This new student textbook using a wide range of learning features covers essential skills such as creative and critical thinking, communication and cooperation as well as data-driven decision-making for businesses and societies at large, as they encounter problems, identify opportunities and seek solutions during complex and turbulent times.

How did John F. Kennedy put a man on the moon in just under ten years?What can chess teach us about actionable insights?And why should you shake up a business at a time of great success?All of these questions have their answer in strategic thinking. But what is strategic thinking exactly? Are we born with it, or can we nurture it?As a distinct and important capability in leaders, strategic thinking is a remarkably poorly defined, little understood concept, confined to management courses and b...

Understanding the global hotel business is not possible without paying specific attention to hotel chain management and dynamics. Chains are big business, approximately 80 percent of hotels currently being constructed around the world are chain affiliated and, in 2014, the five largest brands held over a one million rooms. The high economic importance of the hotel chains and their global presence justifies the academic research in the field however, despite this, there is no uniform coverage ...

Fundamentals of Workplace Learning is a comprehensive guide to how people learn in the workplace, and the issues and challenges involved. Examining the essential aspects of workplace learning and unravelling the various influences which affect the success of work-based learners, Knud Illeris presents a holistic model to explain how diverse individuals can be encouraged and invited to learn at work. Approaching workplace learning from the perspective of learners as human beings, with complex s...

Soil and Water Contamination, Second Edition gives a structured overview of transport and fate processes of environmental contaminants. Dealing with all topics essential for understanding and predicting contaminant patterns in soil, groundwater and surface water, it contributes to the formation of a solid basis for adequate soil and water pollution control and integrated catchment management. A unique feature of this work is that it does not treat water and soil pollution as independent proce...

Many 21st century operations are characterised by teams of workers dealing with significant risks and complex technology, in competitive, commercially-driven environments. Informed managers in such sectors have realised the necessity of understanding the human dimension to their operations if they hope to improve production and safety performance. While organisational safety culture is a key determinant of workplace safety, it is also essential to focus on the non-technical skills of the syst...

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage.

He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a '...

Analyses the economics of development from a global perspective with a wealth of illustrations. Throughout the book, there is a strong emphasis on data analysis and connecting theory and data. Suitable both for second and third-year undergraduates in economics or business, and graduate students studying other social sciences.

Through a unique combination of data visualisation and analytics (both theoretical and applied), this ground-breaking textbook provides you with the expertise to analyse, interpret and communicate data with confidence, to inform real-world decision making.

Unlike other books available on the market, this combines rigorous academic theory with practical insights, making it both suitable for students and practitioners at the intersection between digital transformation, marketing and strategy implementation; Provides insights from contributors from GE, Volvo, Adobe, Siemens, DHL, Thales and other companies known for their exceptional abilities to drive profits via digital transformation; Practical steps to drive profits via digital strategy implem...