Servitization: Assessment Protocol for Action

$28.99

Managing a servitization strategy is a tough managerial challenge due to the delicate and high business implications.

What do you need to know to achieve the outcomes the company wants? A reliable, practical, and effective instrument and a relevant dynamic managerial capability for motivation and adoption decision. This is the value proposition of Servitization: Assessment Protocol for Action.

Servitization is about adding service value to the manufacturing business. The concise content develops pioneering processes and application models through its 5 chapters, written in a colloquial way with real examples while offering corresponding application dynamics that allow incorporating the reader’s own experiences on the subject.

This book is a suitable support for directors and managers of the manufacturing industry, as well as a tool for immediate action for the professionals interested in the business service innovation model, university professors and students, researchers and consultants, and anyone interested in adding value of service to your business.

Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Driving Corporate Innovation Through Start-ups, Spinoffs, and Venture Capital

$31.99

This book is for corporate managers with a mandate for ‘innovation’, but no idea how to make that happen.

C-suite executives and boards of directors are increasingly looking for companies to reinvent themselves or risk being left behind. With this book, companies can monetize employee’s ideas in a manner that doesn’t cost a fortune or create conflicts of interest within the ranks. Not every creative expression is going to result in tens of millions of dollars in revenue–but many will create licensing opportunities that are, at the very least, essentially free money for new product development.

Another cadre of readers will realize their innovation-rich futures are languishing in corporate purgatory. Should they quit and pitch their ‘million-dollar idea’ to another organization entirely (as outsiders), or can they take this book to their leaders and drive change, one manager at a time?

Evolving with Inclusive Business in Emerging Markets: Managing the New Bottom Line

$34.99

This book discusses the attributes of inclusive business by engaging people (customers and stakeholders) in creating social and customer values and enhancing business growth among customer-centric companies.

Corporate policy and implications of the inclusiveness in businesses on social development constitute the core discussion in this book. Inclusivity concepts and arguments are endorsed by case studies across the developing economies. Philosophy and practices of inclusive business through theoretical foundations, design arguments, and managerial analysis has been discussed across five chapters.

Discussion on the success of inclusive businesses in the context of innovation, technology, and new product development which motivated people-led companies to adapt to agile business modeling and drive co-creation and coevolution initiatives are central to this book.

The Finance of Health Care: Wellness and Innovative Approaches to Employee Medical Insurance

$31.99

Employers Can Reduce Their Employees’ Health Care Costs by Thinking Out of The Box

Employee health care costs have skyrocketed, especially for small business owners. But employers have options that medical entrepreneurs have crafted to provide all businesses with plans to improve their employees’ wellness and reduce their costs. Thus, the cost of employee health care benefits can be reduced markedly by choosing one of numerous alternatives to traditional indemnity policies.

The Finance of Health Care provides business decision makers with the information they need to match the optimal health care plan with the culture of their workforce. This book is a must guide for corporate executives and entrepreneurs who want to attract—and keep–the best employees in our competitive economy.

Dismantling the American Dream: How Multinational Corporations Undermine American Prosperity

$34.99

This book is not an academic treatise. It is a concise story that tells what America’s multinationals did to the U.S. economy and how they did it. It is an applied and actionable book which includes many suggested solutions that function as steps the reader can take in their company.

This book is based on a promise made by multinationals in 2018 when 181 CEOs signed a commitment letter to lead their companies not just for the benefit of their investors, but for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders.

During the last 40 years, the American dream has been dismantled by the policies and decisions of the multinational corporations (MNCs). Instead of benefitting all stake holders, they chose to favor their shareholders over all stake holders and short-term profits over society and country. To begin this process of change to achieve these new commitments, they must first understand what corporations did wrong since 1980 that didn’t benefit the other stakeholders.

This book will provide managers a detailed summary of the problems and obstacles they will need to address and overcome if they are going to make good on their commitment to meet the needs of all stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, communities, and an economy that serves all Americans. It also offers many solutions that will help them improve their job performance.

It is in the interest of America’s multinationals to find ways to protect their technologies, reduce outsourcing, and shift their focus to playing in a long-term economic game if they want to be competitive in the future.

