La pazzia delle folle

La pazzia delle folle

Questo libro muove da una constatazione oggettiva, da uno stato delle cose che balza davanti agli occhi di tutti ogni giorno: la pazzia delle folle. Non è un fenomeno riscontrabile soltanto on line, dove i cosiddetti hater abbondano, ma anche nella vita quotidiana in cui la gente si comporta in maniera sempre più irrazionale. Murray, tuttavia, non si limita semplicemente a descrivere il fenomeno, ne mostra le cause. Viviamo in un’epoca definita post-moderna, un termine ambiguo che indica però un dato di fatto: la fine delle grandi narrazioni, delle fedi religiose e politiche che hanno alimentato i secoli passati, e la conseguente negazione di ogni verità che non sia soltanto un’interpretazione. Si può vivere, però, senza un criterio che orienti le nostre scelte? Senza nessun racconto che offra un perché alla vita? Poiché la natura aborre il vuoto, nella nostra epoca post-moderna si è fatta strada, secondo Murray, una nuova metafisica, una nuova religione: la «politica identitaria». Una politica che «atomizza la società in diversi gruppi d’interesse in base al sesso (o genere), alla razza, alle preferenze sessuali e così via». E che invita costantemente a cercare «dentro noi stessi e negli altri tutte le istanze di identità e vulnerabilità» capaci di rivendicare un valore aggiunto, una superiorità morale che deve essere riconosciuta come un diritto indiscusso. Questa religione “identitaria” non può, per Murray, che generare follia. Quella follia che spinge, ad esempio, a dichiarare che vi è «un’accresciuta conoscenza morale» derivante dal fatto di essere neri o donne o gay. O che, sempre sulla base di una supposta istanza di identità, concepisce l’idea di«dare farmaci ai bambini per impedire loro di entrare nella pubertà». Come tutte le fedi prive di senno, questo credo è tutt’altro che privo di pericoli, poiché non soltanto capovolge nel suo opposto, in nuovi totalitarismi, le conquiste liberali dei diritti civili, in primo luogo quelli dei gay, ma può approntare un futuro di atomizzazione, rabbia e violenza sempre maggiori in cui «al razzismo si risponderà con il razzismo, alla denigrazione basata sul genere si risponderà con la denigrazione basata sul genere». Nominato da Times e Sunday Times libro dell’anno, La pazzia delle folle ha riscosso, al suo apparire in Inghilterra, un grande successo di pubblico e di critica e generato un acceso dibattito sui media.

Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops

Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the international workshops, the EDOC Forum and the Demonstration and Doctoral Consortium track, that were held at the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022. The conference took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October 3–7, 2022.The conference focuses on the area of enterprise computing, this year with the special emphasis on the theme of designing and operating “Flexible Enterprises”. Workshops within EDOC cover more focused topics and allow for the presentation and discussion of work that is in the earlier development stages.The 18 full and 8 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They stem from the following satellite events:– Workshop on Intelligent Digital Architecture, Methods, and Services for Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 (IDAMS)– 14th Workshop on Service-oriented EnterpriseArchitecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE)– 17th Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR)– EDOC Forum– Demonstrations Track– Doctoral Consortium

None of My Business

None of My Business

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author takes on subjects from banking to bitcoin: “Another winner from an A-list humorist.” ―Booklist   Sharp-witted satirist and author of Parliament of Whores P. J. O’Rourke takes on his scariest subjects yet—business, investment, finance, and the political chicanery behind them. Want to get rich overnight for free in three easy steps with no risk? Then don’t buy this book. (Actually, if you believe there’s a book that can do that, you shouldn’t buy any books because you probably can’t read.) P. J. O’Rourke’s approach to business, investment, and finance is different. He takes the risks for you in his chapter “How I Learned Economics by Watching People Try to Kill Each Other.” He proposes “A Way to Raise Taxes That We’ll All Love”—a 200% tax on celebrities. He offers a brief history of economic transitions before exploring the world of high tech innovation with a chapter on “Unnovations,” which asks, “The Internet—whose idea was it to put all the idiots on earth in touch with each other?” He misunderstands bitcoin, which seems “like a weird scam invented by strange geeks with weaponized slide rules in the high school Evil Math Club.” And finally, he offers a fanciful short story about the morning that P. J. wakes up and finds that all the world’s goods and services are free!   “The funniest writer in America.” ―The Wall Street Journal

