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Deskilling Migrant Women in the Global Care Industry
by Sondra CubanThis book explores the human geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships, and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry.
Deskriptives Data-Mining
by David L. Olson Georg LauhoffDieses Buch bietet einen Überblick über Data-Mining-Methoden, die durch Software veranschaulicht werden. Beim Wissensmanagement geht es um die Anwendung von menschlichem Wissen (Erkenntnistheorie) mit den technologischen Fortschritten unserer heutigen Gesellschaft (Computersysteme) und Big Data, sowohl bei der Datenerfassung als auch bei der Datenanalyse. Es gibt drei Arten von Analyseinstrumenten. Die deskriptive Analyse konzentriert sich auf Berichte über das, was passiert ist. Bei der prädiktiven Analyse werden statistische und/oder künstliche Intelligenz eingesetzt, um Vorhersagen treffen zu können. Dazu gehört auch die Modellierung von Klassifizierungen. Die diagnostische Analytik kann die Analyse von Sensoreingaben anwenden, um Kontrollsysteme automatisch zu steuern. Die präskriptive Analytik wendet quantitative Modelle an, um Systeme zu optimieren oder zumindest verbesserte Systeme zu identifizieren. Data Mining umfasst deskriptive und prädiktive Modellierung. Operations Research umfasst alle drei Bereiche. Dieses Buch konzentriert sich auf die deskriptive Analytik.Das Buch versucht, einfache Erklärungen und Demonstrationen einiger deskriptiver Werkzeuge zu liefern. Es bietet Beispiele für die Auswirkungen von Big Data und erweitert die Abdeckung von Assoziationsregeln und Clusteranalysen. Kapitel 1 gibt einen Überblick im Kontext des Wissensmanagements. Kapitel 2 erörtert einige grundlegende Softwareunterstützung für die Datenvisualisierung. Kapitel 3 befasst sich mit den Grundlagen der Warenkorbanalyse, und Kapitel 4 demonstriert die RFM-Modellierung, ein grundlegendes Marketing-Data-Mining-Tool. Kapitel 5 demonstriert das Assoziationsregel-Mining. Kapitel 6 befasst sich eingehender mit der Clusteranalyse. Kapitel 7 befasst sich mit der Link-Analyse. Die Modelle werden anhand geschäftsbezogener Daten demonstriert. Der Stil des Buches ist beschreibend und versucht zu erklären, wie die Methoden funktionieren, mit einigen Zitaten, aber ohne tiefgehende wissenschaftliche Referenzen. Die Datensätze und die Software wurden so ausgewählt, dass sie für jeden Leser, der über einen Computeranschluss verfügt, weithin verfügbar und zugänglich sind.
Desmistificando As Listas De Tarefas
by Mayara Leal S. J. ScottAPRENDA: Por que a maioria das pessoas não conseguem realizar coisas Você cria listas de tarefas que nunca saem do papel? É fácil começar cada dia de trabalho com uma longa lista de tarefas. Mas então, algo inesperado surge. Sem você perceber, o dia já está quase no fim. Você trabalha arduamente em um ritmo frenético, mas acaba se sentindo frustrado, porque não há tempo suficiente para fazer tudo. Todos nós escrevemos listas com a esperança de que elas nos transformem em máquinas de produtividade. Infelizmente, listas de tarefas muitas vezes produzem o efeito oposto. O tipo errado de lista pode ser desmotivador, causando o seu relaxamento e a procrastinação. DESCUBRA: Como criar listas de tarefas eficazes e factíveis A verdade é que qualquer um pode escrever uma lista. A parte mais difícil é a criação de uma lista que seja factível e que também se encaixe em sua vida agitada. Na maioria das vezes, as pessoas enchem suas listas com uma mistura desorganizada de tarefas, desejos, necessidades e ideias aleatórias. Então, elas se perguntam por que não estão obtendo resultados significativos em suas vidas. Qual é a solução? Reconsidere a maneira como você gerencia a sua vida diária. Especificamente, você deve usar várias listas que cubram diferentes tipos de tarefa. Esse é o conceito básico que você vai aprender neste livro. BAIXE: Desmistificando as Listas de Tarefas O livro fornece um plano em etapas para escrever listas eficazes e executáveis. Você vai aprender: 7 erros comuns nas listas de tarefas (e como corrigi-los) A ferramenta #1 para capturar ideias Como usar uma lista de projeto para identificar tarefas críticas Quando trabalhar em atividades de rotina Por que a revisão semanal o ajuda a realizar coisas O aplicativo para gerenciar listas de tarefas Como concluir as suas
Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life's Darkest Moments
by Rachel WojoDo your prayers resemble last-minute cries more than first-response chats? You&’re not alone in calling out to God in life&’s pitch-black moments and wondering if He&’s listening. Enter the powerful secrets of the Bible's eleventh-hour pleas of fifteen men and women. This engaging book invites you into the prayer stories of struggling Bible characters like Hagar, Hannah, and David. Each chapter's simple three-word prayer focus will deepen your trust and affirm your heart that it&’s best to be you before God. The ideal desperate pray-er to shine light on your prayer dilemmas, Rachel Wojo vulnerably shares her heartbreaking experiences of loss while pointing you to your Father. Her prayer journey and promising principles will guide you from frenzied desperation to dependent faith. When you finish Desperate Prayers: Embracing the Power of Prayer in Life's Darkest Moments, you&’ll know that praying in a panic creates a powerful pathway to peace.
