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The way we design and work within our organizations is profoundly impacted by digital technologies and complexity. Speed of flow is critical for innovation, production, communication, and delivery. Arguably, silo-based, functional hierarchies are failing to guarantee the necessary speed of flow as well as quality, and involvement of people. Applying techniques is insufficient. What is required is a radical rethink to compete and thrive. Nothing less than a new way of understanding -- an epistemological framework - will do.This book aims to provide such a framework and show how we can break free from silos and silo thinking through a truly systemic approach. It presents an operational solution that allows organizations to effectively adopt digital technologies and reap their benefits. It highlights the new kind of leadership that our increasingly network-based and distributed business world requires to achieve sustainable prosperity.

Mature businesses across all advanced countries are struggling to find new markets. Indian market has been estimated huge in size, approximately $1.2 trillion in purchasing power parity for the households earning an annual income of less than $4,000. This comes to almost 880 million of Indian population of which 22 percent is urban India and 78 percent rural India.Referred to as bottom of the pyramid/low income/subsistence markets, while these markets offer immense business opportunities they also pose challenges. The needs of this segment have to be addressed by the corporate world but it might need a new approach with new business frameworks for implementation. The companies must understand what constitutes value for this segment, how it is different from other segments and how firms can offer value through their market offerings; accordingly what could be the successful business models. Decoding Customer Value at the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Urban India Perspective answers these questions through a practical, rigorous and research oriented way. This book is a must read for business executives across the globe with an interest in the low income customers in India.

Virtual Vic is a management fable about the trials and tribulations of a new executive facing the virtual work environment and the technology associated with this environment. The story explores his struggles to be a successful leader by relying solely on technology and ignoring the human touch aspects behind true leadership. The story helps all of us look at technology as the tool it is meant to be rather than the humanistic hindrance it often becomes. Vic meets three characters (his informal Board of Directors) who help provide the lessons needed to best lead a blended workforce. Each character represents a major theme within the book. The themes of Trust (Reliable Reggie), Isolation (Solitary Samantha), and Presence (Being Bob) are about human perceptions that provide a human touch associated with the virtual work environment. Trust, isolation, and presence are the three main human perceptions discussed throughout the book. Told in a fable style, Virtual Vic can help managers and employees recognize signs that could result in a less-than-ideal work environment. The book is designed for anyone associated with leading or managing teams especially those with the virtual work environment. The lessons discussed allow for the most productive workforce.

What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team? Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success. Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model of behavior, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

What does it take to successfully lead and manage a business or a team? Management consultant and HR specialist Stephen-Elkins Jarrett and organizational development consultant Nick Skinner share their combined experience of how mastery of 15 key areas can help you drive your business, team, or even yourself to success. Presented using the acronym of BLOOD, SWEAT, and TEARS, this book, presented in three volumes, aligns some established models with common sense to give a practical view with tools and tips gained over years of working across different industries and sectors. At the heart of the book is the fascinating study of behavior, discussed through the SPECTRUM model of behavior, showing how by treating others in the way that they want to be treated, we can engage, develop, and lead them to achieve meaningful goals.

The author explores and analyzes the digital and social media dynamics for virtual world, including the mechanism involved in bringing targeted traffic and increasing brand awareness in the real-time programmatic and algorithmic world of communication, where the new digital world is progressively being propelled by the blockchain-enabled social media platforms.The intelligent corporates are becoming data-driven and AI-powered enterprises to compete, differentiate, and successfully reach consumers. This book develops a critical understanding of the digital marketing landscape. The author explores and examines the various aspects of digital marketing process and their implications. It takes an in-depth look at what firms can do to pioneer and successfully execute the digital marketing innovations in a mobile-synchronized and mobile-optimized world for building and sustaining the online customer relationship and loyalty. The author explores and analyzes the digital and social media dynamics for virtual world, including the mechanism involved in bringing targeted traffic and increasing brand awareness in the real-time programmatic and algorithmic world of communication, where the new digital world is progressively being propelled by the blockchain-enabled social media platforms.In this connected world, the consumers are connected with portals of interactive multi-smart shared interfaces. Kapoor discusses and demonstrates that the practitioners should direct their endeavors more toward fostering the positive brand image and the consumer-based brand equity than short-range transactions. This book is intended for a broad audience including students and professors in graduate business schools, and practicing business executives.The goal is to inform management practice and help current and future business leaders navigate through the competitive storms unleashed by digital technology for reaching market segments, for conducting market research, and for managing content, no matter what industry it is.

