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Alle getallen tellen

Hoeveel groter is een miljard dan een miljoen? Een miljoen seconden is twaalf dagen. Een miljard seconden is... tweeëndertig jaar. Het begrijpen van getallen is essentieel, maar mensen zijn niet gebouwd om ze te begrijpen. Nog niet zo lang geleden hadden de meeste talen geen woorden voor getallen groter dan vijf — alles van zes tot oneindig stond bekend als 'veel'. Terwijl de getallen in onze wereld steeds complexer zijn geworden, zitten onze hersenen vast in het verleden. Hoe kunnen we miljoenen en miljarden en milliseconden en nanometers vertalen naar dingen die we kunnen begrijpen en gebruiken? Of je nu geïnteresseerd bent in wereldwijde problemen zoals klimaatverandering, het runnen van een technologiebedrijf of een boerderij, of gewoon wilt uitleggen hoeveel cola je zou moeten drinken als je calorieën zou verbranden als een kolibrie, dit boek helpt je de cijfers te vertalen die onze wereld draaiend houden. Hierdoor kunnen we, zowel wiskundeliefhebbers als -hater, meer data op een natuurlijke manier meenemen in beslissingen op onze scholen, werkplekken en samenleving.

Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy

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Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy defines unique and powerful ways that organizations can foster learning at the individual, group and organizational levels, a capability critical to both strategic objectives and business performance. The book explains how individuals and organizations learn, clarifying cognitive and social aspects of the topic. Readers will understand how learning enables organizations and individuals to better create, assimilate, and transfer knowledge. Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy helps managers create individual and collective processes that maximize the quality of the knowledge created and learned and ensures this knowledge is effectively used. The book appropriately redefines the frequently narrow and technology-oriented view of learning and explains how an effective learning strategy ensures that a broad base of employees learn and implement vital organizational lessons. Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy features focused discussions of organizational core competencies, learning and innovation, communities of practice, assessing organizational learning capabilities, and other important learning topics. This authoritative compendium helps readers master organizational issues crucial in today's knowledge economy by:

Policies for Macrofinancial Stability: How to Deal with Credit Booms

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This note explores the costs and benefits of different policy options to reduce the risks associated with credit booms, drawing upon several country experiences and the findings from econometric analysis.

Thank You for Being Late

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Zehn Jahre Smartphone haben eine neue Ära eingeläutet: Alles verändert sich, und zwar rasend schnell. Das schwindelerregende Tempo der Neuerungen löst bei manch einem ein Gefühl der Unsicherheit und Skepsis aus. Thomas L. Friedman lädt seine Leser ein, einen Moment innezuhalten und die Triebfedern der radikalen Umwälzungen zu betrachten: Technologie, Klimawandel und Vernetzung. Mit seinem neuen Buch bietet er optimistisch und gut verständlich Orientierung für unsere Zeit und zeigt, was eine erfolgreiche Zukunft möglich macht.

Work and Society

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Work and Society is an important new text about the sociology of work and employment. It provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, business and politics, with a firm and enjoyable foundation to this fascinating area of sociology, giving comprehensive coverage of traditional areas of the sub-discipline as well as new trends and developments. The book is divided into three complementary and interconnected sections – investigating work, work and social change and understanding work. These sections allow readers to explore themes, issues and approaches by examining how sociologists have thought about, and researched work and how the sub-discipline has been influenced by wider society itself. Novel features include separate chapters on researching work, domestic work, unemployment and work, and the representation of work in literary and visual media.

Utopia regulaminów. O technologii, tępocie i ukrytych rozkoszach biurokracji

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Czy ktoś lubi biurokrację?Chyba nawet biurokraci jej nie lubią, skoro Ministerstwo Rozwoju prowadzi akcję “STOP biurokracji”. Ale nie wystarczy nie lubić regulaminów i zasad, żeby się ich pozbyć.David Graeber, brytyjski antropolog, zauważa, że im więcej inicjatyw, których celem jest ograniczenie biurokracji i uwolnienie mechanizmów rynkowych, tym więcej regulacji prawnych i aparatu administracyjnego. W fascynującym eseju o “Utopii regulaminów”, tłumaczy w jaki sposób działa ten paradoks, a także to, dlaczego przez rozwój biurokracji państwowej ludzkość nie doczekała się jeszcze kolonii na Marsie.

