The Chinese e-Merging Market: Digital China and its Social Media Landscape

The Chinese e-Merging Market: Digital China and its Social Media Landscape

$34.99

Over the past decades China gained the reputation of being the world’s factory, focusing solely on manufacturing exports. This is about to change.

The role of e-commerce is tremendously important in the context of the Chinese government’s stated goal of relying less on exports to the recession-stricken West and focusing more on domestic consumption as a driver for further economic growth. China’s online population is currently the largest online population worldwide. This book is aimed at assisting Western entrepreneurs, SMEs, investors and business students to understand and ideally enter the Chinese e-merging market.

E-Commerce is an easy, fast, and cost-effective way of entering the Chinese market compared to more traditional ways of entry. It offers great opportunities for high profit gains to Western companies seeking to do business in China without the hurdle of heavy upfront investment.

This book is designed to work as a step-by-step guide to the online marketplace environment in China. It provides a detailed overview of the Chinese online market and proposes different strategies available to foreign companies. It contains practical advice, the latest data and relevant links for further reference that Western SMEs, investors, and entrepreneurs can use to establish their online presence in China.

How to Make Good Business Decisions

How to Make Good Business Decisions

$28.99

How to Make Good Business Decisions is a book to assist people with thoughts surrounding essential aspects of finances and business. Much of the decision-making for people derives from experiences and exposure. The ability to see multiple perspectives allows for a higher level of understanding, increasing common sense perception. The common belief for the concept of common sense is a general acceptance as a usual occurrence or stance among people. However, reality demonstrates that people view topics very differently. Technology and varying media outlets create many avenues for information leading to conflicting positions and confusion.

This book provides a straightforward method of removing distortions among education, business practices, finances, and ownership. There are countless variables, obstacles, and barriers inherent in life’s journey, and operating with common sense will alleviate many issues.

However, exposure to information, experiences, and education redefines what is “common.” Readers will learn how their thoughts, viewpoints, and focus shape their responses and navigation through important decision-making realities.

This book serves as a tool for increasing decision-making.

The Power of Belonging: How to Develop Safety, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Organizations

The Power of Belonging: How to Develop Safety, Inclusion, and Belonging for Leaders and Organizations

$31.99

“This book belongs in the leader’s bookshelf. Sunita Sehmi has written an insightful, interesting and highly practical book that can help us do things better, together.” –Tal Ben-Shahar, New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Happiness Studies Academy.

This book is for anyone who wants to achieve better personal and organizational effectiveness and fruitful business relationships. It is designed to give both the theoretical knowledge and the tools for action if you are to change the power dynamics in your organization.

Indeed, to operate in a global environment that is increasingly more relational than transactional, it is vital to cultivate globally competitive leaders to deal with ongoing change and challenges. The Power of Belonging is about addressing the challenge faced by most leaders: how to influence and achieve organizational goals.

This is also a book for individuals, especially as they learn that we cannot define ourselves by single dimensions – we are a synthesis of our backgrounds, experiences and philosophies. And we must come as the whole people that we are to form sustainable and meaningful relationships with others around the world. The most difficult lesson to learn perhaps is that belonging will remain a puzzle until we find that it has a personal dwelling place – that we must first belong deeply to ourselves.

Ready to be a change agent? Then this book is for you.

How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage

How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage

$31.99

[On a] flight from Perth gave me the opportunity to read your book… Cover to Cover in one sitting. That tells me that you have nailed the delivery of practical advice in an easily digested format! There are few Business Development books that I can honestly say I have read with such engagement. Many still sit in my digital library half read. Great work. Richard Sheppy. Managing Director, Agrifac Australia
How Efficiency Changes the Game is a great read. It has been awhile since I have read something that I didn’t want to put down, and it has inspired me within my own business to improve and work harder on the business. Ray has really taken fundamentals of how to be more efficient and put a great spin on it. I really like the way he has included quotes from leaders and explained simply what they mean. — Jason Gow, My Builder Friend
Obtaining a competitive advantage in today’s business environment generally does not happen of its own accord. With the speed of global economic change, products to market, technology and customer preferences, organizations must light on their feet and be the drivers of change. Given that most businesses deal with the same buyers in defined markets who purchase similar products, gaining this competitive advantage is critical to both thriving and being leaders in their field. To do this, one must drive efficiencies throughout the entire organization while creating a significant point of difference. Yet, inefficiency continues to run rampant and can be found in the often-forgotten pockets of the organization, hampering efficacy at best, leading it out the door at worst.
How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage provides an insightful process for the executive, manager, and business owner, enabling them to discover inefficiencies where least expected, highlighting both the nature of the primary issues and then how to subsequently correct them. This book will assist in developing lean operations in areas such as leadership, marketing, strategy and planning, sales, time management, workflows, finances, and people.

A Profile of the Farm Machinery Industry, Second Edition: The Power To Help Farmers Feed the World

A Profile of the Farm Machinery Industry, Second Edition: The Power To Help Farmers Feed the World

$34.99

The farm machinery industry is a complex sector of the global manufacturing economy that encompasses many companies, including those who produce tractors, combines, sprayers, planting equipment, harvesters, tillage equipment, and irrigation systems. While the industry is dominated by three full-line manufacturers (Deere and Company, Case New Holland, and the Allis-Gleaner Corporation), there are thousands of other companies, including many short-line manufacturers, that also dictate the nature of the industry. The farm machinery industry, while contributing a small percentage to gross world product, is vitally important to another key sector of the economy—agriculture. In advanced economies, where the percentage of the labor force engaged in agriculture has been on the decline since World War II, high horsepower tractors and efficient harvesting systems are necessary to cultivate more acres with fewer workers to feed an ever-growing world population.

Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance, Second Edition

Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance, Second Edition

$31.99

The critical role that supply chain planning contributes to a firm’s financial well-being has never been greater. All too often, however, considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities with minimal results.

In this second edition of Supply Chain Planning, we present proven, practical management frameworks used by the authors to support supply chain operations management and planning in private industry. These frameworks provide methodologies for managing critical activities such as supply chain strategic planning and project selection, manufacturing and distribution planning, performance measurement, supply chain risk management, and customer logistics and inventory deployment.

The book is intended for supply chain professionals, as well as for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of real-world approaches for supply chain planning, decision support, and many other key activities.

Emotional Connection: The EmC Strategy: How Leaders Can Unlock The Human Potential, Build Resilient Teams, and Nurture Thriving Cultures

Emotional Connection: The EmC Strategy: How Leaders Can Unlock The Human Potential, Build Resilient Teams, and Nurture Thriving Cultures

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“Emotional Connection makes it possible for any manager to navigate the tricky territory of workplace emotions. It competently guides readers through the systemic application of its science-backed methodology. Anybody wanting stronger and healthier work relationships needs to simply take in the insightful lessons and follow the clear steps in Emotional Connection.” –Bea Boccalandro, Author of Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing

Underlying all our interactions are the emotions we are operating with, both consciously and unconsciously. Emotions, and not the content, are the most powerful presence in the room during conflicts and stress. Emotions are the most powerful agents of change.

This book lights the way to appreciating the importance of developing the emotional language to describe, acknowledge, and address emotions in the workplace using a proven and methodical approach absent in most other EI strategies. The EmC strategy enables leaders to connect more effectively, energize a harmonious workplace, and nurture creativity and innovation to achieve unprecedented results. When leaders emotionally connect, they help people reach their full potential and build thriving communities.

Your GPS to Employment Success: How to Find and Succeed in the Right Job

Your GPS to Employment Success: How to Find and Succeed in the Right Job

$34.99

Economies had barely recovered from the Great Recession of 2008 when the COVID-19 pandemic moved swiftly around the world threatening to devastate global economies and their populations yet again. Inevitably, unemployment followed. Anyone looking for employment or a promotion in a mercurial economic environment can find useful tips and information in Your GPS to Employment Success: How to Find and Succeed in the Right Job.

This book is a career resource that contains a treasure trove of straightforward, pithy job search and career advice, 125 tips, and stories from an employment expert. It is a career advancement and networking guide that also identifies inconvenient truths that are not commonly known but are helpful to have in your career toolkit.

Your GPS to Employment Success also addresses:

  • The importance of preparing mentally, physically, and emotionally for a roller-coaster job search.
  • How to adopt NBA star forward LeBron James’s career strategy for personal career goals.
  • How to develop a career plan and strategy, and the need to execute a career strategy.
  • How to look for employment in a virtual world.
  • How a former NFL athlete asked a stranger for help and changed the trajectory of his life.

The author also provides a career toolkit that contains informative, time-saving material.

Adoption and Adaption in Digital Business

Adoption and Adaption in Digital Business

$37.99

Whether it is the turnaround of a sports team to win a championship, bettering a community, remediation of business, or adoption and adaption to digital business, it is having us do things differently which brings sustainable change.
This was seen throughout 2020 during the COVID-19 global pandemic. People from around the world stood up and helped each other, shared their time, goods, skills, and expertise which collectively crafted and shaped our response to COVID. Our environment was changed, capacities and capabilities implemented, behaviors emerged, and outcomes were managed. Interests and values were aligned and as empowered individuals having ownership with pride in who we are and what we do, we adopted and adapted. Knowing the issue, the importance to us, what we needed to do, and where to get help, enabled us to better ourselves and those around us. For the decisions made, we empowered and supported with variations to circumstances as required of us.
This book provides the hands-on of “fixing the pipes and helping people” to capacity and capability build for the crafting and shaping of the emergent behaviors needed through our aligned interest and values with the empowered emotional ownership: “I do good work, change is coming, help me with the change, and I can do more.” The authors have prepared a series of supporting materials are already available here, with over 100 videos here.

Rethinking Information Technology Asset Management

Rethinking Information Technology Asset Management

$31.99

Information technology asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM) is hard. Annual IT budget forecasts rarely hold up for the entire year. There are plenty of excuses given:
‧ Untrustworthy reporting from the CMDB or MDR
‧ Unplanned version upgrades or platform refreshes
‧ Unapproved software, license, or cloud computing subscriptions coming due
‧ Unanticipated software license audit penalties
‧ And on, and on, and on
Rethinking Information Technology Asset Management presents a new answer to the problem. Most business leaders and IT managers assume nothing can be done. That these problems are part-and-parcel of modern IT. This book presents a new method – Pragmatic ITAM – that offers permanent solutions to the ignored, underpinning issues driving hardware and software cost overruns.
This book is intended for business leaders and IT executives who are tired of missed budget forecasts, unexpected software audit penalties, untrustworthy CMDB or Asset MDR reports, and idea that this is “just the way it is.”