Counterintelligence for Corporate Environments, Volume I provides the reader with unique, comprehensive, and efficient methodologies that will change and improve corporate security and operational models to the highest degree possible. Through the extensive and sophisticated discipline of counterintelligence, readers will learn the vital importance of intelligence to the survival, efficiency, and well-being of any organization as well as a whole new approach to the protection of business intelligence and assets. Volume two discusses topics and illustrates strategies and procedures that have never before been used in the corporate field. Inspired by the concepts, strategies, and tactics that have been used by intelligence communities and specialized military forces for decades, this book aims to improve and safeguard every component of a corporate environment through the adaptation and modification of the same strategies employed by these specialized entities. Through this book, managers, security officers, consultants, and entire corporate environments will have the knowledge and skills necessary in order to change the entire dynamic of security applications in the present day and will be able to integrate advanced and highly efficient counterintelligence models in order to combat the extensive modern threat landscape.

Technological breakthroughs relating to artificial intelligence has redefined business operations worldwide. For example, the ways in which data is captured, processed, and utilized to optimize customer interactions has grown by leaps and bounds. The change is redefining the structural dynamics of business strategy, economic theory, and management concepts. Leading technology companies around the world have expanded their research in artificial intelligence. With IBM's launch of Watson, a new cognitive era has started. Investment firms have backed numerous emerging artificial intelligence companies. Meanwhile, there is paucity of academic and business research on the subject. This book project is a pioneering examination of how artificial intelligence is transforming the contemporary business strategy.

Join Mark Eyre on a journey to discover how you can be both ethical and powerful, and that it doesn't have to be a choice between them, in business or in life. How do you empower yourself to maximize your impact? This book will show you how to do this ethically, using the nine key steps: Do you feel that your work and life should somehow be better than it is? Are you on a treadmill, doing things you don't want to do, with no hope of getting off? Do you find it hard to say what you want, or even to know what you want? Are you intimidated by those in authority, whoever they are? If so, then Powerful Performance is for you. Join Mark Eyre on a journey to discover how you can be both ethical and powerful, and that it doesn't have to be a choice between them, in business or in life. Through reading the insights and case studies in this book and completing the self-diagnostic exercises, you will learn the nine steps to ethical power. Mastering these steps will enable you to stand your ground and achieve your full potential.

Written in plain English with illustrative examples and cases, this book is for the general manager who seeks a better grasp of the fast-changing data-driven business world and a better understanding of what will be required from he/she, not just now but in five years' time.

The focus of the book is to help readers understand how certain concepts and values influence the way Germans like to do business. Germany is the strongest economy in Europe, and one of the largest worldwide. The business climate is good, people are highly skilled, and consumers have plenty of spending money in their pockets; for companies that are doing business internationally, Germany is a market that simply cannot be overlooked. However, many business relationships with Germans come to an end even before they begin; intercultural differences very often result in misunderstandings, frustration, and an unnecessary loss of time and money. Especially with Germans, even small things can be crucial when you are speaking to a (potential) business contact. This book aims at helping students and professionals avoid the common pitfalls that international business people typically step into when dealing with Germans for the very first time. Unlike with the other business- or text-books focusing on culture, this book will do more than just arm you with some simple "e;Dos and Don'ts;"e; it will provide interesting and easy-to- understand descriptions and anecdotes that highlight the cultural standards and dimensions that are (typically) theoretically discussed in scientific texts. Essentially, while talking about what makes "e;the average"e; German tick, readers will be equipped with the relevant background knowledge. The focus of the book is to help readers understand how certain concepts and values influence the way Germans like to do business. It will guide them on how to successfully interact with Germans, whether at trade shows, during virtual and face-to-face meetings, or when they are negotiating their first contract.

Agility expert Mike Hoogveld shows us what we can learn from smart start-ups and other successful, innovative organizations. Using many academic insights and practical examples, he describes how to make your organization responsive by focusing on continuous improvement.

Presents a new model of the service-city, including architecture and several pertinent examples, which considers it as a platform that manages and integrates the services and systems currently provided by the city while offering additional supporting services to increase the effectiveness of the value and to achieve the goal of sustainability.

