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Michael J. Wade

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in vernal ponds or baboon troops spread across the African veldt. Others have been created as human activities fragment natural landscapes, as in stands of trees separated by roads. As landscape change has accelerated, understanding how these metapop...

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Michael Wade, Amit Joshi

Understand how GenAI is different from other tech innovations and what you can do to harness its power.This book argues that GenAI represents a genuine paradigm shift in technological innovation. The authors, the same team behind the popular podcast 'Mike & Amit Talk Tech', combine academic rigor with practical business insights, incorporating perspectives from diverse industry experts and their own hands-on experience teaching with, and using, GenAI. They maintain...

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Michael Wade, Jeff Loucks, James Macaulay

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives ignore the problem, or turn to yesterday’s management playbook. In months instead of years, you’ve gone from market leader to also-ran.This scenario is beginning to play out in every industr...

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Colin Bateman

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Michael Wade

Ivan Connor's publisher has just turned down his wonderful new novel. His agent is out of ideas, and the only person to turn up at his latest reading is his mum. He's also desperately jealous of the marketable Francesca Brady, a hugely successful author of fat romantic books for fat romantic people, whose expansive hair and bright red lipstick attack him from posters everywhere he goes. But Ivan has a brilliant idea. He's going to beat Francesca at her own game...

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Michael Wade, James Macaulay, Andy Noronha

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is another matter.The hard truth is that despite leaders’ best efforts, and ...

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Michael Wade, Jeff Loucks, James Macaulay

WINNER OF THE 2017 AXIOM BEST BUSINESS BOOK AWARD“Digital disruption” sounds like another business buzzword—until it happens to your company. Seemingly out of nowhere, startups and other tech-savvy disruptors attack. Your customers bolt for the door and revenues stall. Senior executives ignore the problem, or turn to yesterday’s management playbook. In months instead of years, you’ve gone from market leader to also-ran.This scenario is beginning to play out in every industr...

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Katja Behnke, Katja Behnke

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Ty Harper, David Ault, Nichalia Schwarz, Karilynne Davies, Elie Hirschman, Ana Barclay, Vincent Fallow, Michael Wade, Red Aller, Eddy Yeung, Anthony Ray Morales, Ryan Lahey

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Shadowstrings

Claudia and Christian are in shock: Anne and Daniel have disappeared. How is this possible, they were with them just a moment ago! It all started so harmlessly: holidays together in a remote house in the middle of a forest. But then they heard this eerie violin melody and an old desk with a mysterious letter appeared from nowhere. Are these events connected with the disappearance of Daniel and Anne? Claudia and Christian decide to investigate. Suddenly they meet an old acquaintance: the sn...

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Michael Wade, Didier Bonnet, Tomoko Yokoi, Nikolaus Obwegeser

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and information that you need to successfully transform your or...

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Michael Wade, James Macaulay, Andy Noronha

Company leaders feel the urgency to transform their organizations in the face of digital disruption. New rivals are digitizing whatever can be digitized to attack incumbents’ value chains, gaining market share, eroding margins, and wreaking havoc to the competitive landscape in virtually every industry.For large and midsized companies, the imperative to transform is clear. How to transform is another matter.The hard truth is that despite leaders’ best efforts, and ...

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Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade

How do people come up with truly original ideas? The answer is to think outside the box—way outside.For the past decade, Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, and Michael Wade, professors of innovation and strategy at IMD Business School, have studied inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs, and artists. These people, or “aliens,” as the authors call them, are able to make leaps of creativity, and use five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest...

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Michael Nash, Wade Waldron

When it comes to big data processing, we can no longer ignore concurrency or try to add it in after the fact. Fortunately, the solution is not a new paradigm of development, but rather an old one. With this hands-on guide, Java and Scala developers will learn how to embrace concurrent and distributed applications with the open source Akka toolkit. You’ll learn how to put the actor model and its associated patterns to immediate and practical use.Throughout the book, you’ll deal with...

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Michael Wade, Didier Bonnet, Tomoko Yokoi, Nikolaus Obwegeser

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Kim Niemi

Improve your business performance through digital transformationDigital transformation has become commonplace across public and private sector organizations, and yet most struggle to achieve tangible results from it. Many make avoidable mistakes or fall into simple traps along the way. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital provides practical advice and information that you need to successfully transform your or...