Market Driven Strategy: Processes for Creating Value by George S. Day, ISBN 068486536X
Now in its 21st printing, George S. Day's Market Driven Strategy first defined what it means to be "market-driven". Providing a foundation for Day's new companion volume The Market Driven Organization, this seminal work remains a vital resource for a generation of managers struggling to align their organizations to volatile markets. Contending that the rate of change in the market has clearly outstripped the speed at which a conventionally managed company can respond, Day makes a compelling case for first creating superior customer value, without which there can be no shareholder value. He presents a proven market-driven approach to formulating and implementing competitive strategy at the business-unit level -- "in the trenches" -- based upon materials that have been empirically tested and critiqued in more than 200 internal executive programs and strategic planning sessions at such companies as U.S. West, General Motors, Marriott, Kodak, and General Electric.
Day introduces the five critical, interdependent choices that managers must make to create a market-driven strategy. With dozens of examples from companies such as Otis Elevator, GE, H.J. Heinz, Ikea, Nestle, Acuson, and 3M, he shows how forward-thinking companies select their markets, differentiate their products, choose their communication and distribution channels, decide on the scale and scope of their support activities, and select future areas for growth. Finally, Day persuasively documents the commitment to thinking and planning processes at these winning companies that harnesses the power of bottom-up understanding of customers and competitive realities with top-down vision and leadership.
Let's Ask Michael by Michael Payne, ISBN 0071416277
HOME SWEET STYLISH HOME
Michael Payne -popular host of the HGTV's hit series, "Designing for the Sexes - brings his unique talents and expertise to this beautiful and practical reference designed to help homeowners find stylish solutions to today's most challenging home design dilemmas.
REAL LIFE QUESTIONS ASKED BY REAL LIFE PEOPLE:
Utilizing a vibrant full-color format, Michael answers such questions as:
* I want a classic Victorian theme in my family room, where do I begin?
* Our new living room has 20-foot ceilings and makes furniture look miniature, what should we do?
* We want color in our room, but have no idea where to start, what do you suggest?
Michael Payne's ingenious--and beautiful--answers will give you ideas you'll want to try in your own home. Whether you're married or single, you'll appreciate the exciting decorating solutions in "Let's Ask Michael. This book --
* Puts 100 complete design answers in front of your eyes in gorgeous 4-color, 2-page spreads
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Loft Bible
This collection demonstrates the immense variety of lofts in a wide range of buildings from all over the world. They have been converted with great ingenuity and imagination by a new breed of urban dwellers who have embraced the loft living idyll. Enthusiastically eclectic, importing ideas gathered from travel or reading, and using furniture from modern emporiums of design or found in junk shops, these loft dwellers have left the essential character and texture of their buildings intact while layering space in subtle ways so that volumetric grandeur is not lost. This tour gives the reader a glimpse of the inventiveness, vigor and pride employed in creating spectacular dwellings out of amorphous spaces.
Loft Bible
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The Art Nouveau Style by Roberta Waddell, ISBN 0486235157
One of the largest pictorial surveys available contains rare illustrations of jewelry, metalwork, glass ceramics, textiles, architecture, furniture and other objects. 579 photographs display jewelry by Lalique, Mucha-designed watch, stained glass by Gaudin, interiors by Hohlwein, plus pendants, iron doors, reliefs, flatware, etc.
The Art Nouveau Style by Roberta Waddell, ISBN 0486235157
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A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture by Laurie Winters, ISBN 1555951740
The Richard and Erna Flagg collection, given to the Milwaukee Art Museum in 1991, is one of the most important single donations of European decorative arts to an American museum. It includes unique and historically significant objects that provide insight into the culture, religion, and history of the Renaissance.
Highlights of the collection include masterpieces of precious materials and virtuoso craftsmanship: rare and visually stunning clocks; tablewares and vessels; furniture; and religious works. A Renaissance Treasury was designed and produced with a visual opulence to match the magnificent collection it celebrates; each object is reproduced in color with authoritative commentary.
A Renaissance Treasury: The Flagg Collection of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture by Laurie Winters, ISBN 1555951740
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