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Strategic Planning Decisions in the High Tech Industry

The scale and complexity of research and practices of open innovation mandate a correspondingly sophisticated form of decision making. Strategic Planning Decisions brings together a number of tools that ease the decision process in technology companies, providing both conceptual frameworks and practical applications.Innovative approaches are presented such as an ontology-based model where all the relevant aspects of a potential technology are interrelated to provide a comprehensive and logically connected data pool for decision makers. Divided into two sections, Strategic Planning Decisions describe both strategic approaches using the decision tools, and tactical approaches. Some of these tools are expanded while some others are embedded in a model that will lay the ground for practical application. These include:· bibliometric analysis, · ontology, · roadmapping, · lead user, six sigma, and · multi-actor & multi-objective decision making methodsRecent research and relevant theory are balanced with up–to–date practical applications and hands–on techniques making Strategic Planning Decisions ideal for engineers who wish to keep up–to–date with current ideas in the field of TM. It also provides workable methods for practising managers from all levels who wish to apply a more rigorous approach in their work and consultants concerned with technology assessment and its management.

The Political Economy of Asian Transition from Communism

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A comparative study of the political economy of the transition from communism in East and Southeast Asian countries (China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia), addressing the key theoretical questions generated from the debate between shock-therapists and gradualists. While accurately defining the pre-reform model, this book explores the causal variables that have contributed to reform efforts within Asia, examining the significance of the sequencing of political and economic transition and the interplay between politics and the economy in determining variations in transition outcomes. Comparing the 'real world' experiences of transition nations in communist Asia with Eastern Europe, prominent questions are brought to the fore; will market capitalism or market socialism prevail after the grand failure of communism? This book makes an important contribution to the political economy theory of comparative communist and post-communist studies and provides detailed analytical insights that will prove influential in future theoretical work.

Financial Stability in Dollarized Economies

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This paper addresses the challenges to prudential supervision in highly dollarized economies, where central banks and supervisors may be constrained in the use of standard money and financial policy tools. The study's conclusions are the basis of an ongoing policy dialogue with IMF member countries, standard-setters in the financial area, and academia. The paper is part of the policy development work conducted by the IMF's Monetary and Financial Systems Department.

Histoire de la CGT

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La CGT a un siècle. Ce livre constitue la première histoire globale du syndicat, de sa naissance à nos jours. Cette histoire, qui s’explique par certaines caractéristiques du mouvement social et politique français (syndicalisme très revendicatif et peu gestionnaire, montée du communisme en 1936 et à la Libération), lui a donné une physionomie différente de celle des autres syndicats européens. Née des besoins d’organisation et de défense du monde du travail, l’existence de la CGT apparaît presque comme une succession de séismes à l’issue desquels l’organisation peut remporter ses plus belles victoires (1936 et dans une moindre mesure 1968) mais aussi connaître des échecs et la répression dont elle ressort gravement affaiblie (1906, 1919-1920, 1947-1948). À travers cette histoire se révèle également une caractéristique générale de la société française : sa difficulté à mener « à froid » des réformes. S’il n’a pas l’ambition d’apporter une ou des réponses à la grave crise que traverse le syndicalisme – français et étranger -, à travers cette étude minutieuse, l’auteur nous propose, par l’analyse des spécificités du mouvement syndical français, de la resituer dans la succession de crises qui ont jalonné son histoire depuis un siècle.

