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Innovative Water Finance in Africa: Economics and Principles of Financial Innovations for Water Managers
by Atakilte Beyene Cush Ngonzo LuwesiWater has become increasingly central to addressing multiple development and environmental objectives in the course of climate change. Exploring the multiple dimensions of water governance, policy and management in a holistic way is thus imperative for financial innovations to take place in the water sector. This book constitutes, first of all, a reference document allowing African managers and policymakers to broaden their knowledge of financing strategies and tactics in order to raise funds for water services provision and water resources development. Additionally, the book reviews the agenda on water and sanitation services in order to ensure water resources development has a place in funding structures. The book presents and discusses contemporary instruments of financing water services and water resources development in Africa. In this regard, three major thematic areas are recognized as key: Coverage of the legal and institutional contexts pertaining to water financing innovations; an assessment of economic mechanisms and principles subtending financial innovations in the water sector; and applications of innovative water financing mechanisms based on scale formation and adoption practices. This book highlights the principles of economic profitability and financial sustainability to enable creditworthiness and a snowball effect of borrowing, and will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, and academics, as well as development agencies and financiers of sustainable development and environmental (Blue and Green) economies.
Innovativer Einsatz digitaler Medien im Marketing: Analysen, Strategien, Erfolgsfaktoren, Fallbeispiele
by Lothar Winnen Alexander Rühle Alexander WrobelDieses Buch zeigt fundiert, wie digitale Medien für unterschiedliche Zielsetzungen im Marketing passgenau eingesetzt werden können. Digitalexperten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis geben wertvolle Einblicke in die aktuellen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten. Neben neuesten Forschungsergebnissen zu den Themen Dynamic Pricing, Einsatz von Bots, Transmediales Marketing, Recruiting oder Mobile Marketing liefern sie wichtige Erkenntnisse und konkrete Praxisbeispiele aus unterschiedlichen Branchen.Ein inspirierendes Werk, das kluge Wege aufzeigt, um Ziele und Zielgruppen auch in einer zunehmend dynamischen Welt erfolgreich und nachhaltig zu erreichen.
Innovatives Brand Management: Wie Sie Marken in digitalen Zeiten organisieren, führen und optimieren
by Michael Schwarz Günther MisofDieses Buch erklärt, wie Marken heute geführt werden müssen: innovativ, flexibel und mutig, aber auch strukturiert und effizient. Die Autoren zeigen, wie das konkret funktionieren kann, und beantworten die derzeit drängenden Fragen. Wie kann man seine Marke über alle neuen digitalen und analogen Kanäle und Touchpoints hinweg effektiv führen und organisieren? Wie verbindet man die Unternehmensstrategie mit der Markenstrategie? Wie macht man Mitarbeiter zu kompetenten Markenbotschaftern? Und: Wie wird der Beitrag der Marke zum Unternehmenserfolg gemessen?Mit ihrem Brand-oriented-Management-Modell liefern die Autoren einen direkt anwendbaren Handlungsrahmen, der den Erfolgsfaktor Marke auch in digitalen und globalisierten Zeiten intelligent und nachhaltig in der Unternehmens-Strategie und dem Management-Alltag verankert. Checklisten helfen bei der Umsetzung und sorgfältig erstellte Definitionen schaffen Klarheit im Dschungel der immer wieder neu kursierenden Buzzwords.
Innovatives Lehren und Lernen mit Blended Learning: Bausteine, Strukturen und Umsetzung in der Organisation
by Stefan Märk Mario Situm Ingrid Hovdar-Stojakovic Hans-Peter SteinbacherWie kann Blended Learning genutzt werden, um organisationales Lernen zu fördern und Wissens- und Kompetenzerwerb effizient zu gestalten? Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die in einem Unternehmens- oder Hochschulkontext Lernszenarien planen, konzipieren und durchführen. Zudem richtet es sich an Personalverantwortliche, welche Aus- und Weiterbildung im eigenen Unternehmen für Mitarbeiter zeitgemäß auf- und umsetzen möchten. Erfahren Sie, wie man Blended Learning so gestaltet, dass Wissen je nach Inhalt, Problemstellung, Schwierigkeitsgrad und Zielgruppe im Unternehmen strukturiert und systematisiert an die anvisierten Zielgruppen weitergegeben wird. Dabei gehen die Autoren versiert und praxisbezogen insbesondere auf Kompetenzerwerb und Learning Outcomes ein, damit in der Umsetzung der größtmögliche Lernerfolg erzielt und gemessen werden kann.
