Building the Bridge to Inspirational Leadership
In Building the Bridge to Inspirational Leadership, Matt Sims reveals how to create an environment where high performance thrives-by focusing on people first. This actionable guide offers the core principles that great leaders use to unlock the potential in every individual and inspire lasting success. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience leading change and transformation at the highest level, Matt introduces the essential principles of Leadership: Respect for People, Authenticity, Engagement, Empowerment, Continuous Learning, and Continuous Improvement. These principles are the foundation for creating high-performance cultures where people are motivated, inspired, and able to reach their full potential. Inside, you'll learn how to: Build a people-focused culture that encourages respect, value, and motivation. Lead with authenticity and trust to empower people to take ownership. Engage and inspire your team, fostering accountability and shared responsibility. Empower your people to drive decision-making and use continuous improvement to achieve excellence. Inspire continuous growth and development by unlocking human potential. Use real-world examples and practical tools to create lasting transformation. Packed with actionable insights and proven strategies, this book gives you the tools to become a better leader and build a team that thrives, performs, and transforms. The Bridge to Inspirational Leadership - A proven framework for High Performance
Build Your Beverage Empire
Launch or Build Your Beverage Venture With Expert AdviceDive into a dynamic world of beverage entrepreneurship where traditional rules are rewritten! In this enlightening guide, you'll explore the exciting realm of online sales, social media buzz, and direct consumer engagement, reaching beyond the confines of convenience stores to platforms like Amazon, TikTok, and Meta. Discover how small-scale beginnings, starting with just one pallet, reshape the industry."The post-COVID era has revolutionized the beverage supply chain, sales, and distribution, creating unprecedented opportunities."For the savvy entrepreneur, this means the ability to connect directly with your ideal customers.This book is more than a guide; however, it's a real blueprint for success. You'll gain invaluable insights into developing and marketing innovative beverages. Uncover groundbreaking strategies and techniques to carve out a unique niche and outshine the competition. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or looking to launch a new beverage product, the industry is ripe with possibilities. The new beverage business world includes online sales, social media promotion, and finding your consumers not only in a convenience store but on Amazon, TikTok, or Meta. Beverage development also changed; gone are the days of ordering five truckloads; in exchange, beverage entrepreneurs can start with one pallet.COVID changed the entire supply chain for the beverage business alongside beverage sales and distribution. This is amazing for consumers ordering beverages online and for entrepreneurs, as they can now sell directly to their perfect customers and drop ship to their homes.Yes, you'll see the blueprint and step-by-step guide on how to develop and sell beverages. You will also discover cutting-edge ideas and techniques to disrupt the beverage industry and separate yourself from the competition. If you are considering launching a new product or business as an entrepreneur, the beverage industry might be for you.Topics Covered Include: ✔ How to Start Your Business✔ Beverage Development✔ Beverage Marketing✔ Beverage e-Distribution✔ Beverage Formulation✔ Entrepreneurship Mind-Set✔ Beverage Packaging✔ Beverage Sales✔ Beverage Distribution✔ Beverage Business Funding✔ Beverage Online MarketingIn this third edition of the book, Jorge Olson decided to rewrite the entire text, not only updating it but expanding it to cover more material on online marketing, Amazon sales, much more detail on beverage development and formulation, and unique details on beverage business modeling and creating your business plan to get funding. This book is a complete guide for beverage entrepreneurs on how to start their new business.What's New in The Third Edition?How to leverage social media to sell more drinksSell online, including your store, social media, and AmazonBeverage development and contract manufacturingSmall batch white label and private-label beverage productionPost-COVID opportunities and how to take advantage of them
Probability, Statistics and Other Frightening Stuff
Probability, Statistics and Other Frightening Stuff (Volume II of the Working Guides to Estimating & Forecasting series) considers many of the commonly used Descriptive Statistics in the world of estimating and forecasting. It considers values that are representative of the 'middle ground' (Measures of Central Tendency), and the degree of data scatter (Measures of Dispersion and Shape) around the 'middle ground' values.A number of Probability Distributions and where they might be used are discussed, along with some fascinating and useful 'rules of thumb' or short-cut properties that estimators and forecasters can exploit in plying their trade. With the help of a 'Correlation Chicken', the concept of partial correlation is explained, including how the estimator or forecaster can exploit this in reflecting varying levels of independence and imperfect dependence between an output or predicted value (such as cost) and an input or predictor variable such as size.Under the guise of 'Tails of the unexpected' the book concludes with two chapters devoted to Hypothesis Testing (or knowing when to accept or reject the validity of an assumed estimating relationship), and a number of statistically-based tests to help the estimator to decide whether to include or exclude a data point as an 'outlier', one that appears not to be representative of that which the estimator is tasked to produce. This is a valuable resource for estimators, engineers, accountants, project risk specialists as well as students of cost engineering.
