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The following books are recommended by marcus evans professional trainers as further reading material beyond their respective course documentation. All titles are available to purchase online in association with amazon.co.uk

Change Book Category

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE ON-LINE Tom Peters, Robert H. Waterman
Synopsis A book for those concerned with international business. It distils the art and science of management used by leading companies with records of long-term profitability and continuing innovation.

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John P. Kotter
Synopsis This work provides advice for those confronting the challenge of leading organizational change. It examines the efforts of over 100 companies to improve their competitiveness. The most common mistakes made in attempting to create change are identified, and a process outlined to overcome obstacles

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Gary Hamel
Synopsis Urges managers of traditional companies to implement e-commerce and participate in joint ventures, and provides examples of small and large companies that have changed their missions and the way they conduct business for the better.

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE ON-LINE Mike Pedler, John Burgoyone, Tom Boydell
Synopsis This text provides tools such as a "Learning Company" questionnaire and updated "glimpses" incorporated into chapters, and offers examples to design and create an organization that is capable of adapting, changing and developing. A new "Reflections" section covers IT, computer networks, OD writers and organizational ecology.

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Richard Pascale
Synopsis This is an exploration of why companies decline, looking particularly at why so few of the top 500 companies in the US have kept their place in the last ten years. The author approaches the question partly by looking at Japanese companies that have stayed successful, particularly Honda, and partly by a close look at big American companies like Ford and General Electric.

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Vivek Ranadive
Synopsis Explains how your business can compete at very high speeds using applications that automate tasks and the decision-making process. Describing a combination of ERP and knowledge management, the text tells how to watch business operations while providing data to customers.

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Regis McKenna
Synopsis The focus of this book is real-time, a world of instant gratification and infinite opportunity. It provides specific examples and ideas from companies that are testing the boundaries of time and space, and includes company web site addresses

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Robert Kaplan, David P. Norton
Synopsis The creators of the revolutionary Balanced Scorecard tool and authors of the international bestsellers The Balanced Scorecard (1996) and The Strategy-Focused Organization (2000) now take readers to the next level of precision in strategy implementation. Strategy Maps introduces a new tool that has evolved from Robert Kaplan and David Norton's ongoing research with hundreds of Balanced Scorecard adopters across the globe, and its premise is simple: if you can visually map your strategy, the people within your organization will better understand it and therefore be better able to execute it effectively. Since most companies fail miserably at strategy implementation, this tool will help them pinpoint why - and more specifically, where - their strategies are not working, and what they must do to fix them. Focusing on four key internal processes - operations, customer relationships, innovation, and regulatory and social processes - Kaplan and Norton show executives how to use strategy maps to visually link those processes to desired outcomes, identify which processes create the most value for the organization, and allocate resources and investments in human, informational, and organizational capital to the areas that will deliver the greatest bottom-line impact.

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Peter M. Senge
Synopsis The author defines five business "disciplines" which help to build "learning organizations". These companies will be the successful ones in the coming decade because of their ability to learn, to absorb new ideas, theories and practices at all employee levels and use them to competitive advantage.