Books on Strategy
Scenario Planning by ISBN: 1118226925Publication Date: 2012-03-07Scenario Planning serves as a guide to taking a long-term look at your business, your industry, and the world, posing thoughtful questions about the possible consequences of some current (and possible future) trends.
Strategic Economic Decision-Making by ISBN: 9781461460398Publication Date: 2012-12-05This book is a quick primer on the topic that introduces readers to the basic complexities and nuances associated with learning Bayes' theory and inverse probability for the first time.
Strategic IQ by ISBN: 9780470978283Publication Date: 2012-06-05This book identifies the key sources of inertia - strategic, structural and huma - and provides practical advice on how they can be overcome to create smarter corporations.
Big Data, Big Analytics by ISBN: 9781118147603Publication Date: 2013-01-22Unique prospective on the big data analytics phenomenon for both business and IT professionals.
Corporate Social Strategy by ISBN: 9780521197649Publication Date: 2010-11-11This book shows how and when firms can develop successful corporate social strategies that establish strong commitments to shareholders, employees and other stakeholders.
The Essential Advantage by ISBN: 9781422136515Publication Date: 2010-12-09This book maintains that success in any market accrues to firms with coherence: a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique.
The Focused Organization by ISBN: 9781409425670Publication Date: 2012-04-28This book shows you how more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by ISBN: 9780307886231Publication Date: 2011-07-19Good Strategy/Bad Strategy clarifies the muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world.
Merchants of Virtue by ISBN: 9780230106604Publication Date: 2011-08-15Here author Bill Birchard goes deep inside the organization to find out how Herman Miller has been accomplishing their sustainability goal.
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- Nexis UniFull text database including United States and foreign news/newspapers, business information, company profiles, legal information, and reference sources. Also includes: news transcripts, federal cases, state cases, law reviews. 10 Minute Training Tips
Databases for Strategy Articles / Reports
- Business Source UltimateFull text database of business information including scholarly journals, books, author profiles, and company information. Includes full access to Harvard Business Review.
- Conference Board/Research Online CollectionFull text database focused on corporate leadership, human capital, high-performing organizations, corporate governance, the economy, markets, and value creation. Sources include reports, presentations, and videos.
- IBISWorldComprehensive full text industry research reports providing analysis and data on key statistics like supply/demand chain, market characteristics, product and customer segments, cost structure, industry conditions, key drivers, major players and market share, recent performance, and 5-year revenue forecasts.
Key Strategy Periodicals
- McKinsey Quarterly (archive)HTML full-text for content going from 1965 to current.
Top Management / Strategy Journals
These highly ranked journals publish articles on strategy-related topics.
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Reference
21st Century Management: a Reference Handbook by ISBN: 9781412949729Publication Date: 2007-12-17This book provides an authoritative insight into the key issues for students in college or on corporate courses with a particular emphasis on the current structure of the topic in the literature, key threads of discussion and research on the topic as well as emerging trends.
A Dictionary of Business and Management by ISBN: 9780199234899Publication Date: 2009-04-25This A-Z reference work is essential for business students, teachers and professionals, and useful for anyone needinga guide to business terminology.
