Futureproofing Procurement: The Importance of an Ethical and Sustainable Approach

Futureproofing Procurement: The Importance of an Ethical and Sustainable Approach

$28.99

This book demonstrates and explains how to best conduct yourself in a procurement role and what challenges you should be aware of. Factors such as being aware of modern slavery, supply chain’s pollution emissions, and opportunities to recycle and reuse will be explored to create an understanding for the reader in how value should be achieved in today’s way of managing procurement. As you make your way through the book you will learn about tools and techniques that can aid you in making the right decision for you and your organization, to ensure that all ethical and sustainable elements of the procurement process are explored, evaluated, reviewed and documented. This book discusses the ways in which procurement can help to provide an ethical and sustainable approach to business and product creation while raising an awareness of unacceptable practices with a view to their eradication. You, the reader, will learn more about the authors honest experiences of working in procurement as you progress through her literary work. At the end of each chapter, she provides a mini case study exploring and explaining some of her purchasing stories that she has collated over the years.

Inside the World Of A Football Agent

Inside the World Of A Football Agent

$31.99

In the forward 2021, FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association) will significantly innovate the figure of one of the most important protagonists of the football world: the football agent.
Inside the World of a Football Agent provides a series of practical cases, experienced first-hand by the author, that will help the readers to immerse themselves in the reality of a football agent that interacts with presidents, CEO, sports directors, supporters, footballers, and their families. In an ever-increasing need for professionalization, the author, thanks to his background in representing footballers, presents a clear analysis of the current international regulation and its latest regulatory innovations.
The audience for the book is represented by all the current or aspiring professionals involved in the football industry: from football agents who want to keep up to date with the latest legislation, to aspiring agents, sports directors or media, who want to understand what is often behind a yes or no in a complicated transfer negotiation. The book will also be of interest to graduate schools of business, sports, marketing, and MBA programs in law.

Personal and Career Development: A Workbook on Self-Leadership

Personal and Career Development: A Workbook on Self-Leadership

$37.99

This workbook will help readers identify their strengths, interests, and priorities to take ownership of their life and career decisions. The authors provide a framework to reflect on several questions that are becoming increasingly important among the 21st-century leaders—how to create an authentic leadership style, define one’s values, and align vision–values career. Readers are given an extensive number of tools for defining their purpose, creating a plan, and are being encouraged to take it into action.
Coaches, mentors–trainers who help others achieve their aspirations will benefit from the contents of this book. It is also very valuable for first-time and mid-level managers, recent graduates, and newly established entrepreneurs looking for tools to create a roadmap for their life and career planning.

Calling Out COVID-19: Business Strategies for Surviving a Pompeii Event

Calling Out COVID-19: Business Strategies for Surviving a Pompeii Event

$31.99

We are currently experiencing the second wave of an unprecedented global pandemic–the COVID-19 crisis, which is destroying established industries such as tourism and attributing to the death of millions of people worldwide. The authors believe that the pandemic is analogous to the ancient Roman tragedy of Pompeii when the citadel was buried under four to six meters (13 to 20 feet) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
This book is written for business owners, entrepreneurs, leadership, or management teams in public or third sector and professionals who are currently dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic. It offers tools and techniques located in the economics of innovation, other frameworks such as the Fraud Triangle, and the authors extensive experience including rigorous cash management, practical fraud prevention, and detection and advice on implementing and refining corporate governance structures.
The book will also be of interest to postgraduate including MBA students and business researchers. The book concludes by summarizing the key theories that can be used to understand the impact of this Pompeii Event and pragmatic solutions to fight COVID-19. The authors argue that organizations rooted in foresight will survive and emerge as future trail blazers. An extensive appendix is also included which outlines the implications for financial reporting.

Operational Risk Management: Organizational Controls and Incentive System Design

Operational Risk Management: Organizational Controls and Incentive System Design

$31.99

To remain viable, let alone competitive, organizations must manage risks. In this book, we explore the concept of operational risk as well as the mechanisms used to diminish the impact and occurrence of risks: the organizational control system. Since the scope and scale of operational risks are unique to each organization, our objective is to explain the theory behind why and how managers respond to the unique combination of threats that challenge their organization.
We emphasize employee management and the complexities surrounding the design of management controls, incentive systems in particular, because risks related to employee actions are faced by virtually every organization. Overall, we provide empirically grounded insights into the process of diagnosing operational risks as well as designing, implementing and maintaining a control system that properly manages those risks.

