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Taylor & Francis Ltd A Public Sector Journey to Operational Excellence
Book SynopsisThis book examines the power of linking Lean government operations and purposeful public policy. When Lean process improvement principles and techniques entered the public sector after decades of proven effectiveness in private industry, it brought the same transformative potential.Trade ReviewAt a time when an increasing number of Americans are seeing the pursuit of happiness as nothing more than a pipedream, we need to rethink how our government goes about the people's work. Kate McGovern's book makes a compelling and timely case for taking what the business world has learned from applying lean principles to how we address our most complex social problems. John M. Bernard, Author, Government That Works, The Results Revolution in the States With real-life examples and drawing on her experience, Kate McGovern demonstrates how lean can transform government. She shows us what’s possible and offers proven roadmaps to success. This is a must-read for any government entity that wants to improve how it serves the public. Tony Rodriquez, President, Daniel Penn Associates LLC Table of ContentsSection I. The Foundation of Continuous Improvement and Operational Maturity, 1. Introduction to Lean and Continuous Improvement, 2. The Three Stages of Maturity in State Government, 3. The Kaizen Concept, 4. Lean Management, 5. Theory and Practice, Section II. Leaning Government Operations, 6. Breaking Bad Bureaucracy, 7. The Goldilocks Standard for Lean Regulation, 8. Moving to Results-Based State Government, 9. A Model for CI in State Government, Section III. Leaning Government Policy, 10. The Three Ps: Politics, Policy Making, and Public Administrators, 11. A Case Study of Unlean Public Policy: U.S. Health Care, 12. Applying CI to Public Administration, 13. Lean Policy Development, Section IV. A Lean Future State, 14. Leaning Government Operations, 15. Continuous Improvement for Thriving Communities, 16. Diffusion of Lean Culture and Level Three Government
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Routledge Overcoming Exploitation and Externalization
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Routledge Regional Policy in the Southern African Development Community
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Taylor & Francis Called to Account
Book SynopsisCalled to Account traces the evolution of the global public accounting profession through a series of scandals leading to voluntary or mandated reforms. Ever entertaining and educational, the book describes some of the most audacious accounting frauds of the last 90 years, and identifies the accounting standards and legislation adopted as a direct consequence of each scandal.While retaining favorite chapters exposing the schemes of Crazy Eddie Antar and Barry the Boy Wonder Minkow, this fourth edition includes new material describing the accounting problems at Carillion, Wirecard and Luckin Coffee. Students will learn that financial fraud is a global problem, and that accounting reform is heavily influenced by politics.With discussion questions, and a chart mapping each chapter to topics covered in popular auditing textbooks, together with supplemental PowerPoints for instructors, Called to Account is the ideal companion for classes in auditing, fraud exa
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Routledge Crowdfunding European Business
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mastering Project Leadership
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays from key researchers in the field of project management who describe what they feel are the most impactful findings from research. In the challenging and competitive world of project management, project managers need all the insight they can get. Leading researchers share what they believe are the most important findings from the research being done today. These cover pressing topics confronting project managers, including hybrid methodologies, schedule overruns, schedule estimation, project efficiency, and managing local stakeholders. Highlights include the following: Jeff Pinto and Kate Davis explore the Normalization of Deviance (NoD) phenomenon within various organizational settings, focusing on projects. NoD involves the gradual acceptance of deviant practices, diverging from established norms, and often leading to detrimental outcomes. Francesco Di Maddaloni investigates how local communities' stakeholders are perceived, identi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Lighting for Driving Roads Vehicles Signs and
Book SynopsisVehicle, road, sign, and signal lighting are provided to enable drivers to reach their destinations quickly and safely. However, the attention given to how these forms of lighting function is likely to change as new technology is introduced and understanding of ergonomics and human factors improves. Lighting for Driving: Roads, Vehicle, Signs and Signals, Second Edition shows the crucial role lighting plays in road safety and examines how it could be used more effectively. With light-emitting diodes (LEDs) becoming the lighting source of choice for transport planners and vehicle designers, this book integrates information on road lighting, vehicle lighting, signs, and signals in one handy volume.International in scope and updated for this new edition, this book features lighting examples from the USA, the UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. Lighting in common vehicle types including cars,
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Strategy in Context
Book SynopsisStrategy in Context represents a pragmatic and novel approach to competitive strategy and strategic thinking. It makes use of numerous examples across the public and private sectors to demonstrate strategy from three dimensionsexternal context, internal context, and an organisation-specific context.This exciting new textbook explores different ways of thinking about strategy, balanced and underpinned throughout using a pragmatic perspective to address real-world strategic issues. Each chapter includes real-life short cases from a variety of sectors and regions, designed to demonstrate how theoretical concepts are used to resolve practical challenges. Through this multi-dimensional approach, this book encourages managers to be more creative and ambidextrous in their strategic thinking, harnessing the power of context to leverage the best from their organisation's resources and capabilities.This textbook is suitable as both recommended and core reading for postgra
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Human Resource Strategy
