The Challenge

Built to Last, the defining management study of the nineties, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning.

But what about the company that is not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?

The Study

For years, this question preyed on the mind of Jim Collins. Are there companies that defy gravity and ...

Prestaties van mensen hebben steeds meer invloed op de bedrijfsstrategie. Die prestaties moeten dan wel gemeten kunnen worden. Op basis van de succesvolle Balanced Scorecard hebben de auteurs van dit boek een nieuwe methodiek ontwikkeld, de HR-scorecard. Daarmee kan human resources management ingepast worden in de algemene strategie van bedrijven en kan men human resources managen als een onderdeel van het bedrijfskapitaal. Bovendien wordt het mogelijk om met de HR-scorecard een koppeling te ...

Helps you deal with the problems of communicating to a skeptical, media-blitzed public. This book describes a revolutionary approach to creating a "position" in a prospective customer's mind-one that reflects a company's own strengths and weaknesses as well as those of its competitors.

Which business structures are best suited to the unpredictable 21st century? How can a company, division, or department reconfigure itself with minimum disruption and maximum impact? This title shows business leaders at all levels how to examine their choices by leading them systematically through these fundamental questions.