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This title offers a fast track route to understanding and managing the future. It covers all the key aspects of future proofing, from identifying alternative scenarios and tracking technology change to developing a blueprint for action and communicating...

Fast track route to generating brilliant ideas Covers the key areas of idea generation and creativity from embedding innovation in the fabric of the organization and making time (and money) available for it to learning how to listen and to say 'yes'...

This book offers a fast track route to understanding and exploiting intellectual capital. It covers the key areas of intellectual capital, from value-adding intellectual capital programmes and value capture to finding the 'hook' and setting up measures...

This title presents a fast track route to mastering all aspects of time management. It covers all the key techniques for managing your time successfully, from clearing your desk to prioritisation, and from good delegation to knowing how and when to say...

Fast track route to the successful management of business growth Covers the key areas of growth management, from understanding how organizations grow and the changes needed to facilitate growth, to mergers and acquisitions, franchising and alliances ...

This is the fast track route to creating a truly entrepreneurial culture in any organization. This book covers all the critical behaviors of entrepreneurial organizations, from risk taking to growth, and from leadership to motivation. It includes...

Fast track route to getting the most from teams and team working Covers the key areas of team working, from developing an existing team and building highly effective new teams to virtual teaming and teams in the global economy Examples and lessons from...

This title offers a fast track route to mastering global operations. It covers the key areas of international marketing and distribution, logistics, import/export compliance and government regulations. It includes examples and lessons from some of the...

This is the fast track route to mastering global innovation. This book covers the key areas of global innovation from understanding what drives customers' demand for innovation in every area of your business to strategies for developing your own...

A fast track route to mastering and managing corporate vision. This book covers the fundamentals of vision and mission, from developing commitment and energising people to communicating consistently and nurturing corporate responsibility. It includes...

Fast track route to getting the most out of being a remote worker Covers all the key aspects of flexible and virtual working, from teleworking and telecommuting to groupware and virtual call centres Lessons and tips from some of the world's great...

Fast track route to mastering all aspects of e-marketing Covers all the key techniques for successful e-marketing, from affiliation marketing to e-mail alerts, and from viral marketing to banner ads Examples and lessons from some of the world's most...

This title offers a fast track route to getting the most out of your travelling. It covers all the key techniques for savvy travelling, from getting competitive rates from hotels and maximising air miles, to staying healthy and keeping on top of expenses...

Phones, TVa s, PDAa s, watches and even fridges are rapidly taking the place of the PC. Now Europea s proliferating channels and devices -- plus its multiple cultures and languages -- are writing tomorrowa s rules. Part field book, part manifesto, and...

Having toppled the bookselling giants on--line, Jeff Bezos is now leading Amazon.com its list, not to mention a makeover for the weba s most recognisable site, is Amazon pushing its luck or positioning for the future of e--commerce? The so--called a...

Living on the Fault Line is the long awaited new book from Geoffrey Moore, author of Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado, two bestselling works that have helped guide the high-tech revolution. Moore focuses on the most important business question...

Architects of the Business Revolution is a journey through the remarkable new territory of e-business and the new economy. Dearlove and Coomber identify the entrepreneurs, radicals and thinkers who have made the greatest contribution to this new world...

Britain in 2010: The New Business Landscape focuses on the continuities and discontinuities in the changing social structure of Britain. This text is a landmark vision of the countya s future at a time of unprecedented opportunity. It asserts that by...

A seemingly endless parade of consultants, academics and journalists continue to pontificate about management, leadership and the dream of the perfect organization. But only a tiny fraction have really changed the way business works. These are the gurus...

The design of an electoral system is fundamental to any democracy. It is through electoral systems that the commitment of a society to a political system is achieved. The peculiarities of an electoral system assume significant importance in periods in...

Issues surrounding Annex I trading - the trading of greenhouse gas emissions among industrialized countries under the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change - comprise the central theme of this collection, which offers an integrated...

This book analyses the relationship between urban management and the unequal pattern of provision of urban services in developing countries. It starts from the premise that socio-economic inequalities constitute a significant development problem. The...

Most studies of the Arab Spring in the 2010s focus only on its political drivers and failures, and none provides a framework for an economically sustainable way forward. By drawing lessons from the economic causes of the Spring, Reviving Arab Reform...

Values, Rationality, and Power: Developing Organizational Wisdom demonstrates that organizations can act wisely. A critical realist framework and phonetic research approach is used to perform an embedded single case study of a group's attempt to develop...

Blockchain technology has the potential to disrupt and transform the social media business space, but the existing literature uses complex technical jargon that prevents practitioners from taking advantage of its full potential. Nitin Upadhyay...

Although most jobs are initially designed by managers, employees also play an important role in this phase through a proactive behavior called 'job crafting'. It describes a bottom-up approach that consists of customizing and modifying structural,...

The twenty-first century has thus far been characterised by a persistent amplification of diverse and interconnected global flows, as well as various attempts to control, harness and channel these flows for individual and collective benefits. Whether we...

Technology-based industries have come to account for ever-greater shares of economic activity during the last 30 years. Recently, rapid, digitally-enabled technological change has generated new opportunities for value creation, enabled new ways of...

When you think about investing, what words come to mind? Overwhelming? Intimidating? Scary? Investors face a vast array of investment options vying for their business. They are aware that some of those providing these "opportunities" seek to take...

Drawing upon a model developed over 25 years of experience and successfully taught for many years at his company Wilson Learning Andina y Rio de la Plata, Alberto Perez La Rotta presents a comprehensive and replicable approach to integrated business...

Executives in today's business environment have never been busier. Time constraints are ever present. Resources are strained. Strategic planning constantly competes with the tactical demands of running an organization. To make matters worse, most...

The patent system is criticized today by some practitioners and economists. In fact, there is a partial disconnection between patent demographics and productivity gains, but also the development of actors who do not innovate and who develop business...

Time for Solutions! Overcoming Gender-related Career Barriers shares the who, what and how to reduce gender inequalities in the workplace. Clearly the time is now since inequities are hampering the economy and simply wrong. Who needs to change? And, how?...

With an expanding awareness of the challenges of sustainability, featured more in the daily news than in higher education textbooks, scholars and faculty have been called to connect their syllabi to the 'real world'. This book doesn't just offer the...

In less than a decade, activism against the fossil fuel industry has exploded across the globe. While environmentalists used to focus on legislative goals, such as carbon emissions trading or renewable energy policies, today the most prominent activists...

This third collection of outstanding contributions from the Critical Management Studies (CMS) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) continues to challenge business practice in ways not tackled by other more typical business case studies. There is...

Following the international success of The Fish Rots from the Head: Developing Effective Directors, this sequel from Bob Garratt explains the public's distrust of the people who govern us - the directors, owners, regulators and politicians - and how this...

We are entering the age of sustainability - a business era where every company, big and small, must adapt its way of doing business to meet the realities of climate change, a finite supply of natural resources, evolving attitudes about inequality,...

We have never had more freedom to acquire information to make decisions, and organizations have never been so pressed to demonstrate accountability as they communicate with better informed customers and users. People who work IN an organization must also...

CORE is shortlisted for the Best Business Book Awards in the Engaging Change category. At the core of the world's most admired businesses lies a powerful Single Organizing Idea. These organizations deliver sustainable economic and social benefit; they...