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This book is intended to showcase some of Thailand's most vibrant start-ups. It contains a series of stories about these first-generation entrepreneurs and their commercial journeys. The book is intended to serve as both an inspiration and a source of insights for would be entrepreneurs and potential Thailand investors. Each story covers the initial start-up plan, the steps taken by the entrepreneurs and the twists and turns they faced in their journey.<b>Contents:</b>...
| Автор | Havovi Joshi |
There has never been an Supply Chain Management Guide like this. 100 Success Secrets is not about the ins and outs of SCM. Instead, it answers the top 100 questions that we are asked and those we come across in forums, our consultancy and education programs. It tells you exactly how to deal with those questions, with tips that have never before been offered in print. This book focuses on operational and tactical aspects of SCM. The coverage is clear, logical and highlights key points well....
| Автор | Lance Batten |
This book and its accompanying eLearning course are regarded as a classic in its field. Now, in an expanded and updated Fourth Edition of The Art of Service's book, in accordance with the newly revised editions of Part 1 & 2 of the ISO/IEC 20000 Standard, 'Service management system requirements' and 'Guidance on the application of service management systems', the authors once again present a step-by-step guide to getting your ISO/IEC 20000 Foundation Certificate. ...
| Автор | Ivanka Menken |
The title of this groundbreaking book is drawn from an interesting statistic. According to the Department of Commerce, for every one hundred pennies that make up the Gross Domestic Product of the United States, almost sixty cents come from small business. So why are small businesses seemingly treated as an afterthought, especially during difficult economic times? During our recent downturn, while billions of dollars were generously handed over to large corporations as part of the Troubled Asset...
| Автор | Michael S. Robinson |
Cloud computing has dramatically changed how business applications are built and run. At its core, cloud computing eliminates the costs and complexity of evaluating, buying, configuring, and managing all the hardware and software needed for enterprise applications. Instead, these applications are delivered as a service over the Internet. <p> Whenever the term infrastructure is used, the resulting images will involve some set of physical devices. In IT, the infrastructure comprises all...
| Автор | Ivanka Menken |
Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It concludes that the most important characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and marketization in Zhejiang. As...
| Автор | Jinchuan Shi |
Cloud computing has dramatically changed how business applications are built and run. At its core, cloud computing eliminates the costs and complexity of evaluating, buying, configuring, and managing all the hardware and software needed for enterprise applications. Instead, these applications are delivered as a service over the Internet. <p> Cloud computing has evolved to include platforms for building and running custom applications, a concept known as platform as a service (or PaaS)....
| Автор | Ivanka Menken |
France is often described as one of the last Western economies unable to reform itself in the face of globalization. Yet its economy has not fallen by the wayside and has even resisted the great recession that began in 2008. By interlinking historical, economic, and political factors and by comparing France with other nations, this book explains the puzzle presented by the development of France. Understanding France's economy requires downplaying the usual policy injunctions—demands for...
| Автор | Philippe Askenazy |
The opportunities provided by various forms of Cloud Computing have allowed for significant growth within an industry that continues to mature and develop at a rapid pace. <p> So with the change in computing and IT Service delivery comes a whole new series of qualifications and certification. The Cloud Computing Certification Scheme has been created to support the IT Professional who needs to be a niche generalist, capable of migrating all forms of IT services to the 'cloud'. ...
| Автор | Ivanka Menken |
Virtually everyone—left, right, and center—believes that capitalist economies are autonomous, coherent, and regulated by their own internal laws. This view is an illusion. The reality is that economies organized around the pursuit of private profit are contradictory, incoherent, and heavily shaped by politics and governmental action. But the illusion remains hugely consequential because it has been embraced by political and economic elites who are convinced that they are...
| Автор | Fred L. Block |
How well can democratic decision making incorporate the knowledge and expertise generated by public policy analysts? This book examines the historical development of policy analysis, as well as its use in legislative and regulatory bodies and in the federal executive branch. The essays show that policy-analytic expertise effectively improves governmental services only when it complements democratic decision making. When successful, policy analysis fosters valuable new ideas, better use of...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Food and drink has been a focal point of modern social theory since the inception of agrarian capitalism and the industrial revolution. From Adam Smith to Mary Douglas, major thinkers have used key concepts such as identity, exchange, culture, and class to explain the modern food system. <I>Food, Politics, and Society</I> offers a historical and sociological survey of how these various ideas and the practices that accompany them have shaped our understanding and organization of the...
