Decide and Deliver: Five Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization
Harvard Business Review Press 9/27/2010
by Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins and Paul Rogers
Great organizations make great decisions and execute them effectively. Decide & Deliver, Bain's latest book, offers five practical steps to transform your organization into a decisive, nimble high-performer. Learn more at www.decide-deliver.com.
Profit from the core: A return to growth in turbulent times
Harvard Business Press 1/19/2010
by Chris Zook and James G. Allen
In this updated edition of Profit from the Core, authors Chris Zook and James Allen show that a renewed focus on the core is more critical than ever as firms seek to rebuild their competitive advantage coming out of the downturn-and that a strong core will be the foundation for successful expansion as the economy recovers. Building on powerful and proven ideas to meet today's formidable business challenges, Profit from the Core is a back-to-basics field guide.
Winning in Turbulence (Memo to the CEO)
Harvard Business Press 8/24/2009
by Darrell Rigby
In Winning in Turbulence, the latest in the Memo to the CEO series, Bain & Company downturn strategist Darrell Rigby argues that the right moves in a recession depend on where your company stands on three dimensions: how hard your industry is hit by the downturn, your company's strategic position, and your company's financial strength. The book identifies eight specific strategies, including "overtake the timid," "refocus and retool," "lighten the load," and "full speed ahead" - and provides a powerful diagnostic tool for assessing which position matches your firm's current situation.
Management Tools 2009: An Executive's Guide
Bain & Company 1/5/2009
by Darrell K. Rigby
Over the past three decades, management tools have become a common part of executives' lives. Whether trying to increase revenues, innovate, improve quality, increase efficiencies or plan for the future, executives have looked for tools to help them. The current environment of globalization and economic turbulence has increased the challenges executives face and, therefore, the need to find the right tools to meet these challenges. To help inform managers about the tools available to them, in 1993 Bain & Company launched a multiyear research project to gather facts about the use and performance of management tools. Every year or two since, we've conducted research to identify 25 of the most popular and pertinent management tools. Our efforts to understand the continually evolving management tools landscape have led us to add five tools to this year's guide-Decision Rights Tools, Downsizing, Online Communities, Price Optimization Tools and Voice of the Customer Innovation. Three of these tools are relatively new and two, Downsizing and Price Optimization Tools, may be increasingly relevant to managers in the current economic environment. For more information, please visit http://www.bain.com/tools.
The Breakthrough Imperative: How the best managers get outstanding results
HarperCollins Publishers 3/11/2008
by Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert
The Breakthrough Imperative cracks the code on how the best business leaders get outstanding results from their organizations within the ever-shortening time frame required for executives to prove their value. Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert, consultants at Bain & Company and former managers themselves, drew on extensive empirical research which lays out four simple, yet powerful principles of business that every manager must understand if they're to succeed at achieving breakthrough results. Learn more at www.thebreakthroughimperative.com.
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