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Book Insights from the Underside

Download or read book Insights from the Underside written by Neal D. Presa and published by Broadmind Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking The Iceberg Principle   Business Insights From The Bottom Up

Download or read book Rethinking The Iceberg Principle Business Insights From The Bottom Up written by Brian Daniel Young and published by Brian Daniel Young. This book was released on with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Outside Insight

Download or read book Outside Insight written by Jorn Lyseggen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your business looking out? The world today is drowning in data. There is a treasure trove of valuable and underutilized insights that can be gleaned from information companies and people leave behind on the internet - our 'digital breadcrumbs' - from job postings, to online news, social media, online ad spend, patent applications and more. As a result, we're at the cusp of a major shift in the way businesses are managed and governed - moving from a focus solely on lagging, internal data, toward analyses that also encompass industry-wide, external data to paint a more complete picture of a brand's opportunities and threats and uncover forward-looking insights, in real time. Tomorrow's most successful brands are already embracing Outside Insight, benefitting from an information advantage while their competition is left behind. Drawing on practical examples of transformative, data-led decisions made by brands like Apple, Facebook, Barack Obama and many more, in Outside Insight, Meltwater CEO Jorn Lyseggen illustrates the future of corporate decision-making and offers a detailed plan for business leaders to implement Outside Insight thinking into their company mindset and processes.

Book Petrochemical Machinery Insights

Download or read book Petrochemical Machinery Insights written by Heinz P Bloch and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrochemical Machinery Insights is a priceless collection of solutions and advice from Heinz Bloch on a broad range of equipment management themes, from wear to warranty issues, organizational problems and oil mist lubrication, and professional growth and pre-purchase of machinery. The author draws on his industry experience to hone in on important problems that do not get addressed in other books, providing actionable details that engineers can use. Mechanical, reliability, and process engineers will find this book the next best thing to having Heinz Bloch on speed dial. Focuses on pieces of hard-won experience from the industry that are rarely included in other books Presents not just a guide to technical problems, but also to crucial themes in management and organization Includes an informal and honest style, making author Heinz Bloch's 40 years of experience accessible to a broad audience of readers Contains a uniting theme that successful asset management requires the separation of application and implementation details

Book Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence

Download or read book Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence written by Elissa Mailänder and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did “ordinary women,” like their male counterparts, become capable of brutal violence during the Holocaust? Cultural historian Elissa Mailänder examines the daily work of twenty-eight women employed by the SS to oversee prisoners in the concentration and death camp Majdanek/Lublin in Poland. Many female SS overseers in Majdanek perpetrated violence and terrorized prisoners not only when ordered to do so but also on their own initiative. The social order of the concentration camp, combined with individual propensities, shaped a microcosm in which violence became endemic to workaday life. The author’s analysis of Nazi records, court testimony, memoirs, and film interviews illuminates the guards’ social backgrounds, careers, and motives as well as their day-to-day behavior during free time and on the “job,” as they supervised prisoners on work detail and in the cell blocks, conducted roll calls, and “selected” girls and women for death in the gas chambers. Scrutinizing interactions and conflicts among female guards, relations with male colleagues and superiors, and internal hierarchies, Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence shows how work routines, pressure to “resolve problems,” material gratification, and Nazi propaganda stressing guards’ roles in “creating a new order” heightened female overseers’ identification with Nazi policies and radicalized their behavior.