Note on Retail Assortment

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Assortment is generally the major element of the retail marketing offer and is central to any effective retail marketing strategy. A well-defined and executed assortment strategy can be powerful in differentiating the total retail offering from other retailers. This note is about the assortment choices that retailers face. Assortment is what the retailer manages; selection is what the customer perceives to be offered by the assortment provided. This note explores assortment strategies, ways of making assortment decisions, category management and more.

Note on Retail Customer Analysis

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Retail marketers succeed by serving and satisfying customers. Accordingly, every retailer should be vitally concerned with identifying and understanding both current and potential customers, also known as prospects. This note explores how retailers approach customer analysis, segmentation, trade areas, etc.

Material Cultures of Financialisation

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This collection offers pathbreaking framing of the material culture of financialisation. It begins with a tight definition of financialisation in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financialisation from its effects and from the looser associations prevalent within much of the literature such as the presence of credit or even simply (more extensive) monetary relations. To locate financialisation within economic and social reproduction, of which material culture is a part, close attention is paid to the distinctive forms of financialisation arising from commodification, commodity form and commodity calculation. The differences in the extent to which, and how, these prevail are addressed through the innovative system of provision approach and its framing of material culture through use of ten distinctive attributes of such cultures, known as the 10Cs (Constructed, Construed, Conforming, Commodified, Contextual, Contradictory, Closed, Contested, Collective and Chaotic). This framing of the cultures attached to financialisation is then illustrated through case studies demonstrating the diverse ways in which shifting cultures have served to embed financialisation in our daily lives. After a discussion of the material culture of financialisation itself there are two sector examples which review financial cultures in the provision of water and housing. These are followed by considerations of financialisation in financial literacy and financial inclusion, the media and, finally, well-being. The chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue of New Political Economy.

Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb

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Die Fabrik der Zukunft muss reaktionsschnell, wandlungs- und vernetzungsfähig sein. Die Methoden der Fabrikplanung und des Fabrikbetriebs müssen diesen Anforderungen gerecht werden; deshalb haben die Autoren sie den neuen Anforderungen angepasst und weiterentwickelt. Sie stellen eine Typologie von Fabriken, Fabrik- und Kompetenznetzen vor, die den Auswahlprozess von Fabriktypen, deren Dimension und Struktur unterstützt. Für die Gestaltung wandlungsfähiger Fabriken mit ihren logistischen Prozessen, Produktions- und Fabriksystemen werden Lösungswege auf der Basis flexibler und mobiler Fabrikmodule vorgestellt und geeignete Konzepte und Modelle beschrieben. Eine ganzheitliche Darstellungsmethode wird entwickelt, die auf einem einheitlichen Betrachtungsraum von Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb aufbaut. Er ermöglicht über alle Phasen des Fabriklebenszyklus hinweg für die jeweilige Objektebene die Auswahl und Anwendung geeigneter Planungsinstrumentarien. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die wandlungsfähige, segmentierte, vernetzte und kompetenznetzbasierte Fabrik sowie die wandlungsfähigen Fabrikmodelle der virtuellen und digitalen Fabrik. Die 2. Auflage wurde erweitert und ergänzt durch die Aspekte der ressourceneffizienten Fabrik. Das Buch enthält viele praktische Beispiele zum Planen und Betreiben wandlungs- und vernetzungsfähiger Fabriken.Die AutorenProfessor Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Schenk, nach Studium der Mathematik und Industrietätigkeit 1983 Promotion auf dem Gebiet der Fabrikplanung. 1988 Habilitation. 1989 Hochschuldozent für Produktionsprozesssteuerung am Institut für Betriebsgestaltung, Universität Magdeburg. 1994 Institutsleiter des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Fabrikbetrieb und -automatisierung (IFF) in Magdeburg und Honorarprofessor für Fabrikplanung und Logistik. Seit 2003 Universitätsprofessor auf dem Lehrstuhl Logistische Systeme an der Universität Magdeburg. Professor Dr. Dr.-Ing.Siegfried Wirth, Maschinenbaustudium und Promotion in Chemnitz 1967 Leitender Planungsingenieur und Projektmanager in großem Maschinenbauunternehmen. 1975 zweite Promotion (Habilitation), TU Dresden. 1978 o. Professor für technologische Betriebsprojektierung, TH Karl-Marx-Stadt. 1992 Professor für Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb, TU Chemnitz. Gründungsdirektor zweier Universitätsinstitute (IBF, IREGIA) mit den Arbeitsschwerpunkten: Planung, Betrieb und Revitalisierung flexibler Produktions- und Fabriksysteme, Unternehmens- und Kompetenznetze. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Egon Müller, Maschinenbaustudium an der Ingenieurhochschule Zwickau mit der Vertiefung Betriebsgestaltung. 1984 Promotion auf dem Gebiet der Gestaltung flexibler Montageprozesse. Ab 1985 leitende Planungstätigkeit in großem Automobilbauunternehmen. 1992 Professor für Fabrikplanung an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Zwickau. Seit 2002 Universitätsprofessor für Fabrikplanung und Fabrikbetrieb und Direktor des Institutes für Betriebswissenschaften und Fabriksysteme.

