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This book provides managers and leaders with a conceptual framework for visionary leadership to help them rediscover their vision in a more meaningful way with long-lasting results. It guides managers and leaders through four overlapping phases of the vision development and realization cycle at different levels and during various life stages. It teaches leaders to embrace employees as visionary partners in the journey to build a better organization. The founder-CEO's journey to lead a high-growth company begins with the ability to see their role within the company—and the company itself—through new lenses. While it requires a CEO to evolve and grow with their company as their plans for the company expand, the visionary should not solely set their sights on new horizons. Their ability to see within their company should become more granular as well. Featuring real-world case examples and chapter summaries with key takeaways, this book allows the business leader to walk themselves through the process of visioning with their team from start to finish. It also allows consultants and coaches to see the full lifecycle of a vision and support the visionary at any level of an organization.

This book investigates the intersection of Christian faith and entrepreneurship in the global marketplace through empirical micro-level research on various Christian-based firms in North and Central America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. It features diverse cross-cultural cases, ranging from small family businesses to large enterprises, and covers multiple industries and regions. The book attempts to answer this research question:'How do Christian faith and entrepreneurship converge in the marketplace?'Through a comparative, cross-cultural case analysis, the work identifies thematic categories of Christian faith-based entrepreneurship, extending and integrating the two conceptual areas of faith and entrepreneurship from a Christian worldview with a Judeo-Christian heritage. The selected cases this book explored enhanced the emergent model of faith-based entrepreneurship applicable across faith-based organization types and regions. This book also provides significant empirical and theoretical contributions to faith-based entrepreneurship, offering new research areas for the future research paradigm. The cases in this book delve into topics such as faith and women entrepreneurship, religion, spirituality, and social entrepreneurship, faith and family entrepreneurship, and good practices of entrepreneurship, in line with the latest trends in the field, and will be of interest to all students and researchers in entrepreneurship.

Over the last decade, Lean-Agile principles have become the standard methodology by which product and technology teams operate. However, Lean-Agile was written for small companies seeking new markets to buy their innovative software products, not for an average corporation with a catalogue of existing software products that must be maintained and rebuilt. The typical tech-enabled business isn't a lean startup; it's a chunky corporate. This book offers an alternative software development methodology perfectly suited for chunky corporate product management. You'll quickly find out how individual players in the corporate organization impact business performance. You'll follow the story of Blake, a well-meaning but ultimately naive, CEO of a fictional company called Acme Tech. As he and Acme struggle to maintain business performance, it becomes apparent how embedded and complex his challenges are. Lean-Agile principles are regularly misapplied in the corporate environment, causing tension, missed deadlines, and inefficient working practices. You'll see that managing software transformation at a large, mature business requires a new set of tools. Popular development methodologies are not well-suited for the replatforming exercises that chunky corporates inevitably face. This book helps product and technology leaders navigate software development projects at organizations grappling with the constraints of investor ownership. Chunky corporates have a lot going for them: The Lean-Agile Dilemma reveals that, when managed well, they have the potential to be safe havens in a relentlessly unstable world. You will: Understand how replatforming differs from new product development Learn how to manage existing data when updating or building new software Gain tools to prioritize items in your overstuffed product roadmap Who This Book is For Product managers, product owners, product leadership, tech leadership, and business leaders at mature tech-enabled businesses.

This book uncovers the barriers that impede entrepreneurial innovation, delving into the profound impact of personality traits on success. It explores the psychological and sociological factors that hinder progress, providing valuable insights into the hidden challenges faced by entrepreneurs. As Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) thrive in global markets, sustainable development faces obstacles. This book reveals the overlooked psychological and sociological hurdles that entrepreneurs encounter, shedding light on their effects on innovation.Through extensive research, the authors illuminate the connection between personality traits and entrepreneurial success, particularly risk-taking propensity. They uncover the complex interplay between personal traits and the social environment, highlighting societal constructs that impede entrepreneurial potential.While research on entrepreneurial personalities has grown, understanding sociological impedimentsremains limited. This book bridges the gap, offering a comprehensive analysis of the multifaceted challenges entrepreneurs face. It equips readers with strategies to navigate complexities and foster innovation.This transformative book unveils the barriers hindering entrepreneurial innovation, unlocking the psychological and sociological obstacles. It is a must-read for aspiring entrepreneurs, professionals, researchers, and policymakers seeking to harness SME potential for a prosperous future.

Based on extensive research and real-world examples, this book upends accepted wisdom about how to achieve success when launching a startup or creating a new product. The breakthrough concepts of Pattern Breakers come from the observations of Mike Maples Jr., a seasoned venture capitalist, who noticed something strange. Start-ups like Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft had achieved extraordinary success despite their disregard for “best practices.” In contrast, other startups deemed highly promising often failed, even when they seemed to do everything right. Seeking answers, Maples and coauthor Peter Ziebelman set out to discover the hidden forces that drive extraordinary start-up success. Pattern-breaking success, they reveal, demands a different mindset and actions to harness developments others miss or that may, at first, seem crazy.Pattern Breakers is filled with firsthand storytelling about initial interactions with some of the most transformative start-ups of recent times. Maples and Ziebelman challenge us to rethink how to transcend the ordinary and achieve the extraordinary.

We are delighted to present this compilation of insightful contributions from the Global Conference on Entrepreneurship and Economy in an Era of Uncertainty (EEEU23) hosted by the International Research Center for Higher Education and Business Cooperation in Poland. This book explores the ever-changing field of entrepreneurship in the digital economy, emphasizing the pivotal role of innovation in navigating through today's global disruptions, such as pandemics and regional instabilities that reverberate through economies.In a time where rapid innovation is the linchpin for sustained relevance, companies face the critical imperative of adapting swiftly to the changing tides. This collection sheds light on the reality that organizations, even those with a long-standing market presence and solid managerial frameworks, can only avoid obsolescence if they innovate at the pace demanded by contemporary circumstances. The cautionary tales of once-thriving entities like Eastman Kodak Company, Polaroid Corporation, Xerox, and others serve as poignant reminders of the imperative of agile innovation in today's business environment.The chapters presented within this book offer a thorough exploration of the profound influence of digital innovation on entrepreneurship, coupled with an examination of the pivotal role of strategic organizational management in the sustenance and prosperity of enterprises. As such, this book is an invaluable resource for researchers and professionals seeking to deepen their understanding of the application of innovation and disruptions in entrepreneurship and organizational management.The insights and disclosures encapsulated within these pages will catalyze meaningful dialogue and inspire innovative approaches to pursuing entrepreneurial success amidst a landscape characterized by uncertainty.