Desperately Seeking Growth: Focus on Your Core Business to Generate Profitable Growth
by James Allen Chris ZookInternational bestseller Profit from the Core was originally published in 2001 and helped many companies find their way back to profitable growth after the Internet bubble burst. Now, the fully updated edition points the way forward in today's economy with new examples and data that demonstrate how companies have met the challenges and opportunities of turbulent times by returning to their core businesses. The most important issue management teams have always faced is how to grow their companies. In a world of turbulent economies and scarce resources, are you wondering where your next wave of profitable growth will come from? This chapter argues that, now more than ever, the key to unlocking hidden sources of growth and profits is to renew focus on your core business. Short case studies of companies like Bausch & Lomb, Amazon, and The Gartner Group demonstrate how some have profited from their core business, even through tough times, while others have strayed too far from the core-to disastrous results. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 1 of Profit from the Core (Updated Edition): A Return to Growth in Turbulent Times.
Desperately Seeking Solutions: Rationing Health Care
by David J. HunterFollowing the Governments health reforms in 1991 rationing has been put firmly on the agenda. This book identifies and clarifies the numerous political and ethical issues surrounding rationing in healthcare. Drawing upon international examples it offers a critical overview of the approaches to rationing and makes practical proposals for its management.Desperately Seeking Solutions challenges the assumption that all health services are inherently subject to rationing as demand invariably outstrips supply and examines this within a comparative framework. The author critically evaluates the extent to which rationing has always existed and should exist within the NHS, although until recently it operated on an implicit rather than explicit basis and was bound up with clinical judgements rather than purely financial considerations. The author questions whether calls for explicit rationing are actually desirable and potentially feasible.
Desperately Seeking Synergy
by Andrew Campbell Michael GooldManagers can separate the real opportunities for synergy from the mirages, say Michael Goold and Andrew Campbell of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre, by taking a more disciplined approach to synergy. Corporate executives have strong biases in favor of synergy, and those biases can lead them into ill-advised attempts to force business units to cooperate--even when the ultimate benefits are unclear. These biases take four forms: 1) the synergy bias, which leads executives to overestimate the benefits and underestimate the costs of synergy; 2) the parenting bias, a belief that synergy will be captured only by cajoling or compelling business units to cooperate; 3) the skills bias--the assumption that whatever know-how is required to achieve synergy will be available within the organization; and 4) the upside bias, which causes executives to concentrate so hard on the potential benefits of synergy that they overlook the possible downside risks. In combination, these four biases make synergy seem more attractive and more easily achievable than it truly is. As a result, corporate executives often launch initiatives that ultimately waste time and money and sometimes even severely damage their businesses. To avoid such failures, executives need to subject all synergy opportunities to a clear-eyed analysis that clarifies the benefits to be gained, examines the potential for corporate involvement, and takes into account the possible downsides. Such a disciplined approach will inevitably mean that fewer initiatives will be launched. But those that are pursued will be far more likely to deliver.
