New Business Strategy

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.

With the onslaught of cloud solutions, consumerization of technology, and increasingly tech-savvy business people, it's time for a manifesto for leaders who recognize - and are nervous about - the demands of the digital age. Whether you're an executive, department head, or IT manager, The New IT provides an action-ready blueprint for building and strengthening the role of IT in your company - and prescribing IT's future.

As a veteran of six successful Kickstarter campaigns (and counting) and the proprietor of the Kickstarter Lessons blog, Jamey Stegmaier knows something about crowdfunding. In this audiobook, he goes beyond the nuts and bolts of how it works to a deeper level - crowdfunding not just as a cool way to raise money but as a better way to build and run a business.

Competition is moving beyond industry to ecosystem. Are you ready? In the shift from pipeline to platform, value is no longer created by your company's product or process alone - it's created through interactions. And the strategy you used to become an industry leader won't help you compete in an evolving and complex ecosystem. If you listen to nothing else on platforms and ecosystems, listen to these 10 articles by experts in the field.

In today's volatile economic environment, filled with uncertainty and sudden change, the forces pushing you to stay focused on the core business are extremely powerful. Profiting from the core is crucial, but the danger is that overfocusing on the core can blind companies. Scanning the horizon for new markets and new products can also be tempting, but risky. Fixating too much on either strategy can cause you to miss the substantial opportunities for growth that are often hidden in plain sight, at the edge of the core business.

It's no secret that steering a business has become dramatically more complex and uncertain in our modern era. Constant exploration of new territory by teams is the name of the game. Yet most companies are stuck with yesterday's approach to problem solving. Having reached the highest levels of the Fortune 500, digital disrupter Atif Rafiq has written Decision Sprint to pull the curtain back on the hidden management systems within your organization that impact how people think, collaborate, and make decisions.

Filled with real-world examples and actionable advice, this audiobook is perfect for newly minted startups or current entrepreneurs who wish to increase their customer base. Even if you have no marketing experience at all, you can still master the basics of cost-effective and profitable digital marketing. You simply need the right guide to lead you through the process.

Informed by meticulous research, field experience, and classroom-tested strategies, Dealmaking offers essential insights for anyone involved in buying or selling everything from cars to corporations. Leading business scholar Guhan Subramanian provides a lively tour of both negotiation and auction theory, then takes an in-depth look at his own hybrid theory, outlining three specific strategies listeners can use in complex dealmaking situations.

Ready to launch your business without the costly trial and error? This comprehensive audiobook is your step-by-step blueprint to success! Perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to build a sustainable business from day one. Skip the expensive mistakes and get straight to what works.

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.

Tired of endless planning? Frustrated watching others succeed while your ideas remain on paper? It's time to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into profit! This comprehensive audiobook is your step-by-step blueprint to building a successful business in record time. Created by successful entrepreneurs for aspiring business owners, this guide eliminates guesswork and accelerates your path to profitability.

This book triggers you to think and act strategically, shows what you can learn from business models inside and outside your industry, and urges you to apply those learnings to make your own shift.

The Real Business of Blockchain is one of the first audiobooks on this transformative technology written for business leaders. Authors David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau - both of Gartner, the world-renowned research and advisory company - will help you: assess how blockchain will impact your business by cutting through the hype and finding the real story; explore the value proposition that blockchain technologies offer; make smart near- and mid-term investments in your blockchain strategy; and position you and your organization in a new competitive landscape in the future.

We all agree momentum is such a powerful force, so why are we not learning how to leverage it in business? In Momentum, Seth Lewis busts the myth that momentum is just luck and outlines a proven measurable strategy to create explosive momentum in life and business. This book will help you immediately unlock momentum in any business or leadership role. Whether you’re a business leader or you want to achieve maximum success in your career, this book will help you create an action plan and create the life of your dreams!

This book is a complete beginners guide to fully grasping the ways of utilising pay per click advertising to have a wider customer reach and expand your business. It explains how to use tools such as Google Analytics and search engine optimisation to achieve more reaches on search engines when keywords are typed and how to apply the use of Google, Facebook, and YouTube into a combination as a single strategy.

Winning the Talent Shift: Three Steps to Unleashing the New High Performance Workplace envisions a world where companies are fully equipped to exceed the challenges posed by the new global marketplace. Berta Aldrich argues if companies want to achieve future success, they must redesign their talent strategy using three important steps proven to increase revenues, engage teams and leaders, and set companies on the path to industry leadership.

If you want theory or a bird's-eye view of online/digital marketing, this book is not for you. But if your business provides a service and you want to increase the number of your clients by exploiting the power of the internet, this book will help. Because it sets out the proven, simple five-step strategy I use on a daily basis since 2011. With my strategy, you will have a clear action plan to exploit the power of the internet to increase your client numbers. It is a cost-effective strategy that will, as sure as day follows night, drive new clients to your business.

Inside this book, you’ll learn some lessons that many of your network marketing leaders and legends may not want you to hear. New school network marketing utilizes internet strategies to recruit, sell, and duplicate your efforts in a manner that can hyper-charge and automate your results. Do you keep your options open?

En este audiolibro usted encontrara un analisis concreto, agil y practico de las estrategias basicas que se pueden implementar en la administracion eficiente de un producto, teniendo como base fundamental el conocimiento de cada uno de los atributos y caracteristicas que hacen parte integral de un producto.