What if your customers had a vested interest in guiding your company toward greater success? What if your employees had a personal as well as professional commitment to elevating your organization? Imagine how different your results would be if investors, vendors, and even analysts treasured the relationship they have built with you? Most important . . . is your company capable of setting aside a bit of its own self-interest to become part of dramatically more rewarding collaborative effort? That's the provocative and ultimately earthshaking question David Nour poses. He argues that co-creation is a transformational journey that naturally leads to growth and evolution . . . because it gives birth to shared interests that dwarf anything that existed previously. In Co-Create, David Nour makes the case that co-creation leads to Market Gravity(tm), a force that attracts stakeholders to your business because they recognize that many others have also united their interests with yours. It's the sense--backed by tangible metrics--that this is bigger than any of us imagined . . . except that you imagined precisely such an outcome. That's the power of co-creation.

Growing Your Business helps owner/managers develop growth strategies for their businesses by providing frameworks, ideas, inspiration and hands-on assignments. Its contents are a distillation of the authors¿ knowledge and experience, which has successfully helped hundreds of owner/managers to grow and develop their businesses and themselves over the last twenty years.

This guidebook takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to planning, organizing, and running a small business. While employing current research and theory, its pragmatic "how-to" perspective illustrates many practical examples and applications from the business world. It explains how to achieve optimum benefits from the limited resources available to small firms, as well as how to plan for growth and succession in a business. It also explores arguments both for and against owning a small business.

This book examines the crucial role of innovation and entrepreneurship in achieving growth and ongoing success in the small business sector. Examines the processes by which small businesses identify new opportunities, evolve appropriate marketing strategies, develop new products/services, and successfully launch these into the market. Includes a chapter dedicated to social entrepreneurship and family firms. Explores issues of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility. Packed with supporting "real world" case studies including Apple's iPod, Facebook and YouTube to illustrate how entrepreneurial firms succeed. Offers learning features including learning aims, summaries, points for discussion, and further reading.

Due to the vital importance of SMEs in developed economies worldwide, this book aims to provide a unique and much-needed investigation into the underlying mechanisms and practices of management within these companies by collecting a wide range of original conceptual and empirical research in the topical area of management in SMEs and new ventures. Collecting work from dozens of leading scholars in fields ranging from management and entrepeneurship to human resource management and strategy, this book aims to supply readers with an overview of the field of research in management of SMEs and new ventures as well as in depth knowledge on a variety of related topics. The essays collected here are focused and practical, offering a variety of explicit and pragmatic recommendations for action and developing new tools and strategies useful to scholars and students as well as practitioners working in the field of SME and new venture management and consulting.

...Provides the practical concepts, entrepreneurial insights, and comprehensive resources you'll find essential both now and throughout your management future. Small Business Management delivers solid coverage of the fundamentals of business management as it teaches you not only how to start a business, but also how to manage, grow, and harvest a business.This market leading text places you in the role of decision maker, allowing you to immediately apply what you've learned to current challenges in today's small businesses. The book's thorough emphasis on building business plans ensures that you can effectively create, manage, and analyze a plan for your own venture.

Discover how to successfully launch and manage a small business. This text provides students with the tools they need in order to launch and manage a small business. This Eleventh Edition continues to provide students with a practical, hands-on approach to launch a business that has the greatest chance for success. This edition features ten new cases and the most recent statistics, studies, surveys, and research about entrepreneurship and small business management.

Start Fast, Start Right is a comprehensive book for entrepreneurs in the early stages of starting a business or in considering a path of business ownership or self-employment. This expert guide gives entrepreneurs the tools they need, including information on writing a business plan, finding capital, establishing an online presence for e-commerce, implementing best growth practices early in their lifecycle, and much, much more.

Intended primarily for undergraduate courses in small business management or entrepreneurship, this text also provides practical content to anyone interested in starting their own business. With a practical, "hands on" approach to entrepreneurship, this text aims to provide readers with the knowledge and tools they need to launch a business so that it has the greatest chance for success.

A guide to preparing and analyzing financial statements, setting up bookkeeping systems, and planning for taxes. Features chapters on income and expenses, cash accounting vs. accrual accounting, numerous small business resources, and a rundown of facts about independent contracting.