Strategic Organizational Alignment: Authority, Power, Results

Strategic Organizational Alignment: Authority, Power, Results

$21.99

“Organization development is a process of planned change. The process never goes exactly as planned, but we need guidance and a map nevertheless. Chris Crosby provides in three well-written and easy to understand books the required expertise regarding guidance and the way forward. The first book draws the big picture and explains the relevant and necessary guidance followed by the other two volumes that provide the complete package of tools to facilitate the intricate process covered in the initial book. Chris has the requisite experience and wisdom so greatly needed in this new century to lead and manage change. — W. Warner Burke, PhD, Edward L. Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University Strategic Organizational Alignment is an important book that every leader should read. Rather than giving simple solutions or a fancy new model, Crosby recognizes that sustained performance is only achieved by diligent attention to the basics. He shows how challenging that is and then provides detailed actions that can truly align the organization. This is not for the faint-hearted, but for the leader who truly seeks excellence. —David L. Bradford, Emeritus at Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, the Eugene D. O’Kelly II Senior Lecturer in Leadership, and co-author of the bestselling book, Power Up: Transforming Organizations Through Shared Leadership. The book outlines critical principles I use to lead my organizations. It is effective, practical, and balanced. An important contribution to any leader, manager, or change agent. —Brian Bauerbach, President & CEO, Mold Rite Plastics Powerful, practical, and most importantly, what I did to help each business that I was in charge of to succeed! —John Nicol, Partner and General Manager, Microsoft Business results, major change, project initiatives can be achieved more easily than imagined. This book shows you how and points out the reasons why most excuses businesses make for inadequate implementations are wrong. Through stories, illustrations, and step-by-step guides, Crosby shows you a simple, profound, and repeatable way to ensure your business aligns its employees and has a clear path to success. This book will help you to learn how to focus your workplace on the dynamics critical to achieving greater productivity. Here are some important appendixes that the author wants you to be able to download in order to aid you in your learning. Included here, and only available on our website, are three extra SATA workplace examples and his OD Roots.

1. SATA Charting Scenarios
<SATA Scenario Expanding a Non-Profit.pdf>
<SATA Scenario Fundraising at a Church.pdf>
<SATA Scenario Implementing a Daily Floor Walk.pdf> <SATA Scenario Implementing Lean.pdf>
<SATA Scenario Leveraged Buying in a Corporation.pdf>
<SATA Scenario Maintenence to the Floor.pdf>
<SATA Scenario Software Development Integrated Billing.pdf>

2. SATA Assessments
<Sponsor Assessment.pdf>
<Target Assessment.pdf>
<Advocate Assessment.pdf>
<Change Agent Assessment.pdf>

3. My OD Roots
<OD Roots.pdf>

Rays of Research on Real Estate Development

Rays of Research on Real Estate Development

$21.99

Real estate development accounts for one of the major economic sectors in most countries, yet during the last two decades research on this important topic has been scattered. This textbook brings together some of the most important results on this subject. The book is written in a pedagogical way and covers crucial aspects of this industry such as growth management and real options, land use regulations, mixed housing developments, taxes, externalities, housing affordability problems, land prices and uncertainty, public infrastructures, and housing supply.
This book is an excellent source for an advance course in real estate development that attempts to cover important contributions in this area. The has included multiple choice questions to test students’ assimilation of the material.

Accounting for Fun and Profit: A Guide to Understanding Advanced Topics in Accounting

Accounting for Fun and Profit: A Guide to Understanding Advanced Topics in Accounting

$21.99

Accounting is an economic information system, and can be thought of as the language of business. Accounting principles are created, developed, or decreed and are supported or justified by intuition, authority, and acceptability. Managers have alternatives in their accounting choices; the decision are political, and trade-offs will be made.
Accounting information provides individuals, both inside and outside a firm, with a starting point to understand and evaluate the key drivers of a firm, its financial position, and performance. If you are managing a firm, investing in a firm, lending to a firm, or even working for a firm, you should be able to read the firm’s financial statements and ask questions based on those statements.
This book examines some of the more advanced topics in accounting. As such, it assumes the reader already has some familiarity with basic accounting. (A related book covering the basics is Accounting for Fun and Profit: A Guide to Understanding Financial Statements.) The book explains how the user of financial statement should interpret advanced accounting techniques presented, and helps the user conduct in-depth analysis of annual reports.
The author will show you that accounting, even the advanced topics, can be informative and fun!

