Anyone who is responsible for the supervision and performance of a team in an organization will appreciate the practical management strategies outlined in this book. In a refreshing, humorous, and engaging approach, it aims to reduce the stress associated with the leadership of a team of people and improve the likelihood that things get done right, the first time.
The author provides great insight and practical exercises on how to be an exceptional manager and team leader. In a step-by-step approach, this book will help you be better at coaching and developing team members, setting direction for your team, and enhancing performance and engagement. A must read for all first-time managers/team leaders who want to get the best out of their team.
This book guides you through an enjoyable journey, step by step, into the future. A team of fictional characters is introduced to share their learning and working experiences with the readers. In the beginning of the book, you will take the first step by learning the most basic models for one-period forecasts based on past performance of a market. You will also learn how to evaluate your newly built models. Next, you will progress further into intermediate-level models, including multi-period forecasts based on past performance of a market or based on an external factor. It also introduces interval forecasting, which allows you to obtain a range of forecast values instead of a single value in the future.
In the second half, you will familiarize yourself with advanced models that provide multi-period forecasts based on multiple internal or external factors. Toward the end, you will learn several applied models in business and economics that will facilitate you with practical applications related to real life situations. The last chapter summarizes all models introduced in this book and provides a table of references for finding the most important concepts, tables, and figures in the book so that you can recall every step of your adventure.
Rajagopal has taken on a challenging subject when he looks at consumer marketing theories in his new book. As consumers change their purchasing patterns in the modern world, it is very difficult to properly take into account the media (social and traditional) that influence them, the kinds of role models they wish to emulate, and the other factors that drive their behavior. Rajagopal has produced a valuable guide to theories that contribute to our understanding of what consumers do and why. His emphasis on emerging markets is particularly important for the fastest-growing in the world today. As more and more cultures are incorporated into global markets, Rajagopal’s guidance on how to approach them will serve companies and analysts very well. — Robert Grosse, Professor of International Business, Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University Behavioral theories of consumers have evolved through complex dimensions over the years and explained more in context of psychology than marketing. Professor Rajagopal has elucidated this complexity by explaining the consumer behavior theories with applied perspectives and delivering prolific managerial implications. This book sharpens functional skills of marketing managers and helps in attaining deeper insights to bridge theory and practice, and influence marketing strategies. Theoretical foundation, real examples, simple language, and thematic continuum of the book make it a must read for students, researchers, and marketers. —Angappa Gunasekaran, Dean and Professor, Charlton College of Business, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
This book critically examines and analyzes the classical and neo-classical behavioral theories in reference to consumer decision- making across the business cultures. Discussions in the book present new insights on drawing contemporary interpretations to the behavioral theories of consumers, and guide the breakthrough strategies in marketing.
This informative and inspirational handbook describes how to successfully lead mergers and change in complex organizations. Drawing on a real-life experience, the authors share their insights on how leaders can deliver sustainable change by growing the capacity of everyone within an organization to deliver performance gains, behave like a leader, and encourage leadership in others.
It is a book by practitioners for practitioners telling the real- life story of a leader and a facilitator working together in the complex reality of a multinational organization. It deepens this insight by drawing on a wealth of wider research by academics and leadership practitioners. Here you will find immediately useable tools, easy to relate to real-life examples, and a little bit of magic in the form of a fable that will sustain you and your colleagues through the twists and turns of what is certain to become an intensely human journey.
Innoliteracy: From Design Thinking to Tangible Change encourages you to allocate resources in the earliest phases of your next development or change project—to the fuzzy front end, where the problem is unveiled and understood, scoped, defined, and challenged, and where the roadmap for how to introduce something new or replace something existing with something better is drawn. The book is based on a series of reflections, experiences, observations, and anecdotes as well as a guide to a better development process, referring to examples, case studies, and existing literature and research. Innoliteracy is for anyone who is engaged in—or even just curious about—change and development processes, especially how they are made more stakeholder- focused, thoroughly framed and reframed, and how one makes sure that the most relevant and imminent problem is addressed.