Despierta el genio financiero de tus hijos: ¿Por qué los estudiantes de 10 trabajan para estudiantes de 6 y los estudian
by Robert T. KiyosakiLa guía definitiva del Padre Rico para que los padres brinden la mejor educación financiera a sus hijos. El autor del bestseller Padre Rico, Padre Pobre, Robert T. Kiyosaki, nos enseña a educar a nuestros hijos a nivel financiero. ¿Qué parte de la crisis financiera de hoy en día es resultado de una crisis de educación...o de falta de educación? ¿Y qué puede hacer un padre, hoy desde casa, para darles a sus hijos una ventaja financiera? En 1997 se lanzó Padre Rico, Padre Pobre y no ha dejado de ser un bestseller desde entonces. Hoy es, en el mundo, el libro de finanzas personales más vendido de todos los tiempos. Esta nueva obra de Kiyosaki insta a los padres a que dejen de obsesionarse con las calificaciones de sus hijos (que sólo reflejan que el estudiante cabe en el molde que la escuela quiere crear) y mejor se enfoquen en los conceptos, las ideas y la ayuda que sus hijos necesitan para encontrar su verdadero "genio", ese don único y especial, por un camino que, además, se puede construir con amor y verdadera pasión. Siempre le pregunté a mis profesores: "¿Por qué no me enseñas algo sobre el dinero?". No fueron capaces de darme una respuesta. [...]. Este libro es para los padres que quieren preparar a sus hijos para un mundo de constantes transformaciones; para enseñarles qué hacer con el dinero, temas que las escuelas no tocan y por consiguiente, no los preparan en cuanto a educación financiera, no los preparan para el mundo... El mundo real del dinero. - Robert T. Kiyosaki
Despotism on Demand: How Power Operates in the Flexible Workplace
by Alex J. WoodDespotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace.Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achieved through the insidious combination of "flexible discipline" and "schedule gifts." Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive "schedule gifts": more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.
Después del trabajo: El empleo argentino en la cuarta Revolución Industrial
by Eduardo Levy Yeyati¿Hay vida después del trabajo? Con optimismo o desesperanza, con retórica académica o de charla de café, hace tiempo sabemos, escuchamos o intuimos que el trabajo, como lo conocemos, seguirá siendo desplazado por la tecnología. ¿Preocupación "de países desarrollados"? Cada vez tenemos más evidencia para afirmar que no: la pregunta por el futuro del empleo en la Argentina no solo es relevante, también es urgente. Y tal vez no se trate de si seremos reemplazados por robots y cuándo, sino de discutir las consecuencias de una sustitución inevitable sobre nuestro bienestar y nuestra cultura. ¿Somos capaces de convertir progreso tecnológico en herramienta liberadora? Este libro apuesta a esa posibilidad y brinda los insumos para pensarla y formularla en términos de política pública. Basado en una investigación sin precedentes, traza un mapa del trabajo en la Argentina de hoy, presenta sus perspectivas a futuro y, sobre todo, invita a entender las consecuencias de un cambio de dimensiones históricas que golpea cada vez más cerca de casa.
Destin Brass Products Co.
by William J. Bruns Jr.A specialized manufacturer of brass valves, pumps, and flow controllers is troubled by competitive pricing in pumps and higher than expected margins for flow controllers. Managers suspect that cost accounting and cost allocations to products may be to blame. Two volume-based systems are described and illustrated.
Destination Brands
by Annette Pritchard Nigel Morgan Roger PrideThis textbook shows how cities, regions and countries adopt branding strategies similar to those of leading household brand names in an effort to differentiate themselves and emotionally connect with potential tourists. It asks whether tourist destinations get the reputations they deserve and uses topical case studies to discuss brand concepts and challenges. It tackles how place perceptions are formed, how cities, regions and countries can enhance their reputations as creative, competitive destinations, and the link between competitive identity and strategic tourism policy making.
Destination Competitiveness, the Environment and Sustainability
by Andrés Artal-Tur Metin KozakDestination competitiveness and sustainability are important issues for many stakeholders within the tourism industry. In recent years, destinations have faced some challenges with respect to maintaining sustainability; they must be cleaner, greener and safer in order to safeguard the life quality of holidaymakers and local residents. Providing an invaluable review of the latests research on the topic, global case studies provide a perspective of the worldwide challenges and solutions arising in the management of tourism destinations. The analysis presents an interdisciplinary approach, including contributions of economists, geographers, managers and marketing professionals.
