Business

Taking the reader on a tour of the fast changing East, Simpfendorfer urges the business world to respond by planning for the unexpected. Now that the East has secured its role as a powerful player on the world stage, The Rise of the New East provides simple business strategies for dealing with an increasingly complex global environment.

Banks are entering a new environment. Regulation and supervision are becoming tougher, so that banks will be less likely to fail. If a bank does fail, bail-in rather than bail-out will be the new resolution regime, so that investors, not taxpayers, bear loss. Safe to Fail sums up the challenges that banks will face and how they can meet them.

An analysis of the potential of e-commerce and the difficulties and pitfalls of this new business world.

How to make investment in management developments count and how you decide what you want from individual managers.

This text introduces a customer service programme that has been applied, refined and customized in many top businesses. It explains in practical terms how you can build a service culture into your business.

The Internet allows businesses of all sizes to promote their products cheaply and effectively. Virtually Free Marketing takes a look at how leading lights in e-commerce such as Amazon, Google and YouTube have made their mark, before taking readers through the process step by step.

An innovation leader from Coca-Cola explains how to apply its practices of design, scale and agility to respond to dynamic market conditions, using easy-to-understand case studies to demonstrate key examples of company strategies at work.

Business ethics teaching appears to have had little impact, particularly in the light of continued malpractice and misdemeanour in the form of financial scandals, environmental disasters and adverse consequences for communities. In this timely work, Hemingway reveals fresh insights to suggest how integrity in the workplace can be encouraged.

Few of us are natural salespeople, and many small business owners struggle with the process. Strong selling skills are essential if you are to make your company a success, however, and this practical book offers advice and techniques to help you overcome your inhibitions, understand sales are made, and close a deal successfully.

Roly Weaver quit his 'day-job' as a Chartered Civil Engineer at the age of 50 in March 2008 - fulfilling his long standing dream 'to retire early'. He was able to do this because in 2002, along with his wife Rachel, he started investing in UK property; he bought family houses and rented them out. By ...

More than just a handbook, How to Bridge what the CEO Expects and what the Employee Delivers provides readers with a window into the author's thousands of days of management and consulting experience - for the price of far less than 'one hour' of consulting!

The subject of advertising is often treated with indifference by economists and disdain by the public. Indeed, from time-to-time, there have been calls to ban advertising. Though there has been no general ban, advertising has been prohibited in some sectors and further regulation in this field is continually ...

This book outlines a path towards a more practical era for "corporate responsibility", where companies make real environmental gains based on hard facts, using lifecycle assessment (LCA) and environmental product declarations (EPDs).By the time you have finished this book you will be able to make the ...

Tom Bergin, an oil broker turned Reuters reporter, watched the 'two-pipeline company' of the early 1980s grow into a dynamic oil giant and PR machine by the turn of the twenty-first century.

Dynamics of International Business: Asia-Pacific Business Cases brings the challenges of the contemporary international business environment into the classroom. The cases draw on a diverse range of businesses and industries, illustrate fundamental themes and concerns within global business, span many countries across the Asia-Pacific region and include discussion questions.

A winning culture is desirable and possible. Use these keys to build yours now!

Provides data for more than 20 key indicators on the business environment and private sector development in a single page for each of the World Bank member countries and other economies with populations of more than 30,000. These more than 200 country pages are supplemented by aggregate data for regional and income groupings.

"Business innovators know how to jump on a new trend and make a big profit. Yes She Did! Business profiles quirky clothing sellers, computer scientists, experts on foreign countries, and more. All of these successful and intelligent women are changing the world of business, and succeeding against great ...

The biggest problems faced in designing, managing and integrating computer systems are often not technical, but 'socio-technical'. Using examples of portals, supply chains, ebusiness and elearning systems, the potential for harnessing 'soft' factors to competitive advantage in distributed networked systems are discussed.