Business Forecasting

For business leaders navigating the AI era, this book is your executive guide to clarity, strategy, and real-world results. Artificial Intelligence is disrupting industries, but success doesn’t come from hype; it comes from readiness. From Data to Decisions offers insights from Chelle Meadows, a corporate operations leader and AI strategist helping executives drive real transformation through AI. This guide bridges the gap between innovation theory and practical execution.

This audiobook presents a new approach to risk management that enables executives to think systematically and strategically about future risks and deal proactively with threats to their competitive advantages in an evermore volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world.

There is no CEO task more significant than leading change in an organization whose old business model needs updating. Large-scale change involves rethinking how to engage customers, partners, and suppliers with new technology and hard decisions about how to reorganize internal operations—plus the challenges of executing the transformation. Too many things can go wrong, from natural organizational resistance and inertia, to lack of strategic focus, to execution problems. And yet, organizations today must be more dynamic than ever before.

Algorithms, machine learning, generative AI. With the latest advancements in technology, data is taking center stage in organizations. But without a clear plan for how you're storing, integrating, and gaining value from that information, your company will be at risk—and fall behind. If you read (or listen to) nothing else on setting a data strategy in your organization, listen to these ten articles.

Strategy is about shaping the future. Thinking strategically is what separates good managers and great leaders. Learn the fundamentals about how to create winning strategy and lead your team to deliver it. From understanding what strategy can do for you, through to creating a strategy and engaging others with strategy, this book offers practical guidance and expert tips. It is peppered with punchy, memorable examples from real leaders winning (and losing) with real world strategies. Strategy is simple, but simple is complex.

This book will inspire you to rethink strategy in the age of AI; help your team become more data savvy; create an achievable road map for digital initiatives; understand the tech skills senior leaders need; reskill employees to support your transformation efforts; and create new processes that speed execution.

A comprehensive guide to successful event management, this audiobook serves as a valuable resource for both beginners and seasoned professionals, equipping them with the tools needed to plan, execute, and evaluate memorable events. The guide takes listeners through a deep exploration of understanding their audience, conceptualizing resonant events, managing budgets, procuring vendors, effectively marketing, and embracing technology. It also emphasizes the power of networking and the importance of post-event evaluation for continuous improvement.

Even the best competitive strategies mean nothing if they can't be executed. Yet many organizations struggle when they move from defining a strategy to implementing it. Somehow, all the careful planning falls to the side, and leaders are left wondering how to pick up the pieces. The HBR Guide to Executing Your Strategy is here to help. This book offers leaders and managers tips and advice for how to take even the most detailed strategy and apply it throughout their organizations.

An introduction for everyone. In this rich, fascinating—surprisingly accessible—introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics (aka machine learning) works, and how it affects everyone every day. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, the book serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques.

With this guide, you can produce your own professional business plan without hiring a consultant. This is a fast, quick, and proven method of creating a business plan that will allow you to (i) approach potential investors, or (ii) show to stakeholders of the business - employees, banks, shareholders, etc.

This book explores advanced strategies and technologies, including artificial intelligence, to help organizations enhance their effectiveness and efficiency. It addresses critical challenges related to strategic execution, performance improvement, and budget management, emphasizing the importance of aligning strategies, executing them effectively, and embracing transformative processes to drive growth and success.

This is the book every business owner should have readily available. If you're a business owner, the truth is that at some point you will exit the business. Don t take that step lightly. Being prepared is key, and Jerry L. Mills takes you through a step-by-step process to help you get the most out of your business. With the impending Baby Boomer Tsunami in the next few years, there will be more businesses for sale than at any other point in history. This buyers market will cause great competition. Are you prepared to get out? Make sure you have an in with The Exit Strategy Handbook.

Finding financial investors is not enough. Money is only the starting point. Any investments in your company must be used intelligently and purposefully, or it will just be money down the drain. What you need is a proven methodology for getting your company from where it is now to where you dream of it being. Accelerating Growth describes how The Management System makes that possible.

The marketplace and allocation of internal resources are both increasingly competitive. Safety strategies of the future must align with evolving business goals. Will your company's safety efforts keep up with the demands of the future? Emerging trends are becoming increasing visible regarding how safety is viewed, thought of, strategically managed, and how progress is measured. Moreover, the cast of characters, the roles they play, and accountability for responsibilities are evolving, all for the better.

In the world of business, success is hard-earned and requires discipline, persistence, and a proven framework. That's where The 100 Rules of Business comes in. This comprehensive guide is grounded in rigorous actions that will help you build and grow a successful business in any niche. But the key to success is taking action. That's why these 100 rules are designed as actionable steps that you can follow in every stage of your business journey.

An introduction for everyone. Rather than a "how to" for hands-on techies, this book - now in its revised and updated edition - serves lay listeners and experts alike by covering new case studies and the latest state-of-the-art techniques. In this rich, fascinating, and surprisingly accessible introduction, leading expert Eric Siegel reveals how predictive analytics works and how it affects everyone every day.

Here’s how to make purposeful system change happen! The world faces a multitude of crises that demand transformative changes in how we live and do business. Yet a core question is...how to make purposeful transformation happen? Catalyzing Transformation shows the way through innovative organizing processes that anyone can use to catalyze purposeful whole system transformational change for a better world.

As AI rapidly reshapes the enterprise landscape, the real challenge isn’t adopting it—it’s adopting it responsibly. Data privacy. Regulatory pressure. Ethical deployment. The stakes have never been higher. Building Your Private AI is a strategic, non-technical guide tailored for business executives ready to scale AI while safeguarding trust, compliance, and performance. With real-world insights from UPS, Tesla, Mayo Clinic, and Siemens, author Daniel J. Jacobs offers a proven roadmap to secure, enterprise-ready AI transformation.

This options trading book will help you learn how to take advantage of options and provide you with the technical knowledge required to become a trading expert. This is the best moment ever to start investing and if you're listening to this, you're probably interested in getting into stock trading, right? Well, probably you've seen all those videos with the so-called "stock market gurus" and spent countless hours looking for a credible source of high-probability trading strategies on the internet.

Forex is a powerful market - but only those who know how to navigate it can make the best returns. To succeed, you need to understand the market and exactly how you can get the most for your money. Inside this guide, you’ll uncover the secrets of forex and how you can take advantage of this incredible money-making opportunity!