Research and development management Books

Book SynopsisThe proliferation of open banking and open finance regimes across the globe demonstrates an ever-increasing interest of policymakers in empowering customers to take control of their data through innovative data sharing frameworks. These frameworks mostly operate within a single (e.g., financial services) sector but are poised to extend to other parts of the economy in the future and eventually apply economy-wide.This book articulates the concept of economy-wide customer data sharing (CDS) frameworks, analyses in detail the main challenges associated with the development of such frameworks and is informed by the lessons learned from Australia's world-first cross-sectoral Consumer Data Right regime. It develops a first comprehensive taxonomy of CDS frameworks and offers valuable insights on crucial issues of customer trust, information security, consumer protection and participant regulation.This study, apart from its scholarly importance, has clear practical value. It Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Foundations of CDS 3.0 frameworks 3. Scope: Expansion of the framework and write access 4. Service providers’ perspective: the quest for greater participation 5. Customer perspective: the quest for customer trust 6. Enforcement: Efficiency and fairness 7. Regulation: Oversight and flexibility 8. Conclusions: twelve lessons for the world

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Book SynopsisThe metaverse is the future of business applications and models, and this ground-breaking book points and details a complete and clear picture of how the metaverse can impact the various business segments and how the human element will be maintained within the evolutionary change. This book serves as a guide for those planning to implement and expand the metaverse in their business as well as those already using it on limited levels. Simulated intelligence innovation can reveal intricate and significant examples in robust and information-rich situations that posture difficulties for human insight.In addition, similar to other burgeoning advancements, the experience and aptitudes accumulated by vendors and consumers, alongside the steady analysis of interactions and information, empower metaverse calculations to be refined and improved. This book illustrates the current advancements and results and expands the analysis of human-centric metaverse applications to business segmenTable of ContentsChapter 1. Influence of Metaverse on business applications Chapter 2. Evolution and future impact Chapter 3. Marketing Chapter 4. Advertising & Tourism Chapter 5. Retail Chapter 6. Media and Entertainment Chapter 7. Human Resources Chapter 8. Finance Chapter 9. Supply Chain, Logistics, and Manufacturing Chapter 10. Healthcare Chapter 11. Sports Chapter 12. Automotive Chapter 13. Education Chapter 14. Public Sector

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the principles governing the entrepreneurial and innovation mindset and processes of people working in the small business sector and other organisations, based on research findings from real-life issues and challenges that face entrepreneurs on a daily basis. Entrepreneurship development forms the bedrock of business evolution and economic growth in many nations: indeed, without entrepreneurship, there can be no real economic development. This book provides students with an accessible introduction to innovation and entrepreneurship, examining the different forms of innovative and entrepreneurial practice including commercial and social enterprise. The book introduces some of the major business management issues faced by entrepreneurs and small business owners. It also introduces readers to such concepts as opportunity recognition and the ability to act upon opportunities and problem solving. Throughout, the book is founded on an evidence base drawn from the author''s

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Book SynopsisWhat does effective research and development look like in the creative industries and how might it lead to successful innovation? This book is an answer to that question.Building upon place-based creative industry research, the book focuses on evidence from the media sector, while encompassing a range of creative practices, from digital tourism to dance. Leveraging unique empirical data from the Welsh creative industries, the authors map a series of pathways for creative businesses. In so doing, the book offers new frameworks for assessing innovative practice and highlights options for tailored institutional funding.Channelling research insights, this shortform book helps researchers, policy-makers and reflective practitioners to understand how to deliver effective strategies for the creative sector.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Book SynopsisOver the past three years, the landscape of blockchain technology has undergone remarkable transformation, extending far beyond its association with cryptocurrencies especially with the emergence of Web3 applications. Web 3.0 is built using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the semantic web. It uses all this to process and interpret information with human-like intelligence. And for security, Web 3.0 uses the blockchain security system to keep information secure. This book aims to provide an overview of the evolution of blockchain technology, highlighting its expanding use cases and exploring the latest trends and news that have shaped the blockchain landscape in recent years. The timing of this book is ideal. NFTs, DeFi, and in general the emergence of the architectural concept of Web3 are defining and will define the future of web applications. The book takes the reader on a journey across the innovative use cases of blockchain technology, with a focus on

