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

by Adam Jolly (Editor), IOD (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2004

  $4.34

  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

  $4.12

  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
  2007

  $3.24

  The Growing Business Handbook is a superb reference tool for all businesses with growth potential, jam-packed with invaluable insights and guidance from professional advisers and entrepreneurs across a range of subjects. With contributions from a series of SME specialists in finance, HR, marketing, innovation, people and IT, as well as help on enterprise risk and useful legal advice, The Growing Business Handbook is the reference source of choice to help you ensure and manage business growth.Now in its 10th edition, this book looks at all the areas ripe for exploitation by your growing business and discusses ways you can manage the associated risks. Contributions and examples come from: the Patent Office; Chartered Management Institute; Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply; Chartered Institute of Management Accountants; Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors; British Business Angels Association; Yorkshire Bank; Royal Mail; Ernst & Young; Mazars; Goodman Derrick and BP Collins.