Digital Strategy Framework: A Practical Guide for Business Incumbents

$34.99

“Amit Prabhu demystifies digital business transformation for incumbents, bridging strategy and execution with a pragmatic, universally applicable framework. A must-read for executives in different functions charged with navigating the digital age with finesse and strategic acumen.” –Venkat Venkatraman, David J. McGrath Professor, Boston University Questrom School of Business. Author of The Digital Matrix: New Rules of Business Transformation through Technology

Business incumbents constantly face disruption threats. Most of them have embarked on the digital transformation journey. Around 70 percent of transformation projects fail. One of the many reasons of failure is a lack of clear and concrete Digital Strategy.

This book contains a comprehensive Digital Strategy Framework for business incumbents, providing a step-by-step guidance during the strategy creation and execution phases.

Though anyone can read and derive benefits from this book, it is primarily for executives, strategists, transformation drivers, change agents, leaders, and managers. Its success lies in how effectively they apply the framework at their workplace.

This book is not just about information…it’s all about transformation!

The Agile Enterprise: Applying Agile Principles to Drive Organizational Success

$31.99

A group of eminent software developers gathered at a Colorado ski lodge in 2001, codifying The Agile Manifesto, a philosophy for efficiently accomplishing technical work. In this accessible, real-world-example-laden, and unexpectedly entertaining book, The Agile Enterprise explains how to apply The Agile Manifesto’s ideas company-wide.

The wisdom imparted in The Agile Enterprise teaches students to decompose large problems into manageable chunks, helps managers find their value among self-managing teams, and enables executives to measure and recognize success in their own Agile Enterprises.

Brand Positioning with Power: Maximize Your Marketing Impact

$31.99

Powerful Brand Positioning Harnesses Key Building Blocks

Brand Positioning with Power: Maximizing Your Marketing Impact is a new take on Al Ries and Jack Trout’s original positioning concept. The book delivers measurable results because it:

  • Is remarkably easy to use
  • Uses a proven, systematic positioning process
  • Leverages exciting, practical real-world examples

You’ll see how the three essential building blocks of positioning lead organically to increased success, whether you are a sole proprietor or a Fortune 500 organization.

Written in an enthusiastic, concise, and conversational style, Brand Positioning with Power offers ground-breaking insights, including the vital role emotion plays in effective positioning. This is the tool you need today to take your brand from where you are to where you want to go.

A Seat at the C-Suite Table: Insights from the Leadership Journeys of African American Executives

$28.99

In Their Own Compelling Words

A Seat at the C-Suite Table is an insightful look at the leadership journeys of 30 African American male C-Suite executives.

In their own compelling words, executives describe earning and maintaining a seat at the C-Suite table. They speak candidly about how the lack of mentors, coaches, and role models impacted – but did not stop them. They talk openly about navigating corporate settings designed years ago by White men. They speak freely about their commitment to supporting the next generation of leaders.

This book was inspired by data suggesting that there is racial/ethnic underrepresentation in corporate leadership roles in the United States. This underrepresentation ranges from the presidency of colleges and universities to the U.S. Senate to corporate boardrooms.

This book provides advice, hope, and inspiration for others. It also includes a road map for all leaders who desire to become better mentors, coaches, sponsors, and allies for current and future underrepresented leaders.

Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness

$34.99

Organizations face increasing cybersecurity attacks that threaten their sensitive data, systems, and existence; but there are solutions. Experts recommend cybersecurity training and general awareness learning experiences as strategic necessities; however, organizations lack cybersecurity training planning, implementation, and optimization guidance. Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness addresses the demand to provide cybersecurity training aligned with the normal flow of IT project delivery and technology operations.

Cybersecurity Training combines best practices found in standards and frameworks like ITIL technology management, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO risk, quality and information security management systems, and the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Trainers will appreciate the approach that builds on the ADDIE model of instructional design, Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Thought, and Kirkpatrick’s Model of Evaluation, a trilogy of training best practices.

Readers learn to apply this proven project-oriented training approach to improve the probability of successful cybersecurity awareness and role-based training experiences. The reader is guided to initiate, plan, design, develop, pilot, implement and evaluate training and learning, followed by continual improvement sprints and projects.

