Adaptive Project Planning

Adaptive Project Planning

$26.99

Despite claims to the contrary, there is no single approach to planning a project, but for a given project, there is a best one. This book takes you through many planning situations you will meet. The authors use stories of real projects to show how planning decisions alter depending on the project context. They discuss how resource-constrained planning differs from end-date schedule planning and look at what is different between cost-constrained plans and time b oxing. The text explores why you must plan when using agile approaches, how to approach the planning in stakeholder complex projects, and how to plan for innovation.
For project managers, getting involved with increasingly complex projects, it’s all about developing your judgment. The crucial judgments remain how to plan and structure a project. Through the exploration of many types of projects and the introduction of models and an approach to planning this book will aid your journey into high performance project management.

Temperatism, Volume II: Doing Good Through Business With a Social Conscience

Temperatism, Volume II: Doing Good Through Business With a Social Conscience

$26.99

Temperatism is more than a bleeding heart version of the capitalist ideal. Its purpose is to tackle key injustices and social inequality that are symptoms of the capitalist market system. By focusing on an agenda of doing good, temperatism seeks to reduce the level of elitism and social exclusion, that capitalism claims are inevitable, by sharing access to resources and ensuring that all individuals have the opportunity to exercise their talent potential. With the world economy in flux and globalism under pressure from populist politicians finding a new way to think about business and doing good is significant at this point in history. The hurt and pain that inequality inflicts on individuals and groups in society through exclusion and neglect is in conflict with our natural sense of affinity, collaboration and our intrinsic sense of fair play and justice. The dysfunction that we are currently experiencing in our society is as a direct result of the inequality within our society.
Temperatism is based on the idea that humanity has the potential to co-operate, collaborate, assist and contribute to the greater good. The questions discussed in Volume 2 explore how replacing the profit motive with a doing good motive makes it possible to tackle some of society’s biggest challenges including reducing poverty, improving access to health and education, defending human rights, and protecting the environment. Organizations with a social conscience will leave a legacy of which they can be rightly proud, shifting business from being the center of society’s problems to being its savior.

Disaster Risk Management: Case Studies in South Asian Countries

Disaster Risk Management: Case Studies in South Asian Countries

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The key features of this book include (i) the adoption of critical and multidisciplinary approaches in discussing disaster-related problems and emerging issues and (ii) the provision of insights into the approaches to address the challenges and issues of disaster risk management. The different stakeholders, practitioners, policy makers, and researchers will acquire a fuller and richer understanding of the various issues related to disaster risk management.
The editors take pride in acknowledging the role of the Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance, (NAPSIPAG) in making the present book possible. NAPSIPAG is the largest governance research network in the Asia Pacific region, which has been organizing an annual international meeting of administrators, academia, and non- state bodies where regional scholars critically deliberate with international governance experts. This is a process through which many young and upcoming scholars are also trained and academic brilliance is generated. NAPSIPAG has also helped the international policy organizations to have a better understanding of the region through a local lens of Asiatic anthropology, ethnography, and culture of administration. The book is an out- come of the academic and practitioners’ discourses generated mainly by NAPSIPAG members.

Business Report Guides: Research Reports and Business Plans

Business Report Guides: Research Reports and Business Plans

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This book offers tactics for creating business plans as well as research reports. Readers will find guides for planning research projects; writing proposals; identifying major findings; drawing conclusions; and using them to recommend appropriate actions—along with citing sources, numbering pages, and displaying visuals. The book examines business plans—why entrepreneurs need them, the objectives and contents of business plans, and how-to guides for each part.
Business Report Guides can be your go-to source for years to come. Reading through it in a couple of hours, you can gain information for immediate use. Keep it handy and refer to it often when reporting research or when planning a new business or altering an existing one.

Business Report Guides: Routine and Nonroutine Reports and Policies, Procedures, and Instructions

Business Report Guides: Routine and Nonroutine Reports and Policies, Procedures, and Instructions

$26.99

This book includes reports that managers originate often, reports they may create occasionally, and organizational policies, procedures, and work instructions. Inside, the reader will discover guides for creating over 20 diverse reports; designing report forms; planning, writing, and formatting narrative reports; producing digital and print employee manuals; and locating the service providers and software that can improve your reports’ cost-effectiveness. A crisp writing style, bullet points, and many authentic examples and visuals convey essential information quickly. Each chapter summary includes checklists. Business Report Guides gives ample information to apply instantly. It also works as a handy reference for use throughout your career.

