Strategic Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Foundations

Strategic Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Foundations

$34.99

This 3rd edition book provides a multi-perspective approach to strategic sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from various disciplines and professional backgrounds.

Some of the key features of this first volume include a how-to guide on foundational information for strategic sustainable supply chain management (S3CM):

  • Short vignettes of important trends along with relevant management issues;
  • Evidence-based management examples from leading multinational companies, as well as small and medium enterprises spanning supply chains;
  • Reference to appropriate tools, emerging technology, and practices;
  • Chapter action items for the reader to take a deeper look at integration opportunities involving sustainability and supply chain management;
  • An action-learning approach to applying concepts and tools so readers from any functional perspective can implement and manage sustainability projects;
  • And guidelines on how to move forward with your supply chain sustainability initiative.

Corporate Relationship Management Strategy

Corporate Relationship Management Strategy

$28.99

This book is perfect for corporate leaders, marketing communication practitioners, and students who want to gain a deep understanding of effective relationship management.

It draws on research from business, organizational psychology, and communication whose insights it applies to practice through clear and practical examples. The chapters discuss the process of building and maintaining relationships via the consistent implementation of corporate values to ensure the stakeholders’ identification with the company.

The reader will explore relationship management with employees and consumers in local and international environments, in offline and online interactions, and in times of crises. Finally, the chapters represent a journey into the role that leadership styles, internal cultures, and social media play in relationship management.

Quantum Cybersecurity Program Management

Quantum Cybersecurity Program Management

$34.99

Quantum technology interest is accelerating for two key reasons: first, quantum technologies promise transformative capabilities. Indeed, quantum computing is seen as a strategic necessity by the world’s leading economies. Second, experts unanimously agree that a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer will have the capability to break classical encryption that keeps our data and transactions private. Thus, organizations are challenged to protect their most sensitive information data and systems before a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer is accessible to hackers despite already over-burdened cybersecurity teams.

Quantum Cybersecurity Program Management by Dr Greg Skulmoski and Dr Ashkan Memari is part of a series of books: Shields Up: Cybersecurity Project Management outlines a risk-based approach to cybersecurity project management including technology and process improvement projects. Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness outlines best practices in training and instructional design to upskill the organization’s people. Quantum Cybersecurity builds upon Shields Up (technology and process) and Cybersecurity Training (people) to provide a program approach to deliver the diversity of quantum projects and initiatives organizations encounter.

The authors of Quantum Cybersecurity bring together best practices found in standards and frameworks in a risk-based approach to implementing a quantum program of projects. Tailored for quantum champions, IT security architects, business leaders, project managers, digital leadership, and board members, Quantum Cybersecurity offers actionable guidance. Urgent and early adopters will find a practical guide for a quick start to their quantum projects.

Cracking the Data Code: Pragmatics for Better Management and Governance

Cracking the Data Code: Pragmatics for Better Management and Governance

$31.99

Why do we continue to struggle with data? With all the powerful tools we have in processing power, data tools, and computer programming, we still search for some elusive truth to pervasive problems. AI hallucinates, ‘good data’ that we started with is suddenly unintelligible, systems that should talk to each other seamlessly continually experience errors and need correction.

What we fail to incorporate into our data world is the fact that data is language and has entwined in that language its own code that does not get captured in databases, APIs, LLMs and the systems we use day in and day out. So, how can we crack this data code?

By stepping back, we can incorporate the tools that already exist in applied linguistics used to crack the human language code into our approaches in how we tackle the data code challenge. Just because we call it data doesn’t mean that it doesn’t suffer from bias or the need for context. But by recognizing these linguistic challenges, and infusing that inside the data, we can create data code that can be cracked, data that tells us its biases, context, and purpose, and for who that data is actually useful to, and for whom it is not.

If you are interested in data, and why understanding language and jargon can help you crack the data code, this book is for you. If you’ve had a data challenge and have struggled to find a way to understand it, the practical foundational principles inside can help you frame your problem in a different way. And in doing so, help you crack the data code.

Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism

Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism

$28.99

Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism focuses on intangible assets and their repercussions for business and society.

The rise of intangible capitalism is a complex socio-economic phenomenon that has gained momentum in recent years, as 90% of the value of S&P 500 companies consists of intangible assets. The prevalence of intangible capitalism represents a paradigmatic shift, suggesting a departure from conventional business practices for multiple compelling reasons. The change affects fundamental aspects of business, including strategy, competitive advantage, organizational structure, investment practices, marketing approaches, and even business valuations. Furthermore, intangible assets, directly or indirectly, have substantial implications for society and our daily lives.

Business and Management in the Age of Intangible Capitalism focuses on intangible assets and their repercussions for business and society. It provides insights into the evolving landscape of intangible capitalism, where wealth generation is increasingly based on invisible elements.

