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  • Managing Business Complexity

    Discovering Strategic Solutions with Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation

    Agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS), a way to simulate a large number of choices by individual actors, is one of the most exciting practical developments in business modeling since the invention of relational databases. It represents a new way to understand data and generate information that has never been available before--a way for businesses to view the future and to understand and ... Read more

    $137.69 USD

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  • Competitive Advantage

    Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance

    Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Effective Meetings

    Meetings are an integral part of leadership and management and may be the most important vehicle for collaboration, discussion, decision-making, and action. A well-run meeting is efficient, productive, and energizing for its participants. On the other hand, a poorly run meeting can be frustrating, unproductive, demoralizing—and a big waste of valuable time. When you learn effective ways to plan ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Innovation

    New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA

    A clear, practical guide to implementing Open Innovation for new product developmentOpen Innovation: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA is a comprehensive guide to the theory and practice of the Open Innovation method. Written by experts from the Product Development and Management Association, the book packages a collection of Open Innovation tools in a digestible and actionable ... Read more

    $56.00 USD

  • Valuing and Selling Your Business

    A Quick Guide to Cashing In

    by Tim McDaniel ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In Valuing and Selling Your Business: A Quick Guide to Cashing In, author and valuation expert Tim McDaniel, a veteran of over 2,000 valuation engagements and dozens of M&A deals, covers the essentials in a short value-packed book of valuing and selling your business for an acceptable price. And if the valuation doesn't suggest the price you have in mind is possible, McDaniel shows you how to ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Army Doctrine Publication ADP 3-0 (FM 3-0) Unified Land Operations October 2011

    When we published Change 1 to the 2008 edition of (Field Manual) FM 3-0, we captured the most critical lessons of almost ten years of sustained land combat. In this edition, we not only reflect on the past but also look to an uncertain future. Army Doctrine Publication (ADP) 3-0, Unified Land Operations, provides a common operational concept for a future in which Army forces must be prepared to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Cut the Crap and Close the Gap

    The Urgency of Delivering Desired Results

    by Jim Coleman ...
    Cut the Crap and Close the Gap is written by a Hog Farmer, Fortune 500 Executive and Economic Developer. It's a practical operating guide for achieving breakthrough levels of performance by closing performance gaps between actual and desired performance and adjusting to exceed expectations. The principles of Cut the Crap and Close the Gap can be used by small and large businesses, not for profit ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Targeting the Foreign Direct Investor

    Strategic Motivation, Investment Size, and Developing Country Investment-Attraction Packages

    Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is one avenue for offering assistance to developing countries in their efforts to grow. Small countries typically have limited resources to direct toward investment attraction programs, so the ability to segment the market (of Multinational Corporations looking to invest) is a crucial skill. This book develops and employs an investment preference analysis model to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Reality of M&A Governance

    Transforming Board Practice for Success

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Empirical research shows that two thirds – some claim even four fifths – of all acquisitions fail. Bad acquisitions can spell disaster for a company, but if successful, they can lead to healthy growth, enhanced competitiveness and a world market position. Despite the vast amount of academic and practical research on M&A, there are still no adequate theories to explain this continued trend of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Factor X

    Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The editors of Factor X explore and analyze this trajectory, predicting scarcities of non-renewable materials such as metals, limited availability of ecological capacities and shortages arising from geographic concentrations of materials. They argue that what is needed is a radical change in the ways we use nature’s resources to produce goods and services and generate well-being. The goal of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Contracts for Engineers

    Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics

    by Robert Hunter ...
    Engineers encounter different types of contracts at nearly every turn in their careers. Contracts for Engineers: Intellectual Property, Standards, and Ethics is a tool to enhance their ability to communicate contractual issues to lawyers—and then better understand the legal advice they receive.Building on its exploration of contracts, this book expands discussion to:Patents, copyrights, trademarks ... Read more

    $135.00 USD

  • Sustainable Management

    Coping with the Dilemmas of Resource-Oriented Management

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    In this book, a resource-oriented perception of sustainable management is presented. Firms that decide to act more sustainable have to bear in mind that they do not only need resources for economic activities today, but that they will need these tomorrow as well. This leads to contradictory management rationalities firms must deal with. The author presents his findings as regards the development ... Read more

    $49.49 USD