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Internationalization is a strategic issue for companies as it is today the central axis for the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Market expansion and the growing importance of emerging markets offer new development opportunities for SMEs to use innovative strategies - such...

Every day,  Main Street businesses wrestle with the challenge of finding the cash to finance growth or use as working capital. The local banker often wants a credit score of 720, three or more years in business, and a fat savings account. No wonder local bankers approve only 10% of loan applications. Getting...

Despite the traditional opposition between play and work, games and their structure are increasingly used in workplaces. This phenomenon of using game elements or mechanisms in other contexts than games is named “gamification”. In workplaces, the gamification is supposed to abolish the separation...

At a time when organisations are expected to deliver more with less, the ability to extract latent potential, and grow intelligence and capability is a major competitive advantage. Several indicators suggest we have not really tapped into the human potential lying dormant in our organisations. How many...

During the 1990s, the workplace was rediscovered as a rich source of learning. The issue of workplace learning has since received increasing attention from academics and practitioners alike but is still under-researched empirically. This book brings together a range of state-of-the-art research papers...

Why should you, a competent software developer or programmer, care about your own brand? After all, it’s not like you're an actor or musician. In fact, as Success in Programming: How to Gain Recognition, Power, and Influence Through Personal Branding demonstrates in many ways, it’s never...

University Startups and Spin-Offs teaches university students, researchers, and educators the most effective strategies and tactics for launching their own startups from academic platforms with the backing of school programs, public grants, incubators, seed accelerators, and private partnerships in...

There are a lot of bad guys out there. For some odd reason, a lot of them seem to want to break into your company's networks and applications. As the CIO, it's your job to make sure that this does not happen. Got any thoughts on how to go about doing that?What You'll Find Inside:*...

The job of an IT manager is constantly changing. The technologies that we used to use are now gone. The technologies that we use today will eventually go away. This means that we need to make sure that we are constantly aware of what new technologies are coming our way and what our teams will be able...

Volete affrontare gli eventi della vita senza ansie e incertezze? Ecco finalmente delle tecniche per riuscirci... con semplicità

Ci dice l’autore: “…ho fatto una scelta in base a una doppia chiave: romanzi interessanti scritti da autori dei quali sia anche bello raccontare la vita. Grandi autori e grandi romanzi, ma non necessariamente: si può trarre stimolo e insegnamento anche da un libro giallo, dalla narrativa sbrigativamente...

Un arsenale di tecniche e idee per conseguire (o ritrovare) successo duraturo anche in mercati maturi! Frutto di una pluriennale esperienza di consulenza strategica in Booz & Company (dove gli autori hanno collaborato con molte aziende in momenti di crisi e di trasformazione del business).

Nelle Strutture Sanitarie italiane, lo «Zero Difetti» è ancora lontano. Come dimostrano i successi nelle strutture americane, con il Sistema Toyota si può ridurre gli sprechi e migliorare la qualità dei servizi. È una rivoluzione basata su due strumenti, «la Mappa del Flusso del Valore» e «la Settimana Kaizen», per un miglioramento rapido e continuo.

Questo lavoro costituisce una sintetica e accessibile introduzione allo studio delle organizzazioni umane e produttive; intende offrire una riflessione originale e agevole sull’analisi organizzativa e sui principali approcci allo studio delle organizzazioni. Con approccio sociologico e attenzione...