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Book SynopsisThe need for this book arises from the growing cybersecurity challenges faced by small to medium-sized healthcare facilities, which often lack the resources, expertise, and dedicated staff to interpret and implement complex security regulations.These facilities must comply with critical standards such as the HIPAA Security Rule, 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP), and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), yet understanding these frameworks can be overwhelming. Without clear guidance, hospitals risk data breaches, operational disruptions, and regulatory penalties that could impact patient safety and trust. Securing Through simplified explanations, actionable checklists, and real-world applications, this book empowers small and medium-sized hospitals to strengthen their security posture, achieve compliance, and ensure the continued safety and efficiency of patient care. The book brings together three essential entities (one regulatory, one practice, and one framework), HIPAA Security Rule, 405(d) Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), to guide organizations in creating a comprehensive cybersecurity program.

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Book SynopsisA leader's ability to discover and implement innovations is crucial to adapting to changing technologies and customer preferences, enhancing employee creativity, developing new products, supporting market competitiveness, and sustaining economic growth. Gliddon and Rothwell provide an exciting and comprehensive resource for readers that are currently seeking to build success in organizations with new ideas. Innovation leadership involves synthesizing different leadership styles in organizations to influence employees to produce creative ideas, products, services, and solutions. It is a practice and an approach to organization development and organizational change. Innovation leadership commonly includes four basic stages, which are: (a) support for idea generation, (b) identifying innovations, (c) evaluating innovations, and (d) implementation. There are two types of innovations, including: (a) exploratory innovation, which involves generating brand new ideas, and (b) value-added inTable of ContentsDedication and Acknowledgements; Foreword; Part 1: Innovation Leadership Theory; Chapter 1: Defining and Practicing Innovation Leadership using the CREATE Model – David G. Gliddon; Chapter 2: The Competencies of Innovation Leaders - Dena Lang, Meg Handley, & Kathryn Jablokow; Chapter 3: Innovation Leaders and Followership - Patricia Macko & Wesley E. Donohue; Chapter 4: Synergies in Innovation Network Teams - Frank Theodore Koe; Chapter 5: Building a Culture of Continuous Innovation - Jong Gyu Park & Wesley E. Donahue; Chapter 6: You Have the Idea, Now How Do You Fund It? - Juliette Kleinmann; Part 2: Innovation Leadership Success Stories; Chapter 7: Today I Fly! The Extraordinarily Innovative Diavolo Dance Company - Jonathan Gangi; Chapter 8: An Innovation Success in the Private Sector - Walter Robb & Mike Erdman; Chapter 9: Who’s Leading and Who’s Learning? - R. Lee Viar IV; Chapter 10: Sustainable Community Management - Norma Nusz Chandler; Chapter 11: Working Well with Cultures in the Middle East - Ward E. Marshall; Chapter 12: Innovation on a Small Farm - Debra (Keppy) Arnoldsen & Mike Erdman; Chapter 13: Successful Innovation in Public Sector - Catherine Haynes;Chapter 14: Innovation Leaders in Healthcare - Maureen Connelly Jones; Afterword; Index

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Book SynopsisRooted in strategic management research, Business Model Innovation explores the concepts, tools, and techniques that enable organizations to gain and/or maintain a competitive advantage in the face of technological innovation, globalization, and an increasingly knowledge-intensive economy. Updated with all-new cases, this second edition of the must-have for those looking to grasp the fundamentals of business model innovation, explores the novel ways in which an organization can generate, deliver, and monetize benefits to customers.Table of ContentsPart I: Intoduction1. Intoduction to Business Model InnovationPart II: Analytical Techniques 2. Business Model Frameworks 3. Business Valuation Techniques: A Strategic Management Approach 4. Breakeven Analysis in Strategy and the Margin-SalesRate Matrix (MSM)5. Business Model Appraisal Frameworks Part II: Core Concepts 6. Network Effects and Multisided Platforms 7. Crowdsourcing 8. Disruptive Innovations and Business Models9. Complementary Assets: A Cornerstone of Profiting from Innovation10. Long Tail Strategies in Business ModelsAppendicesA. Strategy and Business Models B. Types of Business ModelsC. Glossary of Business Model TermsD. Important FormulaePart IV: Cases 1. Alibaba in 2018 2. Tinder: New CEO, New Reputation? Or Should You Swipe Left on Tinder?3. Spotify: Now What?4. Snapchat: Another Overvalued Tech Unicorn?5. Pokémon Go: Way to Go? 6. SoFi (Social Finance Inc.)7. Airbnb: Innovation in Hospitality8. Pixar: Changing the Rules of the Game

