Download or read book The Marina Sustainable Solutions for a Profitable Business written by Dr.Ralf Heron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is essential reading for anyone engaged in the multi-billion dollar marina industry. Everyone, whether experienced marina operator, designer, developer or indeed anyone with an interest in refurbishing an existing property will find a wealth of information within the chapters. Readers are provided with a snapshot of the marina industry today and a look at tomorrow's information technology developments that will be pivotal to the success of the marina of the future. It gives detailed information on what a marina developer/designer should consider, when designing a new marina. In addition to compiling data that will be not found elsewhere - including global marina maps (showing 17300 marinas), the book explores in some depth the environmental issues in siting and designing marinas. This Book is been used as the primary textbook, by the University of IZMIR, for the 2 year course Marina Management and Sustainability.
Download or read book Marinas Sustainable Solutions for a Profitable Business written by Ralf Heron Wael Juju and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARINAS-Sustainable Solutions for a Profitable Business deserves a place on the desk and is essential reading material for any marina developer or operator. It gives a take on today's thought leadership that will become the benchmark for tomorrow's new and refurbished marinas.The first in a series, this book examines what is happening in today's marinas and explores the horizons of new technology and how they can be successfully applied to the business model.The authors demonstrate throughout the book how marinas that embrace the ethos of hospitality and design their facilities to provide an exceptional customer will be those that succeed.The book examines how marinas impact the environment, how they can be designed to blend with ecologically sensitive sites and the advent of the "green and clean" marina.It contains hitherto uncollected information and maps showing the location of the world's 17,300 marinas. With levels of detailed information not to be found anywhere in a single source, this book is one that no serious marina developer, owner or operator can afford to leave out of their library.
Download or read book Supply Chain Sustainability written by Sachin Kumar Mangla and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chains are significant in improving business efficiency. Sustainable supply chains help industries enhance their ecological, monetary, and social performance. Innovative research frameworks as well as the modelling of sustainability issues are significant to different stakeholder’s perspectives. This book guides researchers and practitioners through developing effective sustainable supply chains to meet UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Download or read book Sustainable Solutions written by Cosmas Sikahala and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-18 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, I simplify and operationalize the concept of sustainability. I demonstrate how embracing the tenets of sustainable solutions in an organization can lead to profitability while ensuring the needs of future generations are protected. Several companies have implemented sustainable solutions in their daily business operations. Microsoft, Trane, Cisco, Coca-Cola, and Nissan North America are some of the companies that have incorporated sustainable technologies such as using solar power, fuel-efficient vehicles, going paperless, lean workforce among others to stay profitable. I integrate the concept of sustainability by identifying key stakeholders of sustainable solutions. Additionally, there is an in-depth analysis of value chain and fitness landscape analyses of business operations, including a Boid analysis, General force matrix analysis, SWOT analysis, and Life cycle analysis assessment. The conclusions are geared towards providing an understanding of how these concepts fit together. This book is for advanced learners who are interested in business strategy and innovation that incorporates sustainable solutions as part of their strategic competitive advantage.
Download or read book Sustainable Concrete Solutions written by Costas Georgopoulos and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges facing humanity in the 21st century include climate change, population growth, overconsumption of resources, overproduction of waste and increasing energy demands. For construction practitioners, responding to these challenges means creating a built environment that provides accommodation and infrastructure with better whole-life performance using lower volumes of primary materials, less non-renewable energy, wasting less and causing fewer disturbances to the natural environment. Concrete is ubiquitous in the built environment. It is therefore essential that it is used in the most sustainable way so practitioners must become aware of the range of sustainable concrete solutions available for construction. While sustainable development has been embedded into engineering curricula, it can be difficult for students and academics to be fully aware of the innovations in sustainable construction that are developed by the industry. Sustainable Concrete Solutions serves as an introduction to and an overview of the latest developments in sustainable concrete construction. It provides useful guidance, with further references, to students, researchers, academics and practitioners of all construction disciplines who are faced with the challenge of designing, specifying and constructing with concrete.
