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Taylor & Francis Learning Unlearning and ReLearning Curves
Book SynopsisLearning, Unlearning and Re-learning Curves (Volume IV of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) focuses in on Learning Curves, and the various tried and tested models of Wright, Crawford, DeJong, Towill-Bevis and others. It explores the differences and similarities between the various models and examines the key properties that Estimators and Forecasters can exploit.A discussion about Learning Curve Cost Drivers leads to the consideration of a little used but very powerful technique of Learning Curve modelling called Segmentation, which looks at an organisation's complex learning curve as the product of multiple shallower learning curves. Perhaps the biggest benefit is that it simplifies the calculations in Microsoft Excel where there is a change in the rate of learning observed or expected. The same technique can be used to model and calibrate discontinuities in the learning process that result in setbacks and uplifts in time or cost. This technique
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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Managers Guide to Selfdevelopment
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Taylor & Francis Courage at Work
Book SynopsisCourage can shape our lives, as well as the workplace and business outcomes. Willingness and ability to take risks make space for major decisions. And itâs more than something to admire in others: courage can be learned, and this book will teach you.Building on examples from a 30-year international career in marketing, coaching, and political activism, Florence Guesnet introduces the pioneering concept of the âœcourage zone.â This shifts courage from an unattainable heroism to a competence that can be built with five steps: recognize fear, perceive your heart's desires, analyze reality, make a decision, and take the step. The book begins by strengthening the readerâs courage as an individual, inspiring a bold mindset and vision and including hands-on exercises. The book then goes on to show readers how to carry their courage into organizations and inspire others, addressing questions of governance, strategy, and everyday team encouragement against the backdrop of 21st century
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Taylor & Francis Narrative Nursing What Does it Mean to be a Professional Nurse
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Taylor & Francis Digital Social Entrepreneurship
Book SynopsisThis book discusses the emerging phenomenon of digital social entrepreneurship, which relies on the use and embracement of new technologies, and investigates the social implications and value for people, profit and planet.The authors examine the use of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, metaverse, and augmented reality to understand the evolution of social entrepreneurialism, considering three layers: micro, meso and macro. The micro layer analyses digital social entrepreneursâ attitude in generating new digital social innovation for disadvantaged people; the meso layer explores the combination of digital and social initiatives in an entrepreneurial journey to improve inclusiveness and sustainability; and the macro layer investigates the impact of exogenous events on DSE to scaling such ventures, also offering an overview of disadvantaged entrepreneurs.Offering new insights, research and practical guidance, this book will appeal in particular to scholars and post graduate students of entrepreneurship and small business management, organizational studies, technology and innovation management.
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Taylor & Francis International Case Studies in Food Tourism
Book SynopsisThis international case study book provides 28 expertly curated case studies on the topic of food tourism, each with detailed implementation instructions for the instructor to maximise student participation and learning.Embellished with questions, diagrams and data throughout, these case studies have been developed by academic and industry experts with the aim of creating a more interactive teaching experience focused on 'real world' scenarios within food tourism. Each case study is logically structured and includes an aim and objectives, expected learning outcomes, required background knowledge, steps of implementation in class or online, as well as suggestions for further reading resources. Topics covered range from locally oriented gastronomy identity to innovation and sustainability, with the aim of preparing future professionals and equipping them with the necessary skills and competencies to succeed within the industry.Easy to use and international in scope, this
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Taylor & Francis Sport Facility Operations Management
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Taylor & Francis Natures Blueprint for Business
Book SynopsisTapping into proven strategies, mechanisms and patterns that have been fine-tuned over 3.8 billion years, this book bridges the gap between the natural world and the business world and explores how to develop resilient organizations and businesses using lessons from nature.The science of biomimicry is an emerging force in helping us to gaze afresh at the world around us, often inspiring technological inspiration, but we have been slow to look at the organizational and relationship models that are all around us. This book contends that natural abundance flourishes at the edges, where one environmental element contacts another, and that these relationships that have been successful for millennia have endless lessons for us about how we organize ourselves. Each chapter starts with a clear example of a problem that a team or organization might face, goes on to consider a range of natural examples and offer practical suggestions to incorporate natureâs wisdom in the business world, and concludes with success stories of people and organizations already embracing the principles outlined in the book. Employing these principles and aided by suggested activities, readers will develop personalized plans, tailored to their unique situations, to lead their teamsâ evolution into thriving organizations.Observing edges, spaces and boundaries shows that is these are where magic happensâand with this book, leaders of all types of teams and organizations will be empowered to make real and immediate changes in their own contexts.