Book The Insights Advantage

Download or read book The Insights Advantage written by Marco Vriens and published by . This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAISE FOR THE INSIGHTS ADVANTAGE ..". this important work will provide the CEO with a blueprint on how to compete with smarter insights." -Thomas Harrison, chairman and CEO of Diversi ed Agency Services (DAS), an Omnicom Group Inc. division "Data and analytics are great, but only insofar as they yield insights. If you're serious about insight-driven marketing and sales, you'll read this book and apply its lessons. It's your rst step toward decisions based on valid and unique insights about your customers." -Thomas H. Davenport, President's Distinguished Professor, Babson College; coauthor of "Competing on Analytics and Analytics at Work" "Marco Vriens writes with authority and personal experience on the strategic advantage of validated insights. This approach will help the bottom line for businesses and business units of all sizes." -Christine Betts, general manager for Microsoft "In this period of innovation anemia and marketing data overload, Marco Vriens' skillfully written book shows marketers the necessity and manner of organizing corporate business insights, which are currently all too often hidden in plain sight. Read the book, adopt the approach, and prosper." -Simon Kooiman, CEO of Knowledge Networks "Marco Vriens lays out a blueprint for generating business-di erentiating insights and how to pro t from those insights. This unique book should be preferred reading for business decision-makers." -Sandra Miller, chief marketing o cer of Health Travel Technologies "Companies are literally swimming in data, but data without insight or action is just overhead. Marco Vriens unlocks some of the mysteries of how companies can turn raw data into insight for nancial gain. The principles in this book can bring a big advantage to your company!" -Tom Markert, senior vice president of marketing for The Home Depot "Finally, someone who possesses deep insight on insight has created a framework to help businesses extract, capture and manage insights. "The Insights Advantage" is the essential primer on business insight." -Daryl Travis, CEO of BrandTrust"

Book Dynamic Statutory Interpretation

Download or read book Dynamic Statutory Interpretation written by William N. Eskridge and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to traditional theories of statutory interpretation, which ground statutes in the original legislative text or intent, legal scholar William Eskridge argues that statutory interpretation changes in response to new political alignments, new interpreters, and new ideologies. It does so, first of all, because it involves richer authoritative texts than does either common law or constitutional interpretation: statutes are often complex and have a detailed legislative history. Second, Congress can, and often does, rewrite statutes when it disagrees with their interpretations; and agencies and courts attend to current as well as historical congressional preferences when they interpret statutes. Third, since statutory interpretation is as much agency-centered as judgecentered and since agency executives see their creativity as more legitimate than judges see theirs, statutory interpretation in the modern regulatory state is particularly dynamic. Eskridge also considers how different normative theories of jurisprudence--liberal, legal process, and antiliberal--inform debates about statutory interpretation. He explores what theory of statutory interpretation--if any--is required by the rule of law or by democratic theory. Finally, he provides an analytical and jurisprudential history of important debates on statutory interpretation.

Book Beyond the Algorithm

Download or read book Beyond the Algorithm written by Deepa Das Acevedo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qualitative empirical research reveals that the narratives and real-life experiences defining gig work have concrete implications for law.

Book Beneath the Neon

Download or read book Beneath the Neon written by Matthew O'Brien and published by Huntington Press Inc. This book was released on 2007-03-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas chronicles O’Brien’s adventures in subterranean Las Vegas. He follows the footsteps of a psycho killer. He braces against a raging flood. He parties with naked crackheads. He learns how to make meth, that art is most beautiful where it’s least expected, that in many ways, he prefers underground Las Vegas to aboveground Las Vegas, and that there are no pots of gold under the neon rainbow.

Book Reconsidering Social Constructionism

Download or read book Reconsidering Social Constructionism written by Gale Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the impact of social interactionist and ethnographic methodology twenty-five years ago, the research agenda in social problems began to shift its focus, giving rise to the Social Constructionism movement. The present volume and the related shorter text, Constructionist Controversies, review the substantial contributions made by social constructionist theorists over that period, as well as recent debates about the future of the perspective. These contributions redefine the purpose and central questions of social problems theory and articulate a research program for analyzing social problems as social constructions. A generation of theorists has been trained in the constructionist perspective and has extended it through numerous analyses of diverse aspects of contemporary social life.The debates in this volume pose fundamental questions about the major assumptions of the perspective, the ways in which it is practiced, and the purposes of social problems theory. Their point of departure is Ibarra and Kitsuse's essay, cutting new theoretical ground in calling for ""investigating vernacular resources, especially rhetorical forms, in the social problems process.""Contributors are forceful proponents both within and outside of the social constructionist community, who take a broad array of positions on the current state of social problems theory and on the rhetorical forms that need exploring. They also lay down the general lines for diverse and often competing programs for the future development of the constructionist agenda.