This book discusses initiatives intended to promote strategic flexibility, resilience, sustainability, and information system flexibility and analytics, through AI, HR analytics, employee attrition using perspectives from machine learning, agile competencies, agile organization, digital recruitment, e-governance, cyber security controls, and cyber security risk management. It explores areas such as banking system, medical tourism, pharmaceutical industry, defense sector, online shopping, to name some. It brings different perspectives on how to improve the resilience of human resources in organizations through employee engagement, exploration, experimentation, and so on, to create sustainable organizations. There is also some focus on innovation and environmental sustainability concerns, co-worker support, exploring the linkages, and in one case, culture essentials for Industry 5.0. Divided into three parts, covering a range of topics, contexts, and methods used to understand the relevant issues in flexibility, resilience, and sustainability, thes book is a useful addition to the literature on the topic as well as a practical resource for practitioners. It will be a useful resource for a variety of audiences such as management students and researchers, practicing business managers, consultants, and professional institutions.

Learn to scale your organization to grow your impact and create sustainable wealth with this inspiring book from the Founder of DECA Dental Group.Highly specialized service providers—such as doctors, lawyers, dentists, physical therapists, and consultants—are often limited in their growth and earning potential by their notoriously difficult-to-scale industries.As a dental student at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston just four years after leaving Zimbabwe for America, Dr. Sulman Ahmed was already looking ahead to an alternative future to private practice, determined to help as many people as possible, innovate within a stagnant industry by putting the customer experience first, and maximize his earning potential. In Make Them Smile, Dr. Ahmed shows readers how he scaled his customer-centric services and built a national brand—known as the “Starbucks of dentistry”—and offers guidance on how to:Identify the ideal gap to fill in your marketLeverage your expertise as your competitive advantageBecome a compassionate, highly capable leaderStandardize operations and scaleNavigate the various financing vehicles available at different stages of growth Build sustainable wealth while creating a legacy of improving customers'livesFor hardworking and dedicated professional service providers, Make Them Smile offers a way out of the grind of living hour to billable hour, providing a road map for how to build a scalable, standardized brand that provides a consistent, repeatable, and high-quality customer experience.

Ist das Unternehmer-Sein eine Profession? Ist es möglich und sinnvoll, eine Professionsethik für Unternehmer•innen zu entwickeln? Was lässt sich beispielhaft über die Selbste von Unternehmer•innen in ihrer ethischen Verfasstheit in Bezug auf ihr'professionelles Handeln'sagen? Anhand von zehn narrativen Lebenserzählungen deutscher Mittelstandsunternehmer•innen bringt das Buch die Selbste dieser Unternehmer•innen zur Erscheinung. Mit dem'Wer-Fragen-Programm', das der französische Philosoph Paul Ricœur in seinem Spätwerk'Das Selbst als ein Anderer'entwickelt, beschreibt der Autor (der selbst Unternehmer ist) die personalen, moralischen und narrativen Identitäten der zehn Unternehmer•innen. Es zeigen sich Persönlichkeiten in ihrer Unterschiedlichkeit, die jeweils für sich Antwort auf die Frage nach ihrer Handlungsorientierung, ihrer personalen und ethischen Verfasstheit und ihrem Selbst geben. Deutlich wird dabei auch, dass sich'der Unternehmertyp', wie er immer wieder stereotyp gebraucht wird, nicht nachweisen lässt. Stattdessen zeigen die immer wieder an Ricœur orientierten Beschreibungen und tastenden Analysen ein Mosaik des unternehmerischen Werte- und Handlungsraums, das sich in den Selbsten widerspiegelt.

If you're looking for a comprehensive guide to help make your startup successful, this book is a must-read. It covers the unique challenges of technology and platform-driven entrepreneurship, providing entrepreneurs with the tools they need to sustain growth and relevance.Technology startups face the risk of failure even after finding a product-market fit. This is due to limitations in scaling. Platform-driven startups can scale rapidly. However, they carry a high risk of failure. This book helps entrepreneurs identify the factors that can sustain technology startup growth, make early decisions, and limit risk. It also offers guidance to platform startups to mitigate the risk of failure. Featuring examples of successful startups as well as others that failed, the book offers a holistic view of entrepreneurship that highlights its importance to the broader ecosystem.This book is ideal for entrepreneurs who want to take their startup to the next level and sustain its growth. With a focus on inclusive entrepreneurship and sustaining competitive advantage, it is equally relevant for family-run companies that prioritise sustained value over generations. If you want to succeed in today's highly competitive startup landscape, this book is a valuable resource.

In diesem Buch wird die Anwendung der Design-Thinking-Methode zur Entwicklung von neuartigen Strategien und neuer Geschäftsideen dargestellt. Neue Strategien sind nötig, da die wirtschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen sich in den letzten Jahren schneller verändert haben als jemals zuvor. Der Fokus liegt auf dem Erfüllen von Kundenbedürfnissen, dem Einsatz von verfügbaren Fähigkeiten und der Positionierung im Wettbewerb mit dem Ziel, finanziell erfolgreich zu sein.Der Autor führt den Leser durch den Dschungel der Entwicklung einer Strategie für nachhaltiges Wachstum und Rentabilität. Er behandelt das Thema Strategieentwicklung auf ganzheitliche Art und Weise, indem er abduktives Denken, iterative Kundenbeobachtung und Empathie mit der Entwicklung von Ideen und Validierung von Prototypen durch Kunden kombiniert.Dieses Buch wendet die Design-Thinking-Methode zur Strategieentwicklung auf einzigartige Weise an. Es ist ein Muss für Hochschulabsolventen, MBAs und Führungskräfte, die sich für Innovation und Strategie interessieren, sowie für Strategen, Innovationsmanager, Analysten und Unternehmensberater.Aus dem InhaltKonzepte und Theorien zur innovativen StrategieentwicklungEin strukturierter Ansatz zur StrategieentwicklungSchaffung der Grundlagen für eine erfolgreiche StrategieIterative Entwicklung des der Strategie zugrunde liegenden GeschäftsmodellsDie entworfene Strategie dem Wettbewerbsumfeld aussetzen

