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    Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
    Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
    Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition
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    Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

    By Gerardus Blokdyk

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    About this ebook

    Do you recommend, specify, or approve the acquisition of technology products and services?

    Have you ever been involved in a department or organization reorganization or big change?

    Is an executives AI technology expertise or business acumen more important?

    Is there a difference between the job you do and the job your customers wish you would do?

    To what extent does this project test your comprehension skills and technical knowledge?

    What do you now know about the people or the situation that you did not know at the time?

    What goes on in the marketing department of your organization, and why is it so important?

    What have you done to help your human resources department to become a strategic partner?

    What strengths did you rely on in your last position to make you successful in your work?

    What technology or tools have you found most useful or effective in motivating your staff?

    This Business Acumen Guide is unlike books you're used to. If you're looking for a textbook, this might not be for you. This book and its included digital components is for you who understands the importance of asking great questions. This gives you the questions to uncover the Business Acumen challenges you're facing and generate better solutions to solve those problems.

    Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.

    Unless you're talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. That process needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

    This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Business Acumen investments work better.

    This Business Acumen All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.

    INCLUDES all the tools you need to an in-depth Business Acumen Self-Assessment. Featuring new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core levels of Business Acumen maturity, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Business Acumen improvements can be made.

    In using the questions you will be better able to:

    Diagnose Business Acumen projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices.

    Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals.

    Integrate recent advances in Business Acumen and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines.

    Using the Self-Assessment tool gives you the Business Acumen Scorecard, enabling you to develop a clear picture of which Business Acumen areas need attention.

    Your purchase includes access to the Business Acumen self-assessment digital components which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool that enables you to define, show and lead your organization exactly with what's important.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher5STARCooks
    Release dateNov 27, 2020
    ISBN9781867494379
    Business Acumen A Complete Guide - 2021 Edition

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