Calling Out COVID-19: Business Strategies for Surviving a Pompeii Event

Calling Out COVID-19: Business Strategies for Surviving a Pompeii Event

$31.99

We are currently experiencing the second wave of an unprecedented global pandemic–the COVID-19 crisis, which is destroying established industries such as tourism and attributing to the death of millions of people worldwide. The authors believe that the pandemic is analogous to the ancient Roman tragedy of Pompeii when the citadel was buried under four to six meters (13 to 20 feet) of volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.
This book is written for business owners, entrepreneurs, leadership, or management teams in public or third sector and professionals who are currently dealing with the COVID-19 epidemic. It offers tools and techniques located in the economics of innovation, other frameworks such as the Fraud Triangle, and the authors extensive experience including rigorous cash management, practical fraud prevention, and detection and advice on implementing and refining corporate governance structures.
The book will also be of interest to postgraduate including MBA students and business researchers. The book concludes by summarizing the key theories that can be used to understand the impact of this Pompeii Event and pragmatic solutions to fight COVID-19. The authors argue that organizations rooted in foresight will survive and emerge as future trail blazers. An extensive appendix is also included which outlines the implications for financial reporting.

On Becoming Agile

On Becoming Agile

$28.99

Becoming agile is an ongoing journey. As the global environment changes, and becomes more complex and more uncertain, the importance of increasing agility and developing an agile mindset grows. The goal of this book is to explain and facilitate the journey. We explore agile values, practices, and principles that can help people cope with volatile and ambiguous situations. Agile values improve processes and promote communication in an organization. Agile practices advance innovation through high-performance multidisciplinary teams.
Agile is about learning to anticipate and respond appropriately to the unexpected. Being agile is about interactions with people that result in successfully completing work tasks and meeting objectives. Agile is not about blindly moving faster, rather it is about continuous flexibility and learning. This book is targeted to advanced students and managers who are interested in learning to be agile. This accessible practical text poses 30 questions and provides answers that provide a starting point for further reflection.

Global Business Strategy

Global Business Strategy

$37.99

Global Business Strategy looks at the opportunities and risks associated with staking out a global competitive presence and introduces the fundamentals of global strategic thinking. The authors demonstrate how a company should change and adapt its domestic business model to achieve a competitive advantage as it expands globally.
Our framework includes a company’s business model, the strategic decisions a company needs to make as it globalizes its operations, and globalization strategies for creating a competitive advantage. A business model has four principal dimensions: market participation, the value proposition, the supply chain infrastructure, and its management model.

The Chinese Market: Entry Methods & Investment Strategies

The Chinese Market: Entry Methods & Investment Strategies

$31.99

With its dual appeal as the world’s factory and the largest consumer market worldwide, China is about to become the preferred playing field for American and European businesses with global ambitions. China’s massive global development project, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), now includes more than two-thirds of the world’s countries.

Entering the Chinese Market aims to assist Western businesses and entrepreneurs to understand and effectively enter the Chinese market. An essential factor for the success of investors and professionals engaging in business in or with China is being able to understand and correctly set up a sustainable and effective corporate structure. This book discusses different company structures, their functions, and their respective liabilities and provides practical and operational observations.

The book details all applicable decision-making processes to help you choose the most suitable structure based on your business scope, specific needs, and available capital when entering China. In addition, it discusses all relevant rules, regulations, documentation, and management issues related to the establishment of different types of structures such as WFOEs representative offices, joint ventures, and other forms of investment. Topics covered include tax, legal, intellectual property rights, common pitfalls, and ways to address them.

How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage

How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage

$31.99

[On a] flight from Perth gave me the opportunity to read your book… Cover to Cover in one sitting. That tells me that you have nailed the delivery of practical advice in an easily digested format! There are few Business Development books that I can honestly say I have read with such engagement. Many still sit in my digital library half read. Great work. Richard Sheppy. Managing Director, Agrifac Australia
How Efficiency Changes the Game is a great read. It has been awhile since I have read something that I didn’t want to put down, and it has inspired me within my own business to improve and work harder on the business. Ray has really taken fundamentals of how to be more efficient and put a great spin on it. I really like the way he has included quotes from leaders and explained simply what they mean. — Jason Gow, My Builder Friend
Obtaining a competitive advantage in today’s business environment generally does not happen of its own accord. With the speed of global economic change, products to market, technology and customer preferences, organizations must light on their feet and be the drivers of change. Given that most businesses deal with the same buyers in defined markets who purchase similar products, gaining this competitive advantage is critical to both thriving and being leaders in their field. To do this, one must drive efficiencies throughout the entire organization while creating a significant point of difference. Yet, inefficiency continues to run rampant and can be found in the often-forgotten pockets of the organization, hampering efficacy at best, leading it out the door at worst.
How Efficiency Changes the Game: Developing Lean Operations for Competitive Advantage provides an insightful process for the executive, manager, and business owner, enabling them to discover inefficiencies where least expected, highlighting both the nature of the primary issues and then how to subsequently correct them. This book will assist in developing lean operations in areas such as leadership, marketing, strategy and planning, sales, time management, workflows, finances, and people.

Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance, Second Edition

Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance, Second Edition

$31.99

The critical role that supply chain planning contributes to a firm’s financial well-being has never been greater. All too often, however, considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities with minimal results.

In this second edition of Supply Chain Planning, we present proven, practical management frameworks used by the authors to support supply chain operations management and planning in private industry. These frameworks provide methodologies for managing critical activities such as supply chain strategic planning and project selection, manufacturing and distribution planning, performance measurement, supply chain risk management, and customer logistics and inventory deployment.