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Book SynopsisThe theme of this book is simple. The price the number someone puts on a product to help consumers decide to buy that product comes from data. Specifically, itcomes from statistically modeling the data.This book gives the reader the statistical modeling tools needed to get the number to put on a product. But statistical modeling is not done in a vacuum. Economic and statistical principles and theory conjointly provide the background and framework for the models. Therefore, this book emphasizes two interlocking components of modeling: economic theory and statistical principles.The economic theory component is sufficient to provide understanding of the basic principles for pricing, especially about elasticities, which measure the effects of pricing on key business metrics. Elasticity estimation is the goal of statistical modeling, so attention is paid to the concept and implications of elasticities.The statistical modeling component is advanTable of ContentsList of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Preface; I Background; 1 Introduction; 2 Elasticities – Background and Concept; 3 Elasticities – Their Use in Pricing; II Stated Preference Models; 4 Conjoint Analysis; 5 Discrete Choice Models; 6 MaxDiff Models; 7 Other Stated Preference Methods; III Price Segmentation; 8 Price Segmentation: Basic Models; 9 Price Segmentation: Advanced Models; IV Big Data and Econometric Models; 10 Working with Big Data; 11 Big Data Pricing Models; 12 Big Data and Nonlinear Prices; References

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Book SynopsisEntrepreneurship is often focused on understanding new ventures, but the entrepreneurial flame is required in growing organisations too. This textbook examines how organisations can become more entrepreneurial to achieve sustainable growth.The authors show how entrepreneurship can be used to address crisis points of growth within small firms and to overcome the limitations of stagnation within large firms. By integrating entrepreneurship and innovation management, the book presents a framework to diagnose entrepreneurial behaviour within existing firms. Drawing upon research and reflecting practice across a range of industries, from football, through Silicon Valley, to the retail sector, it includes insights from leading practitioners.The authors build an understanding of entrepreneurship in context to provide diagnostic tools to help organisations make entrepreneurship central to their culture. This unique text is therefore useful reading for business stTrade Review'Developing an entrepreneurial culture is a challenge in any organisation – both large and small. This very readable book contains excellent examples where cultural change has delivered true innovations. I will certainly use some of the described best practice in my own organisation.' - Malcolm Skingle, Director of Academic Liaison, GlaxoSmithKline, UK 'A must read for executive management teams. The entrepreneurial culture advocated in this book is exactly what venture capital and private equity investors look for in high growth organisations.' - Rob Carroll, Founder, Catapult Ventures Group and Vice Chairman, Small Business Charter, UKTable of Contents1. How to Build an Entrepreneurial Organisation 2. Entrepreneurial Strategy 3. Strategy in Practice: Insights from an Entrepreneurial Multinational 4. Entrepreneurial Culture and Leadership: Structure, Processes and People 5. Building a Culture of Entrepreneurship in Practice 6. Entrepreneurship with External Stakeholders 7. Managing Uncertainty and Failure 8. Building an Ambidextrous Organisation 9. Diagnosing an Entrepreneurial Change Programme

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Book SynopsisSoftware has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. Code and the City explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more pervasive through efforts to create smart cities: cities that employ ICTs to underpin and drive their economy and governance. Yet, despite the roll-out of software-enabled systems across all aspects of city life, the relationship between code and the city has barely been explored from a critical social science perspective. This collection of essays seeks to fill that gap, and offers an interTable of Contents1 Code and the City: Introduction Rob Kitchin and Sung-Yueh Perng Section I: Code, Coding, Infrastructure, Cities 2 From a Single Line of Code to an Entire City: Reframing the Conceptual Terrain of Code/Space Rob Kitchin 3 The Internet of Urban Things Paul Dourish 4 Interfacing Urban Intelligence Shannon Mattern 5 Abstract Urbanism Matthew Fuller And Graham Harwood 6 Code-Traffic: Code Repositories, Crowds and Urban Life Adrian Mackenzie Section II Locative Media and Mobile Computing 7 Digital Social Interactions In The City: Reflecting On Location-Based Social Networks Luigina Ciolfi And Gabriela Avram 8 Feeling Place in The City: Strange Ontologies and Location-based Social Media Leighton Evans 9 Curating the City: Urban Interfaces and Locative Media as Experimental Platforms for Cultural Data Nanna Verhoeff and Clancy Wilmott 10 Moving Applications: A Multilayered Approach to Mobile Computing James Merricks White 11 Exploring Urban Social Media: Selfiecity and On Broadway Lev Manovich Section III Governance, Politics, Knowledge 12 Digital Urbanism in Crises Monika Büscher, Xaroula Kerasidou, Michael Liegl and Katrina Petersen 13 Coding Alternative Modes of Governance: Learning From Experimental ‘Peer to Peer Cities’ Alison Powell 14 Encountering the City at Hacking Events Sophia Maalsen and Sung-Yueh Perng 15 Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and Rise of the Semantic Web Heather Ford and Mark Graham 16 Cities and Context: The Codification of Small Areas Through Geodemographic Classification Alex Singleton

