Smart Business

How Strategy Works in an Interconnected, Automated World Leaders already know that the classic approach to strategy--analyze, plan, execute--is losing relevance. But they don't yet know what replaces it. As everyone and everything becomes more interconnected and digitized, how do you operate, compete, and win? Ming Zeng, the former Chief of Staff and strategy adviser to Alibaba Group's founder Jack Ma, explains how the latest technological developments, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, the mobile internet, and cloud computing are redefining how value is created. Written especially for those outside the technology industry or the startup arena, this book introduces a simple, overarching framework to guide strategy formulation and execution in this data-rich and highly interactive environment. Revealing the revolutionary practices that he and his team have developed at Alibaba, Zeng shows how to: Automate decisions through machine learning Create products informed by real-time data from customers Determine the right strategic positioning to maximize value from platforms and suppliers Repurpose your organization to further human insight and enable creativity Lead your company's transformation into a smart business With insights into the strategies and tools used by leaders at Alibaba and other companies such as Ruhan and Red Collar, in a variety of industries from furniture making to banking to custom tailoring, Smart Business outlines a radically new approach to strategy that can be applied everywhere.

Scientists from management and strategy, information systems, engineering and telecommunications have discussed a novel concept: Smart Business Networks. They see the future as a developing web of people and organizations, bound together in a dynamic and unpredictable way, creating smart outcomes from quickly (re-)configuring links between actors. The question is: What should be done to make the outcomes of such a network 'smart', that is, just a little better than that of your competitor? More agile, with less pain, with more return to all the members of the network, now and over time? The technical answer is to create a 'business operating system' that should run business processes on different organisational platforms. Business processes would become portable: The end-to-end management of processes running across many different organizations in many different forms would become possible. This book presents you the outcomes of an energizing and new direction in management science.

This book will help organizations evolve into a fully collaborative social business. It serves as a step by step playbook to achieve organizational change, process efficiencies and technology acumen: Proven solutions for the real people, process, and technology obstacles businesses face in using social media behind the firewall. How to have the successful internal conversations with stakeholders, partners and global teams that lead to successful external conversations with the social customer Strategies for improving organizational dynamics, collaboration, governance, training, engagement, policies, technology integration, workflows, social CRM, and metrics Many organizations today have already evolved into social brands. They may be active on Twitter and Facebook; they may have corporate blogs and communities and they are trying hard to engage effectively with the social customer. However, behind the firewall, chaos, anarchy, and conflict reign. In Smart Business, Social Business, leading enterprise social business consultant shows how to build an internal framework based on change management that will lead to success with social media: one that will make external engagement more effective, meaningful, and sustainable. Michael Brito systematically identifies the internal culture, process and technology obstacles to long-term success with social media, and offer best practice solutions. He discusses a wide spectrum of issues, offering actionable intelligence and helping decision-makers build strategies and plans that deliver value. Topics addressed include change management, organizational models and dynamics, internal communications, collaboration, governance, metrics, training, employee activation, policies, technology integration, workflows, social CRM, and much more. Drawing on his own experience working for Silicon Valley companies, HP, Yahoo! and Intel, Brito presents dozens of examples and case studies. Using this book, companies can begin to transform their organizations from just a "social brand" to a fully collaborative and dynamic "social business.”

Smart Business is the definitive primer for understanding why companies behave as they do, what the basics of sound business practice are and where the stakeholders fit in. There are a handful of fairly simple but key drivers behind the way businesses operate and James Leibert explains them. Smart Business will enable readers to fast track their business skills. Smart books are essential primers to the key issues facing business people. They are practical and action-oriented, providing instant knowledge for ambitious and hungry professionals who want to make a lasting impression throughout their career. Smart books are designed to give killer approaches to key business subjects, and deliver sound principles in a style that is both informative and has attitude. They are the prefect resource for time-starved, information-hungry business people everywhere!

Smart Business, Stupid Business” provides a practical approach for the small business owner. This is a book written specifically for the small business owner with specific action steps. It's filled with meaningful information that cuts to the chase. It's the comprehensive content that turns any business owner into a Smarter Business Owner.

THIS IS AMAZING!! SO MUCH INFORMATION IN ONE BOOK! Smart Business Planning is packed with fifteen chapters of knowledge that can make Smart Business Planning from jail or prison to being a respected business owner painless. You are guided step by step from your idea of owning any type of business you select to having it in operation making you money. You are shown how you can own a business using your cash and credit, or, if you dont have any cash and your credit is terrible, no problem. You will be shown how to use cash or credit from a member of your family, a friend, or a total stranger. That is correct, a total stranger! Why would you want a job, making someone else rich, while they look down at you as a convicted felon? Also, your fellow workers will be looking down at you and asking you questions about your past. Smart Business Planning can show you how to keep any of this from ever happening. You are not only guided through all of the steps to finance, start up and operate your business, but you will also be given a lot of other valuable information which will include how to turn your bad credit into good credit, get established with a bank for your business and personal, plus get all of the credit you want. The list goes on, including getting a pocket full of credit cards guaranteed. So now is the time to read every word of Smart Business Planning to get this valuable information.

This book examines the application, challenges and opportunities related to the use of digital technologies in business, economics and education. In this context, the enclosed contributions identify the impact of artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things (IOT), computer vision, big data analytics and other advance technology in the area of business, economics and education. The book examines such themes as digital technology for smart business, the progress of the circular economy, the application of IOT in education, the use of drones in agri-business, business forecasting using smart technology, artificial intelligence in healthcare, among others.

"The first knowledge-age book to give practical advice on how to organize and make use of knowledge--how to turn knowledge into wisdom."--Jacket.