Learn how to deal with difficult employee demands, what candidates actually think about recruitment processes, how to navigate layoffs, address the gender pay gap, and protect your time and wellbeing. People Ops is a collection of candid lessons, stories, and principles in leadership, people, and culture from startup environments. It reveals the hard truths and sometimes uncomfortable realities that we all know exist but struggle to articulate.For decades, business and HR leaders have struggled to navigate the complexities of managing people and teams within startups and scaling companies, instead relying on the broad rhetoric of management theory to tackle these challenges or leaning on their networks of leaders who have encountered these challenges before. In parallel, the HR industry has been undergoing a transformation with the growth of People Operations. It's a distinct field in HR that relentlessly focuses on engagement, culture, automation and putting people at the heart of all business operations. At the intersection of startups and people operations is an increasingly ambiguous business challenge for how startups can apply leading people practices to drive their growth, rather than in spite of their growth.People Ops is a tactical companion for business and People Operations leaders designed to support them in their roles, spark inspiration and challenge conventional thinking. It supplements author Patrick Caldwell's own experience across multiple startups with stories and examples from his network of investors, CEOs, Founders and C-Level HR executives.What You'll LearnLessons from a path walked building People Operations in a startup environmentUncomfortable truths around the complexities of managing people The key components of a People Operations strategy within a small businessWho This Book is ForThose in small-mediumsized businesses, especially startups, where the reader is in a position of responsibility for people and culture. They'll likely hold business leadership positions such as Founder, CEO, COO, VP and Director, or they'll be directly within the HR and People Operations space with titles such as CHRO/CPO, Head, Director, Business Partner or Advisor

Gain exclusive access to the secrets to building an enterprise AI start-up. AI innovation helps with every aspect of the business, from the supply chain, marketing, and advertising, customer service, risk management, operations to security. Industries from different verticals have been adopting AI and get real business values out of it. This book guides you through each step, from defining the business need and business model, all the way to registering IP and calculating your AI start-up valuation. You see how to perform market and technology validation, perform lean AI R&D, design AI architecture, AI product development and operationalization. The book also cover building and managing an AI team, along with attracting and keeping business and developer users,Building an Enterprise AI start-up is hard because Enterprise AI is an effort to build applications to mimic human intelligence to solve business problems. Hence it has a different challenge from building traditional non-AI applications, such as scouting, recruiting and managing AI talents; designing the most cost-efficient and scalable Enterprise AI; or establishing the best practice to operationalize AI in productionAs we are in the dawn of the AI-first product wave, AI-powered products for enterprises will be created for many years to come and AI Startup Strategy is the one-stop guide for it.What You'll LearnMatch customer's expectation VS technical feasibilityJustify business values and ROI for customersReview the best business models for high valuation enterprise AI start-upsDesign an AI product that gives a satisfactory experience for the userRegister and value AI IP Who This Book is For Startup Founders, Product Managers, Software Architects/Lead Engineers, Executives

Dieses Buch bietet eine Anleitung, wie Führungskräfte aller Disziplinen für den eigenen Bereich ein Power BI-Projekt aufsetzen können, um aus Daten Strategien, aus Vergangenheit Zukunftsszenarien und aus Handarbeit Automatismen zu gestalten. Das Microsoft-Tool Power BI ist ein echter Game Changer, denn es hat die Fähigkeit, datenbasierte Entscheidungen und Prozesse radikal zu verändern. Dieses Wissen ist für jede Führungskraft wichtig, die ihren Bereich besser aufstellen will.Klingt kompliziert? Weit gefehlt, denn Power BI benötigt weder Rieseninvestitionen noch eine Corporate-Lösung, sondern kann ohne großen Aufwand als Insellösung sogar in einzelnen (Konzern-)Abteilungen eingeführt werden. Deshalb ist dieses Buch auch ein Plädoyer für einen neuen Umgang mit Informationen, der überraschende Ergebnisse bringt und tatsächlich Spaß machen kann.Videos per App: einfach die SN More Media App kostenfrei herunterladen, eine Abbildung, die den Play-Button trägt, scannen und sofort das Video auf Smartphone oder Tablet abspielen.

Nichts ist älter als der Erfolg von gestern. Im internationalen Wettbewerb nimmt der Druck für Start-ups und etablierte Unternehmen zu: innovative Produkte und Dienstleistungen müssen in immer kürzeren Zyklen entwickelt und geliefert werden. Personalmangel, hohe Unternehmenssteuern und lange Antragswege sind nur einige der Innovationshemmnisse, die den Abstand deutscher Unternehmen zur Weltspitze vergrößern.Aktuelle weltpolitische Ereignisse offenbaren eine starke Abhängigkeit Deutschlands von Dritten, insbesondere bei Energie und Nahrung, aber auch bei der Digitalisierung. In allen Bereichen muss eine unternehmerische Trendwende eingeleitet werden. Dazu soll dieses Buch Impulse geben. Viele praxiserprobte Ideen und Anregungen aus der aktuellen Innovationsszene für die Bereiche Organisation, Vertrieb, Führung und Personalwesen werden vorgestellt - zumeist von Führungskräften, die wissen,'wie es geht'. Ein Mix aus akademischen und praktischen Ansätzen zeigt den Lesern,wie diese erfahrenen Führungskräfte in ihren Betrieben mit Krisen, Herausforderungen und Innovationsprojekten umgegangen sind. Sie erhalten'lessons learned', die sie bei ihren eigenen Ansätzen für eine innovative Unternehmensführung unterstützen können.

Denk jij eraan om een onderneming op te starten? Twijfel je nog of heb je de sprong al gewaagd? Brieven aan Startende Ondernemers omvat onmisbare tips voor een vlotte en doordachte start van jouw ondernemersverhaal. Beslagen ondernemers blikken terug op hun eigen traject en delen hun meest waardevolle inzichten. Laat je inspireren door hun verhalen en ervaringen.

A unicorn founder gives step-by-step advice on everything from finding product-market fit to managing investors In Problem Hunting: The Tech Startup Textbook, Brian Long offers a tactical approach to building a tech company based on his experience growing a multi-billion dollar software business and selling another business to Twitter for nine figures. This is a daily playbook that any budding entrepreneur will return to over and over again as a reference when building their business.Problem Hunting is broken down into chapters giving simple, step-by-step advice for each stage and functional department needed to run a startup tech company: Finding and testing product market fit Creating and refining your product Selling and marketing your new solution Hiring your team and building your culture Mobilizing financial, legal, and compliance functions Pitching investors and securing funding Built upon learning and anecdotes from a unicorn founder, Problem Hunting has everything prospective entrepreneurs and leaders need to start their business.

In the second edition of this book, the concept of resource-based sustainability has once again been expanded to include further references to modern management theories. The author shows that overcoming the dilemmas that sustainability creates for companies and all organizations leads to more complex decisions that also require higher levels of awareness. The concept of sustainable leadership is closely related to the resource approach. Finally, readers will learn how to tell a compelling transformation narrative toward sustainability.