Global Sources Ltd. - The Evolution of B2B

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Global Sources Limited is Asia's leading publisher of business-to-business (B2B) trade-related magazines. In the latter half of the 1990s, the Internet became a powerful force for change in the business world, leading to an explosion of Internet-related activities by both traditional "bricks and mortar" companies, as well as countless upstart "dot.coms." The chairman and chief executive officer of Global Sources had foreseen the opportunities afforded by the Internet early on, and had made it an integral part of the company's strategy. Currently, the level of activity in the B2B portal space has evolved so quickly that a noticeable degree of confusion among suppliers, buyers and investors about the merits and drawbacks of these portals has arisen. Moreover, the sustainability of these ventures has been brought into question, which is causing a dramatic reversal of fortunes for many companies. The result is that there are strong signs that the industry will experience a significant consolidation. This has left Global Sources chairman with the key challenge of generating greater visibility among users and potential users of the companies services, as well as greater interest from the investment community in order to remain viable. The company must be able to educate and convey its value proposition to its users, as well as determine whether it should continue to remain an independent player, purchase a competitor, or enter into a strategic alliance.

Note on Marketing Management

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The role of marketing in any organization - a business or non-business - is to improve the performance of the organization. This occurs through disciplined focus on creating, developing and maintaining profitable relationships between customers and the organization. Marketers have so many different ways to accomplish this result that the practice of marketing is much more complicated than any short discussion of it can convey. And, there is far more to marketing than the unfortunate stereotypes - fast-talking salespeople and manipulative advertisers - one sees in movies. This note will explain the major choices that professional marketers face and the ways in which marketing decisions are made. The note covers such topics as defining the marketing challenge, identifying market opportunities and selecting target markets, deciding on the product/service offering, distribution approaches, marketing communications, developing and retaining customers, and assessing the marketing program.

