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The second edition of this groundbreaking book explains why becoming a Humachine enterprise is the only way forward for a company to maintain a competitive advantage in the age of artificial intelligence.

Product design is becoming increasingly challenging as product complexity increases dramatically with the advent of autonomous control and the need to achieve zero emissions. Companies continue to have poor product launches with significant numbers of...

This practical evidence-based guide to running Reflective Practice professional development programmes provides a dynamic and engaging resource for a wide range of coaches. Reflective Practice is a proven learning and development approach that involves...

This significantly expanded and newest edition of the bestselling HIMSS Dictionary of Health Information Technology Terms, Acronyms, and Organizations has been developed and extensively reviewed by more than 50 industry experts.

Lizard Optimization is a technique for designing product development experiments by engaging long-tail users that seem to follow some unexplainable "lizard" logic. It can help you understand your audience better and improve your products.The method is...

Automated Business Empire: Build a Massive Community and Scale Your Business with Heart-Centered MarketingAre you struggling to find the perfect balance between automation and genuine nurturing in your sales and marketing efforts? Are you afraid of...

As a Christian business owner, church leader or marketplace king, the last thing the devil wants is for you to succeed, particularly if you understand the call and purpose of God's destiny in you.If God has called you and anointed you to acquire wealth...

Join the #MoneyChat® movement and change what you say and do with your money, one habit at a time!It's easy to fall down the negativity hole when it comes to money. Whether it's worrying you don't have enough for bills, struggle to get out debt, haven't...

Assessing the Effectiveness of Training Programs in the Business Process Outsourcing Industry by Ashish Parnani is a comprehensive study that explores the effectiveness of training programs in the outsourcing industry. The book aims to help organizations...

One out of three businesses fail in the first year. Fifty percent fail in the first three years. Maximize your chances for business success with these tips to drive profits up. Learn to identify and strategically manage or eliminate toxic...

Toyota's world-renowned success proves that just-in-time (JIT) makes other manufacturing practices obsolete. This simple but powerful book is based on the seminars given by Taiichi Ohno and other senior production staff to introduce Toyota's own supplier...

Risk elimination. Risk management. Risk mitigation. These terms are an increasingly important part of the lexicon of executive-level management as they strive to succeed in a business environment having global competition, geographically diverse...

This peerless best-seller is a hands-on, step-by-step workbook of instructions on how to create flowcharts and document work processes. No other book even comes close in teaching practitioners these crucial techniques. The most noticeable change in...

Understanding inventory-its costs, its place in the supply chain, and what is considered its optimal level-is important to an organization's profitability. Demonstrating how each link in the supply chain plays an integral role in the success of the...

There is a huge elephant in the room: organizational decisions are often based on family relationships, rather than on the 'rational' approach advocated by many professionals. Textbooks on Human Resources, Management, Organizational Behavior, Economics,...

HIMSS set out to develop a dynamic framework by which to easily catalogue the varied beneficial evidences of digital health. From this effort, HIMSS introduced to the market the HIMSS Value STEPS™ framework.This book will leverage the HIMSS Value STEPS™...

In Australia, regions are not just geographic locations, they are also cultural ideas. Being regional means being located outside the nation's capital cities and in the periphery of its centres of power and influence. Regional development in...

Where attention goes, energy follows.Tired of working in an Every-thing workplace, where you're so busy you can never catch your breath? Or fed up with the frustrations of a No-thing workplace, where getting anything done is impossible?From personal...

The people you hire will inevitably shape your career destiny. Hiring people is easy. Hiring the right person require patience, skill and persistence. In this practical guide to the corporate psychology of staffing, Dr. Ken Byrne describes the science of...

I DID IT MY WAY...When a mission to help a forgotten Pacific People and an unorthodox idea is hatched in a family's garage and turns into a multi-million dollar global brand.This is the inspiring story of Stacey King. An accomplished Australian...

It’s said that the first three months at a new job are the toughest you’ll face.In fact, 1 in 5 people fail their probation period, and many others leave in just thefirst 45 days.No-one wants that. After all, job-hopping is bad for your...

What does our workplace look like when we no longer need to "go" to work?As organisations navigate a new frontier, struggling to stand out in today's hybrid and distributed world, how can we leverage one of our greatest assets?  Our Work Place.The...

