Product Description
This book offers a fast track route to mastering business decision making. It covers the key areas of decision making, from decision support systems and global templates to contemplation and implementation. It contains examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola, The Valio Group, Best Buy, and Scandic Hotels, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Mary Altomare, Mike Aristedes, David L. Cooperrider, Andre L. Delbecq, J. D. Eveland, Brian Hsieh, Don Mankin, Paul Nutt, Daniel Power, and Morris Raker. It also includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide.
From the Back Cover
ExpressExec is a unique business resource of one hundred books. These books present the best current thinking and span the entire range of contemporary business practice. Each book gives you the key concepts behind the subject and the techniques to implement the ideas effectively, together with lessons from benchmark companies and ideas from the world's smartest thinkers.
ExpressExec is organised into ten core subject areas making it easy to find the information you need: 01 Innovation 02 Enterprise 03 Strategy 04 Marketing 05 Finance 06 Operations and Technology 07 Organizations 08 Leading 09 People 10 Life and Work ExpressExec is a perfect learning solution for people who need to master the latest business thinking and practice quickly.
About the Author
STEPEHN P. FITZGERALD is a Los Angeles based organizational consultant specializing in collaboration among organizations for social change. He is the author of 'Appreciative Inquiry -- The New Frontier' in Organization Development: Data Driven Methods for Change, J. Waclawski & A.H. Church (Eds). He has also written on social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs for the Financial Times of London website, and an appreciative inquiry for the Organization Development Journal. Steve has presented papers at various academic conferences in the UK and the US, including the American Academy of Management.
