Download or read book Developing Innovative Organizations written by B. Gailly and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to the captains and coaches of innovation, this book disucsses in depth the capabilities organizations must develop if they want to grow and compete in an innovation-intensive environment

Download or read book Making Games written by Stefan Werning and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive medium. In Making Games, Stefan Werning considers the role of tools (primarily but not exclusively software), their design affordances, and the role they play as sociotechnical actors. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies, Werning argues that production tools shape the aesthetics and political economy of games as an expressive medium. He frames game-making as a (meta)game in itself and shows that tools, like games, have their own "procedural rhetoric" and should not always be conceived simply in terms of optimization and best practices.

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Download or read book The John Mauldin Classics Collection written by John Mauldin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three bestselling works from noted investment advisor John Mauldin in one handy e-book collection Renowned investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author John Mauldin is one of the most well-known and admired economic observers anywhere and a trusted name for millions of investors. In this all-in-one e-book collection, three of Mauldin's biggest selling and most important titles are available together for the first time. In Bull's Eye Investing, Mauldin uses six different perspectives on the markets to prepare investors for a profitable future In Just One Thing, Mauldin offers a shortcut to prosperity with personal guidance from a selection of highly-regarded financial experts, each of whom provide their single most useful piece of advice In Endgame, Mauldin argues that rather than slowly recovering from the current financial crisis, the world economy is entering a period in which governments, rather than households, will experience extreme financial "restructuring"

Download or read book Just One Thing written by John Mauldin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Just One Thing, author John Mauldin offers an incomparable shortcut to prosperity: the personal guidance of an outstanding group of recognized financial experts, each offering the single most useful piece of advice garnered from years of investing. Conversational rather than technical in tone, each contributor’s personal principle for success is illustrated with entertaining and illuminating real-life stories.

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Download or read book Stolen Bases written by Jennifer Ring and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at the history of women's exclusion from America's national pastime

Download or read book Changing the Rules of the Game written by S. Hotho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The computer games industry is one of the most vibrant industries today whose potential for growth seems inexhaustible. This book adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and captures emerging trends as well as the issues and challenges faced by businesses, their managers and their workforce in the games industry.

Download or read book 5 Elements of Organizational Excellence written by Dr. Ashutosh Paturkar and published by Avisha Prakashan. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Elements of Organizational Excellence discusses various Strategies, Structures, Systems, Resources and Relationships (3Ss & 2Rs) to improve the output of the organization. Growth of the organization depends on the Quality of the output, the Quantity the organization manufactures to be financially viable, and its Quickness in responding to the dynamic external environment (3Qs). These 3Ss and 2Rs help an organization to improve its performance on these three Qs.

Download or read book Sustainable Development Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To maintain a healthy ecosystem for contemporary society, and for future generations, policies must be implemented to protect the environment. This can be achieved by consistent evaluation of new initiatives and strategies. Sustainable Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive source of scholarly information on the latest research for sustainability concerns across a multidisciplinary perspective. Highlighting a broad range of innovative topics such as renewable energy, urban development, and green technologies, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for academics, researchers, professionals, students, and practitioners interested in the preservation of the environment.

Download or read book Digital Scale written by Anand Swaminathan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A blueprint for reinventing the core of your business Value in the next phase of the digital era will go to those companies that don't just try digital but also scale it. Digital@Scale examines what it takes for companies to break through the gravitational pull of their legacy organizations and capture the full value of digital. Digging into more than fifty detailed case studies and years of McKinsey experience and data, the authors, along with a group of expert contributors, show how companies can move beyond incremental change to transform the business where the greatest value is generated—at its core. The authors provide practical insights into the three pillars of digital transformations that successfully scale: reinventing the business model, building out a business architecture from the customer back into the organization, and establishing an 'amoeba' IT and organizational foundation that learns and evolves. This is the ideal guide for all leaders who recognize the power and promise of a digital transformation.

Download or read book The Harmonization of International Commercial Law written by Silvia Fazio and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface. 1. The World Scenario and the Approximation of Law. 2. Vehicles for the Harmonisation of Law. 3. Regionalisation and Standardisation of Law. 4. Regional Corporate Law Harmonisation: The EU and the Mercosur. 5. The Infrastructure of Capital. 6. The Phenomenon of Development: International and Regional Approaches to Banking and Financial Law. 7. Theories of the Company. 8. Corporate Governance. 9. International Legal Standards and the Inclusion of Emerging Countries in the Globalised Order: The Case Study of Brazil. 10. Conclusion: Legal Pluralism and the Creation of Standards within the Process of Globalisation¿Analytical Summary and Theoretical and Practical Implications. Bibliography.

Download or read book Workforce Development Politics written by Robert Giloth and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at local efforts to improve job training.

Download or read book Regional Development in Northern Europe written by Mike Danson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on work from across northern Europe and is parallel and complementary to the network itself. By establishing an intellectual and practically orientated framework and platform, and by bringing together contributions defining the state-of-the-art and potential development paths in the field, it is the first volume to offer a systematic and scientific view from the periphery.

Download or read book The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation written by Philip McCann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smart specialisation is the new policy approach to the development of regional innovation systems across Europe and it involves fostering innovative and entrepreneurial initiatives which are well tailored to the local context. The different technologies, skills profiles, business activities, institutions and sectors which reflect a region’s economic strengths and potential are to be fostered and encouraged to diversify in ways which also exploit the region’s linkages with broader global value-chains. Yet, the ideas contained in the smart specialisation agenda have until now been primarily conceptual in nature. The Empirical and Institutional Dimensions of Smart Specialisation draws together some of the leading regional economists and scientists in Europe to analyse how smart specialisation is working in practice. This book investigates different dimensions of the agenda as it is developing across parts of Europe from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. The quantitative analysis examines the nature of the diversification processes undertaken by regions and the interplay between the chosen local regional development priorities and the wider global value-chain impacts of these choices. Meanwhile, the qualitative analysis examines the institutional opportunities and challenges facing policy makers and the key elements most likely to provide the underpinnings of a workable set of policy settings. The book is aimed both at academic researchers interested in the interface between economic geography and regional innovation systems as well as at policy makers making public policy decisions related to regional development at the local, city, regional or national levels.