Confronting Environments or Process to Profits

Confronting Environments: Local Understanding in a Globalizing World

Author: James G Carrier

James Carrier and his group of international researchers tackle the complex factors affecting people's understandings of their environment-not just the natural environment, but landscapes shaped by humans, and the social and cultural contexts. The authors consider the impact of local events with detailed analyses, but also evaluate the political-economic forces that operate at regional and global levels. This book will be an excellent resource for policy-makers, researchers and instructors in environmental use and conservation, anthropology, geography, and political ecology.

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Process to Profits: Strategic Planning for the Growing Business

Author: William R Lasher

Illustrating how to bring order to the chaos of a growing business, Process to Profits applies the principles of strategy to growing businesses with systematic strategic analysis. Extremely practical, the book helps readers think for the long haul. It emphasizes strategy and implementation ? and gives specific information on how to follow through. It helps readers create a strategic framework ? complete with a realistic mission statement ? as well as design and implement their strategies with an effective business plan. It covers all the bases of growing a business ? marketing, financing, service, location, diversification ? and it also spotlights the unique issues associated with restructuring.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction to strategic thinking	1
2	Developing long-run thinking	15
3	An overview of the strategic process for small business	27
4	Developing a mission and setting objectives	37
5	Analysis of the present external position : the industrial environment	55
6	Analysis of the present position : internal to the firm	79
7	Developing a strategy	95
8	Implementation and control	119
9	Strategy and business planning	151
10	Marketing and sales : the strategic center of small business	165
11	Legal forms of organization and issues among owners	183
12	Business names and trademarks	203
13	Financing strategies	209
14	Break-even analysis	227
15	Strategies for service businesses	237
16	Location analysis	245
17	Commercial insurance	251
18	E-commerce	261
19	Diversification	277
20	Cost reduction and downsizing : planning to get leaner or smaller	289