Competitive Intelligence

by Jim Underwood

Published 13 December 2001
Fast track route to mastering the art of competitor intelligence

Covers the fundamentals of competitor intelligence, from securing CEO buy-in and making sure the right people are in place to creating an internal intelligence system and setting up a war room

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most intelligent businesses, including Motorola and Apple, and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Jan Herring, Ben Gilad and Leonard Fuld

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.

ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need:

01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work

ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

Complexity and Paradox

by Jim Underwood

Published 13 December 2001
Fast track route to mastering highly complex environments

Covers the fundamentals of complexity, from encouragingiconoclastic behavior and setting up formal complexity training tousing scenarios and gathering intelligence

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most sophisticatedbusinesses, including Microsoft, and ideas from the smartestthinkers including H. Igor Ansoff, Richard A D'Aveni and PeterSchwartz

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resourcesguide

ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books.These books present the best current thinking and span the entirerange of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you thekey concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement theideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companiesand ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.

ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making iteasy to find the information you need:

01 Innovation
02 Enterprise
03 Strategy
04 Marketing
05 Finance
06 Operations and Technology
07 Organizations
08 Leading
09 People
10 Life and Work

ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need tomaster the latest business thinking and practice quickly.

The New Corporate Strategy

by Jim Underwood

Published 13 December 2001
This title presents a fast track route to mastering corporate strategy. It covers the fundamentals of strategy, from global strategy to complexity and from decision making to implementing those decisions. It features examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful (and not-so-successful) businesses operating in the global high tech industry and the media and ideas from the smartest thinkers including Igor Ansoff, Peter Senge and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. It includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide. ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers. ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: Innovation; Enterprise; Strategy; Marketing; Finance; Operations and Technology; Organizations; Leading; People; and, Life and Work.
ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.