Destination Competitiveness, the Environment and Sustainability: Challenges and Cases (CABI Series in Tourism Management Research)
by Andrés Artal-Tur Metin KozakDestination competitiveness and sustainability are important issues for many stakeholders within the tourism industry. In recent years, destinations have faced some challenges with respect to maintaining sustainability; they must be cleaner, greener and safer in order to safeguard the life quality of holidaymakers and local residents. Providing an invaluable review of the latests research on the topic, global case studies provide a perspective of the worldwide challenges and solutions arising in the management of tourism destinations. The analysis presents an interdisciplinary approach, including contributions of economists, geographers, managers and marketing professionals.
Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums and Heritage
by Barbara Kirshenblatt-GimblettDestination Culture takes the reader on an eye-opening journey from ethnological artifacts to kitsch. Posing the question, "What does it mean to show?" Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett explores the agency of display in a variety of settings: museums, festivals, world's fairs, historical re-creations, memorials, and tourist attractions. She talks about how objects and people are made to "perform" their meaning for us by the very fact of being collected and exhibited, and about how specific techniques of display, not just the things shown, convey powerful messages. Her engaging analysis shows how museums compete with tourism in the production of "heritage. " To make themselves profitable, museums are marketing themselves as tourist attractions. To make locations into destinations, tourism is staging the world as a museum of itself. Both promise to deliver heritage. Although heritage is marketed as something old, she argues that heritage is actually a new mode of cultural production that gives a second life to dying ways of life, economies, and places. The book concludes with a lively commentary on the "good taste/bad taste" debate in the ephemeral "museum of the life world," where everyone is a curator of sorts and the process of converting life into heritage begins.
Destination Design: Neue Ansätze und Perspektiven aus der Designforschung für die Entwicklung von Regionen und Destinationen (Entrepreneurial Management und Standortentwicklung)
by Harald Pechlaner Greta Erschbamer Natalie OlbrichSich verändernde politische, gesellschaftliche, technologische und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen führen zu komplexen Herausforderungen in touristischen Zielgebieten und machen neue Ansätze im Destinationsmanagement erforderlich. Um innovative Möglichkeiten der Destinationsentwicklung aufzuzeigen, können Konzepte aus der Designforschung Anwendung finden. Design ist in der Lage, eine Brücke zwischen verschiedenen Disziplinen zu schlagen und neue Lösungen aufzuzeigen. Das Buch umfasst eine Vielfalt integrativer Ansätze an der Schnittstelle aus Tourismus-, Destinations- und Designforschung, beleuchtet neue Zugänge und bereichert durch Empirie und konkrete Beispiele den Forschungsstand im Bereich Destination Design.
Destination Marketing: An international perspective (Routledge Advances in Tourism)
by Metin Kozak Nazmi KozakThis book advances the current literature on destination marketing by using innovative up-to-date case studies from a wide geographical representation. The contributors examine new methods and marketing approaches used within the field through a combination of theoretical and practical approaches. With discussions of topics including image, branding, attractions and competitiveness, the chapters in this volume offer new insight into contemporary developments such as medical tourism, Islamic tourism and film-induced tourism. Presenting detailed findings and a range of methodologies, ranging from surveys to travel writings and ethnography, this book will be of interest to students, scholars and practitioners in the fields of tourism and marketing.
Destination Marketing: Essentials
by Steven PikeDestination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing organisations (DMOs) and how destination marketing can be planned, implemented and evaluated to achieve successful destination competitiveness. This new third edition has been revised and updated to include: 27 new and updated case studies, including destinations such as Sri Lanka, Barbados, the UAE, and crucially relevant topics such as the Australian bushfires and the threat of COVID-19 Brand-new pedagogical features such as in-chapter class activities, key term definitions, and highlighted critical points New content on cross-sector consortia marketing for meetings and events, social media influencer marketing, the role of technology, resource consumption and climate change, creativity and innovation in developing destination branding, experiential destination marketing and the influence of culture and sustainability on destination marketing Links to free access of the author’s journal articles on destination marketing Updated additional online resources for lecturers and students including PowerPoint slides, quizzes and discussion questions It is written in an engaging style and applies theory to a range of tourism destinations at the consumer, business, national and international level by using topical examples.
Destination Marketing: Essentials
by Steven PikeDestination Marketing offers the reader an integrated and comprehensive overview of the key challenges and constraints facing destination marketing organisations (DMOs) and how destination marketing can be planned, implemented and evaluated to achieve successful destination competitiveness. This new second edition has been revised and updated to include: new slimline 15-chapter structure new chapters on Destination Competitiveness and Technology new and updated case studies throughout, including emerging markets new content on social media marketing in destination marketing organisations and sustainable destination marketing additional online resources for lecturers and students including PowerPoint slides, quizzes and discussion questions. It is written in an engaging style and applies theory to a range of tourism destinations at the consumer, business, national and international level by using topical examples.