Innovatives Lieferantenmanagement: Wertschöpfung in globalen Lieferketten
by Marc HelmoldGlobalisierung, Digitalisierung, weltweite Lieferketten und die Corona-Pandemie haben in Unternehmen zu einer stärkeren Betrachtung von Wertschöpfungsketten geführt. Durch Leistungsverlagerungen auf teilweise konkurrierende Lieferantennetzwerke entstehen neue Leitbilder, Strategien und Abläufe. Der Fokus in der Zukunft liegt somit schon lange nicht mehr nur auf der Hebung unternehmensinterner Kostenvorteile, sondern viel mehr im Informationsaustausch, in stabilen Lieferketten und der Ausschöpfung globaler unternehmensübergreifender Potenziale.Dieses Buch zeigt anhand innovativer, digitaler und strategischer Beispiele, wie ein erfolgreiches Lieferantenmanagement funktionieren und agieren muss.
Innovatives Prozessmanagement als Erfolgsfaktor im OP-Bereich eines Universitätsklinikums
by Matthias JandaDer wachsende Effizienzdruck im Gesundheitswesen wird mittel- bis langfristig zu einer Konsolidierung der Krankenhauslandschaft führen. Die Operationsabteilung eines Krankenhauses, gekennzeichnet durch eine überdurchschnittliche Erlösrelevanz bei gleichzeitig hohem Ressourceneinsatz, rückt dabei durch ihren wesentlichen Wertschöpfungsbeitrag zunehmend in den Fokus ökonomischer Betrachtungen. Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, wie der OP-Bereich durch Maßnahmen zur Prozessentwicklung und -steuerung erfolgswirksam gestaltet werden kann. Es beschreibt dabei am Beispiel eines universitären Maximalversorgers praxisrelevant und detailliert die zur Optimierung der Prozesse durchgeführten Arbeitsschritte unter Darstellung der verwendeten Prozessmodelle. Durch anschließende Analyse prozessrelevanter Leistungskennzahlen kann über einen Dreijahreszeitraum gezeigt werden, welchen positiven Beitrag der operative Bereich zum Unternehmenserfolg eines Krankenhauses durch das systematische Ausschöpfen von Verbesserungspotentialen unter Wahrung von Patientensicherheit sowie der Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit leisten kann.
Innovatives und digitales Marketing in der Praxis: Insights, Strategien und Impulse für Unternehmen
by Christian Lucas Gabriele SchusterDieses Buch liefert einen Überblick über neue Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Wirkmechanismen von digitalem Marketing. Es gibt vielfältige Impulse und zeigt anhand eines breiten Themenportfolios, welche Strategien sich für die praktische Anwendung in der Wirtschaft eignen. Die Autor:innen, allesamt Hochschuldozierende und praxiserfahrene Marketingexpert:innen, betrachten dabei die Auswirkungen der kontinuierlichen Vernetzung und Digitalisierung im gesamten Marketingprozess – und geben Antworten auf folgende Fragen: Welche Auswirkungen hat die Digitalisierung auf die Kund:innen? Wie emotionalisiert man Kundenbeziehungen und wie sieht eine erfolgreiche Customer Journey aus? Welche Potenziale haben Open Innovation, Growth Hacking, Blockchain und Künstliche Intelligenz im Marketing? Was gilt es bei E-Commerce-Strategien und beim Dynamic Pricing zu beachten? Was ist eine Corporate Digital Responsibility und welche Bedeutung haben Corporate Podcasts? Was müssen Unternehmen in besonderen Segmenten wie im B2B oder auch bei der Zielgruppe 50+ heute beachten? Ein leicht verständliches und praxisnahes Werk, das Marketingverantwortliche in Unternehmen in die Lage versetzt, gezielt dort nachzusteuern, wo sie gerade akuten Bedarf haben. Mit Beiträgen von:Elisa Dorothee Adam Christoph Albers Prof. Dr. Josef Arweck Prof. Dr. Thomas Bolz Prof. Dr. Georg Bouché Simon Ens Dr. Eva Ghazari-ArndtProf. Dr. Maik Günther Prof. Dr. Nele Hansen Dr. Natascha Hebestreit Prof. Dr. Claudia Hess Prof. Dr. Dr. Dietmar Janetzko Prof. Dr. Marion Kalteis Prof. Dr. Jan Thido Karlshaus Prof. Dr. Anna Klein Prof. Dr. Ralf Kneuper Prof. Dr. Cordula KreuzenbeckProf. Dr. Alexandra Kühte Prof. Dr. Sibylle Kunz Prof. Dr. Rico ManßProf. Dr. Michaela Moser Prof. Dr. Susanne O’Gorman Prof. Dr. Jochen Panzer Prof. Dr. Sven Pastowski Prof. Dr. Jan Pieper Prof. Dr. Jonas Polfuß Prof. Dr. Katharina-Maria Rehfeld Prof. Dr. Verena Renneberg Prof. Dr. Angela Rohde Prof. Dr. Uta Scheunert Prof. Dr. Daniel Schmid Prof. Dr. Benjamin Krischan Schulte Prof. Dr. Carsten Skerra Prof. Dr. Felix Wölfle Prof. Dr. Lisa-Charlotte Wolter Prof. Dr. Matthias Zeisberg Prof. Dr. Ina zur Oven-Krockhaus Prof. Dr. Tanja Zweigle