| Автор | Alejandro Colas |
How do you become a farmer? The real questions are: what kind of person do you want to be? Are you willing to change? How do you learn? What is your vision for the future? In this poignant collection of essays, <i>Epitaph for a Peach</i> author David Mas Masumoto gets ready to hand his eighty-acre organic farm to his daughter, Nikiko, after four decades of working the land. Declaring that “all of the gifts I have received from this life are not only worthy of sharing, but...
| Автор | David Mas Masumoto |
Even before Donald J. Trump reached his first hundred days in office, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>'s Editorial Board published the first of six consecutive denunciations calling him “Our Dishonest President.” The paper's condemnation of Trump's lies, his authoritarian temperament, his war on journalism, and his obsession with conspiracies was as bold as it was unprecedented, as was its call to Californians to oppose the brazen acts of a man patently...
| Автор | The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board |
The news coming out of Washington, D.C., and reverberating around the nation increasingly sounds like a broken record: low or zero growth in employment, inadequate funds to pay future Social Security and Medicare obligations, declining rates of investment, cuts in funding for education and children’s programs, arbitrary sequesters or cutbacks in good and bad programs alike, underfunded pensions, bankrupt cities, threats not to pay our nation’s growing debts, rancorous partisanship, and political...
| Автор | C. Eugene Steuerle |
In My Theory of Infinite Wealth, Len Gaby shares a lifetime of business experience and recounts how his decisions to follow «roads less traveled» resulted in the transition from impressionable employee to seasoned manager to corporate executive and to adventurous entrepreneur. With his wife Debbie, he built a business in which the service model was based upon what they believed were essential components…and ways they could differentiate and position their business.Len recounts the challenges and...
| Автор | Leonard S. Gaby |
Outsourcing stirs strong emotions. Employees associate it with layoffs, reduced quality, and plummeting morale. Managers often don't understand the potential, thinking either that it will reduce their costs by large amounts or that it will make them obsolete, too. The truth is that, when done correctly, outsourcing often does not lead to layoffs, can lead to increased quality, and can even boost morale. Although the inflated savings that some managers have been led to believe are untrue...
| Автор | Barry Saiff |
We have all experienced moments when we have felt that our life had completely fallen apart. These moments are the greatest opportunities for transformation. Transformation is uncomfortable. In fact, it is a process of discomfort. Through the sharing of personal experiences, the author walks the reader through a process of turning the pain from his past into power in the present; thus, changing the trajectory of his life into a prosperous future. The step-by-step process of disassembling one’s...
| Автор | Jerry Roberson |
The Arsonist in the Office is your survival guide for enduring the toxic workplace (and toxic people) and a call to action for a bold new approach to addressing tough issues. If you have ever led an organization or participated on a team and felt completely frustrated by the sabotage of another colleague, leader, or even client, this book is for you. Leaders, colleagues and organizations across the world have adopted this new movement – to not just “create” a great culture but to protect it....
| Автор | Pete Havel |
* The first edition of this book won the prestigious Book of the Year Award presented by the Professional Association of Small Business AccountantsMany entrepreneurs fail, not because they have bad ideas, but because they don't have the knowledge it takes to convert their ideas into success. In Six Steps to Small Business Success, five seasoned CPAs provide practical advice, step-by-step guidance, and proven ideas to help you dream big, think realistically, and plan and manage carefully,...
| Автор | Bert Doerhoff |
In countries that have managed to confront and cope with the challenges of food insecurity over the past two centuries, markets have done the heavy lifting. Markets serve as the arena for allocating society's scarce resources to meet the virtually unlimited needs and desires of consumers: no other mechanism can efficiently signal fluctuations in scarcity and abundance, the cost of labor, or the value of commodities. But markets fail at tasks that society regards as important; thus,...
| Автор | C. Peter Timmer |
Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to adequately address the issue. The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights and experiences of leaders in government, academia and the third sector to present new evidence-based strategies to end...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you?All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It’s not complicated or theoretical. Discovered by more than 80,000 companies, the Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business...
| Автор | Gino Wickman |
Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy, The Paradox of Plenty (1997), Stanford political scientist Terry Karl argued that this oil wealth induced extraordinary corruption, rent-seeking, and centralized intervention that...
| Автор | Jonathan Di John |