Value in Business

Value in Business

This book uses a system-based approach to decipher and organize the concepts and conclusions relevant for creating and capturing value in business. It develops a scientific theory based on systems science and logical reasoning that is commonly employed in mathematics and natural science. The resulting new theory focuses on the organizational nature of the world and the organic and holistic feature of human organizations and their interactions. To this end, this book identifies a few axioms, instead of empirical discoveries, on which it reliably constructs the entire theory.

Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids

Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids

The president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Goodwill Industries of Greater Grand Rapids Inc. (Goodwill) was analyzing a staff proposal to begin selling donated books online. Her initial response to the proposal had been to approve the idea without any reservation; however, some pointed questions raised during discussion at a recent board meeting caused her to revisit her support for the project. The CEO determined that to make a thoughtful recommendation about the proposal, she needed to evaluate three main criteria: 1) The strategic and financial fit of the proposal in relation to the current salvage buyers of Goodwill's books; 2) The operating and revenue needs of Goodwill's retail stores, and; 3) Alignment of the proposal with Goodwill's mission statement.

Analytics and Big Data: The Davenport Collection (6 Items)

Analytics and Big Data: The Davenport Collection (6 Items)

The Analytics and Big Data collection offers a “greatest hits” digital compilation of ideas from world-renowned thought leader Thomas Davenport, who helped popularize the terms analytics and big data in the workplace.An agile and prolific thinker, Davenport has written or coauthored more than a dozen bestselling books. Several of these titles are offered together for the first time in this curated digital bundle, including: Big Data at Work, Competing on Analytics, Analytics at Work, and Keeping Up with the Quants. The collection also includes Davenport’s popular Harvard Business Review articles, “Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century” (2012) and “Analytics 3.0” (2013). Combined, these works cover all the bases on analytics and big data: what each term means; the ramifications of each from a technical, consumer, and management perspective; and where each can have the biggest impact on your business.Whether you’re an executive, a manager, or a student wanting to learn more, Analytics and Big Data is the most comprehensive collection you’ll find on the ever-growing phenomenon of digital data and analysis—and how you can make this rising business trend work for you.Named one of the ten “Masters of the New Economy” by CIO magazine, Thomas Davenport has helped hundreds of companies revitalize their management practices. He combines his interests in research, teaching, and business management as the President’s Distinguished Professor of Information Technology & Management at Babson College. Davenport has also taught at Harvard Business School, the University of Chicago, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and the University of Texas at Austin and has directed research centers at Accenture, McKinsey & Company, Ernst & Young, and CSC. He is also an independent Senior Advisor to Deloitte Analytics.

E-commerce Platform Acceptance

E-commerce Platform Acceptance

This book aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the issues facing organizations when deciding whether to accept e-commerce as a platform for business. It provides a detailed evaluation of how the implementation of e-commerce may affect all parties within the supply chain: suppliers, retailers and consumers. It also compares various opportunities and threats of accepting e-commerce in order to conclude whether it might offer access to a new digital era, or whether it is an uncertain option yielding potential pitfalls. This book helps to reveal existing and future consequences of e-commerce acceptance, which are crucial for business decisions and operations in the present and going forward. It therefore provides a unique insight into emerging e-commerce platform acceptance, and is one of the first to provide a holistic perspective of how each party in the supply chain is affected  by e-commerce acceptance.E-commerce is bringing into view more flexible, effective and efficient ways of conducting business activities among suppliers, retailers and consumers. It is not limited to time and space, and therefore this digital platform has already established for itself a major role in today’s world economy. Despite promised benefits however, threats emerge which need to be faced when turning to the virtual marketplace - all of which have to be acknowledged before businesses will shift and adapt to the e-commerce platform. This book is intended for postgraduate students, executive MBA students and researchers interested in information management, marketing, and operations management.

