Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
Fundamentals of Effective Program Management
A Process Approach Based on the Global Standard
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Only a small percentage of projects are run in isolation. The majority of projects are conducted in groups under programs to maximize business and organizational objectives. Due to its proven benefits to organizations of all sizes, program management and the demand for resources on how to do it effectively...
Data-Driven Problem-Solving in International Business Communication
Examining the Use of Bilingual Web-Based Tools for Text Production with Advanced English as a Foreign Language Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This study challenges the traditional approach of focusing on English as a foreign language learning in international business settings. The primary objective in such settings is to successfully create a linguistically correct document. Rather than relying on accumulated incomplete individual language...
by David Houle
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to...
Preparing for a World that Doesn't Exist - Yet
Framing a Second Enlightenment to Create Communities of the Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Are you really ready for change? Are you prepared for a world changing as fast as you can read this sentence? Most leaders say they are prepared for the future, yet many organizations and communities are doing things in the same old way they’ve been working for decades. We’re living on the precipice...
The Agile Mind
How Your Brain Makes Creativity Happen
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
A publishing sensation in Argentina that has sold over 200,000 copies and topped the bestseller charts for a record-breaking two years, now available in English for the first time!
The Agile Mind is about the most precious mental talent we have: the ability to imagine things which have never...
by Andrew Davies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
What is a project? How are projects organized to deal with a complex, rapidly changing, and uncertain world? Why are projects the organization of the future? A project is a temporary organization and one-time process established to achieve a desired outcome. Projects range in size from small teams...
Kasinomics
African Informal Economies and the People Who Inhabit Them
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Kasinomi is a book as eclectic, mysterious and colourful as the places and people it explores. eKasi, the lokasie, the South African township, once an apartheid ghetto, is today an amazingly transformed place. This township today is an eclectic mix of mansions, shacks, spaza shops, rocking taverns,...
Epistemic Governance in Higher Education
Quality Enhancement of Universities for Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
“Epistemic governance” refers to the cognitive and knowledge-related paradigms that underlie a social system. In this volume, the authors apply the concept to higher education. In a comprehensive review of recent literature, they define key terms and concepts, arguing that a good, effective and...
Trees on Mars
Our Obsession with the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started...
by David Houle
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
We are leaving the Information Age and transitioning into the Shift Age, a time of transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. In Entering the Shift Age, David Houle identifies and explains the dynamics and forces that have shaped our world and will continue to...
Connected World
From Automated Work to Virtual Wars: The Future, By Those Who Are Shaping It
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The world as we know it is changing. Driverless cars, drone deliveries and autonomous weapon systems are no longer the stuff of science fiction.
But what's next for technology and business, and how will it impact our society?
In Connected World, Philip Larrey of the Pontifical Lateran...
Social Enterprises
An Organizational Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
Presents an organizational perspective of social enterprises, which allows us to analyze issues such as their governing structure, their modes of operation and their marketing strategies, and to begin to formulate some theoretical constructs on how these entities can survive and thrive.
Strategy That Works
How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
How to close the gap between strategy and execution
Two-thirds of executives say their organizations don’t have the capabilities to support their strategy. In Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why. They identify conventional business practices that unintentionally...
Time, Talent, Energy
Overcome Organizational Drag and Unleash Your Teams Productive Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Managing Your Scarcest Resources
Business leaders know that the key to competitive success is smart management of scarce resources. That's why companies allocate their financial capital so carefully. But capital today is cheap and abundant, no longer a source of advantage. The truly scarce...