Download or read book Secrets to Sustainable Solutions written by Lisa Blackburn-Ullven and published by Richter Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book RESTART Sustainable Business Model Innovation written by Sveinung Jørgensen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the business model as point of departure, this open access book explores how companies and organizations can contribute to a more sustainable future by designing innovative models that are both sustainable and profitable. Based upon years of research, it draws together theoretical foundations and existing literature on the topic of sustainable business alongside case studies and practical solutions. After examining the theoretical foundations of sustainable business model innovation, the authors present their own framework – RESTART. Consisting of seven factors, this framework can be the basis for restarting any business model. The final section outlines a research agenda for sustainable business informed by the perspectives and frameworks put forward in this book.
Download or read book Sustainable Solutions for a Successful Business written by Enid Thompson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book was to analyze the Starbucks Corporation's sustainability in the coffee industry. This report contains two competitive firms in the coffee industry. This sustainable solutions report (SSR) contains (a) stakeholder identification and value analysis, (b) enterprise level strategy, (c) organizational culture, (d) integrated concepts from reading, evidence, and implications, (e) general forces analysis, (f) economics, (g) technology, (i) demographics/ social/culture. The concentration of this SSR addresses the gap between the Starbucks Corporation's ability to design and implement sustainable value creation strategies for increasing profitability and maximizing shareholder value.
Download or read book Secrets to Sustainable Solutions written by Lisa Blackburn-Ullven and published by Richter Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone is dealt a 'deck of cards' at birth. That deck can represent people's personalities as much as disparate situations. Each card/person has a role to play in the game of life. Interdependence is key to our individual and collective survival, whether it's finding one's professional niche, handling difficult customers, or developing creative ideas to stop climate change. Everything and everybody affects each other. Building from the principle that we often exist in solitary 'silos, ' Ullven provides 180 Silo Secrets which readers can immediately apply in their daily lives. She helps readers identify their "superpowers" and use those to impact their personal lives, professional lives, and local communities. Perhaps most importantly, she emphasizes that no one person can do it all, nor should anyone attempt to do so. We're all part of a greater whole and the tools she's provided, ranging from personality assessments to top ten lists of tips, aim to help people feel empowered, rather than overwhelmed.
Download or read book The Business and Management of Ocean Cruises written by Michael Vogel and published by CABI. This book was released on 2012 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After decades of solid growth, the worldwide ocean cruise sector has become a noticeable economic factor and a significant employer. In the way it combines social, technological and natural systems to form its products, cruise tourism is an increasingly attractive area of study; particularly with regards to the managerial challenges posed by the interaction of these systems. This book brings together industry know-how, managerial experience and academic rigour to cover some of the most important and interesting managerial challenges associated with ocean cruises.
Download or read book Ethical Profit A Guide to Increasing Profit Using Sustainable Business Practices written by Samantha Richardson and published by Writing Pixels Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-11 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you sort through the myriad of "green" advice available to find what works for you and your business? So many small businesses are paralyzed, without guidance on what to do, how decisions impact the environment, and where to even start. In Ethical Profit, Samantha Richardson has done the work for you. Outlining changes from small to large, she provides the "how to" that will break the paralysis and jump start you, and your business, into action. And she does it by destroying the myth that environmentalism is costly. Ethical Profit will revolutionize your business while increasing your profit. Drawing on experiences, interviews, and case studies across industries and geographies, Ethical Profit contains something for everyone. Recognizing there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, Richardson provides examples and solutions that can be mixed-and-matched to address your business's unique challenges. The time to change is now and Ethical Profit shows you how to do it.
