Strategic Value Creation shows how senior business leaders can design and execute a data-driven strategy for their organizations to ensure that value creation is focused on the customer segments most integral to business success.Value creation underpins any successful business and businesses that fail to create unique value for their customers will struggle to survive. This book demonstrates how to recognize when strategy, thinking and actions are flawed, ...

SHORTLISTED: CMI Management Book of the Year 2017 - Management Futures CategoryUnderstand how to drive business performance with your organizational data and analytics in the second edition of Data-Driven Organization Design.Using data and analytics is a key opportunity for businesses to transform performance and achieve success. With a data-driven approach, all the elements of the organizational system can be connected to...

What is the cost of employees today and what will this be in the future? This book explains how to take a data-driven approach to workforce planning and allow the business to reach its strategic goals.Organizational Planning and Analysis (OP&A) is a data-driven approach to workforce planning. It allows HR professionals, OD practitioners and business leaders to monitor an organization's activities and analyse business data to regularly adjust plans to ensure that th...

Organisations increasingly look to project management to deal with short timeframes, tight budgets, changing requirements and risk management in everyday operations, as well as for major strategic projects. Project management knowledge and skills are now essential for professionals just about everywhere, from teachers, social workers and lawyers, to engineers, builders and accountants.Stephen Hartley's Project Management is based on the recognised global standard for proje...

The ability to manage projects in an effective and efficient manner - on schedule and on budget - is a vital skill to have and a real asset for any business and even any home project. Improve Your Project Management helps you to gain this important skill - using a progressive, step-by-step approach. Covering everything from building the right team chemistry to micro-managing finances and dealing with unexpected problems, this book will arm you with all you need to become a great project ma...

Did you enter something in the search field of the Node Repository view?Does the tool support model-to-text transformation, as generation of source code?Does your organization expect that just one model will work for all types of property?Is the tool based on explicit descriptions of the meta-models of source and target model?Is there a strategy to minimize human effort by leveraging the interaction among tools?What behaviors or characteristics are i...

Technology can have huge benefits for the HR function. Whether it's saving time by streamlining processes, boosting engagement by enabling analysis of people data or improving employee development by allowing staff to access the content they need on different platforms, wherever and whenever they need it; the opportunities are vast.However, with more apps, software and platforms than ever before, the volume and variety of available technologies can be overwhelming....

Performance management is at the top of agendas in most government and public organizations, as well as many not-for-profit organizations. In this follow up to his successful book, Strategic Performance Management, the author focuses on the unique challenges public sector organizations face when tackling the issues of strategic performance management.Drawing on his extensive experience of working with numerous government, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations ove...

Are complaints dealt with early, and in a way that ensures progress is fully communicated?Are there assets that make rural communities unique, when compared with urban communities?Do you have policies in place to actively involve the community being served as a partner?How do policies conserve your local environmental assets and preserve natural ecosystems?How does culture play a role in the overall health and well-being in rural communities?What imp...

WINNER: 2021 Plume d'Or - Grand Prix ACA-Bruel Award.A Practical Guide to E-Auctions for Procurement provides guidance to procurement professionals on how to realize the potential of e-auctions.Now is the time to optimize your e-negotiation strategy using key insights from the author Jacob Gorm Larsen, who is responsible for one of the most successful and award-winning e-sourcing programs in the world.

Starting up your own business can be an exciting yet daunting venture. The case studies, interviews, and articles in this ebook will provide valuable insight for the aspiring entrepreneur. They cover areas such as marketing and finance, address legal issues and tackle aspects of the day-to-day running of a business, from time management to the effective use of social media. This ebook also includes excerpts from best-selling BCS books such as 'Working the Crowd' and 'Master the Moment'

The revised and updated third edition of this book reflects the newest techniques, the latest project management software, as well as the most recent changes to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK™).For nearly twenty years, The Little Black Book of Project Management has provided businesspeople everywhere with a quick and effective introduction to project management tools and methodology. You will find invaluable strategies for:or...