Improving Executive Sponsorship of Projects: A Holistic Approach

Improving Executive Sponsorship of Projects: A Holistic Approach

$21.99

Check out the Powerpoint slides and the below video, the authors have prepared to give you better insight into this book.

Check out this great book review by the PM World Journal! You can find it live on the PMWJ website at www.pmworldjournal.net, posted on the PM World Library (PMWL) home page at www.pmworldlibrary.net and on the BEP page in the PMWL at https://pmworldlibrary.net/publisher/business-expert-press ! This book addresses gaps in current project management literature. From a senior management perspective, the gap is the lack of resources explaining why and how to establish a program to improve executive sponsorship strategically across an organization. From a tactical perspective, the gap is a scarcity of actionable materials to clarify roles, responsibilities, expected behaviors, and identify support necessary for improving sponsor effectiveness. Improving Executive Sponsorship of Projects identifies key factors to consider before creating an executive sponsorship improvement program or enhancing an existing one. The authors explain why executive sponsorship is important to an organization, how an organization’s culture influences the effectiveness of the sponsor role, and why project management standards are critical to success. They explore what roles, responsibilities, and behavior should be considered and how to determine whether the person in the sponsor role is the right person and prepared to do the job. Finally, it provides a process, with tools, to assess an organization’s readiness to implement an executive sponsorship program, develop a plan for improvement, and monitor the progress of a program once it has begun.

Critical Thinking for Marketers: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think, Volume I

Critical Thinking for Marketers: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think, Volume I

$21.99

Check out this article by the author in Quirks.com!

All marketing actions, whether preceded by formal or informal decision making processes, are based on what philosophers call “arguments.” An argument is a set of related statements comprising premises and a conclusion. Ideally, premises give an audience good reasons for accepting your argument’s conclusion. In marketing, these “conclusions” are normative decisions about what an organization should do, for example, raise prices by 5 percent, add a new sales territory or, perhaps, change the marketing communications mix to invest more in digital and less in print. The premises are the rationale behind why the organization should take such actions. This volume provides information and guidelines on not only how to develop good arguments, but also what it means to develop a good argument. For example, the book describes two basic kinds of arguments— deductive and inductive—and how to examine whether such arguments are “good” or not. To do this, the book explains 60 logical fallacies—or errors in reasoning—that marketers should avoid. Additionally, the authors’ several “Think Better” discussions examine how fields such as philosophy, behavioral economics, and marketing theory have informed the principles of critical thinking in marketing. BEP is offering a bundle price for Volume 1 and Volume 2 (Critical Thinking for Marketers, Volume II: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think). Buy both print copies for one low price of $60.00. Mention code GRADEC when you call (802)-846-9450 to place your order.

Critical Thinking for Marketers: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think, Volume II

Critical Thinking for Marketers: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think, Volume II

$21.99

Check out this article by the author in Quirks.com!

This second volume of Critical Thinking for Marketers expands your background knowledge of other areas of critical thinking that are making major contributions to both marketing as a social science and marketing as an applied science. Section I, Think Better, provides introductory discussions of ‧ Marketing as a science. ‧ The difference between correlation and causation. ‧ The meaning of what a “concept” is and why it is critical for marketers to develop good concept definitions (e.g., “What is customer satisfaction?”). ‧ Why the 18th century Scottish philosopher David Hume is relevant to marketers today. ‧ The impact that behavioral economics is having on how marketers do their job. Section II, Cognitive Biases and Their Importance, talks about recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and neuroscience that have relevance to marketers. You’ll learn that marketers need to be aware of their own cognitive biases and irrational thinking processes, which often lead to making bad decisions, and that the retail and business customers we market to are not as rational as we may think and hope they are. Finally, Section III, Conclusions, draws on both Volumes I and II to summarize the book’s primary messages with helpful hints on applying your new tools and making better marketing decisions. BEP is offering a bundle price for Volume 1 (Critical Thinking for Marketers, Volume I: Learn How to Think, Not What to Think) and Volume 2. Buy both print copies for one low price of $60.00. Mention code GRADEC when you call (802)-846-9450 to place your order.