Circular Economy: The Next Level of Company Success
Without any doubt, the current prevailing Linear Economy principle of take-make-dispose is inherently unsustainable: Raw materials are extracted, transformed into products, and discarded as waste after use. The resulting environmental and economic challenges brought together both practitioners and academics to develop more sustainable methods for production and consumption. Especially the concept of Circular Economy has received a lot of attention. But despite many technical solutions, a key question for practical implementation has remained unanswered until now: How can enterprises integrate Circular Economy into their business strategy to leverage success? This book examines the topic of Circular Economy in an entrepreneurial context. It describes ten options for companies to retain value and identifies drivers and enablers for implementing Circular Economy in businesses. A survey among more than 500 industry experts revealed the extent to which retention options were implemented in practice. For the first time, relevant drivers and enablers for each retention option were identified. On top of this, case studies of successful circular market offerings shed light on each retention option in detail. The knowledge gained from research and the further shared experiences of experts that contributed to this book result in a 6-step management model. This model provides guidance on how to implement Circular Economy in organisations as an element of operational excellence and as a source of product, service, and business innovation. Now, every enterprise can start the journey. As the survey and the cases show: Circular Economy is a promising way to the next level of company success. The book at hand will help organisations to develop their own individual approach that matches their business model. In short, you will find: First comprehensive analysis of 10 retention options, their drivers, and enablers. Survey of more than 500 companies and in-depth case studies for each retention option. Practical research-based implementation model for companies.
Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Assortment and Suppliers in E-Commerce
In a rapidly changing e-commerce environment, effective supplier selection and inventory management are critical to maintaining competitive advantage and operational efficiency. This book introduces innovative multi-criteria decision-making models (MCDMs) and improved inventory classification systems tailored specifically for online retail environments. Combining theory and research-based case studies, the book highlights the importance of comprehensive criteria in supplier and assortment evaluation and the application of artificial intelligence in optimising decision models. It provides valuable insights and practical solutions for improving supply chain performance and inventory management in the e-commerce sector. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of logistics and e-commerce and supply chain management.
The Possibility Wheel
This is a practical guide to improved medium-term decision-making for business leaders. The quality of decisions made by organisations and governments affects us all: decisions made with old paradigm assumptions may not take advantage of opportunities presented by the new, emerging paradigm; they restrict our ability to develop resilient choices. In The Possibility Wheel, Patricia Lustig and Gill Ringland collate and analyse the trends that underlie the changes that are overturning our economy and society. They provide a clear framework for making sense of what is happening around the world: Presenting evidence from the best sources Outlining 'Forces for Change' that surround us Evaluating the disruptive 'Threats' that we face and examining the fracturing social and economic 'Backbones' on which we all rely. Then they offer a toolset (the Possibility Wheel) to help senior executives and management teams make informed and resilient choices and strategic decisions. The Possibility Wheel brings global evidence to play in your locality and organisational context -- so you can explore opportunities, develop resilient choices, make more robust decisions and enjoy better outcomes.
Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks
This open access book contributes to the increasing trend toward greater public participation in decision-making in many areas of public life, particularly in the field of the environment and sustainable development. It describes the outcome of a two-day workshop, organized by the Foundation for an Industrial Safety Culture in 2023, that addresses the continuing sensitivities surround the impact of hazardous industrial activities. Public Participation in Governance of Industrial Safety Risks brings together international academic experts as well as industrial and institutional representatives to shed light on the topics discussed during this workshop. Through the viewpoints of experts from various disciplines, industrial sectors, and countries, it offers an opportunity to gain a better grasp of the multiplicity and complexity of participatory processes and to understand their expected benefits, their drawbacks, and potential pitfalls. The work supports the making of better-informed decisions, especially by industrial or regulatory actors, to engage or not with public participation.
Digital Resilience, Cybersecurity and Supply Chains
In the digital era, the pace of technological advancement is unprecedented, and the interconnectivity of systems and processes has reached unprecedented levels. While this interconnectivity has brought about numerous benefits, it has also introduced new risks and vulnerabilities that can potentially disrupt operations, compromise data integrity, and threaten business continuity. In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organisations must prioritise resilience to thrive. Digital resilience encompasses the ability to adapt, recover, and maintain operations in the face of cyber threats, operational disruptions, and supply chain challenges. As we navigate the complexities of the digital age, cultivating resilience is paramount to safeguarding our digital assets, ensuring business continuity, and fostering long-term success. Digital Resilience, Cybersecurity and Supply Chains considers the intricacies of digital resilience, its various facets, including cyber resilience, operational resilience, and supply chain resilience. Executives and business students need to understand the key challenges organisations face in building resilience and provide actionable strategies, tools, and technologies to enhance our digital resilience capabilities. This book examines real-world case studies of organisations that have successfully navigated the complexities of the digital age, providing inspiration for readers' own resilience journeys.
Becoming a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Six Sigma is a systematic approach to making significant or breakthrough process improvements. Currently, Six Sigma exists as a team-based problem-solving approach applied by trained project facilitators, which are typically called belts. Depending on the level of expertise in the methodology and improvement tools, belts can be White, Yellow, Green, Black, and Master Black Belts (MBB). The Master Black Belt is the highest level of expertise in Six Sigma approaches, tools, and techniques.In companies implementing Six Sigma, the role of Master Black Belt is to train, guide, and coach Black and Green belts to execute their improvement projects efficiently. In addition to this, Master Black Belts often are responsible for overseeing the organization's entire improvement program with the ultimate responsibility for creating a robust culture of continuous improvement. Thus, the competence of MBBs is critically important for the success of and long-term sustainability of Six Sigma in organizations.This book is ideal for all those who wish to get trained and certified as Master Black Belts and train others to achieve breakthrough results using Six Sigma to shape and execute improvement projects. The book has the right balance between topics such as strategic planning, project selection, stakeholder management, and training design, to Advanced Statistical Techniques such as propagation of errors, destructive measurement systems, general linear models and components of variation, and complex blocking structures in Design of Experiments. This book was written by three expert Master Black Belts certified by the American Society for Quality (ASQ). Moreover, they are from different parts of the world and industry, which brings great diversity to the contents of the book.
Research, Development and Innovation in the Creative Industries
What does effective research and development look like in the creative industries and how might it lead to successful innovation? This book is an answer to that question.Building upon place-based creative industry research, the book focuses on evidence from the media sector, while encompassing a range of creative practices, from digital tourism to dance. Leveraging unique empirical data from the Welsh creative industries, the authors map a series of pathways for creative businesses. In so doing, the book offers new frameworks for assessing innovative practice and highlights options for tailored institutional funding.Channelling research insights, this shortform book helps researchers, policy-makers and reflective practitioners to understand how to deliver effective strategies for the creative sector.
Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2024, held in Vienna, Austria, during September 10-13, 2024. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI, ML and Agents; BPM and WFM; Business Models, Platforms and Strategic Management; Enterprise and IT Architecture; IT and Software Architecture; Modeling Methods, Data and Component; Process Mining and Monitoring; and Sustainability and Resilience.
