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The Data to Dollars™ Value Chain

1st Edition
July 15, 2017
Jaime G. Fitzgerald + 2 more
English

The Data to Dollars™ Value Chain: A Practical Guide to Business Analytics provides guidance on how to create successful analytics projects, assemble teams, and plan for ongoing initiatives. The book is a thoughtful, skilled, technical and analytical guide on the methods used to truly understand customers, consumer behavior, and market opportunities. This practical guide contains all components of the process, along with the methods and templates needed to unlock the potential of data. Readers will learn how to "reduce the barrier to benefit" from analytics by enabling their team to get more from their analytics efforts despite budget constraints, how to staff talent and experience, how to use knowledge, and how to recognize data quality, availability, and potential political barriers within an organization.

Chinese Women Business Leaders

1st Edition
June 6, 2017
Jean Lee
English
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Chinese Women Business Leaders - Seven Principles of Leadership includes seven women who represent the characteristics of ShEOs in the wave of Chinese economic reform. Their unique life stories are also reflections of changes in Chinese society. These women have each played a distinctive role In China’s rapid emergence. Reform and opening up has brought more opportunities than ever before to Chinese women, though along with these opportunities come some questions and challenges. The fetters and shackles of tradition have been shattered. A path for self-actualization has opened up. Women in mainland China have experienced great changes, and struggled with conflicts between traditional heritage and modern values. Ever since reform and opening up in 1978, the rapid emergence of women in leadership roles in business has paralleled significant upheavals in the Chinese business landscape.

From Corporate Security to Commercial Force

1st Edition
May 23, 2017
Marko Cabric
English
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From Corporate Security to Commercial Force: A Business Leader’s Guide to Security Economics addresses important issues, such as understanding security related costs, the financial advantages of security, running an efficient security organization, and measuring the impact of incidents and losses. The book guides readers in identifying, understanding, quantifying, and measuring the direct and economic benefits of security for a business, its processes, products, and consequently, profits. It quantifies the security function and explains the never-before analyzed tangible advantages of security for core business processes. Topics go far beyond simply proving that security is an expense for a company by providing business leaders and sales and marketing professionals with actual tools that can be used for advertising products, improving core services, generating sales, and increasing profits.

Estratégia, Cultura e Gestão de Recursos Humanos

1st Edition
April 29, 2017
Alberto Cândido Borges de Freitas + 1 more
Portuguese

Como se sabe, uma empresa bem-sucedida é aquela que consegue implementar um conjunto único de estratégias em prol de atingir seus objetivos. Essas estratégias, no geral, devem ser criativas, inovadoras, consistentes, econômicas e ardilosas (REBOUÇAS, 2012, 2004). Assim, uma estratégia, grosso modo, é a capacidade que a empresa tem de gerir suas ações rumo ao objetivo traçado. Porém, o que acontece, em um número importante de casos, é que as estratégias são neutralizadas pela cultura da empresa, na medida em que a gestão de recursos humanos não consegue alinhar os trabalhadores a essas diretrizes máximas da empresa rumo ao objetivo traçado. Assim, este livro trata disto: da experiência com a aplicação, de um padrão que veio a ser denominado de Modelo O.A.R.S., ou REMOS, em bom português, por um executivo do setor de tecnologia da informação. Este modelo foi testado em uma empresa brasileira, com sua sede em São Paulo e filiais no Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte e Araraquara, com importante sucesso. Para realizar tal obra, os autores, além de se cercarem do conhecimento empírico da aplicação do modelo supracitado, revisita e consolida temas e conceitos da gestão geral das empresas, tais como: valor essencial, ideologia, propósito, visão, missão, objetivos, estratégia, cultura etc., até chegar à área de recursos humanos e suas especificidades, a fim de apontar para a simplicidade, oportunidade e baixo investimento do modelo eminentemente brasileiro e contextualizado com as devidas referências globais. Assim, esta obra, além de ter uma base conceitual na experiência (vivência) de seus artífices, procurou cercar-se de autores-chave nos temas que circunvizinham ao tema central da obra. Os autores são: Porter, Ulrich, Prahalad, Hamel, Collins, Porras, Drucker, Schein, entre outros. Além de notáveis autores nacionais, como: Chiavenato, Tavares, Rebouças, Demo, Dutra, Fischer, Fleury etc. Assim, esta publicação é o esforço de dois profissionais que estudaram potenciais saídas estratégicas para as empresas brasileiras, bem como alternativas que deem músculos à gestão dessas empresas, via ações de gestão de RH, através dos quatro pilares do O.A.R.S. (ou REMOS) que são: Opportunities (Oportunidades); Atmosphere (Atmosfera); Recognition (Reconhecimento); e, Speed (Velocidade). Por fim, se deve ressaltar que este livro é uma ótima oportunidade de leitura para pequenos empresários, investidores em startups, executivos de empresas públicas e privadas, empreendedores e estudantes dos cursos de Administração de Empresas, Economia, Ciências Contábeis, Engenharia da Produção, Direito, Sociologia, Psicologia, Serviço Social, Tecnólogos em Gestão de Marketing, Gestão de Recursos Humanos, Logística e Negócios, bem como estudantes em programas de pós-graduação, na área da Gestão Empresarial, Gestão de Pessoas, Gestão de RH, Liderança, Empreendedorismo e Estratégia.

