Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation: 21st Century New Growth Engines

Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation: 21st Century New Growth Engines

$34.99

Disruptive Innovation and Digital Transformation: 21 Century New Growth Engines is for executive leadership, senior management, innovation catalysts, and digital marketing teams tasked with transforming businesses by accelerating growth through disruptive innovations and digital capabilities. It is a practical guide with concise insights for understanding the applications of disruptive innovation and how to iteratively apply them to projects and opportunities. It garners insights from the best minds across relevant disciplines—from its original theory and latest updates—to arrive at new insights on digital transformation.
The author evolves key approaches to disruptive innovation theory to reveal new digital applications and tells leaders what to look for–major categories of customers’ expectations in an escalating pattern to understand in what context digital plus disruptive innovations must be aligned with consumer preferences, environments, and the jobs-to-be-done, which is modeled in a new theory, Disruptive Innovation Customers’ Expectations (DICE).
DICE provides methods to use to lead digital disruption across products, services, and business models. DICE translates the vague parts of disruptive innovation by simplifying them down to what-to-do. DICE takes away the elusive nature of disruptive innovation by advising leaders: how to scan, to track, and to detect disruptions.
This book provides leaders with the right lenses to filter markets, giving order to complexity, and making disruptive innovation simpler.

Mastering Evaluation and Management Services in Healthcare: A Resource for Professional Services

Mastering Evaluation and Management Services in Healthcare: A Resource for Professional Services

$28.99

This book explores evaluation and management (E/M) coding and serves as a resource in the practice and application of level of service codes.
For two decades the 1995 and 1997 guidelines have provided guidance and structure around the documentation requirements necessary to support professional, outpatient services. After twenty-three years, Medicare has announced the adoption of a new set of standards to be released on January 1, 2021.
This book will serve as a guide for correct code assignment and as an educational resource for the 1995, 1997 and 2021 documentation guidelines.

Agility: Management Principles for a Volatile World

Agility: Management Principles for a Volatile World

$31.99

“Dr Edmondson’s sixth book is a thought-provoking journey through The Six Functions of the Agile Manager. Each function provides a roadmap for managers on how to navigate in today’s unpredictable and highly volatile environment.” –John Donnellan, New Jersey City University School of Business

“If you are ready to question ‘every aspect of the approach, methodology, biases, and deeply held assumptions’ that you have about how to be a successful leader in the volatile world that we find ourselves, then you’ll want to read Agility: Management Principles for a Volatile World.” –Jason D. Finley, Randolph Technical Career Center

“Edmondson’s work outlines the attributes that truly agile leaders should embody to bring about real and sustainable growth. He guides leaders to fully own their roles as curator, architect, conductor, humanist, advocate, and architect to create spaces that not only grow, but evolve as true learning organizations.” –Allison Rodman, Founder, The Learning Loop

Agility: Management Principles for a Volatile World is required reading for anyone managing individuals in small to medium-sized businesses, large corporations, non-profit organizations, and government offices.

Now is an opportune time for managers to become more agile and shift their position from one of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, or controlling to one of being a curator, architect, conductor, humanist, advocate, and pioneer. To help the reader increase their self-awareness Agility provides a list of principles, questions, and exercises.

The Cost: A Business Novel to Help Companies Increase Revenues and Profits

The Cost: A Business Novel to Help Companies Increase Revenues and Profits

$31.99

The Cost is a story of a cost engineering consultant named Doug Benson who does his best to help companies understand and improve cost. When Doug arrives at Electronica, the company is on a verge of bankruptcy and hardly even knows why. He must use all his cost engineering knowledge and leadership skills amidst some considerable corporate drama all the while fighting his own personal demons in order to give Electronica a chance. The type of situations that he finds himself in are happening all over the world every day and the results are often dramatic with people losing jobs, stakeholders losing millions of dollars, and communities losing hope.
The Cost is not only for those in the cost engineering field. This book is for everyone that is in a manufacturing business. It is for engineers, buyers, sales reps, accountants, operations folks, and business consultants. This book is also for anyone that is leading a business and has the power to employ cost engineering to make their company successful.

Sustainability Reporting and Communications

Sustainability Reporting and Communications

$31.99

In order to know whether or not the corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative and its related commitments are actually improving the company’s performance, it is necessary to have in place procedures for reporting and verification, each of which are important tools for measuring change and communicating those changes to the company’s stakeholders. While certain CSR and corporate sustainability disclosures have now become minimum legal requirements in some jurisdictions, in general such disclosures are still a voluntary matter and companies have some leeway as to the scope of their disclosures and how they are presented to investors and other stakeholders.

This book is intended to be a practical introduction to sustainability reporting and communications that begins by discussing material legal and regulatory considerations and the some of the major sustainability reporting frameworks and then continues with detailed illustrations of how companies might create and distribute their sustainability reports and develop and implement their CSR communications strategies.

