A holistic view of ESG goes beyond environmental issues, which are closely linked to social issues. Both come from the governance of an organization: the integrity with which decisions are made and implemented, ultimately defining corporate culture. ESG affects the daily lives of everyone in today’s connected world where organizations, companies, and individuals depend on each other at various levels. Lack of sustainability for any entity threatens its future existence, disrupting the entire ecosystem.
The use of data to measure ESG outcomes is a young science that is increasingly critical to upholding our very lifestyle. Data clearly presents impact across the entire ESG spectrum, providing the necessary specificity for informed decision making, and ensuring the transparency and accountability, which uphold sustainability.
Strategy is paramount for successful modern healthcare data management.
The healthcare landscape continues to evolve in an effort to accommodate our ever-connected world. A digital healthcare system poses new challenges and exposes existing issues as professionals—like you—strive to solve concerns. This book recognizes the unique tasks of dedicated professionals while attempting to decrease confusion on this key topic.
It’s time to discuss why strategy is important for modern healthcare data management, how strategy can create new business or upscale a business in healthcare data management, and how these tactics assist your business in gaining a competitive advantage.
Cut through the frustration generated by the staggering amount of healthcare data currently being created, collected, and distributed—this book will teach you how.
Protecting the Brand, Volume I: Counterfeiting and Grey Markets is a handbook for law practitioners as well as business executives.
It is a unique perspective of best practices in addressing issues around counterfeiting and grey markets – from a legal as well as a business point of view. The authors explore the threats posed by counterfeiting and grey markets to a variety of industries and illuminate what problems these may cause. Before setting forth the range of legal strategies for remedying incidents of counterfeiting and grey markets, the authors outline preventive measures businesses can take to combat the threats, and showcase some of the emerging technologies that can serve as enablers of Brand Protection’s 3 IPR’s (3 I’s= Intelligence, Investigation, Innovation; 3 P’s= Protection, Perseverance, Perpetuation; 3 R’s= Remedy, Recovery, Rehabilitation).
Business academia offers an excellent entrepreneurial foundation. Then reality sets in.
This book bridges the gap between academia and real business, to counsel by example, and to deliver timely, actionable recommendations to capitalize on opportunities, or to sidestep hidden business grenades.
Advice is best delivered by those who have successfully walked the entrepreneurial trail, but not without incurring some scars along the way. That’s us.
For the university instructor or professor, this book adds another dimension to what is being taught, and facilitates the lecturers’ ability to convey important business lessons in bite-size morsels.
It is tough to succeed in these days whether it’s the business of life of the business of business. It can be especially tough for outliers. Here is the personal code for success for one outlier. Of course, it all depends on how one defines success. If success means happiness at home and in the workplace, this is the code for you.
In this book we will explore nine principles to live and work by from an outlier perspective. This is not saying these principles and this personal code are the only way. They are just one way. The hope is that you will find your own way and embrace your own outlierness and uniqueness. The principles are: Know Thyself, Develop Courage, Develop Mastery, Grow Your Pennies, Be Tenacious, Have Faith, Lead the Way, Challenge the System, and Save the World.
Along with these principles, the author will share a little of her story and stories from clients who came to her for career coaching. I have changed the names of clients to protect their confidentiality.
Perhaps you wonder. What is an outlier? There is no one perfect definition. It means you may think different than others or feel left out or you don’t relate to the status quo, or the status quo makes no sense. It may mean that whenever you follow whatever rules are set for you that those same rules don’t seem to work for you. Consider rethinking the rules.
Ask not what AI can do for a company, rather what artificial intelligence may do to a company.
How does a company successfully integrate artificial intelligence into its operations?
What are the problems in doing so?
And how does the introduction of AI into society change the answer to the first question?
As companies delay or even cancel initiatives in artificial intelligence, Four Laws for the Artificially Intelligent redefines possibilities and offers leverage to turn AI visions into reality. It is a story of transformation: of people, of companies, and of artificial intelligence itself.
The Four Laws is unique in its combination of stories and science illustrating how a technology competing with human consciousness is introduced and assimilated within a company. A work of creative nonfiction stretched on a frame of research, it is an essential trail guide for navigating the Industry Version 4.0 jungle in a search of the fruits of innovation.
