books about: competitive     books:       Human Resource Management: Gaining a Competitive Advantage with OLC card1 review Raymond Andrew Noe, John R. Hollenbeck, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005 HR Management The book was brand new and in excellent condition. I received it quickly. I would order from this seller again in the future!             Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases (2nd Edition)2 reviews Jay Barney, William S Hesterly Prentice Hall, 2007 An excellent introduction... The "logic" of managing strategy to attain sustainable competitive advantage is offered here in a straightforward, well-organized, and accessible manner. The text is lighter on concepts than on cases, and I have used the book with much success as a crucial resource in the classroom where students are at the beginning stages of delving into the analytics of management. I give it 4 stars, as I am ...             Management: Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World with Online Learning Center access card3 reviews Thomas S Bateman, Scott A Snell McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005 Excellent Text for Developing Today's Innovative Managers Excellent Text which will aid in the development of quality managers/management. This text is outstanding in teaching today's managers that innovation and technology are at the forefront of all competitive companies in the global economy. Being in management for over 17 years, I feel I have the necessary qualifications to know which principals work in the management profession. This text has ...             Operations Management for Competitive Advantage with Student DVD12 reviews Richard B Chase, F. Robert Jacobs, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005 useful book you should get the international addition. the hard cover was too heavy to carry to all the open book exams haha.             Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages Gregory G Dess, G.T. (Tom) Lumpkin, ... McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007 Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantage, 4th Edition, by the prestigious authors Dess/Lumpkin/Eisner provide solid treatment of traditional topics in strategic management as well as thorough coverage of contemporary topics such as digital & internet strategies, innovation & corporate entrepreneurship, knowledge management, and intellectual assets. This text’s accessible writing style and wealth of new and updated ...             Management: Leading & Collaborating in the Competitive World1 review Thomas S Bateman, Scott A Snell McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008 The Four Principles of Management I have read about the four principles and found them very true and practical. Although there are others who would include Funding or Finance as a separate element, here it is explictly discussed with intense details. A good book for those Managers climbing the corporate ladder.             Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors44 reviews Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 Competitive strategy This is a great tool for people in the industry, graduate students, anyone wanting to climb the corporate ladder. Read it times over and you'll find interesting points, applicable to personal career as well as corporate strategy. Straight forwward analytical set of tools.             Strategic Management and Competitive Advantage: Concepts (2nd Edition) Jay Barney, William Hesterly Prentice Hall, 2007             Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance39 reviews Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 Using IT for Competitive Advantage In his 1985 book titled Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance Free Press 1985 Management and IT (information Technology) author Michael Porter set fourth some very useful ideas about creating competitive advantage with IT (e.g. building a strategically valuable system.) I've added an example or two after each of his points. They include: (1) Building barriers to ...             Wharton on Dynamic Competitive Strategy15 reviews Wiley, 2004 Strategy research from the world's top business school Both editors are marketing professors at The Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), which is the world's leading business school (BusinessWeek and Financial Times). George Day is well-known for his market-driven strategy, while David Reibstein is one of the leading scholars in the field of competitive marketing strategy. The book is split in 4 parts, each consisting of 3-to-5 stand-alone ...             Creating Competitive Advantage: Give Customers a Reason to Choose You Over Your Competitors15 reviews Jaynie L. Smith, William G. Flanagan Doubleday Business, 2006 Prescription for Improving Your Advertising If you are as tired as I am of being bombarded with advertisements and marketing that all say the same thing, and in the process, really says nothing, then this book is a revelation. Just as bad is dealing with sales reps who all say the same thing. As a consumer (personal and business), I'm constantly looking for ways in which a product/service can be distinguished. I want to buy on value ...             Strategic Management: Creating Competitive Advantages Gregory G. Dess, G. T. Lumpkin, ... Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2006             Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage (3rd Edition)9 reviews Jay Barney Prentice Hall, 2006 PERSPECTIVE IS EVERYTHING This is a great book - more for what it organises than what it adds as new ideas. Barney sets a model for Competitive Advantage (VIRO) and them compares strategic models as potential sources. It places many of the modern attempts in perspective. Without this starting understanding, the modern gurus (Hamel) are almost impossible to apply as their ideas lack the perspective on the role of ...             Operations Management for Competitive Advantage1 review Richard B Chase, F. Robert Jacobs, ... McGraw Hill-Irwin, 2005 many practical tools This is a voluminous text, that goes into a lot of details about operations management. Many practical, line management issues. Where you, as a manager, or perhaps as a small business owner, have to confront gritty details. For example, if you are in a large manufacturing company, 6 sigma is a well known method for quality control. So the book describes how to analyse the production flow, with ...             Formulation, Implementation and Control of Competitive Strategy with Business Week 13 week Special Card John Pearce, Richard Robinson McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2008 Overview : Contemporary research in strategic management, with an emphasis on conceptual tools and skills created by scholars and practitioners in the field are evident throughout STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, 11e. Pearce and Robinson have retained high level of academic credibility and market-leading emphasis on strategic practice with this edition. This text continues to have strong support from longtime adopters and growing support in schools with a ...             The Competitive Advantage of Nations15 reviews Michael E. Porter Free Press, 1998 A Classic "The Competitive Advantage of Nations" gives insights into why and how industries, regions, nations or some social groups thrive or fall short. The book explains and presents the theory on the sources of sustained prosperity in the contemporary worldwide economy. This seminal work has assisted countries to develop national policy based on their international competitiveness. Porter ...             Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage and MS Project Jeffrey K Pinto Prentice Hall, 2006 This text takes a holistic, integrated approach to managing projects, exploring both technical and managerial challenges. It emphasizes not only individual project execution, but also provides a strategic perspective, demonstrating means to manage projects at the program and portfolio levels.             The Competitive Runner's Handbook: The Bestselling Guide to Running 5Ks through Marathons45 reviews Bob Glover, Shelly-Lynn Florence Glover Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999 Excellent Reference This book has an extensive amount of information, race charts, pacing charts, training guides for runners of various levels and for various events (5K, 10K, half-marathon and marathon). Special chapters on marathon recovery, mental aspects of running, racing strategy, and so on. I've had this book for over a year and find myself turning back to it again and again. Well organized and easy to flip ...             Talent : Making People Your Competitive Advantage2 reviews Edward E., III Lawler Jossey-Bass, 2008 Why "the future of HC-centric management is now" There is no knowledge leader I admire more than I do Ed Lawler. In this book, he makes what I consider to be his most important contributions thus far to our understanding of how to gain and then sustain a competitive advantage by finding, hiring, and retaining the right talent with the right structures, systems, processes, and practices in place. Only then can organizations "perform so well and ...              search for books achieving, advantage, advantages, analyzing, bestselling, business, collaborating, competitive, competitors, concepts, creating, customers, dynamic, edition, formulation, handbook, implementation, industries, learning, management, marathons, operations, performance, resource, running, strategic, strategy, superior, sustaining, techniques books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen apparel: Ron Chereskin Men's Washable Linen Rayon Shirt home  impressum - about us