Think Agile: How Smart Entrepreneurs Adapt in Order to Succeed - Rilegato

Williams, Taffy

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ISBN 10: 0814434304 ISBN 13: 9780814434307

Casa editrice: AMACOM, 2014

Riassunto

Funding falls apart. A similar product is unveiled by a more established company. A key employee jumps ship to work for a competitor. These are the unexpected obstacles that derail even the most promising new ventures. Entrepreneurs determined to keep up with today’s constantly changing business environment need to stay nimble enough to shift their strategies, products, and services on a dime. Yet many fail to master this essential new mindset: agility.

Featuring real-life case studies and invaluable tools, Think Agile helps entrepreneurs assess their level of flexibility and learn to be open-minded and option-oriented in key areas including:

• Funding sources
• Launch timetables
• Planning
• Repurposing everything from products to people to names

When entrepreneurs lock themselves into one strategy, one product, one distribution method and one way of thinking about their business they limit their potential, and lower their chances of capitalizing on economic, industry, or market changes. Think Agile is an indispensable guide to an undeniably essential new skill.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

TAFFY WILLIAMS has been a successful entrepreneur and advisor to entrepreneurs for over 30 years. The founder and president of Colonial Technology Development Company, which assists start-ups in technology commercialization, he writes the popular “Startup Blog,” as well as articles for Examiner.com.

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The world of business is more volatile than ever before. As an entrepreneur, having a single-minded focus and unwavering commitment is no longer enough. You need to be ready to shift direction in response to change or disruption at a moment’s notice: Be willing to test new approaches; consider other options; and quickly transition to new products, services, policies, and processes. In short, you have to be agile.

Think Agile is an indispensable guide to this essential skill. Covering a range of topics—from funding, to time frames, to planning—the book helps you measure your own entrepreneurial agility, and offers real-life case studies and invaluable tools to help you improve it. You’ll learn how to think—and act—agile, in regard to funding sources, launch timetables, planning, and repurposing everything from products to people to names. You’ll also discover how to navigate your enterprise through a rapidly changing, obstacle-strewn environment that demands agility, and broaden your outlook so you’re thinking about what might happen down the road, and get ready to adjust as early as possible to take advantage of future events.

When circumstances change, it can be difficult to tear yourself away from your original —and possibly outdated—conception of what will make your business successful. This unique book acknowledges the challenge in thinking clearly and objectively about your company in the face of unexpected obstacles such as lost funding, a similar product being unveiled by a more established company, or a key employee jumping ship to work for a competitor. Think Agile shows you how to move away from the conventional wisdom and the status quo, and make your way toward fresh thinking and new business strategies and tactics. Culling examples from a variety of sources to show you how to use agility approaches successfully, the book also presents cautionary tales of what happens when entrepreneurs are destructively inflexible.

When you lock yourself into one strategy, one product, one distribution method—and one way of thinking about your business—you limit your potential, and lower your chances of capitalizing on economic, industry, or market changes. This book examines the latest trends that will soon present opportunities and obstacles for all entrepreneurs. Think Agile is an essential guide for the success of any business...no matter what obstacles may lay in its path.

TAFFY WILLIAMS has been a successful entrepreneur and advisor to entrepreneurs for more than 30 years. The founder and president of Colonial Technology Development Company, which assists start-ups in technology commercialization, he writes the popular “Startup Blog,” as well as articles for Examiner.com.

Connect with Taffy: Twitter @twilli2861 Read his blog: http://taffywilliams.blogspot.com

Su questa edizione

• Editore: AMACOM
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0814434304
• ISBN 13: 9780814434307
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 210