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.
The CEO and the leadership team are on the job at all times, expected to be available on a moment’s notice. The term, 24/7, is a reality to most of us and has blurred the separation between our personal and work lives.
This book provides an amalgamation of lessons from Moore’s work with some of the best leaders in Fortune 1000 companies, privately held firms, mid-cap businesses, and not-for-profit organizations. Drawing on real-life examples from energy/oil and gas, financial services, professional services, world-class technology firms, mining, retail, healthcare, and more, Moore highlights the industry agnostic practices of both individual leaders and teams.
The 360 Degree CEO provides the tools and insights to successfully navigate our personal and professional journeys, elevating our health, our relationships, our results, and our organization’s performance.
This book points out that apart from usual “profit-maximizing business,” there are some other types of business models that serve social causes with pro t. The author discusses some such business models, namely, social business, compassionate business, microcredit-based business, cooperative business, bottom-of-the-pyramid business, and social welfare business. The common point of all these business models is that they alleviate poverty and promote social development in a self-sustaining manner. The text identifies the main principles followed by these business models and suggests principles of benevolent business. Thus gives an idea about how to design a successful benevolent business. The author argues that along with the government and the NGOs, which are presently expected to meet the social developmental needs of the people, benevolent businesses should be promoted to fulfill the social developmental needs. Such steps will endow social development and promote efficiency in meeting the social developmental goals.
Increasing business competition is compelling managers not only to develop realistic and achievable strategies but also to analyze goals in financial terms and to evaluate performance. But where do you, as a manager, learn about the key methods and techniques of strategic cost analysis?
This text explains in simple language the methods and techniques of cost analysis that can be applied strategically at any level in an organization—be it manufacturing, service, or the nonprofit sector. Since the interaction of the organization’s activities, the influences of the external world, and your responsibilities as a manager need to be captured in financial terms to help plan, control, and make decisions, this book is what you’ll require in today’s world. Inside you will learn how to answer the following four crucial
questions:
‧ What did it cost?
‧ What should it have cost?
‧ How can we improve?
‧ What is our next strategic move?
Whether you are just starting out as a freelancer or have been freelancing for years, choosing the right legal structure for your business is an important part of maximizing your returns and minimizing your risk. In the right situation, forming a limited liability company (LLC) or corporation can be a way to manage legal liability and potentially lower your tax bill. But the details are often confusing.
Business Entities for Freelancers is a concise guide to legal entities and their related technicalities, focused on issues useful to U.S.-based freelancers. It offers clear, specific guidance, with numerous examples, designed to give readers a foundation for making sound choices. In addition to the basics of owning and managing sole proprietorships, LLCs, and corporations, the book introduces related topics, including contracts, trademark and other naming concerns, and taxes.
