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INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION: Learn how to harness Artificial Intelligence to boost business & make our world more human
This is the first reference book on Intelligent Automation (IA). Also called Hyperautomation, it is one of the most recent trends in the field of artificial intelligence. IA is a cutting-edge combination of methods and technologies, involving people, organizations, machine learning, low-code platforms, robotic process automation (RPA), and more. www.amazon.com | October 14, 2020 | Book | Pascal BORNET
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When Monkeys Teach Monkeys: How Artificial Intelligence Will Make Us Even More Human
What is intelligence in the artificial and human sense? Can machines develop consciousness and how would we recognize that? Are machines able to show and feel empathy? Innovation guru Dr. Mario Herger provides the answers. It illustrates the diverse opportunities and positive effects of AI on all aspects of social and economic life. www.amazon.de | February 27, 2020 | Book | Mario Herger
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The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change: Creating a Workplace That Delivers, Grows, and Adapts
The secret to the success or failure of any business boils down to its culture. From disengaged employees to underserved customers, business failures invariably stem from a culture problem. In The Insider’s Guide to Culture Change, acclaimed culture transformation expert and global executive Siobhan McHale shares her proven four-step process to demystifying culture transformation and starting down the path to positive change. www.amazon.com | February 11, 2020 | Book | Siobhán (Shiv-awn) McHale
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Gender Equality and Sustainable Development Goals in India
This book addresses several aspects of Gender Equality in India and how it can be achieved along with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by the Year 2030. It was written on the Basis of Gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful and sustainable world. notionpress.com | March 11, 2020 | Book | DATCHANA MOORTHY RAMU
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The AI Book: The Artificial Intelligence Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and FinTech Visionaries
Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech space, The AI Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume and explains what artifical intelligence really means and how it can be used across financial services today. Key industry developments are explained in detail, and critical insights from cutting-edge practitioners offer first-hand information and lessons learned. |
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A Procurement Compendium
The Procurement Compendium is a collection of short articles relating to procurement and supply chain management, first published online via Spend Matters and Public Spend Forum websites. They aim to inform, provoke, occasionally educate and sometimes even amuse. www.amazon.com | September 11, 2020 | Book | Peter Smith
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The Disruption Mindset: Why Some Organizations Transform While Others Fail
Many companies make disruption their goal. They believe that if they develop the right innovation, they will disrupt their markets forever and drive the kind of growth worthy of a magazine cover story. But as bestselling author Charlene Li explains, that’s not how disruption works. www.amazon.com | September 24, 2019 | Book | Charlene Li
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Lifescale: Take control of distractions to live a more creative, productive and happy life
Somewhere along the way, we got distracted. As much as we multitask, love our devices and feel like we’re in control, deep down we know that something is off. Shortened attention spans, declines in critical thinking, lack of sleep, self-doubt and decreased creativity are just some of the effects coming to light in an age of digital distraction. It’s time to reclaim our lives. It’s time to take control. www.amazon.com | March 06, 2019 | Book | Brian Solis |
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VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life
VisuaLeadership is the art and science of applying visual thinking and visual communication tools, tips, and techniques to help business professionals turn their vision into reality. www.amazon.com | May 12, 2020 | Book | Todd Cherches
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REMARKABLE RETAIL: How to Win & Keep Customers in the Age of Digital Disruption
Despite the clickbait headlines that warn of a “retail apocalypse,” many brick and mortar retail brands are enjoying strong growth and profits. Others, however, are destined to become obsolete because they offer merely convenience, decent prices, or an okay shopping experience. www.amazon.com | April 14, 2020 | Book | Steve Dennis
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Step into Your Moxie: Amplify Your Voice, Visibility, and Influence in the World
Step into Your Moxie is a soul-stirring call to action to speak up for yourself and the ideas and issues that matter most to you. Dubbed a “Moxie Maven” by President Obama’s White House Office of Public Engagement for her potent approach to women’s empowerment, Alexia Vernon has helped thousands of women (and men) slay diminishing self-talk and speak with moxie. www.amazon.com | October 16, 2018 | Book | Alexia Vernon
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The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership: Ordinary, Everyday Actions that Produce Extraordinary Results
Consider how the nature of work has shifted over the past 50 years. With increased globalization, rapid technological advancement, and a shift in economic composition, the average jobs of today look very little like the average jobs 50 years ago. www.amazon.com | November 20, 2020 | Book | Jonathan H. Westover, PhD
