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More About This Title Business Development - A Market-OrientedPerspective
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The book is divided into three modules focusing on the market-oriented business developer’s mindset, on providing a state-of-the-art toolbox for careful strategic analyses and decisions, and lastly on the critical aspects of business plans and their content.
The approach of the book is focused and selective in its choice of content and provides a cumulative development of the relevant topics. Each chapter includes an ‘implications for the market-oriented business developer’ at the end to enhance a student’s learning.
The content of the book is applicable to any new business venture as well as for the development and implementation of growth opportunities in mature organizations. Inherently international in its scope, the text includes numerous real world examples, taken from the author’s own experience as a biotech entrepreneur, as well as from the wider global business community.
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Hans Elbe Sorensen currently holds a position as Assistant Professor in the Strategic Organization Design unit at the Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark. During his PhD he was visiting doctoral fellow at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Professor Sorensen's research interests include the strategic organization of customer and competitive information and market orientation and the role of customer and competitive information in the development and deployment of firm's resources. His teaching portfolio includes courses in Business Development, Advanced Market Strategy and Theory, Marketing Channels, and his business experiences cover various endeavors, such as co-founding, being CFO and Chairman of biotech start-up companies, freelance consultant and data analyst, coaching in business plan competitions since 2001, and being sergeant at the Royal Danish military police.
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Chapter 1. Introduction and Default Positions
Module 1. The Business Developer’s Mindset
Chapter 2. Business Development
Chapter 3. Market Orientation
Chapter 4. Innovation, the Entrepreneur, and Entrepreneurial Orientation
Chapter 5. Business Models and Business Plans
Module 2. The Business Developer’s Toolbox
Chapter 6. Strategy and Strategic Management
Chapter 7. The Business Environment – value creation I
Chapter 8. Resources and Organization Design – value creation II
Chapter 9. Value Appropriation and Property rights
Module 3. Crafting and Executing the Business Plan
Chapter 10. The Marketing Plan – marketing management and market research
Chapter 11. The Organization Plan – organizational development and governance
Chapter 12. The Finance Plan – financial statements, arrangements, and valuation
Chapter 13. Connecting the Dots – executing the business plan
Index