Africa's Infrastructure

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Sustainable infrastructure development is vital for Africa’s prosperity. And now is the time to begin the transformation. This volume is the culmination of an unprecedented effort to document, analyze, and interpret the full extent of the challenge in developing Sub-Saharan Africa’s infrastructure sectors. As a result, it represents the most comprehensive reference currently available on infrastructure in the region. The book covers the five main economic infrastructure sectors—information and communication technology, irrigation, power, transport, and water and sanitation. 'Africa’s Infrastructure: A Time for Transformation' reflects the collaboration of a wide array of African regional institutions and development partners under the auspices of the Infrastructure Consortium for Africa. It presents the findings of the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD), a project launched following a commitment in 2005 by the international community (after the G8 summit at Gleneagles, Scotland) to scale up financial support for infrastructure development in Africa. The lack of reliable information in this area made it difficult to evaluate the success of past interventions, prioritize current allocations, and provide benchmarks for measuring future progress, hence the need for the AICD. Africa’s infrastructure sectors lag well behind those of the rest of the world, and the gap is widening. Some of the main—policy-relevant—findings highlighted in the book include the following: infrastructure in the region is exceptionally expensive, with tariffs being many times higher than those found elsewhere. Inadequate and expensive infrastructure is retarding growth by 2 percentage points each year. Solving the problem will cost over US$90 billion per year, which is more than twice what is being spent in Africa today. However, money alone is not the answer. Prudent policies, wise management, and sound maintenance can improve efficiency, thereby stretching the infrastructure dollar. There is the potential to recover an additional US$17 billion a year from within the existing infrastructure resource envelope—simply by improving efficiency. For example, improved revenue collection and utility management could generate US$3.3 billion per year. Regional power trade could reduce annual costs by US$2 billion. And deregulating the trucking industry could reduce freight costs by one-half. So, raising more funds without also tackling inefficiencies would be like pouring water into a leaking bucket. Finally, the power sector and fragile states represent particular challenges. Even if every efficiency in every infrastructure sector could be captured, a substantial funding gap of $31 billion a year would remain. Nevertheless, the African people and economies cannot wait any longer. Now is the time to begin the transformation to sustainable development.

Grenzen, Entgrenzung und Grenzüberschreitungen der Public Relations und Organisationskommunikation

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Der insbesondere durch die Digitalisierung ausgelöste Medienwandel und die daraus erwachsenen Veränderungsprozesse für die Public Relations und Organisationskommunikation führ(t)en zum Verschwimmen zahlreicher Grenzen, die früher deutlicher zu erkennen waren. Der vorliegende Sammelband nimmt in drei Themenblöcken diese Grenzverschiebungen und die daraus resultierenden Veränderungsprozesse in den Blick. Erstens wird die Entgrenzung des Berufsfelds der PR und Organisationskommunikation betrachtet, wobei insbesondere die Vermischung von Journalismus und strategischer Kommunikation im Fokus steht. Zweitens fokussiert der Band die Entgrenzung spezifischer Bereiche und Instrumente der strategischen Kommunikation (z.B. Wahlkampfkommunikation, Markt- und Markenkommunikation, Beteiligungsverfahren). Drittens gehen Beiträge in dem Band Fragen nach ethisch-normativen Grenzverschiebungen und -überschreitungen in der strategischen Kommunikation nach und diskutieren, wie diese neu verhandelt werden.Die HerausgebendenThomas Koch ist Professor für Publizistik mit dem Schwerpunkt Unternehmenskommunikation am Institut für Publizistik der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.Johannes Beckert, Benno Viererbl und Nora Denner sind wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitende am Institut für Publizistik der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

China's Business Reforms

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China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. Its greater economic integration with the rest of the world, especially since its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has further accelerated its market-oriented economic reforms. China is now opening its protected markets and beginning to submit to the rule of international law. This ongoing transition and increasing participation in the world economy has resulted in significant changes in human resource management and social welfare practices in China's enterprises. The book examines the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world: state-owned enterprise reform, capital markets and financial reform, human resources and labour market reform, social welfare reform, and China's accession to the WTO and the growth of the private sector.

Management- und Mitarbeiterbeteiligung

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Dieses Praxishandbuch stellt die gesellschafts-, zivil-, arbeits- und steuerrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen von Beteiligungsprogrammen sowohl für das Management als auch die Mitarbeiter:innen von Unternehmen vor. Es zeigt auf, wie Programme in Form von eigenkapitalbasierten oder schuldrechtlichen ("virtuellen") Beteiligungsmodellen und steueroptimierten Mischformen strukturiert sein müssen, um die Zielvorstellungen des Unternehmens auf der einen Seite und der Berechtigten auf der anderen Seite rechtssicher zu erreichen.Vertragsmuster zu unterschiedlichen Szenarien für die Beteiligung von Führungskräften und Mitarbeiter:innen am Unternehmen unterstützen eine rechtssichere Umsetzung im Einzelfall. In Länderberichten gibt es einen kompakten Überblick über die spezifischen Besonderheiten in Belgien, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Luxemburg, Österreich, den Niederlanden, der Schweiz und den USA. Schließlich werden in einem Glossar wichtige Fachbegriffe erläutert.

