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Author: Charles-Edouard Bouée
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1472903854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroducing a pioneering road-map for adaptable, post-strategic business organisations that places vision and tactics over strategy.
Author: Susan Meredith
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1934572071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe number one problem in our world today is effective energy management--the energy that fuels our buildings and propels our vehicles as well as our human energy. But if individuals, governments, and corporations take action now, we can have a bright energy future. In Beyond Light Bulbs, Susan Meredith helps readers move beyond the gloom, doom, and overwhelm of global warming and the energy crisis. She offers hopeful and helpful advice for actions we can all take to improve our future. Straightforward and clear, the book offers a complete an comprehensive overview of energy in layman's terms, while giving concrete examples of how you can contribute and benefit.
Author: Roberto Lopez (Ph.D.)
Publisher:
Published: 2017-04-04
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781544254494
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has changed and improved in lighting technology over the past 10 years since industry-leading experts on lighting, in collaboration with Greenhouse Grower(r) magazine and Meister Media Worldwide, brought you Lighting Up Profits (Fisher and Runkle, 2004).This updated and substantially expanded book presents the underlying biology of how light influences plant growth and development of specialty crops, especially those grown in greenhouses and controlled-environment growth rooms. Authors Dr. Erik Runkle of Michigan State University and Dr. Roberto Lopez of Michigan State University, along with 19 other leading plant scientists from around the globe, discuss technology options for shade and lighting, including the latest developments in greenhouse and sole-source lighting.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Oliver Mack
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-07-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 3319168894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) and addresses the need for broader knowledge and application of new concepts and frameworks to deal with unpredictable and rapid changing situations. The premises of VUCA can shape all aspects of an organization. To cover all areas, the book is divided into six sections. Section 1 acts as an introduction to VUCA and complexity. It reviews ways to manage complexity, while providing examples for tools and approaches that can be applied. The main focus of Section 2 is on leadership, strategy and planning. The chapters in this section create new approaches to handle VUCA environments pertaining to these areas including using the Tetralemma logics, tools from systemic structural constellation (SySt) approach of psychotherapy and organizational development, to provide new ideas for the management of large strategic programs in organizations. Section 3 considers how marketing and sales are affected by VUCA, from social media’s influence to customer value management. Operations and cost management are highlighted in Section 4. This section covers VUCA challenges within global supply chains and decision-oriented controlling. In Section 5 organizational structure and process management are showcased, while Section 6 is dedicated to addressing the effects of VUCA in IT, technology and data management. The VUCA forces present businesses with the need to move from linear modes of thought to problem solving with synthetic and simultaneous thinking. This book should help to provide some starting points and ideas to deal with the next era. It should not be understood as the end of the road, but as the beginning of a journey exploring and developing new concepts for a new way of management.
Author: Charles-Edouard Bouée
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-11-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1472948254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has long been assumed that, in the development of any organization, the time for entrepreneurial activity is right at the beginning. Once an organization is established, qualities that were virtues in the organization's start-up and early stages can become vices, and the entrepreneurial founders must cede control to professional managers who can nurture the fruits of their original vision more efficiently. One unintended consequence of this assumption is that large, established organizations tend to be entrepreneur-free zones. Entrepreneurial thinking is tacitly discouraged because it can create novelty, and novelty is a threat to established organizations with large market shares. Re-entrepreneuring argues that organizations must revive the entrepreneurial out-look of their founders in order to survive in today's market. In an organization that encourages and nurtures an entrepreneurial outlook, everyone has the potential to unleash their inner entrepreneur and bring new and dynamic ways of thinking into their work environment. It has more to do with the ways of thinking encouraged by the organizational culture than by any inherent differences in talent or aptitude. The solution presented in this new book from ROLAND BERGER, edited by CharlesEdouard Bouée and Stefan Schaible, is piecemeal yet targeted 're-entrepreneuring'. With the help of international case studies and first-hand testimony from business leaders, the authors show how the entrepreneurial approach can be applied to any organization and at all levels, in order to spark innovation, remove operational obstacles and – ultimately – to create new value.
Author: T.S. Chan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-11
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1137488875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAsian Businesses in a Turbulent Environment explores how Asian firms cope with challenges such as globalization, regional conflict, pressure for greater democracy and environmental protection, and the impact that rising above these challenges will have in their growth prospects.
Author: Vanina Farber
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-17
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1000225984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSocial entrepreneurship and impact investing contribute to a more inclusive capitalism and bring innovative solutions to global challenges, such as fighting poverty and protecting planet earth. This book offers practical advice on how to best integrate entrepreneurship and capital for impact and innovation by using elea’s philanthropic investing approach to fight absolute poverty with entrepreneurial means as an example. Written by two leading experts, the book summarizes insights from elea’s 15-year pioneering journey, from creating an investment organization, choosing purposeful themes, and sourcing opportunities, to partnering with entrepreneurs for impact creation. This includes suggestions on how to lead impact enterprises in such areas as developing strategies, plans, and models; building effective teams and organizations; managing resources; and handling crises. Using real-life examples, this is valuable reading for entrepreneurs, investors, executives, philanthropists, policymakers, and anyone curious about entrepreneurship and inclusive capitalism.
Author: Nora Roehner
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781479102280
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates efforts of the international community to keep peace and rebuild states after these have overcome internal war. Over the past 20+ years, UN peace missions have gradually become more ambitious, with an increasing number of military and civilian peacebuilders on the ground who take on a wide range of responsibilities. Contradicting calls for ever more international commitment to post-war countries, the author argues that more of everything is not in all cases the appropriate approach and does not necessarily produce better outcomes in terms of security and statehood in war-torn countries. The uniqueness of this study is that it puts mission intrusiveness into perspective. It finds that what matters is the context in which UN peace missions are deployed, specifically the intensity of the previous war, the local demand for peacebuilding, and level of socio-economic development. Deployed in unfavorable contexts, highly intrusive peace missions can actually do more harm than good, while 'light footprint' missions can be very successful in favorable contexts. The study provides empirical evidence for these findings by conducting a thorough statistical analysis of 22 UN peacebuilding missions. To validate the results of the statistical analysis, case studies of Kosovo and Liberia look at the interaction processes between international and domestic actors to explain peacebuilding success or failure. This piece of work makes an indispensable theoretical and empirical contribution to the current debate on the effectiveness of external interventions after civil war and on appropriate peacebuilding strategies.
Author: Rob Aldrich
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-09-16
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0470943882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtend Your Energy Management Capabilities Managing energy usage via a company network allows you to create an energy management program that can be scaled company-wide, and this unique book shows you just how to do it. Through step-by-step instruction and real-world case studies drawn from the expert author team's own experience at Cisco, this book lays out an IP-based energy management strategy to optimize resources, dramatically increase energy savings, and significantly reduce your carbon footprint. How do you establish energy management across multiple functions, such as compute, network, and storage while preparing for building infrastructure convergence? How do you set up energy domains on a network? How do you bring this all together into one unified energy program then deploy it, manage it, and measure results? Find the answers in this timely guide. Consider energy in terms of risk, cost, and resource management Gather raw data on where your company is now and set up benchmarking Create strategies across multiple stakeholders and goals, including facilities, IT, security, and sustainability Establish and administer energy domains Review the basics of energy accounting, measure results, and set up reporting See how to make your program sustainable and prepare for the future
