The Business Enterprise Handbook

The Business Enterprise Handbook
Author: Colin Barrow
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780749441005

About this book Introduction 1 Pt. 1 Where are we now? 7 1 Your mission 15 2 Opportunities and threats 23 3 Strengths and weaknesses 38 4 The financial position 57 5 How to diagnose your organisation 97 6 Assessing people, structure and systems 114 Pt. 2 Where are we going? 143 7 Marketing options 147 8 Marketing strategy: focus and priorities 152 9 Choosing between alternatives 162 10 Financing growth 178 11 Acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures and divestments 219 12 Visionary leadership 238 Pt. 3 How will we get there? 253 13 The marketing plan 257 14 The people plan 270 15 Managing change 285 16 The financial plan 302 17 Writing and presenting your business plan 322 18 Exit routes 337 References 352 Index 354 Index of advertisers 356.

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook

Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook
Author: Josh Baron
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2021-01-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633699064

Navigate the complex decisions and critical relationships necessary to create and sustain a healthy family business—and business family. Though "family business" may sound like it refers only to mom-and-pop shops, businesses owned by families are among the most significant and numerous in the world. But surprisingly few resources exist to help navigate the unique challenges you face when you share the executive suite, financial statements, and holidays. How do you make the right decisions, critical to the long-term survival of any business, with the added challenge of having to do so within the context of a family? The HBR Family Business Handbook brings you sophisticated guidance and practical advice from family business experts Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer. Drawing on their decades-long experience working closely with a wide range of family businesses of all sizes around the world, the authors present proven methods and approaches for communicating effectively, managing conflict, building the right governance structures, and more. In the HBR Family Business Handbook you'll find: A new perspective on what makes family businesses succeed and fail A framework to help you make good decisions together Step-by-step guidance on managing change within your business family Key questions about wealth, unique to family businesses, that you can't afford to ignore Assessments to help you determine where you are—and where you want to go Stories of real companies, from Marchesi Antinori to Radio Flyer Chapter summaries you can use to reinforce what you've learned Keep this comprehensive guide with you to help you build, grow, and position your family business to thrive across generations. HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, and real-life stories, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack—whatever your role.

Handbook of Enterprise Integration

Handbook of Enterprise Integration
Author: Mostafa Hashem Sherif
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 730
Release: 2009-11-09
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1420078224

Maintaining compatibility among all affected network and application interfaces of modern enterprise systems can quickly become costly and overwhelming. This handbook presents the knowledge and practical experience of a global group of experts from varying disciplines to help you plan and implement enterprise integration projects that respond to bu

Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice

Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice
Author: Saha, Pallab
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2007-03-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 159904191X

"This book is a valuable addition to the reading list of executives, managers, and staff in business, government, and other sectors who seek to keep their enterprises agile and efficient as they manage change, implement new business processes and supporting technologies, and pursue important strategic goals"--Provided by publisher.

The B Corp Handbook

The B Corp Handbook
Author: Ryan Honeyman
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1626560447

Using Business as a Force for Good Join a Growing Movement: Learn how you can join more than 1,000 Certified B Corporations from 80 industries and 35 countries—led by well-known icons like Patagonia and Ben & Jerry's and disruptive upstarts like Warby Parker and Etsy—in a global movement to redefine success in business. Build a Better Business: Drawing on interviews, tips, and best practices from over 100 B Corporations, author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman shows that using business as a force for good can help you attract and retain the best talent, distinguish your company in a crowded market, and increase customer trust, loyalty, and evangelism for your brand. More than 1,000 companies from 80 industries and 30 countries are leading a global movement to redefine success in business. They're called B Corporations—B Corps for short—and these businesses create high-quality jobs, help build stronger communities, and restore the environment, all while generating solid financial returns. Author and B Corp owner Ryan Honeyman worked closely with over 100 B Corp CEOs and senior executives to share their tips, advice, and best-practice ideas for how to build a better business and how to meet the rigorous standards for—and enjoy the benefits of—B Corp certification. This book makes the business case for improving your social and environmental performance and offers a step-by-step “quick start guide” on how your company can join an innovative and rapidly expanding community of businesses that want to make money and make a difference.

