Forecasting & Strategic Planning

Generative AI: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand the potential of these new technologies, pick the right Gen AI projects, and reinvent your business for the new age of AI.

Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader. A good strategy is a specific and coherent response to - and approach for - overcoming the obstacles to progress. A good strategy works by harnessing and applying power where it will have the greatest effect....

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation.

In The Ecosystem Economy, two McKinsey & Company senior partners offer an incisive and eye-opening look at the emerging ecosystem economy and what it means for companies used to familiar sector siloes....

Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well....

You know who your competitors are. You keep tabs on them regularly, and can list them calmly, along with their strengths and weaknesses. But your enemies are a whole other matter....

The Year in Tech 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment....

Poker champion turned business consultant Annie Duke teaches you how to get comfortable with uncertainty and make better decisions as a result....

The HBR Guide to Critical Thinking will help you navigate your most challenging issues, from difficult problems to tough decisions to complex scenarios....

In Chanakya and the Art of Getting Rich, Radhakrishnan Pillai brings out the inherent lessons from Arthashastra to present a strategic and practical way of wealth creation. This is a holistic study, written for anyone and everyone....

Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment....

In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best with what digitals do best.

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company....

We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to keep you up to date on the most cutting-edge, influential thinking driving business today....

Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger - all by the time he was 30. He solidified his standing as the nation's foremost political forecaster....

Chanakya and the Art of War draws upon lessons from the great teacher, philosopher, and strategist of Chanakya's masterpiece, Arthashastra, which can help us overcome those speed breakers to become innovative and influential and realize our true potential....

In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help listeners make the most of our collective future....

Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, The Innovator's Dilemma, introduced the groundbreaking idea of disruptive innovation, revealing how even well-run companies can do everything right and yet still lose market leadership.

Many companies are stuck with digital transformations that are not moving the needle. There are no quick fixes but there is a playbook. The answer is in rewiring your business so hundreds, thousands, of teams can harness technology....

From one of the world's most highly regarded social scientists, a transformative book on the habits of mind that lead to the best predictions....

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to these ten articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter)....

In every industry, there are companies that take off. They effortlessly hire talented people, attract loyal customers, create cool products...

Robert G. Cooper demonstrates why consistent product development is vital to corporate growth and how to maximize your chances of success....

How Life Imitates Chess is a primer on how to think, make decisions, prepare strategies, and anticipate the future....

Winning the Brain Game will lead you to better decision-making, higher levels of creativity, clearer strategies, and overall success in business, work and life....

What explains the massive worldwide success of video games such as Fortnite, Minecraft, and Pokemon Go? Game companies and their popularity are poorly understood and often ignored from the standpoint of traditional business strategy. What lessons can we draw from its major successes and failures about the future of entertainment?

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.

In Fusion Strategy, world-renowned innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan and digital strategy expert Venkat Venkataraman offer a first-of-its-kind playbook that will help industrial companies combine what they do best-create physical products-with what digitals do best-use algorithms and AI to parse expansive, interconnected datasets-to make strategic connections that would otherwise be impossible.

Offering both successes and failures from leading companies as a guide, The Innovator's Dilemma gives you a set of rules for capitalizing on the phenomenon of disruptive innovation. Sharp, cogent, and provocative—and consistently noted as one of the most valuable business ideas of all time—The Innovator's Dilemma is the book no manager, leader, or entrepreneur should be without.

In The Innovator's Solution, Clayton Christensen and Michael Raynor expand on the idea of disruption, explaining how companies can and should become disruptors themselves. Now with a foreword by innovation expert Scott Anthony, this classic work shows just how timely and relevant these ideas continue to be in today's hyper-accelerated business environment and will help anyone trying to transform their business right now.

Junge Führungskräfte: Mit smarten, effektiven und typgerechten Strategien souveräne Leadership-Kompetenzen entwickeln. Beruflich läuft es bei dir gerade richtig rund, und die nächste Sprosse auf der Karriereleiter steht bevor? Gehört dazu auch endlich Führungsverantwortung? Aber jetzt fragst du dich, wie du das in jungen Jahren schon hinkriegen sollst wie ein alter Hase? Dann schnapp' dir diesen Ratgeber und entdecke, wie du Schritt für Schritt deinen ganz persönlichen Führungsstil entwickelst.

After years of consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, Brady Brim-DeForest understands the drawbacks of working in giant, siloed environments. His book, Smaller is Better, shows you how to use the small, empowered teams model to radically recharge your workplace, make better products, and deliver a phenomenal customer experience. All with better employee engagement and retention!

ヤバいくらい簡単なのに、ヤバいくらい成果が出るノウハウが満載！

Pflichtlektüre für Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer. Vor 16 Jahren schrieb Stefan Merath mit "Der Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer" das bisherige deutsche Standardwerk für UnternehmerInnen. Mit seinem neuen Buch "Die Schwarzgurt-Unternehmer" schuf er nun sein Meisterwerk – die Pflichtlektüre für alle UnternehmerInnen aus kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen. Dieser Business-Roman erzählt die Geschichte des Unternehmers Jan, der sein Unternehmen zum Erfolg führen will, sich aber fühlt wie der Sklave im eigenen Unternehmen.

Patrick Bet-David weiß, warum Unternehmer mit Weitblick jede Herausforderung meistern, und zeigt, wie jeder lernen kann, die richtigen fünf Züge vorherzusehen. Schachgroßmeister und erfolgreiche Unternehmer haben zumindest eins gemein: Sie verfügen über Weitblick und wissen, was als Nächstes zu tun ist. Die Welt verändert sich schnell und gerade Unternehmer müssen wissen, welche fünf Züge als Nächstes zu spielen sind, um ihren Betrieb nicht an die Wand zu fahren.

The Network Imperative is a call to action for managers and executives to embrace network-based business models. The benefits are indisputable: companies that leverage digital platforms to co-create and share value with networks of employees, customers, and suppliers are fast outpacing the market. These companies, or network orchestrators, grow faster, scale with lower marginal cost, and generate the highest revenue multipliers.

The seminal book Blue Ocean Strategy has sold over four million copies globally and is in print in forty-six languages. But much of W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne's work on creating new market spaces was originally published in the pages of Harvard Business Review. This book brings the best of those articles together all in one place.

Entdecken Sie die zeitlose Weisheit der Samurai! "Das Buch der fünf Ringe" wurde im 17. Jahrhundert von dem berühmten und unbesiegbaren Samurai Miyamoto Musashi verfasst. Mit diesem Manifest über Kunst der Strategie schuf er einen der scharfsinnigsten und prägnantesten Texte über strategisches Denken, die je aus Asien kamen. In diesem Werk geht es nicht nur um die Prinzipien des Schwertkampfs, sondern um grundlegende menschliche Eigenschaften wie Selbstdisziplin, Intelligenz und Weisheit.

In Strategy in the Age of Disruption, a team of dedicated strategists delivers an exciting and practical guide to Industry 4.0, a commercial transformation that's impacting every facet of the market, the environment, and our social lives. You'll learn what Industry 4.0 is, what it means for you and your company, and how you—as a leader, manager, expert, entrepreneur, or investor—can capitalize on it and put it into practice.

In this groundbreaking work, René Schröder uncovers the hidden reefs and currents that organizations often overlook on their journey to agility. With over two decades of experience in agile transformation, he draws a map of the most common mistakes and shows you how to avoid them. This book is not a theoretical guide - it's a practical, real-life guide that walks you through the real challenges and opportunities of agility.