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What everyone should know about business : a primer
This practical and informative primer is a new kind of teaching tool that is easy to read, easy to understand, and easy to apply. Flynn presents the functional areas of business from entrepreneurship to small business development, legal structure, growth strategy, going global, finance, digitization, marketing, and management. Theory is matched with game-changing realities in today's business environment such as far-reaching networked digital supply chains, personalized geolocation marketing, 5 nm micro-processing chip architecture and hyperscale data centers triggering the generative AI boom, and sophisticated hybrid legal structures and financial management systems.
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Blockchain-based business process management (BPM) framework for service composition in industry 4.0
Business process management (BPM) aims to optimize business processes to achieve better system performance such as higher profit, quicker response, and better services. BPM systems in Industry 4.0 are required to digitize and automate business process workflows and support the transparent interoperations of service vendors. The critical bottleneck to advance BPM systems is the evaluation, verification, and transformation of trustworthiness and digitized assets. Most of BPM systems rely heavily on domain experts or third parties to deal with trustworthiness. In this paper, an automated BPM solution is investigated to select and compose services in open business environment, Blockchain technology (BCT) is explored and proposed to transfer and verify the trustiness of businesses and partners, and a BPM framework is developed to illustrate how BCT can be integrated to support prompt, reliable, and cost-effective evaluation and transferring of Quality of Services in the workflow composition and management.
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The founder effect : three pillars of success in founder-led companies
Investment funds manager Lawrence Lam identifies the intangible elements that drive the success behind outstanding global companies. Backed by behavioural psychology, case studies and examples from some of the world's most iconic brands, 'The Founder Effect' shows you how to uncover a business's potential for profit. This handbook presents a compelling three-pillar framework, giving you the tools you need to evaluate track record, assess motivation, and go beyond marketing spin to uncover actual progress.
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Organizing Supply Chain Processes for Sustainable Innovation in the Agri-Food Industry
This book explores the challenges of sustainable agri-food supply chains. It presents and discusses nine cases of organizational innovation, covering different phases of food production and facing different challenges, by proposing alternative models to the traditional paradigm of scale and leverage to design supply chain in these industries.
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Start-ups declassified : an insider's playbook for success
You're an entrepreneur and should already be thinking about how to get rich - filthy rich - before you write one line of code or define the service you plan to offer. If you die, you die. But you should not die without dreaming about a house in the Hamptons and a private jet. This is why you never sleep. This book describes the real start-up process based on actual cases - not 'theories' about how to create, grow or exit start-ups. It offers lessons learned for every step of the start-up process ranging from ideation to fundraising to scaling to exiting - as well as a real description of how the sometimes-audacious cast of characters actually behaves. Every lesson is grounded in experience.
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Project management metrics, KPIs, and dashboards
Harold Kerzner's essential strategies on measuring project management performance With the growth of complex projects, stakeholder involvement, and advancements in visual-based technology, metrics and KPIs (key performance indicators) are key factors in evaluating project performance. Dashboard reporting systems provide accessible project performance data, and sharing this vital data in a concise and consistent manner is a key communication responsibility of all project managers. This third edition of Kerzner's groundbreaking work, Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards: A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance, helps functional managers gain a thorough grasp of what metrics and KPIs are and how to use them. Plus, this edition includes new sections on processing dashboard information, portfolio management PMO and metrics, and BI tool flexibility. Offers comprehensive coverage of the different dashboard types, design issues, and applications Provides full-color dashboards from some of the most successful project management companies, including IBM, Microsoft, and others Aligns with PMI's PMBOK® Guide and stresses value-driven project management PPT decks are available by chapter and a test bank will be available for use in seminar presentations and courses Get ready to bolster your awareness of what good metrics management really entails today-and be armed with the knowledge to measure performance more effectively.
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The year in tech 2025 : the insights you need from Harvard Business Review
Generative AI, biometrics, spatial computing, electric vehicles - new technologies like these are reshaping organizations at the hybrid office, on factory floors, and in the C-suite. What should you and your company be doing now to take advantage of the new opportunities these technologies are creating - and avoid falling victim to disruption? 'The Year in Tech 2025' will help you understand what the latest and most important tech innovations mean for your organization and how you can use them to compete and win in today's turbulent business environment.
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Safety-I and safety-II
Much more than a technical book. Erik's work is a well documented journey into the multiple interactions between safety, work and human nature. A timely contribution to vindicate human beings and their variability from the one sided focus on the evils of human error. A groundbreaking look at 'the other story' that will certainly contribute to safer and more productive workplaces.
Dr Alejandro Morales, Mutual Seguridad, Chile
Safety needs a new maturity. We can no longer improve by simply doing what we have been doing, even by doing it better. DR Hollnagel brings forth new distinctions, interpretations, and narratives that will allow safety to progress to new unforeseen levels. Safety-II is more than just incident and accident prevention. A must read for every safety professional.
Tom McDaniel, Global Manager Zero Harm and Human Performance, Siemens Energy, Inc., USA
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Demystifying digital transformation : non-technical toolsets for business professionals thriving in the digital age
Today, over 80% of digital transformation engagements fail to reach their objectives (as reported through a survey by Couchbase). The challenge to overcome is that the pace of change in digital has left business users falling behind. Geared towards non-technical professionals, this book seeks to get executives on track to lead this innovation wave.
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Advances in Management Accounting
This volume of Advances in Management Accounting (AIMA) represents the diversity of management accounting topics, methods and author affiliation which form the basic tenets of AIMA.
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