Breakthrough: A Growth Revolution

$34.99

What’s necessary for the U.S. and other developed nations to realize stronger growth and more equal incomes? What’s necessary for families to feel vacations, college educations, and retirements are possible? Will artificial intelligence (AI) automate or augment workers’ jobs? Will the 2020-2021 global pandemic be sufficiently disruptive to deliver fundamental transformation?

Economic success in the decades ahead will depend on the willingness of households, businesses, and governments to innovate and change ways of living and working.

To explore these questions, the 4th Industrial Revolution is a unique frame to assess global economic transformation, providing a point-in-time reference for placing current events in the context of sustained, multi-decade periods of faster and slower growth. Political, social, and economic metamorphoses have accompanied each revolution.

This book examines the economic logic of the significant variation in growth over long periods.

Climate change and the global warming consequences of fossil-fuel technologies will need to bring about a new energy technology and, if successful, result in renewable energy sources, reducing energy expense.

The success of the 4th Industrial Revolution is not assured. While the future is uncertain, history suggests success requires that barriers are addressed, workers and businesses engage in the necessary change, and a positive policy response provides the needed leadership.

The book proposes a Growth and Fairness Agenda and a New Social Contract through which stronger economic growth and more equally distributed incomes can be possible.

  • Recognize traditional policy actions may be insufficient to achieve stronger long-term growth.
  • Promote improved confidence and a positive outlook among small and medium enterprises.
  • Encourage advances in AI technology while addressing risks and fairness issues.
  • Support deeper worker engagement between business leaders and workers.
  • Seek a new social contract among workers, businesses, and governments.

Hidden Challenges: Human Dynamics in Organizational Change and Recovery

$34.99

“A new lens is offered that sheds light on hidden challenges in periods of organizational change and reveals them in a creative and constructive way. This approach supports a better-informed diagnosis of the pain in the organization when change takes place.” –Claudia Zarate, Managing Director, Consumer Products Coverage, BNP Paribas

Going far beyond a purely rational-structural way of looking at change in organizations, this book contributes well researched insights into often-overlooked organizational blind spots.

The authors share their own experiences in clear and accessible language, exploring recovery from cumulative crises; nostalgia and postalgia; victimization of leaders; dealing with narcissistic leaders; and a writing process for reducing anxiety through self-reflection.

Anyone who works in an organization—large or small—will gain new perspectives on the most difficult challenge of all: understanding human behavior in times of change.

Navigating Conflict: Tools for Difficult Conversations

$34.99

Navigating Conflict: Tools for Difficult Conversations is perfect for readers who want positive outcomes from personal, professional, and workplace challenges.

From reading this powerful guidebook, you’ll gain:

  • A step-by-step roadmap for handling conflict and tough and touchy situations
  • Strategies for effectively handling yourself under fire
  • Tools for dealing with toxic individuals, personality conflicts, office politics, and problematic family situations
  • Field-tested skills, strategies, tools. and tactics for every type of conflict
  • Assessment inventories and action steps they can use to assess and perfect their skills

Readers will find engrossing real-life stories; skills, strategies, and tactics they can immediately use, and will walk away knowing exactly how to achieve the results they want regardless of the other person’s skills or behavior.

Project Control Methods and Best Practices: Achieving Project Success

$37.99

If you want to know how to reduce financial wastage and cost overrun on projects and the applied best practices to enable project success, then this book is for you.

This book reveals the many challenges of project control in practice and then provides practical good practices to overcome them. This is done by presenting a robust project control framework that includes several good practices to mitigate project control inhibitors and enhance the entire project control process. The core project control techniques and methods in practice and how to design an enabling environment for effective project control are also explained.

The aim of this book is to expose the readers to several good practices which they can then apply confidently to enhance the success of their projects.

Business Models in Emerging Technologies: Data Science, AI, and Blockchain

$31.99

This book is a practical guide to two of the most important emerging technologies: data science/AI and blockchain.

The world of technology progresses so quickly that we often don’t realize how far we’ve come. Over the last 20 years, technologies like data science, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and blockchain have transformed the world of business, industry, and society.

These emerging technologies offer a wide range of opportunities. However, they also create new challenges businesses must face, such as developing new business models, and discovering the best adoption strategies.

This book is a practical guide to two of the most important emerging technologies: data science/AI and blockchain. With broad applicability across all sectors, decision-makers would greatly benefit from understanding these fields.