IT Governance and Information Security

IT Governance and Information Security

IT governance seems to be one of the best strategies to optimize IT assets in an economic context dominated by information, innovation, and the race for performance. The multiplication of internal and external data and increased digital management, collaboration, and sharing platforms exposes organizations to ever-growing risks. Understanding the threats, assessing the risks, adapting the organization, selecting and implementing the appropriate controls, and implementing a management system are the activities required to establish proactive security governance that will provide management and customers the assurance of an effective mechanism to manage risks. IT Governance and Information Security: Guides, Standards, and Frameworks is a fundamental resource to discover IT governance and information security. This book focuses on the guides, standards, and maturity frameworks for adopting an efficient IT governance and information security strategy in the organization. It describes numerous case studies from an international perspective and brings together industry standards and research from scientific databases. In this way, this book clearly illustrates the issues, problems, and trends related to the topic while promoting the international perspectives of readers.This book offers comprehensive coverage of the essential topics, including: IT governance guides and practices; IT service management as a key pillar for IT governance; Cloud computing as a key pillar for Agile IT governance; Information security governance and maturity frameworks. In this new book, the authors share their experience to help you navigate today’s dangerous information security terrain and take proactive steps to measure your company’s IT governance and information security maturity and prepare your organization to survive, thrive, and keep your data safe. It aspires to provide a relevant reference for executive managers, CISOs, cybersecurity professionals, engineers, and researchers interested in exploring and implementing efficient IT governance and information security strategies.

L'architetto - II edizione

L'architetto - II edizione

Un buon management è fondamentale per una buona architettura. Molte delle sfide che l’architetto affronta nella sua attività sono infatti di natura imprenditoriale e manageriale. Grazie all’esperienza, unica, maturata dagli autori in una serie di workshop con architetti, designer e ingegneri, il libro suggerisce logiche e pratiche di management per affrontare in modo vincente le sette sfide che interessano la professione: 1. la sfida imprenditoriale: come sviluppare imprenditorialmente uno studio di architettura? 2. la sfida dei clienti: come generare valore per il cliente e attraverso il cliente? 3. la sfida delle persone: come far crescere le persone in quanto risorse chiave dello studio? 4. la sfida del team: come creare e gestire il team di lavoro in modo efficace? 5. la sfida dei progetti: come applicare strumenti di project management a commesse piccole e grandi? 6. la sfida dei numeri: come misurare e valutare i risultati economici dello studio? 7. la sfida della crescita: perché crescere e quali strategie adottare? Guida esauriente sia per chi decida di avviare un’attività professionale in proprio sia per chi già lavori all’interno di uno studio di architettura in posizioni tecniche o con ruoli di gestione, il libro propone modelli di management e strumenti operativi declinati sulle specificità del settore. I casi di realtà professionali di dimensioni diverse e le interviste a partner e fondatori dei principali studi di architettura italiani per fatturato (Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, Global Planning Architecture, Lombardini22, One Works, Progetto CMR, Renzo Piano Building Workshop) offrono una preziosa occasione di confronto, mentre la dettagliata checklist fornita nel capitolo conclusivo permette di fare un «check-up» del proprio studio e di applicare immediatamente nella gestione quotidiana del lavoro quanto proposto nel libro.

