn before it happens Be informed by first-hand accounts of successful growth pricing initiatives at well-known companies in the US and beyond With Unlocking Growth, you can avoid the pitfalls, leverage a wealth of client data, and maximize profitability and success in the marketplace.

Download or read book Unlocking Africa s Business Potential written by Landry Signe and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa welcomes business investment and offers some of the world's highest returns and impacts Africa has tremendous economic potential and offers rewarding opportunities for global businesses looking for new markets and long-term investments with favorable returns. Africa has been one of the world's fastest-growing regions over the past decade, and by 2030 will be home to nearly 1.7 billion people and an estimated $6.7 trillion worth of consumer and business spending. Increased political stability in recent years and improving regional integration are making market access easier, and business expansion will generate jobs for women and youth, who represent the vast majority of the population. Current economic growth and poverty-alleviation efforts mean that more than 43 percent of the continent's people will reach middle- or upper-class status by 2030. Unlocking Africa's Business Potential examines business opportunities in the eight sectors with the highest potential returns on private investment—the same sectors that will foster economic growth and diversification, job creation, and improved general welfare. These sectors include: consumer markets, agriculture and agriprocessing, information and communication technology, manufacturing, oil and gas, tourism, banking, and infrastructure and construction. The book's analysis of these sectors is based on case studies that identify specific opportunities for investment and growth, along with long-term market projections to inform decision-making. The book identifies potential risks to business and offers mitigation strategies. It also provides policymakers with solutions to attract new business investments, including how to remove barriers to business and accelerate development of the private sector.

Download or read book The Growth Code written by Buckley Barlow and published by In the Know. This book was released on 2016-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Growth Code is for forward-thinking, growth-oriented organizations, teams and individuals looking to gain the modern know-how needed to build sustainable growth. A vital growth marketing handbook, the book includes illustrations, comprehensive worksheets and guides to help you implement a cutting edge growth model for any modern business.

Download or read book Waste to Wealth written by Peter Lacy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.

Download or read book Unlocking Unlimited Potential written by Brandon Beck and published by Code Breaker Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Author Unlocking Unlimited Potential is about how inside of all educators there is an infinite power that once harnessed can be contagious among all those we serve. Divided into three parts. Building the Foundation, Challenges as Opportunities for Growth, and Believing in You, this book reminds readers of their why. Unlocking Unlimited Potential is at the core of what every educator is trying to achieve with all those they serve. In order to stay true to this vision, you must first look within. Editorial Reviews In a well-written and engaging book, Dr. Brandon Beck underscores the importance of believing in one's self. Those of us who develop programs know that the teacher's role is critical to the success and well-being of students. He inspires readers, telling his own and others' stories, gently weaving in research and showing that all of us have unlimited potential. A must read for new and experienced educators. Dr. Matia Finn-Stevenson - Yale University, Director of School for the 21st Century Unlocking Unlimited Potential is about understanding that inside all of us is an infinite power that we can unleash. Controlling that power allows us to overcome any challenges we face in our classrooms and our schools. UUP is full of ideas, exciting stories, sound wisdom, helpful exercises, and valid support from a wide range of leaders in the field. Educators must understand that they have the power to unlock unlimited possibilities with all students, and this book takes that mission to a whole new level! Thomas C. Murray - Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, Best-Selling Author of Personal & Authentic If you want to get better, to take your game to the next level, this book is a must! In Unlocking Unlimited Potential, Dr. Brandon Beck gives readers exceptional insight from his experiences as a teacher and as a coach. Among the gold nuggets you'll find action steps for implementation that are not only meaningful but bring a shift in mindset with them. Whether you're a teacher, a coach, or a school leader, grab this book and Unlock the Unlimited Potential found inside you. Dr. Darrin M. Peppard - Author of Road to Awesome -Superintendent - Speaker- Consultant Dr. Brandon Beck tells you what you have been waiting to hear. Through a compilation of research, experiences, knowledge, theory, and common sense, he allows you to discover your strengths. You have the tools. You are capable of unlimited possibilities. As you proceed on your journey in life, you tap into your greatest gifts, and you allow other people to realize their strengths. Move forward and discover your unlocked, unlimited potential with Dr. Beck. Dr. Frank Rudnesky - Author of Fired Up Leadership - Speaker - Consultant - Retired Principal Leading by example in the classroom, on the field, and in life, Dr. Brandon Beck is a force for positive change and transformation in education. In Unlocking Unlimited Potential, he draws on insights from Brene Brown, Carol Dweck, Simon Sinek, and other notable voices to make the case that there is always more than meets the eye: more growth to be achieved, more learning to be realized, more inequities to be removed, more successes waiting to be won. In a turbulent world, our students and communities count on educators to step up. Unlimited Unlocking Potential helps us do just that. Tim Cavey - Host of Teacher's On Fire Podcast

