Design: A Business Case: Thinking, Leading, and Managing by Design

Design: A Business Case: Thinking, Leading, and Managing by Design

$31.99

Design: A Business Case challenges you to stimulate innovation in your own organization as an ongoing and integral dialogue between complementary skills–to bridge mind and matter, image and identity.
Design thinking is a framework developed to ensure C-suite endorsement of the pursuit of design excellence in all actions undertaken by the organization. Design management is a rigorous and strategically anchored mechanism to capitalize on the investment in design as intellectual capital. And design – as we’ve always known it – is the skills, methods and creative capabilities needed to embody ideas and direction. Design thinking inspires, design management enables, design embodies.
This book aims to build the bridges needed to reconcile the three, and to encourage organizational and professional environments in which their combined forces can thrive and reverberate.

A Profile of the Hospitality Industry, Second Edition

A Profile of the Hospitality Industry, Second Edition

$31.99

The hospitality industry is a unique and diverse industry. This book tells the history, organizational structure, and management strategies of the hospitality industry. Traditionally an entrepreneurial business, the hospitality industry today includes organizations ranging from small independent cafes and inns to large multinational corporations. The author highlights key hotel, restaurant, and casino companies, and explains the concepts of franchising, consortia, and management contracts.
The book divulges how the hospitality product is different from other industries: part service and part product, produced and consumed simultaneously, and the role of the customer as part of the service process. The book explains how perishable inventory and labor intensity affect hotels, restaurants, and casinos. The author also reviews policies that promote or restrict tourism and travel, guest and employee safety, labor regulations, food safety laws, and requirements for accommodations for customers with disabilities.
This text explains key strategic management decisions of the hospitality industry. The author projects how global expansion and sustainability efforts are shaping the industry, but also warns of the ongoing threats of pandemics and terrorism to travel.

Finance for Non-Finance Executives

Finance for Non-Finance Executives

$28.99

This book is intended to help professionals, especially from functional areas other than finance—such as sales, marketing, human resource, research and development, production, and procurement—to gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner, enabling them to make critical business decisions involving cost-savings, budgets, new projects decisions, and growth strategies.
The author introduces the key concepts of finance so you can contribute to the success of your business. These will help you understand the language used by accountants and how financial statements fit together. Furthermore, you will understand how to use ratio analysis to get a sense of the company’s performance.
In addition, readers will learn the concepts of management accounting and various kinds of decisions, including make-or-buy and shutdown. You will gain an understanding of how to implement budgeting and working capital management. The exciting part is also the chapter on investment appraisal, where readers will learn how to evaluate business proposals from a return standpoint.

Creating A Business and Personal Legacy

Creating A Business and Personal Legacy

$28.99

Worldwide, there is a growing interest on how to uncover one’s true purpose in life and legacy. It is a subject that crosses the minds of everyone regardless of geographic location, gender, age, or occupation.
Using fictional, but highly plausible stories, this short book crystalizes key ideas on how to create a lasting business and personal legacy.
With rising cases of depression resulting from personal and career challenges, this book provides refreshing perspectives on how to find new meaning and happiness in one’s life while making a relevant and lasting impact.

Discoveries Through Personal Agility

Discoveries Through Personal Agility

$28.99

“In today’s time of continuous change, it’s more important than ever for individuals and even entire organizations to develop agile mindsets to drive change successfully. Raji Sivaraman and Michal Raczka offer invaluable and actionable insights on how to embrace new ways of working and meet tomorrow’s challenges. This is a must-read for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of Personal Agility.”—Sunil Prashara, President and Chief Executive Officer, Project Management Institute.

“There has never been a more relevant time to highlight the importance of an agile approach for businesses and professionals as during this pandemic. This book is fitting and emphasizes the 7 facets of ‘Personal Agility’ which has always been a cornerstone of business practices at IBM Waston Health.” —Dr. Roy Vergis, Global Clinical Lead and SME in Oncology, IBM Waston Health.

Reroute your Personal Agility with the Personal Agility LightHouse Model

  • Personal Agility is the future competency to Organizational Agility
  • Work your brains and minds regularly for continuous self improvement
  • Personal adaptability transcends to your organizational adaptability

Connect the dots through: Your emotions, learning, education, change, and much more….!!!!

Reroute your Personal Agility with the Personal Agility LightHouse Model

  • Personal Agility is the future competency to Organizational Agility
  • Work your brains and minds regularly for continuous self improvement
  • Personal adaptability transcends to your organizational adaptability

Connect the dots through:Your emotions, learning, education, change, and much more….!!!!

