"Unleashing the Power of Benefits Realisation Management: Maximising Returns on Projects and Change Initiatives" is your comprehensive guide to unlocking the full potential of your organisational initiatives. In this book, you'll embark on a transformative journey into the world of benefits realisation management (BRM) and gain invaluable insights into the powerful tools and techniques that drive its success. In today's dynamic and competitive business landscape, the ability to effectively navigate the complexities of project and initiative implementation is crucial. This book equips you with the knowledge, strategies, and practical insights needed to maximise the value of your organisational initiatives and realise their promised benefits. With a solid foundation in understanding benefits realisation management, you'll dive deep into the core tools and techniques that underpin BRM. From stakeholder analysis and management to risk management and change management, each topic is explored in detail, providing you with a wealth of practical knowledge and guidance. Discover how to foster meaningful relationships with key stakeholders and engage them effectively to ensure their support and alignment with project objectives. Learn how to identify, assess, and mitigate risks that may impede benefits realisation, safeguarding the success of your initiatives. Master the art of change management, leading and managing organisational change to optimise benefits realisation and ensure smooth transitions. Harness the power of monitoring and evaluation tools, enabling you to gain valuable insights into project progress and make data-driven decisions for course corrections and adjustments. Dive into the realm of project management software and learn how these tools can streamline and elevate your BRM processes, enhancing efficiency and effectiveness. Recognising the critical role of governance, this book sheds light on establishing robust governance structures and processes to guide and oversee benefits realisation efforts. You'll also explore the human factor in BRM, understanding the influence of individuals and teams in driving successful benefits realisation, and uncovering the core competencies required for BRM success. This book doesn't stop there. It delves into essential topics such as business process modelling, data analysis tools, benefits dependency mapping, benefits profiling, and the development of key performance indicators (KPIs). Furthermore, it addresses the challenges of benefits sustainment, training you to maintain and optimise benefits over the long term. Ethics and compliance find their rightful place in this comprehensive guide, emphasising the significance of ethical practices and compliance in fostering trust and integrity in benefits realisation efforts. Finally, gain valuable insights into emerging trends and developments that will shape the future of benefits realisation management. Whether you're a seasoned benefits manager, a project professional, or new to the world of BRM, "Unleashing the Power of Benefits Realisation Management" provides you with a comprehensive toolkit to drive successful benefits realisation and deliver tangible value to your organisation. By embracing the tools and techniques discussed in this book, you'll position yourself as a catalyst for transformative change and drive exceptional outcomes. Embrace the power of benefits realisation management and embark on a journey towards maximising the value of your organisational initiatives. Get your copy of "Unleashing the Power of Benefits Realisation Management: Maximising Returns on Projects and Change Initiatives" today and unlock the full potential of your benefits realisation efforts.

Today, managers and leaders of organizations, in both the private sector and civil society, are being challenged as never before to find ways to play a proactive role in addressing the concerns of sustainable development. But they are often overwhelmed by a bombardment of conflicting messages from the media, shareholders, customers, employees, and NGOs. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook helps managers deal with this confusion. It teaches them how to strike a better balance, moving from an "either/or" mind-set to one that holistically embraces social, environmental and economic issues simultaneously. It addresses the "what" ("what is a sustainable strategy for a company or organization?") as well as the "how" ("how do we go about building a sustainable enterprise?"). The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook has been put together by an outstanding network of experts from business (Microsoft, Sony, Philips, and AIG), consultancies, and academia. Its aim is to teach and guide leaders, managers, practitioners, students, and professors in every sector of society, and in every industry, in creating a successful and sustainable enterprise. By making the steps needed clear, understandable, and simple to follow, the book naturally engages readers in their journey and encourages their participation in three key ways: by increasing their understanding and awareness of what sustainability means at a conceptual and practical, as well as a personal, level; by energizing and expanding people's commitment to building sustainable enterprises; and by providing readers with extensive tools and techniques so they can individually and collectively take actions that will improve the social, environmental, and economic performance of their organizations in both the short and long term. Each chapter of the book illustrates through models, tools, cases, stories, and examples from a wide range of companies how to integrate sustainability into the day-to-day realities of running a business. Managers are coached, facilitated, and guided to enable them to create a better balance between the short and long term, to help them to become change agents in their organizations and to provide answers to the question "How do I make a difference?" Some of the areas covered are leadership, strategy, managing change, employee engagement, metrics and measurement, networks, and globalization. Readers of The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook will find access to the innovative Living Fieldbook, which is an online community support service providing ongoing updated assistance in building a sustainable enterprise. The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook offers an ingredient that has been missing in the enormous outpouring of information on organizations and sustainability: an holistic integration of solutions, which will make the journey personal for each reader.

