There is a fundamental mismatch between the way we organise our senior management teams and the way modern commerce has evolved. Wrapping finesse, technology, rules, bureaucracy, and “science” around our C-Suite conventions, designed for nineteenth-century businesses, is not nearly enough to meet the challenges of modern business environments and practices.This book is for executives who want to enable their C-Suite, and by extension their organizations, to survive and thrive into ...

The charming little village of Winona Lake, Ind., is once again a tourist destination as lovers of art, culture, education, and good food come to experience life at the little artisan village nestled on the eastern shore of Winona (formerly Eagle) Lake in north-central Indiana.Winona is currently in its third wave of development and popularity. In its first wave—beginning in 1881 and culminating in Spring Fountain Park and the religious Chautauqua programs that drew thousands for i...

Set in London, Wiltshire and Orkney There Came A Big Spider sees the young Marcus Moon attempting to climb the ladder of success at his new company.Bitterly resented by a ruthlessly ambitious rival, they are thrown together to design a big government project near the small market town of Kingscastle.This town was site of the Saxon camp of Alfred the Great, and his treasure was lost when the Danes invaded WIltshire.Marucs is asked to minimize the ecological ...

'Reinventing the Information Technology Department' is both anecdotal and informal but deals with a subject which is of vital interest to Chief Information Officers and IT Managers, addressing questions such as: * How does the IT department keep pace with business change? * How do we provide stable and responsive IT platforms? * How do we add recognised value to the organisation? * How do I reinvent my department? * How do I get onto the board? It offers an alternative view of the new role...

You're impressed with Adobe CS2 and love Adobe Bridge, its new navigational control center. But are you making the most out of it? Adobe Bridge is more than a simple file browser. It's a powerful desktop tool and provides centralized access to all your suite project files, applications, and settings. With file organization and sharing, plus Adobe Stock Photos at your fingertips all the time, Adobe Bridge speeds your workflow and keeps your ideas moving. In this first book to cover Adobe Br...

More from the irresistible Marcus Moon: civil engineer, wanton lover, and protector of all things 'Moon', especially when it comes to his long-suffering girlfriend, Charlie. With her attentions seemingly being diverted by upper class socialite D'Arcy Lyell, Marcus finds himself in and out of the country with a big Middle Eastern deal in the offing that could catapult his career. Not able to keep his eye fully on his prizes, he must ensure the smooth yet oily Lyell has his intentions nipped...

Business expectations of their IT departments are simple: Deliver IT without fuss, get involved in achieving business results, and provide leadership. But while business emphasis is on business results and leadership, IT is focused on the technology.How to get your IT Department to Add Real Value to Business presents a practical framework that defines the roles and activities for the CIO to meet business expectations. It introduces a new approach to IT in large org...

After five long years of hard work, Marcus Moon and his co-director are about to celebrate the closing of a deal worth $2 million... then they discover they have been well and truly shafted by Mazin Al Jabril, their shrewd Middle Eastern agent.Marcus devises and executes a clever plan to recover their money and stuff Mazin in this very funny story of greed, revenge and romance.

Commissioned to design the prestigious 'Gateway to the Gulf' project, Marcus Moon and his co director, Hugo Elmes, have a highly lucrative opportunity on their hands. But events do not run nearly as smoothly as they'd hoped.A lascivious beautiful blonde, crooked agents, an all-powerful Arab sheikh, a devious architect, Thai ladyboys, trade union skulduggery and the boys in the Frog and Nightgown - all come into play. To top it all, when the Oresundsbro Bridge collapses in Sweden, M...

Grieving over the loss of his beloved fiancee Charlie, the usually irrepressible Marcus Moon now focuses his attention on his civil engineering company, CONDES. Enter sinister businessman Sir Adrian Driver, with an offer to buy out Moon's company for a cool two million pounds. But when Moon and his partner Hugo Elmes refuse to play ball, they soon discover that the ruthless Sir Adrian is not a man to take no for an answer.Set against a high-octane backdrop of government corruption,...

Marcus Moon and his company, CONDES, are back to take on another job - a lucrative port design project in the remote Indian Ocean. Typically, things don't go according to plan and they unwittingly become embroiled in a dodgy enterprise involving crooked MPs and greedy government officials.As ever, the Moon nose sniffs out the rotten apple in the form of Nobby Garside - MP for Mexborough East and deputy chairman of the Department for International Development's Aid Committee - who, ...

Set in the rolling acres of Wiltshire and the grimy backstreets of South London, Till the Fat Lady's Sung is a humorous contemporary drama.Always funny and thought provoking, nobody escapes the wry, bemused and often scathing eye of the irrepressible Marcus Moon.Richly satirical in flavour and with a colourful cast of characters, the book considers issues such as personal and political integrity, conservation, devious business practices, intrigue and romance.Light e...