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18 December 2014

• Effective Client Management in Professional Services

  'Effective Client Management in Professional Services' explains how firms become client-centric, providing a comprehensive, pragmatic guide to the Client relationship journey, from identifying potential Clients to their engagement, care, retention, development, loyalty and beyond.

• Always On: Digital Brand Strategy in a Big Data World

  With big data emerging as a standard framework for decision making, digital strategy and governance have taken on increased importance. It’s a given in today’s online marketplace that you are perceived as being always on. Make sure your governance programmes for your systems and platforms keep it that way.

• Integrated Assurance: Risk Governance Beyond Boundaries

  It is time to rethink assurance beyond its usual functional boundaries, to focus on what matters to the business and how discussions in the board room can be better supported by more joined up assurance. This book will provide practical guidance for those who need that support and for others providing it.

04 December 2014

• MWA and Oxford University : 6 years of successful energy management

  When Oxford University found its heat meters were not working correctly they contacted MWA for help and advice.

03 December 2014

• Team Leadership in High-Hazard Environments: Performance, Safety and Risk Management Strategies for Operational Teams

  From an organizational and business perspective, safety and production/performance are often seen as competing goals. Team Leadership in High-Hazard Environments recognizes these difficulties and constraints and proposes an approach to safety leadership in which safety and organizational performance are inextricably linked; one that addresses safety from both the systems and human factors perspectives.

17 November 2014

• A multi-sport pitch for Mary Hill School.

  Mary Hill Primary School in Kidsgrove, Stoke on Trent has recently been the recipient of a brand new multi-sport pitch. The school has been in desperate need for somewhere for the children to play, with limited areas and resources, Playrite were able to assist in changing an area that was previously unusable into a fantastic new sports facility for the school.

14 November 2014

• Design for Policy by Christian Bason

  'Design for Policy' charts, for the first time, the emergence of collaborative design approaches to innovation in public policy. It is a rich resource for policy makers, public managers, the academic community and advisers to government.

• Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising

  'Integral Green Zimbabwe: An African Phoenix Rising' marks the debut of the Integral Green Society and Economy series, which links the philosophical 'integral' age with the practical 'green' movement. The series blends elements of nature and community, culture and spirituality, science and technology, politics and economics.

• Digital Enterprise Transformation: A Business-Driven Approach to Leveraging Innovative IT

  In order to embrace recent challenges and changes in the governance of IT strategies, SAP and its think tank – the Business Transformation Academy (BTA) – have jointly developed the Digital Capability Framework (DCF). Digital Enterprise Transformation outlines this framework which supports companies in analyzing their business potential generated by systematic usage of innovative technologies.

13 November 2014

• Complex Adaptive Leadership: Embracing Paradox and Uncertainty – Second Edition

  'Complex Adaptive Leadership', a Gower bestseller, has been taught in corporate leadership programmes, business schools and universities around the world to high acclaim. In this updated paperback edition, the author proposes that leadership is a complex dynamic process and should involve all those engaged in a particular enterprise.