Innovator's Dilemma: Why Good Companies Fail to Thrive in Fast-Moving Industries
by Clayton M. ChristensenThis chapter looks at why well-managed companies that have their competitive antennae up, listen to their customers, and invest aggressively in new technologies still lose market dominance. The chapter introduces the concepts of sustaining and disruptive technologies, the tensions between them, and the need for successful companies to manage their innovation efforts in the context of continuous disruptive competition. This chapter was originally published as the introduction to "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail."
Innovator's Playbook: How to Create Great Products, Services and Experiences that Your Customers Will Love
by Nathan BairdTake a Design-led Approach to Innovation Innovation drives growth in organisations and entire economies. Yet innovation is hard, risky and rarely successful. Most innovations and startups fail because of a lack of focus on the front end of the innovation process where customer needs are researched, insights are distilled, solutions are ideated, prototyped and tested and business models are shaped. But innovation doesn’t have to be this way. In Innovator’s Playbook, author and leading Design Thinking expert Nathan Baird shares his 20 years of hands-on experience, tools and methods for developing a winning customer-centric approach to innovation. This book will teach you how to apply the design thinking method to innovation and help you to innovate better with five practical and proven stages: 1. Build the right team for innovation. 2. Better understand your customer through empathy. 3. Distill and refine customer-centric needs and insights. 4. Unleash your team’s creativity to create fresh new ideas to address customer needs. 5. Experiment and validate desirable, feasible and viable solutions. Innovator’s Playbook helps entrepreneurs, corporate teams, startups and leaders across all levels to use design-led methodologies for start-to-finish innovation success.
Innovator's Playbook: Produkte und Dienstleistungen entwickeln, die Kunden lieben
by Nathan BairdInnovation treibt das Wachstum von Organisationen und ganzen Volkswirtschaften an. Doch Innovation ist hart, riskant und selten erfolgreich. Die meisten Innovationen und Neugründungen scheitern an der mangelnden Konzentration auf das Front-End des Innovationsprozesses, wo Kundenbedürfnisse erforscht, Erkenntnisse destilliert, Lösungen entworfen, Prototypen erstellt und getestet und Geschäftsmodelle gestaltet werden. Aber Innovation muss nicht auf diese Weise erfolgen. In "Innovator's Playbook" teilt der Autor und führende Design-Thinking-Experte Nathan Baird seine 20 Jahre praktische Erfahrung. Er stellt Werkzeuge und Methoden vor, die er in Hunderten von erfolgreichen Implementierungen von kundenzentrierter Innovation und kundenzentriertem Design in verschiedenen Branchen und Kontinenten entwickelt hat. Ziel ist die Entwicklung eines erfolgreichen kundenorientierten Innovationsansatzes. In diesem Buch lernen Sie, wie Sie die Design-Thinking-Methode auf Innovation anwenden können. Es hilft Ihnen, in fünf praktischen und bewährten Phasen besser zu innovieren: 1. Stellen Sie das richtige Team für Innovation zusammen. 2. Verstehen Sie Ihren Kunden durch Einfühlungsvermögen besser. 3. Destillieren und verfeinern Sie kundenzentrierte Bedürfnisse und Erkenntnisse. 4. Setzen Sie die Kreativität Ihres Teams frei, um frische neue Ideen zu entwickeln und um Kundenbedürfnisse anzusprechen. 5. Erprobung und Validierung wünschenswerter, durchführbarer und tragfähiger Lösungen. "Innovator's Playbook" hilft Unternehmern, Unternehmensteams, Start-ups und Führungskräften auf allen Ebenen, designorientierte Methoden für den Innovationserfolg von Anfang bis Ende einzusetzen.