Ética para la empresa

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¿Se reducen los intentos de moralizar la empresa a una serie de piadosos deseos ilusorios o, aún peor, a simple maquillaje de la explotación desvergonzada de recursos naturales y seres humanos? Es curioso que los acontecimientos financieros en Estados Unidos y otros países que han llevado al desastre de la crisis, con sus ejemplos de desvergüenza y abuso de las posiciones de privilegio con las peores consecuencias empresariales, han reforzado la idea de que prescindir de toda consideración ética en los negocios no solo es indecente sino también y, sobre todo, imprudente.Fernando SavaterEn Ética para la empresa, Fernando Savater reflexiona sobre cuestiones de la deontología empresarial y analiza, desde un punto vista ético, el mito del hombre nuevo y la decadencia del concepto de experiencia que se vive en las empresas de hoy en día. Un libro accesible que plantea los temas cruciales de la ética en una de las entidades más representativas de nuestrotiempo: la empresa.Fernando Savater nació en San Sebastián en 1947 y estudió Filosofía en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Profesor de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, fue apartado de la docencia en 1971 por razones políticas, y posteriormente retomó la actividad en la UNED. Desde 1984 fue catedrático de Ética en la Universidad del País Vasco y hasta hace poco estuvo a cargo de la cátedra de Filosofía en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Entre su numerosa obra destacan los libros Ética para Amador, Los diez mandamientos en el siglo XXI y La aventura de pensar.Precio

Experience China: A National Image Campaign in the United States

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The China national image film "People Chapter" — officially a sub-series of the "Experience China" campaign — was launched by the Chinese government to coincide with President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States in mid-January 2011. The one-minute promotional video was played on six giant electronic screens about 300 times per day, and had appeared approximately 8400 times when the broadcast ended on February 14, 2011. The video showed a series of Chinese people, ranging from ordinary citizens to celebrities, in various areas. It was a publicity effort aimed at promoting a truer image of China abroad, and further signalling that China was opening to embrace the world. However, reactions from both Chinese and overseas audiences had been fairly controversial since the initial release of this promotional film. Experts from China and abroad were skeptical of the effectiveness of the campaign in promoting the national image of modern China to the world.

We're All in This Together

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What makes a great team? Author, leadership expert, and corporate consultant looks at how businesses can build trust and achieve high performance.Have you ever been on a team where the talent was strong, but the team wasn't very good? On the flip side, have you ever been on a team where not every single member was a rock star, but something about the team just worked?We've all had these types of experiences. And yet, it can be difficult to understand what makes one team successful and another one not.In this book, Mike Robbins dives deep into the ways great businesses build trust, collaborate, and operate at their peak level. As an expert in teamwork, leadership, and emotional intelligence, Mike draws on more than 20 years of experience working with top companies like Google and Microsoft, as well as his baseball career with the Kansas City Royals. And, while each team and organization have their own unique challenges, goals, and dynamics, there are some universal qualities that allow teams to truly come together and thrive.The book's core principles include fostering an environment of psychological safety, fostering inclusion and belonging, addressing and navigating conflict, and maintaining a healthy balance of high expectations and empathy. Throughout, Mike shares powerful exercises and tools he's successfully utilized in the keynote speeches, group sessions and corporate retreats that he delivers, so that you and your team can communicate more authentically, give and receive feedback with skill, and create deeper connections.We're All in This Together also features personal stories and interviews with high-level business leaders and thought leaders to provide insights into an ever-changing workplace culture. ***"For us to do our best work, have the kind of impact we truly want to have, and unlock our full potential, we can't do it alone; we must to do it together. If you and your team are willing to do what it takes, you can build and sustain an incredibly strong culture of trust and performance, and accomplish remarkable things." -Mike Robbins

Dynamique spatiale et développement

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Le développement inégal et hiérarchisé de l’espace économique mondial comme des espaces nationaux, est souvent analysé à partir des échanges commerciaux, voire des mouvements de capitaux ; c’est admettre que l’exploitation ne peut naître que des termes de l’échange ou de transferts directs de surplus entre nations ou régions. Il est plus fécond de considérer que la division internationale du travail exprime d’abord une répartition inégale des forces productives, et donc des techniques. La source de l’impérialisme est alors différente : elle réside dans l’aptitude de catégories sociales localisées à produire, retenir et diffuser les technologies nouvelles en fonction de leurs intérêts. La reproduction du pouvoir du centre exige une extension croissante des relations économiques dans l’espace ; cette condition, qui perpétue les hiérarchies spatiales, permet seule d’éviter un blocage qui briserait la suprématie des unités dominantes du centre. En longue période, les phases d’innovation technologique intense verront s’élargir les écarts de richesse entre centre et périphérie, alors que les périodes d’essoufflement technologique entraîneront, dans une ambiance générale déprimée, une tendance à un rattrapage partiel. Toute unité périphérique acceptant le « jeu » de la division internationale du travail proposé (ou imposé) par le centre, ne peut espérer de croissance que subordonnée, sans pouvoir s’attendre à un rattrapage réel.

