The Newness Advantage is a powerful devotional tool that enables people to understand a wide variety of truths purely from God's perspective. The book is deeply relational, highly personal and carries the same simple, practical and profound theology that Jesus used throughout the Gospels.
Medicare Advantage organizations (MAO) offer an alternative to Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) program. Payments to MAO are, in part, based on the revenue expenditures projections prior to the start of each contract year. On average, MAO projected they would spend 87% of their 2007 revenue on medical exp., 9% on non-med. exp., and that the remaining 4% would go to profits. The accuracy of MAO projections is important because these projections also affect the extent to which MA beneficiaries receive additional benefits not provided under FFS and the amounts beneficiaries pay in cost sharing and premiums. This report focuses on how MAO 2005 actual med. exp., non-med. exp., and profits compare to projections for the same year. Illus.
Cross-border business transactions have become increasingly important due to new norms of conducting business. Cross-border business has led to the emergence of multiple business opportunities and challenges to various stakeholders. Such global reality cannot simply be ignored; thus, business entities that operate across national borders need to fully employ global business strategies to compete and survive in the dynamic global environment. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Cross-Border Trade and Business captures a multi-faceted outlook on international business phenomena, particularly when cross-border businesses are severely affected by global crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This book discusses the perspectives of stakeholders from both developed and developing countries as they handled international crises including the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering topics such as knowledge acquisition, internationalization, and small and medium enterprises, this book is an essential resource for business executives, practitioners, policymakers, graduate and post-graduate students of government or business administration, professors, researchers, and academicians.
Nicole Zacharias identifies four different types of innovation orientation and shows that the most innovative companies are financially not the most successful. Furthermore, he investigates positive and negative customer responses to different dimensions of innovativeness as well as contingencies that might alter these linkages.
Anish Lalchandani provides reskilling strategies that align the organization and the individual’s needs – including practical application, agility, and building alliances for an ecosystem-based reskilling strategy. With case studies and practical steps, you will discover how skills are the new currency of work and pivotal in reskilling.
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