Enhance your productivity at work with “Visual Working,” the follow-up to the successful “Visual Thinking” and “Visual Doing.”

This practical workbook shows you how to use drawing as a fun and effective way to communicate at work. It provides simple steps to incorporate business drawing into your daily routine so that you can express ideas with images as easily as with words.

Discover the Five Visual Thinking Types and use practical tips to improve collaboration and communication...

A tale about strategy done differently

The One-Hour Strategy follows Martin, the new sales team lead at Waters & Flows, which attracted him because of their unique way of doing strategy. We shadow Martin as he onboards with his new colleagues, who walk him through each aspect of their One-Hour Strategy, answering his questions and addressing his reservations. Along the way, Martin learns:

• Why employees at every level in the firm should be involved in strategy

• How strategic competence ...

For a long time, silk, tea, sinocentrism, and eurocentrism made up a big patch of East Asian history. Simultaneously deviating from and complicating these tags, this edited volume reconstructs narratives from the periphery and considers marginal voices located beyond official archives as the centre of East Asian history. The lives of the Japanese Buddhist monks, Eastern Han local governors, Confucian scholars, Chinese coolies, Shanghainese tailors, Macau joss-stick makers, Hong Kong locals, a...

You can find many different books on Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma. This book is different because it addresses the relation between Lean and other improvement methods that have been proven to be successful over the past decades, such as TQM, Kaizen, TPM and Six Sigma. These methods, tools and techniques have been united in the ‘Continuous Improvement Maturity Model’ (CIMMTM).

CIMM is an open standard and is maintained by the ‘Lean Six Sigma Academy’ (LSSA).

The framework describe...

The Business Object Modelling (BOM) workbook treats the approach used to create and manage the BIAN Reference Data Architecture for the Financial Industry. It treats the added value this model can provide for the Financial Industry and its service providers.

However, the applicability of the approach used by BIAN to create and manage its Reference Data Architecture, and the added value of such “enterprise data model”, is not limited to BIAN and the financial industry. The workbook treats...

This comprehensive guide hones in on marketing’s pivotal role in creating value for customers and other stakeholders. It navigates through the stages of (1) marketing analysis, (2) strategy development, (3) implementation of the marketing strategy via the marketing mix, and (4) marketing evaluation using established key performance indicators.

The book serves as a valuable resource for students, marketers, and business leaders navigating the dynamic marketing landscape, providing guidance t...

How can the convergence of multiple cascading crises create a broader disruptive reality of ‘polycrisis’ in society? How do specific social groups and communities develop purposeful responses to the distinctive forms of insecurity and suffering generated by an enduring polycrisis? Through an exploration of multiple types of crises in a variety of geographical settings in Europe and the United Kingdom, the chapters compiled in this book offer fresh insight into how particular groups of pe...

Stewart/Redlin/Watson's best-selling PRECALCULUS: MATHEMATICS FOR CALCULUS, 8th INTERNATIONAL METRIC EDITION with WebAssign digital resources prepares students to succeed in future calculus courses. This best-selling author team emphasizes problem-solving and mathematical modeling as this edition presents concepts with unparalleled clarity and precision. Updated content and revised learning features remove barriers for a carefully planned, inclusive learning experience.

The authors' attention...

'Claire North brings a powerful, fresh and unflinching voice to ancient myth - darkly fascinating, raw and breathtaking' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne***A Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of the Year***This is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca's shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women - and their goddesses - that will chang...