Diseñar el cambio

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Hace 10 años se publicó la primera versión de este libro que nunca ha sido traducido al castellano a pesar de haberse convertido en todo un clásico de la innovación, y a haber sido el principal promotor del concepto del “Design Thinking”. En esta nueva versión, el autor suma a la teoría de su libro, diez años de experiencias prácticas de aplicación del diseño para cambiar a todo tipo de empresa y organizaciones en distintas partes del mundo.

Hört mir jemand zu?

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Ein Buch schreiben ist eine Sache – vor Publikum daraus vorlesen eine ganz andere. Wer schon einmal auf einer Lesebühne gestanden hat, der weiß, was alles bei einer Autorenlesung schief gehen kann. Doch es ist nicht nötig, alle schlechten Erfahrungen selbst zu machen: Sieben ausgewiesene Profis auf ihrem Gebiet berichten in diesem Buch von ihrem Weg zur perfekten Lesung und verraten ihre ganz persönlichen Tricks, die sowohl für Anfänger als auch für Lesungsprofis hilfreich sind - mit Tipps und Checklisten für Autoren, Buchhändler und Bibliotheken. Das Buch ist Teil der Ratgeber-Reihe "Tatort Schreibtisch" - Profis schreiben für Profis.

Women and Sustainability in Business

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Women and Sustainability in Business: A Global Perspective, brings together original research from a dozen countries, concerning the issues and challenges facing women in sustainable business. This is a recurrent topic among researchers, regulators, companies and rating agencies. Governments pay special attention to how women impact the economy when shaping their strategies on economic sustainability. Women’s contribution to business is fundamental to creating a sustainable economy, such that businesses try to strengthen ‘women’s presence’ within their organisations, especially on their boards. Today, sustainable companies cannot survive without strategies involving women. Stakeholders, regulators, NGOs and rating agencies track both women-focused strategies and the corporate sustainability reports of companies. Well-designed strategies for women workers help companies to develop their financial and social sustainability initiatives progressively. This book analyses the practice of women in sustainable business, in terms of company performance, social responsibility, board management, entrepreneurship, employment, education, management, social sustainability, environmental politics and technology, from a wide range of diverse, regional perspectives and highlights the differences between the underdeveloped, developing and developed world.

Septembre noir : Refus arabe de la résistance palestinienne

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Septembre 1970, la guerre civile jordano-palestinienne éclate. L’image du front de solidarité arabe s’écroule. Olivier Carré, spécialiste du monde arabe et des mouvements palestiniens en particulier, montre combien était (et reste) inévitable la contradiction entre les États arabes - Jordanie en tête - et la Résistance palestinienne ; la divergence d’intérêt entre Nasser, engagé dans une négociation avec Israël à travers la mission Rodgers, et les mouvements révolutionnaires hostiles à toute solution négociée qui, de toute façon, n’aurait pas satisfait leurs espérances ; l’opposition entre les impératifs de Hussein de restaurer l’ordre en Jordanie et la poussée palestinienne désordonnée mais menaçante pour le trône hachémite. Les Palestiniens croyaient « pouvoir faire du Proche-Orient un enfer… » Les événements sont ici minutieusement décrits dans le contexte diplomatique et psychologique arabe, comme sont analysées les relations par la presse locale et étrangère. Au-delà des réactions indignées - tant arabes qu’occidentales, l’auteur montre la réalité des forces en présence et les enjeux politiques et stratégiques internationaux sur l’échiquier proche-oriental.

