This edited collection by over 30 industry experts and scholars explores how communication departments can digitize processes to continue contributing to their companies' success. It deals with key questions such as the necessity of digitalizing corporate communication, optimal data for success, KPI reporting solutions, and the role of data storytelling and artificial intelligence. Additionally, it covers future-relevant roles and skills, essential tools and trends, and crucial aspects of ...

This book illustrates the challenges posed by the highly complex ESG regulation to corporate communication—and how they can be overcome. Starting from the year 2024, the requirements for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting will be significantly increased. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) of the EU mandates that more companies of all sizes provide detailed explanations about the compatibility of their business models with ESG standards.

A well-designed organization is an effective organization. Decisions about organization design determine the shape and form of the organization – not only the reporting structure and authority relations, but also the number and size of sub-units and the interfaces between the sub-units. Indirectly, such decisions affect individual productivity as well as the organization’s ability to attain strategic goals.Organization Design equips the reader with advanced tools ...

Organization Design looks at how to (re)design an organizational system in order to increase productivity, performance and value, and provides the knowledge and methodology to design an adaptive, agile organization capable of handling the kind of continuous organizational change that all businesses face. The book clarifies why and how organizations need to be in a state of readiness to design or redesign, and emphasizes that people as well as business processes must be part of des...

Are you ready to take your German to the next level? Dive into 33 German Intermediate Conversations, designed for learners at A2 to B1 level, offering you an engaging and practical way to improve your language skills while exploring real-world topics.In this book, you'll find a wide range of contemporary discussions—from cybercrime and climate change to renewable energy and universal healthcare. Each conversation presents two opposing viewpoints, giving you the chance to reflect an...

Organize, plan, and build an exceptional data analytics team within your organizationIn Minding the Machines: Building and Leading Data Science and Analytics Teams, AI and analytics strategy expert Jeremy Adamson delivers an accessible and insightful roadmap to structuring and leading a successful analytics team. The book explores the tasks, strategies, methods, and frameworks necessary for an organization beginning their first foray into the analytics spa...

A comprehensive reference presenting the critical concepts and theories all project managers must master, The AMA Handbook of Project Management compiles essays and advice from the field’s top professionals. Compatible with the most recent edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge® and featuring new data on the Project Management Office, the completely revised third edition shows readers how to: • Establish project goals • Implement planning on both the strategic and operational ...

Also in the 8th revised and improved edition, published by a government-funded publisher involved in EU programs and a partner of the Federal Ministry of Education, you receive the concentrated expertise of renowned experts (overview in the book preview), embedded in an integrated knowledge system with premium content and 75% advantage. At the same time, you do good and support sustainable projects.Because especially managers, who have often worked hard for their position, believe ...

This book provides an integrative Business Transformation Management Methodology, the BTM², with an emphasis on the balance between the rational aspects of transformation and the often underestimated emotional readiness of employees to absorb and accept transformation initiatives.Comprising four phases - Envision, Engage, Transform, and Optimize - the methodology integrates expertise from areas such as strategy, risk, and project management. Covering the formal and informal struct...

The Expert Career is an attempt to better understand the nature of career paths for highly specialized experts who chose a non-managerial career. It analyzes past dual ladder career theories as well other existing career alternatives for experts and assesses their effectiveness to organizations and employees. It further includes an empirical study with unprecedented data of 140 companies that tests existing expert careers. Based on the findings of this study, this book pre...

Notes to the 2nd edition:This second edition reflects such updates as: the new Agile Fluency Model, the renaming / rebranding of Statoil to Equinor, and some small additions to complexity. We also enhanced the description of Organizational Open Space and explain how it differs from Liberating Structures.Enjoy insights in the book shared by Jez Humble, Diana Larsen, James Shore, Johanna Rothman, and Bjarte Bogsnes. Find out what Spotify, ING, Ericsson, and Walmart say in the...

Also in the 8th revised and improved edition, published by a government-funded publisher involved in EU programs and a partner of the Federal Ministry of Education, you receive the concentrated expertise of renowned experts (overview in the book preview), embedded in an integrated knowledge system with premium content and 75% advantage. At the same time, you do good and support sustainable projects.Because "If only I were more self-confident" is what some people wish for in embarra...