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Taylor & Francis Being at Work
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Taylor & Francis The Public Policy Perspective
Book SynopsisPublic policy and public administration are fundamental to a functioning society. These fields are embedded into our institutions, everyday lives, and the greater culture. This book will explore public interest roles in 2025 from the student, scholar, and practitioner perspective, as well as from their impacts on people and the planet. As we live through unceasingly unprecedented times, furthering our worldview on governance is essential. Benjamin H. Deitchman starts at the beginning: with understanding the basic perspectives on the public and nonprofit sectors and the roles in serving and leading in communities and beyond. Rigorously rooted in theory and practical experience, he examines how relevant individuals and institutions grow and provide impact, and how this shapes internal views and the views of others, including on television and in sports.While the work is tedious and serious, The Public Policy Perspective: A Personal Analysis of Public Work provides examples and analysis to explore its essentiality, and even its fun. A useful and engaging supplemental reading in an introductory or capstone course to provide perspective on the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities of the public policy or public administration scholar or professional.
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Taylor & Francis Practical Supply Chain and Logistics Analytics
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Taylor & Francis Organizations Jobs and Gender
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Taylor & Francis Human Factors in Remote Ship Operations
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Taylor & Francis Strategic City Branding
Book SynopsisCity branding is crucial for the development of cities. Strategic City Branding: Insights from Asian Cities brings together concepts, case studies, and strategic management tools for effective city branding. This book demonstrates how cities can leverage their unique characteristics to build an appealing brand and attract tourists, residents, and investors.The book presents a structured approach to city branding, featuring 24 concise case studies from various Asian cities. Readers will learn about the organisation of city branding efforts, city brand identities and visions, and the brand positioning process. It covers comprehensive execution strategies and methods for evaluating branding success. Each chapter offers conceptual tools for applying these ideas in practice, and the Asian case studies provide real-world insights into city branding.Strategic City Branding: Insights from Asian Cities is an essential resource for city branding and marketing pract
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Taylor & Francis Efficient Mutual Fund Markets
Book SynopsisThis book covers a new and innovative approach to the issue of investment portfolio efficiency from the perspective of a large institutional investor. It discusses the challenges relating to changes in returns on the international stock market, with particular emphasis on investments.Instead of focusing on just one designated market, the book examines four diversified, developed markets, and models the Polish market as a representative of emerging markets. The authors argue that the current market for available financial instruments, mainly derivatives, may be an example of a partially complete market. With such assumptions, they test selected markets, assuming that a representative investor, such as an investment fund, makes rational decisions and uses all available financial instruments. The research conducted in the book is unique in its assumption that investors form portfolios that consider the structure of the company's financial results. The significant impact that the financial crisis in the United States since 2007, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Russia's aggression against Ukraine have had on investors' decisions is also discussed.The book will find an audience among researchers, scholars and students specializing in finance and capital market investments.