How do you do justice to your business idea? It's a question that entrepreneurs are always asking, aware that 70% of new businesses fail. Starting a business is scary, especially for first-timers, but there is a safe, LAUNCH IN 5 way to do it. If you are launching a new business, this book will improve your chance for success in the most economic, efficient, and painless way possible, before you put large amounts of time and money on the line. It provides a comprehensive guide on how to rapidly turn an idea into a money-making machine - whether it is a side gig or a headfirst dive into the world of entrepreneurship. Because most new businesses are conducted online, it will place an emphasis on how to launch and build a business on the internet, and because most new entrepreneurs are operating within a small budget and timeframe, these concepts are inexpensive, fast, low-risk, and proven. Based on the author's insider strategies, LAUNCH IN 5 will guide the reader through each step of getting their idea out into the world, from inception to launch to ensuring long-term growth. It will also offer tools to help the reader determine whether their idea is worth pursuing (most aren't) and, if not, return them safely to the concept-development stage before they waste massive amounts of money and time launching an idea that will never fly. You'll learn that · Most risk is unnecessary. · You can launch your new business in days (or sometimes even hours). · You can apply the same launch strategies you'll learn here for an online business, an offline start-up a global corporation, with a budget of $50 or $500,000. These method work in any industry, for any idea. · You can lower the start-up failure rate from 70% to 9% if you follow the guidance in this book. · Most business ideas can have their potential success (or failure) proved in just a week or so, for less than the cost of the latest iPhone.

•WINNER OF THE STARTUP/SCALEUP BUSINESS BOOK AWARD 2023•An essential guide to equip the next generation of founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to become globally successful entrepreneurs. Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, this fascinating handbook inspires potential founders and provides essential guidance and advice for people who want to create their own start-up and build a successful company. This book answers the question “how do I get started?” It takes the reader from making the decision to plunge into entrepreneurship, through the process of choosing and developing an idea and team, all the way to raising capital and working with VCs and angel investors. Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford are the co-founders of Entrepreneur First (EF). Over the last decade, they have worked with thousands of ambitious individuals across the world, supporting them to become founders. Those individuals have now built companies worth billions of dollars that are taking on some of the world's biggest challenges, including finding hard-to-spot cancers, tackling climate change and building new financial platforms. In How to Be a Founder, the authors share advice, insights and lessons from their decade of experience working with individuals to become successful founders. The book covers what you need to do today to start your journey as a founder and the steps to take to maximise your chances of building a high-growth, scalable company. You'll also hear advice from some of the world's best investors and entrepreneurs who have built some of most iconic technology companies of our time.

The comprehensive guide to starting and growing your dream business. In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Jim Stovall shares the practical wisdom gained from his forty-year career as an award-winning entrepreneur alongside the time-tested strategies compiled by Dr. Kevin Schneider through his experience as the Director of the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship at Oral Roberts University. Few books have offered both pragmatic, real-world examples and proven academic principles, as readers will find in The Art of Entrepreneurship. Transform your natural aptitudes, interests, and resources into a lucrative business as you discover:The key characteristics of an entrepreneur—and whether you possess them.Myths and misconceptions about entrepreneurship—it's not a get-rich-quick scheme, nor is it simply for people who want to work less and not have a boss.How to get started as an entrepreneur—keeping your current job as you turn your side hustle or creative idea into an empire.Why some entrepreneurs succeed when others struggle—it's not about trading time for money; it's about creating a money machine.The values of entrepreneurship—first and foremost, service rendered to other people.The path of entrepreneurship from start to finish—learning when to pull the trigger and when to pull the plug.How to build the dream entrepreneur team that will support you in your journey.Entrepreneurship is both a science and an art. This book teaches both dimensions—the hard skills and the soft skills, the action steps and the mindset—so that you can seize the opportunities for entrepreneurship in your midst and turn your business idea into a successful start-up that adds value to you, your family, your community, and the larger world.

This study aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry (Volume 1: Creating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957) through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods (Volume 2: From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972, forthcoming 2023). It provides hundreds of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further, it offers an otherwise-unobtainable close encounter with another world, familiar in some respects while amazingly peculiar in others. The social history of enterprise and work in postwar Central European nations “building socialism” has longbeen underdeveloped. Through extensive macro-level research on planning and policy in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Bloc countries, a grand narrative has been framed: reconstruction and breakneck industrialization under Soviet tutelage; then eventual mismanagement, stagnation and crisis, leading to collapse. This book seeks to explore what socialism actually looked like to those sustaining (or enduring} it as they faced forward into an unknowable future, to assess how and where it did (or didn't) work, and to recount how ordinary people responded to its opportunities and constraints. This study will appeal to readers interested in understanding how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how novice managers and technicians emerged during rapid industrialization, how peasants learned to farm cooperatively, how organizations improvised and adapted, howpolitical purity and practical expertise contended for control, and how the controversies and convulsions of the postwar decades shaped a deeply flawed project to “build socialism.”

Dieses essential gibt eine kompakte Einführung in das Konzept des Product-Market-Fit und dessen Bedeutung für Start-ups und Investoren. Das Erreichen des Product-Market-Fit gilt als der wichtigste Meilenstein für junge Unternehmen in deren frühen Unternehmens- und Finanzierungsphase. Das Konzept hilft Gründern, ihr Geschäftsmodell zu validieren und zu erkennen, ob ihr Produkt die Bedürfnisse des gewählten Marktes erfüllt.Der Autor stellt verschiedene Ansätze zur Messbarkeit des Product-Market-Fit vor und fasst deren Stärken und Schwächen zusammen. Das Buch gibt hilfreiche Tipps und eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung, wie der Product-Market-Fit systematisch erreicht werden kann; es werden verschiedene Methoden und konkrete Praxisbeispiele vorgestellt.

Launch your new business with confidence and skill using the latest guidance from the UK's most trusted small business guru Starting a business is one of those courageous and audacious decisions that many of us dream about. If you're ready to take the leap and turn your great idea into action, or you already have, you'll need to arm yourself with the best strategies you can find. In Starting a Business For Dummies: UK Edition, business growth expert Colin Barrow, MBA, provides these strategies as he walks you through every critical step in launching your company. From writing your first business plan to surviving and thriving in your first year, and everything in between, you'll learn how to go from concept to revenue, handle the post-Brexit United Kingdom regulatory and tax environment and utilise public grants and incentives to help get you off the ground. You'll also: Understand how the UK business landscape has been impacted by Brexit and COVID-19 and the practical steps you can take to adapt Finance your new venture with grants from the UK government and enjoy brand-new tax incentives aimed at R&D and innovation Find your inspiration with motivating case studies of real-world successes who conquered every challenge the market threw at them You've spent your life building the skills you'll need for this moment. Let Starting a Business For Dummies: UK Edition show you how to apply them for maximum effect as you grow your company from an idea into an unstoppable juggernaut.

While many texts on entrepreneurship and biographies of great entrepreneurs and leaders talk about vision and its importance, few delve into what vision is, how it comes to be, and, how it can be more successfully developed. This book, built on evidence-based research, delves into the entire entrepreneurial visioning process. Starting with understanding the elements which characterize strong and sustainable vision, the authors detail proposed steps, supported by examples and worksheets, that students and entrepreneurs can take to build and implement their vision and, in turn, help put them on the path to build great businesses.