Book SynopsisWhat is Human Resource Strategy? How are human resource strategies formulated and how can we explain the variance between what is espoused and what is actually implemented? What impact if any does human resource strategy have on the organization's bottom line, and how can this impact be explained? Is there one best HR strategy for all firms, or is the impact of HR strategy on performance contingent on some set of organizational, technological or environmental factors?Human Resource Strategy, third edition, provides an overview of the academic and practitioner responses to these and other questions. Applying an integrative framework, the authors review over thirty years' worth of empirical and theoretical research in an attempt to reconcile often-conflicting conceptual models and equivocal empirical findings. The book supports students in applying theory to practice and presents much of the relevant research in the context of the critical strategic d
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Taylor & Francis Ltd GLUE
Book SynopsisShortlisted in the 2024 Business Book Awards (Leadership category)The adoption of remote, hybrid and flexible working is the new normal. But like the old normal, no one seems very happy. The solution requires a different type of leadership one that unites, transforms and elevates performance. Leadership that creates glue.With employee engagement, productivity and personal ties on the wane, leaders urgently need to refocus on harnessing relationships, making their organisations more humane, and finding new ways to engage and unleash talent. To do that, the single, most impactful thing leaders can do is to create and nurture an intangible, yet essential, factor called glue.So, this book sets out some ideas about glue: where to look for it, how to use it and, most importantly, how to cultivate glue amongst your most valuable people. It explores the approach of some unusual leaders, and of firms transformed through the organisational advantage' of sTrade Review‘GLUE challenges us to rethink modern leadership. It is a timely roadmap for leaders navigating the key post-Covid organisational challenge of the hybrid age: How do we maintain a cohesive and motivational “office culture” when the traditional office no longer meets the needs of our teams?’Inger Ashing, CEO, Save The Children International‘John Dore’s fascinating new book scours the modern landscape of work, proposing a new model of managing and leading that better coheres people around a genuine purpose, shared meaning and a freedom to experiment.’Jeremy Darroch, former Executive Chairman and Group Chief Executive, Sky‘With infectious passion for his areas of expertise, anecdotes in abundance and tools for immediate application, John Dore is the glue on the programmes he directs. Happily for readers, he is as inspirational on the page as he is in the classroom.’Richard Hytner, Adjunct Professor of Marketing, London Business School; founder, Blue Hat Man‘This is the book we all wish we’d read in February 2020. We needed glue more than ever then, and we certainly need it now. The concept of glue is a brilliant shorthand for bringing together people, purpose and leadership – and making it stick.’Catherine Faeirs, COO Autotrader‘In John Dore’s timely new book he lays out a new approach to management where leaders unite employees around bold goals, a shared purpose and a passion for experimentation. GLUE is practical, provocative and essential reading for 21st-century leaders.’Gary Hamel, one of the world’s most influential and iconoclastic business thinkers‘As organisations adapt and reinvent for the Never Normal, the physical and hybrid workplace will continue to rapidly evolve. John Dore’s entertaining new book explores the future of work and reimagines the role of the leader.’Peter Hinssen, Founder of nexxworks, and author of The Day After Tomorrow‘GLUE is a wonderful book that addresses one of the most pressing challenges of our time – how to create and maintain stronger interpersonal bonds among our employees in a world where work is increasingly becoming more remote and hybrid. The book is full of ideas and examples on how to achieve this. It should become essential reading for leaders everywhere.’Costas Markides, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School‘I have known John for many years and I can vouch for his understanding and knowledge of what it takes to bring people together and form expert leadership teams. John is a master of this, a topic which has assumed such importance post-Covid lockdowns and in a more flexible, hybrid working world.’Chris Allen, CEO, Quintet Private Bank‘Whether the distance that separates your team is geographical, operational or emotional, the required ‘hybrid’ leadership strategies to re-engage, re-equip and re-inspire your teams can be found in this ground-breaking new book. Put simply, GLUE is a leader’s guidebook for the future of work.’Jim Steele, Performance Coach and author of Unashamedly Superhuman‘We live in challenging times, with record levels of disengagement and employee turnover. In this thought-provoking and inspiring book, John Dore explains the vital role of social capital – glue, in his words – as the hidden ingredient that leaders can nurture to help them create vibrant and purposeful organisations.’Julian Birkinshaw, Professor and Vice Dean, London Business SchoolTable of ContentsIntroduction: Transforming leadership 1. The importance of glue 2. Discovering glue 3. The advantage of glue 4. Defining glue 5. Leading with glue 6. Creating glue 7. Experimenting with glue 8. Barriers to glue 9. Storytelling glue 10. Organisational glue 11. Applying glue
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Project Management
Book SynopsisProject Management:Planning and Scheduling Techniques is a highly readable guide to the essentials of project planning, scheduling, and control aimed at readers looking for an introduction to the core concepts of planning and scheduling, including the âCritical Path Methodâ, but also the âPrecedence Diagramming Methodâ, the âLine of Balanceâ technique, and the âProgramme Evaluation and Review Techniqueâ. This book explains the theory behind the methods and makes effective use of learning outcomes, exercises, diagrams, and examples to provide clear and actionable knowledge for students and project managers.The book can be used as a classroom textbook or as a self-study guide for project managers taking their professional qualifications, and it includes examples from a wide range of project management scenarios. It is suitable for planning and scheduling courses in the fields of industrial, civil, and mechanical engineering, construction, and management.Table of Contents1. Project Management 2. Work Breakdown Structure 3. Bar Charts 4. Development of Networks 5. Critical Path Method – I: Activity Times 6. Critical Path Method – II: Activity Floats 7. Crashing: Time-Cost Tradeoff 8. Limited Time Resource Scheduling 9. Project Control and Updating 10. Programme Evaluations Review Technique – I: Event Times 11. Programme Evaluation and Review Technique – II: Probability of Completion 12. Precedence Diagramming Method 13. Line of Balance for Repetitive Projects 14. Selection of Planning Techniques
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Mastering Project Uncertainty