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Agile M&A: Proven Techniques to Close Deals Faster and Maximize Value
Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) professionals — whether they work at banks, in corporate development groups, or integration teams — often complain that their industry is falling behind in modern process solutions. While M&A is becoming an increasingly accepted first-line growth strategy for companies around the world, and deal volume continues to set jaw-dropping new records quarter to quarter, the M&A industry itself has not adopted new innovations in technology or techniques since the late 1990s. It’s time to bring M&A into the 21st century. www.amazon.com | August 30, 2019 | Book | Kison Patel
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Moving Abroad: The Essentials
Decided to move to another country? Then this is the Guide for you. You’ll be guided step-by-step through the preparation, the move and accommodation in the new country. www.amazon.com | July 11, 2019 | Book | Diana Firican
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Transformation Sprint
Digital transformation will be the words on most people’s lips during 2021, as the world looks to ameliorate the impact of COVID but transforming is notoriously difficult to get right and failure rates run at the 80% mark. At last, there is a method to help you through the challenging times ahead. www.amazon.com | October 25, 2020 | Book | Haydn Shaughnessy
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Driving Innovation from Within: A Guide for Internal Entrepreneurs
Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are society’s main source of innovation. Young founders leave college with a big idea, get to work in a garage, and build something that changes the world. Typical corporate employees, strangled by slow-moving bureaucracy, are blocked from making transformative discoveries. www.amazon.com | October 22, 2019 | Book | Kaihan Krippendorff
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Architecting for Scale: How to Maintain High Availability and Manage Risk in the Cloud
Every day, companies struggle to scale critical applications. As traffic volume and data demands increase, these applications become more complicated and brittle, exposing risks and compromising availability. With the popularity of software as a service, scaling has never been more important. www.amazon.com | March 17, 2020 | Book | Lee Atchison
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Reimagining Healthcare: How the Smartsourcing Revolution Will Drive the Future of Healthcare and Refocus It on What Matters Most, the Patient
Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system. www.amazon.com | May 26, 2020 | Book | Thomas Koulopoulos
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Cyber Minds: Insights on cybersecurity across the cloud, data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and IoT to keep you cyber safe
Shira Rubinoff’s Cyber Minds brings together the top authorities in cybersecurity to discuss the emergent threats that face industries, societies, militaries, and governments today. With new technology threats, rising international tensions, and state-sponsored cyber attacks, cybersecurity is more important than ever. www.amazon.com | January 13, 2020 | Book | Shira Rubinoff
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Commercializing Blockchain – Strategic applications in the Real world
Blockchain has grown at an enormous rate in a very short period of time. In a business context, blockchain can level the playing field between small and large organisations in several ways: Exact copies of the immutable, time-stamped data is held by all parties, all transactions can be viewed in real time, data blocks are cryptographically linked, all raw materials are traceable and smart contracts ensure no middle-men, ease of audit and reduced friction. www.amazon.co.uk | July 29, 2019 | Book | ANTONY WELFARE
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Mastering the Game of Life: World Game-changers sharing their inspirational stories of transformation
A big claim on the surface of it, but one that is absolutely true! It’s a question of awareness, and embracing who we truly are. Isn’t it also true that each and every one of us has the capacity to change lives – starting with our own – if we so choose? It’s all about Mastering the Game of Life and making a difference in our own totally unique way – bringing love and hope to the world. www.amazon.com | October 28, 2020 | Book | Kym Hamer
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Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care
Next Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author’s years of experience in high-risk industries. The book provides safety leaders and their organisations with a compelling case for change. A key predictor of safety performance is trust, and its associated components of integrity, ability and benevolence (care). www.amazon.com | July 31, 2020 | Book | Clive Lloyd
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Practical Artificial Intelligence – An Enterprise Playbook
“Practical Artificial Intelligence: An Enterprise Playbook” is written to give you an in-depth view of Artificial Intelligence and how it can be used to make analytics more productive and efficient at workplaces. This book reveals what artificial intelligence is in simple terms and how organizations from all walks of life can easily leverage it to run projects successfully and make smarter decisions. amzn.com | September 01, 2019 | Book | Kashyap Kompella
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The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook
There is no denying that the 21st century is data driven, with many digital industries relying on careful collection and analysis of mass volumes of information. A Chief Data Officer (CDO) at a company is the leader of this process, making the position an often daunting one. The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook is here to help. www.amazon.com | September 18, 2020 | Book | Martin Treder
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Customer Understanding: Three Ways to Put the “Customer” in Customer Experience (and at the Heart of Your Business)
In this book, I cover the three approaches to customer understanding: surveys and data, personas, and journey mapping. I could’ve written the whole book about journey mapping, but there’s so much more to building a customer-centric business than journey mapping. The culture must first be deliberately designed to put the customer at the heart of the business. And all foundational elements of a CX transformation must be in place to make that happen. www.amazon.com | September 03, 2019 | Book | Annette Franz, CCXP
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The New Era of Cybersecurity Breaches: A Case Study and Lessons Learned
Over the last decade, as companies have continued to march forward on the digitization of everything, the cybersecurity risk profile has continued to change. Since 2005, there have been over 9,000 publicly disclosed data breaches. In the last five years, the financial losses due to cyber-attacks have risen by over 62%. Identifying, mitigating and managing cybersecurity risks in today’s environment is a challenging task. amazon.com | August 09, 2019 | Book | Graeme Payne
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Change Management Handbook – Leadership of Change Volume 3
This handbook contains over fifty concepts, models, figures, assessments, tools, templates, checklists, plans, a roadmap and glossary, structured on the ten step a2B Change Management Framework each with a practical case study. This handbook is for growth mindset leaders, senior managers, students, HR professionals and change management practitioners who want to deliver organisational change while their organisation continues with day-to-day operations. www.amazon.com | August 14, 2019 | Book | Peter F Gallagher
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Risk Assessment Framework: Successfully Navigating Uncertainty
All initiatives start with uncertainty, creating consequences ranging from unfulfilled plans to total organizational failure. Yet ongoing research has shown risk management to be a frequently neglected area of planning. A framework is a simple, basic conceptual structure of a process, modifiable to fit the needs and circumstances of initiatives, whether they be projects, programs, operations, or even a collection of activities. www.amazon.com | October 25, 2019 | Book | Ray W. Frohnhoefer
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Digital HR Strategy: How to Design and Implement a Digital Strategy to Drive Performance
We are living in an uncertain world that is rapidly changing with an overload of information and a continual rise of technologies. Automation, the gig economy, digital platforms and other innovations are changing the fundamental nature of work and are having a significant impact on the workforce, workplace and the HR function. Digital HR Strategy is crucial reading for all HR practitioners and leaders wanting to ensure that their organization adapts to this changing and increasingly competitive environment by creating a strategic approach for sustainable transformation which goes beyond conventional digital HR propositions. www.amazon.com | February 25, 2020 | Book | Soumyasanto Sen
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Recruiting in the Age of Googlization
Recruiting in the Age of Googlization is really two books in one. First, he draws upon his TEDx Talk message: “Make Change Work for You.” He depicts an era of exponential change and disruption called the Age of Googlization. Ready or not, we are crossing quickly into uncharted territory, a world of unknown unknowns. We’re facing a tsunami of HR technology that blurs the line between reality and science fiction. This change can be paralyzing without a strategy and plan. www.amazon.com | February 04, 2020 | Book | Ira Wolfe
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Social Media Strategy: A practical guide to social media marketing and customer engagement
Social Media Strategy provides a simple, structured way to create integrated customer engagement and social media campaigns that work. Organizations often talk of digital planning but struggle to know which channels to invest in, how to integrate them with content marketing activity, or fail to develop measurable outputs that align with business objectives. This book provides a clear road map for efficient planning, deliverance and financial accountability of social media’s contribution to the business. www.amazon.com | October 29, 2019 | Book | Julie Atherton F IDM
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The Mindset of a Sales Warrior
The Mindset of a Sales Warrior is your ticket to silence your inner critic and unleash the power within you now. Through 42 simple, easy-to-apply strategies, you ll join with some of the top entrepreneurs in the world to free your mind so you can earn what you re truly worth. Each strategy comes with a powerful real-world application to bring each one to life with your real-life prospects in your industry today. It s time to unleash the most authentic version of yourself. www.amazon.com | October 05, 2019 | Book | Jason Forrest
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Cultivate: The Power of Winning Relationships
In this informative and accessible book, Morag Barrett shares exceptional knowledge on why a business plan and the newest product mean nothing if you don’t have your people aligned to execute the plan. Leaders rarely fail because of lack of technical ability, but do so because they don’t cultivate effective working relationships www.amazon.com | April 01, 2020 | Book | Morag Barrett