Learn how an "e;Agile"e; approach to project management blends older traditional ideas and newer discoveries to create innovative products and services. Agility in project management is the power to move quickly and easily and the ability to think fast and draw swift conclusions. Essentially, it is a value-driven approach that allows project managers to deliver high-priority and high-quality work on projects of a highly uncertain and complex nature.This book provides and understanding of Lean project management methods that are effective for complex projects impacted by cost and resource limitations. The author presents discussions on collaboration, which is a mindset that needs to be developed with training along with creating an environment at the workplace conducive to high performance. Collaboration is a soft skill that needs to be learned by every team member to create a collaborative culture. Readers will learn how to create collaborative leadership aimed at engaging teams and groups outside formal control for trust and innovation and inspiring them toward common goals.

No Dumbing Down: A No-Nonsense Guide for CEOs on Organization Growth is a book for a company's senior-most leaders looking to make improvements when aligning the organization's internal and external strategies for fast, profitable, and sustainable growth. This book combines the author's impactful and formative experience with leadership and strategy best practices, helping the reader master the counterintuitive art of actually delivering on the promise made to customers. Readers will learn how and why to put these strategies to work-taking direct aim at pitfalls that can trip up even the most stellar companies.

Project management has evolved to a profession, a methodology for reaching the desired outcomes, a management approach for moving toward strategic direction, and a mindset. It supports an organization to effectively withstand the market challenges and sustain growth with competitive edge. A paradigm shift in management of an organization is discussed for strategic advancement where operation and strategic implementation are managed separately with relevant management approaches. The endeavor is made essentially to capture strengths of project management for strategic advancement. Organizational transformation for high performance is pursued with application of project management and capturing the organizational culture to support high performance for implementation of projects. A unique PM-AURA model is introduced to help maximize the culture for continued high performance. Organizational readiness assessment is critical for commencement of transformation and change management for desired competence. A model is proposed to help application of project management for building competence. The challenges for the 21st century are also discussed for an understanding and preparation.

Project management endeavor is a change management process requiring all stakeholders to engage and satisfy human aspects about their experience of workplace change. The goal is to help all concerned more quickly and happily adjust to new approaches and new ways of working. Good change management lets people get back to work faster and feel more satisfied with their change experience and the demands of new approach. This second volume provides team members the necessary support before, during, and after the move to establishing project management approach. It includes dealing with human factors, human psychology, human behavior, managing peak performance, work-enabling environment, transformational management, and preparing for challenges of disruption. Managing workplace change takes time and focus. The communication has to go both ways. It is critical to ask professionals for input, to address concerns as they arise, to identify the influencers within teams, and to engage them in efforts.

Project implementation aligned with strategic advancement is a challenging endeavor, particularly in an environment of increasing complexity and productivity issues. Your prime issue is to plan for right action in right time, in right manner, and for the right purpose. Your attention determines the experience you end up with, and the experience determines the outcomes you have reached. Therefore, you must control your attention to control arriving at your desired outcomes. William James, in his book The Principles of Psychology (Vol I, 1890), wrote a simple statement, "My experience is what I agree to attend to." The statement is highly relevant even in the 21st century for managing high productivity through "attention management." This third volume provides areas for attention management and focuses on diversity, team building, meaningfulness, and growing to leadership, all of which are essentially required for maximizing and cultivating the real benefits with application of project management approach in business and industry.

Counterintelligence for Corporate Environments, Volume I provides the reader with unique, comprehensive, and efficient methodologies that will change and improve corporate security and operational models to the highest degree possible. Through the extensive and sophisticated discipline of counterintelligence, readers will learn the vital importance of intelligence to the survival, efficiency, and well-being of any organization as well as a whole new approach to the protection of business intelligence and assets. Volume two discusses topics and illustrates strategies and procedures that have never before been used in the corporate field. Inspired by the concepts, strategies, and tactics that have been used by intelligence communities and specialized military forces for decades, this book aims to improve and safeguard every component of a corporate environment through the adaptation and modification of the same strategies employed by these specialized entities. Through this book, managers, security officers, consultants, and entire corporate environments will have the knowledge and skills necessary in order to change the entire dynamic of security applications in the present day and will be able to integrate advanced and highly efficient counterintelligence models in order to combat the extensive modern threat landscape.

Global Women in the Startup World: Conversations in Silicon Valley is a selection of interview-driven stories told by the Polish female founders who successfully made it to Silicon Valley. This book is written with the focus on female founders because although women are playing an increasingly important role in the technology and business worlds, they still face unique challenges and hurdles, which can be particularly acute in the fast-paced startup environment. The interviewees came from Poland to Silicon Valley and succeeded. They built their networks, followed their dreams, and mastered the art of running a global company. Silicon Valley can be intimidating but with this book as a guide one can navigate the most challenging aspects of being a woman in the startup world. The stories in the book also prove that foreign startup founders are welcome in Silicon Valley and can achieve global success. It doesn't matter what country you are from-you can build your startup in any country: some of the interviewees live and work in Poland, while others decided to move abroad.