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Taylor & Francis Corporate Risks and Leadership
Book SynopsisThe context of business has been changing for companies in recent years, and following numerous corporate and accounting scandals, many countries have increased the number of national and international regulations designed to ensure transparency and compliance with the law. Because of the existence of these new regulations, the level of control, the severity of sanctions by governments, and the amount of fines for noncompliance have increased dramatically.In parallel, with the technological revolution in communications, business management has become more transparent, and any negative event is uploaded to social networks and shared with an indeterminate number of people. This change in the regulatory, sanctioning, and technological context has forced large companies to rethink risks, investments, and budgets to deal with this more complex environment.To transition to this change, some companies have included ethics and compliance programs in their corporate agenda, alo
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Taylor & Francis Impact Business Design
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CRC Press Preparing for Sustainability Audits
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Taylor & Francis Marketing Strategy for the Arts
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Taylor & Francis Dark Tourism
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Taylor & Francis Fostering a Civil Workplace
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Taylor & Francis Integrated Business Innovation
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Taylor & Francis Creative Entrepreneurship
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Taylor & Francis Digital Marketing Fundamentals
Book SynopsisDigital Marketing Fundamentals covers the entire marketing process. The academic theory behind Digital Marketing as well as techniques and media are discussed. Digital Marketing Fundamentals is easy-to-read and contains many international examples and cases. The Dutch version of this book (Basisboek Online Marketing) has become a standard issue in The Netherlands. In this book, all relevant aspects of Digital Marketing are addressed: digital transformation, strategy and business models, online customer behaviour and learning to understand the customer, online branding, customer acquisition and customer engagement, facilitating online purchases and setting up digital services. The book addresses step-by-step the role of Digital Marketing in each phase of the customer cycle: from the inspiration phase and research phase to the maintenance and replacement phase. Designing effective websites and apps, digital analytics and experimentation and planning and organi
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CRC Press Introduction to Quantitative Hydrology
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Taylor & Francis Innovation and Structural Transformation in Asia
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Taylor & Francis Product Portfolio Management for Performance
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Taylor & Francis The Basics of Business StartUp
Book SynopsisThe Basics of Business Start-Up outlines the entrepreneurial journey from inception to start-up. Starting from the basic concepts and working through the start-up process step by step, the book is an indispensable guide both for would-be entrepreneurs and students on entrepreneurship / small business courses. Key features of this book include: A step-by-step, sequential approach, detailing the typical entrepreneurial journey Non-technical introduction to the basic business functions, including budgeting, accounting, marketing and more A readable and accessible beginnerâs guide to entrepreneurship and business start-up. Written in a refreshingly personal style, this concise guide is the perfect starting point for anyone seeking to put their entrepreneurial ambitions into action.
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Taylor & Francis The Practical Guide to Organising Events
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Taylor & Francis Doing Marketing Research
Book SynopsisTraditional research methods in marketing can be illuminating when used well, but all too often their results fail to provide the depth of understanding that organisations need to anticipate market needs.Doing Marketing Research enables researchers to get greater depth and meaning from their research and organisations to make smarter strategic decisions. This unique book explains market sensing simply and practically and demonstrates how it can benefit researchers. It teaches non-mainstream and alternative research methods, which facilitate innovative research design and achieve deep insights into the mindsets of consumers. The methods explored in this book include sensory research using ZMET, discourse analysis, consumer ethnography, social media networks, narrative and storytelling and gamification. This second edition has been fully updated to include several new chapters covering newer methods and topics, including the Delphi method, archival research, visual metho
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Taylor & Francis Financial Regulators and Macroprudential Policy
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Taylor & Francis Digital Transformation Strategies
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Taylor & Francis Ethics for Managers
Book SynopsisEthics for Managers introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of business ethics and translates this theory into practical terms, demonstrating the moral implications of the decisions managers make. It explains the decision-making processes and constraints that managers face, regardless of their level or function. It then proceeds to show how to identify and analyze the ethical aspects of these decisions.This third edition features updated examples and references throughout. It contains new material on managing employees working from home, increased emphasis on the pattern aspects of individual decisions and on the systemic constraints that affect managersâ decisions. There is a completely new chapter on artificial intelligence. This chapter explains at a basic level what artificial intelligence is, and examines its impact on decisions concerning the hiring, monitoring, evaluating, profiling and termination of employees.Student-friendly features include learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter, examples that demonstrate real-world business decisions, and end of chapter discussion questions. These discussion questions provide opportunities for applying chapter materials to actual decisions and can stimulate class discussion or serve as test questions. Students will find this compact, well-organized text a useful tool for understanding ethics in the digital age.
