The Growing Business Handbook: Inspirational Advice from Successful Entrepreneurs and Fast-growing UK Companies

by Adam Jolly (Editor)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $4.29

  The Growing Business Handbook is a practical source of advice and reference for companies with dynamic growth potential. Aimed at senior managers in growing companies, the 2005 edition will highlight the latest ideas, techniques and solutions for maximising growth and controlling risks. Combining the knowledge and expertise of leading professional advisors with the experience of entrepreneurs, the book will give a comprehensive insight into the challenges invovled in building a high-growth venture in 2005 and 2006. With sections on marketing, funding, people, business technology, innovation, global expansion, acquisitions and risk contro, the book will highlight potential new sources of value for enterprises to exploit. It will also stress that high performance is inherently complex and stressful. Costs can spiral out of control and cash can run short. Nor are problems likely to be just financial. Growth puts a severe strain on any organization and its management. Too often ventures fail to fulfil their full potential. The 2005 edition of The Growing Business Handbook is designed as a practical guide for exectuives as they confront decisive points in the growth cycle.

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  Paperback
  1997

  $8.17

  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

  $3.21

  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.