Sustainable capitalism is more than a response to the environmental crisis. In this book, the authors propose a new conceptual business model as a contribution to global sustainable capitalism in the making, in an attempt assist in the education of global stakeholders about the importance, the rationale, and the pathway to the introduction of sustainable capitalism principles into global economics and business models.

Supply chain management (SCM) is the process of managing the operations of a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in efficiently moving products or services from suppliers to customers. SCM can effectively conduct the movements of physical items, knowledge, and information from the original supplier to the final end-user. In this book, we explore the systemic analysis of SCM and its effect on business development performance. We identify the structural problems in the supply chain, clarify how they influence the functioning of business development, and suggest elaboration of strategic approaches to address those problems. The author includes professional perspectives and insights from experts including various SCM sources.

A powerful resource for leaders from the C-Suite to the front line. Filled with innovative new approaches, pragmatic tools, and real-life success stories, this book tackles the universal challenge of getting better, faster, more sustainable results in a world of nonstop demands and constant connectivity.

Provides practicing and aspiring managers, as well as students of management, with a practical and comprehensive reference for being understood when communicating with their coworkers and those they manage.

This fresher guide is designed for students who took accounting in their freshman year but struggled with double-entry bookkeeping or have for-gotten it and need a quick revision of key accounting adjustments such as accrued expenses, prepaid expenses, bad debt expense, depreciation techniques, inventory valuation, and unearned revenue. The author also discusses the preparation and interpretation of financial statements including the in-come statement, statement of retained earnings, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. Corporate accounting is introduced, especially the impact of tax, dividends, and the changes to the income statement, statement of retained earnings, and balance sheet. The book is packed with worked examples and four comprehensive case studies that apply the aforementioned accounting concepts. After working through this text, the student should be better prepared for intermediate finan-cial reporting classes.

Organizations are increasingly adopting new ways of working to take advantage of new digital technologies to enhance the services they can offer and become more productive. This book defines and explains the different terms that are used to describe new ways of working and identifies the benefits and limitations of different approaches.Readers will learn about the key components of successful agile working and how a holistic approach is needed for the successful implementation of agile working. The author provides advice on the introduction of new ways of working, including preparing a robust business case, setting up an agile working program, and providing a road map. The contributions of the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to the digital workspace and agile working are assessed.

Explores advanced trading techniques, starting with a breakdown of easy to use analytical tools, then building more complex knowledge of portfolio strategies and how to calculate a fair value of shares. This is followed by a breakdown of technical triggers and how to apply them in equities, futures, and forex trading.

Until recently, if it has been considered at all in the context of business continuity, cyber security may have been thought of in terms of disaster recovery and little else. Recent events have shown that cyber-attacks are now an everyday occurrence, and it is becoming clear that the impact of these can have devastating effects on organizations whether large or small, public or private sector. Cyber security is one aspect of information security, since the impacts or consequences of a cyber-attack will inevitably damage one or more of the three pillars of information security: the confidentiality, integrity or availability of an organization's information assets. The main difference between information security and cyber security is that while information security deals with all types of information assets, cyber security deals purely with those which are accessible by means of interconnected electronic networks, including the Internet. Many responsible organizations now have robust information security, business continuity and disaster recovery programs in place, and it is not the intention of this book to re-write those, but to inform organizations about the kind of precautions they should take to stave off successful cyber-attacks and how they should deal with them when they arise in order to protect the day-to-day businesses.

Provides hints, tips, and examples of how to implement Agile HR solutions into your organization that will help HR professionals and senior leaders implement people-focused solutions to increase productivity. It is time to put the human touch back into human resources.

If you want to take your business to the next level, then this book could lead you there. You most likely have a love for whatever area you have chosen as a focus for your business. This is a great start. However, many small business owners do not have the business and management background to make that business as profitable as it could be. In consulting with many of these small businesses, I found that a few simple business practices could be very beneficial to their growth. In this book, I will try to share some of these practices with you. This book is designed to help an entrepreneur increase his profit by introducing how he can use a simplified profit-and-loss statement of four to ten items as a tool to analyze his business from a financial perspective. He will be shown how he can use these items in a formula to help him plan and make decisions for future growth and profit. We will discuss skills and practices that have been used to improve sales, management, leadership, and planning skills. This book is designed to help you improve your profitability.