Knowledge: In the realm of knowledge management, information plus wisdom equals knowledge. Organizations have found that the knowledge they contain can be one of their most important competitive weapons Definition: Knowledge management: The ability of an organization to manage, store, value, and distribute knowledge. Some organizations have created the position of Chief Knowledge Manager (CKM) to handle knowledge management responsibilities Many organizations fail to effectively manage and use the most important competitive edge they possess - their knowledge and "intellectual capital." This book covers the entire growing field of knowledge management, with particular emphasis on knowledge-based systems and their use in preserving knowledge in an organization, and integrating it across departments and disciplines. This hands-on guide shows how businesses and other organizations can re-engineer their processes using an applied knowledge-based approach. Each chapter introduces a different aspect of the field and demonstrates its application in actual case studies. Examples from industry, education, and government show the wide application of this exciting new field of study. The book also covers promising trends such as learning organizations, intelligent organizations, and enterprise management.

This best selling management book is a true classic. If you want to be a model manager, keep this new, even better 3rd edition close at hand. Key Management Models has the winning combination of brevity and clarity, giving you short, practical overviews of the top classic and cutting edge management models in an easy-to-use, ready reference format. Whether you want to remind yourself about models you’ve already come across, or want to find new ones, you’ll find yourself referring back to it again and again. It's the essential guide to all the management models you’ll ever need to know about. Includes the classic and essential management models from the previous editions. Thoroughly updated to include cutting edge new models. Two-colour illustrations and case studies throughout. The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

Innovation is the major driving force in organisations today. With the rise of truly global markets and the intensifying competition for customers, employees and other critical resources, the ability to continuously develop successful innovative products, services, processes and strategies is essential. While creativity is the starting point for any kind of innovation, design is the process through which a creative idea or concept is translated into reality. Managing Innovation, Design and Creativity, 2nd Edition brings these three strands together in a discussion built around a collection of up-to-date case studies.

Buyers are challenged with the 'what-to-invest-in' decision and expect sellers to help (a) quantify the value of their solutions in a transparent way and (b) measure value realized post solution implementation. Sellers seek a credible way to respond, while differentiating their solutions from competitive alternatives. To bridge this buyer-seller 'expectations gap, ' author John Porter makes the point that all buyer-seller interactions need to be based on business value. There has been an overall evolution in the concept of business value over the last years. Originally, when it was relatively straightforward to map a product capability to a specific problem, this evolution began with technical Product / Feature Selling and little or no business value discussion. As problems became more complex, buyers and sellers relied on Solution Selling to scope requirements and design more sophisticated solutions. As competition stiffened, a Generic Value Selling model appeared -- where sellers provided buyers with generic examples of the value achieved by other organizations. But these generalized value propositions were not specifically relevant to each organization; they did not always account for industry, geography, size, or use case variations. This led to Specific Value Selling methodologies that enabled value to be quantified and customized for each opportunity. Agile Customer Value Management completes this evolution. Specifically, CVM brings organizations to the level of Differentiated Value Selling -- where value is quantified for a specific project including differentiation from other alternative uses of budget such as direct competition or alternative uses of capital. Author John Porter focuses on WHAT this role is, WHY it is important, and HOW it bridges the expectations gap. He provides insights and best practices that will help establish the required agile Customer Value Management (CVM) environment and unleash the power of the Value Practitioner as a key

All organizations recognise the importance of strategy creation and execution: strategy is the process of developing the corporate future. Unfortunately, it often doesn't generate the required results. This book presents a new 8-step process for creating a strategy that really delivers. For each step, the book describes the key parts of the process, shows how to avoid the potential pitfalls, and points to the most useful strategic models and frameworks. Readers can see the process in action by following the intriguing case study that unfolds throughout the book. One of the critical determinants of strategic success is to see strategy not just as planning but as a process that involves dialogues with multiple stakeholders, both within and outside the company. This concept is integrated into every phase of the 8-step approach and is at the heart of its effectiveness in creating strategy that delivers in practice.

It is a comprehensive text designed to explain the application of Organisational Behaviour (OB) knowledge at the workplace to maximise operational efficiency through effective and efficient use of human talent to accomplish organisational growth and competitiveness. Students, managers-in-the-making, will get a taste of exciting world of OB and also gain in terms of meeting their knowledge-and-examination needs and carving out a promising professional career after completing their studies. Members of the teaching fraternity will find the text material useful in enriching their teaching-learning processes and sharpening diagnostic and problem-solving skills of their students. TARGET AUDIENCE • MBA • M.Com • BBA • B.Com

Africa includes five of the world's fastest-growing economies, as well as a treasure chest of natural resources. Those very things, however, have caused multinational corporations to flock to the continent in an attempt take control of those resources. An African renaissance is hard to conceptualize, but that is exactly what is beginning to effect real change, with the assistance of both public officials and ordinary citizens. This study theorizes an African renaissance as the dynamic interaction of strategy and process and seeks to motivate researchers to shift analysis in that direction. This shift emphasizes the task of broadly structuring African renaissance as a geopolitical system is more important than that of promoting it within a specific program of nations. Unleashing Africa's Resilience provides the necessary tools for research-based policymaking and the critical thinking needed to help Africa build a vibrant economy and become a more prominent player on the world stage.