This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Integrated Business Planning (IBP), building on practitioner's experience and showcasing the value gains when moving from disconnected planning to IBP. It also proposes a road map for the transformation of planning, including technological initiatives, business priorities and organizational processes, and demonstrates how to motivate different IBP stakeholders to work together, when and how to connect strategic (to be understood as long term ...

Contract management is an essential part of running a successful business. It involves the management of all the agreements, arrangements and documents that are created throughout the life of a contract. It requires understanding the legal, financial and operational aspects of a contract, as well as the ability to negotiate and manage contractual relationships.

This book is designed to provide non-lawyers with an accessible and straightforward guide to understanding and managing contracts. It...

Why is it that so many otherwise professional companies are struggling to identify profit and loss factors? Many of them do not know how much a client, product or service contributes and are unaware of the mechanism behind increasing costs. One could argue that it is irrelevant whether your organization is still profitable if you are clueless as to what actually makes the organization profitable or unprofitable. This is the central question in this book: couldn’t your company be more profit...

Time management refers to the process of planning and

organizing how much time you spend on various activities in order to be more efficient and effective in achieving your goals. Effective time management involves setting priorities, establishing a schedule, and using techniques to minimize

distractions and interruptions.

In this book you will learn how to be more productive and make the most of your available time. It allows you to better balance your work, personal and social life, and c...

What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget, and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? This book offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress.

Responding to the most recent global challenges by analysing data from new events, and developing new policy examples, the eighth edition of Macroeconomics: A European Text continues to provide a comprehensive and modern analysis of macroeconomic theories. While retaining their focus on those features that characterise the European economy, the authors explore matters surrounding the global financial crisis, the European debt crisis, and the most recent effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on bot...

Want to know how to influence other people's behaviour?In The Advertising Effect, respected advertising insider, Adam Ferrier, reveals the ten techniques used by some of the best-known brands across the globe. These techniques are grounded in psychological theory with award winning real world examples and explore how the most effective way to change behaviour is through action rather than the conventional advertising practices (emotional or rational persuasion). This is the ultimate insider's...