La dette publique

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La dette est un sujet anxiogène et clivant. Crise, fardeau, faillite, poison… Pour certains, elle est à redouter et pourquoi pas à interdire. Pour d'autres, il suffirait au contraire de la monétiser ou de l’annuler complètement.En mettant en perspective le mécanisme de l'endettement, les caractéristiques de la dette en France et les principaux questionnements qu'elle suscite, cet ouvrage permet une prise de recul pédagogique et éclairante sur cet enjeu majeur de l’économie post-Covid. Car la dette publique n’est ni un poison ni une potion magique et il ne s’agit ni de l’interdire ni de l’annuler. Il a été possible de vivre avec depuis près de 50 ans, et ce sera encore le cas demain grâce à des ajustements pragmatiques et des politiques monétaires innovantes et souples.

The Standout Experience

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"Behind me is infinite power, before me is endless possibility, and around me is boundless opportunity." – Mac AndersonStudents and young professionals are growing up in the most amazing time in history but they are also facing more challenges, uncertainty, and competition than ever before. The current education system and early career development do not prepare them for success and happiness across life's many dimensions, nor does it help them be the one chosen in life's most critical moments.The Standout Experience provides the clarity, simplicity, and certainty that serve as the core foundations for success and happiness in life. By reading the valuable ideas and advice from experts, mentors, and an author who is still on the journey, you will change your perspectives and raise your awareness. By taking the necessary action steps and joining the fast-growing community of young adults who want to stand out, you will Rise, Shine, and Impact when it matters most.

Design for Health

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One of the most complex global challenges is improving wellbeing and developing strategies for promoting health or preventing ‘illbeing’ of the population. The role of designers in indirectly supporting the promotion of healthy lifestyles or in their contribution to illbeing has emerged. This means designers now need to consider, both morally and ethically, how they can ensure that they ‘do no harm’ and that they might deliberately decide to promote healthy lifestyles and therefore prevent ill health. Design for Health illustrates the history of the development of design for health, the various design disciplines and domains to which design has contributed. Through 26 case studies presented in this book, the authors reveal a plethora of design research methodologies and research methods employed in design for health. The editors also present, following a thematic analysis of the book chapters, seven challenges and seven areas of opportunity that designers are called upon to address within the context of healthcare. Furthermore, five emergent trends in design in healthcare are presented and discussed. This book will be of interest to students of design as well as designers and those working to improve the quality of healthcare.

Entre deux mondes : les hommes d’affaires palestiniens de la diaspora et la construction de l’entité palestinienne

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À mi-chemin entre les études macro-économiques de développement et les analyses anthropologiques fines des mutations des sociétés proche-orientales, une sociologie des nouveaux acteurs - tels que les hommes d’affaires -, de leurs déterminations comme de leurs stratégies, nous paraît de nature à éclairer les évolutions sociales et politiques récentes, autant que les problèmes rencontrés par la mise en œuvre des programmes de reconstruction des Territoires palestiniens. C’est ce que nous avons tenté d’amorcer dans le cadre de ce travail.