Book SynopsisUncertainty permeates every thinkable aspect of project work and mastering information awareness and availability is the key to controlling benefits, budgets, and timelines. This book offers a theoretical framework and practical guidelines to systematically minimize uncertainty, thereby increasing the chances of project success.To paraphrase Henry Ford, transitioning from traditional risk management to mastering project uncertainty implies abandoning the quest for faster horses in favor of driving cars toward your project's destination. This book presents the road map to this transition, with Part I providing a theoretical foundation for uncertainty management using systems thinking. Part II introduces strategies supported by practical techniques to master uncertainty through: Raising information awareness Increasing information availability Improving the effective use of information Maximizing information efficiency This book's Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION. Chapter 1: Organizing for success. Chapter 2: Methodology. Chapter 3: Project uncertainty. Chapter 4: Assignment uncertainty. Chapter 5: Context uncertainty. Chapter 6: Decisions under uncertainty. Chapter 7: Method uncertainty. Chapter 8: Scenario uncertainty. Part II INTRODUCTION. Chapter 9: Raising information awareness. Chapter 10: Increasing information availability. Chapter 11: Improving information effectiveness. Chapter 12: Increasing information efficiency. POSTFACE
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Taylor & Francis Qualitative Research in Marketing and Management
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Information Asset Management
Book SynopsisOrganisations are using data, information and knowledge as a competitive weapon. Their data, information and knowledge are arguably their most valuable assets. Yet, this fourth asset is managed badly when compared to the other three assets, namely money, people and infrastructure with considerable risk to the organisation. Executives are accountable for the success of their organisations, and those who don't manage this critical resource and business enabler effectively can be regarded as negligent. Information Assets carry enormous risk and value. Most boards and executives don't know how to govern and manage IAs effectively and nobody is held accountable. Given this, organisations should govern and manage their Information Assets the way they manage their Financial Assets. The benefits of managing IAs well are compelling. These benefits include increased efficiency, productivity, employee satisfaction, improved decision-making, mitigating business risk and improving product, proteTrade ReviewPrice and Evans have produced a ground-breaking, mind-altering book on how organizations and executives need to be thinking about and approaching information in their organizations, but why they regularly fail to do so. This perhaps is the most comprehensively researched and one of the most important books ever published on the topic of managing data as an actual enterprise asset and overcoming the persistent business pathology preventing it. - Douglas B. Laney, Innovation Fellow, West Monroe Partners, and author of Infonomics and Data Juice”If you think money, people, and infrastructure, are your only assets to manage, think again. It is impossible to manage any other asset well without managing the data, information, and knowledge which underly them and are assets in their own right. Price and Evans offer compelling arguments based on experience, the latest research, and industry leaders. Learn from them and put this book to work! - Danette McGilvray, President and Principal, Granite Falls Consulting, Inc. Author of Executing Data Quality Projects: Ten Steps to Quality Data and Trusted Information™, 2nd Ed. (Elsevier/Academic Press, 2021)At a time when everyone seems to have become an instant data expert and AI genius, it’s refreshing to read a rigorously researched and pragmatically laid out examination of this fundamentally important topic. In my view, it’s a prime example of the Australian MBA culture (minimum bullshit allowed) in action, and needs to be on everyone’s reading list. - Daragh O Brien, CEO, Castlebridge and Lecturer in Data Protection and Data Governance, UCD Sutherland School of Law.Recognizing data, information, and knowledge as assets and treating them as such may be the single most effective way a company can improve its strategic position. And doing so is an absolute necessity for those pursuing AI.- Thomas C. Redman, Ph. D., the Data Doc, Data Quality Solutions, Rumson, NJ USATable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Background/context Chapter 2: Benefits of Managing IAs Effectively Chapter 3: Executive Awareness Chapter 4: Business Environment Chapter 5: Leadership and Management Chapter 6: Asset Governance Chapter 7: Information Systems Chapter 8: Information Assets Behaviours Chapter 9: Information Asset Attributes and Quality Chapter 10: Information Asset Performance/Exploitation Chapter 11: Justification Chapter 12: Conclusion and Call to Action
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Artist Management in the Music Industries
Book SynopsisArtist Management in the Music Industries: A Sui Generis Form of Management provides one of the first substantive, academic examinations of the role of the artist manager.This book deconstructs the nature of Artist Management, unveiling the pivotal role of the artist manager in crafting and maintaining a dynamic environment referred to as the Loop, where success hinges on navigating four variables Risks, Relationships, Emotions, and Expectations (2Rs & 2Es). This book offers a new perspective on Artist Management as a sui generis discipline that does not fit easily inside standard conceptions of Management.Featuring ethnography and interviews, this book sheds light on the real-world challenges and successes in the field. It is a must-read for researchers, students, and practitioners in the music business, music marketing, and artist management, offering invaluable insights into the practices that shape the cultural landscape.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd DataDriven DecisionMaking for Business
Book SynopsisResearch shows that companies that employ data-driven decision-making are more productive, have a higher market value, and deliver higher returns for their shareholders. In this book, the reader will discover the history, theory, and practice of data-driven decision-making, learning how organizations and individual managers alike can utilize its methods to avoid cognitive biases and improve confidence in their decisions. It argues that value does not come from data, but from acting on data.Throughout the book, the reader will examine how to convert data to value through data-driven decision-making, as well as how to create a strong foundation for such decision-making within organizations. Covering topics such as strategy, culture, analysis, and ethics, the text uses a collection of diverse and up-to-date case studies to convey insights which can be developed into future action. Simultaneously, the text works to bridge the gap between data specialists and businesspeople. Clear
