Fmos Guide To Running Your Own Business

This one-stop handbook covers everything you need to know: starting out; making your business special; people; enterprise for beginners; marketing; cash management; finance; innovation; export know-how; risks and rewards; avoiding the pitfalls and moving on.Packed with case studies from an enormous variety of businesses, this book draws extensively on the stories of successful entrepreneurs from Financial Mail's unique Enterprise Awards programme, It also covers the issues that everyone with their own business should and must consider, from how to get paid promptly (and what to do if not) to advertising, personnel, the business implications of the euro and how to get investment for future growth.

The IT4IT Management Guide provides guidance on how the IT4IT Reference Architecture can be used within an IT organization to manage the business of IT. It is designed to provide a guide to business managers, CIOs, IT executives, IT professionals, and all individuals involved or interested in how to transition an IT organization to become a Lean and Agile IT service provider.This book includes two case studies from Shell and the Rabobank.After reading this document you should be able to: Understand why the IT4IT approach is needed to improve the performance of the IT function; and support the business to leverage new IT in the digital age Understand the vision, scope, and content of the IT4IT Reference Architecture (from a high-level perspective) Understand the benefits of using the IT4IT Reference Architecture within the IT function Initiate the first steps to implement the IT4IT standard in your own IT organizationThe audience for this Management Guide is: CIOs and other IT executive managers who would like to transform their IT organization to support end-to-end value streams Senior leaders and executives in the business and IT responsible for how IT is organized, managed, and improved Enterprise Architects involved in the implementation of IT management solutions within the IT organization IT professionals and consultants involved in the transition of their organizations to a new streamlined IT factory

This important and accessible must-read will challenge you to find overlaps between your own life and global issues, and to start bridging the gap between your personal needs and those of our planet.