Understanding the Complexity of Emergency Supply Chains

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While conventional commercial supply chains may be complicated, emergency supply chains are inherently complex. By responding to an emergency, they lack a developed forecast, primarily use manual requisitioning systems and do not possess sophisticated means to sense and respond to the emerging demand. Multiple stakeholders come together, many for the first time, to execute “on the fly.” Their success is mostly defined by effectiveness, either in preserving combat capability or providing relief; the primary focus becomes getting the job accomplished “at all costs.” As a result, supply chain efficiency is an afterthought, and optimization is difficult, if not undesired. Finally, due to their infrequent nature, less has been written and studied in the area of emergency supply chains, increasing the risk that those practitioners supporting the next emergency operation will encounter the same difficulties. It is for these reasons Understanding the Complexity of Emergency Supply Chains seeks to complete the education of both practitioners and academics across multiple domains and disciplines. It contributes to military and nongovernmental operators, logisticians and organizations’ understanding of emergency supply chain strengths and vulnerabilities. Similarly, emergency management professionals will gain a sense of how supply chain accomplishes or constrains the emergency management process. Moreover, students and other supply chain professionals seeking a deeper understanding of supply chains will benefit from Understanding the Complexity of Emergency Supply Chains, as it explores circumstances that run contrary to supply chain theory and thus reinforces a solid grasp on supply chain fundamentals.

Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain Management and Logistics

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This book offers a framework for designing and implementing global supply chains and courses concerning them. Its interdisciplinary approach –and contributions from specialists in a variety of different functional areas–reflects the myriad of factors involved in developing global supply chains and the curricula needed to teach them.

Across the Spectrum: What Color Are You?

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Understanding behavior and understanding one’s self allows one to take control, lead, influence understand others and raise one’s self-esteem and confidence at all levels. But describing these things requires colors, not works. The audience for this book includes individuals at work who want to move upwards, people struggling in any role and feel frustrated, anyone in a relationship that isn’t going quite right all the way up to the CEO of the biggest company who wants to be more influential and inspirational and who relates all people at all times, to those who have conflict in their life as well.

Marine Tourism, Climate Change and Resilience in the Caribbean: Ocean Health, Fisheries and Marine Protected Areas, Volume I

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As the island and coastal nations of the Caribbean respond to and prepare for the effects of climate change, tourism has the potential to both exacerbate and mitigate these efforts. In this book, the third of four volumes co-published by CREST and Business Expert Press focused on climate change and tourism in the Caribbean, we look specifically at marine tourism and its connection with ocean health, fisheries, and critical ecosystems including coral reefs. We also consider the important role that marine protected areas can play in preserving coral reefs and other ecosystems, leading to greater resilience in the face of the environmental and economic impacts of climate change. Finally, we look at some examples of how the tourism industry is responding to climate change, using its economic and social capital to foster positive change in the Caribbean and other parts of the world.

Decision Analysis for Managers: A Guide for Making Better Personal and Business Decisions, Second Edition

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Decision analysis has changed very little since Decision Analysis for Managers (first edition) was published. However, in light of recent megatrends (e.g. the “Great Recession” of 2008, collapse of commodity prices – especially oil and gas, the poor performance of large projects), more discussion of project risk (cost, schedule, and technical) within the context of DA is appropriate. And, in light of these same megatrends, a more detailed and thorough discussion of decision quality is an appropriate addition to the original text.

How Can Digital Technologies Improve Public Services and Governance?

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The book considers the opportunities and challenges of harnessing digital technologies for improved public services and governance. It focuses on the challenges of applying digital technologies in developing countries, particularly in Africa, where dramatic results can be realized. If also focuses on ways to improve services beyond supply-side measures such as business-process-engineering and improved management of service providers. Instead, it focuses in strengthening the demand for good governance and improved services via informed citizens, client feedback, and enhanced monitoring of service provider performance.

How to Write Brilliant Business Blogs: What to Write About, Volume II

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This is the book offers common-sense solutions to would-be and current bloggers, demonstrating ways to make their blogs achieve, retain and grow in status and in the audience the blog is intended to reach. The book will be valuable to small-business owners and staffers for large corporations as well. PR professionals, journalists, web and graphic designers and all students of marketing will benefit from this book.

The Real Me: Find and Express Your Authentic Self

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The Real Me aims to help the reader to “pull themselves together.” The UK and western world is in the midst of an epidemic of stress and depression. This book combines philosophical and practical approaches to enable readers to re-connect with their own personal identity, which equips individuals to have a better personal and professional life as well as better integration between the two. Becoming a coherent person, and projecting this authentically, is the key to a personally fulfilling life. The Real Me gives the reader strategies to do this. Three models are outlined to help the reader when faced with a range of life challenges. The book’s practical nature will encourage readers to make changes where they need to. The book combines commentary on modern social trends and their consequences, with illustrative examples based on real people. The idea of masks, theatre stage and acts are introduced to highlight the way we are increasingly expected to play roles nowadays, losing our own persona in the process. The three models mentioned above are adaptations of models used in business settings. By adapting them, I have used these models successfully to coach a wide range of clients, allowing me to examine various paths towards personal integration.

How to Write Brilliant Business Blogs: The Skills and Techniques You Need, Volume I

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This is the book offers common-sense solutions to would-be and current bloggers, demonstrating ways to make their blogs achieve, retain and grow in status and in the audience the blog is intended to reach. The book will be valuable to small-business owners and staffers for large corporations as well. PR professionals, journalists, web and graphic designers and all students of marketing will benefit from this book.

The History of Economic Thought: A Concise Treatise for Business, Law, and Public Policy, Volume II: After Keynes, Through the Great Recession and Beyond

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The subject of this book is the history of economic thought, including the less-commonly discussed schools of binary and socio-economics. The intended audience is students, business people, regulators, legislators, and scholars who are relatively unfamiliar with the primary competing economic theories of our day. Readers will benefit by coming away from the book with a better understanding of the context within which economic arguments are made. They will be better able to think critically about the assumptions underlying various economic proposals, and the history behind those assumptions