Business strategy Books
Management Concepts, Inc The Business of Government
Book SynopsisThe Business of Government is your guide to a new breed of business planning that meshes private sector strategies with a methodology designed exclusively for the public sector. No other strategic planning guide offers this hands-on, public sector focus. The Business of Government provides guidance, tools, and real-world examples you can use right away to analyze where you stand and what specific steps are needed to take you to the "managing for results" platform that is the centerpiece of the Results Act of 1993 – and your springboard to a whole new level of performance. It explains how to initiate, manage, measure and sustain a remarkable transformation - an approach proven to produce a dramatic impact on public policy and service to the citizen. Plus, the book includes model documents ready to adapt for your own program, including an actual business plan, sample financials, and sample performance report. Learn how to define and deliver a new era of results as you: • Dramatically improve critical thinking and innovation • Develop a business strategy proven to work in government • Overcome implementation obstacles - including "old culture" • Align support organizations • Establish a senior management council • Oversee strategy implementation teams • Write annual performance reports explaining your results Profit from expert advice on applying today's best "smart government" tools, including these: 1. Strategies: Transformational leadership strategies that address change-resistance, skills gaps and other challenges. 2. Gap analysis methodology: A proven model for assessing how your organization may have drifted from mission — and how to get back on track. 3. Tactics: Specific technology, human resource, and process solutions for adjusting and invigorating your programs. Case studies: Real-world "lessons learned" to help you apply the most successful solutions
£27.20
Management Concepts, Inc Performance Oriented Management: A Practical
Book SynopsisToday's Best Performance Improvement Practices Tailored to Government Performance-Oriented Management: A Practical Guide for Government Agencies will help you make a smooth transition from a management philosophy that is reactive and task-oriented to one based on a vision of accomplishment. With this practical, authoritative, and comprehensive guidebook, you'll have a tested framework and process for making the change to performance improvement. The method is based on the acclaimed Malcolm Baldrige Assessment Criteria for performance improvement, which are regarded as a national benchmark. Performance-Oriented Management will give you a solid understanding of the basics of performance improvement. With this must-have resource, you'll: • Get a detailed method to position your organization for major change • Understand the benefits of performance-oriented, rather than task-oriented, management • Learn how to determine your destination (vision) and your starting point (assessment) • Discover why top management must initiate and drive the change • Learn why assessment and strategic planning are of paramount importance — not add-on programs for an already-overloaded workforce • Find out why it's critical that planning drives the budget, rather than the budget driving planning. Develop a step-by-step, comprehensive, top-down method for implementing performance improvement
£36.00
Management Concepts, Inc Performance-Based Contracting (ActionPack)
Book SynopsisLearn how you can apply this strategic method to boost flexibility and innovation in business arrangements. Find out how PBC is being used by government and industry leaders to motivate sellers to deliver products, services, and solutions that meet or exceed buyers’ requirements. Discover how to apply performance standards, metrics, and other incentives for superior results. Become familiar with current techniques such as the performance work statement (PWS), statement of objectives (SOO), quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP), and more.
£13.49
Management Concepts, Inc Federal Construction Contracting Made Easy
Book SynopsisFollow the Path to Success in Federal Construction Contracting Opportunities abound in federal government construction contracting, but the devil is in the details. Companies performing work for the federal government must plan and operate based on very specific guidelines and regulations. Knowing how to work within those strict parameters makes the difference between success and failure. Federal Construction Contracting Made Easy is your road map to successfully identifying, planning, and completing government construction projects. This book guides you in finding opportunities, preparing winning proposals, and staying in compliance on construction projects. It is the one resource you will need to work in this competitive arena. The book provides guidance on: • Understanding the Federal Acquisition Regulation and knowing when and how to use it for your benefit and protection • Preparing quality control and safety programs that comply with federal regulations and processes • Determining when a change order is required and how to price and properly process • Identifying a claim and knowing how to process it Federal Construction Contracting Made Easy is an invaluable resource for construction firms, architect/engineer firms, subcontractors, and vendors that want to do business with the federal government. Plus! A handy glossary of terms is included. Bonus: Federal Construction Contracting Made Easy: A Field Guide to the FAR is available as a supplement for project superintendents.