WINNER: Independent Press Award 2022 - Business: Entrepreneurship & Small BusinessWINNER: International Book Awards 2023 - Business: Entrepreneurship & Small BusinessWINNER: American Book Fest Best Book Awards 2023 - Business: Entrepreneurship & Small BusinessEvery start-up founder feels overwhelmed and uncertain at various times. The key to managing the relentless turmoil of a start-up is learning to manage yourself. From Start-Up to Grown-Up gives you, the founder and CEO of a great start-up, the knowledge and experience that executive coach Alisa Cohn has gained from helping companies such as Etsy, Foursquare, InVision and The Wirecutter become headline names. Growth of your company begins with growth within you. The book provides you with effective and practical ways of maximizing your strengths, defusing your triggers, controlling your self-doubt and building on your motivators. With these self-management tools, you can then turn your attention to managing your team by ensuring the flow of communication and finding the joy of delegation and the soul in meetings. Finally, you gain practical tools for managing the company and ensuring overall effectiveness of your team and strategy, using specific scripts you need to have delicate or difficult conversations.Filled with stories drawn from the author's experience, From Start-Up to Grown-Up helps you build a company with a set of core values that everybody lives by and where everyone shares a vision of where the company is going and how to get there.

This textbook approaches innovation and innovators as two elements of an equation with business application. It discusses creativity, methods to develop creativity, design thinking, the lean startup and minimum viable product (MVP), personal development for entrepreneurs, charisma, franchising and cases from the UAE. It is designed to be a practical and up-to-date resource for an innovation and entrepreneurship course. It contains practical information about the innovation frameworks and their applicability, explanation of creativity and creative mindset, methods of innovation, design thinking in practice, lean startup methodology, charisma, setting up a business, go-to-market strategies, growth and change as well as franchise management. It comes with worksheets to help the reader in practicing. The book solves the need of having innovation resources in one place, well explained and exemplified for students, aspirant and existing entrepreneurs as well as innovation enthusiasts.

Das Buch zeigt praxisnah auf, warum Personalführung, Personalmanagement und Organisationsentwicklung in Start-ups anders funktionieren als in etablierten Unternehmen. Wenn Start-ups Mitarbeiter:innen einstellen, werden Personen aus dem Gründungsteam „plötzlich“ zur Führungskraft. Sie sind dann mit zahlreichen Herausforderungen konfrontiert.Wie können sie als attraktiver Arbeitgeber wahrgenommen werden? Wie können Prozesse professioneller werden, ohne dabei die informelle und familiäre Organisationskultur zu verlieren? Wie kann die Motivation und Kreativität von Beschäftigten gesteigert werden?Die Autorin vermittelt anhand von wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen, welche Herausforderungen auf Gründungsteams im Wachstumsprozess ihres Unternehmens zukommen und worauf sie achten sollten, wenn sie zu Führungskräften werden.

In this engaging, insightful, and inspiring narrative, Hermann Simon, the world-renowned management thinker, consultant, pricing expert, entrepreneur, and leading authority on the “hidden champions” business model, highlights the influences on his remarkable journey from humble origins on a German farm to advising and sharing the stage with global leaders in industry, academia, and politics. Born in 1947 in the rural Eifel region of Western Germany, Simon's coming of age parallels that of a country struggling to come to terms with the legacy of World War II and reinvent itself as a new world power. His colorful anecdotes of a youth spent in an agricultural community that in many ways operated as it had since the Middle Ages, reflect the establishment of core values, such as trust, focus, quality, and commitment that served as an anchor against the accelerating pace of technological, economic, political, social, and cultural change in the subsequent decades. Simon takesreaders on a journey through time and space, as his—and our—world transformed from isolated to connected, local to global, revealing lessons learned from the extraordinary people (from Peter Drucker to Henry Kissinger) and places he has encountered along the way, through a career that has evolved from research and education to management consulting to leadership and strategy development on a broad scale. His particular interest in the Mittelstand, or “hidden champions,” the small and medium-sized companies that exemplify the German business philosophy and served as the engine of its economic revival, becomes a powerful metaphor of his own experiences in blazing new trails while staying true to one's roots. For anyone familiar with Simon's work and contributions, Many Worlds, One Life reveals unique insights into the man himself and the origins of his ideas on successful leadership and business strategy. But more generally, readers in any field or discipline will recognize howtheir own stories reflect their ties to the past, their accomplishments in an increasingly complex environment, and, ultimately, their roads to the stars.

'Ellen Bennett is the platonic form of a go-getter who inspires go-getter after go-getter to become a better go-getter.'—Zooey Deschanel, actor and musician You'll never know where to start…until you start. This gutsy guidebook will help anyone who's procrastinating on a goal, career change, or business idea stop the obsessive worrying and leap into action.As a 24-year-old line cook, Ellen Marie Bennett couldn't stand the kitchen staff's poorly designed, cheaply made aprons. So when her head chef announced he was ordering a new batch, she blurted out, “Chef, I have an apron company”—even though she had no company, no business plan—just a glimmer of a design idea and a business license. Through hustle and a willingness to leap into the unknown, time and time again, she built that first order into a multi-million-dollar company called Hedley & Bennett, making aprons and kitchen gear worn by many of the world's best chefs and home cooks everywhere. Dream First, Details Later shares Ellen's journey and her forged-in-the-fire personal playbook for starting before you stop yourself. If you've ever imagined doing something and immediately thought,'that's impossible,'or'I wouldn't even know where to start,'or'I'm not qualified to do that,'in these pages, you'll learn how to shove aside your inner worrier and launch into action. This honest and bold illustrated book will be like having Ellen—your personal hype woman—there with you, all the while yelling,'Don't stop! You got this!'She'll share hard-won advice on: • Squashing doubts and reservations about venturing outside your comfort zone. (These doubts masquerade as rational, but they're more likely coming from a place of fear.) • Saying screw it to the perfect plan and using creative problem-solving—and heart and guts—to conquer the shit storms as they come. • Eventually transitioning from the'flying by the seat of your pants'stage to the'well-oiled machine'stage. You don't need to have all the answers to make your dream a reality. You just need to start before you're ready.

Im Jahr 2021 basierten sieben der zehn wertvollsten Unternehmen weltweit (Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, Tencent und Alibaba) auf einem digitalen Geschäftsmodell. Etwa 15 Jahre zuvor war es nur eins (Microsoft). Auch in einzelnen Industrien zeigt sich, dass primär digital getriebene Unternehmen stetig Marktanteile gewinnen. Für die Strategielehre hat dies eine besondere Relevanz: Digitale Top-Player verfolgen „andere“ strategische Ansätze als „klassische“ Unternehmen. Dieses essential zeigt auf, welche neuen strategischen Tools digitale Top-Player nutzen, wie sich diese von der klassischen Vorgehensweise unterscheiden und was traditionelle Unternehmen davon lernen können. Dies geschieht anhand eines klaren Vorgehensmodells und vielen Praxisbeispielen.