Strategic Planning for Sustainability

Strategic Planning for Sustainability

$31.99

Although corporate social responsibility (“CSR”) has been adopted by many companies, few of them are practicing it with any formal strategy, and the common situation seems to be a portfolio of disparate CSR programs and initiatives, some of which support core strategy and others of which appear adjacent and discretionary. The diversity of potential CSR initiatives is one issue (e.g., companies may simultaneously disburse funding for community activities, provide grants for nonprofits/NGOs, launch environmental sustainability programs to reduce energy and resource use and engage in “cause” marketing and comprehensive system-level efforts to remake their entire value chain); however, developing a strategic orientation is complicated by the fact that each company has its own unique set of drivers and motivations for CSR and ideas and responsibilities for those initiatives come from all parts and levels of the organization. Moreover, while it makes sense to identify a specific business logic and rationale for each CSR initiative, the reality is that companies often take on causes and projects that have little or no connection to their core competencies or business strategy. Serious interest in CSR strategy has been driven by the emergence of two challenging environmental conditions that must now be addressed by all companies: the growing interest in sustainability and the need to engage with a broad range of stakeholders beyond the owners of the business. These conditions have not made strategic planning any easier, given that they expand the levels of unpredictability and risk in any company’s environment, and the response has been the development of a new discipline: strategic planning for sustainability. Strategic planning for sustainability is far from easy or precise, if only because it requires that simultaneous consideration be given not only to economic performance and development, but also to environmental protection and the social wellbeing of employees and other persons and groups outside of the organization. Companies and their managers are struggling to find and deploy the tools and practices that are necessary for balancing and reconciling the “triple bottom line” of profits, planet and people. This book is intended to provide sustainable entrepreneurs with a comprehensive guide to the key steps required to strategically approach becoming a successful sustainable business including conducting a CSR assessment, developing a CSR strategy and accompanying business case, developing and implementing CSR commitments and measuring the performance and effectiveness of the planning initiative.

Blockchain Value: Transforming Business Models, Society, and Communities

Blockchain Value: Transforming Business Models, Society, and Communities

$34.99

“Olga V. Mack presents an essential read for those seeking to demystify the practical benefits of blockchain technology.” –Daniel Spuller, Chairman, North Carolina Blockchain Initiative and former Director, Chamber of Digital Commerce
“Olga V. Mack is a leading voice in the worlds of law, technology, and innovation. In Blockchain Value, she explains, with great insight, lucidity, and humor, one of the most powerful–and least understood–technologies transforming the world today.” –David Lat, Founding Editor, Above the Law, and Managing Director, Lateral Link
If you think that blockchain is everything you don’t understand about technology, finance, and law mixed together, then this book will help you appreciate its value more clearly. While it is a complex technology that is still largely experimental today, it will be transformative in the future.
This book focuses on the values of blockchain across industries. Among other things, it explores how blockchain technology adds value to data management, security, and sharing as well as ownership, property, collaboration, and trust. It also explores the possibilities of the Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS), digital goods or dGoods, and the transformative power of small acts and micropayments.

The Trust Factor: The Missing Key to Unlocking Business and Personal Success

The Trust Factor: The Missing Key to Unlocking Business and Personal Success

$31.99

Trust, it binds us together in our deepest most fulfilling relationships, attracts and retains the best employees, and turns clients into raving fans. Let me show you how to heal old wounds, become a sought out business leader to work for, and create a loyal following of people who cannot imagine going without the service you provide to them.
‧ Broken trust and old wounds. Learn how to forgive and learn without condoning the act that broke your trust. Old wounds only hold you back, not the other person.
‧ The trust that binds. Understand and feel the freedom you have by knowing others have your back.
‧ Creating a culture of trust. Be the leader of integrity that the best and brightest want to work for.
‧ Client connection. Move far beyond customer loyalty by being the company your clients tell everyone else about.
Trust is truly the missing key to unlocking business and personal success!

TAP Into Your Potential: How to Think, Act, and Practice Like an Entrepreneur

TAP Into Your Potential: How to Think, Act, and Practice Like an Entrepreneur

$34.99

There are many books on entrepreneurship available in the market today, but very few speak to the mindset and philosophy required. This book focuses on the concepts, mindset, philosophy, and qualities of entrepreneurship. The author provides guidance and suggest helpful activities at the end of each chapter to inspire the reader to take positive steps toward entrepreneurship. It will teach the reader how to Think, Act, and Practice like an entrepreneur.
From The Author: The book will not only show you how to do it, but it will also provide first-hand accounts and personal experiences and details of how I did it, including the hurdles I encountered and how I overcame them. I wish to share those with you in the hopes that it makes your path toward entrepreneurship easier, and your successes greater, than mine.
I’ve also prepared slides to assist faculty members to better explain and/or expand on the major topics in the book. And I can customize the slides to create a presentation using information provided in the book depending on the faculty’s curriculum and audience.