Innovator's Toolkit
by Harvard Business School PressThe Innovator's ToolkitWhat are the types of innovation? How can you generate creative ideas for your business? How can you move from ideas to unleashing you innovation to the market? How can you combine your innovation with a strategic plan to move your company forward? Get these questions answered with jargon-free, useable, practical tools and advice. The Innovator?s Toolkit offers you field-tested techniques and tips to ensure the successful development and implementation of your innovation. Topics Include:- Moving innovation to the market- Making strategic, innovative moves and placing strategic bets- Using projects to drive innovation to marketReaders can also access free interactive tools on the Harvard Business Essentials companion Web site at www.elearning.hbsp.org/businesstools.Harvard Business EssentialsThe Reliable Source for Busy ManagersThe Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience. To assure quality and accuracy, each volume is closely reviewed by a specialized content adviser from a world class business school. Whether you are a new manager interested in expanding your skills or an experienced executive looking for a personal resource, these solution-oriented books offer reliable answers at your fingertips.
Innovatorinnen gestalten Zukunft: Fallstudien für Praxis und Lehre (essentials)
by Kerstin Ettl Julia Voß Clara Meyer zu AltenschildescheDieses Open Access essential enthält eine Sammlung praxisnaher Fallstudien, die auf realen Beispielen von Innovatorinnen basieren und einen Einblick in die vielfältigen Rollen von Frauen in Innovationsprozessen geben. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Vermittlung eines breiten Innovationsbegriffs. Zugleich wird herausgearbeitet, wie bedeutend es ist, Innovatorinnen und ihre Leistungen sichtbar zu machen.
Innovators' Marketplace
by Yukio Ohsawa Yoko NishiharaThis book presents a powerful method for innovation that reinforces combinatorial and analogical thoughts, with interdisciplinary communications among stakeholders in the market. In this method called Innovators' Marketplace, two games - Innovators' Market Game and Analogy Game - accelerate the spiral of innovation with visualizing data on the connectivity of pieces of existing knowledge. Some players invent ideas by connecting and combining pre-existing knowledge, while others evaluate the ideas to decide whether or not to buy. In a joyful atmosphere created by the games, players look beyond resistance to criticism, as experiments real cases show. They will start thinking and talking about the best segment of the majority, latent requirements in the future market, and scenarios for satisfying those requirements. This process embodies the principle that an interdisciplinary combination of business actors and resources, possibly with the appearance of new actors, triggers innovation.
Input Trade Liberalization in China (Contributions to Economics)
by Wei Tian Miaojie YuThis book focuses on input trade liberalization in China and discusses the underlying causes and profound effects of Chinese enterprises facing import liberalization of intermediate input. The content of this book includes ten chapters. The analysis of this book mainly uses academic research, with policy study for a few chapters. Most chapters in this book apply the standard method of contemporary economic systems, integrating into the most advanced economic theories of international trade. The author uses theoretical models to obtain predictions which receive empirical support and carries out strict empirical research using data of China's manufacturing enterprises and China's customs to analyze the causes which affect Chinese enterprises facing import liberalization of intermediate input after China’s reform and opening-up. The suggested readership would be the public who are willing to understand the issues closely related to China’s input trade liberalization and opening-up policy, and basic knowledge in economics would be necessary in understanding the academic research part of the book. Meanwhile, this book is also specifically compelling to business persons and policy makers in that it enables deeper understanding on issues about outward foreign investment of enterprises and China’s opening-up policy and facilitates their decision-making process.
Input-Output Analysis
by Ronald E. Miller Peter D. BlairThe new edition of Ronald Miller and Peter Blair's classic textbook is an essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community. The book has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field since its original publication. New topics covered include SAMs (and extended input-output models) and their connection to input-output data, structural decomposition analysis (SDA), multiplier decompositions, identifying important coefficients, and international input-output models. A major new feature of this edition is that it is also supported by an accompanying website with solutions to all problems, wide-ranging real-world data sets, and appendices with further information for more advanced readers. Input-Output Analysis is an ideal introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of fields, including economics, regional science, regional economics, city, regional and urban planning, environmental planning, public policy analysis, and public management.
