Is your organization one of the 85% who develop strategic goals but fail to achieve them?The difference between successful, growing organizations and dying organizations is the ability to achieve future goals. Why didn't you achieve your strategy? Too many organizations waste time and money on developing strategy and then never achieve their goals. What goes wrong? Items that derail the best intentions include poor predictions about the future; internal politics that impact the projects selected; biases in the decision-making process, and other stumbling blocks. This book provides the approach that significantly increases an organization's ability to achieve its strategy. This is not a book about developing strategy. This is a book that will help you actually achieve the strategy the organization's leadership has developed. Strategy is necessary but it is a complete waste of time unless it is effectively turned into real results. If you want to see where an organization will be in 5 years, don't look at its strategic goals. Look at where management spends the money. This book is designed to bridge the gap between the managers who are involved in the strategy selection process and the project managers who lead the projects.

As a financial blueprint of any government, the budget is the important instrument to carry out the government's policies and programs. This book provides an exhaustive and analytical account of budgetary developments in India since the country's independence in 1947, with a focus on post-1991 reforms. The book is organized into eight parts, each containing information that deals with some aspect of budgetary policy in India. Areas of discussion include: the economic role of modern governments, particularly in developing countries * various reasons for state intervention in the working of an economic system with special reference to the provision of public goods * the constitutional provisions and parliamentary procedures and controls applicable to the budgetary exercise of the government of India * the structure of the central government budget * the functional, economic, and cross-classification of the budget * recent budgetary reforms in India including gender budgeting * the taxes, expenditures, subsidies, and debt liabilities of the central government, as well as the taxes of the state governments * the nature of center-state and state-local financial relations in India and the existing arrangements for inter-governmental financial transfers * highlights and summaries of each central government budget from 1947-48 to 2009-10 * appendices which provide supplementary information related to the budgetary exercise of the government of India * a glossary of budgetary terms * and time-series budgetary data.

In recent years developments in information and communication technology, along with globalisation and trade liberalisation, have brought about a revolution in the capital markets. Always highly sensitive to global corporate trends, the asset management industry has been subject to huge changes in recent years.

This book discusses the changing nature of asset management and the implications for investors. It is based on extensive research and interviews with a large number of distinguished practitioners in the industry.

The issue of how technology has impacted on asset management is discussed and how, with the growth of the industry, more individuals are exercising control over their investments than ever before. Insightful and comprehensive, this book is a must for anyone involved in the management of money.