£39.75
Management Concepts, Inc The Government Manager's Guide to The Statement of Work
Book SynopsisThis volume offers practical guidance on writing and preparing a description of government requirements, whether the document used is a statement of work (SOW), a performance work statement (PWS), or a statement of objectives (SOO). This description specifies exactly what good and services are being purchased, including their quality, requirements, quantity, and schedule for delivery, and also defines the relationship between the government and the contractor. From an overview of the elements that make a good SOW, to the methods for changing an SOW to meet new conditions, this is a hands-on resource for every government manager who is involved with contracts.
£31.50
Management Concepts, Inc The Project Management Answer Book
Book SynopsisWith a new chapter on Scrum agile, updates throughout, and many additional PMP test tips, this new edition builds on the solid foundation of the first edition. The structure of this update maps closely to the PMBOK guide V5 and is designed to assist anyone studying for the PMP and other certification exams. Helpful sections cover: networking and social media tips for PMs, including the best professional organizations, virtual groups, and podcast resources; formulas PMs need to know, plus a template to help certification candidates prepare and self-test for their exams; quick study sheet for the processes covered on the PMP exam; key changes in PMBOK guide V5, for readers familiar with earlier versions who want the skinny on the new version. -- Edited summary from book.
£58.40
Berrett-Koehler THE KNOWLEDGE ENGINE
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£22.10
£15.29
Entrepreneur Press The Multiplier Model: How Systems Can Create
Book SynopsisCreate a Business that Runs Itself Going from small business to successful startup to scalable growth takes more than just good luck, it takes a system. Over the last 34 years franchising consultant and growth expert Mark Siebert has been sought out by more than 70,000 executives looking to expanding their company. Out of those 70,000 only 5,000 had the right systems in place to go from successful to scalable. What do these companies have in common? 1. They are good at what they do. Being good at the core of your business that you continue to see a healthy return on your investment. 2. They have a system in place and a manual on hand. Their process is documented and routinely integrated into every aspect of their business, so if someone follows the system the business can virtually run itself.
£19.34
Red Wheel/Weiser Battling Big Box: How Nimble Niche Companies Can
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser Leap!: 101 Ways to Grow Your Business
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser Power of Paradox: Harness the Energy of Competing
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£14.24
Red Wheel/Weiser Challenge the Ordinary: Why Revolutionary
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£13.29
Berrett-Koehler Transformative Scenario Planning: Working
Book SynopsisPeople who are trying to solve tough economic, social, or environmental problems often find themselves frustratingly stuck. They cannot solve their problems in their current context; the larger system within which they are operating is too unstable or unfair or unsustainable. They cannot transform this system on their own, or by working only with their friends or colleagues; the system is too complex to be grasped or shifted by any one person or organization or sector. And other actors whose cooperation would be necessary to transform the system don't understand or agree with or trust one another enough to work together.This book describes a powerful new methodology for dealing with these challenges. Transformative scenario planning is a powerful way for actors from across a whole system to work together to transform that system. It is a way for them to get unstuck and to move forward on solving their tough problems.Transformative scenario planning goes far beyond conventional, adaptive scenario planning, Often people find themselves in systems that are complex, conflictual, not working, and stuck. In such systems, people need a methodology not simply for adapting to the system but also for creating new, better futures. Transformative scenario planning is a way that people can work together with others to transform themselves and their relationships with one another, and thereby to transform their systems. In this simple and practical book, Adam Kahane explains this methodology and how to use it.
£17.99
Berrett-Koehler Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation
Book SynopsisWe are living amidst a remarkable transformation. The linear, throwaway economy of today - in which we extract resources, create products, use them, and throw them away like a cheap plastic fork - is rapidly coming to a close. We are, simply put, running out of things to mine and places to trash. A new economy is being born, one that takes this line and turns it into a circle. Resource scarcity - the overfished ocean - is the reality virtually every company is swimming in. Those managers who deeply understand and master this shift will be able to turn the new reality into disruptive innovation and remarkable competitive advantage. Overfished Ocean Strategy offers five essential principles for developing products and services for this new reality. A business owner herself, Nadya Zhexembayeva fills the book with examples of companies that are already successfully navigating the overfished ocean. Unlike less-farsighted companies, they are not making âœgreenâ products as a sideline for a niche market but rather have made dealing with resource scarcity the central, driving force of their entire strategy. As these innovators ride ahead of the wave, new products, new business models, new markets, and new profits follow. You can join them, or you can be left standing on the shore.