Destination Marketing Organisations
by Steven PikeTravellers are now spoilt by choice of available holiday destinations. In today's crowded tourism market place, destination competitiveness demands an effective marketing organisation. Two themes underpin Destination Marketing Organisations. The first is the challenges associated with promoting multi-attributed destinations in dynamic and heterogeneous markets, and the second is the divide between tourism 'practitioners' and academics. Written by a former 'practitioner', Destination Marketing Organisations bridges industry and theory by synthesising a wealth of academic literature of practical value to DMOs. Key learning outcomes are to enhance understanding of the fundamental issues relating to:The rationale for the establishment of DMOsThe structure, roles, goals and functions of DMOsThe key opportunities, challenges and constraints facing DMOsThe complexities of marketing destinations as tourism brandsThe AuthorDr Steven Pike (PhD) spent 17 years in the tourism industry, working in destination marketing organisations, before joining academia. He is currently a Visiting Scholar with the School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations at Queensland University of Technology, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Marketing and Tourism at Central Queensland University.
Destination NATO: Defence Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2003–13 (Whitehall Papers)
by Rohan Maxwell John Andreas OlsenDefence reform has been a major component of Bosnia’s stabilisation and nation-building. Though true for many cases of post-conflict transition, it is especially so for Bosnia, which arguably has the most complex state structure in Europe. Ten years on from the start of Bosnia’s defence-reform process, Destination NATO records and reviews the Bosnian experience of defence reform. The monograph offers policy-makers, practitioners and academics knowledge of the specific case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and makes these insights relevant to defence-reform efforts in other contexts. The research is based on original sources and an extensive set of interviews and talks with key individuals including ambassadors, ministers and civil servants, and other senior national and international actors, in addition to discussions with several hundred politicians at local levels, students and NGO representatives. The authors also use their first-hand knowledge and insights to complement the documentation, interviews and discussions.
Destination Recommendation Systems: Behavioral Foundations and Applications
by Daniel R. Fesenmaier Karl W. Wöber Hannes WerthnerAn emerging area of study within technology and tourism focuses on the development of technologies which enable Internet users to quickly and effectively find relevant information about selected topics including travel destination, transportation, etc.
Destination Resilience: Challenges and Opportunities for Destination Management and Governance (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility)
by Elisa Innerhofer Harald Pechlaner Martin FontanariThis book calls for rethinking the meaning of sustainable development in tourism and explores how sustainability and resilience could be integrated. It argues that these concepts should be seen as interwoven processes, rather than alternative approaches. Resilience should be understood as a fundamental part of sustainable tourism thinking for destination systems. This can be achieved by calling for better governance in implementation and management. With insights from leading experts, chapters focus on resilient destinations from this governance perspective, in which tourism resilience is contextualized as an integral part of pathway creation in the process of moving towards sustainable tourism. The chapters represent a range of theoretical and empirical approaches with a wide international scope to demonstrate how governance is the key issue in sustainable tourism development. This book will appeal to a wide range of research disciplines and students whose modules focus on the relationship between tourism with respect to sustainability planning, governance, environment, and hazards and disasters.
Destined for Greatness: Passions, Dreams, and Aspirations in a College Music Town
by Michael RamirezPursuing the dream of a musical vocation—particularly in rock music—is typically regarded as an adolescent pipedream. Music is marked as an appropriate leisure activity, but one that should be discarded upon entering adulthood. How then do many men and women aspire to forge careers in music upon entering adulthood? In Destined for Greatness, sociologist Michael Ramirez examines the lives of forty-eight independent rock musicians who seek out such non-normative choices in a college town renowned for its music scene. He explores the rich life course trajectories of women and men to explore the extent to which pathways are structured to allow some, but not all, individuals to fashion careers in music worlds. Ramirez suggests a more nuanced understanding of factors that enable the pursuit of musical livelihoods well into adulthood.
Destined To Lead
by Karol M. WasylyshynIn a field that's crowded with how-to coaching books and academic tomes on organization/leadership behavior, Destined to Lead breaks away from the crowd with its specificity and candor on how real cases unfolded in the hands in one of the world's most respected pioneers of executive coaching.