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Book SynopsisNorman Katz has secured a top spot as one of the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Supply Chain 2020.Even the largest companies find managing vendors a daunting task. If you get it wrong then you risk inadvertently penalizing potentially valuable suppliers with misguided, overly bureaucratic or costly processes. Worse the burdens placed on the vendors backfires on the customer entity itself as the customer is subjected to the increased operational costs of managing the ramifications of the ill-conceived or poorly implemented requirement through the vendor community, driving up its own operational costs and increasing frustrations for all, straining the customer-vendor relationship. Effective compliance programs balance the requirements with the capabilities of their suppliers, striving to educate instead of just inform. A well-run program should help vendors self-implement and control costs, not force vendors to rely on constant communication aTrade Review"The author validates what I have come to understand about most companies with respect to vendor management policies and practices, i.e. they are broadly substandard. This book offers a hard, candid look at why companies and vendors have not been more proactive about due diligence, and why plug-and-play SCM tools, while often impressive at creating efficiency and reporting capabilities, do not supplant the role of proper ethics, governance and communication in optimizing the vendor management relationship. The author serves as an educator as he defines for us what constitutes vendor management best practices and demonstrates how synergy in the vendor management process flow impacts profitability. CEOs, CFOs, IT auditors, and IT consultancies will gain tremendous insight from the author's observations and recommendations that translate well toward improving vendor management performance for company and vendor." - Andrew J. Tabone, Principal & Managing Consultant, AJT - IT Talent & Vendor Management Advisory Group, LLCTable of ContentsSuccessful Supply Chain Vendor Compliance

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sensible advice..." -- The Economist "Jeff Pfeffer stands as one of the great management thinkers of our time. Here in this important work, he challenges us to embrace a hippocratic oath of leadership: first do no harm. Diagnostic and prescriptive, passionate and incisive, provocative and inspired-Pfeffer yet again makes a noble contribution." -- -Jim Collins, author Good to Great, co-author Built to Last and Great by Choice "As bracing as a splash of cold water, Leadership BS is at once a scathing indictment of the 'leadership industry' and a roadmap to success. Pfeffer dismantles the jargon-filled aphorisms of conventional leadership, replacing them with fact-based prescriptions for how to succeed." -- -Laszlo Bock, SVP of People Operations, Google and author of New York Times bestseller, Work Rules! "A provocative case that most leadership advice is baloney and the entire industry is broken. Pfeffer convincingly argues that we consistently give the wrong people power-and even when we get it right, authenticity is a recipe for disaster." -- -Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take "In this must-read book, Pfeffer exposes the gap between what we're told we should do to be leaders and what successful leaders actually do to climb the career ladder. Pfeffer's take-no-prisoners approach to management research and practice always reveals insightful and shocking results." -- -Keith Ferrazzi, author of ,New York Times bestsellers Never Eat Lunch Alone and Who's Got Your Back? "I wish I had read Leadership BS years go. It's not only honest but helpful, putting words to the disconnect I've seen between what works and what we're all "supposed to be" doing. This inconsistency has so much to say about the current state of professional women's progress." -- -Gina Bianchini, CEO, Mighty Bell and co-founder, Lean In "Leadership BS goes directly to the soul of leadership practices, exposing both the rewards and penalties of contemporary notions. You'll be challenged to look at qualities such as narcissism, vulnerability, immodesty and ego and consider why these too are important traits of effective leaders." -- -Curt Coffman, co-author of First, Break all the Rules "A fascinating inquiry into why the "leadership industry" has failed to develop better leaders. Pfeffer turns conventional wisdom about leadership upside down, and challenges us to rethink why and how leaders behave. It's an indispensable book for every leader, executive coach, and others who seek to help leaders." -- -Morten T. Hansen, professor, University of California, Berkeley, co-author, Great by Choice "Pfeffer offers no nostrums, no feel-good solutions; instead, he offers unvarnished insights and dry-eyed suggestions. Anyone who is seriously interested in leadership should read this book." -- -Stephen Kosslyn, founding dean, the Minerva Schools of Arts and Sciences at the Keck Graduate Institute "Jeff Pfeffer has done it again. He forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about ourselves and our cultures. This book reminds us of the dangers of pursuing comforting messages instead of practical truths." -- -Kent Thiry, CEO, Davita Healthcare Partners "Pfeffer persuasively attacks the simplistic generalities that masquerade as leadership advice. Offering examples of when such advice can hurt leaders. Turning some of our assumptions concerning authenticity, trust, and humility on their head. Essential reading for anyone who would rather rely on scientific evidence than merely on cool stories." -- -Sim B Sitkin, Duke University, Faculty Director, Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics "Challenges conventional thinking and traditional bromides, underscoring the importance of being evidence-based if you want to make an impact in developing leadership." -- -Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Accolti Endowed Professor of Leadership, Santa Clara University, co-author, The Leadership Challenge "[Power] will help you get comfortable with challenging assumptions and lingering on the pause...[Pfeffer] draws on a wealth of social-science and psychology research." -- Inc magazine "This is an entertaining and inspiring read for anyone looking to shake things up at work." -- Publishers Weekly