American Enterprise

American Enterprise
Author: Andy Serwer
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2015-05-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1588344975

What does it mean to be an American? What are American ideas and values? American Enterprise, the companion book to a major exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, aims to answer these questions about the American experience through an exploration of its economic and commercial history. It argues that by looking at the intersection of capitalism and democracy, we can see where we as a nation have come from and where we might be going in the future. Richly illustrated with images of objects from the museum’s collections, American Enterprise includes a 1794 dollar coin, Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone, a brass cash register from Marshall Fields, Sam Walton’s cap, and many other goods and services that have shaped American culture. Historical and contemporary advertisements are also featured, emphasizing the evolution of the relationship between producers and consumers over time. Interspersed in the historical narrative are essays from today’s industry leaders—including Sheila Bair, Adam Davidson, Bill Ford, Sally Greenberg, Fisk Johnson, Hank Paulson, Richard Trumka, and Pat Woertz—that pose provocative questions about the state of contemporary American business and society. American Enterprise is a multi-faceted survey of the nation’s business heritage and corresponding social effects that is fundamental to an understanding of the lives of the American people, the history of the United States, and the nation’s role in global affairs.

Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems

Handbook of Research on Enterprise Systems
Author: Gupta, Jatinder N. D.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2009-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1599048604

Addresses the field of enterprise systems, covering progressive technologies, leading theories, and advanced applications.

Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Taxation

Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Taxation
Author: Stephen A. Lind
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1014
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Fundamentals of Business Enterprise Taxation is available as an alternative to the authors' widely used separate texts on corporate and partnership tax. It covers all the basics and offers more condensed coverage of a few advanced topics for a consolidated J.D.-level course on taxation of business enterprises. The Third Edition is faithful to the authors' problem-oriented "fundamentals" approach and incorporates all relevant changes made by the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003. Important new highlights include: Fully integrated discussion of the impact of the reduced tax rates on qualified dividends and capital gains on transactions between business entities and their owners Policy-based explanations of new statutory rules preventing transfers and duplication of losses in the partnership and C corporation settings. Discussion of the impact of recent tax legislation on choice of business entity, including analysis of I.R.S. statistical data on contemporary trends. Updated chapters on corporate reorganizations and S corporations, reflecting the Service's evolving liberal approach to continuity of interest, multi-step acquisitions and corporate divisions, and the more permissive S corporation eligibility requirements. New published rulings on partnership mergers and terminations and corporate divisions, and discussion of all new relevant proposed and final regulations.

China and Capitalism

China and Capitalism
Author: David Faure
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9622097839

Written by one of the most distinguished experts on China's economic and business history, China and Capitalism provides a highly original and at the same time clear and readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. David Faure then uses the picture he has assembled to shed new light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese business today. The book is written to be accessible to people with little background in China or Chinese business practice. Dr Faure describes three phases in the development of Chinese business from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. In the traditional phase, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, Chinese business relied on contracts as well as on ritual propriety. In the modernizing phase, from the second half of the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, Chinese business had to adapt to the introduction of company law and legal standards of accounting. In the contemporary phase, from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, China emerged from a control economy to a vibrant market by embracing once again the changes introduced in the modernizing phase. General readers, including students and teachers in courses touching on but not primarily devoted to the Chinese experience, will find in this book the most comprehensive account of China's business development in the last five centuries and many insights into the workings of China's modern business scene. Specialist readers will find a highly original approach to the history of business in China.

Business Model Generation

Business Model Generation
Author: Alexander Osterwalder
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118656407

Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps you reinterpret them for your own context. You will learn how to systematically understand, design, and implement a game-changing business model--or analyze and renovate an old one. Along the way, you'll understand at a much deeper level your customers, distribution channels, partners, revenue streams, costs, and your core value proposition. Business Model Generation features practical innovation techniques used today by leading consultants and companies worldwide, including 3M, Ericsson, Capgemini, Deloitte, and others. Designed for doers, it is for those ready to abandon outmoded thinking and embrace new models of value creation: for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, and leaders of all organizations. If you're ready to change the rules, you belong to "the business model generation!"