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22 December 2014

• A Short Guide to Climate Change Risk by Nigel Arnell

  In this addition to Gower’s series of Short Guides to Business Risk, Professor Arnell, one of the world’s leading experts in the field, reviews this critical area of risk posed to businesses and other organisations by climate change and considers how they can respond to this threat.

18 December 2014

• New Second Edition – The Price of Global Health: Drug Pricing Strategies to Balance Patient Access and the Funding of Innovation

  ‘The Price of Global Health’ is a unique, much-needed and invaluable resource for anybody interested or involved in, or affected by, the development, funding and use of prescription drugs. The second edition includes new chapters on payer value story development, oncology, orphan drugs and payer negotiations. Country chapters have also been updated to reflect changes in healthcare systems.

• 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.