Patent strategy

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Charles H. Fine

In Clockspeed, Charles Fine draws on a decade's worth of research at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management to introduce a new vocabulary for understanding the forces of competition and making strategic decisions that will determine the destiny of your company, as well as your industry. Taking inspiration from the world of biology, Fine argues that each industry has its own evolutionary life cycle (or "clockspeed"), measured by the rate at which it introduces new products, processes, and organizational structures. Just as geneticists study the fruit fly to gain insight into the evolutionary paths of all animals, managers in any industry can learn from the industrial fruit flies - such as Internet services, personal computers, and multimedia entertainment - which evolve through new generations at breakneck speed. Applying the lessons of the fruit flies to industries as diverse as bicycles, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors, Fine illustrates how competitive advantage is lost or gained by how well a company manages a dynamic web of relationships that run throughout its chain of suppliers, distributors, and alliance partners.

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Edwin T. Crego, Peter D. Schiffrin, James C. Kauss

The key to a professional-quality business plan. This best-selling book has been updated to include crucial information on diagnosing and measuring customer satisfaction. How to Write a Business Plan, Fourth Edition not only puts all the facts and planning formats you need right at your fingertips, but also gives you the latest thinking on effective business planning. It shows you how to organize and implement the planning process from beginning to end and translate your plan into action You will learn how to: Evaluate your company's capabilities, strengths, and weaknesses Pinpoint the cruci.

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Chris Chapman and Stephen Ward

Based on sound conceptual foundations yet developed to meet practical concerns, Project Risk Management has become recognized as a standard work on its subject. It sets out the key issues and concepts involved in effective risk and uncertainty management in a clear and accessible way, providing a comprehensive discussion of risk management processes set firmly in the context of the project management task as a whole and focused on improving performance.

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Michael Tobin

"Radical, creative, often extreme, and incredibly successful management techniques from a leading global entrepreneurWritten from the point of view of someone achieving business success in today's turbulent economy The Non-Strategy Book offers you a fresh way of thinking about successfully managing any sort of business, under any conditions. Controversial, thought-provoking, and entertaining, it delivers TelecityGroup founder and CEO, Mike Tobin's unconventional approach to management and shares the lessons he's learned on his path to building one of the world's largest data center provider companies. Radical, creative, often extreme, the techniques it describes are the same ones Mike uses every day at TelecityGroup, and with which he has achieved nothing short of awe-inspiring results. Inspiration and practical tips for managers or business leaders who are stuck in a rut and in search of new ways to motivate their teams, make bolder decisions and handle change with more agility Makes managers at all levels rethink and reassess the way they plan, manage, and deliver vision in their organizations Identifies eleven fundamental rules that any manager or leader can adopt at any level in any organization Identifies the core characteristics that underpin Mike Tobin's controversial management philosophy and illustrates how they have been applied with fascinating, often hilarious stories and vignettes "--