Smart Things to Know About (Stay Smart!) Series – serie

Smart Things to Know about Growth is a sharp look at the latest thinking on making the most of the opportunities and avoiding the pitfalls associated with rapid growth.Grundy provides a comprehensive grounding in the principles that underlie sustainable growth, including setting growth objectives, learning how to adapt to changing circumstances, recognizing when growth is not a good idea and keeping your people with you.

Smart Things to Know About Mergers and Acquisitions is a concise, step by step account of how to conduct all the most important phases of M&A: including the strategic analysis, search process, deal-making, due diligence, integration and post-acquisition review. Illustrated with many checklists, practical pointers and real acquisition case mterial, Tony Grundy shows you all the Smart Things to Know About Mergers and Acquisitions.

Tactics for getting on the inside track to the very top - from communicating with your boss to making a splash on your first day.

From invisible leadership to project portfolios - cutting edge techniques and tips from the frontiers of project management.

Smart Things to Know About E-Business is the latest volume in a revolutionary series that offers a completely new learning experience for hassled business people. This book delivers an insightful introduction to the fundamentals of e-business as well as actual experiences and practical cutting edge tips from today's hottest gurus. Readers will benefit enormously from such clever features as "Smart Things to Say"; "Great answers to tough questions"; "Killer questions"; "Smart Voices" and "Smart people to have on your side". The business world is buzzing with breakthrough ideas about everything from e-commerce and branding to strategy, change and customers. Smart brings these ideas together to equip the next generation of e-business hotshots with the secrets of success.Michael J. Cunningham is the President and CEO of the Harvard Computing Group in Boston, Massachusetts.

Smart Things to Know About Six Sigma lets managers and executives bridge the gap between the theory and the practical application of Six Sigma. With its track record as an effective way to cut down production defects and costs, Six Sigma has become hugely popular since Jack Welch used it to famous effect during his time at General Electric. This book offers an integrated approach to Six Sigma that combines best practice examples with a practical mechanism for implementation. It is also unique in showing how companies can close the performance gap between what they can do and what they actually achieve. The book also examines the top twenty Six Sigma Analyses and explains their use.

Smart Things to Know About Consultancy provides the complete guide for those aspiring to set themselves up in consultancy. It covers the basics of starting out on your own, deciding service range, branding and fee policy, through to bringing in the business, writing persuasive proposals and styles of working.

We all know that the future is uncertain, but rather than make any attempt to actively manage our futures in a consistent way, we tend to make broadbrush assumptions based on common-sense and intuition alone. Successfully managing risk is a primary ingredient for success in a fast-paced environment where we are bombarded by the need to make critical decisions, often with little or no solid facts available and little insight into the likely outcomes.Smart Things to Know About Risk Management, in a step-by-step approach, shows the reader what is risk management and why it matters, the categories of risk, how to achieve the right balance of risk, knowing your risk appetite, how to actively manage your risks and develop a risk culture and techniques, tools and models for managing risk. Case studies are also included.* Perfect for the SMART treatment - this book starts from basics, assumes no prior knowledge and gives a step-by-step approach.* Step-by-step approach. Covers the background to risk and risk management as well as practical application and techniques, tools and models for managing risk.* Written by a highly experienced practitioner with a formidable working knowledge in this area.

Everyone knows that strategy is the cornerstone of any business. But very few people know how to make it work for them. What do smart people know about strategy that the rest of us don't? And how can we learn from the best and apply the lessons for ourselves? Smart Strategy gives you everything you need to devise a great strategy and keep it on track. Watch your sales grow and your company take off!Smart books are essential primers to the key issues facing business people. They are practical and action-oriented, providing instant knowledge for ambitious and hungry professionals who want to make a lasting impression throughout their career. Smart books are designed to give killer approaches to key business subjects, and deliver sound principles in a style that is both informative and has attitude. They are the prefect resource for time-starved, information-hungry business people everywhere!

Smart Leadership provides a completely up to date overview of the current thinking on leadership. It outlines the latest theories and principles you need to apply to be a successful leader and includes tips and wisdom from the greatest business thinkers and writers.Smart books are essential primers to the key issues facing business people. They are practical and action-oriented, providing instant knowledge for ambitious and hungry professionals who want to make a lasting impression throughout their career. Smart books are designed to give killer approaches to key business subjects, and deliver sound principles in a style that is both informative and has attitude. They are the prefect resource for time-starved, information-hungry business people everywhere!