The Growing Business Handbook: Inspiration and Advice from Successful Entrepreneurs and Fast Growing UK Companies

by Adam Jolly (Editor), IOD (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.32

  Praise and reviews include: Filled with articles from experts in the private sector providing advice to small- and medium-sized companies on techniques to expand their business. - Business & Finance UK . Takes a practical approach to all the issues encountered by today's fast-growing businesses. For those who already have achieved an established market position and want to build on their success. - Business & Finance Sco . Aimed at senior managers in middle market and SME companies, The Growing Business Handbook represents a range of strategies for managing growth and fulfilling business potential. It aims to support and inspire budding entrepreneurs and to help successful businesses embark on the often-perilous course of second and third phase expansion and development. This authoritative book combines informed comment from professionals, such as KPMG and Royal SunAlliance, with the direct experience of those who have been through the growth process and who have met the challenge of learning to keep control of a rapidly growing enterprise. It focuses on issues such as funding, ownership structure, developing management capability, acquisition, innovation, and global expansion. Key content includes: building market share; people and performance; cash flow and working capital; enterprise risks; acquisitions and disposals; finance; capital property and locations; and smarter organizations.

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.29

  Designed to help those businesses with an established market position, this text adopts a practical approach to the issues encountered by rapidly expanding businesses. The handbook presents a range of practical strategies for managing growth, focusing on how companies can fulfil their potential by adopting appropriate funding, adapting their structure and ownership, as well as developing world-class management capabilities.

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  Hardcover
  2003

  $15.63

  Completely re-written with new examples, this book provides practical advice for companies keen to join the fast track. Based on the experiences of some of the UK's most dynamic companies, it presents a range of strategies for managing growth, showing how companies can fulfil their potential. With case studies from fast-growing enterprises, it focuses on issues such as funding, ownership structure, developing management capability, acquisition, innovation and global expansion.