Products tagged with: managing
Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses
Fidelity, Hallmark, Michelin, and Wal-Mart are renowned industry power-houses with long leadership track records. Yet these celebrated companies are united by another factor not generally equated with competitive success: They are all family-controlled businesses. While many view the hallmarks of family businesses--stable strategies, clan cultures, and unencumbered family ownership--as weaknesses, Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller argue that it is these very characteristics that create formidable competitive advantages for many such firms. Managing for the Long Run draws from a worldwide study of enduring, family-run organizations--including Cargill, Timken, L.L. Bean, The New York Times, and IKEA--to reveal their unconventional success strategies and how these strategies can be adopted and applied in any organization. Miller and Le Breton-Miller show how four driving passions of family-run firms--command, continuity, community, and connection--give rise to a set of practices that defy modern management thinking yet ensure a company's long term competitive advantage. Outlining how these practices can enhance strategic efforts from operations to brand leadership to innovation, this book shows what every company must do to manage for the long run.
Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards
Every day, millions of users log on to their favorite online forums and interact with others to get advice and discuss everything from the latest news and trends to their hobbies, professions, and whatever else strikes their fancy. Admin istrators have to lead these communities, deal with difficult users, and choose moderators. Legal constraints, spammers, and technical issues can turn the excitement of running an online community into chaos. With the right guidance, however, running forums can be a pleasure. Patrick O'Keefe has spent years developing and managing online communities. Now, he shows readers how to make the right decisions about every aspect of their forums, including: choosing a name and domain name picking the right software deciding on user options like avatars and private messaging setting guidelines and dealing with violators ensuring that posts stay on topic settling online disputes among users involving users and keeping the site interestingManaging Online Forums is the one book that shows site owners and administrators how to create a safe and entertaining community that users will return to again and again.
Preventing and Managing Common Running Injuries (DVD)
Preventing and Managing Common Running Injuries presents a comprehensive review of the factors that runners of all ages and experience levels should consider to help them avoid suffering common running overuse injuries. In an easy-to-understand, straightforward manner, the DVD explains the running injury cycle and what individuals should do should they be injured. Among the topics covered: what are common running injuries to the lower extremity?, how the "overuse syndrome" affects runners, what is the difference between soft-tissue and hard-tissue injuries?, how to prevent shin splints, why proper shoe fit is essential, how to rehab soft-tissue injuries, and when to seek the counsel/services of a physician. Produced in cooperation with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM).
Enterprise Architecture Best Practice Handbook: Building, Running and Managing Effective Enterprise Architecture Programs - Ready
This book covers every detail, including some missed in other books. This thorough book provides a clear roadmap to designing, implementing and operating Enterprise Architecture. The author leaves no key process out and completely covers everything from initial concept to measuring support effectiveness and process improvement. The book starts with an initial strategy that is focused on planning Enterprise Architecture services that are completely aligned to requirements and are based on a mission statement. This business-oriented approach is refreshing and will keep IT grounded in the real reasons for Enterprise Architecture. More importantly is the process for careful selection of services to provide. An overly ambitious set of service goals will kill a Enterprise Architecture implementation early in its life by offering too much before there is stable Enterprise Architecture in place. This book is realistic and lays the foundation for a successful implementation. The section on the actual design of the Enterprise Architecture structure provides insights and information that can be applied to a large number of solutions. Since Enterprise Architecture will be organized in accordance with requirements and unique mission statements, this section of the book is like a catalog of patterns. It has excellent tips on how to best structure Enterprise Architecture to meet requirements and mission. The information on accurately estimating staffing requirements is consistent with industry best practices and something that, believe it or not, is often overlooked when Enterprise Architecture is established. This book gets into the meat by thoroughly covering the processes that areessential to running Enterprise Architecture. There are many topics that stand out as both unique to books of this genre] and reflect best practices by the best-run Enterprise Architecture shops. Examples are change control, disaster recovery and vendor management. These topics show that the author not only considers business alignment, but also cross-functional alignment. Professional resources and underlying technology are provided in detail. This book contains an in-depth coverage of operational requirements for Enterprise Architecture once it has been implemented. It hits all of the critical success factors, such as performance metrics, service level agreements, communications and internal evaluations. You will find this book to be one of the best for planning and implementing a world-class Enterprise Architecture program.
