Operational Risk Management Paperback

The Electronic Day Trader: Successful Strategies for On-line Trading”, Marc Friedfertig and George West is an international Bestseller! It is the first book to bring high-profit day trading to the individual investor! It is now in paperback! ‘This is the book that started it all’ – Joel Kurtzman, “Fortune”. ‘If you want to take your first few steps into the fiercely competitive (and potentially lucrative) world of stock trading, then you should definitely read this book’ – Roger Segal, TheStreet.com. ‘[Friedfertig and West’s] thorough overview moves at the right pace, with well-chosen examples and solid explanations of how to compete in the cut-throat day trading game’ – “Online Investor”.”BusinessWeek”, “The Wall Street Journal”, “The New York Times”. These national publications recognized the groundbreaking “Electronic Day Trader” for its broad-based market power – not to mention its amazing run on each of their bestseller lists! Now let day trading pioneers Marc Friedfertig and George West, also the authors of the bestselling “Electronic Day Traders’ Secrets”, show you the systems, strategies, and step-by-step instructions to: use today’s high-powered home computers to access professional research, real-time quotes, and low-cost, instant trade executions; bypass your broker and gain direct access to the markets – through SuperDot, ECNs, and other electronic trading systems; and, develop the skills used by market makers to beat them at their own game.

In this perennial best seller, embraced by organizations and industries worldwide, globally preeminent management thinkers W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne challenge everything you thought you knew about the requirements for strategic success. Recognized as one of the most iconic and impactful strategy books ever written, Blue Ocean Strategy, now updated with fresh content from the authors, argues that cutthroat competition results in nothing but a bloody red ocean of rivals fighting over a shrinking profit pool. Based on a study of 150 strategic moves (spanning more than 100 years across 30 industries), the authors argue that lasting success comes not from battling competitors but from creating “blue oceans” – untapped new market spaces ripe for growth.

Blue Ocean Strategy presents a systematic approach to making the competition irrelevant and outlines principles and tools any organization can use to create and capture their own blue oceans. This expanded edition includes: a new preface by the authors: “Help! My Ocean Is Turning Red”; updates on all cases and examples in the book; and two new chapters and an expanded third one – “Alignment, Renewal, and Red Ocean Traps” – that address some of the most pressing questions listeners and readers have asked over the years.

′Küng’s book stands out for its focus on concepts, drivers, and dynamics. Its scope and learning are brilliant and dazzling. This updated edition will be a source of insight for students and a tool for industry veterans who seek the perspective of academia.′
– Eli Noam, Columbia Business School

′A landmark contribution to scholarship, Küng’s excellent book provides an empirically rich and analytically sharp-sighted guide to contemporary organizational strategies in a complex and dynamic media environment.′
– Gillian Doyle, University of Glasgow

′In the age of relentless technological disruption, unlimited distribution and non-professionalization, media firms are more dependent than ever on strategic management. Küng articulates the dimensions of media industries to account for an ever-increasing array of challenges and strategies.′
– David Craig, University of Southern California

In this Second Edition of a book many found invaluable for research and teaching, including myself, Küng accomplishes a challenging task: to preserve all the best qualities of the First Edition while both extending the scope and deepening understandings about strategic management theory in application to media industries.′
– Gregory Ferrell Lowe, University of Tampere

With the media industries facing unprecedented change and challenge from top to bottom, it has never been more vital to understand the elements of strategy and how they apply to media organizations.

This new edition:

• Shows innovation, disruption and strategic adaptation in action, with a stronger focus on a case-based approach
• Takes readers deep into case studies on BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Netflix, the New York Times and the BBC
• Explains strategic theory and concepts with insight and clarity
• Shows how to understand change and decision-making within media organizations.

This is the essential guide to change and management in the media industries – ideal for students of media studies, media economics and media management.

Most organizations consist of multiple business and support units, each populated by highly trained, experienced executives. But often the efforts of individual units are not coordinated, resulting in conflicts, lost opportunities, and diminished performance.

Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton argue that the responsibility for this critical alignment lies with corporate headquarters. In this book, the authors apply their revolutionary Balanced Scorecard management system to corporate-level strategy, revealing how highly successful enterprises achieve powerful synergies by explicitly defining corporate headquarters’ role in setting, coordinating, and overseeing organizational strategy.

Based on extensive field research in organizations worldwide, Alignment shows how companies can build an enterprise-level Strategy Map and Balanced Scorecard that clearly articulate the “enterprise value proposition”: how the enterprise creates value above that achieved by individual business units operating alone. The book provides case studies, actionable frameworks, and sample scorecards that show how to align business and support units, boards of directors, and external partners with the corporate strategy and create a governance process that will ensure that alignment is sustained.

The next breakthrough in strategy execution from the field’s premier thinkers, Alignment shows how today’s companies can unlock unrealized value from enterprise synergies.