Reading List

Each issue, Management for Design selects reading material that may be of interest to design businesses. Our summer issue selection follows:

Best Practices in Strategic Planning for A/E Firms - David Burstein, P.E.

Designed to help you conduct better strategic planning, this book provides you with the results of a survey that PSMJ did with 75 firms on how they conduct strategic planning including data analysis on what works and what doesn’t.

Start with Why - Simon Sinek

In studying the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered that they all think, act, and communicate in the exact same way-and it’s the complete opposite of what everyone else does.

Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwald and Yves Pigneur

A handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow’s enterprises. The book takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organisation.

The New IT: How Technology Leaders are Enabling Business Strategy in the Digital Age - Jill Dyche

The new IT equips you with the tools you need to succeed in reframing the IT conversation and propelling your business forward.

The Scorecard Solution: Measure What Matters and Drive Sustainable Growth - Dan E. King

The Scorecard Solution helps companies chart a course for rapid change — and outperform the competition every time.