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The Technology Procurement Handbook: A Practical Guide to Digital Buying
With the rise of cloud services and the digitization of all business units, procurement managers need to understand how to buy technology services in order to generate revenue, drive innovation and retain customers. The Technology Procurement Handbook provides a structured and logical view of the digital buying process. It includes invaluable advice on how to manage digital demand, prepare sourcing strategies, analyze the cost and benefits of proposed solutions and negotiate and implement comprehensive agreements. www.amazon.com | April 03, 2020 | Book | Sergii Dovgalenko
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Responsive Agile Coaching: How to Accelerate Your Coaching Outcomes with Meaningful Conversations
In Responsive Agile Coaching Niall McShane draws on over a decade of agile coaching experience to document a clear and well-researched model that lifts the lid on how agile coaching actually works. The book starts by defining what the role of agile coach has become in recent times before putting forward a field-tested and theoretically sound model for conducting agile coaching conversations. www.amazon.com | September 01, 2020 | Book | Niall McShane
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LEADEROLOGY
We stand on the brink of a great unknown. The Digital Era has clearly demonstrated that we can’t progress further without developing leadership capabilities on a global scale. Leaderology defines the beginning of the Renaissance period in modern management and leadership while helping leaders to reach a new level of success. www.amazon.com | October 21, 2019 | Book | Dr. Oleg Konovalov
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What About the Vermin Problem?
Everyone wants to be successful in business. But not everyone is. So why do so many people fail? The difference between success and failure is based upon choices that are made and the attitudes that are demonstrated by business owners, executives and managers. www.amazon.com | February 27, 2020 | Book | Peter Christian
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5th Generation Purchasing
This book is an important landmark in the history of EIPM. It is the outcome of five years of extensive research and more than 100 interviews conducted with purchasing leaders. It combines outstanding practices from the winners of the EIPM-Peter Kraljic award with lessons from projects undertaken by professionals from all over the world who have participated in our education programmes. It builds on more than 15 workshops and roundtables in which leading practices were presented and discussed. www.amazon.com | February 25, 2020 | Book | Herve Legenvre
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central / NAV Tips & Tricks
This book is intended for Implementers and Consultants who want to take the most from NAV implementation. The reader is expected to be familiar with ERP Concepts and have a good knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central / NAV application. www.amazon.com | November 11, 2019 | Book | Ahmed Mohamed Rafik
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The Wicked Company: When Growth is Not Enough
We live in an era of wicked problems. Can your company keep up? Technology and the evolution of the experience economy have created a reality that most companies can’t just buy or work their way into. These are wicked problems: issues that continue to evolve and morph beyond your solutions even as you form them. The days of tame problems–mass production, building bridges, solving for x–are behind us, but we’re still designing companies to solve those tame problems. Marcus Kirsch is here to change all that. www.amazon.com | December 15, 2019 | Book | Marcus Kirsch
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The Remarkable Effect
Remarkable is more than just a word. It’s a vision. It’s the art to create meaningful impact to prospects and customers. Being remarkable is something that I believe every company can achieve. The Remarkable Effect was written to help tech-entrepreneurs-on-a-mission shape the software business they’ve always aspired to run: Remarkable and Impactful. www.amazon.com | February 02, 2020 | Book | Ton Dobbe
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Click to Transform: Digital Transformation Game Plan for Your Business
GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUD… JUST NOT YOUR BUSINESS! www.amazon.com | September 25, 2020 | Book | Kevin L. Jackson
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The Last Driver’s License Holder Has Already Been Born: How Rapid Advances in Automotive Technology will Disrupt Life As We Know It and Why This is a Good Thing
How the radical disruption of the auto industry affects you―and how you can prepare for the soon-to-be “new normal”. The combined effect of autonomous driving, electric vehicles, and the sharing economy is on the verge of changing the auto industry―all within the next decade. And this tech/economics revolution will touch virtually every industry. www.amazon.com | October 23, 2019 | Book | Mario Herger
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Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class
Managing Sustainability: First Steps to First Class provides a compelling case, real-world examples, and the tools to follow a proven strategy for aligning sustainability efforts with existing organizational priorities. This strategy has taken companies from initial conception to the top of the sustainability rankings. Using examples from leading companies, readers will understand how to build-programs that drive results and enhance reputation. www.amazon.com | April 07, 2020 | Book | John Friedman
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Leveraging Digital Transformation: Proven Leadership and Innovation Strategies to Engage and Grow Your Organization