Cybersecurity Training prepares trainers, project managers, and IT security professionals to deliver and optimize cybersecurity training so that organizations and its people are ready to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity threats leading to more resilient organizations.

A Librarian’s Guide to ISO Standards for Information Governance, Privacy, and Security

$34.99

This book was written to demystify critical standards related to information security, records management privacy information management for the modern librarian and archival professional.

In the digital age, librarians and archival professionals play a crucial role in safeguarding the world’s knowledge. A Librarian’s Guide to ISO Standards for Information Governance, Privacy, and Security is a curated resource for librarians, presenting core ISO standards related to information governance, data privacy, and security.

The book provides detailed summaries of these standards, along with case studies and advice on applying them in the modern digital age. It empowers library staff and patrons to prioritize data security and privacy, ensuring trust and confidentiality in their services. The purpose is to demystify critical standards related to information security, records management privacy information management for the modern librarian and archival professional.

Inside, you will find detailed summaries of the core ISO standards, descriptions, and case studies illustrating how these standards can apply to librarians in the modern digital age, advice on how to cultivate a culture of data security, and privacy awareness among library staff and patrons.

Ensuring Civility Online: Professional Etiquette in the Virtual Workplace

$28.99

Ensuring Civility Online: Professional Etiquette in the Virtual Workplace provides a practical approach with clear guidelines for managing behavior in a virtual environment.

In a world of increasing self-expression and self-promotion, the practice of etiquette seems absent in many everyday encounters, Additionally, the constant connectivity offered by technology has led to a decline in interpersonal communication skills including empathy, civility, and common courtesy.

Despite the fact that technology has allowed for, and even promoted, the widespread growth of incivility, the main culprit behind rudeness remains human behavior. While numerous books about incivility are available, the focus of those publications is most often on the topic of incivility and not on the means to reduce or alleviate its presence.

Ensuring Civility Online: Professional Etiquette in the Virtual Workplace provides a practical approach with clear guidelines for managing behavior in a virtual environment. The concise content will be helpful to trainers, educators, managers, employees, students, conference planners, conference attendees, and any others attempting to navigate the virtual environment in a professional manner. This book will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to conduct yourself professionally in any virtual setting.

Let’s Meet Blockchain: Technology Changing for Working, Creating, and Playing

$41.99

A quiet revolution is taking place within the computer ecosystem; one that will change the way we do business on the internet.

It’s called blockchain, and it promises to disrupt the way people interact with one another online, whether its messaging, banking, keeping up with medical records, land records, booking a vacation, socializing, or voting. Programs are also being developed to use blockchain to serve as one’s identity “papers.”

Blockchain technology is based on the idea that all online transactions should be between two people without the need for public or private third-party oversight. Blockchain technology developers believe thoughts and ideas should be shared, not quashed. It’s a world where web platforms are governed by their members, not a board of directors; privacy comes first, and one’s personal information is kept private, not for third parties to take and sell as they, please.

Blockchain technology offers everyone opportunities to take part. Anyone can participate in the fast-growing world using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), where works of art, music, literature, and poetry can be tokenized and sold or traded on a blockchain.

These components comprise the next generation of the world wide web, which is referred to as Web 3.0. Billions of dollars are being spent to create infrastructure to create a viable framework to mainstream blockchain.

This book offers a peek into this new world with examples of how this technology is being used today as well as the hurdles, including legal challenges, it must overcome to be viable.

So, if you’re ready, let’s meet blockchain.

Leading from the Top: Presidential Lessons in Issues Management

$34.99

Leading from the Top is a journey through 90 years of American presidential history to glean lessons in issues management from those who dealt with the most complex issues, on the biggest stage and under the most intense scrutiny. Reading the book, you will learn why asking permission, reframing the issue, and knowing the length of your runway are all important components in successful issues management.

This book uses history to build on common knowledge to accelerate recall of the concepts presented. It looks at fifteen presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden, and examines one issue each managed. Each chapter ends by assessing success or failure through the lens of issues management consulting and providing succinct lessons that readers can draw from and apply to conflict resolution, problem-solving and crisis management.

Leading from the Top is written for both aspiring and seasoned leaders to learn about or refine their issues management approaches as well as the reader who is interested in a different way to assess our presidents. This said, the book is not written to be prescriptive on any of the issues presented, but simply to provide perspective and tools to use to do your own assessments going forward.