Der Entscheidungsprozess in Unternehmen folgt simplen Regeln, stellt für viele Unternehmer und leitende Angestellte aber oft eine große Herausforderung dar. Entscheidungen werden aufgeschoben oder gar nicht erst getroffen, weil die Entscheider wegen möglicher Konsequenzen zögern, um ihr Unternehmen oder ihren Arbeitsplatz fürchten oder Angst vor einer eindeutigen Ja/Nein-Entscheidung haben. Dieses Buch beleuchtet unternehmerische Entscheidungen unter zahlreichen Aspekten und mit vielen Praxisbeispielen. Zugleich geht es auf den psychologischen Hintergrund ein und gibt Tipps, wie unternehmerisch tätige Menschen Entscheidungen fundiert und positiv treffen können.

Founders and Organizational Development: The Etiology and Theory of Founder's Syndrome is designed to help today's researchers, faculty, students and practitioners become familiar with the etiology and dynamics of Founder's Syndrome as an organizational condition challenging nonprofit/nongovernmental, social enterprise, and for-profit and publicly traded organizations. The book uses applied social and psychological theories and concepts to peel away the layers of an organizational enigma, revealing three causes of Founder's Syndrome and insight into the power and privileges assumed by founders who engage in undesirable and self-destructive behaviors leading to their termination; going from hero status to antihero. Researchers, instructors, students, and practitioners will find thought-provoking case studies from the real world of organization development practice. Segments from interviews during interventions reveal the type of emotional turmoil experienced in organizations where founder's syndrome is present. Insight is provided into accounts of well-known founders who were terminated or forced to resign. The unique features of this book include: integrating theory into practice, describing a new theory about the psychological reaction of founder's syndrome victims, prevention ideas when designing new organizations, strategies for intervention, using content based on research and organization development consultation experiences, and, integrating feedback from students who have launched organizations.

Entrepreneurs who start out with no network, no money, no market and scarce resources find a big contrast between what they read in books and the success stories from the Valley and their reality, specially first-timers. Most entrepreneurial books focus on the Business Canvas Model, simplifying the process of building a start-up. Many entrepreneurs who have no previous business experience embrace quick and lean methods without the foundations needed to build solid value proposals. This book stands out because it deals with entrepreneurship in environments far removed from large cities with fewer infrastructures, connections and resources but which also need companies that provide services to citizens and society. This book focuses on the basics, treating each part of the business canvas as a discipline itself that must be mastered. The book illustrates key lessons learned and offers guidance on essential topics for new venture success in mainstream markets. It expands critical lessons learned and points of guidance across several key topics for new venture creation. Noteworthy is the role of context, financial understanding, building business development skills and start-up communications.Entrepreneurship for Rural Start-ups will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in the field of entrepreneurship, and will be of use to individuals looking to start a local business to take advantage of the rural environment and the possibilities it offers.

The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created. It goes deep on a handful of them, narrowly divulging exactly how a few software developers and startup founders created breakthrough tech products like Gmail, Dropbox, Ring, Snapchat, Bitcoin, Groupon, and more. It highlights and unpacks the general hero-worship that the media and our own minds practice about tech founders and tech entrepreneurs. This idealization of tech success can create a paradox, preventing average tech professionals from their own successful journeys. This book provides hard evidence that anyone in tech can create, and anyone on the peripheral of tech can break through to the center where innovation, creativity, and opportunity meet. The anecdotes, stories, evidence, facts, arguments, logic, principles, and techniques provided in this book have helped individuals and businesses engage in slow creation cycles, improve the morale of their development teams, and increased their delivery potential of their technology solutions overall. Average Joe covers: Genius - The systematic deconstruction and debunking of the commonly held assumptions in the tech industry around supreme intelligence, and how that intelligence has been worshipped and sought after, despite the facts. Slow Creation - How to force-manufacture creative ideation. How conscious and subconscious cycles of patterns, details, and secrets can lead to breakthrough innovations, and how those P.D.S. cycles, and systematic mental grappling, can be conjured and repeated on a regular basis. Little-C Creativity - The conscious and miniature moments of epiphany that leak into our active P.D.S. cycles of Slow Creation. Flow - Why it's great, but also - why it's completely unreliable and unnecessary. How to perpetually innovate without relying on a flow state. Team Installation - How teams and companies can engage their employees in Slow Creation to unlock dormant ideas, stir up creative endeavors, and jumpstart fragile ideas into working products. User Manipulation - How tech products are super-charged with tricks, secret techniques, and neural transmitters like Dopamine, Oxytocin, and Cortisol; how those products leverage cognitive mechanisms and psychological techniques to force user adoption and user behaviors. Contrarianism - How oppositional and backward-thinking leaders create brand-new categories and the products which dominate those categories. Showmanship - How tech players have presented their ideas to the world, conjured up magic, manufactured mystique, and presented compelling stories that have captured their audiences. Sustainable Mystique Triad – A simple model for capturing audiences consistently without relying on hype and hustle.

Capturing the ecommerce edge in customer growth and retention has been a decades-long battle between eRetail startups and large traditional retailers. The two face different sets of challenges and those challenges are constantly evolving in our digital world. Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups expands on this current industry shift in one of the most accessible, intriguing business books in recent times.Each chapter covers a different industry, as diverse and eclectic as consumer electronics, newspapers, groceries, logistics, and more. By looking at how traditional retailers are facing off against internet startups, you can gauge the landscape and form your own strategies. Author Peter S. Cohan expertly guides you from one case study to the next and makes topics enthralling even for the non-industry layperson. Goliath Strikes Back helps executives create an effective strategy in the modern ecommerce realm. Business professionals and outside enthusiasts alike are in for fascinating insights from Cohan about the mindsets and strategies of successful companies and their leaders. Changing strategies on a dime has always been essential in commerce, and never more so than in ecommerce's industry overhaul. Don't get left behind.What You Will LearnWhat to emulate and what to avoid by studying the mindsets and strategies of the successful and unsuccessful companiesHow companies can identify, attract, hire and motivate executives who embody the strategic mindset needed to remain successful An insight into six key industries, including consumer electronics and grocery, to understand why companies are failing or succeeding Who This Book Is ForExecutives, business professionals, business students, andcurious laypeople

More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process outlined in the book, and it's taught at Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and more than 100 other leading universities worldwide. Why?The Startup Owner's Manual guides you, step-by-step, as you put the Customer Development process to work. This method was created by renowned Silicon Valley startup expert Steve Blank, co-creator with Eric Ries of the'Lean Startup'movement and tested and refined by him for more than a decade. This 608-page how-to guide includes over 100 charts, graphs, and diagrams, plus 77 valuable checklists that guide you as you drive your company toward profitability. It will help you:• Avoid the 9 deadly sins that destroy startups'chances for success• Use the Customer Development method to bring your business idea to life• Incorporate the Business Model Canvas as the organizing principle for startup hypotheses• Identify your customers and determine how to'get, keep and grow'customers profitably• Compute how you'll drive your startup to repeatable, scalable profits. The Startup Owner�s Manual was originally published by K&S Ranch Publishing Inc. and is now available from Wiley. The cover, design, and content are the same as the prior release and should not be considered a new or updated product.

