Business in brief library

Strategy and Planning Techniques

Core Competencies

Core Competencies

Core competence is among the best-known strategic management concepts. A core competence it is believed to constitute and sustain the firm’s competitive advantage. The importance of core competencies for organisations is explored, in addition to technical capacities as one of the elements that allow organisations to be competitive in the market.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

This concept explores the different ways in which CSR is defined and provides an account of success factors and business evidence.

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Corporate Sustainability

Corporate Sustainability

Corporate Sustainability (CS) integrates environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles into business strategies to enhance resilience, ethical alignment, and long-term growth. It drives innovation, attracts talent, meets stakeholder expectations, and creates lasting value for society.

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Corporate/Organisational Culture

Corporate/Organisational Culture

This concept explores how organisations build up their own culture through tradition, history and structure. It also suggests that culture provides organisations with a sense of identity.

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Cost-to-Serve Model

Cost-to-Serve Model

This concept discusses the usefulness of cost-to-serve model and offers additional insights into the model’s measurements and implementation steps.

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Countertrade

Countertrade

This concept examines advantages and disadvantages of countertrade and discusses the implications, strengths, weaknesses and success factors of this trading approach.

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Crisis Management

Crisis Management

The concept treats 'crisis management' as a relatively new field of business and management research. You will learn how to promptly respond to a crisis and how to ensure that business continuity plans can be effectively executed and managed.

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Cross-Functional Supply Management

Cross-Functional Supply Management

The concept examines current practices and trends in the field of cross-functional supply-chain management and provides practitioners with both a specialist knowledge and basic information in related business disciplines to design and manage efficient and effective cross-functional supply chain systems.

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Customer Centric International Shared Services

Customer Centric International Shared Services

Learn how customer centric international shared services can help your company achieve savings of 20%-30% or more, while significantly improving service delivery to internal customers across the globe. Case study evidence highlights the factors for success and provides step-by-step implementation advice.

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Customer-driven Strategy

Customer-driven Strategy

Customer-driven strategy is an essential business philosophy that all organisations should embrace. The concept provides a detailed summary of the key elements of customer-driven strategy and offers critical implementation advice and success factors.

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Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Business

Data Warehousing and Data Mining in Business

Data warehousing and data mining have emerged as key technologies and essential components of modern decision support systems. Strengths and weaknesses and success factors are considered and practical steps are provided to help organisations implement successfully.

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Decision Support Systems

Decision Support Systems

The concept explains the usefulness of decision support systems for organisational problem solving. It describes the types of decision support systems available, their advantages and limitations, as well as real case studies of firms using DSS across different industries and sectors.

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Decision Trees

Decision Trees

The concept describes one of the most used decision-making models, a decision tree, which explores all possible decisions and their consequences and allows for comparison of such alternatives in one single pane.

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Demand Curve

Demand Curve

The concept explains the important economic concept of the demand curve. It describes various strengths and weakness for use in business and provides useful implementation advice and real case studies to illustrate its application.

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Demand-pull Inflation

Demand-pull Inflation

The concept explains how demand-pull (or demand-side) inflation arises in the economy. It uses case study examples to highlight the effects of demand-pull inflation and describes various advantages and disadvantages of the concept - it also provides success factors for calculating demand-pull inflation.

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