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Book SynopsisBased on interviews with dozens of startup founders, experts and scholars on entrepreneurship, Frictionless provides readers with a wide-ranging education in starting companies that thrive in the world of frictionless commerce—made possible by new technologies, a new mindset, and new demands from Millennial consumers.Trade Review“With more nonprofits looking to other sectors for best practices in engaging and mobilizing constituents, particularly through the use of available and new technologies, there is no book more timely or relevant than Frictionless. Christiane has gathered opinions from some of the best thinkers, from whom we all could learn a lesson or two on dissolving the barriers between people and their passions.” — Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts “In the world of fashion and retail, the more we reduce the friction from every aspect of our business, the easier it becomes to delight and engage our customers. Anyone looking to advance business, disrupt incumbents, or reshape industries should read Christiane’s book. She has helped me by gathering the opinions of other entrepreneurs and experts.” — Clare Vivier, founder of Clare V “Frictionless is a creative user’s manual for the postvirus world, a way forward that is smarter, faster, and more nimble. Christiane Lemieux is a wayfinder, and this book may show the direction for the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs.” — Michael Cannell, author of A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc. “Anyone looking to advance their business, disrupt incumbents, or reshape industries should read Christiane’s book. She has gathered the opinions of an erudite cohort doing just that.” — Anjali Kumar, founding general counsel and head of Social Innovation at Warby Parker

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Book SynopsisBusiness owners get stuck on the hamster wheel of hustle only to end up burned out and looking for a better way.For fifteen years, Steve Chou has run two successful seven-figure businesses in twenty hours a week or fewer, leaving plenty of time for family, friends, and leisure.

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Book SynopsisA WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERDo you know the best way to drive your company's growth? If not, it's time to boost your Growth IQ.Trying to find the one right move that will improve your business's performance can feel overwhelming. But, as you'll discover in Growth IQ, there are just ten simple--but easily misunderstood--paths to growth, and every successful growth strategy can be boiled down to picking the right combination and sequence of these paths for your current context.Tiffani Bova travels around the world helping companies solve their most vexing problem: how to keep growing in the face of stiff competition and a fast-changing business environment. Whether she's presenting to a Fortune 500 board of directors or brainstorming over coffee with a startup founder, Bova cuts through the clutter and confusion that surround growth.Now, she draws on her decades of experience and more than thirty fascinating, in-depth business stories to