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Taylor & Francis Luxury Marketing and Brand Strategy
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Taylor & Francis Navigating Brand Activism
Book SynopsisIn a world where brands are no longer just selling but also taking a stand, Navigating Brand Activism, written by leading thinkers of the marketing world, is your guide to the fascinating, messy, and at times, head-shaking world of brand activism.This groundbreaking book delves into the motivations behind this movement, dissects the potential pitfalls, and celebrates the triumphs. Discover how some brands sing the song of brand affinity and social good, while others create a cacophony of confusion and lost profits. Learn how to differentiate between authentic activism and mere marketing ploys, and understand the impact of brand activism on consumers, businesses, and society as a whole. This book is for anyone who wants to understand: Why some purpose-driven brands are winning hearts, minds, and market share How to differentiate your brand in a crowded marketplace through activism How to spot authentic activism from mere marketing ploys The future of brand activism and its potential to create a better world The potential downsides of brand activism, including political backlash, consumer boycotts, and brand dilution Most importantly, when and when not to engage in brand activism. Whether youâre a business leader, a conscious consumer, or simply curious about this evolving landscape, this book will challenge, inspire, and empower you to navigate the world of woke washing and genuine advocacy.
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Taylor & Francis Employee Engagement in Startups
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Taylor & Francis AI and the Creative Economy
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on fostering new forms of entrepreneurship has become increasingly evident. Entrepreneurs worldwide are harnessing the capabilities of AI to develop innovative solutions and create businesses that address pressing challenges. Despite the growing recognition of AI's potential, there exists a crucial need to deepen understanding and awareness surrounding how individuals are leveraging AI to establish novel ventures. Many entrepreneurs are pioneering initiatives that deploy AI technologies to tackle complex problems. This challenge revolves around the imperative to explore, document, and comprehend the diverse ways in which AI is driving the emergence of new businesses, solving real-world problems, and reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape. It underscores the necessity for entrepreneurs, researchers, and the wider community to grasp the transformative role of AI in fostering innovation and enabling the creation of b
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Taylor & Francis AI and the Music Industry
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on fostering new forms of entrepreneurship has become increasingly evident. Entrepreneurs worldwide are harnessing the capabilities of AI to develop innovative solutions and create businesses that address pressing challenges. Despite the growing recognition of AI's potential, there exists a crucial need to deepen understanding and awareness surrounding how individuals are leveraging AI to establish novel ventures. Many entrepreneurs are pioneering initiatives that deploy AI technologies to tackle complex problems. This challenge revolves around the imperative to explore, document, and comprehend the diverse ways in which AI is driving the emergence of new businesses, solving real-world problems, and reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape. It underscores the necessity for entrepreneurs, researchers, and the wider community to grasp the transformative role of AI in fostering innovation and enabling the creation of b
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Taylor & Francis AI and Society
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the profound impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on fostering new forms of entrepreneurship has become increasingly evident. Entrepreneurs worldwide are harnessing the capabilities of AI to develop innovative solutions and create businesses that address pressing challenges. Despite the growing recognition of AI's potential, there exists a crucial need to deepen understanding and awareness surrounding how individuals are leveraging AI to establish novel ventures. Many entrepreneurs are pioneering initiatives that deploy AI technologies to tackle complex problems. This challenge revolves around the imperative to explore, document, and comprehend the diverse ways in which AI is driving the emergence of new businesses, solving real-world problems, and reshaping the entrepreneurial landscape. It underscores the necessity for entrepreneurs, researchers, and the wider community to grasp the transformative role of AI in fostering innovation and enabling the creation of b
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Taylor & Francis The Thriving Biopharma Business
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Taylor & Francis The Servant Leader
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Taylor & Francis Develop Your Leadership Voice
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CRC Press Security Technologies for Law Enforcement
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CRC Press Embedded Software Development for SafetyCritical Systems Third Edition
Book SynopsisSafety-critical devices, whether medical, rail, automotive or industrial are dependent on the correct operation of sophisticated software. Many standards describe how such systems should be designed, built and verified. Developers who previously had to know only how to program devices for their industry must now understand and deploy additional development practices and be prepared to justify their work to external assessors. The third edition of Embedded Software Development for Safety-Critical Systems is about the creation of dependable embedded software. It is written for system designers, implementers and verifiers who are experienced in general embedded software development, but who are now facing the prospect of developing a software-based system for safety-critical applications. In particular, it is aimed at those creating a product that must satisfy one or more of the international standards relating to safety critical applications, including IEC 61508, ISO 26262, EN 50716, UL 4600, ISO 21448, ISO/PAS 8800 or IEC 62304.This book has evolved from a course text used by QNX for a three-day training module on building embedded software for safety-critical systems Although it describes open source tools for most applications, it also provides enough information for you to seek out commercial vendors if thatâs the route you decide to pursue. All of the techniques described in this book may be further explored through several hundred references to articles that the author has personally found helpful as a professional software developer. Almost all of these references are available for free download.