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Knowledge Management Leadership and Innovation in
Book SynopsisDigital technologies have created an opportunity to bring together knowledge management, leadership, and innovation. Any business that wishes to thrive in today''s competitive digital landscape must prioritize knowledge management. Leadership in the digital era is about leveraging digital tools to manage knowledge to attain a strategic advantage effectively. Thus, leadership is an essential and central element for knowledge creation, acquisition, utilization, and integration. As a result, this book will focus on knowledge management, leadership, and innovation, all intertwined but not covered in existing research. The book integrates knowledge management, leadership, and innovation into a unified framework in the era of digitization, exploring the benefits knowledge management can bring to organizations adapting to new digital requirements in a dynamic environment. It presents both theoretical and empirical research to synthesize these distinct disciplines in a cohesive
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Doing Digital
Book SynopsisWe have gone through one of the most disruptive societal changes, on a global scale, over the last three years due to COVID-19. Regardless of the personal and professional impact the pandemic had on us, we've all had to adapt to a different reality that continues today. The pandemic has also forced organizations large and small to adjust and rethink their normal business activities sometimes in abrupt ways in order to survive a global shutdown. Organizations that did adjust well applied five major principles that they'll be wise to continue with for the long-term, both when facing extreme events or merely the new normal. First and foremost, successful organizations accelerated digital and the use of digital tools and business models as much as possible. For example, retail operations with modest digital presence suddenly had to sell through digital channels, rather than physical stores. Entertainment content creators had to push everything into streaming services instead of
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CRC Press Aeronautical DecisionMaking and Aviation Safety
Book SynopsisAeronautical Decision-Making and Aviation Safety in the Alaskan Operational Setting introduces the reader to the real-life experiences of aviators who fly in remote settings such as Alaska in the United States. It covers the challenges related to limited aviation infrastructure and support that affect human factors like aeronautical decision-making and its impact on aviation safety.Through a unique blend of meticulous case study analysis and semi-structured interviews with Alaskan pilots, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the proverbial challenges of flying in Alaska. It uncovers the human factors elements specific to this environment, shedding light on the factors that influence a pilotâs decision-making, which may contribute to the high rate of accidents in Alaska and other remote regions. The content is supported by historical and socioeconomic perspectives on remote-setting aviation operations. Global perspectives are discussed with narratives fro
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Make Waves
Book SynopsisMake Waves encourages readers to step up and be the one to initiate change in their work and lives. Author Patti B. Johnson walks readers through the tools and techniques that they can use to create change in their own situations; elaborating on these tools gives readers a sense of how to encourage and instill these wave-making behaviors within their organization. Using case studies as illustrative examples, Make Waves highlights the important steps that individuals can take toward positive change, bridging the gap between desires and actions necessary to realize bigger changes. This new edition provides a more current and timely view of change with the expansion of the section on the mindset of a Wave Maker and more current examples. New areas of focus are: How our thoughts drive our readiness to change Our personal backpacks and what we carry with us into every situation regardless of the facts, and the importance of knowing our go-toâs and triggers Our habits drive almost half of our daily decisions, yet a change requires us to approach our work and life differently The most common obstacles to thinking like a Wave Maker
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Taylor & Francis Shifting the Marketing Mindset
Book SynopsisA clarion call for marketing to return to its roots and integrate sustainability principles, this book illustrates how the marketing function can drive organizations, delighting customers and impacting positively on society and the environment.Accused of manipulation and more, marketing is one of the most misused functions and misunderstood professions. The rise of green marketing could have been an opportunity for the profession to exhibit its potential to transform businessbut instead, there has been a turn to greenwashing, with false claims of environmental friendliness. Now, businesses must evolve, rebalancing social and environmental priorities with economic ones, and it is time for a new era: Positive Impact Marketing. Drawing on almost 30 years of experience in global marketing, management, and strategy with private, public, and nonprofit organizations, this book introduces a framework organized around four key principles, Connect 4 Impact, an
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Taylor & Francis Technology and Engineering Strategies
Book SynopsisThis pioneering book is the first-ever practical guide to developing and communicating technology and engineering strategies.It presents a unique step-by-step method for creating robust, evidence-based strategy, known as the Five Dimensions Process (or 5DP). The book also introduces a host of original insights, including a new theory of technology, a novel approach to product innovation, and groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of technological risk. It describes many easy-to-use tools, both new and established, for supporting activities such as solution design, system monitoring, risk identification, project management, the development of personnel, and ethical decision making. The book brims with strategic and tactical advice on such topics as university collaboration, technical compatibility, data utilisation, product design, project cancellations, outsourcing, knowledge management, and risk mitigation.It is essential reading for technologists and engin
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CRC Press From Streetsmart to Webwise
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Taylor & Francis Digital Financial Inclusion