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Book SynopsisBig data entrepreneur Allen Gannett overturns the mythology around creative genius, and reveals the science and secrets behind achieving breakout commercial success in any field.   We have been spoon-fed the notion that creativity is the province of genius -- of those favored, brilliant few whose moments of insight arrive in unpredictable flashes of divine inspiration.  And if we are not a genius, we might as well pack it in and give up. Either we have that gift, or we don’t.  But Allen shows that simply isn’t true.  Recent research has shown that there is a predictable science behind achieving commercial success in any creative endeavor, from writing a popular novel to starting up a successful company to creating an effective marketing campaign.    As the world’s most creative people have discovered, we are enticed by the novel and the familiar. By understanding the mechanics of what Gannett calls “the creative curve” – the point of optimal tension between the novel and the familiar – everyone can better engineer mainstream success.    In a thoroughly entertaining book that describes the stories and insights of everyone from the Broadway team behind Dear Evan Hansen, to the founder of Reddit, from the Chief Content Officer of Netflix to Michelin star chefs, Gannett reveals the four laws of creative success and identifies the common patterns behind their achievement.

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Book SynopsisHere's the basic primer on how to grow the 'right people who are already on the bus' in your organization. This new book intends to empower training and development leaders with the necessary tools and understanding to become catalysts for brining a career development focus to their organizations by implementing three success factors: making career development part of the strategic planning process and extend it across organizational boundaries, sustain the career development focus regardless of budget, economic, and short-term profit goals, and finally, rewarding managers and leaders who help others reach their goals.Table of ContentsCh. 1: Career Development - Whose Responsibility is It?; Ch. 2: The Right Person for Every Job and the Right Job for Every Person; Ch. 3: Key Career Development Strategies for Every Organization; Ch. 4: Mentors: The Key to a Career Development Culture; Ch. 5: Taking Responsibility; Ch. 6: Does Age Matter?; Ch. 7: The 1-2 Punch: Using Performance Review and Recognition to Enhance Career Development.; Ch. 8: Connecting with ""Why?""; References/Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Best Guide to Past Performance Evaluation in Government Contracting Just Got Better! The Past Performance Handbook has long been the resource contracting professionals have turned to for guidance on evaluating contractor performance and making award decisions in competitive acquisitions based on the evaluation results. Now this essential resource has been completely updated and revised to bring readers the most up-to-date information they need to conduct past performance evaluations. Past Performance Handbook: Applying Commercial Practices to Federal Procurement, Second Edition, not only includes a detailed explanation of the process of past performance evaluation, but also presents new approaches to standardizing assessment areas and rating scales, streamlining the source selection process, and ensuring that awards are made to the most qualified offerors. This thoroughly revised second edition offers: • Additional focus on the collaboration between the government and contractors in providing past performance information • Enhanced definitions of numerical scoring, adjectival ratings, color coding schema, and risk assessments — all consistent with the current guidelines issued by the Department of Defense and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) • Updated citations from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, OFPP, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) • Abridged GAO decisions that provide details for citations included in the text. Contracting officers and contractors working with the government will find value in every chapter of this updated edition.

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Book SynopsisThe Government Manager’s Guide to Contract Negotiation Federal managers often find themselves at the negotiating table, charged with reaching a solid, fair deal for their agency. Now, you can gain a competitive edge in even the most difficult negotiations with time-tested, effective tactics from a noted authority on federal negotiations. This guide will help you understand the negotiation process, plan for it, develop strategies and tactics, anticipate and counter the other side’s strategies and tactics, and conclude and document the negotiation. Concise, accessible, and authoritative, this book offers a veritable arsenal of winning strategies that you and your team can use in your next negotiation.

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Book SynopsisTraditional business analysis jobs are going away and are not coming back. BA tools are growing up, and typical BA tasks are being automated and commoditized. Instead of being regarded as documenters, BAs are being sought out to focus on strategy, innovation, and leadership. Breakthrough Business Analysis: Implementing and Sustaining a Value-Based Practice provides a framework for implementing a BA practice that is strategically positioned and value-based. Realizing the positive impacts of a value-based BA practice could very well mean the difference between success and failure for businesses negotiating 21st century challenges. Value-based business analysis centers on strategy execution, world-class enterprise capabilities, and delivery of innovative products and services. The framework for implementing and sustaining a value-based BA practice involves three phases: 1. Readiness: “Is our organization ready?” 2. Implementation: “How do we build the BA practice?” 3. Sustainability: “How do we institutionalize and continue to improve BA practices?” Take the lead and be your organization’s champion of a value-based, breakthrough BA practice that is focused on value to the customer and wealth to the bottom line.