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Taylor & Francis AIPowered Cybersecurity for Banking and Finance
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Taylor & Francis Healthy Decisions
Book SynopsisThe global pandemic taught numerous lessonsâthe most important one: When healthcare executives make good decisions, little else matters. When they refuse to make decisions or show a pattern of making bad ones, nothing else matters. Healthcare executives should hear this as a clarion call that awakened us all to the fact that we can no longer afford the short-sighted luxury of considering decision-making a passive, pristine process. Itâs not. Itâs messy. How did we fall into the trap of thinking of healthcare organizations in philosophical instead of pragmatic terms? Maybe when high-level executives started shying away from the difficult decisions, preferring to think of their organizations in abstract, ethereal terms that some like to call âœculture.â We fare better when executives realize they create the climate of a healthcare organization through a series of daunting decisionsâdecisions that sometimes force tradeoffsâsometimes untidy, but ultimately advantageous tradeoffs.
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CRC Press A Cybersecurity Leaders Journey
Book SynopsisIn todayâs cybersecurity landscape, the role of a cybersecurity leader goes beyond technical expertise. Communicating cybersecurity risks and initiatives to executives and boards demands a unique blend of strategic insight and business language. A Cybersecurity Leaderâs Journey: Speaking the Language of the Board takes readers on a transformative path from technical talk to business-savvy communication.Follow Nick, a newly appointed CISO, as he navigates the challenges of bridging the gap between complex cybersecurity concepts and the business-focused concerns of board members. Struggling to convey the impact of cybersecurity initiatives, Nick quickly realizes that his technical knowledge alone isnât enough to gain the boardâs trust. With guidance from a mentor, he learns how to address the boardâs priorities, answer the critical question of âœWhatâs in it for me?â, and deliver insights that resonate.This book offers more than just a narrativeâit provides actionable takeaways for cybersecurity leaders and other professionals who want to master the art of strategic communication. Readers will discover how to close information asymmetry gaps, manage the affect heuristic, and develop a communication style that builds trust and fosters informed decision-making.Whether youâre a CISO, an aspiring CISO, or a technical expert aiming to improve your business communication, A Cybersecurity Leaderâs Journey equips you with the skills to make cybersecurity not just a necessity but a valued component of business success as well. Step into Nickâs journey, gain insights from his challenges, and learn how to become the trusted advisor your board needs.
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CRC Press Security Relationship Management
Book SynopsisAligning information security to the goals and strategies of the business is paramount for ensuring risks are addressed, without an abundance of negative impacts to the company. But how does a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) accomplish effective alignment? A security executive must understand the detailed needs of business leaders and stakeholders from across all corners of the company. We cannot rely on a standard cadence of general security discussions across all of the lines of business, as well as functional areas, and expect our alignment to be maximally effective. Instead, we should promote our security programs in such a way that makes it personal to whomever we are speaking with at any given time.By leveraging already established and tested marketing concepts, slightly altered for information security, the CISO can tailor their message to fit the needs of each stakeholder. This allows for in-depth business alignment, as well as a holistic view of the company
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