Getting Data Science Done: Managing Projects from Ideas to Products

Getting Data Science Done: Managing Projects from Ideas to Products

$34.99

Data science is a field that synthesizes statistics, computer science and business analytics to deliver results that can impact almost any type of process or organization. Data science is also an evolving technical discipline, whose practice is full of pitfalls and potential problems for managers, stakeholders and practitioners. Many organizations struggle to consistently deliver results with data science due to a wide range of issues, including knowledge barriers, problem framing, organizational change and integration with IT and engineering.

Getting Data Science Done outlines the essential stages in running successful data science projects. The book provides comprehensive guidelines to help you identify potential issues and then a range of strategies for mitigating them. The book is organized as a sequential process allowing the reader to work their way through a project from an initial idea all the way to a deployed and integrated product.

Service in the AI Era: Science, Logic, and Architecture Perspectives

Service in the AI Era: Science, Logic, and Architecture Perspectives

$31.99

Are you prepared for the coming AI era?

AI advances will profoundly change your daily service interactions, so this book provides readers with a necessary understanding of service, the application of resources (e.g., knowledge) for the benefit of another. In just minutes, you can learn about today’s use of early-stage AI for automation and augmentation, and essential elements of service science, service-dominant (S-D) logic, and Service Dominant Architecture (SDA).

Ultimately improved service for all is possible with human-level AI and digital twins – but requires investing wisely in better models: Better models of the world both complex natural and social systems (science), better mental-models in people to improve interactions (logic), better cultural and structural models of organizations to improve change (architecture), and better trusted and responsible AI models. The service innovation community studies and builds better models to improve interactions and change in business and society.

The book challenges all responsible actors – individuals, businesses, universities, and governments – to invest systematically and wisely to upskill with AI (the X+AI vision). The service innovation community is a growing transdiscipline harnessing all disciplines to become better T-shaped professionals. Extensive end notes, bibliography, and index are provided.

Building Business Capacity: How Continuous Improvement Yields Exponential Growth

Building Business Capacity: How Continuous Improvement Yields Exponential Growth

$34.99

Change your future for the better by growing a small business fraction by fraction.

Building Small Business Capacity provides a roadmap to help entrepreneurs achieve exponential growth through constant improvement. Learn to own your business and avoid having your business own you. Leverage proven best practices used to guide businesses for decades. Walk through useful exercises, checklists, questionnaires, forms, and templates designed to help entrepreneurs like you gain clarity into the most essential aspects of successfully doing business because you deserve success.

Too many business books talk about why to go into business. Some may even tell you what you should do once you start. However too few answer the question of how to run your business while growing capacity. As it turns out there is a secret to success.

Proven best practices are best practices for a reason. It does not matter if you run a 10-person business or a 10,000-person conglomerate. Adhering to best practices creates the infrastructure and environment necessary to grow capacity and be successful. Building Small Business Capacity allows you to take advantage of strategies and tools you can integrate into your business today to run more efficiently and effectively starting tomorrow.

The Future Path of SMEs: How to Grow in the New Global Economy

The Future Path of SMEs: How to Grow in the New Global Economy

$31.99

Most of businesses fall within the category of start-up, small and medium size enterprises. Therefore, governments in part of their quest to reform the economy and related regulatory management systems as well as the entrepreneurship support ecosystem. This was done with a view to securing the national governance empowerment deemed necessary for the economic and political fostering, adaptation, growth and progress of this sector.

These endeavors serve as an essential part of the economic reform needed to generally guide the economy to a balanced and sustained growth vision. This vision aims specifically at achieving a balanced and diversified skill-based economy that is ultimately dependent on knowledge, innovation and competitiveness. This obviously arises from the ventures of entrepreneurs, startups as well as small and medium size enterprises (SMEs).

In this context, this book tries to support the elaboration and implementation of strategies and to foster SMEs and entrepreneurship development. This will include contribution to set a guide to illustrate the scientific way for the identification of stakeholders and dialogue platforms as well as the institutionalization of the processes and systems required to improve the regulatory framework for SME development.

The book also provides the consultancy effort needed to support governments in setting targets for SME policy development and to identify strategic priorities to further improve the business environment.

The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions

The Big Miss: How Organizations Overlook the Value of Emotions

$34.99

What are the emotional and subconscious drivers behind your customers’ behavior? Do you have a science and data-based strategy to drive this in the direction you want?

In The Big Miss: How Businesses Overlook the Value of Emotions, Zhecho Dobrev reveals how organizations are frequently deceived by customers and fail to act on what they fail to notice–thus are missing the biggest driver of profitable customer behavior! His extensive research shows that emotions are the key drivers of customer behavior, yet few organizations have a strategy to evoke specific emotions based on science and data. Does yours?

