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Product Description: Der Bereich der alternativen Investments ist aufgrund seiner Vielfalt fur viele professionelle und private Anleger kaum zu durchschauen. Dabei wachst seine Bedeutung aufgrund des Interesses, die Wertentwicklung der Vermogensanlagen von den Aktienmarkten abzukoppeln...read more

Product Description: Das Buch greift Aspekte des Web 2.0 auf und beleuchtet diese speziell aus Marketingperspektive. Kennzeichen des Web 2.0 bzw. des 'Mitmach-Webs' sind neue Moglichkeiten der Teilnahme und des sozialen Austausches, die tradierte Rollenverstandnisse einer Trennung zwischen Produzenten und Konsumenten aufweichen...read more

Product Description: Complexity is a gift that can be made available for the successful implementation of projects, and used to create a new order or to change an existing one. Based on scientific facts, the authors present a systematic approach, which integrates complexity and its multitude of facets and gives practical recommendations for dealing with complexity in projects...read more

Product Description: Controlling stellt eine zentrale Aufgabe der Unternehmensführung, -planung und -steuerung dar. Einen praxisnahen und verständlichen Zugang liefert das vorliegende Buch.

Product Description: This book explains the basics of supply chain management and IT-based logistics, with a focus on distribution systems for consumer goods, warehouse management, and parcel and express delivery services. The book is rounded off with a discussion of outsourcing strategies and logistics controlling...read more

Product Description: Action research is developing into the technique of choice for individuals developing strategy in organizations in areas where emergent ideas and new paradigms are important; change management, sustainability, social responsibility...read more

Product Description: In many organizations, including government, there is a tendency to adopt a very narrow view of learning and to identify a sizeable proportion of the population as non-learners. This is patently inaccurate, we are all learning at all stages in our lives...read more

Die Sicherung der Energieversorgung gehört zu den zentralen Herausforderungen moderner Zivilisationen. Allerdings greifen solche Antworten zu kurz, die das interessengeleitete Handeln der wesentlichen Akteure außer Acht lassen. Deshalb behandelt das Buch die Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Energiemärkte unter Rückgriff auf industrie- und institutionenökonomische Theorien. Wo immer möglich werden die theoretisch hergeleiteten Voraussagen anhand statistischer Evidenz geprüft. Auch die technisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bedingungen werden stets berücksichtigt.

Product Description: This Handbook incorporates a variety of disciplines and approaches in order to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the issues that result from increasing age diversity at work. Despite interest in this area exploding over the past few years amongst academics, practitioners and policy makers, the analysis of age diversity has remained primarily within disciplinary ‘silos’ such as Psychology or Sociology with a focus on ageing or generational differences, rather than a combination of approaches to understanding age diversity...read more

Product Description: The author of the classic bestseller Lincoln on Leadership answers the question: How would President Lincoln handle the pressing crises of our modern world? Abraham Lincoln is recognized as one of history's finest leaders, a great president when the United States was under tremendous strain...read more

Product Description: Strategie im digitalen Zeitalter: Dieses Standardwerk für Managementlehre und Unternehmenspraxis bietet einen neuen, integrierten Lösungsansatz. Agilität versus Businessplan, selbstführende Teams versus Hierarchie: Der Leser betrachtet aktuelle Themen aus gegensätzlichen Perspektiven und erhält einen Kompass im digitalen Hype...read more

Product Description: Der deutsche Hotelmarkt zählt zu den größten und attraktivsten Märkten Europas, allerdings wurden in den letzten Jahrzehnten kaum Umsatzerhöhungen erzielt. Bisher hat sich die Hotellerie kaum mit Neuerungen als Wachstumstreiber auseinandergesetzt...read more

Product Description: One of the nation’s leading psychologists asks why today’s corporate leaders desire but reject creative solutions --and finds some surprising conclusions.   All corporate CEOs, top executives, and other business leaders say they want creativity and need real innovation in order to thrive in a competitive world...read more

Product Description: What happens to you, your team, even your entire organization when the business environment becomes more volatile and challenging? Have you noticed how some leaders continue to achieve breakthrough results under even the most difficult of circumstances while others’ relationships break down, creating even more turmoil? Which of these leaders do you choose to be? In "From Breakdown to Breakthrough", leading change consultant, Michael Papanek, draws on his experience, insights, and research with top executives to shine a spotlight on how anyone---even those whose business relationships have suffered in the heat of change in the past---can establish the resilient relationships required for a long-term track record of business success...read more

Product Description: The Underground Culinary Tour is a high-octane, behind-the-scenes narrative about how the restaurant industry, historically run by gut and intuition, is being transformed by the use of data.   Sixteen years ago, entrepreneur Damian Mogavero brought together an unlikely mix of experts—chefs and code writers—to create a pioneering software company whose goal was to empower restaurateurs, through the use of data, to elevate and enhance the guest experience...read more

Product Description: The business world is constantly transforming. When restructures, mergers, bankruptcies, and layoffs hit the workplace, employees and managers naturally find the resulting situational shifts to be challenging. But the psychological transitions that accompany them are even more stressful...read more