You have a home-run startup idea and a whip-smart team to execute it. Everything should be in place to kick-start your company and secure funding. However, there is one more step that can make or break the entire deal: the pitch. Founders everywhere struggle to nail the perfect pitch to garner VC backing, and this book is here to help.Pitch Perfect by Haje Jan Kamps expertly teaches you how to tell your startup's story. To raise venture capital, it is absolutely crucial that your foundation is a story that is accessible, compelling, and succinct. Kamps uses his invaluable experiential knowledge to guide you through your presentation, from slide deck specifics to storytelling details to determining a fundamental philosophy for your business. In the process of creating and formulating a pitch deck and the story to go with it, founders often discover deep flaws in their business idea. Perhaps the market is non-existent. It could be that the “problem” isn't worthsolving. Maybe the idea is so simple that it would be too easy to copy. Maybe it's already been done, or the team simply is not up to the job. Pitch Perfect has all of those bases covered so that you can excel.How do you convince an institutional investor to part with their money and fund your company? The small block of time you are given for a pitch holds your startup's future in its grasp. Learn how to craft your startup story in a way that will get people to lean into your message with Pitch Perfect. Your dream is only one pitch away.

Führungskräfte deutscher Unternehmen sehen sich gegenwärtig zwei branchenübergreifenden Anforderungen gegenüber: Innovationen und Digitalisierung. Handelt es sich bei Innovationen um ein wissenschaftlich gut durchdrungenes Thema, zeichnen sich die neuen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung erst in Umrissen ab. Einig ist man sich darin, dass die Digitalisierung nicht nur einen bestimmten Unternehmensteil betrifft, sondern das ganze Unternehmen übergreift. So eröffnet sie nicht nur neue Möglichkeiten für einzelne Teilfunktionen, sondern auch Verbesserungen bei funktionsübergreifenden Aufgaben. Wie diese genutzt werden können, zeigen die Autoren und Autorinnen dieses Sammelbandes. Sie präsentieren neue Denkansätze und konkrete Entscheidungshilfen für Unternehmen, die in einer digitalen Wirtschaft innovativ bleiben wollen.

Der Einstieg in die Geschäftsführung bringt viele spannende Aufgaben mit sich – und ebenso viele Herausforderungen. Auf was kommt es an, wenn Sie als neuer Chef für den Erfolg verantwortlich sind? Wichtig für die neue Perspektive: Als Geschäftsführer müssen Sie das ganze Unternehmen betrachten.Was Sie für den Rollenwechsel und Ihre neue Position brauchen, hat der Autor hier übersichtlich zusammengetragen – dieses Praxiswerk begleitet Sie von der Bewerbung über die wichtigen ersten 100 Tage im neuen Amt bis zum Geschäftsführungs-Profi. Die zweite Auflage wurde überarbeitet und aktualisiert.

Die digitale Transformation stellt Unternehmen und Branchen kontinuierlich vor neue Herausforderungen. Trotz wirtschaftlichen Erfolgs sind bis dato erfolgreiche Geschäftsmodelle einem zunehmenden Anpassungsdruck ausgesetzt. Technologische Entwicklungen (KI, Robotik, IoT etc.) ermöglichen tief greifende Veränderungen von Unternehmensstrukturen und Herstellungsprozessen. Zudem wirken Trends im sozialen Miteinander (neue Medien und soziale Netzwerke etc.) sowohl auf die Entwicklung von Kundenbedürfnissen und Vertriebswegen als auch auf die Organisationsformen des Arbeitslebens. Ziel dieses Buches ist es aufzuzeigen, wie Unternehmen digitale und gesellschaftliche Trends sowie Megatrends nutzen können, um Geschäftsmodelle zukunftsfähig zu machen. Auf Basis eines ganzheitlichen Geschäftsmodellansatzes entwickeln die Herausgeber einen Analyse- und Handlungsrahmen, der branchenübergreifend angewendet wird.Über 20 Autorinnen und Autoren mit Expertise in den Branchen Einzelhandel, Bildung, Gesundheit, Telekommunikation, Steuern, Luft- und Raumfahrt, Finanzen, Wirtschaftspolitik, Logistik und Kommunikation nehmen in Einzelbeiträgen Stellung zu den drei Leitfragen: −Was sind die relevanten Trends für die Branche? −Wie beeinflussen die Trends die Geschäftsmodelle der Branche? −Was sind die Erfolgsfaktoren, um die Geschäftsmodelle zukunftsfähig zu machen? Basierend auf den Expertenbeiträgen und einer Verallgemeinerung der Erfolgsfaktoren erfolgen Handlungsempfehlungen für die Zukunft. Abschließend wird eine Roadmap zur erfolgreichen Unternehmenstransformation für Branchen, Unternehmen und Veränderer dargestellt.

The growing pains of a startup's initial year in business require a keen awareness of uncertainties and a willingness to adapt in order to survive. Today's new founders greatly benefit from taking a behind-the-scenes look at successful companies such as Etsy, HotelTonight, Fiverr, and more in regards to how they overcame the challenges of their first year. Startups in Action is your curated source for critical insights and inspiration from those who have been there before.This book documents the month-to-month journeys of these companies in their first year, zeroing in on key decisions that helped them recover from missteps, and adapt to complications, to eventually grow and succeed. Were the founders full-time from the beginning? How long did it take them to build a working prototype? How many end-users did they have in the first year? The answers to these questions are of interest to those who are just starting out and want to learn by example. Collected from interviews with the founders themselves, author JP Silva answers these questions and reveals how each of the startups charted their paths to success. Startups in Action is equal parts inspirational and practical, providing guidance through a foundation of relatability to help cope with situations and surprises experienced during a startup's first year. Startup discourse is rife with myths and oversimplification. Cut through the noise and learn the events, actions, and counteractions only attainable from the founders themselves. As more and more aspiring entrepreneurs are about to start their journeys, the value of knowledge about difficult choices and obstacles that companies face in their first year is critical. With Startups in Action, you will benefit from the invaluable knowledge of experience and be prepared to face the challenges of building a successful startup. What You Will Learn Acquire critical insights from the most successful startups, easily available and collated in one bookCompare and contrast the first year journey of your startup with that of giants such as Etsy, StubHub, Fiverr, and moreLearn how to build better startups by understanding what you should or should not do Who This Book Is ForThis book is for new and aspiring founders, and those curious to learn about the journeys of successful startups.

Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Unternehmen in Transformationsprozessen mithilfe eines Background-Personality-Managements interne Widerstände überwinden und die Veränderungsbereitschaft steigern können. Die Background Personality ist die Persönlichkeitsstruktur, die Organisationen oder Unternehmen mit ihren individuellen Merkmalen prägt, sich verfestigt und damit zu einem Motivations- oder Demotivationsfaktor werden kann. Aber: Durch eine professionelle und agile Herangehensweise kann man sie aktiv gestalten und verändern.In dieser praktischen Anleitung erfahren Sie, wie Sie die Background Personality als Erfolgstreiber in der digitalen Transformation nutzen können und wie Sie Ihre Organisation durch gezieltes, fachgebietsübergreifendes Querdenken für den digitalen Wandel sensibilisieren und ihn umsetzen. Dabei werden die Grundlagen für die Steuerung und Bearbeitung der Background Personality vermittelt, die Herausforderungen an Projektbeispielen beschrieben und konkrete Tipps für die Praxis gegeben. Ein hilfreicher Leitfaden für Führungskräfte in Unternehmen, NGOs und politische Organisationen.

This book shows how strategic management can be practiced in the context of flexibility. It discusses strategic formulation and implementation perspectives and practices, including vision and mission, general environment analysis, industry analysis, competitive advantage, resource and capability view, generic strategies, business level strategy, corporate level strategy, international strategy, change and turnaround, strategic implementation, and strategic controls, as well as flexibility embedded in these concepts. It can be used as a primary textbook for managerial programs for executives, and as a supplementary case textbook for core MBA courses. Exploring “Strategic Formulation” and “Strategic Implementation” concepts from a flexibility perspective, it is also an excellent companion to leading strategic management textbooks.

Over the past 25 years, the field of innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization has reached a critical mass and maturity. It is not only possible but also essential to scale it so that an immense amount of untapped human innovative potential can be unleashed for the benefit of our people. Further, R&D centers and existing entrepreneurial ecosystems can be made more impactful. Firstly, this book succinctly identifies the entire field of innovation into one comprehensive and meaningful framework to help understand its evolution, incremental growth, super acceleration, and exponential explosion that has resulted in an innovation log jam. Secondly, it maps out common characteristics and approaches that make innovation, venture capital and investments into startups succeed much better. And, last, but not the least, it outlines measures to commercialize them in a massive way and'industrialize'innovation going forward including creating next generation'Innovation Hubs'.

Increasingly transforming entire industries, the boundary spanning concept of disruptive innovation requires business models to change. This book adopts insights from the (activity) system theory and takes a design science approach for the development of an appropriate, comprehensive and structured business model artifact. Based on pattern analysis, the main contribution of this thesis is of design nature, transforming justificatory knowledge into a manageable instrument that supports the process of designing novel business models for disruption. Besides that, a theoretical contribution is made by bridging the knowledge gap of the interrelated disruptive innovation and business model concept.

This book provides an overview of the theory, practice and context of entrepreneurship and innovation at both the industry and firm level. It provides a foundation of ideas and understandings designed to shape the reader's thinking and behaviour to better appreciate the role of innovation and entrepreneurship in modern economies, and to recognise their own abilities in this regard. The book is aimed at students studying advanced levels of entrepreneurship, innovation and related fields as well as practitioners (for example, managers, business owners).As entrepreneurship and innovation are largely indivisible elements and cannot be adequately understood if studied separately, the book provides the reader with an overview of these elements and how they combine to create new value in the market. This edition is updated with recent international research, including research and examples from Europe, the US, and the Asia-Pacific region.

Die Autoren beschreiben mögliche Typen und Modelle von Spin-offs, einen idealtypischen Spin-off-Prozess mit Phasen und Meilensteinen, eine Zusammenstellung von Herausforderungen und Hindernissen sowie zwei Fallstudien, um den Spin-off-Prozess anhand konkreter Beispiele erlebbar zu machen. Die Handreichung gibt einen ersten Überblick über den Einsatz von Spin-offs als Organisations- sowie Strukturkonzept zur Geschäftsmodellinnovation sowie zur Gestaltung der Spin-off-Gründung. Das essential enthält neben den beiden Fallstudien zusammenfassende Checklisten am Ende der Kapitel.​Die Autoren:Prof. Dr. Uwe Eisenbeis ist Wirtschaftswissenschaftler und hat die Professur für Medienmanagement und Ökonomie an Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart inne. Seine Co-Autorinnen und -Autoren sind Absolventinnen und Absolventen des Studiengangs Medienwirtschaft an der Hochschule der Medien.

This book addresses the fundamental development status and provides the systematic analysis of Zhongguancun Listed Companies, from different perspectives of financial statistics, comparisons among different regions and company structures. Zhongguancun, the origin and the representative of Chinese modern innovation, has collected over 300 Listed Companies so far. The book also offers an illustration that how Zhongguancun Listed Companies developed in 2017, including the market performance, the profitability, the debt paying capacity, the conditions of operating, innovation, investing and dominant industries, with the proposal of the existing difficulties and developing suggestions in depth. The book aims at objectively presenting the competitiveness characteristics and development status of Zhongguancun Listed Companies. Whether you're a global investor, an economic researcher, or ordinary people, this book will be an important way to understand China's scientific and technological innovation achievements and Zhongguancun outstanding enterprises.

“Jam-packed with powerful advice, insights, and recommendations on how to market smarter, sell more, and capture the minds of the people who matter most” (David Newman, author of the #1 bestseller, Do It! Marketing). Trailblazers reveals how leaders develop and move markets when others say it's impossible. Readers discover what twelve very different, yet highly successful, leaders did to achieve massive global success despite encountering countless setbacks, adversity, and critics during their journeys. Based on in-depth, recorded interviews, their stories are not only inspiring, but also reveal how they pushed onward when it seemed like quitting was the only option. Leaders will learn from the valuable wisdom and tips shared in this book—including the seven key characteristics all super successful and innovative leaders possess—and use them to immediately blaze their own successful trail in both business and life. “A powerfully effective, clear-cut guide to addressing and overcoming the adversity and setbacks which are a part of every business professional's journey to success.” —Ivan Misner, PhD, New York Times–bestselling author