Project Communications: A Critical Factor for Project Success

Project Communications: A Critical Factor for Project Success

$34.99

The authors have prepared insightful Reader Slides to enhance your learning Click here to access

Communication is vital for project success. Experts know it. Industry-wide research verifies it. Yet projects continue to fail because of poor communication. As a result, stakeholders and organizations don’t realize the benefits of their projects and project teams.

This book presents a new way to look at communication within projects. It combines real-world examples and practical tips with theory, research, and professional standards that can be applied to any size and type of project.

  • Gain actionable insights into identifying your audience, choosing the right tools, managing change, and handling conflict.
  • Expand your professional toolkit with templates, activities, and resources.
  • Develop your project communications expertise with reflective questions and recommendations.
  • Make your project communications a critical factor in your project success.

The authors have created a website with resources, reviews, and helpful tips for you. Check it out!

Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability: Measuring Intangible, Fiscal, and Ethical Assets

Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability: Measuring Intangible, Fiscal, and Ethical Assets

$31.99

Progress of corporate history since the industrial revolution has been an enormous growth in freedom of enterprise, economic prosperity, innovation, technical, and intellectual advancement but it has also been, stoking the passions of greed, a slow and sure decay of morality, and social order culminating in high unemployment and Occupy Wall Street movements.
Business enterprise is a profound thought of good intentions toward the society, which sets apart corporate culture over individual choice. A culture is a function of true knowledge of awareness, an identity with the ethical responsibility, that by which corporate infers and society teaches. Immanuel Kant raised the question whether a science of metaphysics with a logical structure, like that of the well- established mathematical and natural sciences is possible? Measuring ethical assets usage, is crucial for corporate to bring the abstractions into reality, acknowledge value where value is due, and deconstruct what is valueless.
This book addresses these issues effectively by subject – object distinction of qualitative and quantitative elements of management, what Kant had pleaded for.

Emerging Technologies: Blockchain of Intelligent Things to Boost Revenues

Emerging Technologies: Blockchain of Intelligent Things to Boost Revenues

$31.99

The convergence of blockchain and Internet of things (IoT) powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) is on the agenda of several big companies and some of them have already started using its implementations, initiatives, and solutions in various projects. In this book, the author calls the convergence of these three technologies: the blockchain of intelligent things.
This book is targeted to help a broad audience, including anyone interested in and responsible for vision, projects, and implementations of blockchain, IoT, and AI in medium-sized companies and large enterprises. This would include business and technology managers, IT professionals, and last but not least, business or technology students, looking to broadening their knowledge and expertise. This book is number two in a series of four books.
The first chapters of the book take you from the convergence of blockchain and IoT, via an overview of the most important blockchain of things projects such as IOTA, and the industries, which are heavily being disrupted, into the blockchain of intelligent things, which essentially adds the business value of data science and AI. Further topics you will find in this book include chapters such as required skills, jobs and future, industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms, and opportunities, challenges, and trends of the blockchain of intelligent things. Readers looking for a methodology to engage in blockchain, IoT, and/or AI projects, can find a comprehensive description in my previous book New World Technologies: 2020 and Beyond.

Leadership in Disruptive Times

Leadership in Disruptive Times

$41.99

For details on the Disruptive Leadership 4.0 Masterclass, based on this book. Click Here to read more.

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“Leaders in organizations are continually confronted with increased competition, globalization, demand for social responsibilities and a stream of technological advances that disrupt the marketplace. For those looking to navigate the turbulent and complex landscape of the digital revolution, Leadership in Disruptive Times is the perfect blueprint for future-proofing their organization. Prof Bawany provides insights into the role of ‘disruptive digital leaders’ that transform the organization into a more agile, innovative, and adaptive workplace in times of disruption and successfully lead the digital transformation efforts. A must-read.” –Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. Thinkers 50 – #1 Executive Coach and the only two-time #1 Leadership Thinker in the World

Disruption is happening everywhere and in every aspect of our lives. It is happening at a scale and speed that is unprecedented in modern history impacting diverse industries. Not every disruption is driven by advances in technology as we have seen in the case of COVID-19 pandemic which has caused massive disruption to the economy, businesses and individual lives.

Leadership in Disruptive Times focuses on navigating the organizational challenges following the aftermath of the unprecedented global COVID-19 crisis and the disruption caused by digitization at the workplace in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (better known as Industry 4.0). It provides organizations and leaders with the relevant tools, frameworks and best practice approaches to develop and map their digital transformation journey in today’s highly disruptive, increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous (VUCA) and digital-driven workplace.