Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: Rewiring Business Operations for the Digital Age is a primer for those who want to learn about blockchain applications in supply chain management, and how the technology could help to reshape the flow of goods and finance across the globe.   High-performing supply chains are critical to business success. It is estimated that in the U.S. alone, business logistics costs reached $1.48 trillion in 2015, a 2.6% increase over the previous year. &nb...

Dramatic changes in the global demand for food, safety concerns and the rise of precision farming are among the challenges facing food supply chains. Can blockchain technology help the industry to meet these challenges at a time when it is also grappling with increasing supply chain complexity? Blockchain and the Future of Food: Driving Efficiency, Transparency and Trust in the Food Supply Chain examines these issues and the blockchain solutions that could help to transform food s...

Chain Business Insights' new eBook by Co-founder and Research Principal, Ken Cottrill titled Blockchain in Smallholder Farming: Sowing the Seeds of Growth investigates how blockchain combined with agricultural technologies, such as precision farming could help improve productivity significantly, lift millions of smallholder farmers out of poverty and bolster the world’s food supply.Population growth, climate change and geopolitical unrest are putting pressure on food production – a...

Train Your Brain to Energize Your LifeIn The Sharp Solution, Heidi Hanna introduces readers to a brain-based approach to realistic, sustainable energy management that supports a healthier brain, and as a result a healthier, happier body. By engaging our brain, we can strategically re-wire how we operate, creating more energy and improving productivity while simultaneously reducing stress. As a result, we become more focused and productive, flexible and res...

The blueprint for achieving growth and driving shareholder value by embedding support for innovation into every facet of your businessBreaking Away is one of the first books to bridge the gap between leadership and innovation by revealing what it takes to create both breakthrough ideas and the leaders who make them happen.Written by the chief innovation officer for Coca-Cola and a leading recruiter of innovation leaders, Breaking Away pr...

Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard invented the model of the Silicon Valley start-up and set in motion a process of corporate becoming that made it possible for HP to transform itself six times over the 77 years since its founding in the face of sweeping technological changes that felled most of its competitors over the years. Today, HP is in the throes of a seventh transformation to secure its continued survival by splitting in two independent companies: HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise....

Business is increasingly being called upon to demonstrate 'what more' it does for society. In a climate in which companies are frequently painted as social outlaws who need fundamentally to change their ways, this determined if ill-founded attack has been met for the most part by appeasement in corporate circles. This acquiescence has given rise to the burgeoning 'corporate social responsibility' industry. Why is business going along with this? The current conversation about business and s...

Since the emergence of urban systems, cities have developed in a mutually inter-dependent process of socio-economic dynamics and transportation linkages. In recent years, Airports worldwide have stepped beyond the stage of being pure infrastructure facilities while the complex dynamics that are taking place at and around international airports represent a crucial element in the post-industrial reorganisation of urban and regional systems. Airports are increasingly recognized as general urb...

A merger or acquisition is usually a challenging endeavor with a single ultimate aim: to create value for the owner. However, stakeholder theory shows how such a narrow and one-sided focus is detrimental to value-creation in general – not only for other stakeholders within and outside the organization, but also for the owner. Especially in a merger or an acquisition, it is evident that there are many groups and individuals who have a stake in the success or failure of a business.So...

From Conception To Profits.Entrepreneurs can get the funds they need to start up their successful Internet business without any money coming out of their own pocket or seeking friends and family for a loan.Startups don't need to stress about their bank account to start up a thriving business online. In fact, you'll be happy to know you can start up your dream business without spending a dime of your own money!What's the Catch ?Entrepreneurs need to understand ho...

Regions and cities are the natural loci where knowledge is created, and where it can be easily turned into a commercial product. Regions are territories where, under certain socio-economic conditions, a strong sense of belonging and mutual trust develops the ability to transform information and inventions into innovation and productivity increases, through cooperative or market interaction. Especially in contexts characterised by a plurality of agents — such as cities or industrial distric...

First published in 1996. This volume offers a new vision for fulfilment in the workplace. Both corporations and individuals will learn how to re-examine their traditional corporate ideologies and replace them with the human side of the business, a necessity for building healthy work environments. This text defines change as more than applying the latest quick-fix program. Change requires embracing the shadows and a change of heart. A result of 25 year's of leadership and organisational res...