Input-Output Analysis: Foundations and Extensions
by Ronald E. Miller Peter D. BlairThis essential reference for students and scholars in the input-output research and applications community has been fully revised and updated to reflect important developments in the field. Expanded coverage includes construction and application of multiregional and interregional models, including international models and their application to global economic issues such as climate change and international trade; structural decomposition and path analysis; linkages and key sector identification and hypothetical extraction analysis; the connection of national income and product accounts to input-output accounts; supply and use tables for commodity-by-industry accounting and models; social accounting matrices; non-survey estimation techniques; and energy and environmental applications. Input-Output Analysis is an ideal introduction to the subject for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in many scholarly fields, including economics, regional science, regional economics, city, regional and urban planning, environmental planning, public policy analysis and public management.
Input-Output Models for Sustainable Industrial Systems: Implementation Using Lingo (Lecture Notes In Management And Industrial Engineering Ser.)
by Raymond R. Tan Kathleen B. Aviso Joost R. Santos Michael Angelo Promentilla Krista Danielle YuThis book addresses the specialized topic of input–output models for sustainable industrial systems. While these models are well-established tools for economic analysis, their underlying mathematical structure is also applicable to the analysis and optimization of a wide range of systems that are characterized by linear interdependencies among their components. This means that input–output models can be used for diverse networks, such as processes within industrial plants, industrial plants in a supply chain, or departmental units within an organization. The models can also be readily extended to interactions between man-made systems and the environment, e.g. flows of natural resources and/or pollutants. Furthermore, model variants with excess degrees of freedom can be formulated to allow optimization and decision-making to be integrated within the framework. This book examines how input–output models can be applied to sustainable industrial systems. Each major variant is discussed separately in a dedicated chapter, and representative case studies and supporting LINGO code are also included.
Input-Output in the United Kingdom: Proceedings of the 1968 Manchester Conference (Routledge Library Editions: Econometrics #5)
by W. F. GosslingOriginally published in 1970. Input-output analysis has been described as the "lynch-pin of modern economic planning". Its purpose is to trace the consequences of any economic change through each sector of the economy; to measure, for example, the effects of an increase in fuel tax on the price of food, or of an expansion in car production on the country’s import bill. This kind of knowledge is clearly essential for making economic predictions. This book presents the proceedings of the 1968 Manchester Conference including six outline papers, each followed by discussion, and several summaries of ongoing and proposed research which were added afterwards. The speakers and participants constituted a representative sample of persons from Industry and Commerce, as well as the Universities and the Civil Service.
Input/Output Databases: Uses in Business and Government (Routledge Library Editions: Econometrics #7)
by Jay M. GouldOriginally published in 1979. An Input/output database is an information system carrying current data on the intermediate consumption of any product or service by all the specified major firms that consume it. This book begins with a survey of how the interrelationships of an economic system can be represented in a two-dimensional model which traces the output of each economic sector to all other sectors. It talks about how the use of such databases to identify major buyers and sellers can illuminate problems of economic policy at the national, regional, and corporate level and aid in analyzing factors affecting the control of inflation, energy use, transportation, and environmental pollution. The book discusses how advances in database technology, have brought to the fore such issues as the right to individual privacy, corporate secrecy, the public’s right of access to stored data, and the use of such information for national planning in a free-enterprise society.
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered
by Woody TaschCould there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small, and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs? What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets within 50 miles of where you live?Such questions—at the heart of slow money—represent the first steps on our path to a new economy.Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents an essential new strategy for investing in local food systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture. Theirs is a vision for investing that puts soil fertility into return-on-investment calculations and serves people and place as much at it serves industry sectors and markets.Leading the charge is Woody Tasch-whose decades of work as a venture capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur now shed new light on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary responsibility. He offers an alternative vision to the dusty old industrial concepts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when dollars, and the businesses they financed, lost their connection to place; slow money, on the other hand, is firmly rooted in the new economic, social, and environmental realities of the 21st century.Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money is a call to action for designing capital markets built around not extraction and consumption but preservation and restoration. Is it a movement or is it an investment strategy? Yes.
Inquiry and Decision (Routledge Revivals)
by John O'ShaughnessyFirst published in 1972, this book combines concepts from the philosophy of science and statistics with social science techniques to form a methodological text for all those engaged in the social sciences and in management. It details the processes of inquiry – namely description, explanation, evaluation and prediction – and shows the role they play in prescriptive decision-making. It is argued that an understanding of these processes lies behind successful inquiry and is an aid to effective decision-making. Broad in scope, this reissue will help the decision-maker avoid some of the errors that can arise in moving from a set of stated goals to the selection of the course of action that will achieve these goals. It will appeal to all those engaged in inquiry in the fields of sociology, psychology, political science, and business and management studies, as well as the manager in both the public and private sector.
