A Hands-on Introduction to Business Fundamentals

One way to learn about business is to read the textbooks, learn the definitions, discuss case studies, and pass the exam. In Foundation: A Hands-on Introduction to Business Fundamentals we take a less theoretical and more hands-on approach. We’re going to learn business by managing a business. The approach makes sense for two reasons. First, business itself is practical. If there were a sing…

BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE & BUSINESS MODELS

Business models are a key business architecture perspective. nnovation is becoming business model-centric, Business models are a unifying concept for business innovation, strategy, and business architecture. Customer experience design and integrated business model design work together synergistically. Future: Increased role of business architecture in strategic and business planning

THE BUSINESS MODEL

The paper provides a broad and multifaceted review of the received literature on business models in which we examine the business model concept through multiple disciplinary and subject-matter lenses.

Writing an Effective Business Plan

Traditionally considered an exercise in corporate discipline, today’s business plans are at the heart of obtaining financing, forming alliances and recruiting executives. No longer read exclusively by insiders and traditional lenders, business plans must do more than demonstrate a sufficient level of competence. Today’s plans have to withstand stiff competition in attracting funding, ke…

CODE OF BUSINESS CONDUCT

The UPS Code of Business Conduct (“Code”) sets forth standards of conduct for all of UPS. Throughout the Code, “UPS” is used to refer to the enterprise as a whole, to each person within it, and to any person or entity who represents UPS or any part of the UPS organization, including suppliers, consultants, and third-party representatives. Adherence to the Code is required of all em…

Integrating Business Models and Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage

This thesis studies the business model as a possible integrator of different strategic perspectives on firms‟ sustained competitive advantage. It presents the arguments for viewing the business model as a concept closely related to strategy in general and competitive advantage in particular. Furthermore, it reviews existing business model literature in order to determine how this field can co…

Agricultural Business Plan Guidelines

This document is a result of numerous calls for help from potential farmers, aspiring entrepreneurs and government officials from all the provinces requesting guidance with drafting bankable business plans. Research has shown that prospective entrepreneurs are not familiar with the contents of their business plan, because they seldom contribute (input) into the development of a business plan…

Business Plan

Many companies have a brief mission statement, usually in thirty words or less, explaining their reason for being and their guiding principles. If you want to draft a mission statement, this is a good place to put it in the plan. Followed by: Company goals and objectives: Goals are destinations -- where you want your business to be. Objectives are progress markers along the way to goal achieve…

Business Model Generation

The starting point for any good discussion, meeting, or workshop on business model innovation should be a shared understanding of what a business model actually is. We need a business model concept that everybody understands: one that facilitates description and discussion. We need to start from the same point and talk about the same thing. The challenge is that the concept must be simpl…

Business Ethics and Compliance

Starbucks is the premier roaster and retailer of specialty coffee in the world and has become a truly global brand. From the beginning, we have recognized that you, our partners, are critical to our continued success. Starbucks reputation for the finest coffee in the world, legendary customer service and the highest integrity is the direct result of our collective efforts. We are all care…

Business strategies for sustainable development

The concept of sustainable development has received growing recognition, but it is a new idea for many business executives. For most, the concept remains abstract and theoretical. Protecting an organization’s capital base is a well-accepted business principle. Yet organizations do not generally recognize the possibility of extending this notion to the world’s natural and human resource…

Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage in Family Businesses in Ghana: Th…

The business strategy perspective argues that achieving competitive advantage hinges on pursing a coherent competitive strategy. Family businesses are also said to manifest a strong desire to develop enduring and committed social relationships with external stakeholders. Nevertheless, there has been relatively little attention devoted to the business strategic activities of family businesses an…

Innovative Business Practices

This chapter proposes a theoretical analysis framework to highlight the challenge of the knowledge transfer between headquarter and subsidiaries and how the intra-organisational hybridization could overcome the limits of the top-down transfer. By highlighting the added value of local subsidiaries, this chapter focuses on the features of the knowledge hybridization as a new managerial practice t…

BUSINESS BUILDER 1 HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE A BUSINESS PLAN

For any business to be successful, it must be started and operated with a clear understanding of its customers, its internal strengths, its competitive environment, and a vision of how it will evolve to compete in the future. A business also needs money to start, to operate, and to grow. By expending the effort to develop a comprehensive business plan, you will have a powerful tool for attracti…

Business Development Management

The speed of change in virtually all industries has increased exponentially over the past decades – and conventional wisdom proves that the trend will continue. In this fast-paced global business environment, the ability to possess fact- based strategic foresight, deliver systematic exploration of new growth opportunities and to institutionalise a continuous drive to improve internal business…

