Business in brief library

Strategy and Planning Techniques

Emergent Change

Emergent Change

The concept provides a description of the emergent change process, the type of change that is not in an organisation's agenda - it simply manifests in our social systems when the underlying components have achieved a new order that give way to new behaviours.

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Empowering Employees

Empowering Employees

More than 70% of organisations today practice some form of empowerment initiative. The concept explains how companies introduce empowerment practices and the reasons they are pursuing when doing so.

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Enabling Private Cloud

Enabling Private Cloud

Find out why leading organisations are using private clouds to reduce costs, accelerate time to market, boost productivity and leverage big data. Case study evidence and implementation advice helps leaders consider a cloud roadmap that aligns and adds significant value to business strategy objectives.

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Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning

Implementing a ERP system is a time consuming, difficult process. You will learn where problems arise and what measures and steps need to be in place to implement successfully.

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Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is a highly relevant concept for those leading and working in organisations and not just those starting new ventures. This concept covers technology, creative and social enterprise dimensions and introduces the types and main principles of entrepreneurship. The creation of an entrepreneurial culture is also addressed.

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Exit Strategies

Exit Strategies

Exit strategies and contract escape clauses are particularly relevant for those dealing with outsourcing and subcontracting. The concept reviews the term ‘exit strategies’ and discusses how firms should approach and anticipate the ending of contracting relationships between buyers and suppliers.

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Financial Reporting Requirements

Financial Reporting Requirements

A company’s financial statements provide various financial information that investors and creditors use to evaluate a company’s financial performance. This concept offers an overview of financial reporting standards in the UK.

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Fintech

Fintech

Discover how technology will disrupt financial services in a wave of transformations not seen since the introduction of credit cards in the ‘50s.

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Five Forces Analysis / Framework

Five Forces Analysis / Framework

The concept provides a summary of Porter's Five Forces model and describes how it is used in practice for analysing the industry’s competitive environment.

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Flat / Horizontal Organisation

Flat / Horizontal Organisation

Traditionally, organisations were organised vertically. This concept presents an alternative way of defining organisational structure as horizontal or flat, and explores its advantages and drawbacks.

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Forecasting

Forecasting

The concept has been created to help practitioners learn how to explore and analyse their firm’s data and understand its forecasting performance. It introduces the fundamentals of forecasting methods and processes, and summarises its strengths, success factors and performance measurements.

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Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment

The concept describes the importance of foreign direct investment in today's increasingly globalised world. Using research and case study examples, it explains the strengths and drawbacks of FDI and outlines some critical factors for success.

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Forward Integration

Forward Integration

Forward integration is one of three types of vertical integration, where companies in a supply chain are united through a common owner. This concept will help managers to differentiate between forward and backward integration and gain insights into its implementation steps and success measures.

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Franchising

Franchising

Franchising is an important business growth strategy and marketing system that can boost turnover without the need to increase assets. The concept explains the advantages and drawbacks of this strategy and describes how some of the world's most iconic brands have built successful franchising businesses.

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Game Theory

Game Theory

Game theory is a highly influential theory in business, economics and politics. The concept explains the origins of game theory and the key ideas behind the theory and uses case studies from across different industries and sectors to illustrate how game theory has been used in practice.

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