This volume serves as a critical resource for managers, scholars, and citizens navigating the complexities of the modern intangible economy.

Mastering Project Management: PMP and Agile for Leaders

Mastering Project Management: PMP and Agile for Leaders

$34.99

In today’s rapidly evolving professional landscape, mastering project management is paramount to achieving success. This book will meet the demand for a comprehensive resource that supports practical application and facilitates exam readiness.

Tailored for current and aspiring project managers across various industries and disciplines, it equips readers with transferable skills applicable worldwide. Embracing a holistic approach, the book delves into essential technical and managerial processes, fostering proficiency in management and leadership skills. Moreover, it serves as a valuable guide for navigating challenging certification exams like the PMP.

The content is presented concisely, minimizing the need for frequent glossary references, and includes practical tips for addressing complex questions. Designed to facilitate efficient study, the book utilizes concise table formats and promotes SMART learning techniques. Grounded in the PMBOK Guide and enriched with Agile principles, it offers a comprehensive yet succinct exploration of crucial topics.

May this book serve as a trusted companion on your journey to professional excellence–empowering you to achieve your goals with clarity, agility, and unwavering determination.

Making the Connection: Practical Steps in ESG Management

Making the Connection: Practical Steps in ESG Management

$37.99

The Finance-Investment Industry’s response to the UN’s Sustainable Development (“2030”) Agenda, ‘E’, ‘S’ and ‘G’, represent diverse tasks, where wise and prudent investment enables profound impact on Sustainability. But what does this mean for those of us who do not work in finance and investing? This book unpacks the practicalities.

ESG presents a series of practical challenges and tasks to transform business performance. Organizations must now take ownership and move ahead confidently to deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes.

This book views ESG as interconnected challenges. It provides a usable and coherent ‘roadmap’ to make assured strides in meeting – and beating – these challenges. Uniquely, it highlights and explores the win-win opportunities within your organization’s economic value chain.

The Professional Project Manager: How We Become True Professionals

The Professional Project Manager: How We Become True Professionals

$31.99

How do we become good project managers? What does it take to become a true professional?

This book gives depth to these crucial questions. It explains and illustrates the experiences and professional capacities we must acquire to become good at what we do. The entry point is project management, and this entry point is used to define what in general makes us become good professionals. The book shows that our professional capacity is so much more than our technical abilities and shows that becoming a true professional today is defined by three key factors:

  • Our ability to accumulate relevant professional reference points and contexts.
  • Our ability to juggle technical, people, power, and unforeseen professional agendas.
  • Our ability to memorize our experiences in useful mental models.

The world will end up having around 8 billion professionals, which means that more than 150,000 new professionals will enter the workforce every day for the next 75 years. This will dramatically change our professional context.

This book is for everyone who wants to sharpen their professional skills and mental models to stay relevant.

Leading from the Top: Presidential Lessons in Issues Management

Leading from the Top: Presidential Lessons in Issues Management

$34.99

Leading from the Top is a journey through 90 years of American presidential history to glean lessons in issues management from those who dealt with the most complex issues, on the biggest stage and under the most intense scrutiny. Reading the book, you will learn why asking permission, reframing the issue, and knowing the length of your runway are all important components in successful issues management.

This book uses history to build on common knowledge to accelerate recall of the concepts presented. It looks at fifteen presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt to Joe Biden, and examines one issue each managed. Each chapter ends by assessing success or failure through the lens of issues management consulting and providing succinct lessons that readers can draw from and apply to conflict resolution, problem-solving and crisis management.

Leading from the Top is written for both aspiring and seasoned leaders to learn about or refine their issues management approaches as well as the reader who is interested in a different way to assess our presidents. This said, the book is not written to be prescriptive on any of the issues presented, but simply to provide perspective and tools to use to do your own assessments going forward.

Wealth Management

Wealth Management

$34.99

This book empowers individuals with practical knowledge to manage their financial wealth from their first job until retirement and beyond.

The first main theme is investments and covers security types, investment strategies, and asset allocations for individual investors. The foundation for this theme is the magical behavior of investment returns across securities and time, and the concept of market efficiency.

Next, the author details tax minimization, beginning with an understanding of how taxes deplete investment value. He then illuminates various tax loopholes and strategies that individuals can exploit, including:

  • the use of tax-favored investment accounts,
  • opportunistic trading,
  • picking ETFs over mutual funds,
  • gifting to bypass estate taxes.

Lie also covers the many pitfalls in the world of wealth management. Several stem from investors’ ignorance or irrational behavior, while others are concocted by financial institutions to fleece individual investors. Either way, the readers learn to avoid them.

Other topics also discussed include:

  • What types of insurance should individuals purchase?
  • When should a mortgage be refinanced?
  • And how can individuals avoid costly probate court for the estate?

This book is useful for university courses on wealth management and for all individuals who want to secure their financial future. This includes you.