The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking ^{2nd Ed.}

Thousands of brilliant new business ideas are launched into the world of work every day. Can you keep up? Do you know how to sort out the ideas that will really drive your business from the rest? From scientific management to knowledge management and from the agile organisation to the virtual organisation, Des Dearlove describes each idea, shows how it has been applied practically and gives alternative interpretations and definitions from the sceptics. He goes on to assess the opportunities and pitfalls for today's business in applying concepts as diverse as game theory and just-in-time, hot-desking and kaizen.

This completely updated edition of The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking will ensure you are rapidly up to speed with the ideas that are shaping modern business. With the benefit of additional concepts and a full appendix, The Ultimate Book of Business Thinking offers a unique insight into how key business ideas developed and what their real impact has been.

• Action Learning
• Activity-Based Costing
• Adhocracy
• Agility
• Balanced Scorecard
• Benchmarking
• Boston Matrix
• Branding
• Broadbanding
• Burnout
• Channel Management
• Core Competencies
• Core Values
• Crisis Management
• Decision Theory
• Discounted Cash Flow
• Downsizing
• E-Commerce
• Emotional Intelligence
• Employability
• Empowerment
• Four Ps of Marketing
• Game Theory
• Hoshin Kanri
• Intellectual Capital
• Interim Management
• Just-in-Time (JIT) (Kanban)
• Kaizen (Quality Control)
• Knowledge Management
• Leadership
• Lean Production
• The Learning Organization
• The Managerial Grid
• Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
• Matrix Model
• Mentoring
• Outsourcing
• Porter's Five Competencies
• The Psychological Contract
• Re-Engineering
• Relationship Marketing
• Scenario Planning
• Scientific Management
• Seven S Framework
• The Shamrock Organization
• Shareholder Value
• Strategic Inflection Point
• Strategic Management
• Succession Planning
• Supply Chain Management
• Team-Working
• Theories X and Y (and Z)
• Thought Leadership
• TQM and the Quality Movement
• 360-Degree Feedback
• Time-Based Competition
• The transnational Corporation
• Value Innovation
• The Virtual Organization

As always, Dearlove is an excellent author, with a knack for understanding the concepts very well and being able to succinctly convey a lot of information in a short space. I missed some concepts, but that is just my personal bias.

A recommended book for anybody who wants to understand the concepts of business of today (and yesterday) and what they are all about. I can nearly promise you that if you buy it, you wont regret it.)