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getAbstract provides rapid access to the vast expert knowledge of top businessleaders and authors. With more than 4,500 titles, it is the largest online library of book summaries. It is a business information resource that allows managers to increase their knowledge, become more innovative, and solve their everyday business problems accurately and efficiently.
What business challenges is your company facing?
Employee Engagement •
Continuous Learning •
Meeting Sales Targets •
Competition •
Multi-generation Workforce •
Globalization & Diversity •
Innovation •
Going Green •
Customer Service •
“Achieving sustainable industry leadership is a complex learning challenge.”
(Peter Senge, Author of “The Fifth Discipline“)
Which features define the essential quality of our summaries?
Result:Employees are able to acquire the knowledge needed to make informed, intelligent decisions in the fastest possible time!
What is a Summary?All the important points are intelligently compressed by subject experts into just 5 pages, concise and yet comprehensive enough to be read in only 10 minutes.
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Leading Authors Daniel Goleman Clayton Christensen Warren Bennis Tom Peters Ram Charan Jack Welch Michael E. Porter Warren E. Buffett Michael Hammer Stephen R. Covey Ken Blanchard John P. Kotter Marcus Buckingham David P. Norton Marshall Goldsmith Nassim Taleb
Subject Areas Leadership & Management Strategy Sales & Marketing Finance Human Resources IT, Production & Logistics Career & Self-Development Small Business Economics & Politics Industries Intercultural Management Concepts & Trends
Which features define the essential quality of our summaries?
Result:Employees are able to acquire the knowledge needed to make informed, intelligent decisions in the fastest possible time!
What is a Summary?All the important points are intelligently compressed by subject experts into just 5 pages, concise and yet comprehensive enough to be read in only 10 minutes.
For the End-user
Unique Personalized Summary Service• TM
Personal bookshelf to hold favorite titles•Weekly e-mails inform about the newest summaries•Rapid Access Search• TM
RSS Feeds•
It’s not just the quality of the summaries, but the exceptional depth and breadth of the whole library.
Clear, concise summaries of today’s top business books• - Essential information gained in 10–15 minutes
4,500+ summaries in library and 50+ new summaries added each month• - Industry’s largest selection of summaries - Ensures relevance, whatever your field
1,000+ audio summaries available in iPod / MP3 format•
Written by professional business journalists who have appeared in:• - Wall Street Journal - BusinessWeek - Financial Times - Economist
Partnerships with more than 300 leading publishers worldwide, including •Harvard Business Press, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons and many others.
Multiple languages available •
Why are the Harvard Summaries important?
Current ideas and best in business thinking•Released jointly with book•Includes “Business Essentials” series•Breakthrough titles:•
- Blue Ocean Strategy - The Future of Management - The Ultimate Question
Critical for strategic planning•120+ abstracts, 30+ new / year •
Getting the exact information you need, when you need it, is crucial. getAbstract allows you to design information flows to eliminate unnecessary reading. Distribution Options
RSS Feeds•Podcasts•Competency tabs•Custom reading lists•XML search options•
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Delivery MethodsBrowser or PDF•Blackberry, Mobipocket, iPhone•MP3 files for iPod, etc.•Kindle•
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“Provides the essence of the book in a short, easily read summary.”
“An invaluable resource.”
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“Abstracts are very well written and very useful.”
“Extensive breadth & choice in range of coverage.”
“Great benefit to offer employees.”
Applying getAbstract’s solutions to critical business challenges leads to maximum benefit for your organization.
Virtual Book Club
A collaborative tool that allows creativity to expand throughout your organization.•
Colleagues can get together from anywhere in the world and share new ideas.•
Allows the integration of Web 2.0 functions.•
Fosters innovation, collaborative and continuous learning, and the development of a •reading culture.
Specialized Competency Sets
Customized mapping of select getAbstract summaries to corporate learning objectives/competencies such as:
•Executive Development Plan – Reinforce the development of senior executives.
•Innovation – Plan, prepare and implement innovative strategies that will set you apart from the competition. •Emotional Intelligence – Create an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding among co-workers, and between employees and customers. •Employee Engagement – Help understand and build employee engagement in your organization.
•Going Green – Learn the many ways your organization can do its part to help create a safer, cleaner world. •Sales – Find ways to lead, coach and motivate your sales teams.
• Auto – The new challenges arising from the globalization of the auto industry.
Applications
Develop innovation and grow creativity throughout your organization.
Help executives developleadership skills.
Facilitate learning by offering the effective combination of different modes of delivery.
Collection of abstracts targeted at:•Innovation•Executive Development Plan•EmotionalIntelligence•AutoIndustry•EmployeeEngagement•GoingGreen•Sales&Service
Employees use our vast library to remedy professional development needs.
“When we meet our clients they expect us to know the latest business and finance bestsellers. Thanks to getAbstract, we do.”
(Kristina Mika, Chrysler Corporate University)
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(Bob Eccles, Senior Fellow, PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor, Harvard Business School)
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(Global Head, Leadership Development, Novartis)
Integrating getAbstract into your organization
Advantages for Learners
•Moreeffectivetransferofknowledge•Depthoflibrary–alwaysfindwhat you need•Focusonkeytopics•Effortlesscomprehension•Easierinformationretention
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•Implementation•Creativemarketingideas•Impactmeasurement•Usageanalytics•Portaldesign•Solutionmapping•LMSintegration
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Value to your organization
Value to your Organization
•Increasecompetitiveability•Solveproblemsquicker•Knowledgesharing•Increaseproductivity•Createaninnovativeenvironment•Buildanon-goinglearningculture•Highusagebymanagers
Employees use our vast library to remedy professional development needs.