Victory Bank Limited (A)

Victory Bank Limited (A)

The vice-president of corporate and institutional banking at Victory Bank Limited (VBL) finds himself in a political imbroglio. He needs to respond to the request by VBL's head of retail and private banking to join his team, even though the vice-president shares an excellent relationship with his current boss and is a star performer within the organization. The vice-president needs to decide his next steps: whether to accept that new role or to decline it. Students will come to understand how they can get caught in political battles and how best to manage the politics within the organization. Students will also learn to think their way through the various options faced when tackling similar situations.

Consultancy Development Organization

Consultancy Development Organization

The director of Consultancy Development Organization (CDO), a not-for-profit organization that helps develop the consultancy profession in India, needs to respond to CDO's poor morale and specifically to the recent incident with the deputy director of projects. The director's encounter with the deputy director was the latest in a series of frustrating experiences that he has faced since joining CDO the previous year. The director needs to decide whether to resign from CDO or to continue trying to improve the situation.

E-business and Telecommunication Networks

E-business and Telecommunication Networks

This book contains the best papers of the Second International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks (ICETE), which was held, in 2005, at the Microsoft Research Centre - Reading, in the UK. The conference was organized by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Communication and Control) in collaboration with the University of Westminster/WITRC, UK. ICETE reflects a continuing effort to increase the exchange of expertise among professionals who work in the fields of e-business and telecommunication networks, including aspects related to security, wireless systems, signal processing, and all sorts of applications, who are bringing new services and technologies into the lives of ordinary consumers. The major goal of this conference was thus to bring together researchers and developers from academia and industry working in areas related to e-business to stimulate a debate with a special focus on telecommunication networks. Four simultaneous tracks were held, covering different aspects, namely: “Global Communication Information Systems and Services”, “Security and Reliability in Information Systems and Networks”, “Wireless Communication Systems and Networks” and “Multimedia Signal Processing”. Each of these tracks appealed to a global audience of engineers, scientists, business people and policy experts, interested in the research topics of ICETE. All tracks focused on specific topics of research and real world applications and relied on contributions from industry, with different solutions for end-user applications and enabling technologies, in a diversity of communication environments.

Business Competitiveness and Sustainability

Business Competitiveness and Sustainability

This book presents seven internal dimensions that have a direct impact on an organization’s global competitiveness and sustainability: purpose, leadership, passion, people-centered, customer-centric, infrastructure, and viability.An organization operates as a complex adaptive system that is impacted by external factors that make up its environment. These external factors, in turn, compel managers to make decisions and take deliberate actions that stimulate the organization's internal dimensions to enhance its competitiveness. Therefore, a competitive organization achieves a sustained level of productivity that leads to growth and the attainment of its objectives, resulting in increased income and well-being. Chapters in this book provide readers with a framework that demonstrates how these dimensions can be studied and analyzed individually, as well as how cultivating a coherent, mutually reinforcing system can enhance an organization's competitive advantage. This book also includes illustrative case studies and proposes an instrument to measure an organization's competitiveness.Providing a strategic framework for enhancing competitiveness in VUCA environments, this book will interest scholars and students in strategic management, competitiveness, innovation, and international business.

Consensus Building in Group Decision Making

Consensus Building in Group Decision Making

This book is intended for researchers and postgraduates who are interested in the consensus reaching process in group decision-making problems. It puts forward new optimization-based decision support approaches to help decision-makers find roadmaps to consensus with minimum adjustments. Simulation experiments and comparison analysis are subsequently conducted to assess the validity of the proposal. After reading this book, readers will possess a number of valuable tools for building consensus with minimum adjustments in the context of group decision-making. Further, the proposed approach can effectively reduce costs in consensus building.​