Are you stuck as one of the 15%?At some point, every small business will have to take on a contract with a large organisation if they are going to grow. But less than 15% of small companies are actually ready to take this step.Do you want to take your...

Do I focus on accomplishing the mission, or do I take care of my people? How do I do both?This is a practical guide for building dynamic and respectful workplace relationships, while also achieving the loftiest of organizational goals. It's about...

CHANGE presents a dilemma to product developers. It is the essence of innovation, for which developers strive. As they work every day, product developers discover improvements (innovation), but to incorporate these improvements, plans have to change...

This book deals with the processes and theories involved in managing military organisations in both peacetime and crisis conditions.Examining the challenges faced by policymakers and military commanders in conducting military operations, this book...

Efforts to promote the economic development of individual localities engage the attention of academics, students and professionals. Many such analysts argue that competitive advantage can be fostered within local economies, complimenting the advent of a...

In this book Miroslav Beblavý, who has been involved in policy-making at the highest level in his country, offers a detailed study of monetary policy and monetary institutions in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia during the 1990s and the...

In recent years, smart specialisation has been a key building block of regional economic and development policy across the European Union. Providing targeted support for innovation and research, it has helped identify those areas of greatest strategic...

In the 1970s and following on from the deposition of Salvador Allende, the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet installed a radical political and economic system by force which lent heavy privilege to free market capitalism, reduced the power of the...

This book addresses how economic spaces dynamically change within the context of the global knowledge-based economy. Specifically, it centers the discussion on integrated views of understanding and conceptualizing dynamic changes of global economy under...

Employee theft amounts to roughly $36.6 billion retail dollars lost annually, according to a 2008 National Retail Security Survey, and accounts for approximately 42.7 % of all retail losses. Each year organizations spend millions of dollars on theft...

Roughly half of all project managers have to lead customer projects as profit centers on contractor side with two big objectives: making the customer happy and bringing money home. Customer projects are a high-risk business on both sides, customers and...

Compared to 20 years ago, the jobs many people do today are increasingly characterised by low pay and insecurity, while countless others cope with workplace stress and ill-health. At the same time the consequences of our current model of economic...

This book is a leadership guide to the effective implementation of the ISO 45001:2018 standard. It takes the high-level leadership and top management principles put forward in ISO 45001 and develops them into a comprehensive discourse on how, at the very...

<p>Have you ever had to borrow a few bucks from your kid's piggy bank? Or found yourself in such a devastating financial crisis that your mind reeled and your tears fell?</p><p>Life often feels like a never ending road with no map, no...

A complete study on implementation of HRD Practices in APSRTC at Zonal level is rare in number. In contrast to the earlier practices an attempt has been made by the researcher to trace out the impact of HRD practices on employees at zonal level and to...

My values, attitudes, and behaviors, like those of most Americans, have been profoundly influenced by not-for-profit enterprises. My parents were students in one when they met. I was born in one. I learned about God in one, my...

ABOUT THIS BOOKThis book analyzed the various leadership strategies. It is grouped in three key components, namely: breadth, depth and the application components. The breadth component explored and analyzed the theories of leadership from various...

Information Technology for Small Business: Managing the Digital Enterprise provides an overview of how small and medium business enterprises (SMEs) can use flexibility, agility, and anticipation strategies to better utilize information technology and...

Introduction.- Digital Broadcasting Systems.- Spectrum Management.- Frequency Planning Frameworks.- Digital Switch-Over in Broadcasting.- Implementing the Digital Dividend.- Future Developments.- Strategic Considerations.

Inventory and Supply Chain Models with Forecast Updates.- Examples from Industry.- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes.- Inventory Models with Two Consecutive Delivery Modes and Fixed Cost.- Inventory Models with Three Consecutive...

Preface. 1: Globalization. 1. What is Globalization? 2. Localization. 3. Glocalization. 4. Some foundational Theory. 5. Glocality at Work. 6. A Case in Point. 7. Conclusion. 2: Culture. 1. Introduction. 2. Country-level studies. 3. Individual values. 4...

Just-in-time concept in manufacturing and computer systems.- Methodological background.- Common due date.- Individual due dates.- Algorithms for schedule balancing.