Download or read book The Growth Cube written by Gary Ross and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to grow your business at a rapid and sustainable pace? Gary Ross, a four-time CEO, with experience spanning from large public companies to start-ups, shares his proven six-dimension "Growth Cube" approach to business success. If you are a CEO, an executive leader, an entrepreneur, have a family-owned company, or are just starting your business, The Growth Cube provides a step-by-step guide with tips, charts and graphics. Gary openly shares real business scenarios, mistakes and insights - direct from the desk of the CEO. You'll learn: How to build a team of raving associates that are as excited about your company as you are The secret to accelerating growth through your current customers, including a 5-step customer touchpoint plan Why shifting your sales resources to a customer-centered approach changes the game How to develop a steady stream of new products that your customers and prospects will love Insights on entering new markets successfully without wasting a lot of time or money Which financial metrics are most important - and the vital signs for achieving profitable growth "Gary leverages his leadership experience to provide real life examples, clear steps for strategic design and implementation. This is a must read for anyone seeking to improve their leadership effectiveness," - Victor Thorne, Partner, Broadline Capital.

Download or read book Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps written by Jennifer Garvey Berger and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and consultant Jennifer Garvey Berger has worked with all types of leaders—from top executives at Google to nonprofit directors who are trying to make a dent in social change. She hears a version of the same plea from every client in nearly every sector around the world: "I know that complexity and uncertainty are testing my instincts, but I don't know which to trust. Is there some way to know what to do when I can't know what's next?" Her newest work is an answer to this plea. Using her background in adult development, complexity theories, and leadership consultancy, Garvey Berger discerns five pernicious and pervasive "mind traps" to frame the book. These are: the desire for simple stories, our sense that we are right, our desire to get along with others in our group, our fixation with control, and our constant quest to protect and defend our egos. In addition to understanding why these natural impulses steer us wrong in a fast-moving world, leaders will get powerful questions and approaches that help them escape these patterns.

Download or read book The Creator Mindset 92 Tools to Unlock the Secrets to Innovation Growth and Sustainability written by Nir Bashan and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just about every book on creativity is bullshit. Filled with lofty theoretics and complexity about why you should be creative, they lack sound, practical tools about how to become more creative. That’s where this book comes in. The Creator Mindset is designed to bring you simple, sound, and practical tools to awaken your creativity at work—even if you don’t think you are creative. Not fluff or theories. No bullshit or fillers. Bashan draws on a lifetime of success in business to give you real actionable tools that you can use to become more creative. And each chapter brims with businesslike action items on how to make creativity happen at work. Written in plain language with real-world examples, chapters include: Creativity for non-creative people Training your mind to think in a creative way When nothing else works—creativity will The virtues of listening—and the value of making mistakes Meant to be used as a manual which you can draw upon at the office, business, or in your career, The Creator Mindset is all about teaching you how to awaken your long lost creativity in order to see the world as it can be, not as it is.

Download or read book Upstream Marketing written by Tim Koelzer and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Upstream Marketing, authors Tim Koelzer and Kristin Kurth share best practices, research, case studies, and analysis informed by their more than twenty years of experience helping transform client brands and businesses through their work at EquiBrand Consulting, a top management consultancy. The result is a groundbreaking deep-dive into the fundamentals of upstream marketing—the process of identifying and fulfilling customer needs, which relies on the strategic implementation of three core principles: insight, identity, and innovation. ​An invaluable tool for business leaders looking for mindset, strategy, and processes that will help them improve their organization proactively, instead of reactively. Upstream Marketing includes meticulous analysis of seven profile companies, breaking down the values and principles that make them great—and offering some how-to tips you can apply yourself. The authors also draw on examples from their own work with clients to help illustrate how applying the principles of upstream marketing correctly and at the right time can impact the health, growth, and success of any business.