Go-Givers Sell More

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With their national bestseller The Go-Giver, Bob Burg and John David Mann took the business world by storm, showing that giving is the most fulfilling and effective path to success. That simple, profound story has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers around the world-but some have wondered how its lessons stand up to the tough challenges of everyday real-world business. Now Burg and Mann answer that question in Go-Givers Sell More, a practical guide that makes giving the cornerstone of a powerful and effective approach to selling. Most of us think of sales as convincing potential customers to do something they don't really want to. This mentality sets up an adversarial relationship and makes the sales process much harder than it has to be. As Burg and Mann demonstrate, it's far more productive (and satisfying) when salespeople think like Go-Givers. Cultivate a trusting relationship and focus exclusively on creating value for the other person, say the authors, and great results will follow automatically. Drawing on a wide range of examples of real-life salespeople who have prospered by giving more, Burg and Mann offer tips and strategies that anyone in sales can start applying right away.

Start Your Own Information Marketing Business

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The subscription business model is the darling of growth startups, and since every industry needs information, the information business is just as hot! Breaking down the information marketing world from A to Z, Robert Skrob is the undisputed info marketing expert, offering professional strategies to set up a successful information marketing business. Iit's a little known secret that these businesses are easy to start, can be run from home, don’t require any employees, need little cash outlay, can be run part-time, and can produce millions of dollars a year. Readers learn everything they need to jump into this lucrative field, creating an entirely new business that gives them added income or replaces their current salary entirely.

Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

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This book is an outcome of the 36th International Conference EnviroInfo 2022, held at the University of Hamburg, Germany, organized by the technical committee for Environmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society. It presents a selection of papers that describe innovative scientific approaches and ongoing research in environmental informatics and the emerging field of environmental sustainability, promoted and facilitated by the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). The respective articles cover a broad range of scientific aspects including advancements in core environmental informatics-related technologies such as earth observation, environmental modelling, geographical information systems, sustainable transportation, risk modelling and assessment, artificial intelligence applications, renewable energy-based solutions, optimization of infrastructures, sustainable industrial processes, citizen science, as well as applications of ICT solutions that are aiming at supporting societal transformation processes towards more sustainable management of resource use and energy supply. A special focus is on how environmental informatics research covers the societal challenges of digitalization and sustainability, green in IT, green by IT and their relationships, green data centres, green software engineering, green coding and green environmental management information systems. The book is essential reading for scientists, experts and students in these fields of research.

Ultralearning

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Now a Wall Street Journal bestseller.Learn a new talent, stay relevant, reinvent yourself, and adapt to whatever the workplace throws your way. Ultralearning offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly. This is the essential guide to future-proof your career and maximize your competitive advantage through self-education.In these tumultuous times of economic and technological change, staying ahead depends on continual self-education—a lifelong mastery of fresh ideas, subjects, and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. The challenge of learning new skills is that you think you already know how best to learn, as you did as a student, so you rerun old routines and old ways of solving problems. To counter that, Ultralearning offers powerful strategies to break you out of those mental ruts and introduces new training methods to help you push through to higher levels of retention. Scott H. Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself—among them Benjamin Franklin, chess grandmaster Judit Polgár, and Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others, such as little-known modern polymath Nigel Richards, who won the French World Scrabble Championship—without knowing French. Young documents the methods he and others have used to acquire knowledge and shows that, far from being an obscure skill limited to aggressive autodidacts, ultralearning is a powerful tool anyone can use to improve their career, studies, and life. Ultralearning explores this fascinating subculture, shares a proven framework for a successful ultralearning project, and offers insights into how you can organize and exe - cute a plan to learn anything deeply and quickly, without teachers or budget-busting tuition costs.Whether the goal is to be fluent in a language (or ten languages), earn the equivalent of a college degree in a fraction of the time, or master multiple tools to build a product or business from the ground up, the principles in Ultralearning will guide you to success.

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