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Book SynopsisUse past performance to win contracts and deliver results at the lowest risk and cost! The federal government has focused on past performance to rank bidders for almost two decades, yet both the collection and use of past performance information remain disjointed, siloed, and not fully understood in government or industry. Nonetheless, contractors’ livelihoods depend on how the government collects and uses their past performance information. Winning with Past Performance: Strategies for Industry and Government aims to enhance awareness and understanding of past performance processes as well as to promote smart business practices on both the buyer and seller sides of the equation. The authors examine all aspects of past performance, including using feedback to improve performance, the government’s evolving use of past performance, and the future of past performance as an evaluation tool. Winning with Past Performance brings it all together on the subject of past performance and is a ready reference for buyers, sellers, policymakers, contracting professionals, and service providers.

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Book SynopsisTransform Your Workplace with Anytime Coaching The Practical Leader series offers a roadmap for individuals striving to achieve leadership effectiveness within the context of today’s complex world. Each book explores a different essential element of successful leadership, providing readers with insightful, real-world perspectives, as well as practical tools and techniques, to help them maximize their potential—-personally and professionally. Real-life stories, practical tips and techniques, and the Anytime Coaching model equip managers with a set of coaching tools they can use immediately to transform the way they work with employees and colleagues. This second edition describes how recent findings in neuroscience support the effectiveness of Anytime Coaching practices. You will also discover how the practice of mindfulness can enhance your ability to observe yourself and others. Practical tools and exercises to help you be more present, aware, and focused in day-to-day interactions are included. Whether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, Anytime Coaching will help you improve performance and achieve results.

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Book SynopsisBuilt to Love is a practical how-to guide for companies, detailing steps to create products that illicit emotions that provide value to customers, regardless of whether the products are physical products, services, technologies, software, systems, or brands.Using a combination of industry-based research and laboratory experiments, the authors demonstrate that customers will richly pay for products that authentically provide emotional fulfillment. They uncover the science behind successful products that create an avid and loyal following, and they present evidence that product emotions increase a productâs success in the marketplace as well as a firmâs success in the stock market (even when the economy is down!). Then, using analytical and practical tools, the authors show how to analyze customersâ emotional needs and translate those needs into features that galvanize those customers. Throughout, the book uses revealing case studies that show how to energize customers in both consumer and business-to-business worlds.

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Book SynopsisCompetition from emerging and developing countries, challenges related to energy and water, the continuing increase in the global population and the obligation to be sustainable are all impacting developed countries such as the United States, France, etc. Manufacturing has been almost totally neglected by these developed countries and thus there is a strong need to review R&D and the development and industrialization processes. This is a prerequisite for maintaining and improving welfare and quality of life. The industrialization process can be defined as the process of converting research or laboratory experiments into a physical tool capable of producing a product of value for customers of specified markets. Such a process implies knowledge of BAT (best available techniques) in chemical engineering, plant design, production competitiveness, the proper utilization of tools (toolbox concept) such as value assessment, value engineering, eco-design, LCA (lifecycle analysis), process simulation, modeling, innovation and appropriate metrics usage. These are mandatory to ensure commercial success and covered by the authors of this book.Trade Review“This book is intended for students, chemists, chemical engineers, production workers and all profssionals of the process industries such as supply chain managers, R&D and development engineers.“ (Heat Processing, 1 January 2015)Table of Contents1. Project Management – Systems Engineering – the Industrialization Process. 2. Metrics for Sustainability Assessment of Chemical Processes. 3. From Preliminary Projects to Projects. 4. Analysis of the Strategy of the Enterprise and the Enterprise Strategic Plan. 5. Excellence in Manufacturing and Operations Control. 6. Innovation and Change Management. 7. Water and Energy Challenges. 8. Engineers as Key Players for Sustainability: The Role of PSE Academia. 9. Plant of the Future.