A Estratégia do Oceano Azul - Edição Estendida

2nd Edition
April 4, 2017
W. Kim + 1 more
Portuguese

O livro apresenta uma nova maneira de pensar sobre estratégia, resultando em uma criação de novos espaços (o oceano azul) e uma separação da concorrência (o oceano vermelho). Os autores estudaram 150 ganhadores e perdedores em 30 indústrias diferentes e viram que explicações tradicionais não explicavam o método dos ganhadores. O que eles acharam é que empresas que criam novos nichos, fazendo da concorrência um fator irrelevante, encontram um outro caminho para o crescimento. O livro ensina como colocar em prática essa estratégia.

Building the Rule of Law in China

1st Edition
March 21, 2017
Lin Li
English
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Building the Rule of Law in China explores the idea that China needs a more globalized and diversified vision for the science of law, presenting the need to think differently from the two major western mainstream legal cultures, the Anglo-American and the continental systems. Other globalized, universalized, and diversified models and experiences in the rule of law from diverse civilizations have much to offer China. Through learning from the strengths exhibited by systems in countries with a very developed and well-organized rule of law, and absorbing essential aspects from different countries, China might be well positioned to promote the development of the rule of law in a robust and comprehensive manner. This book explores the topic from several perspectives, giving the reader an up-to-date resource on the ever-evolving vision for the science of law in China.

Organizational Learning in Asia

1st Edition
March 16, 2017
Jacky Hong + 2 more
English
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Organizational Learning in Asia: Issues and Challenges addresses important and pressing questions on organizational learning in Asia in both domestic and foreign firms—those that have been forgotten in the mainstream literature or that remain unasked and unanswered. Three sets of questions are especially salient. First, how can firms operating in, or from, Asia detect, respect, recognize, and honor different cultural stances on suggestion-giving, knowledge sharing, and standardization while also challenging accepted wisdom, avoiding risks and mistakes, and voicing disagreement? Second, how can such firms facilitate local experimentation and innovation by providing a common knowledge platform in a non-totalitarian manner? Finally, how can such forums promote ‘reverse’ knowledge transfer from subsidiary to headquarters and across subsidiaries in different nations by avoiding ethnocentricity, cultivating local talent, and building a group of 'communities of practice' across cultural and status boundaries?

Internationalization and Managing Networks in the Asia Pacific

1st Edition
March 2, 2017
Nipawan Thirawat
English
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Internationalization and Managing Networks in the Asia Pacific consists of theories and analysis in sections that are related to network management, the power of business networking and the significance and role that business networking plays in propelling organizations towards international business, especially in Asia. Moreover, it includes stakeholder theory and applications of relevant theories to assist in identifying key stakeholders in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The first section contains various fascinating headings, such as analysis of stakeholders’ needs, negotiation techniques with stakeholders, relationship management with stakeholders and the role of network management in expanding international business within Asia. The second section emphasizes internationalization theories and empirical evidence with case studies of Asian multinational companies that have succeeded in expanding abroad, such as Singaporean, Taiwanese, Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian companies. These help provide guidelines of analysis for the adaptations these companies made to internationalize successfully, market penetration strategies used for the AEC and international expansion of Asian companies across countries in Asia and other continents. In addition, an included debate provides information on the applications of business networking and internationalization theories, best practices and development policy recommendations, along with a discussion of the role of the public sector in supporting overseas expansion of the private sector.

CIMA Official Exam Practice Kit Management Accounting Financial Strategy

4th Edition
March 2, 2017
Tony Graham
English

HELPING YOU TO PREPARE WITH CONFIDENCE, AVOID PITFALLS AND PASS FIRST TIMESupplementing the Official CIMA Learning Systems and Revision Cards the CIMA Exam Practice Kits consolidate learning by providing an extensive bank of practice questions. Each solution provides an in depth analysis of the correct answer, it is ideal for independent study or tutored revision course, helping you prepare with confidence and pass first time.The CIMA Exam Practice Kit includes:• Exam level questions with type and weighting to match the format of the exam• Fully worked model answers• Access to CIMA Official Q&As from May and November 2007• Summaries of key theory• Designed to follow the structure of the Official Learning Systems and CIMA’s Learning OutcomesOFFICIALLY ENDORSED BY CIMA AND WRITTEN BY LEADING CIMA TUTORS, THE EXAM PRACTICE KITS PROVIDE A VALUABLE INSIGHT ON HOW TO SCORE TOP MARKS

Cognitive Information Systems in Management Sciences

1st Edition
February 28, 2017
Lidia Dominika Ogiela
English
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Cognitive Information Systems in Management Sciences summarizes the body of work in this area, taking an analytical approach to interpreting the data, while also providing an approach that can be used for practical implementation in the fields of computing, economics, and engineering. Using numerous illustrative examples, and following both theoretical and practical results, Dr. Lidia Ogiela discusses the concepts and principles of cognitive information systems, the relationship between intelligent computer data analysis, and how to utilize computational intelligent approaches to enhance information retrieval. Real world implantation use cases round out the book, with valuable scenarios covering management science, computer science, and engineering. Indexing: The books of this series are submitted to EI-Compendex and SCOPUS