Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What's the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?Now there's a sure-fire way to answer these important questions: the sprint.

Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used on everything from Google Search to Google X. He joined Braden...

East Asia is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse regions and is also becoming an increasingly coherent region through the inter-play of various integrative economic, political and socio-cultural processes. Fully updated and revised throughout, this new edition explores the various ways in which East Asian regionalism continues to deepen. The second edition has been expanded to incorporate coverage of significant issues that have emerged in recent years including: Growing tensions in t...

For Introduction to Hospitality courses Empower tomorrow's hospitality leaders with a visually appealing, easy, and engaging introduction to the exciting opportunities in the many varied segments of the industry Exploring the Hospitality Industry helps students advance in their careers by giving them a broad foundation of hospitality industry knowledge presented in a lively, visually appealing manner using engaging features to facilitate the learning process. Less theoretical and more industr...

Research Methods for Operations Management, second edition is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers but also a reference book for any researcher in OM. Many students begin their career in research limited by the one or few approaches taken by their department. The concise, accessible overviews found here equip them with an understanding of a variety of methods and how to use them, enabling them to tailor their research project to their own s...

Many shops have simplified their production control by using card-based systems such as kanban and Constant Work-in-Process (ConWIP). Although these systems provide a simple and highly effective visual approach for controlling manufacturing and service operations, all too many shops struggle with failed implementations or achieve results that fall below expectations. These outcomes can be attributed to a poor fit between the actual control problem and the solution applied.

This book takes a d...

Breng je financiële situatie in kaart en reken af met geldstress

Of je nu geen idee hebt waar je geld elke maand naartoe vliegt, met een grote boog om je administratiemap heen loopt of als je gewoon even wilt weten of je goed bezig bent op financieel gebied: dit is hét boek voor jou! Krijg antwoord op vragen als:

* Weet jij precies wat er binnenkomt en wat eruit gaat?

* Wat voor geldtype ben jij eigenlijk?

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Weg van filantropie is een handboek voor nonprofit-organisaties die (beter) willen samenwerken met grote gevers, en vice versa. Het staat vol praktische tips, gebaseerd op ervaringen uit de dagelijkse praktijk van Vera en Hans, interviews die zij met grote gevers en non-profit organisaties

voerden en de informatie uit het grote geveronderzoek Filantropie in Nederland.

Wie de weg van filantropie bewandelt, leert al snel dat tweerichtingsverkeer noodzakelijk is om grote gevers met succes aa...

Focusing on auditing as a judgment process, this unique textbook helps readers strike the balance between understanding auditing theory and how an audit plays out in reality. The only textbook to provide complete coverage of both the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Auditing reflects the contemporary evolution of the audit process. New additions to the book include expert updates on key topics, such as the audit of account...

This groundbreaking book describes the Lean journey as it extends to a business area that is mission critical, yet has been virtually untouched by the Lean transformation. Lean for Sales: Bringing the Science of Lean to the Art of Selling provides sales professionals, and their management teams, with a structured, fact-based approach to boosting sales close rates and delivering improved business value to customers. The time-tested Lean selling techniques described in this book have been prove...