This book offers a broad perspective on issues relating to the sourcing of systems and business processes in a national and global context, examining the client's and the vendor's involvement in sourcing relationships by putting the emphasis on the capabilities that each side should develop as a result of their interactions with each other.

It is imperative to equip practitioners with a workable framework to manage component-based development in distributed environments, and to offer a theoretical construct to academics wishing to advance the study of global teams. This book outlines the key challenges faced by projects and offers tools to implement CBD in global teams.

You're smart. You're busy. You want to know how to write a media release. All you need is a nudge, jostle, or maybe a swift kick to help you get going. Enter Making the News, the premiere title in the Swift Kick Guides series of eBooks. The media release is a valuable tool that can help new and small organizations gain recognition and build credibility. Swift Kick Guides are stuffed with useful tips + tact...

You will learn that it can be surprisingly easy to get yourself free exposure in many quality and targeted publications. With clear guidelines, a powerful objective and creative thinking the world is yours for the taking. This book, once described in a review as 'deceptively simple' has no-nonsense information that is on target.If you have tried to gain free publicity and failed you need a better plan. With powerful questions and a step-by-step guideline you can succeed.If ...

Accountants are routinely awarded the accolade of ‘trusted advisor’. Yet many accountants, bogged down with compliance work, spend most of their time writing history instead of helping their clients make history. There has been much talk about how accountants should embrace value-based, business improvement services so that they can step up and truly embrace their trusted advisor status. Yet little has been written on how to go about doing that in a way that sits firmly within the accounta...

The entertainment and media industries, already important sectors of the US economy, continue to grow rapidly in other countries around the world. This ninth edition of Entertainment Industry Economics continues to be the definitive source on the economics of film, music, television, advertising, broadcasting, cable, casino and online wagering, publishing, performing arts and culture, toys and games, sports, and theme parks. It synthesizes a vast amount of data to provide a clear, comprehe...

These techniques are definite game-changers that are worthy of sharing. Each one is so useful and very powerful in key situations. Once you get going on them, it will surprise you when you start to reflect on the number of times in your everyday life that you have the opportunity to use them. And when you do start to use them on a regular basis, the results will astonish you!I can only hope you benefit from these as much I have in my professional and personal life to date. There ar...

“An Honest Day’s Work” chronicles the career of Chris Atkins, who had a ringside seat to the frequently perilous and often hilarious public relations milestones of the past three decades, As a senior executive at some of the largest and most respected public relations agencies and companies in the world, Atkins handled almost every type of crisis imaginable, from plane crashes to corporate scandals to a memorial service for the world’s wealthiest black entrepreneur. His stories are as funn...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corporate social responsibility and its development in Africa. It provides in-depth studies on 11 sub-Saharan countries, demonstrating that corporate social responsibility is forming and going through different stages of metamorphosis in the continent. Though corporate and individual attitudes towards sustainability in Africa still leave a lot to be desired, this book showcases how things are rapidly changing for the better in this regard. It ...

The book examines the various aspects of non-financial central public sector enterprises (PSEs) in India, for a period from 1986-87 to 2010-11. The analysis is based on all the key financial ratios; namely, profitability, efficiency, liquidity, leverage and productivity.Liberalization and globalization have caused competition in India and have lowered the profit margins. At the same time, Indian government has reduced subsidies and budgetary support for PSEs to curtail their own fi...

Sovereign Debt and Credit Rating Bias rejects the notion that credit rating agencies' rigorous and transparent determination of ratings leaves no room for bias, and debunks the myth that the value CRAs place on their reputational capital precludes prolonged biases. To determine the extent of CRAs' biased actions, Tennant and Tracey apply a rigorous methodology to a well-established economic model of the determinants of sovereign debt quality. They present strong evidence of bias against po...