Race, Liberalism, and Economics

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Noneconomists often think that economists’ approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists’ ideas are more complicated. The book considers economists’ support of markets in relation to the challenge of race and race relations and argues that their support of laissez-faire has traditionally been based upon a broader philosophical foundation of liberalism and history: what markets have and have not achieved in the past, and how that past relates to the future. The book discusses the concepts of liberalism and racism, the history and use of these terms, and how that history relates to policy issues. It argues that liberalism is consistent with a wide variety of policies and that the broader philosophical issues are central in choosing policies.The contributors show how the evolution of racist ideas has been a subtle process that is woven into larger movements in the development of scientific thought; economic thinking is embedded in a larger social milieu. Previous discussions of policies toward race have been constrained by that social milieu, and, since World War II, have largely focused on ending legislated and state-sanctioned discrimination. In the past decade, the broader policy debate has moved on to questions about the existence and relative importance of intangible sources of inequality, including market structure, information asymmetries, cumulative processes, and cultural and/or social capital. This book is a product of, and a contribution to, this modern discussion. It is uniquely transdisciplinary, with contributions by and discussions among economists, philosophers, anthropologists, and literature scholars.The volume first examines the early history of work on race by economists and social scientists more generally. It continues by surveying American economists on race and featuring contributions that embody more modern approaches to race within economics. Finally it explores several important policy issues that follow from the discussion.“. . . adds new insights that contribute significantly to the debate on racial economic inequality in the U.S. The differing opinions of the contributors provide the broad perspective needed to examine this extremely complex issue.”--James Peoples, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee“There is an immense economic literature on racial discrimination, employing a variety of models and decomposition methods. This volume makes a unique contribution by focusing on the philosophical assumptions at the root of this analysis and by presenting many sides of the very vigorous debate surrounding these controversial issues.”--Thomas Maloney, University of Utah“By focusing upon the progress of analytical technique, historians of economic thought have grossly neglected the symbiotic relation of economics to public policy and ideology. This collection of essays offers a most welcome breach of disciplinary apartheid. Seizing upon recent research in the almost forgotten writings about race of Classical economists and their contemporaries, it relates nineteenth-century ideas to current debates about economic discrimination and other manifestations of racism. As the writing is both learned and lively, the book should appeal both to the generally educated reader and to teachers of courses in multiculturalism.”--Melvin Reder, Isidore Brown and Gladys J. Brown Professor Emeritus of Urban and Labor Economics, University of Chicago

rEvolution

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We have reached a turning point in our development as a species. In the coming decades we face significant global challenges in terms of climate change, biodiversity, food and water resources and violent extremism. At the local level, these seem like crazy times, with the speed of change accelerating faster than ever. In rEvolution, best-selling author Bill Lucas suggests some of the ways we can all succeed in today's complex world. 150 years after Charles Darwin invented the concept of natural selection, Bill argues that the rules of evolution are changing. To thrive in our current crazy world we need a new kind of "mind-ware". Specifically we need to develop our adaptive intelligence. Drawing on new and emerging sciences and using approaches previously applied in other domains, this book describes some of the practical steps you can take at home, at school, in the workplace and in the wider community to ensure that you can constantly adapt to new circumstances. Bill's analysis, optimism and suggestions for practical learning make this an essential addition to the book shelf of all thoughtful questioning members of the species!

Hatching Twitter

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The dramatic, unlikely story behind the founding of Twitter, by New York Times bestselling author and Vanity Fair special correspondent The San Francisco-based technology company Twitter has become a powerful force in less than ten years. Today it’s everything from a tool for fighting political oppression in the Middle East to a marketing must-have to the world’s living room during live TV events to President Trump’s preferred method of communication. It has hundreds of millions of active users all over the world. But few people know that it nearly fell to pieces early on. In this rousing history that reads like a novel, Hatching Twitter takes readers behind the scenes of Twitter’s early exponential growth, following the four hackers—Ev Williams, Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass, who created the cultural juggernaut practically by accident. It’s a drama of betrayed friendships and high-stakes power struggles over money, influence, and control over a company that was growing faster than they could ever imagine. Drawing on hundreds of sources, documents, and internal e-mails, Bilton offers a rarely-seen glimpse of the inner workings of technology startups, venture capital, and Silicon Valley culture.

Un partenariat avec l'Afrique

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L'Afrique amorce une période qui verra la transformation de ses perspectives politiques, économiques et sociales. La Banque européenne d'investissement est un élément essentiel de la panoplie d'instruments de l'UE qui, depuis plusieurs décennies, contribue à renforcer le partenariat entre l'Afrique et l'Europe. Nous voulons maximiser notre potentiel en tant que banque de l'UE, afin de pouvoir nous associer à nos partenaires africains pour relever ensemble les grands défis d'aujourd'hui et saisir les occasions qui s'offrent à nous. Cette publication présente le bilan des réalisations de la BEI en Afrique et sa vision de son futur partenariat avec le continent.

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