Transitioning from an Entrepreneurship to a Professionally Managed Firm Drawing on the real-life experiences of firms such as Amazon and Starbucks, this book helps entrepreneurs make a transition from start-up to successful organisation without compromising the unique spirit that gave rise to the company's inception. It explores the seven predictable stages of organisational growth and identifies what must be accomplished in each stage to lay the groundwork for sustained successful development. It also draws on the real-life experiences of firms in a range of industries, and helps entrepreneurs make a smooth transition from start-up to successful organisation without being encumbered by bureaucracy and compromising the unique spirit that gave rise to the company Forlag: Wiley-Jossey-Bass Udgivelsesår: 2000 Sider: 388 Sprog: Engelsk
How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies. Most established companies face a key survival challenge, says David Kidder, CEO of Bionic, lifelong entrepreneur, and angel investor in more than thirty startups: operational efficiency and outdated bureaucracy are at war with new growth. Legacy companies are skilled at growing big businesses into even bigger ones. But they are less adept at discovering new opportunities and turning them into big businesses, the way entrepreneurs and early-stage investors must. In New to Big, Kidder and Wallace reveal their proprietary blueprint for installing a permanent growth capability inside any company--the Growth Operating System. The Growth OS
The challenges confronting sales executives have never been so varied and intense. Sales Growth: Insights from leading sales executives examines some of the most important issues affecting today’s sales leaders. Based on the experiences of more than 100 of the most successful sales executives from around the world, McKinsey & Company’s sales experts have created a clear and coherent blueprint for sales growth today. Using dozens of real-life examples, the authors illustrate how these sales executives met the challenges that large global companies encounter in their quest for growth. From generating new leads to selling the way customers want to developing sales talent and capabilities, this book provides ideas that all sales leaders can use. Type: Hardcover
This book offers an in-depth examination of where business growth comes from and how companies can create and sustain it. "The Granularity of Growth" shows companies how to achieve sustainable growth. Powerful new insights laid out in a simple yet resilient framework make this book a must-read for any manager, executive, or entrepreneur involved in a company's growth and survival. "The Granularity of Growth" provides a rigorous analytical foundation for understanding the correct approach and architecture for managing growth today across geographies and industries.Ultimately, "The Granularity of Growth" reveals why growth is so important for large companies, what enables certain companies to grow so spectacularly as they take both a broad and a granular view of their markets, and how this ensures that their growth comes from multiple sources in the many micro-markets in which they compete
Expanding upon a landmark article in "Foreign Affairs", this work explains why the story of America is a story of entrepreneurship, and what readers must understand about the rules of innovation driving the economy. It shows how entrepreneurship is embedded in the national DNA, and what every American must know about the rules. Expanding upon a landmark article in "Foreign Affairs", Carl Schramm explains why the story of America is a story of entrepreneurship, and what readers must understand about the new rules of innovation driving the economy. In the July/August 2004 issue of "Foreign Affairs", Kauffman Foundation president Carl Schramm published an essay which provoked a great deal of interest and debate. The premise was radical. It said that Americans literally do not understand the secret of their own economic success in recent times. Nobody on earth can match Americans' entreprene
Bogen præsenterer 13 konkrete danske vækstvirksomheder som cases og undersøger, hvad der kendetegner de mest succesrige og seje virksomheder. Gennem analyser og interviewbaserede beskrivelser viser Hugo Gården, hvordan virksomheder kan skabe vedvarende vækst, omstille sig til skiftende markedsvilkår og klare sig i hård, international konkurrence. Der lægges vægt på ledelse, kultur, satsning på medarbejdere og en stærk entreprenant "vi kan selv"-mentalitet. Bogen henvender sig til beslutningstagere, iværksættere, studerende og andre med interesse for vækststrategi, innovation, konkurrenceevne og erhvervsudvikling i Danmark og globalt. Type: Hardcover Dansk fagbog af Hugo Gården udgivet på Børsen om danske vækstvirksomheder. Bogen indeholder 13 virksomhedscases med analyser, der viser, hvordan udvalgte virksomheder skaber høj vækst år efter år, hvordan nogle formår at vende nedgang til ny
Guide i iværksætteri, der bygger på de to forfatteres mangeårige erfaringer som iværksættere Titel: Iværksætter : hvad vi lærte af at starte 30 virksomheder Forfattere: Mads Faurholt,Lars Tvede Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: erhverv_oekonomi_ledelse Sammendrag: Bogen er en praktisk iværksætterguide baseret på Mads Faurholt og Lars Tvedes erfaringer med at starte ca. 30 virksomheder. Forfatterne beskriver hele rejsen fra idéfase til etableret virksomhed og profit. De gennemgår, hvordan man håndterer presset i en startup, prioriterer tid og ressourcer, laver effektiv markedsføring med begrænset budget, vinder afgørende kundeordrer og opbygger et stærkt founding team og medarbejderstab. Derudover forklarer de, hvordan man rejser kapital fra investorer, udvikler og tester nye produkter, skalerer salget og håndterer vækst. Bogen kombinerer konkrete eksempler, værktøjer og tjeklister med refleksione