Service Design with Applications to Health Care Institutions

Service Design with Applications to Health Care Institutions

$21.99

We present Business Engineering (BE) and its application to health service offerings design by using:
Several disciplines—Strategy, Business Models, Modularization, Business Processes (BP), Business Intelligence (BI), Information Systems (IS) and IT- in generating Enterprise Architecture designs for services, which are aligned with and make operational stakeholders’ interests.
A hierarchical methodology that allows managing the complexity of full enterprise design by starting with overall aggregated designs detailed by hierarchical decomposition.

Business, Architecture, and Process Patterns that abstract and formalize the knowledge and experience generated from hundreds of cases.

Advanced Analytics—data based and Operation Research (OR) models—to support business development, by generating new or improved service designs, and management, by embedding models in operating process design, allowing truly BI that optimize service performance.

Formal constructs to model designs based on BPMN, allowing simulation and their eventual execution using BP Management Suites.
This book is a sequel to Business Engineering and Service Design, which provides the foundations of Business Engineering; it is dedicated to health care, presenting our view of the foundations for the design of institutions that provide such service, general architectures for making designs operative, and many real cases that show how to do formal design and the benefits to be obtained.

Introduction to Foreign Exchange Rates, Second Edition

Introduction to Foreign Exchange Rates, Second Edition

$21.99

As managers expand their international business operations, they are confronted by the puzzling and vexing world of foreign exchange (FX) rates. This book is designed as a resource that can help managers quickly understand and navigate the FX market. The text may be used as an introductory module in a course in international finance, whether the course is oriented to international markets, international investments, or international corporate finance. The primary intended audience is an applied MBA course aimed at executives, managers, and would-be managers.

After an introduction to FX rates, the author covers the important topic FX rate valuation. It is important for managers to understand when an FX rate may be incorrectly valued, as this situation may have a bearing on corporate decisions on strategy, risk management, capital structure, and overseas investments and operations. He also discusses the mechanics of forward FX contracts and their use in managing the risk of future foreign currency cash flow and includes a case that unifies the ideas. The case company is faced with FX exposure in the revenues from a proposed new foreign customer. The decision maker applies the text material to estimate whether the FX rate is over-, under-, or correctly valued. The final decisions are whether to expand sales to the foreign market and whether to hedge the FX risk.

KNOWledge SUCCESSion: Sustained Performance and Capability Growth Through Strategic Knowledge Projects

KNOWledge SUCCESSion: Sustained Performance and Capability Growth Through Strategic Knowledge Projects

$21.99

Check out a recent book review from Project Management World Journal!!

KNOWledge SUCCESSion is intended for executives and developing professionals who face the challenges of delivering business benefits for today, while building the capabilities required for an increasingly changing future. The book is structured to build from foundational requirements toward connecting the highly interdependent aspects of success in an emerging complex world. A wide range of concepts are brought together in a logical framework to enable readers of different disciplines to understand how they either create barriers or can be harvested to generate synergistic opportunities. The insights are robust as and pragmatic to help leaders create an environment in which their teams develop the knowledge and capabilities for sustained strategic success. This book also has extended learning for postgraduate students of business and project management in either an informal or a formal learning context. All successful medium to large organizations now need to have active management of projects and the ability to develop knowledge and capability to drive innovation and maintain relevance. There are detailed books on how to manage projects, texts of knowledge management, and volumes on innovation and change, but there is no one book that brings all these interdependent aspects of success together within the context of projects.

Forecasting Fundamentals

Forecasting Fundamentals

$21.99

Check out the review in the just-released “Inbound Logistics, January 2018, Winter Reading Guide” !

This book is for everyone who wants to make better forecasts. It is not about mathematics and statistics. It is about following a well-established forecasting process to create and implement good forecasts. This is true whether you are forecasting global markets, sales of SKUs, competitive strategy, or market disruptions. Today, most forecasts are generated using software. However, no amount of technology and statistics can compensate for a poor forecasting process. Forecasting is not just about generating a number. Forecasters need to understand the problems they are trying to solve. They also need to follow a process that is justifiable to other parties and be implemented in practice. This is what the book is about. Accurate forecasts are essential for predicting demand, identifying new market opportunities, forecasting risks, disruptions, innovation, competition, market growth and trends. Companies can navigate this daunting landscape and improve their forecasts by following some well-established principles. This book is written to provide the fundamentals business leaders need in order to make good forecasts. These fundamentals hold true regardless of what is being forecast and what technology is being used. It provides the basic foundational principles all companies need to achieve competitive forecast accuracy.