Download or read book Sustainability in the Maritime Domain written by Angela Carpenter and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-29 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores options for a sustainable maritime domain, including maritime transportation, such as, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), maritime education and training, maritime traffic and advisory systems, maritime security. Other activities in the maritime domain covered in the book include small-scale fisheries and sustainable fisheries, and greening the blue economy. The book aims to provide the building blocks needed for a framework for good ocean governance; a framework that will serve through the next decade and, and hopefully, well beyond the 2030 milepost of the UN Agenda for Sustainable Development. In short, this book brings together the problems of the current world and sustainable solutions that are in the development process and will eventually materialize in the not so distant future. Additionally, the book presents a trans-disciplinary analysis of integral sustainable maritime transportation solutions and crucial issues relevant to good ocean governance that have recently been discussed at different national, regional and international fora, highlighting ongoing work to develop and support governance systems that facilitate industry requirements, and meet the needs of coastal states and indigenous peoples, of researchers, of spatial planners, and of other sectors dependent on the oceans. The book will be of interest to researchers across many disciplines, especially those that are engaged in cross-sectoral research and developments in the maritime transport sector and across the wider maritime domain. To this end, the book covers areas including natural and social sciences, geographical studies, spatial planning, maritime security and gender studies, as they relate to transport and the wider maritime sector. In addition, the book explores frameworks for sustainable ocean governance being developed under the UN’s Agenda for Sustainable Development to 2030. It will also look beyond the 2030 milepost under that Agenda, and will be of use to national and international policymakers and practitioners, government actors at the EU and other regional and national levels and to researchers of ocean governance, sustainability and management, and maritime transport.
Download or read book Visions for Global Tourism Industry written by Murat Kasimoglu and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2012-04-18 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have been witnessing huge competition among the organisations in the business world. Companies, NGO's and governments are looking for innovative ways to compete in the global tourism market. In the classical literature of business the main purpose is to make a profit. However, if purpose only focus on the profit it will not to be easy for them to achieve. Nowadays, it is more important for organisations to discover how to create a strong strategy in order to be more competitive in the marketplace. Increasingly, organisations have been using innovative approaches to strengthen their position. Innovative working enables organisations to make their position much more competitive and being much more value-orientated in the global tourism industry. In this book, we are pleased to present many papers from all over the world that discuss the impact of tourism business strategies from innovative perspectives. This book also will help practitioners and academician to extend their vision in the light of scientific approaches.
Download or read book Planning and Design Guidelines for Small Craft Harbors written by American Society of Civil Engineers. Task Committee on Marinas 2000 and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MOP 50 provides new, state-of-the-art guidelines for the planning, design, and development of small craft harbors.
Download or read book Beyond Great written by Arindam Bhattacharya and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great is no longer good enough. Beyond Great delivers a powerful new playbook of 9 core strategies to thrive in a post-COVID world where all the rules of the game are being re-written. Beyond Great answers to two fundamental questions which face business leaders today in a world shaped by daunting and disruptive technological, economic, and social change. First, what is outstanding performance in this new volatile era? Second, how do we build competitive advantage in a world with new and often uncertain rules? Supported by years of research and hands-on consulting practice, this book presents a comprehensive framework for building a high performing, resilient, adaptive, and socially responsible global company. The book begins by taking an incisive look at these disruptive forces transforming globalization, including economic nationalism; the boom in data flows and digital commerce; the rise of China; heightened public concerns about capitalism and the environment; and the emergence of borderless communities of digitally connected consumers. Distilled from the study of hundreds of companies and interviews with dozens of business leaders, the authors have distilled nine core strategies – the new winning playbook of the 21st century. Beyond Great argues that business leaders today must lead with a new kind of openness, flexibility and light-footedness, constantly layering in new strategies and operational norms atop existing ones to allow for "always-on" transformation. Leaders must master a whole new set of rules about what it takes to be "global," becoming shapeshifters adept at handling contradiction, multiplicity, and nuance. This book will show them how.
Download or read book Mundane Governance written by Steve Woolgar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to explore how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. It draws on empirical materials in three main areas: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic; and security and passenger movement in airports.
Download or read book Sustainable Marketing written by Donald A. Fuller and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1999-02-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Marketing is structured around the traditional "4Ps" of marketing and explains how marketing mix decisions can and do influence environmental outcomes. Throughout the book, Donald A. Fuller advocates the conversion of consumption systems to a sustainable paradigm that represents a circular use of resources, not the linear approach (materials >products >consumption >disposal) that leads to the pollution of ecosystems. The book′s running theme is that marketers can reinvent strategy and craft "win-win-win" solutions, where customers win (obtaining genuine benefits), organizations win (achieving financial objectives), and ecosystems win (ecosystem functioning is preserved or enhanced). The theme is vividly illustrated by 49 in-text exhibits of successful corporate environmental initiatives.
