Who wouldn’t love to get more work done in less time, have time for family, sports and hobbies, thus creating a relaxed way of life? Trouble is, between the dream and the reality there’s a clock in the way, and it only let you have 24 hours in any one day. There’s no way round that.

Most people find being under time pressure very unpleasant; the awful realisation that 24 hours just aren’t enough to do what they want or have to do. Sound familiar? You can do something about that ‘against...

Ben Elsinga is an experienced professional, author and blogger. This book gives young professionals the tools and resources they can use to maximize their chances of growth and success.Are you young at heart and full of energy, but feel as though your talents have not yet brought you the success you imagined?Be inspired by the resources described for you by a seasoned professional. This workbook will increase your resilience to outside influences, and teach you to set goals that will contribu...

Digital disruption is the biggest challenge that businesses are facing today. But where there is risk, there is opportunity. New technologies allow you to think big. At the same time, you need to think practical. Make Disruption Work shows you what digital disruption entails and how to ride the wave. The book is focused on evidence, not opinion, and offers real-world examples of companies that underwent digital disruption and how they now bank extremely healthy digital sales. Disruption need ...

The Netherlands is known for its water management and leads the way in infrastructure, energy solutions and utility construction. And for good reason. After all, these are industries that are constantly evolving with complex projects and where failure costs are always lurking. To get this under control, more than 20 years ago, the introduction of Systems Engineering was a major catalyst. The government realized that processes needed more structure and that the innovative power of the market n...

Besides the PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation Courseware – English publication you are advised to obtain the official publication from TSO.

PRINCE2 Agile® Foundation is applicable to anyone who delivers projects, large or small, in an agile context.

This certification is for professionals who work within a project that includes key staff and integrating project management with product delivery. This requires an understanding of the agile concepts detailed in PRINCE2 Agile. And will also be benef...

The IPMA ICB4® is the international standard on competence for project, programme and portfolio managers. The competence needed for each of these domains is defined in the following competence areas: “People” (how do you interact with the people around you, and yourself); the “Practice” of our work (needed for Projects, Programmes and Portfolios); the “Perspective” of the intiatives you’re running (the context within which the initiative is run and the link to what needs to be ...

Costas Papaikonomou is one of the founders of Happen.com, one of the fastest growing creative innovation agencies of the 21st century. A career in innovation – studying, dreaming, creating, researching and realizing new products. It’s been an amazing journey, playing in the birth chambers of mass market multinationals. Nevertheless he’s quite grumpy.

Why are so many brilliant ideas culled before they’ve had a chance to shine in the real world?

Why are so many awful ideas pushed throug...

“A key reading for leaders that outlines how to effectively innovate for the future and boost growth, while running the core business.” - Alex Osterwalder, Co-author of Business Model Generation.

Tendayi Viki is nominated for the Thinkers50.

'The Corporate Startup' has won an Axiom Business Book Awards 2019 Gold Medal and the CMI Management Book of the Year Award 2018 in the category 'Innovation and entrepreneurship'.

The Corporate Startup is a practical guide for established companies th...

Innovate or die! How do you achieve long-term growth in a highly competitive business environment? Many established companies are facing a similar challenge. Sales from existing products is declining and the urgency to innovate the existing business and create new businesses is bigger than ever. Scale as a competitive advantage is no longer sufficient to compensate for the slow speed of corporate innovation. We need to leverage the organizations scale and assets and combine this with the spee...

The words ‘technology’ and ‘innovation’ are almost automatically linked with American companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, Tesla or Amazon in most people’s minds. But this association has created a huge blind spot in the West.

While the world focuses on what is happening in Silicon Valley, the Chinese innovation train has left the station and is moving forward at high speed. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent are the well-known standard-bearers of this fast and furious innovation surge, ...