£22.10
The Perseus Books Group Peers Inc How People and Platforms Are Inventing
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£21.59
PublicAffairs,U.S. Connect
Book SynopsisWhy being radically connected with society is not just the right thing to do, it is an imperative for a company's bottom line Based on John Browne's decades of experience as one of the world's most successful and innovative CEOs, with research by McKinsey & Company, Connect is a practical manifesto that redefines the role of business in society. Through insightful analysis and vivid storytelling--ranging from ancient China, Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike of the late nineteenth century, to oil spills and privacy issues emanating from the technology of the twenty--first--Connect explores the recurring rift between business and society and proposes a way in which companies can prosper by connecting with the world around them. There is an enormous prize for leaders who engage creatively and constructively with society, and who make its needs part of their company's business model. The evidence presented in Connect shows that the value of radical connection amounts to 30 percent of corporate earnings. The shares of companies that connect outperform those of competitors by 2 percent every year, amounting to a performance boost of 20 percent over a decade. Connect rejects stale ideas about corporate social responsibility disconnected from commercial activity and from the needs of real people. It identifies four tenets of "connected leadership," a radical new paradigm that shows how companies and executives can thrive by close engagement with society.Trade Review"A timely and provocative discussion of big business and its uncertain future." --Kirkus Reviews
£22.39
Holy Macro! Books The Transformative Magic of M Code in Power Query
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£23.91
Sounds True Inc Conscious Business: How to Build Value Through
Book SynopsisConsciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business, explains Fred Kofman, means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business seeks to promote the intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its stakeholders. It produces sustainable, exceptional performance through the solidarity of its community and the dignity of each member. Conscious Business presents breakthrough techniques to help you achieve: Unconditional responsibility—how to become the main character of your life • Unflinching integrity—how to succeed beyond success • Authentic communication—how to speak your truth, and elicit others' truths • Impeccable commitments—how to coordinate actions with accountability • Right leadership—how being, rather than doing, is the ultimate source of excellence A conscious business fosters personal fulfillment in the individuals, mutual respect in the community, and success in the organization, teaches Fred Kofman. Conscious Business is the definitive resource for achieving what really matters in the workplace and beyond. Winner of the 2009 Nautilus Award
£20.72
Berrett-Koehler How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the
Book SynopsisThe American economy is stalled because business and political leaders are ignoring the one force that could truly re-energize their companies and the economy: the poor. The massive economic energy and potential of the poor and the struggling middle class has been left on the sidelines. John Hope Bryantâs stirring book shows how this came to be and lays out some simple ideas for making the economy work again - for everyone.The poor are not stupid or lazy, but they know when the system is stacked against them. Business loans, home loans, and financial investments have vanished from their communities. The path up to the middle class has disappeared, while the path down from the middle class is in danger of becoming a superhighway.The future of our nation fully depends on overturning powerful myths about how the economy works. Fully 70 percent of the American economy is driven by consumer spending, but more and more consumers have less and less to spend and feel like the deck is stacked against them. When business leaders begin to value the poor and understand that helping them succeed will help the economy thrive, we'll be well on our way to restoring the American Dream of equal economic opportunity.
£19.55
Berrett-Koehler Strategic Analytics: Advancing Strategy Execution
Book SynopsisMore than ever, data drives decisions in organizatons - and we have more data, and more ways to analyze it, than ever. Yet strategic initiatives continue to fail as often as they did when computers ran on punch cards, Economist and research scientist Alec Levenson says we need a new approach.The problem, Levenson says, is that the business people who devise the strategies and the human resources people who get employees to implement them use completely different analytics. Business Analytics can determine if operational priorities aren't being achieved but can't explain why. HR analytics reveal potentially helpful policy and process improvements but can't identify which would have the greatest strategic impact.This book shows how to use an integrated approach to bring these two pieces together. Levenson presents a thorough and realistic treatment of the reasons for and challenges of taking an integrated approach. Heprovides details on the different parts of both enterprise and human capital analytics that have to be conducted for integration to be successful and includes specific questions to ask, along with examples of applying integrated analytics to address particular organizational challenges.Effective analytics is a team sport. Levenson's approach allows you to get the deepest insights by bringing people together from both the business and HR perspectives to assess what's going on and determine the right solution.