Insane Mode: How Elon Musk's Tesla Sparked an Electric Revolution to End the Age of Oil
by Hamish McKenzie“You’ll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?” --Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie tells how a Silicon Valley start-up's wild dream came true. Tesla is a car company that stood up against not only the might of the government-backed Detroit car manufacturers but also the massive power of Big Oil and its benefactors, the infamous Koch brothers. The award-winning Tesla Model 3, a premium mass-market electric car that went on sale in 2018, has reconfigured the popular perception of Tesla and continues to transform the public's relationship with motor vehicles--much like Ford's Model T did nearly a century ago. At the same time, company CEO Elon Musk courts controversy and spars with critics through his Twitter account, just as Tesla's ever-increasing debt teeters on junk bond status. . . . As McKenzie's rigorously reported account shows, Tesla has triggered frenzied competition from newcomers and traditional automakers alike, but it retains an edge because of its expansive infrastructure and the stupendous battery factory it built in the Nevada desert. The popularity of electric cars is growing around the world, especially in China, and McKenzie interviews little-known titans who have the money and the market access to power a global electric car revolution quickly and decisively."Insane Mode" started off as a feature on the dual-motor Tesla Model S, which gave the car Ferrari-like acceleration, but it's also the perfect description of the operating cycle of a company that has sworn it won't rest until every car on the road is electric. Here is a story about the very best kind of American ingenuity and its history-making potential. Buckle up!
Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success
by Ken SegallSimplicity isn't just a design principle at Apple--it's a value that permeates every level of the organization. It's what helped Apple recover from near death in 1997 to become the most valuable company on earth in 2012. As ad agency creative director, Ken Segall played a key role in Apple's resurrection, helping to create such critical marketing campaigns as "Think Different" and naming the iMac. This book makes you a fly on the wall inside a conference room with Steve Jobs, and on the receiving end of his midnight phone calls. You'll understand how his obsession with Simplicity helped Apple perform better and faster, sometimes saving millions in the process. Segall brings Apple's quest for Simplicity to life using fascinating (and previously untold) stories from behind the scenes. Through his insight and wit, you'll discover how companies that leverage this power can stand out from competitors--and individuals who master it can become critical assets to their organizations.
Inscribing Solidarity: Debates in Labor Law and Beyond
by Julia López LópezMany governments, large institutions, and collective actors rely on the principle of solidarity to embed social policies on firm normative and legal grounds. In this original volume, a multidisciplinary roster of scholars come together to examine the contributions – and challenges –implicit in relying on the idea of solidarity to 'inscribe' this principle in social policies. Chapters explore how the dependence on the solidarity principle, and especially on inclusive understandings of solidarity, can strengthen or weaken institutions and movements. The volume's contributors cover developments across decades with a multilevel approach exploring dynamic interactions between local, national, and supranational arenas in pursuing and adjudicating the solidarity principle. Unique and innovative, Inscribing Solidarity examines the implications and dynamics of solidarity across a variety of terrains to illuminate its concrete limitations and specific advantages. This title is also available via Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Inside Accounting: The Sociology of Financial Reporting and Auditing
by David LeungBased on a study covering a one-year financial reporting cycle at a commercial subsidiary of a well-known scientific research organization, Inside Accounting examines how accountants and non-accounting managers construct their company's earnings. Addressing issues in both internal management accounting, such as budgeting, performance evaluation, and control, as well as external financial accounting, such as book keeping, monthly/year end accounts and auditing, David Leung focuses on how people classify transactions, make professional judgments and use computer software for accounting, and prepare for and facilitate the auditing process. He also looks at accountancy training and the impact of people's affiliations to the accounting profession or other professions on their accounting and on their perceptions of financial statements. Other contingent or contextual factors that influence the choice of accounting method, such as time pressure, reward structures, management authority and institutions are also considered. David Leung's research employs an innovative blend of theory and practice that redresses the imbalance between ethnographic studies of financial accounting, and management accounting and helps close the gap between the academic curriculum and the experiences of practitioners. His research leads the author to conclude that no act of accounting classification is ever indefeasibly correct; that the accounting community's institutions and authority are central to the accounting process and to the 'truth and fairness' of accounting numbers; that accounting training involves extensive use of learning by doing; and that both accountants and non-accounting managers have goals and interests that often result in no better than 'good enough' accounting. This book will appeal to accounting and finance professionals and academics in finance, as well as to sociologists and academic researchers interested in research methods and science studies.