Success awaits those who can execute a powerful strategy; this book will show you how to unlock this ultimate competitive advantage

The Execution Advantage reveals the secrets of organisations that excel at strategy execution, by putting people at the heart of it.

Discover how these exceptional companies prioritise effectively, empower for action, embrace learning by doing, and successfully adapt to change. They acknowledge that humans do not always act rationally and that each organisation i...

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 ...

The aim of this leading textbook is to provide a thorough understanding of the theories, approaches and practice of organisational change. It critically examines the approaches to change that are on offer, indicates their usefulness and drawbacks and sets them within the broad context of organisational life through the use of real-life examples.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Introduction to Sport Marketing is a clear, straightforward, and concise introduction to the theory and practice of sport marketing, and the only sport marketing textbook you will ever need. Built around a step-by-step framework for developing effective sport marketing plans, and full of real-world, international cases, data, and examples, the text helps students to develop the essential skills and subject knowledge required to thrive in today...

Written specifically for information systems (IS) and computing students and providing everything they need to know about executing a research project.

From the internationally bestselling author of When, Drive and To Sell is Human, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion: regret

Finding your bearings as a manager can feel overwhelming-but you don't have to fake it to make it, and you don't have to go it alone. Lara Hogan shares her recipe for supporting and leading a tech team-from developing your mentoring and coaching skills, to getting comfortable with having difficult conversations, to boosting trust among teammates-while staying grounded along the way.

The Art of Business Modelling helpt je bij de ontwikkeling van je startende bedrijf. In fase 1 gebruik je de Lean Canvas, om jouw markt te ontdekken. In de tweede fase stap je van de Lean Canvas over naar de BMG Canvas, waarmee je het businessmodel van je onderneming opzet en leert hoe je het kunt verbeteren. Vervolgens gebruik je in de derde fase de Scale-up Canvas, om te onderzoeken hoe je je bedrijf kunt opschalen, welke bottlenecks je tegen kunt komen en hoe je die oplost. In de laatste f...

- International Business can be widely used as a general introduction to international entrepreneurship;

- appealing examples from everyday practice and facts & figures make international business come to life;

- places international entrepreneurship in a European context.

International Business is an accessible textbook that highlights the basic principles of international entrepreneurship. It is the English version of Internationaal ondernemen and can be widely used as an introduction to in...

-Inspiring introduction to organisational psychology;

-covers all new developments in digitization;

-contains a lot of instructional exercises.

Organisational behaviour is an inspiring introduction to organisational psychology. Renowned authors Gert Alblas and Ella Wijsman describe the behaviour of people in organisations and provide possible explanations. Students learn how to skilfully apply this knowledge in many different situations. Organisational behaviour is the English edition of Ged...