£22.95
Berrett-Koehler The Reciprocity Advantage: A New Way to Partner
Book SynopsisAccording to Bob Johansen and Karl Ronn, the new way to succeed is to give what you have away. They call it the reciprocity advantage: sharing your assets with carefully chosen partners in order to learn how to make money in new ways - think give to grow.Johansen and Ronn explain each of the four steps involved in achieving reciprocity advantage, beginning with uncovering your âœright-of-wayâ: the space, resources, or technologies you control and have trust and permission to share with others. The next step is choosing the best partners to share these assets with, which can be surprising - for example, the authors tell how Microsoft partnered with the people whoâd been hacking their Kinnect platform to find new uses for it. Then the authors explain how to experiment with your partners to figure out which new products or services might be scalable, and how to look at new technologies that can make scaling up faster than ever.Johansen and Ronn also identify four future forces that will dramatically impact each of these four steps, and include numerous examples of businesses that have succeeded by applying reciprocity principles as well as those that failed by sticking to shortsighted business practices. And they provide detailed, practical guidance for any business that wants to discover its own reciprocity advantage.
£22.10
Berrett-Koehler A Crowdfunders Strategy Guide: Build a Better
Book SynopsisJamey Stegmaier knows crowdfunding. He's a veteran of seven successful Kickstarter campaigns (and counting) that have raised over $3.2 million, and he's the proprietor of the widely read Kickstarter Lessons blog. In this book he offers a comprehensive guide to crowdfunding, demonstrating that it can be a powerful way for entrepreneurs to grow their businesses by building community and putting their customers first.This book includes over forty stories of inspiring successes and sobering disasters. Stegmaier uses these examples to demonstrate how to (and how not to ) prepare for a campaign, grow a fan base, structure a pitch, find new backers and execute many other crucially important "nuts and bolts" elements of a successful crowdfunding project.But Stegmaier emphasizes that the benefits of crowdfunding are much more about the "crowd" than the "funding." He shows that if you treat your backers as people, not pocketbooks - communicate regularly and transparently with them, ask their opinions, attend to their needs - they'll become advocates as well as funders, exponentially increasing your project's chances of succeeding.
£17.09
Berrett-Koehler How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the
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£14.39
Taylor & Francis Inc Small Acts of Leadership: 12 Intentional
Book SynopsisIn business today, there is no offline and there is no downtime. Professionals are both exhausted and depleted. Being constantly tethered to our work through technology makes us overwhelmed and shortsighted, and deprives us of time for meaningful reflection or thoughtful connection to our professional communities, and often even to our own families. For us to thrive-not simply survive-in this accelerating economy, we need to adopt small, intentional behaviors and practice them each day. From simply taking care of our rest and exercise to building our self-confidence and embracing challenges, author Shawn Hunter's latest book Small Acts of Leadership will guide you through a series of incremental steps you can take to build a stronger version of yourself and make a broader impact in the world. Weaving in personal life stories and meaningful interviews with business leaders around the world, Hunter presents the reader with twelve critical competencies that are consistently present in the daily behaviors of today's most successful leaders.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Small Things Can Matter MostChapter 1 Believe in YourselfChapter 2 Build ConfidenceChapter 3 Introduce ChallengeChapter 4 Express GratitudeChapter 5 Fuel CuriosityChapter 6 Grant AutonomyChapter 7 Strive for AuthenticityChapter 8 Be Fully PresentChapter 9 Inspire OthersChapter 10 Clarify RolesChapter 11 Defy ConventionChapter 12 Take a BreakAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndexAbout the Author
£24.99
Red Wheel/Weiser Getting to Like: How to Boost Your Personal and
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£13.29
American Bar Association Careers in Business Law
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£69.32
Sounds True Inc Shine: Ignite Your Inner Game to Lead Consciously
Book SynopsisThis book is about developing 'inner game' skills of mindful awareness, heart attunement, embodiment, and resilience in order to play your best 'outer' game and lead within your company with courage and brilliance. Its practices teach us how to grow inner capacities that will push us to new heights and cope when things are roughest. Hauck, a leadership consultant, frequent presenter, and business school instructor at Stanford and Berkeley, interviewed a number of top 'conscious business' leaders for this book and highlights the inner tools they use for success. It is clear that the boldest and most innovator leaders honor and value qualities like presence, tolerance, compassion, and resilience, so that they can bring wisdom, grace, and courage into the workplace and the world. This is what Hauck calls stepping in and stepping up, and it is precisely the kind of leadership the world needs now. Through the practices offered in this book, Hauck shows leaders how to align their deepest values with their everyday work style and work goals and support this alignment in the people and teams they lead. In addition to the interviews conducted for this book, the author writes about her own original research on resilience, well-being, and authenticity in corporate culture as well as the work of others in this field.