Book SynopsisWith the arrival of the Internet of Things' (IoT), smartphones, real-time payments systems, plus FinTech activity, Financial Inclusion services can now be integrated into a country's National Payment System (NPS), which means there should be no systemic barriers to transitioning the socio-economic pyramid, as actors build their financial status. This, however, is not the case. This book is a comprehensive guide to understanding the transition of financial services from cash-based to digital-based systems, with a focus on Financial Inclusion.It explores the success of Financial Inclusion programs in promoting economic activity and lifting people out of poverty. It does not concentrate on a single deployment or approach, rather, it takes a broader view. The book surveys the technology and infrastructure required to build digital payment systems, as well as the regulatory and governance frameworks that enable their operation, however, the major focus is on the incorporation of t
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Taylor & Francis Quality Control for Behavior Analysts
Book SynopsisQuality Control for Behavior Analysts helps practitioners apply concepts of quality planning, control, and improvement to implement high-quality behavioral interventions that maximize care value through superior clinical outcomes.Unlock the secrets of delivering high-quality behavioral interventions with this indispensable handbook designed for the Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). Starting with an introductory overview and concise history of quality, this book demystifies key concepts like quality assurance, planning, control, and improvement for the practicing BCBA and other stakeholders in the applied behavior analysis (ABA) autism service industry. Discover how behavior analysts can apply these concepts to effectively manage the quality of their behavioral interventions through the frequent routine assessment of procedural fidelity and interobserver agreement during ABA therapy. With its practical guidance and step-by-step approach, this book empowers BCBA
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CRC Press Social Innovation Design Cases
Book SynopsisSocial innovation is an innovation whose main aim is to benefit society. There is a worldwide need for and interest in conducting innovations and social innovations. Social Innovation Design Cases: A Chronicle of Global Journeys provides an in-depth description of the design journeys of twenty social innovation cases from twelve countries around the globe on five continents. The design cases span areas ranging from promoting rural economic development to addressing climate change. The book describes in depth, citing relevant references, the design journeys of the twenty social innovations and corresponding social enterprises, following an innovation design process model. Additionally, it describes the knowledge models and metamodels contributed by these cases. Each design case presents the overall business model of the social innovation and the corresponding social enterprise.The book is for social entrepreneurs, innovators and aspiring innovators, especially those act
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Taylor & Francis Chinaâs Logistics
Book SynopsisExploring an underreported subject with global ramifications, this book sheds much-needed light on the rapid development of Chinaâs logistics industry over the past several decades and puts it into historical context.Though still lagging behind global logistics leaders overall, China has invested heavily in logistics infrastructure and technology to become a vital link in global supply chains, and is forging ahead in e-commerce logistics. This timely book analyzes the key policies, infrastructure projects, technologies, and companies that have transformed China's domestic logistics capabilities and enabled it to become deeply intertwined with the worldwide supply chain. As the world enters a new era of geopolitics and confronts the possibility of US-China decoupling, it is more critical than ever to understand China's logistics system to navigate uncertain timesâand with their decades of experience, these authors are the very best guides.Business leaders, policy makers
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Taylor & Francis Global Entrepreneurship in Practice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Operational Excellence in Your Organization
Book SynopsisOrganizations are under continued pressure to improve and innovate products and services to remain relevant and sustainable. In many cases, some form of transformation program is conceived to help achieve this aim. The transformation itself may include the deployment of systems and processes that make the organization more capable of sustaining improvements and driving future change. Change Agents often act as coaches, trainers, mentors, and facilitators to embed change. In practice, these Change Agents must deal with resistance throughout different levels of the organization. These Change Agents must be able to act as flexible, multi-situational problem solvers, and teachers of those problem-solving skills. Only organizations that have developed a strong problem-solving capability can hope to survive for sustained periods of time.This book describes many of the obstacles that Change Agents must overcome and the knowledge they need to make them credible with both leaders and
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Taylor & Francis Air Travel Partnerships
Book SynopsisWhile change in the aviation sector is hardly a new phenomenon, going forward the rate of change will accelerate due to the emergence, convergence, and intersection of powerful internal and external forces. To deal with the accelerating change in the marketplace, stakeholders in the travel ecosystem need to deepen collaboration that is productive to (1) building adaptable, resilient, and lean businesses, (2) achieving growth and innovation, (3) elevating traveler experience to a much higher level, and, at the same time, (4) reducing the impact on the environment.Undoubtedly, while some innovations implemented by different aviation business sectorsâto become more adaptable, more resilient, and leaner as well as to improve customer experienceâhave been adding some value, the innovations being introduced have been transactional, fragmented, and incremental. What is needed is a step change in proactive collaboration among different stakeholders in the air travel ecosystem at the holistic level, to cocreate value for travelers in terms of experience (relating to simplicity, convenience, and speed) and for businesses to adapt in order to reduce costs and increase profit margins.This book focuses on four types of organizations within the air travel sector: airlines, airports, aircraft manufacturers, and travel intermediaries. It provides a framework, tools, and insights to enhance collaborations by design in an age of increasing uncertainty.Air Travel Partnerships is essential reading for all executives and senior managers within airlines, airports, and air transport supporting industries.