A Course in In-Memory Data Management

A Course in In-Memory Data Management

Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts of enterprise data. Professor Hasso Plattner and his research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, have been investigating and teaching the corresponding concepts and their adoption in the software industry for years.This book is based on an online course that was first launched in autumn 2012 with more than 13,000 enrolled students and marked the successful starting point of the openHPI e-learning platform. The course is mainly designed for students of computer science, software engineering, and IT related subjects, but addresses business experts, software developers, technology experts, and IT analysts alike. Plattner and his group focus on exploring the inner mechanics of a column-oriented dictionary-encoded in-memory database. Covered topics include - amongst others - physical data storage and access, basic database operators, compression mechanisms, and parallel join algorithms. Beyond that, implications for future enterprise applications and their development are discussed. Step by step, readers will understand the radical differences and advantages of the new technology over traditional row-oriented, disk-based databases.In this completely revised 2nd edition, we incorporate the feedback of thousands of course participants on openHPI and take into account latest advancements in hard- and software. Improved figures, explanations, and examples further ease the understanding of the concepts presented. We introduce advanced data management techniques such as transparent aggregate caches and provide new showcases that demonstrate the potential of in-memory databases for two diverse industries: retail and life sciences.

Entrepreneuriat

Entrepreneuriat

Qu’est-ce que l’entrepreneuriat ? Comment s’imaginer et devenir entrepreneur ? Comment construire son projet et le fiabiliser ? Quel processus mettre en oeuvre ? Comment définir un Business Model compétitif ? Comment construire un Business Plan cohérent ? Alliant théorie et pratique, ce manuel met l’accent sur l’acquisition des méthodes et des compétences indispensables à tout étudiant pour réussir son diplôme (Licence, Ingénieur, Bachelor ou DUT) ou son projet entrepreneurial. Il propose :• des situations concrètes pour introduire les concepts ;• un cours visuel et des conseils méthodologiques pour acquérir les connaissances fondamentales en entrepreneuriat ;• de nombreux exemples, des cas d’entreprises détaillés (BlaBlaCar, GuestApp, DropBox, i-Demenager, Talentroc, AlterEco, etc.) et des éclairages professionnels pour concrétiser le lien entre concepts académiques et pratiques entrepreneuriales ;• des applications progressives et variées (QCM, études de cas, activités) et leurs corrigés détaillés pour s’évaluer et s’entraîner.Des compléments en ligne pour les étudiants et les enseignants sont disponibles sur www.dunod.com.

East Coast Trail Association

East Coast Trail Association

The president of the East Coast Trail Association (ECTA), a non-profit organization located in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, faces numerous challenges as he attempts to pursue the organization's 10-year dream of completing a 540 km coastal and wilderness trail on Newfoundland's Avalon peninsula. One of the largest obstacles standing between him and this goal is gaining access to the land on which the remaining sections of the trail will be built. So far, 220 km of trail has been built with the financial assistance of the federal government and corporate sponsorships. A large pool of dedicated volunteers has also contributed countless hours to building the trail, a cause which stands to benefit not only hikers, but the provincial economy in the form of tourism dollars and economic development. However, both the ECTA's financial and volunteer resources are in decline as the association tries to extend the trail. Meanwhile, the existing 220 km of completed trail are in need of resources and maintenance. Time is also running out as developers buy up coastal lands where the association plans to extend the trail. Without access to land, the dream of a 540 km trail will end.

Integrated Community-Managed Development

Integrated Community-Managed Development

This book provides an overview of recent advances in Integrated Community-Managed Development (ICMD) as an innovative strategy for the community-based development of local institutions in order to achieve lasting poverty reduction and empowerment. The original approach presented here to improving the lives and livelihoods of the poor takes a critical stance on the failing concept of conventional community development, as it is based on the shifting paradigm of 'bottom-up' cooperation and development, where recent regional autonomy policies are enabling national services to successfully integrate with local institutions at the community level. Based on recent experiences in South-East Asia, where the implementation of an alternative approach to integrating financial, medical, educational, communication and socio-cultural services has led to increased community participation and impressive poverty reduction, the book highlights the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of this innovative strategy. The potential offered by applying the newly developed 'ICMD formula' worldwide as a function of themes, principles and services is reflected in the book’s diverse range of contributions, written by respected researchers and practitioners in the fields of development economics and financial management.