£18.04
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Business Intelligence: The Effectiveness of
Book SynopsisEffective Strategic Intelligence (SI) is vital for organizations in an international context of instability, complexity and intense competition. Following a long process of qualitative, quantitative and empirical research next to SI experts and large companies, this book proposes a way to improve SI and its impact on the performance of an organization. From an exploration, description and evaluation model of SI, a measurement tool in two parts, for the producer and the user of SI, has been built. For all kind of firms and all advancement levels of SI, it allows the construction of a control panel which can be used to pilot SI and its impact on the performance of an organization.Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Chapter 1. Scanning the Environment: A Vital Necessity for Companies 1 1.1. Getting informed: a very well-established and necessary requirement 1 1.2. The corporation and its environment 6 1.3. Innovation and Japan 11 1.4. Conclusion 28 Chapter 2. Evolution of the General Concept of Surveillance 31 2.1. The emergence phase 32 2.2. Phase of development38 2.3. Phase of consolidation 47 2.4. Conclusion 50 Chapter 3. The Global Measurement Model of Strategic Intelligence 55 3.1. Overview of the literature on SI effectiveness evaluation 55 3.2. Intelligence and performance 59 3.3. Definition of corporate performance and surveillance effectiveness 64 3.4. The definition of the concept of measurement 65 3.5. A measurement model for surveillance effectiveness 67 3.6. The importance of total quality management (TQM) 74 3.7. The measurement of corporate performance 77 3.8. Conclusion 89 Chapter 4. Objectives, Products, Use and Context of Strategic Intelligence 91 4.1. Functions of surveillance 92 4.2. Objectives of intelligence 96 4.3. SWI product and services 105 4.4. SI uses 111 4.5. Context of surveillance 114 Chapter 5. Evaluation of the Organizational Resources of SI 119 5.1. Formalization of the watch and SI activity 120 5.2. Seniority of the SWI function 123 5.3. Centralization, decentralization and the number of SWI points 124 5.4. The hierarchical connection 129 5.5. Network organization 132 Chapter 6. Evaluation of the SI Process 141 6.1. Phase 1: the determination of information needs 143 6.2. Phase 2: information research and collection 148 6.3. Phase 3: information processing 160 6.4. Phases 2 and 3 bis: storage 174 6.5. Phase 4: distribution 178 6.6. Phase 5: information use 182 6.7. Feedback 182 6.8. Control 183 Chapter 7. Evaluation of Human, Technical and Financial Resources of SI 185 7.1. Human methods 185 7.2. Technical methods 193 7.3. Financial resources 200 7.4. Conclusion 202 Chapter 8. SI Measurement Tools for SI Managers 205 8.1. Organizational methods 208 8.2. Resources for the intelligence process 218 8.3. Human methods 236 8.4. Technical methods 241 8.5. Financial methods 243 8.6. The SI context 244 Chapter 9. Measurement Tools for SI Users 249 9.1. SI product and services 249 9.2. Using SI 254 9.3. SI results: the intelligence–performance control panel 257 9.4. Conclusion 271 Conclusion 273 Bibliography 275 Index 287
£132.00
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Weak Signals for Strategic Intelligence:
Book SynopsisThe expression: "We did not see it coming!" has often been heard in recent years from decision makers at the highest levels of responsibility in the private and public sectors. Yet there were actually early (warning) signals, but they were often ignored or not used due to a lack of appropriate methodology. To avoid such blind spots, this book provides answers to the question "how to anticipate".The concept of a "weak signal" is at the heart of the proposed methods. After presenting examples of this concept, the authors provide original and validated answers to questions of feasibility: How to recognize a weak signal? How to exploit it? Numerous applications are presented.Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Chapter 1. Concepts, Issues and Hypotheses 1 1.1. Introduction: governance and radar 1 1.2. The organization’s environment and its governance through a “storm” 8 1.3. Anticipation (act of looking forward) 15 1.4. Anticipative information: two types 23 1.5. Weak signals 25 1.6. Detecting weak signals 43 1.7. Interpreting, amplifying and exploiting weak signals to support strategic decision making 47 1.8. Puzzle® method for the operationalization of CCM 59 1.9. Global VASIC process for detecting, recognizing and utilizing weak signals 69 1.10. Conclusion 79 Chapter 2. Detecting, Recognizing and Corroborating a Weak Signal: Applications 81 2.1. Recognition of a weak signal: examples 82 2.2. Making a new weak signal reliable 95 2.3. Conclusion 101 Chapter 3. Utilization of Weak Signals, Collective Creation of Meaning: Applications 105 3.1. The Roger case: should we fear this new entrant to our industry? (the banking sector) 105 3.2. The case for “valorizing CO2 as a commodity”: a preliminary study for the selection of a new strategic direction 119 3.3. The Danone case. The ministry is worried: are there signs showing that companies will destroy jobs over the next two years? Could Danone leave France? 