Business Development for the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industry

What is ‘business development’? This is usually the first question I have to answer whenever I’m asked what I do for a living by people outside the pharmaceutical industry. The answers I try to give are oen tailored to the audience and what they are likely to quickly understand from their own experience. However, as few people have any idea that such a role exists beyond some hazy idea …

From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics

The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to “the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders.” On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a reflection of the firm’s realized s…

The Exhaustion of the Dollar

When a person has been working in an area of economics for over thirty years, he will have acquired intellectual debts. It is important then that I acknowledge some friends and colleagues whose wisdom and lore have helped me get some understanding of balance-of-payments adjustment and the international financial system. Many of these colleagues are people who are dissatisfied with some aspects,…

SAMPLE STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN

Pipedream.com, Inc. will create the first Internet Sports Entertainment Network offering sports programming along with clothing and equipment. Recognizing that a vital aspect of selling merchandise online is to provide compelling entertainment content to inspire sales. The company’s unique content will showcase the new and exciting Entertainment and all the products, events, services and adv…

Developing Relationships in Business Networks

This book is the first to apply the network approach to the analysis of business relationships in a global context. Drawing on a wide variety of international case. studies, a `network approach' is developed, giving rise to far-reaching theoretical and practical managerial insights and a different way of conceptualizing companies within markets. New angles emerge on traditional problems of busi…

RETHINKING SOVEREIGN DEBT 

Sovereign debt markets have demonstrated incredible resil- ience despite a century of dramatic political and economic up- heaval. Among the most remarkable aspects of the contemporary debt regime is the degree to which expectations of borrowers remain rela- tively uniform even in the face of such major shifts. These basic expecta- tions resolve into one background rule: sovereign borrowers mus…

Foundations of Business 

How do you define success? For some, success is a high-paying job, promotions, and financial security. For others, success is finding a rewarding balance between work and personal time. Regardless of how you define success or what your personal goals are, we wrote this text with one purpose: To help you succeed not only in today’s competitive business world, but also in your personal life. A…

Cleaner-Energy Investments

Clean energy is the flavor of the times. With a view to bringing the phrase closer to reality, I would prefer to refer to it in relative terms as Cleaner Energy. Investors have had divergent views of the sector: from being a genuine business opportunity, especially when attractive preferential tariffs are on offer, to a peripheral activity that helped “green wash” other business operations.…

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE for Non-Specialists

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Mastering SQL Queries for SAP Business One

This book has been created to serve the needs of many SAP Business One users. If you have a chance to browse the SAP business One website between mid-2008 and mid-2011, you will find that my name is always on the top contributor's list. I have solved many SQL Query related problems faced by many users, and some such users have asked me to write a blog or wiki page on the topic. However, the su…

Activiti 5.x Business Process Management Beginner's Guide

Activiti is a lightweight, open source workflow and a Business Process Management (BPM) platform distributed under the Apache license. It can also be clustered and managed on a Cloud environment. It is the best platform to build BPM for people-to-people communication. It can be used very easily in every Java environment. It supports all aspects of BPM in the full context of software development…

Appcelerator Titanium Business Application Development Cookbook

The demand for mobile apps by business enterprises has never been greater. While meeting this demand is becoming increasingly business critical, the complexities of development are amplified by the explosion in devices and platforms. Mobile JavaScript frameworks have been available since the start of the smartphone revolution and is the perfect platform to meet these challenges. Recognizing the…

Online Social and Business Networking Communities

The ability to send and retrieve information over the Web using traditional and ubiquitous computing methods has changed the way we work and live. Web portals, as content aggregates, act as gateways to pertinent and up- to-date information. Social networking portals are a recent development, allow- ing a user to create and maintain a network of close friends or business associ- ates for social …

Professional/Business Networking

"When it comes to looking for a job, it's not what you know, it's who you know." Well, there are a couple of major problems with that nugget of wisdom: If you know a lot of people, but they are not aware of (a) the collection of skills, experience and talent you offer or (b) the types of employment you are seeking, they can’t help you. If you know a lot of people, but you don’t h…

WordPress 3 for Business Bloggers

Blogging has been a part of the web landscape for over a decade now. From personal journals to big corporate marketing, the medium has matured to become a ubiquitous mode of live communication. The power of blogging has been recognized by the business community, and canny marketers view it as a powerful weapon in their digital arsenal. If blogging is done well, it can bring myriad benefits to b…