In today's business environment, strategy has never been more important. Yet research shows that most companies fail to execute strategy successfully. Behind this abysmal track record lies an undeniable fact: many companies continue to use management processes - top-down, financially driven, and tactical - that were designed to run yesterday's ...
Most organisations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton argue that the responsibility for this critical ...
"Strategy Maps" takes readers to the next level of precision in strategy implementation. "Strategy Maps" introduces a new tool that has evolved from Robert Kaplan and David Norton's ongoing research with hundreds of Balanced Scorecard adopters across the globe, and its premise is simple: if you can visually map your strategy, the people within ...
Here is the book - by the recognized architects of the Balanced Scorecard - that shows how managers can use this revolutionary tool to mobilize their people to fulfill the company's mission. More than just a measurement system, the "Balanced Scorecard" is a management system that can channel the energies, abilities, and specific knowledge held by ...
The Second Edition of Kaplan's "Urban Geography" text aims to uncover the excitement and richness found in cities, while tackling the wide variety of urban challenges. This text offers a comprehensive treatment of urban geography, covering the field both as it has evolved and as it exists today and fully explores the origins and development of ...
In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area - not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. ...
Kaplan teaches revision as a creative, open-minded re-imagining that leads to better fiction. He then traces the revision process in three of his own stories -- providing strategies to help readers improve their own work.
Specifically designed to help students tackle the GRE and GMAT Math sections, this study guide features a comprehensive review of GRE and GMAT math content, including arithmetic, algebra, word problems, and geometry, and exercises designed to assess current skill levels and focus study efforts. It also contains an introduction to the special ...
This is the new world atlas for higher education and college geography level teachings. It uses the Klett-Perthes high quality map print details as known from their Wall Maps. It features over 350 pages of detailed maps, statistics, glossary and information to teach higher level geography education.
The "Harvard Business Review Paperback Series" is designed to bring today's managers and professionals the fundamental information they need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, here are the leading ...
An award-winning "Newsweek" culture writer takes readers on a daring and rollicking romp through the Silicon Valley saga to tell why it happened there, why it matters, and what comes next. "A wonderful ride, filled with landmarks, history, and histrionics, and the voice of an intelligent, witty guide."--"New York Times."
Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist behind such companies as Google, Genentech, Amazon, and AOL, doesn't do things halfway. When he collected vintage cars, for instance, he had the world's largest collection of Bugatti automobiles. And when he decided to pursue a lifelong dream and build a sailing yacht, he went the whole nine yards: He decided it ...
Tom Perkins, the venture capitalist behind such companies as Google, Genentech, Amazon, and AOL, doesn't do things halfway. When he collected vintage cars, for instance, he had the world's largest collection of Bugatti automobiles. And when he decided to pursue a lifelong dream and build a sailing yacht, he went the whole nine yards: He decided it ...
The only definitive text on cardiac anaesthesia is back in a new edition! Dr. Kaplan and a multitude of other eminent specialists have completely updated and revised the 5th Edition of this definitive text on cardiac anesthesia. Since the last edition in 1998, anaesthetists have lacked an authoritative text. But now with an extended editorial ...
The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to 'gender' and its implications, including: an ...
As it moves through the roughs and shallows of his life--piano lessons as a child, breaking into his parents' home, seeking adventure in Crete alone, and later in the stranglehold of a marriage gone awry--Skating in the Dark tells the story of Frank--a man searching for a person he can like more than he likes himself.
Readings in the Philosophy of Technology is a collection of the important works of both the forerunners of philosophy of technology and contemporary theorists, addressing a full range of topics on technology as it relates to ethics, politics, human nautre, computers, science, and the environment.
Each of Kaplan's characters seeks comfort of some sort. A tomboy wants the comfort of acceptance in her father's hunting group. A young widower tries to show his daughter the relief in mourning. And in the title story, an uneasy comfort is found in the knowledge of infidelity.
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