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Book SynopsisThe importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world. Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage and production, this book discusses the role of food in past societies, the basics of nutrition, contemporary issues, including body size, food and culture, food production, world hunger and food innovation.Trade ReviewA major accomplishment which not only makes a major contribution to the literature of this emering field, but also serves as the first undergraduate text for sociology of food courses written by a sociologist. * Association For The Study Of Food and Nutrition *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Encountering Food Chapter 3 Food and Nutrition in Preindustrial Societies Chapter 4 Scientific Nutrition and Food from the Industrial Revolution Chapter 5 Food, Profit, and Nutrition—and a Remedy Chapter 6 Fat and Thin: Obesity and Anorexia Chapter 7 Culture and Food Chapter 8 Food and the Social Order Chapter 9 Agricultural Technology: High/Low, Profits, and People Chapter 10 World Hunger Chapter 11 Food Success Stories

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Book SynopsisBetsy Atkins is often asked “How can I get on a board?” So after 20+ years in the boardroom and multiple roles in public and private companies she is ready to share her secrets. In this book, she teaches you how to build your own personal brand as well as how to keep yourself relevant and growing. She shares tips on how to make your personal network the most effective (and the most enjoyable.) Betsy covers the best ways to present your skills and credentials in order to get that board interview as well as detailed information on how to prepare for it. But getting that board seat won’t be the end of your journey. Once you are on the board, you’ll want to be the best board member you can, helping your companies grow and prosper so you’ll be able to get that next, even better board seat. For new CEOs and entrepreneurs she covers how to make your board work for you and be a true accelerant for your company; the role of the board, choosing new board members (and getting rid of the bad ones), maximizing your board meetings and building board relationships to ensure success for you as a CEO and for your company. Also included is a collection of articles and learnings from Betsy’s experiences as an operator, board member and advisor to some of America’s largest and most notable public companies. After reading this book, prospective board members will be energized and motivated to create their own personal brand, cultivate it to gain a board seat, be a better board member and CEO and continue to educate on the issues boards are looking at today.Trade Review"Fulfilling director responsibilities during a company's best times can be challenging. Betsy Atkins had the courage to join our board as an Independent Director during a time of company crisis. Betsy provided not only a steady hand but also the focused, strategic thinking and experience in corporate governance necessary to navigate a clear path forward. Betsy's understanding of best-in-class compensation philosophies has been invaluable in her role as Compensation Committee Chair, and her diverse experiences in board leadership offer a singular guide for anyone who wants to 'Be Board Ready'." --Matt Maddox, CEO, WYNN RESORTS

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Book SynopsisThis book explores how technological progress accelerates the transformation of economic development by adopting a fundamental logical approach to technological progress, intensive inputs, and promotion of productive efficiency to transformation of economic development. It investigates the internal mechanisms and the choice of corresponding modes that initiate technological progress to accelerate the transformation of economic development at three basic research levels: micro-enterprise level, mid-industry level and macro-economy level. Based on the above research, the book summarizes four dimensions facilitating the transformation: agricultural intensification, new industrialization, modernization of the service industry and the advanced manufacturing industry, and linkage of the modern service industry. This book is especially valuable in its hierarchical categorization covering theoretical, empirical, industrial and strategic exploration. On one hand, it analyzes the mechanisms and approaches influencing the transformation of economic development driven by technological progress from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. On the other hand, based on the introduction of advanced international experiences, it probes into the guarantee basis for the strategic implementation and the corresponding mode choices of the transformations. Furthermore, it offers specific policy proposals from both the macro level of how technological progress promotes the transformation of economic development and the micro level covering the agricultural, industrial and service industries.Table of ContentsChapter1 Literature Review of Technological Improvement and Transformation of Economic Development Model.- Chapter2 Theoretical Research: Endogenous Growth Model Embedded with Innovation Heterogeneity.- Chapter3 Mechanical Analysis: Technological Improvement and the Transformation of Industry Development.- Chapter4 An International Comparison: Technological Improvement and the Transformation of Economic Development Model.- Chapter5 Measurement and Analysis of China’s Technological Improvement Comprehensive Capability and its Evolvement.- Chapter6 An Empirical Study of Economic Development Mode Transformation Promoted by Technological Improvement.- Chapter7 Technological Improvement and Agricultural Development Mode Transformation: Agricultural Intensification.- Chapter8 Technological Improvement and Industrial Development Mode Transfor mations: New Industrialization.- Chapter9Technological Improvement and Service Development Mode Transformation: Modernized Service Industry.- Chapter10 A Linkage between Advanced Manufacturing Industry and Modern Service Industry Promoted by Technological Improvement.- Chapter11 Basic Guarantee Foundation for the Implementation of China’s Technological Advance Strategies.- Chapter12 Mode Selections for the Transformation of Economic Development Mode Promoted by Technological Improvement.- Chapter13 Policy Proposals for Economic Development Mode Transformation Promoted by Technological Improvement.

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