Book Consumer Insights 2 0

Download or read book Consumer Insights 2 0 written by Dona Vitale and published by Paramount Market Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consumer-goods companies need more than just traditional market research to make good strategic decisions. That's why many of them have created departments of consumer insights. This book reveals the characteristics of these new departments and their leaders. You'll discover how they contribute to customer knowledge that goes far beyond market research to help set strategy and develop new business opportunities.Based on her 20 years of experience, Dona Vitale outlines:-- Characteristics needed by consumer insights specialists-- Techniques that help develop the insights-- Presentation tips to help a whole company get on board with new ideas.Ms. Vitale also presents an enlightening case study from Dunkin' Donuts brand that makes it crystal clear how consumer insights can contribute to bottom line success.If you would like to be the market leader in your category or your company, this book will guide you every step of the way.

Book Lessons and Legacies of International Polar Year 2007 2008

Download or read book Lessons and Legacies of International Polar Year 2007 2008 written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2012-09-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) was an intense, coordinated field campaign of observations, research, and analysis. It was the largest, most comprehensive campaign ever mounted to explore Earth's polar domains. Legacies and Lessons of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 summarizes how IPY engaged the public to communicate the relevance of polar research to the entire planet, strengthened connections with the Indigenous people of the Arctic, and established new observational networks. Legacies and Lessons of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 also addresses the objectives articulated for IPY in the 2004 National Research Council report, A Vision for International Polar Year (NRC, 2004). These objectives include: suggestions for scientific communities and agencies to use the IPY to initiate a sustained effort aimed at assessing large-scale environmental change and variability in the polar regions, the need to explore new scientific frontiers from the molecular to the planetary scale, investment in critical infrastructure and technology to guarantee that IPY 2007-2008 leaves enduring benefits for the nation and for the residents of northern regions, as well as increase public understanding of the importance of polar regions in the global system. Legacies and Lessons of the International Polar Year 2007-2008 explains how activities at both poles led to scientific discoveries that provided a step change in scientific understanding and helped translate scientific knowledge into policy-relevant information. At a time when the polar regions are undergoing a transformation from an icy wilderness to a new zone for human affairs, these insights could not be more timely or more relevant. From outreach activities that engaged the general public to projects that brought researchers from multiple disciplines and several nations together, the legacies of IPY extend far beyond the scientific results achieved, and valuable lessons learned from the process will guide future endeavors of similar magnitude.

Book Insight

Download or read book Insight written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives on Theory U  Insights from the Field

Download or read book Perspectives on Theory U Insights from the Field written by Gunnlaugson, Olen and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together an existing array of research on Theory U, including specific aspects of the theory, through diverse interpretations and contexts while exploring key theoretical concepts and outlining current approaches and blind spots"--Provided by publisher.

Book A Companion to Japanese History

Download or read book A Companion to Japanese History written by William M. Tsutsui and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies

Book COVID 19 in Southeast Asia

Download or read book COVID 19 in Southeast Asia written by Hyun Bang Shin and published by LSE Press. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes.

Book A Different Universe

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert B Laughlin
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2008-07-31
  • ISBN : 0786722185
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book A Different Universe written by Robert B Laughlin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel-winning physicist argues that fundamental physical laws are found not in the world of atoms, but in the macroscopic world around us In this age of superstring theories and Big Bang cosmology, we're used to thinking of the unknown as impossibly distant from our everyday lives. But in A Different Universe, Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin argues that the scientific frontier is right under our fingers. Instead of looking for ultimate theories, Laughlin considers the world of emergent properties-meaning the properties, such as the hardness and shape of a crystal, that result from the organization of large numbers of atoms. Laughlin shows us how the most fundamental laws of physics are in fact emergent. A Different Universe is a truly mind-bending book that shows us why everything we think about fundamental physical laws needs to change.