In this book, the author provides business leaders with a practical framework for how to embed emotions in their business practices, which includes learning how to:

  • Discover the difference between what customers say and do
  • Create a data-based strategy around specific emotions
  • Use customer science to future-proof your business and make the most out of Digital Transformation, Data, and AI

…and much more.

Behind every business problem, there is a customer problem! This book will change how you think about customer behavior and challenge you to harness the business power of emotions.

Sustainability For Retail: How Retail Leaders Create Environmental, Social, & Cultural Innovations

Sustainability For Retail: How Retail Leaders Create Environmental, Social, & Cultural Innovations

$41.99

Sustainability for Retail is an important international overview of the role of retail in the worldwide climate crisis. Its focus is on apparel and related retail products, from supply chain to the selling floor. The retail industry is identified as the source of 10 percent of the world’s carbon emissions.

This book presents the notable successes that have been achieved in the private sector. Interviews with leaders ranging from multi-nationals to specialty collections, to reports on innovative technological advancements.

Behind each story and report is the strong determination of an individual or the commitment of organizational management to establish and uphold practices that cut the energy use, c, support providers of raw materials with living wages and lifestyles, and mount campaigns to educate the consumer on supporting products and the overall circular economy. Resale, reuse, and remake comprise an escalating movement that didn’t exist even a decade ago to extend the life cycle of products that previously had a high potential of becoming landfill. It has become big business, sanctioned with promotions across the retail board, from icons of mass merchandising to small local workshops.

Sustainability for Retail offers businesses and consumers insight into beneficial decision-making for themselves and for the greater environment. The authors provide a comprehensive guide to the forces driving the retail sustainability movement.

A Corporate Librarian’s Guide to Information Governance and Data Privacy

A Corporate Librarian’s Guide to Information Governance and Data Privacy

$28.99

With the expansion of technology and governance, the information governance industry has experienced dramatic and often, sudden changes. Among the most important shifts are the proliferation of data privacy rules and regulations, the exponential growth of data and the need for removing redundant, obsolete, and trivial information and the growing threat of litigation and regulatory fines based on a failure to properly keep records and manage data. At the same time, longstanding information governance standards and best practices exist, which transcend the sudden vicissitudes of the day.

This volume focuses on these core IG principles, with an emphasis on how they apply to our target audience, which includes law librarians, legal and research staff and other individuals and departments in both the public and private sectors who engage deeply with regulatory compliance matters.

Core topics that will be addressed include:

  • the importance of implementing and maintaining cohesive records management workflows that implement the classic principles of capturing, checking, recording, consolidation, and review;
  • the classic records management principles of Accountability, Transparency, Integrity, Protection, Compliance, Accessibility, Retention and Disposition; and
  • archives Management and the two principles of Providence and Original Order.

Greatness in Construction History: Human Stories of Great People and Great Projects

Greatness in Construction History: Human Stories of Great People and Great Projects

$37.99

If you are into construction project management, this book is certainly for you.

This is creative non-fiction. Travel through times and spaces. Meet with historic world leaders. Work alongside the world’s greatest master-builders. Live the sights and sounds of ancient cities and construction sites. Discover the stories behind the greatest landmark buildings shaping the world skyline. Feel the genesis of great creatures and the moments they age or die out. Witness inaugurations celebrated by the entire universe. Hear the buildings breathe, laugh, cry, and at times suicide. Shed a tear for the martyrs of construction greatness.

Moreover, if you are into construction project management, this book is certainly for you. It includes a bulk of Agile, PMBOKc Guide, and Design-Build project management lessons learned extracted right from the stories of a host of the greatest projects in human history. Enjoy!

Global Trends and Transformations in Culture, Business, and Technology

Global Trends and Transformations in Culture, Business, and Technology

$41.99

This book offers a concise and analytical portrait of the contemporary world.

The author encompasses concepts and theories from multiple disciplines notably sociology, anthropology, business, and economics to examine major global trends and transformations of the modern world, their underlying causes, and their consequences.

The text examines global demographic trends, globalization, culture, emerging markets, global security, environmental degradation, large corporations, and economic inequality. The author also analyzes major transformations in healthcare, food, the sharing economy, Fourth Industrial Revolution, consumption, work and organization, innovation and various technologies in areas such as automation, robotics, connectivity, quantum computing, and new materials.

This book is a valuable reference for business leaders, managers, students, and all those who are passionate about understanding the rapidly changing contemporary world.