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Taylor & Francis Business Sustainability Framework
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Taylor & Francis Healthcare Transformation
Book SynopsisThe purpose of this book is to offer health system board members an actionable, concise guide on their role as well as provide updates on key changes in health care delivery, including evidence and contemporary examples.The goal is for any board member to have an opportunity to not only be literate in healthcare, but to be supportive and engaged in the transformation of their organization and the industry towards improving health. Hospital and Health system board members, regardless of their experience and expertise, are challenged with keeping pace with healthcare performance and strategy. Surveys continue to show that this is not their comfort level, given healthcare complexity and the rate of recent change and targets for transformation. The aim of this book is to keep the guide concise so that all board members can become fairly literate on the major issues, with an emphasis on recent updates in healthcare, for today and the future.This is an ideal book for new boa
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Taylor & Francis The New MBA Playbook
Book SynopsisThe job market is heating up, standards are higher â and competition is becoming fiercer. Want to accelerate your professional development but canât because life is moving fast and time is short? As long as you have The New MBA Playbook, an innovative MBA in a book, now is the ideal moment to, at your own pace, anywhere and anytime, boost your managerial proficiency so as to move forward positively, strategically, sustainably and ethically.By an award-winning industry expert and executive educator whoâs had success in both corporate boardrooms and executive classrooms worldwide, The New MBA Playbook is a different kind of MBA sourcebook. It is humanity-centered (and beyond the AI hype!) and is organized into seven relevant, rigorous and readable two-unit modules (mini-lectures). This educational package condenses key MBA disciplines and topics into a playbook format that fits the work schedules of busy executives and professionals on the go, and delivers top MBA-quality intelligence in a matter of days, not years. Through The New MBA Playbook, you can deep dive into the essentials of business, creative strategies and fresh new thinking, and gain effective working knowledge of behavioral economics and policy, positive leadership and followership, strategic transformation, dialogic organization development, design thinking and innovation execution, brand coolness and storytelling, modern management consulting and executive coaching, global management strategies, cultural intelligence, and behavioral ethics, among other issues. The playbook, although designed to be worked through systematically, provides room for critical interpretation, enabling learning by self-insight and personal adaptation (the easy-to-use material is an on-demand resource from which you can mix and match modules freely and in any order, as all modules can stand alone, and you can customize the course to your needs).Re-imagining MBA education and challenging existing business practice, The New MBA Playbook, designed to bridge the gap between the MBA classroom and real life, will be invaluable to potential and current MBA students, seasoned business executives seeking to refresh and update their skills, management consultants, successful entrepreneurs â and to anyone who simply refuses to stop learning. This book is like having your own personal MBA professor!
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Taylor & Francis The Lean KÅhai
Book SynopsisThis book consists of 76 statements on various issues and practices encountered by process improvement/operational excellence (PIâOpEx) practitioners, managers, and leaders. Many of these issues are also encountered by those outside of PIâOpEx. This book contains instructions, encouraging readers to write and journal in its pages. The key benefits of this work fuel the unending learning journey of PIâOpEx practitioners and leaders.Practitioners face issues regarding practice, methods, leadership, management, and purpose. The reflections in this book allow them to either tackle the issue upfront and be prepared or the reflections can act as jump-off points to develop an approach to an issue encountered, individually or as a team. For example, the practitioner may have a problematic team member, and using a reflection from the book and having the group discuss it may resolve the issue. Or, the practitioner can read a reflection and use their response to develop a strategy for h
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Innovation Ecosystems
Book SynopsisThis book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation. Why did different regions evolve in different ways? What caused economic priorities and activities to go in one direction or another? The author believes that happenstance played a relatively minor role in this process. There were and are driving forces, as well as success factors.In each ecosystem, ambitious immigrants arrived, displaced native populations, and proceeded to develop and exploit the geography of their ecosystem, which included leveraging water resources for transportation, commerce, irrigation, etc. They often invented the means of development and exploitation, unfortunately including slavery, but also various technical methods, tools, and devices. Inventions that became innovations enabled industries, revenues, profits, and economic growth, initially for the ecosystem and then more broadly.The impacts of geography and economics are profound. Available resources strongly affect the option
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Taylor & Francis Supply Chain Visibility
Book SynopsisTransparency and accurate management information are essential if you want to ensure that the supply chain is working for your business. Supply Chain Visibility is a critical primer for readers with backgrounds in supply chain management, system integration, strategy consulting, and enterprise software. Jonah McIntire sets the stage for a new framework that empowers business leaders to connect their projects, tasks or work streams back to the strategic message that it is worth applying organizational resources to supply chain visibility. Drawing on research findings, he reviews the prerequisites needed for a successful visibility solution and suggests a visibility fitness scorecard to compare the quality of widely varying approaches. The second section of the book reviews in detail the eight most common types of supply chain visibility and offers a set of indicators of potential fit for each one. The book also explains how to acquire visibility technology and the available options, and
