In recent years, the Agile approach to tackling projects has really taken off, with more and less success. An Agile approach requires a different mindset from the person driving the change, from the professionals involved in various teams and—and this is sometimes overlooked—from the organization in which the Agile project is executed.

An Agile project cannot do without sufficient project management, predictability, determining functionality and decision-making to achieve a successful con...

Budgeting is the process of creating a plan for managing your finances, by estimating and allocating your income and expenses over a specified period of time, such as a month or a year. The purpose of budgeting is to ensure that you have enough money to cover your expenses and to help you achieve your financial goals, such as saving for a down payment on a house, paying off debt, or building an emergency fund.

A budget typically includes a list of all your income sources, a list of all your e...

Due to the growth of online purchases, the customer journey is becoming increasingly important for the sale of products and services and customer satisfaction. The customer journey you offer your customers sets you apart from the competition. If you want to turn your initial customers into repeat visitors, you have to offer every customer an optimal customer journey.

Designing and improving your customer journey requires you to view it as your core product, which you actively manage, measure ...

Get a solid grasp of the methods, processes, and issues surrounding marketing communications and develop your career with an industry-leading text that blends theory with contemporary marketing practice. Marketing Communications, 9th edition by Fill and Turnbull is the leading text that introduces you to the key topics of the subject. Ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate students in Marketing and related fields, this textbook guides you through the processes and actions of engaging audien...

This bestseller text offers clear, simple-to-understand and comprehensive coverage of management and cost accounting. Management and Cost Accounting, 8th edition brings together techniques, concepts and practices in a way that is readable and with language that is easy to follow. Keeping its international focus, the text includes a wealth of case studies featuring companies from around the world, and offers up-to-date coverage of the most contemporary aspects affecting management accounting t...

Multinational Business Finance trains the leaders of tomorrow's multinational enterprises to recognize and capitalize on the unique characteristics of global markets. Because the job of a manager is to make financial decisions that increase a firm's value, the authors have embedded real-world mini-cases throughout, applying chapter concepts to the types of situations managers of real multinational firms encounter. The 16th Edition attempts to capture the rapid evolution of our global marketpl...

Discovering Leadership: Designing Your Success, Second Edition provides a comprehensive practice-based introduction to leadership. The text guides students to design their leadership purposefully and mindfully as they develop their leadership knowledge, skills, and dispositions.

Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult

An essential textbook for students of cross-cultural/intercultural business and marketing. It is liked to the X-Culture project, which is a multicultural exercise where students learn to solve real world international business problems.

Het leven wordt steeds duurder. Zowel in het nieuws als in de supermarkt worden we er dagelijks mee geconfronteerd: torenhoge infl atie die onzekoopkracht doet dalen. Voor wie de koopkracht van zijn spaargeld wil beschermen, kan beleggen een oplossing zijn.

Maar hoe kun je veilig (beginnen) beleggen in turbulente tijden als deze? Waarin beleg je het best, en in welke verhouding? En wat is het ideale moment om een aandeel te (ver)kopen?

In dit boek leer je, aan de hand van enkele basisbegrippe...