Download or read book Swipe to Unlock written by Neel Mehta and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WANT A NON-CODING JOB AT A TECH COMPANY? Interested in product management, marketing, strategy, or business development? The tech industry is the place to be: nontechnical employees at tech companies outnumber their engineering counterparts almost 3 to 1 (Forbes, 2017). You might be worried that your lack of coding skills or tech industry knowledge will hold you back. But here's the secret: you don't need to learn how to code to break into the tech industry. Written by three former Microsoft PMs, Swipe to Unlock gives you a breakdown of the concepts you need to know to crush your interviews, like software development, big data, and internet security. We'll explain how Google's ad targeting algorithm works, but Google probably won't ask you how to explain it in a non-technical interview. But they might ask you how you could increase ad revenue from a particular market segment. And if you know how Google's ad platform works, you'll be in a far stronger position to come up with good growth strategies. We'll show you how Robinhood, an app that lets you trade stocks without commission, makes money by earning interest on the unspent money that users keep in their accounts. No one will ask you to explain this. But if someone asks you to come up with a new monetization strategy for Venmo (which lets you send and receive money without fees), you could pull out the Robinhood anecdote to propose that Venmo earn interest off the money sitting in users' accounts. We'll talk about some business cases like why Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. Microsoft interviewers probably won't ask you about the motive of the purchase, but they might ask you for ideas to improve Microsoft Outlook. From our case study, you'll learn how the Microsoft and LinkedIn ecosystems could work together, which can help you craft creative, impactful answers. You could propose that Outlook use LinkedIn's social graph to give salespeople insights about clients before meeting them. Or you could suggest linking Outlook's organizational tree to LinkedIn to let HR managers analyze their company's hierarchy and figure out what kind of talent they need to add. (We'll further explore both ideas in the book.) Either way, you're sure to impress. Learn the must know concepts of tech from authors who have received job offers for Facebook's Rotational Product Manager, Google's Associate Product Marketing Manager, and Microsoft's Program Manager to get a competitive edge at your interviews!

Download or read book Unlocking Potential written by Michael K. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach. You're a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business...but can you fully motivate and engage your team? Michael K. Simpson, a senior consultant to FranklinCovey, has spent more than twenty-five years training executives to become effective coaches, mentoring and guiding leaders and managers to encourage and develop the talent of their people--the most important asset in any organization. In this guide, you will acquire the skills to coach your personnel from the ground up, maximizing their potential on a personal level, as members of the team, and as contributors to the organization as a whole. Transform your business relationships (and your business) with this comprehensive tool for optimizing productivity, profitability, loyalty, and customer focus. Don't just manage; energize, galvanize, inspire. Be a coach.

Download or read book Unlocking Innovation Productivity written by Michael A. Dalton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small but powerful book, perfect to toss in your briefcase or bag, takes on the conventional thinking that says more resources are the answer-helping you to see what is really going on as your organization seeks to innovate and launch new products. In an open and straight-talking manner, it teaches you to challenges the premises undermining your performance. Then it shares strategies that strike directly at the root causes, so you can start taking action immediately-action against issues like: Low Project Throughput - Are you simply not getting as many new products to market as you need to? Poor Predictability or On-Time Performance - Do you struggle to predict and commit to timelines that your business can actually achieve? Minimal Market Impact - Are too many of your resources going to low impact programs or programs that don't deliver as promised? Long Time to Market / Slow Speed to Market - Do projects take too long causing you to miss critical windows of opportunity? These are the key issues that Unlocking Innovation Productivity can help you overcome. As a passionate and experienced business leader and innovation insider himself, Mike Dalton has used these strategies across industries globally. This book crystallizes that experience into the roadmap you need to transform your organization-once and for all-to deliver both profitable and predictable new product growth.

Download or read book Is Digital Financial Inclusion Unlocking Growth written by Purva Khera and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-06-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital financial services have been a key driver of financial inclusion in recent years. While there is evidence that financial inclusion through traditional services has a positive impact on economic growth, do the same results carry over for digital financial inclusion? What drives digital financial inclusion? Why does it advance more in some countries but not in others? Using new indices of financial inclusion developed in Khera et. al. (2021), this paper addresses these questions for 52 developing countries. Using cross-sectional instrument variable procedure, we find that the exogenous component of digital financial inclusion is positively associated with growth in GDP per capita during 2011-2018, which suggests that digital financial inclusion can accelerate economic growth. Fractional logit and random effects empirical estimation identifies access to infrastructure, financial and digital literacy, and quality of institutions as key drivers of digital financial inclusion. These findings are then used to help inform policy recommendations in areas related to the digitization of financial services to promote financial inclusion.