88 Business Management Tools - PDF Version
📘 The practical guide to structuring, organizing, and developing your business
378 pages of directly applicable advice, methods, and tools.
✅ 88 practical tools
✅ 8 exclusive bonus tools
✅ 1 super bonus: CSR action plan
✅ Case studies
✅ Mistakes to avoid
✅ Best practices
✅ Self-assessments
✅ Ready-to-use templates
Do you run a business or want to grow your activity?
Every day, you have to make decisions, manage your finances, grow your sales, lead your teams, organize your projects, and anticipate market changes.
But what tools should you use? How do you structure your thinking? What indicators should you track?
This guide aims to answer precisely these questions.
More than just a book, it's a real toolkit for leaders and managers.
Overview of what you will learn
🎯 Define an effective strategy
SWOT, PESTEL, Business Model Canvas, SMART objectives, decision matrices, stakeholder analysis.
📊 Monitor financial performance
Cash flow, WCR, break-even point, financial dashboards, cost and profitability analysis.
👥 Manage and develop teams
Leadership, recruitment, motivation, evaluation, conflict management, and skills development.
📈 Develop marketing and sales
Market research, personas, prospecting, CRM, customer loyalty, and sales management.
⚙️ Optimize processes and operations
Quality, Lean Management, 5S method, continuous improvement, and risk management.
📅 Successfully manage projects
Gantt chart, RACI matrix, risk management, and change management.
💻 Achieve digital transformation
Digitalization, automation, cybersecurity, data protection, and digital tools.
🌍 Integrate CSR and governance
Ethics, governance, compliance, responsible purchasing, CSR diagnostics, and a complete action plan.
Why is this book different?
Because it doesn't just present concepts.
Each chapter combines:
- simple explanations;
- concrete examples;
- case studies;
- immediately usable tools;
- templates ready to adapt to your business.
Who is this guide for?
- ✔ Leaders of very small businesses and SMEs
- ✔ Entrepreneurs and freelancers
- ✔ Managers and department heads
- ✔ Project initiators
- ✔ Students in management or entrepreneurship
- ✔ Consultants and business advisors
About the author
Valérie FAGOT-LAURET leverages her 35 years of professional experience as a CFO, HRD, and CIO to achieve one ambition: to make management and steering tools accessible to everyone.
Through this work, she shares methods and practices that enable the structuring of an activity, the improvement of its performance, and better decision-making in a constantly evolving environment.
🎁 Bonus included
In addition to the 88 management tools:
✅ 8 bonus tools dedicated to governance, ethics, and CSR
✅ 1 super bonus: a ready-to-use CSR action plan template.
A unique investment to have a real business management library in one book. 🚀