This is a streamlined version of de Wit and Meyer's successful text, Strategy: Process, Content, Context. It contains a range of articles with text contextualising the debates around key issues, allowing a wide range of views to be explored within each debate.
This is an action-oriented book for managers and entrepreneurs searching ways to tackle issues they face in terms of developing and delivering services. The book focuses on service organizations, but has a broad interpretation of what services are. Directed to the business world and combines inspirational text that is full of examples, with the features of a useful handbook of practical methods with associated templates. The central argument is that managers and entrepreneurs designing servic...
Application Modernisation - Strategies for Embracing Current and Future Technologies
by Martin Butler, Teresa Jones, Alan Lawson, and Mike Thompson
Manager's Guide to Iso22301, A: A Practical Guide to Developing and Implementing a Business Continuity Management System
by Tony Drewitt
Building Teams for Your Small Business (Crisp Small Business)
by MADDUX
Creative Ways to Fund your Small Business in Today's Economy
by John DeGaetano
Energy has always been and important ingredient for the economic and social progress of human society, although the form in which energy is used has undergone a phenomenal change. Energy security relates to economic security in the context of energy decision making. In modern society, energy has become more global in nature. The ever-increasing integration of energy markets across the globe spreads the security concern from one sector and country to another. The papers in this volume deal with l...
Dieses zweibändige Handbuch vermittelt die systemtechnischen Grundlagen und den technischen Entwicklungsstand der Bereiche Materialfluss und Logistik. Der erste Band behandelt zunächst die Bereiche der Entwicklung und Eingrenzung von Fördertechnik, Materialflusstechnik, Intralogistik und technischer Logistik. Diese beinhalten die Beschaffungs-, Produktions-, Distributions- und Entsorgungslogistik. Eingegangen wird ebenfalls auf die wirtschaftliche und volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Logistik...
Constructive Change: Managing International Technology Transfer (International Construction Management S., No 5)
by Derek Miles
The Lost Art of Banking (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions)
by Aisling Tuite
This Palgrave Pivot explores the recent financial crisis from a new perspective. Reflecting on 40 years of banking experiences, the book will open new avenues to understanding banking and comment on possible ways to rehabilitate banking organisations. In 1965 the Bank of Ireland received a consultancy report from McKinsey & Company, which heralded a new phase in banking practice and organisation. In the years that followed, the Bank of Ireland opened up its once traditional culture to outside i...
In recent years, corporate accounting scandals have received considerable media attention, raising concerns about unethical practice in the business world. Faced with a decline in society's trust in business, research into the ethics of organisations and their leaders is now of critical importance. In this timely book, Ericson focuses on the moral human agency involved in business by leading the reader through the full span of the activities involved in coffee production, from-bean-to-cup. Illus...
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Human Resource Development
This handbook presents an expansive exploration of critical theory, critical perspectives, critical praxis, and the impact on the research, theory, and practice of Human Resource Development (HRD). Critical Human Resource Development (CHRD) aims to challenge the normative structures, practices, policies, definitions, and approaches which have historically dominated the field of Human Resource Development (HRD). As an approach to HRD, CHRD raises awareness of social systems, organizational polici...
This study text is applicable for the December 2001 and June 2002 examinations. Features include: CIM syllabus; guidance notes extracts; scene-setting chapter introductions; key concepts; action programmes; chapter round-ups; and "marketing at work" real-life examples. BPP liaise closely with the senior examiners to ensure that the study texts contain complete syllabus coverage. This edition has been updated in the light of an in-depth review by the CIM.
Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works
by Pauline Rafferty and Rob Hidderley
Indexing and information retrieval work properly only if language and interpretation are shared by creator and user. This is more complex for non-verbal media. The authors of Indexing Multimedia and Creative Works explore these challenges against a background of different theories of language and communication, particularly semiotics, questioning the possibility of ideal multimedia indexing. After surveying traditional approaches to information retrieval (IR) and organization in relation to iss...
Identity 2.0 looks at current and future issues that influence businesses, institutions, and service-oriented organizations. The book connects identity as the driving force behind everything from innovation and change processes to social and economic topics--all illustrated with case-studies and opinions of creative and business companies.
In Hindsight
What causes disasters? In this book, the authors analyse the causes of some of the major disasters from the last thirty years and explain what could have been done better, before and after the event. Unlike many titles on business continuity and disaster recovery, In Hindsight: A compendium of Business Continuity case studies does not build up from the theory of business continuity planning. Instead, it takes apart real events such as Hurricane Katrina, the terrorist attacks in London, Madrid an...