On Becoming Agile

On Becoming Agile

$28.99

Becoming agile is an ongoing journey. As the global environment changes, and becomes more complex and more uncertain, the importance of increasing agility and developing an agile mindset grows. The goal of this book is to explain and facilitate the journey. We explore agile values, practices, and principles that can help people cope with volatile and ambiguous situations. Agile values improve processes and promote communication in an organization. Agile practices advance innovation through high-performance multidisciplinary teams.
Agile is about learning to anticipate and respond appropriately to the unexpected. Being agile is about interactions with people that result in successfully completing work tasks and meeting objectives. Agile is not about blindly moving faster, rather it is about continuous flexibility and learning. This book is targeted to advanced students and managers who are interested in learning to be agile. This accessible practical text poses 30 questions and provides answers that provide a starting point for further reflection.

Understanding the Financial Industry Through Linguistics: How Applied Linguistics Can Prevent Financial Crisis

Understanding the Financial Industry Through Linguistics: How Applied Linguistics Can Prevent Financial Crisis

$34.99

“Financial services firms are struggling to make use of data. Only 26.8% of firms report that they have forged a data culture. Rich Robinson explores the connections between data and linguistic approaches in this important new study. Highly recommended for financial services specialists seeking to navigate the complexity of financial services terminology and data to drive business outcomes.” –Randy Bean, author and CEO, NewVantage Partners

“A unique and refreshing approach to providing some much needed clarity and transparency around an inherently complex and opaque industry.” –Steve Matthews, CEO and Board Member, TRG Screen

Imagine a collection of villages all beset upon by monsters. One village defeats their monsters using silver bullets. They convince all surrounding villages that their solution should be the only standard. The next village uses silver bullets to repel the monsters but fail! Why? Because the first village was fighting werewolves, the second village was fighting vampires.

This is our data challenge – recognizing not all problems are the same – and there are no single silver bullet solutions. There are many communities within financial services, each with nuanced needs that require slightly different solutions to address what may look like the same problem.

The financial services industry is unique for being based upon information and communication. It is the failure in understanding that multiple existing financial languages exist and pursuing interoperability that sits at the crux of financial crisis – not the lack of a single unified financial language. This book is an essential read for any professional dealing with data and information challenges.

Global Business Strategy

Global Business Strategy

$37.99

Global Business Strategy looks at the opportunities and risks associated with staking out a global competitive presence and introduces the fundamentals of global strategic thinking. The authors demonstrate how a company should change and adapt its domestic business model to achieve a competitive advantage as it expands globally.
Our framework includes a company’s business model, the strategic decisions a company needs to make as it globalizes its operations, and globalization strategies for creating a competitive advantage. A business model has four principal dimensions: market participation, the value proposition, the supply chain infrastructure, and its management model.

The Chinese Market: Entry Methods & Investment Strategies

The Chinese Market: Entry Methods & Investment Strategies

$31.99

With its dual appeal as the world’s factory and the largest consumer market worldwide, China is about to become the preferred playing field for American and European businesses with global ambitions. China’s massive global development project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), now includes more than two-thirds of the world’s countries.

Entering the Chinese Market aims to assist Western businesses and entrepreneurs to understand and effectively enter the Chinese market. An essential factor for the success of investors and professionals engaging in business in or with China is being able to understand and correctly set up a sustainable and effective corporate structure. This book discusses different company structures, their functions, and their respective liabilities and provides practical and operational observations.

The book details all applicable decision-making processes to help you choose the most suitable structure based on your business scope, specific needs, and available capital when entering China. In addition, it discusses all relevant rules, regulations, documentation, and management issues related to the establishment of different types of structures such as WFOEs representative offices, joint ventures, and other forms of investment. Topics covered include tax, legal, intellectual property rights, common pitfalls, and ways to address them.

Understanding Economic Equilibrium: Making Your Way Through an Interdependent World

Understanding Economic Equilibrium: Making Your Way Through an Interdependent World

$34.99

“This book is the continuation, and a fitting culmination, of Tom Cunningham’s longstanding commitment to making complex economic concepts accessible to the business community and beyond. It will help business leaders navigate these turbulent and unprecedented economic times.” –Raphael Bostic, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

“Tom Cunningham’s unique talent is in helping us understand how to think about economics as a whole, all in an engaging way that leaves us wanting more.” –Michael L. Gullette, Senior Vice President, Tax and Accounting, American Bankers Association

Economic agents all over the world are trying to maximize their returns given their efforts, resources, and opportunities. They come together in markets that ultimately allocate goods and services among many competing interests. We can readily see how individual markets behave; it’s more difficult, but exponentially more important, to recognize the general equilibrium across all markets.

Disturbances in one market have implications for others.

These interrelationships are particularly important to understand when policy changes are being considered where actions in one market will impose changes on other markets, and not always in obvious or pleasant ways. Understanding Economic Equilibrium reveals how all markets fit together, and how we as individuals fit into that bigger picture.

The authors have prepared a Quick Quiz to Test Your Economics Savvy. But don’t be concerned if you don’t get a perfect score. You’ll find the answers and all the supporting information in Understanding Economic Equilibrium.