The book is intended for supply chain professionals, as well as for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of real-world approaches for supply chain planning, decision support, and many other key activities.

Emotional Connection: The EmC Strategy: How Leaders Can Unlock The Human Potential, Build Resilient Teams, and Nurture Thriving Cultures

Emotional Connection: The EmC Strategy: How Leaders Can Unlock The Human Potential, Build Resilient Teams, and Nurture Thriving Cultures

$31.99

“Emotional Connection makes it possible for any manager to navigate the tricky territory of workplace emotions. It competently guides readers through the systemic application of its science-backed methodology. Anybody wanting stronger and healthier work relationships needs to simply take in the insightful lessons and follow the clear steps in Emotional Connection.” –Bea Boccalandro, Author of Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing

Underlying all our interactions are the emotions we are operating with, both consciously and unconsciously. Emotions, and not the content, are the most powerful presence in the room during conflicts and stress. Emotions are the most powerful agents of change.

This book lights the way to appreciating the importance of developing the emotional language to describe, acknowledge, and address emotions in the workplace using a proven and methodical approach absent in most other EI strategies. The EmC strategy enables leaders to connect more effectively, energize a harmonious workplace, and nurture creativity and innovation to achieve unprecedented results. When leaders emotionally connect, they help people reach their full potential and build thriving communities.

Adoption and Adaption in Digital Business

Adoption and Adaption in Digital Business

$37.99

Whether it is the turnaround of a sports team to win a championship, bettering a community, remediation of business, or adoption and adaption to digital business, it is having us do things differently which brings sustainable change.
This was seen throughout 2020 during the COVID-19 global pandemic. People from around the world stood up and helped each other, shared their time, goods, skills, and expertise which collectively crafted and shaped our response to COVID. Our environment was changed, capacities and capabilities implemented, behaviors emerged, and outcomes were managed. Interests and values were aligned and as empowered individuals having ownership with pride in who we are and what we do, we adopted and adapted. Knowing the issue, the importance to us, what we needed to do, and where to get help, enabled us to better ourselves and those around us. For the decisions made, we empowered and supported with variations to circumstances as required of us.
This book provides the hands-on of “fixing the pipes and helping people” to capacity and capability build for the crafting and shaping of the emergent behaviors needed through our aligned interest and values with the empowered emotional ownership: “I do good work, change is coming, help me with the change, and I can do more.” The authors have prepared a series of supporting materials are already available here, with over 100 videos here.

Emotional Intelligence at Work: A Personal Operating System for Career Success

Emotional Intelligence at Work: A Personal Operating System for Career Success

$31.99

Even though it is seldom acknowledged, the truth is that business runs on emotion—yours and almost everyone else’s. And that emotion is often negative, leading us into bewilderment, dysfunction, and failure.

This book explains how to face up to this reality and respond by building street smarts and business emotional intelligence (BEQ). It supports your business success by developing your ability to recognize and effectively manage the destructive emotional tendencies, hidden agendas, and behaviors that exist all around you, and sometimes within you, that block business progress.

Emotions don’t belong in the business process, we are told. And that’s absolutely correct when destructive feelings disrupt the workplace. But here is the dirty little secret: Irrational and runaway feelings nevertheless dominate in many businesses and hold back professionals who are crippled by emotional dynamics that often play out beyond conscious awareness and their control.

Learn how and why emotions are a controlling factor in every career or business success and failure, and how to work with them to achieve your full potential by developing (BEQ). Expand and transform your business thinking and approach, by learning to recognize common, hidden emotional issues in a simple and straightforward manner. Strengthen your BEQ to achieve more accurate self-analysis, improved awareness, and effective functioning that creates predictable and positive results immediately.

The Business Design Cube: Converging Markets, Society, and Customer Values to Grow Firms Competitive in Business

The Business Design Cube: Converging Markets, Society, and Customer Values to Grow Firms Competitive in Business

$34.99

“Design Cube is a contemporary portrayal of business modelling process aimed at businesses growth within social ecosystem. Co-creating business models and coevolving businesses in the marketplace is the new normal today. This book introduces an integrated approach through triadic domains of market, society, and customer values in business modelling for analyzing innovation-management and business design. A good read for everyone in business.” –Tanya Zlateva, PhD, Dean, BU Metropolitan College, Boston University

“Convergence of societal and customer values with business modeling process is central to the innovative Design Cube concept. This book blends cognitive values, social strategies and marketing processes with design thinking to build hybrid knowledge with live examples. Overall, this is an insightful contribution.” –Angappa Gunasekaran, PhD, Dean and Professor, School of Business and Public Administration, California State University

“Design Cube provides a true playbook for readers interested in business growth and strategic advantage. With co-creation of business models becoming an imperative for customer-centric companies, this book brings together concepts at three different levels including individual, market, and society in order to develop an integrative framework. A good read for practitioners to create distinctive customer value and implement a winning strategy.” –Raj Echambadi, PhD, Dunton Family Dean D’Amore-McKim School of Business Northeastern University

This book discusses the three facets of the design-cube identified as design-to-market, design-to-society, and design-to-value through theoretical foundations, design arguments, managerial analysis, and best practices of companies.

The design-to-market concept has been critically examined for customer-centric companies with focus on the current trend of coevolution and crowdsourcing approaches that drives the companies to practice critical thinking.