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Supply Chain in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Book SynopsisThe pharmaceutical and healthcare industry is hugely complex because it involves so many markets, products, processes and intermediaries. It is also heavily regulated, global, and used by everyone at some stage in their life. No wonder the supply chain for delivery of healthcare services is often fragmented and understood only in discrete sections. Changes in one area impact upon the others, and environmental factors such as pricing, regulatory change or actions by competitors impact the whole supply chain in ways that are not easily understood or managed. Accelerating technology, the commoditization of healthcare, increasing demands from ageing populations all influence the approach that suppliers of pharmaceutical products and services worldwide need to take if they are to design and manage an effective supply chain that will be capable of: exploiting their intellectual property in a sustainable way; providing safe and continuous provision of drugs or devices; and sustaining with res
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Taylor & Francis Entrepreneurship in Media and Entertainment
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CRC Press Optimal Spending on Cybersecurity Measures
Book SynopsisThe aim of this book is to demonstrate the use of business-driven risk assessments within the privacy impact assessment process to meet privacy laws requirements. This book introduces the cyber risk investment model, and the cybersecurity risk management framework used within business-driven risk assessments to meet the intent of Privacy and Data Protection Laws. This can be used by various stakeholders who are involved in the implementation of cybersecurity measures to safeguard sensitive data. This framework facilitates an organizationâs risk management decision-making process to demonstrate the mechanisms in place to fund cybersecurity measures to meet Privacy Laws and demonstrates the application of the process showcasing six case studies. This book also discusses the elements used within the cybersecurity risk management process and defines a strategic approach to minimize cybersecurity risks.Features: Aims to strengthen the readerâs understanding of indus
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Taylor & Francis Lean Leadership for Healthcare
Book SynopsisThe second edition of this Shingo Prize-winning book builds and expands on the first edition. When originally published over ten years ago, there was a need to understand how to lead process and cultural transformation within the healthcare industry. The perfect storm of rising costs, decreasing reimbursements, substandard quality, a shortage of resources, and a new run of better technology and electronic health systems requires leadership to navigate in a different environment.Since the original book, lean improvements have been made to the governance of process and quality improvement programs, and to the management of operations using the daily management system. The core of the book remains the same; however, the results have been updated and made more current, given access to better data and enhanced use of the electronic health record. Extraordinarily good advice is given throughout this book on best practices of what to do and what not to do in leading large-scale change based on another ten years of hands-on experience of the author working in large and small healthcare systems across the country, including case studies that share the time-tested insights of healthcare team members and leaders. The book outlines a management system for sustaining lean improvements and provides the lean leadership approaches, thoughts, and visual tools needed to guide organizations along the path toward world-class healthcare performance. It walks the reader through developing an improvement strategy, laying out a detailed transformation roadmap for initiating, accelerating, and sustaining lean improvements and delivering world-class improvement of outcomes and culture, discussing leadership behaviors necessary for success, and closes with actions that can be used to mitigate risk. It reviews the fundamentals of lean and explains how to link a strategy of continuous improvement to corporate strategy to achieve operational excellence. The book also describes how to mitigate the risk of failure when undergoing large-scale corporate change, including what can go wrong and how to prevent these failures.Updated and refreshed, Lean Leadership for Healthcare remains the gold standard for end-to-end delivery of lean transformation in healthcare. This book is ideal for leaders in the healthcare industry looking to initiate or accelerate lean improvements to clinical and non-clinical processes.Ronald G. Bercaw is the President of Breakthrough Horizons, LTD, a management consulting company specializing in World-Class Improvement through the application of the Toyota Business System, or âœlean.â With over 38 years of experience in operations, his hands-on, lean management experience was gained through multiple enterprise transformations in different industries including custom packaging, power reliability electronics assembly, and test and measurement products. Educated at Purdue University, he learned the details and disciplined applications of lean principles, habits, and tools from both the Shingijutsu Sensei and their first-generation disciples. Since leaving industry, Ron has consulting experience in the healthcare sector (U.S. and Canada health systems including primary care, acute care, and community applications of both clinical and back shop operations), the commercial sector (administration, manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, and engineering), and the public sector (U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force including Depot Repair Operations, the Pentagon, and Surgeon General Assignments). Ron is also a recognized author with the release of four books, including Shingo award-winners entitled Taking Improvement from the Assembly Line to Healthcare, and Lean Leadership for Healthcare. He is a co-author of The Lean Electronic Health Record, along with Susan Snedaker and Kurt Knoth, as part of the HIMSS book series.
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Taylor & Francis Generations in the World of Work
Book SynopsisGenerations in the World of Work provides invaluable data-informed insights into the intergenerational dynamics in todayâs workplaces.Generational experts and authors of Generation Z: A Century in the Making, Corey Seemiller and Meghan Grace present the perceptions, motivations, and preferences of various generational cohorts and share how those shape individual behaviors, communication and collaboration, as well as wider organizational structures and norms. They offer guidance for how to maximize productivity and relationships to navigate dynamics across generational cohorts.Generations in the World of Work offers employees, managers, and organizational leaders guidance for maximizing productivity, relationships, wellbeing, and engagement across generational differences in order to create thriving workplaces that value and leverage each personâs strengths.