Looking to Innovate and Grow Your Organization? Leveraging Digital Transformation by M. Nadia Vincent is a practical guide for business executives, C-levels, digital transformation leaders, and IT managers alike as they implement digital transformation in their organizations or businesses. www.amazon.com | December 26, 2019 | Book | M. Nadia Vincent, MBA
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Cracking Microservices Interview
An SME typically attends several interviews and discussions for jobs or projects during his or her career. There is always a dire need to look up and read multiple books and references before these interviews/discussions so that you stay on top of things. This book will assist software engineers, programmer analysts, designers, consultants, technical, and solution, domain, and enterprise architects to perform well in microservices interview discussions and to launch a successful career. This book also tackles the NFR domain, which is the key aspect to be addressed while creating microservices applications. www.amazon.com | January 09, 2020 | Book | Sameer Paradkar
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Revenue or Relationships? Win Both: A Customer Experience Primer to Shift Your Perspective of Business
To create engaging customer experiences, you need to shift your perspective of business. The basics of business hasn’t changed. You still need a vision, a mission, a brand, an operations and action plan, and a way to measure success. But how you view your customers and inspire them to make decisions has changed with automation. Today, companies and their employees can directly interact with customers, creating a type of community. www.amazon.com | October 19, 2019 | Book | Mary Brodie
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NEVER NORMAL: Uncommon Ideas for Leaders Who Won’t Settle for the Status Quo
The “new normal” you’re waiting for is never going to happen. Planning for tomorrow guarantees you’ll fall further behind. Lack of resources is a lame excuse. The experts have the most to learn.The answer to disruption is not technology, but humanity. Futurist and digital transformation expert Greg Verdino has made a career out of helping business leaders make sense of exponential change — challenging conventional wisdom, skewering the status quo, and doling out tough love on his blog, in print and from conference stages around the world. amzn.to | August 10, 2020 | Book | Greg Verdino
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Creating an Environment for Successful Projects, Third Edition
For over twenty years, Creating an Environment for Successful Projects has been a staple for upper managers who want to help projects succeed. This new edition includes case studies from companies that have successfully applied the approach, along with practical tools such as templates, surveys, and benchmark reports for savvy leaders who want to ensure project success throughout their organizations. The insights in this book will help management speed projects along instead of getting in their way. www.amazon.com | October 29, 2019 | Book | Randall Englund
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A Modern Enterprise Architecture Approach
I authored this book to provide essential guidance, compelling ideas, and unique ways to Enterprise Architects so that they can successfully perform complex enterprise modernisation initiatives transforming from chaos to coherence. This is not an ordinary theory book describing Enterprise Architecture in detail. www.amazon.com | October 18, 2019 | Book | Dr. Mehmet Yildiz
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Upcoming Books
Indispensable: How to Build and Lead A Company Can’t Live Without
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “Indispensable” as being absolutely necessary and not subject to being set aside or neglected. INDISPENSABLE: Build and Lead A Company Customers Can’t Live Without provides a framework that you can follow to transform your business and features dozens of examples from industry including those drawn from Amazon, Uber, Facebook and more. Each business example illustrates how the concepts offered in the book are already being used to make businesses indispensable in the marketplace. www.amazon.com | January 26, 2021 | Book | James Kerr
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The Vision Code
We are living in a time of leadership blindness. Less than 0.1% of leaders have a vision. So, the vast majority of leaders are not leading people. We hardly know where we lead ourselves and others. We think about the past a lot, we think a bit about the present, and we think very little about the future. Modern leadership depends on vision and direction. If we are getting better with a direction, many still struggle with vision thinking it unnecessary or that it is beyond them. www.olegkonovalov.com | January 28, 2021 | Book | Dr. Oleg Konovalov
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Influencer Marketing Strategy
This is a complete authoritative guide to creating and developing an influencer strategy from setting your objectives, defining your plan, finding and working with influencers, executing campaigns and then evaluating their success. its packed full of tips, advice and loads of companies able to help you. www.koganpage.com | March 03, 2021 | Book | Gordon Glenister
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Servant Leadership Experiments in Ways of Working Paperback
Servant Leadership is not just another fad in business its a critical component of successful adoption of Business Agility. The book covers experiences and anecdotes describing 15 years of implementing Servant Leadership in high pressure, results oriented work environments. It includes small startups, medium sized enterprise to global companies covering business agility and technology agility. karlsmith.info | March 26, 2021 | Book | Karl A Smith
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