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13 November 2014

• Enhancing the Doctoral Experience: A Guide for Supervisors and their International Students

  Against a challenging background of growing numbers of students but also increasing pressures on time and costs, Enhancing the Doctoral Experience offers an approach to improve the effectiveness of the doctoral student and increase the professionalization of research supervision. It does so by providing both with an awareness of, and a toolkit to approach, student diversity.

• The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy

  The Seven Inconvenient Truths of Business Strategy is an antidote to a process of strategic planning that in many organizations is often sporadic, biased, poorly articulated and rarely implemented with total success.

12 November 2014

• Mount Carmel School enjoys a new multi-use games area

  Mount Carmel Catholic College for Girls, a lead health and well-being school for Islington, has recently become the proud owner of a brand new striking blue, Playrite multi-use games pitch. Choosing a multi use games area for your facility means that you can provide year round usage and the option to offer a wider range of sports and extra-curricular activities for your school.

04 November 2014

• Multipreneurship: Diversification in Times of Crisis

  In Multipreneurship, Nick Harkiolakis argues against the more commonly held view that diversification at the level of the individual entrepreneur, rather than that of the established corporation, is the wrong business strategy to pursue in times of economic crisis.

• The Essentials of Project Management by Dennis Lock - Fourth Edition

  The fourth edition of The Essentials of Project Management is the complement to Dennis Lock's comprehensive and encyclopaedic textbook, Project Management, and provides a concise account of the principles and techniques designed to meet the needs of the business manager or student. Using examples and illustrations, the author introduces the key project management procedures and explains clearly how and when to use them.

• The Strategic Alliance Handbook: A Practitioners Guide to Business-to-Business Collaborations

  The Strategic Alliance Handbook is a clear and complete guide to the nuts and bolts of the process behind successful collaborations. The book enables readers to understand the commercial, technical, strategic, cultural and operational logic behind any alliance and to establish an approach that is appropriate for the kind of alliance they are seeking.

• Managerial Fraud: Executive Impression Management, Beyond Red Flags

  In Managerial Fraud, Dr Terry Sheridan reports the findings of her study of fraudulent executives. Her work illuminates the particular methods fraudsters employ to appear more authentic than the average person and reveals two types of executive fraudster with very different behaviours.

31 October 2014

• The Digital Renaissance of Work: Delivering Digital Workplaces Fit for the Future

  Paul Miller’s follow up to his critically acclaimed The Digital Workplace picks up the story to provide organizations with an understanding of the structural and organizational implications the emerging technology has for the workplace. His insights, backed by the considerable research of the Digital Workplace Forum, offer a lifeline to organizations needing to make better sense of a very uncertain future.

• Open Design and Innovation: Facilitating Creativity in Everyone

  The book offers a critique of the hype surrounding some of the emerging phenomena and a framework to help understand the emerging relationship between citizens and designers.

• Managing the Urgent and Unexpected: Twelve Project Cases and a Commentary

  Managing the Urgent and Unexpected explores what is different managerially if work is unexpected, its implementation is urgent and an immediate start it is required. The lessons offered here will help private and public organizations plan how to authorize and support future urgent work to take advantage of immediate new business opportunities or to protect or restore systems and services.