This book focuses on special issues of climate change man- agement in Asia. It discusses the challenges of climate change governance, and examines the impact of climate change on agriculture and food security. The author includes a rare work relating to a new dimension of climate change management— environmental knowledge management. The book also touches another special topic relating to climate change and legal issues in the maritime sector. Is the current maritime legal framework effective in preventing harms to the environment still a big question?
How the legal industry in Malaysia responds to climate change is also examined in this volume. Finally, the agriculture sector in Japan investigates whether the adaptive method of introducing high-temperature tolerant varieties and the mitigation strategy affect the product price of rice. Overall, robust strategies, plans, and policies are required to provide directions to stakeholders so that they can effectively and efficiently respond to climate change challenges.
In a complex and growing chaotic global environment, individuals, companies, and countries are forced to adapt, innovate, and operate in new ways. Creative and unconventional economic and business models are constantly being developed in order for countries and corporations to gain a competitive advantage. Countless novel ideas have challenged traditional views on the merits of globalization.
Populist and protectionist sentiments have gained ground alongside calls for economic nationalism, alter- globalization, deglobalization and even unglobalization. Skepticism is on the rise, and there is a pressing need for fresh solutions and viable strategies. This book assembled a cast of international experts and thought leaders and gathered their views on alternative pathways toward global success.
When I managed a hedge fund in the late 1990s, computer- based trading was a mysterious technique only available to the largest hedge funds and institutional trading desks. With this book, Drs. Romero and Balch lift the veil from many of these once- opaque concepts in high-tech finance. This book does a fantastic job describing how the latest advances in financial modeling and data science help today’s portfolio managers solve these greater riddles.—Michael Himmel, Managing Partner, Essex Asset Management I applaud Phil Romero’s willingness to write about the hedge fund world, an industry that is very private, often flamboyant, and easily misunderstood. As with every sector of the investment landscape, the hedge fund industry varies dramatically from quantitative “black box” technology, to fundamental research and old-fashioned stock picking. This book helps investors distinguish between these diverse opposites and understand their place in the new evolving world of finance.—Mick Elfers, Founder and Chief Investment Strategist, Irvington Capital
This book draws the curtain back on the core building blocks of many hedge fund strategies. As an instructional text, it will assist economics and finance students interested in understanding what “quants” do, as well as software specialists interested in applying their skills to programming trading systems. It provides a needed complement to journalistic accounts of the hedge fund industry, to deepen the understanding of nonspecialist readers such as policy makers, journalists, and individual investors. The book is organized in modules to allow different readers to focus on the elements of this topic that most interest them. Its authors include a fund practitioner and a computer scientist (Balch), in collaboration with a public policy economist and finance academic (Romero).
This book offers an alternative to the industrial revolutionary paradigm of organization that we still live and work with today and instead argues that the environmental and economic complexity of the digital age require an evolutionary leap in the purpose, design, and traits of organization. Organizational Design in Business tackles the subject of organization development and design through an organic and purpose-driven approach and provides practical how-to tools for managers and leaders.
This book challenges the idea that business as usual is a viable option in the digital economy. If performance is to be driven at an organizational level, and is to be sustainable, then business leaders and development professionals need to have a deep understanding of how to achieve balance in their organization in response to the complexity of the external business environment.
The role of the chief communication officer (CCO) has dramatically changed over the past 30 years. Once focused on communications tactics, today’s CCO has become a strategically critical leader to any kind of enterprise—company, corporation, governmental, and nongovernmental entity. Today’s CCO is responsible for internal and external communication, with creating and implementing communication strategies that help mold enterprise mission, vision, values, and character, and with building enterprise reputation through stakeholder engagement.
As a part of the “C-Suite,” the CCO must understand the business at all levels—financial, operational, environmental, and even psychological—as well as the role she has in informing the C-Suite and the chief executive officer what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the science and the art of communication and apply that knowledge to advancing her enterprise’s goals and objectives through a faster and ever-larger-reaching set of media.