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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 Startup Finance 2.0
Book SynopsisTraditional corporate financial theories and tools are based on matured companies with the assumption that the companies are going concerns.âœGoing Concernâ refers to the assumption that a company will continue to operate indefinitely, with no intention or necessity of liquidation or cessation of operations in the foreseeable future. The problem is that the âœGoing Concernâ assumption does not hold for startups due to the inherent uncertainty associated with startups. Traditional financial education and resources, usually meant for analysts and accountants, aren't ideal for entrepreneurs. They focus on analyzing past data from established businesses, not on making forward-looking decisions in the uncertain and highly dynamic environment of startups. Entrepreneurs also often struggle to prioritize the allocation of resources between seemingly urgent matters and matters that are important for the long-term value of the startup. Thus, this book takes a value-oriented approach to startup financeThe book is designed to build the financial intuition that an entrepreneur needs to prioritize matters vital for the long-term value of the company, raise capital, and allocate capital for value maximization. It also looks at finance from a value creation point of view and covers specific methods especially suited for startups - from investment assessment to valuation to fundraising to managing day-to-day finances.
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Taylor & Francis Quantitative and Applied Research Methodology in
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Taylor & Francis International Business Growth Strategies for Emerging Markets
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Cambridge University Press Mathematics for Economics and Finance
Book SynopsisAn introduction to calculus and linear algebra for students of economics and related areas. Motivated throughout by problems from economics and finance, it covers the essential mathematics for a first-year university course in these areas, providing numerous examples and extensive exercises (with full solutions) to consolidate understanding.
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Cambridge University Press The Trust Revolution How the Digitization of
Book SynopsisWhile conventional wisdom dictates that people's trust â in the government, in corporations, in each other - is at a historic low, the rise of the Internet is offering new ways to rehabilitate and strengthen trust. Uber is probably the best example of a new company that, on the surface, allows individuals with smartphones to get rides with strangers, but at a deeper level is in the business of trust. In The Trust Revolution, M. Todd Henderson and Salen Churi trace the history of innovation and trust, linking companies such as Uber with medieval guilds, early corporations, self-regulatory organizations, and New-Deal era administrative agencies. This book should be read by anyone who wants to understand how trust - and its means of creation - has the potential not only to expand opportunities for human cooperation, but also to reduce the size and scope of government and corporate control over our lives.Trade Review'How are technologies reshaping trust? How is Uber a model for how new markets will 'eat the world'? The Trust Revolution is the best book I've read on the trust and tech revolution that is reshaping America.' Tyler Cowen, George Mason University and author of The Complacent Class'A true masterpiece - this book whacks you in the face to show that every transaction you can imagine involves an element of trust. Trust me, you won't put it down.' John List, University of Chicago and author of The Why Axis'Henderson and Churi show how the evolution of trust has been integral to human civilization and how, as trust undergoes a revolution, it is rewriting the rules for everything from government and finance to healthcare, entertainment, and transportation. Required reading for anybody trying to understand the next few decades.' Joe Lonsdale, Founding Partner, 8VC'A lively and engaging book on one of the most important topics in the world today. Highly recommended!' Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change HappensTable of ContentsIntroduction: riding with strangers; Part I: 1. The collapse of trust; 2. Hiding in plain sight; 3. Trust and human flourishing; 4. Typology of trust: government trust; 5. The genealogy of trust; 6. The market for trust; Part II: 7. Private trust and the regulation of stock brokers; 8. Providing trust in the ridesharing market; Part III: 9. Hacking trust; 10. Sketching on a blank slate; 11. Concluding thoughts.
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Cambridge University Press Seven Deadly Economic Sins
Book SynopsisFor the educated reader without formal training in economics, this volume analyses several central principles of economics and how they relate to enduring questions such as poverty, inequality, and sustainability. Discusses common economic mistakes, how we can avoid them, and how doing so can enable public and private prosperity.Trade Review'Otteson, a philosopher, has written for non-economists the best short introduction to economics, and to a wider political economy. It is lucid, generous, open-handed yet thorough, and solidly based scientifically. Come to think of it, most economists should read it, too. They might stop using 'philosophical' as a term of contempt, and get back to an Adam-Smithian depth of understanding.' Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago'The word 'Deadly' in Otteson's title is no exaggeration. The great frustrations and famines of recent decades have been failures of state management, rather than contradictions of capitalism. Otteson's contribution is to explain why these catastrophes are the result of good intentions, moral misunderstandings, and confusions about what markets can do. As society moves toward reopening the economy and restoring prosperity, this book is essential reading for what might be done, what can't be done, and the things that lie in between.' Michael C. Munger, Duke University'James Otteson is not just a scholar of markets, he is their Mozart. In this compelling tour, Otteson lays out economic principles the way Mozart laid out a sonata. Otteson orders and presents key principles in a fashion any American can understand and appreciate.' Amity Shlaes, author of Great SocietyJames R. Otteson's Seven Deadly Economic Sins is a fine effort to introduce readers to the basic principles of market economics. The hamartiological framing - the 'sins' are bad assumptions about how markets work - is part of the author's effort to make the subject more engaging than a typical treatise on economics. It works. Mr. Otteson, a professor of business ethics at Notre Dame, writes with an apt combination of casual wit and rigorous logic." Barton Swain, The Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Wealth Is Positive-Sum; 2. Good Is Not Good Enough; 3. There Is No Great Mind; 4. Progress Is Not Inevitable; 5. Economics and/or Morality; 6. Equality of What?; 7. Markets Are Not Perfect; Conclusion. The World and I.
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