Strategy & Business Performance

Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Trends That are Redefining Organizations

We have never lived at a time of faster and more transformative technological and societal changes. It can be hard for executives to keep up with the developments and shifts. This book cuts through all of the hype and presents the key business trends anyone should be aware of now as they will shape businesses into the foreseeable future. 

Business Trends in Practice includes case studies across all industries, with companies such as: Tesla, Ocado, Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Alibaba, Rolls Royce, Mercedes Benz, Apple, and many more. Some of the key trends the author will examine include:

• The AI revolution
• Robots and business processes automation
• Remote working, working from home and new flexibility
• Social & environmental Responsibility
• Increased Diversity

As part of Bernard Marr’s popular ‘In Practice’ series, Business Trends in Practice will help you identify the key business trends that will keep you one step ahead of the competition.

Tech Trends In Practice: The 25 Technologies That Are Driving The 4th Industrial Revolution

How will the latest technologies transform your business? Future Tech Trends in Practice will give you the knowledge of today’s most important technology trends, and how to take full advantage of them to grow your business. The book presents25 real-world technology trends along with their potential contributions to organisational success. You’ll learn how to integrate existing advancements and plan for those that are on the way.

In this book, best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of technology in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries. He covers wide-ranging trends and provides an overview of how companies are using these new and emerging technologies in practice.

You, too, can prepare your company for the potential and power of trending technology by examining these and other areas of innovation described in Future Tech Trends in Practice:

• Artificial intelligence, including machine and deep learning
• The Internet of Things and the rise of smart devices
• Self-driving cars and autonomous drones
• 3D printing and additive manufacturing
• Blockchain technology
• Genomics and gene editing
• Augmented, virtual and mixed reality

When you understand the technology trends that are driving success, now and into the future, you’ll be better positioned to address and solve problems within your organisation.

The Intelligent Company: Five Steps To Success With Evidence-Based Management

Today′s most successful companies are Intelligent Companies that use the best available data to inform their decision making. This is called Evidence–Based Management and is one of the fastest growing business trends of our times.

Intelligent Companies bring together tools such as Business Intelligence, Analytics, Key Performance Indicators, Balanced Scorecards, Management Reporting and Strategic Decision Making to generate real competitive advantages.

As information and data volumes grow at explosive rates, the challenges of managing this information is turning into a losing battle for most companies and they end up drowning in data while thirsting for insights. This is made worse by the severe skills shortage in analytics, data presentation and communication.

This latest book by best–selling management expert Bernard Marr, will equip you with a set of powerful skills that are vital for successful managers now and in the future. Increase your market value by gaining essential skills that are in high demand but in short supply.

Loaded with practical step–by–step guidance, simple tools and real life examples of how leading organizations such as Google, CocaCola, Capital One, Saatchi & Saatchi, Tesco, Yahoo, as well as Government Departments and Agencies have put the principles into practice.

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Doing More With Less 2nd Edition

Public sector organisations are in one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the recession. More than ever before, public sector leaders need to instil strong performance improvement disciplines into their organisations that enable these leaders to fully understand: key outcomes and priority deliverables, how to allocate reduced financial resources and where to reduce costs and improve efficiencies without jeopardising service delivery.

Written in an accessible and practical style, this fully-updated second edition addresses the efficiency drive using models, tools and ideas more commonly found in the corporate world, such as balanced scorecard and Lean. It also includes new case studies and real-life examples, from Audit Scotland, Belfast City Council, Brisbane City Council, City of Charlotte, Civil Service College (Singapore) FBI, NHS, Ministry of Works (Bahrain), Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the US Postal Service.

Data Strategy: How To Profit From A World Of Big Data, Analytics And Artificial Intelligence

90% of today’s data was generated in the last two years and the amount of data we have available is predicted to double every two years. Data is an integral strategic asset for all businesses. Learn how to leverage this data and generate valuable insights from bestselling author and Big Data guru Bernard Marr.

Data has massive potential for all businesses when used correctly, from small organizations to tech giants and huge multinationals. But this resource is too often not being fully utilized and is far from being arguably the world’s most valuable resource. Data Strategy is the must-read guide on how to create a robust data-driven approach that will harness the power of data to revolutionize your business. Explaining how to collect, use and manage data, this book prepares any organization with the tools and strategies needed to thrive in the digital economy.

This new edition of this bestselling title is fully updated with insights on understanding your customers and markets and how to provide them with intelligent services and products. With case studies and real-world examples throughout, Bernard Marr offers unrivalled expertise on how to gain the competitive advantage in a data-driven world.