Leaders in the digital era are faced with breaking into new markets, disrupting existing ones, and doing so with more precision than ever before just to keep up with their competitors. To innovate more quickly, to rapidly experiment with ideas and technology, to pivot seemingly overnight, you need to have a system in place that can help you execute your most ambitious strategy. While OKRs (Objective and Key Results) have made huge waves recently, practical implementation of OKRs remains elusive for many. Lean OKRs are the evolved version of the OKR strategy execution tool that has powered the transformational journeys of giants like Google and Facebook. It is the lightweight method that turns good ideas into great execution, heightens employee engagement, aligns teams, and achieves measurable, breakthrough results.
Lean OKRs presents insightful anecdotes, creative exercises, clear figures and step-by-step models. Designed as a comprehensive guide, it covers everything from theoretical roots to practical execution, including company-wide strategy alignment and emotional management. Applicable to small companies as well as large organisations, Lean OKRs drives innovation through behavioral changes, empowering and motivating teams through focused daily OKR practices that are simple to put into action. Practical and to the point, this book integrates a unique combination of structural and leadership strategies, resulting in a new approach to OKRs that conquers the hurdles experienced by most business leaders today.
“Brian McGurk’s excellent publication is a groundbreaking contribution to the body of business literature in this area and is both an essential and easy read” –JP Donnelly, Country Manager, WPP in Ireland
“Stand Out!! is by far the best book on branding you could read! It’s essential reading not just for Brand Managers, but for Marketing Managers and General Managers too.” –John Lynch, ex-President EMEA, AB Mauri & Burns Philp
Stand Out!! uncovers the secrets of brand success and explores less travelled paths in the world of branding.
This book:
uncovers the secrets of brand success
introduces ‘Generation B’ – today’s generation of brand natives
challenges current paradigms
reveals the roots and rationale of financial brand valuation
presents a range of popular valuation methods and approaches
explains the conditions for brand value growth
The forces that challenge brand strategy planning today are discussed in the context of our new world order of diversifying media platforms and integrated, synchronized, personalized communication. In light of this, Stand Out!! makes the case for ongoing brand stewardship in the life of an organization and concludes with a focus on brand leadership and the key principles, truths and challenges that influence brand success.
This book is a key reference text for anyone interested in brand development, leadership, innovation, and sustainable business growth. Reader understanding is enhanced by:
supporting tables
illustrative charts
case examples
expert tips
real-life experiences
pull-out quotes
“word wizard” brand glossaries
Stand Out!! is an invaluable resource for the business masses – for any business owner, executive, student or branding practitioner seeking to be apprised of the latest learnings, insights and innovations in professional brand thinking and practice.
“Zelbst and Sower know their stuff when it comes to technology and how it relates to operations and supply chains…so I feel confident recommending their work to those seeking to know more about RFID. If you’re new to the technology, this updated edition of RFID for the Supply Chain and Operations Professional could prove useful to you and your organization.” –Rich Handley, RFID Journal
“If you are looking for an overview of radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology…then this is the book for you!” –Inbound Logistics
The intent of this book is to provide a sufficient discussion of RFID to enable readers with no prior knowledge to develop a basic understanding of the technology.
RFID for the Supply Chain and Operations Professional discusses current applications and specific examples of RFID usage taken from a variety of industries. The appropriate coupling of RFID with other technologies such as global positioning systems (GPS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), IIoT technologies and robotics is discussed as well as an overview of the RFID implementation process.
This book will help readers develop an understanding of the capability of the technology to increase an organization’s customer responsiveness. In the third edition, the discussion and examples have been updated to reflect the rapid advancement in RFID technology. A new case study and new examples have been added along with updated discussions and projections about RFID technology.
“Tim has produced another “winner” and this book is chock-full of informative and hands-on advice, which gets at the heart of organizations and their people thriving in a VUCA world. The book is well-organized, easy to read, and full of practical applications.” –Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Co-author, The Leadership Challenge and Everyday People, Extraordinary “The ideas and tools in this excellent book help make this happen by proactively navigating the paradoxes that shape work today. –Dave Ulrich Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
How do you get your team members to exercise appropriate independent judgment?
How do you get employees to be more accountable for their actions?
Leaders need team members to be empowered and proactive post COVID-19.
What are the roadblocks? How are they overcome? Most books on employee empowerment bypass two critical relationships: the employment compact and the jobholder and their job.
These two relationships hold the key to unlocking employee empowerment.
This breakthrough book is for leaders who want to maximize performance through empowerment. It offers a new approach and practical strategies to energize employees to exercise their initiative when needed and be accountable for their actions.
A proactive employee is engaged in their job and can confidently make decisions without overly relying on their manager.
