Business Development Strategy

How well does your organization respond to changing market conditions, customer needs, and emerging technologies when building software-based products? This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move fast at scale - and demonstrates why and how to apply these methodologies throughout your organization. Through case studies, you'll learn how successful enterprises have rethought everything from governance and financial management to systems architecture and organizational culture in the pursuit of radically improved performance.

Kevin Bambrough, a top-ranked financial leader, knows that real wealth isn’t just financial—it’s the synergy of energy, health, and focus. In The Energetic Investor, Kevin shares scientifically-proven strategies to power up your biology, sharpen your cognitive abilities, and fuel your financial decision-making. By leveraging your DNA, microbiome, and mitochondria, you’ll create a system where success in one area amplifies success in others.

The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies—total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds—routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people—good people—often derail.

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

If you're looking to make the most of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology for your business, this audiobook is for you. Artificial intelligence and blockchain are the tech of the future. But if you're not already working in the field or studying their depths, it can be difficult to find information in layman's terms. As a business owner, especially a small business owner, we are always looking at ways to improve the efficiency of our business: outsource, automate, scale, marketing.... AI and blockchain technology could revolutionize the way business is done.

Sell your business. Stick the landing. We’ll show you how. Exit Strategy is everything you need to know about selling a business. Dr. Sherry Walling, a clinical psychologist specializing in entrepreneur mental health, and Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur who has secured life-changing sums in multiple exits, have teamed up to provide you with a roadmap for navigating this treacherous terrain, offering a rare combination of practical savvy and emotional nuance that can only come from a true understanding of the journey. Exit Strategy will teach you: When is the right time to sell?

This book will take you from knowing nothing about the vending machine business to learning more about it than most people running an already successful business of this kind!

This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over twenty total!) and skills that will help you harness opportunity from uncertainty by building the right team(s) and balancing your point of view against new findings from the outside world.

The authors of the best-selling Competing on Internet Time (a Businessweek top-10 book) analyze the strategies, principles, and skills of three of the most successful and influential figures in business - Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs - offering lessons for all managers and entrepreneurs on leadership, strategy, and execution.

Entrepreneur and celebrity hairstylist Kiyah Wright knows exactly what it takes to amass wealth in the hair and beauty industry. In From Beauty to Business, Wright breaks down her seven proven success principles that helped her achieve her goals: developing a success mindset, understanding the business of the beauty business, finding your niche, diversifying with multiple streams of income, growing your platform to grow your profits, preparing for the unexpected, and planning for your future.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, develop a clear and consistent brand voice, and ultimately build a fruitful business - listen to your brand. Stop Listening to the Customer offers insights into how consumers are driving homogeneity in brands and shares the proven strategies you can implement to amplify your own position in the world.

Develop healthier and better relationships today! Experience improved relationship fulfillment and unlock the best strategy for secure attachment styles in your relationships. Do you want to develop better and healthier relationships with your loved ones? Would you like to understand yourself better and be more satisfied with your life? Are you looking to break free from being avoidant and start opening up more to create long-lasting and fulfilling relationships? Then this book was made just for you.

Everyone who wants to achieve something great in life experiences side journeys, setbacks, and opportunities. As an entrepreneur, you know this to be true more than anyone: the journey to entrepreneurial success is never a straight line. Wealth management entrepreneur Chris S. Reynolds has learned firsthand throughout his successful career that preparing for a winding journey is the difference between success and failure. In The Six Circle Strategy, he shares his strategy on how different circles are a key tool for you to get your business on the looping road to financial soundness.

Sharing hard-earned insights, advice, and best practices, brand and marketing strategist Karen Tiber Leland helps entrepreneurs, business owners, CEOs, and executives create a brand by design instead of default, gain greater influence in their industries and companies, and become thought leaders in their fields. The Brand Mapping Strategy uses proven strategies, best practices, and anecdotes from real life brand-building successes to give listeners the tools they need to design, build, and accelerate a successful brand.

There's so much marketing expertise out there but how should people know what to listen to? How to implement it? Or where to start? By covering the fundamentals of marketing, this audiobook will act as a north star for small business owners looking to grow. Like Alice herself, the book is honest, practical, engaging and actionable - no fluff or complication allowed - and will help you build a community, get visible and make sales. It is rooted in theory but with real-life experiences, and will leave you with the clarity and systems to take your business to the next level.

The Success Equation reveals how the right mindset, strategy, and daily action create lasting achievement. In this practical and inspiring audiobook, Dr. Bhaskar Bora combines psychology, motivation, and real-world examples to show that success is not luck—it is a formula you can follow. Listeners will discover how to shift mindset, build winning habits, and execute clear strategies that turn ambition into reality. With insights on resilience, decision-making, and personal growth, this audiobook is both a motivational boost and a step-by-step roadmap for high performance.

With a passion for helping others and a modern approach to sharing the oils, Sarah Harnisch made it to Platinum in Young Living in 17 months. Now she's sharing her strategy in this densely-packed guide to take you from starter kit to Silver in Young Living. Understand the chessboard of network marketing and get practical advice for every aspect of your business.

If you want a no nonsense "crash course" in how to sell your business for the best possible price you need to hear this book.

Leadership is a lifestyle, not a vocation. The Process creates emotionally intelligent leadership starting in your relationships and extending into your business and your entire life. This book summarizes the process. It contains probing and powerful questions at the end of each chapter, questions designed to help you discover your own way forward. Whether you are struggling as an individual, in a relationship, or married, the process will point you in the direction of seeking and receiving help as a lifestyle, not as a solution to a problem.

I can tell you that there are a plethora of strategy books out there. However, you’ll find many of them arcane, academic, and even confusing. Most were written a long time ago and use out-of-date examples from well before the tech age. Many are no longer relevant. For the past five years, I’ve been obsessed by the idea of creating a strategy operating system, and I’ve spent the past 12 months figuring out how to design one.