132 3.4. The Opel case: initiating collective transversal intelligence to aid strategic decision-making 147 3.5. Conclusion 163 Chapter 4. Preparation of Weak Signals for Sessions in Collective Creation of Meaning: Applications 169 4.1. Introduction: two starting situations 169 4.2. The Roger case (continued): how are the news briefs used in the Roger CCM session prepared? 170 4.3. CO2 valorization case: automatic search for “news briefs” 174 4.4. The Danone case: preparation of the weak signals 181 4.5. Software modules for assisting in the automatic search for news briefs 185 4.6. Conclusion 196 Conclusion 199 Glossary 203 Bibliography 217 Index 227
£132.00
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sprint El método para resolver problemas y probar nuevas ideas en solo cinco días Sprint How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
£12.31
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Reinventando al lider
£16.04
Prh Grupo Editorial Véndelo Todo Sales Strategies for Everyone Essential Selling Tips from the Sales Coach You Wish You Had
£13.39
Editorial Oceano de Mexico Ejecutar Ejecutando Excute by Excuting
£17.10
Reverte Management (Rem) Conversaciones (How to Lead, Spanish Edition):
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£29.37
Bocconi University Press The Blockchain Journey: A Guide to Practical Business Applications
Book SynopsisThe book clearly shows which industries are the most impacted by blockchain technologies and it provides several decision support tools to business executives. Managers in the most affected industries should no longer postpone the launch of blockchain-inspired initiatives, being those initiatives either large implementations or pilot tests aimed at growing the maturity level on this technology. Once decided to launch a project, other key options are related to what type of platform to implement, as well as on which consensus mechanism to rely on. The book provides a useful state-of-the-art to address these decisions. On the other side, managers working in the less impacted industries might look at blockchain as a unique opportunity for innovation, pointing their attention on some cross-industry applications.
£999.99
BIS Publishers B.V. The 7 Principles of Complete Co-Creation
Book SynopsisThe 7 Principles of Complete Co-Creation presents a comprehensive view on co-creation. Illustrated by various international case studies, it explains co-creation not as a method, tool or project, but as a new paradigm in which end-users play an ongoing, active role with and for organizations that are relevant to them. It reads like a practical handbook on how to utilise complete co-creation in order to create sustainable value with end-users and other relevant parties. Since co-creation is a relatively new discipline, not much has been written on the topic. The authors have bundled together their years of practical experience to fill this gap. Unlike any existing publication, this book provides the reader with a clear co-creation framework, giving practical answers to questions such as: ‘what is co-creation and how does it work?’, ‘whom to involve in a co-creation process?’, ‘how to convince others of the benefits of co-creation and overcome barriers?’.
£28.49
BIS Publishers B.V. Designing With and Within Public Organizations:
Book SynopsisMany contemporary societal issues have grown to be too complex to solve with traditional approaches. It is no wonder that design practices increasingly appeal to public organisations as a new and promising approach. But, before we can make the collaboration between designers and public organisations a success, we have to acknowledge that there are vast differences between their approaches. Because if we don’t, we will experience major upsets and often a disappointing impact. In this book, the author introduces the art of context building – creating and maintaining the right context within public organisations for an honest, thorough and yet manageable design process. In the first part of the book, the author introduces in clear chapters change management, stakeholder management, coalition building and power from a design perspective. In the second part of the book, the author explains how to apply the new insights in order to establish and maintain the right context for designing within public organisations.
£28.49
Vakmedianet Management bv The Future-Proof Organization: Building Companies
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£26.99
Apress Path to Stellar Business Performance Analysis
Book SynopsisChapter 1: Vision, Goal, Objectives & Pursuit of Product Innovation.- Chapter 2: Setting up Performance Measures.- Chapter 3: Setting up Performance Frameworks and Creating Blueprints for Success.- Chapter 4: Analysing Business Performance using Website Analytics.- Chapter 5: Improving Business Performance Using Smart User Experience Design.
£35.99
