..., technology, and processes. This can mean a fundamental shift in company values and culture. Christopher Skinner can be contacted at: christopher@makebuzz.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Internet Innovation Integration Business development Market share Change management...

... Business development Organizational change Management strategy Your company is growing in leaps and bounds. Your revenue projections indicate this will only continue. So why are you and your management team concerned? While your revenue projections show growth, your forecasted profit margins...

... formulated and executed by the firm should be driven by efforts aimed at aggressively deploying “knowledge workers” to create value for the firm's stakeholders. Joseph P. Eshun Jr can be contacted at: jeshun@po‐box.esu.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Business development...

... to be top performers who want to work for the company. Originality/value Provides a viewpoint based on the author's line management and executive coaching experience. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Retention Coaching Business development Increasingly, it seems, we hear...

... in order to involve all the live forces of the enterprise and to increase strategic and organizational effectiveness. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Business development Corporate strategy Value added Intangible assets Integration As illustrated by the internet...

..., they need to “unlearn” much of what has made them successful in order to develop and profitably commercialize far less expensive products that meet the very different needs of consumers and businesses in emerging markets. Innovation Emerging markets Business development Global manufacturers...

.... But this is easier said than done. Business development Innovation Profit Markets Shareholders © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Combining market insights and knowledge of internal capabilities enabled CEMEX to create a host of new building solutions and services, including...

... connected to business growth. Originality/value Provides an insightful interview with Dr Richard Pech. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Business development After establishing the firm's core competencies (and differentiating these from simple capabilities) there are three issues...

... on the inherent factors that may be influenced to advance organizational goals and objectives. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Competitive strategy Business development Business performance “In the last few years, many different approaches to strategy have been proposed” (Dwyer, 1997...

... that they stayed with deals they had serious doubts about. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Acquisitions and mergers Business development Communication management The 1990s saw an unprecedented wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As or simply “mergers” hereafter), mainly fuelled...

... research executed by the authors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Sourcing Outsourcing Competitive strategy Business development Offshoring is an irreversible trend that is already expanding to include not just routine processes but also the core activities of Western service...

... 2007 Resources Uncertainty management Entrepreneurialism Business development For all businesses, continued growth is a central challenge – where will it come from, how to invest for it, how to manage it? Since Edith Penrose's Theory of the Growth of the Firm (Penrose, 1959...

... that are unlikely to be sustainable over the medium and longer term. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Search engines Strategic management Business development Integration Technology and media companies tend to register high levels of initial growth at market launch. This impacts upon...

... depends on continued investment in cutting‐edge research and development, finding new market segments, and a highly qualified workforce. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Business development Innovation Technology led strategy Good corporate governance requires the growth...

... price competition. Corporate strategy Optimization techniques Business development Business performance Contingency planning The need for knowledge on relationships between company settings and appropriate business strategies is apparent for any company wishing to evaluate its strategy...

... found to include a lack of: a sound business idea, good market knowledge, long‐term planning, external relationships, and balanced business development. Research limitations/implications – Further research is recommended to examine if the key success/failure factors for e‐commerce differ across...

... is: the payoff of creating an actionable strategy is immeasurable versus the cost of developing a plan that collects dust. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Real time Business planning Business development Strategic planning Creating a corporate strategy isn’t a one‐time event. It’s...