Leadership Insights: 11 Typical Mistakes Young Leaders Make and Tips to Avoid Them

Leadership Insights: 11 Typical Mistakes Young Leaders Make and Tips to Avoid Them

$21.99

Leading ones first team can be a daunting and sometimes over- whelming experience, requiring self-reflection, self-discipline, communication, and organizational skills as well as no small amount of guts and values. This book provides young leaders or future high-potentials the guidance needed for how to deal with the challenges of leading teams in modern organizations.
Understanding the power of strengths-based leadership using clear two-way communication and, in particular, identifying with one’s own leadership philosophy are central themes in this book. It highlights the typical mistakes made by first- time leaders and offers theoretical and practical advice to deal with the difficulties of management.

Trade Credit and Risk Management

Trade Credit and Risk Management

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Trade credit is extensively used in both domestic and international commercial transactions. Although it clearly supports growth, its significance is even greater for developed countries, where the market has recovered remarkably since the global financial crisis. The number and heterogeneity of motivations to trade credit justify the variability observed in the data on global trading, and the role of trade credit has become crucial in supply chain coordination.
A range of diverse trade credit finance solutions are available and include products and services offered by financial intermediaries and market products, highlighting a very interesting set of intermediate solutions that have emerged as a result of new technologies utilized in financial services. For financiers trade credit is an attractive option, but an in-depth evaluation of the possibility of losses forms the basis of a deep understating of numerous sources that can create credit risk (default and dilution risk). This book offers managers a complete analysis of the various facets of commercial credit and presents an analysis of the various types of markets, instruments, and risks associated with trade credit in supply chains across the globe.

Trade Credit and Financing Instruments

Trade Credit and Financing Instruments

$21.99

Trade credit is extensively used in both domestic and international commercial transactions. Although it clearly supports growth, its significance is even greater for developed countries, where the market has recovered remarkably since the global financial crisis. The number and heterogeneity of motivations to trade credit justify the variability observed in the data on global trading, and the role of trade credit has become crucial in supply chain coordination.
A range of diverse trade credit finance solutions are available and include products and services offered by financial intermediaries and market products, highlighting a very interesting set of intermediate solutions that have emerged as a result of new technologies utilized in financial services. For financiers trade credit is an attractive option, but an in-depth evaluation of the possibility of losses forms the basis of a deep understating of numerous sources that can create credit risk (default and dilution risk). This book offers managers a complete analysis of the various facets of commercial credit and presents an analysis of the various types of markets, instruments, and risks associated with trade credit in supply chains across the globe.

Strategic Thinking and Writing

Strategic Thinking and Writing

$21.99

In today’s hyper-connected, dynamic, and ever changing global marketplace, storytelling is the new strategic imperative for organizations that want to achieve and sustain growth. The power of narrative, however, is built upon the foundation of strategic thinking and writing. As technology has democratized the power to share stories with the world, succeeding in today’s age of collaborative commerce demands that leaders on all levels develop and enhance the business competency of storytelling built on strategic thinking and writing in order to drive customer engagement, enhance business performance, and remain relevant.

Perhaps nowhere is the evidence of storytelling more prevalent than Amazon. In his 2018 annual letter, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos repeated his rule that PowerPoint is banned in executive meetings. Bezos replaced PowerPoint slides with a six page narrative that executives prepare. The start of each meeting involves attendees reading the six page narrative for 30 minutes followed by a discussion. Writing the six page memo requires research, time, and multiple revisions. The six page memo also requires one to think and write strategically.

That’s where this publication can help.

Part one consists of three chapters that focus on examining the various definitions associated with thinking and the process of strategic thinking. Part two shifts the attention towards strategic writing and provides the reader with a step-by-step guide on how to create a clear, concise, and compelling six page memo.

Strategic Cost Transformation: Using Business Domain Management to Improve Cost Data, Analysis, and Management

Strategic Cost Transformation: Using Business Domain Management to Improve Cost Data, Analysis, and Management

$21.99

“As a CPA with over 30 years of accounting experience, I certainly had to swallow my pride as I read this book. Dr Lee provides compelling evidence that you cannot rely on accounting information alone to make cash decisions.” —Michael Hales Chief Financial Officer, Northern Kentucky University

“Epictetus, a Greek Stoic philosopher, is reported to have said that many things in this world are not and yet appear to be. Such is the case with many of our traditional definitions and descriptions of ‘cost savings’ as described in so many accounting texts. Dr. Lee has taken a page from Epictetus in pointing out that we need a new paradigm of defining a cost saving if we are going to really provide the necessary information needed to manage a business or use accounting information to make more informed business decisions. This book is clearly a game changer in that regard.” —Dr. Joseph F. Castellano Professor Emeritus, University of Dayton

Your product costs $2.86 to make. What does the number tell you about your operations, how effectively they were run, demand, or how much money you spent on capacity? Nothing. Shouldn’t you know?

Accounting information creates a limited picture of operations and true cash performance. Strategic Cost Transformation offers a new framework, business domain management, which creates a comprehensive picture of your organization for improved cash based decision-making.