Friday Books and Talks 07/31/2015

Friday Books and Talks 07/31/2015

Absolute Value
by Itamar Simonson, Emanuel Rosen

Itamar Simonson and Emanuel Rosen show why consumer behavior has changed while fundamental thinking about marketing has not. Absolute Value answers the question of what influences customers in this new age and describes how a company should design its communication strategy, market research program, and segmentation strategy in order to adopt a new way of thinking about marketing in this new environment.

Beyond Performance
by Scott Keller, Colin Price

In Beyond Performance, McKinsey & Company’s Scott Keller and Colin Price give you everything you need to build an organization that can execute in the short run and has the vitality to prosper over the long term. Drawing on the most exhaustive research effort of its kind on organizational effectiveness and change management, Keller and Price put hard science behind their big idea: that the health of an organization is equally as important as its performance.

Escape Velocity
by Geoffrey A. Moore

Geoffrey Moore’s now-classic Crossing the Chasm became a must-read book by presenting an innovative framework to address the make-or-break obstacle facing all high-tech companies: how to gain market share from early adopters and from mainstream consumers. Now, Moore’s Escape Velocity offers a pragmatic plan to engage the most critical challenge that established enterprises face in the twenty-first-century economy: how to move beyond past success and drive next-generation growth from new lines of business.

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