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Building a Travel Risk Management Program: Traveler Safety and Duty of Care for Any Organization
by Charles BrossmanBuilding a Travel Risk Management Program: Traveler Safety and Duty of Care for Any Organization helps business and security professionals effectively manage traveler risk by showing them how to build a complete travel risk program. While global corporate travel risks are increasing exponentially, many security and business managers are not well-versed in the rapidly changing global landscape of travel risk, nor do they fully realize the multitude of risks their companies face if they don’t comply with their legal obligations—“duty of care"—for protecting their employees from foreseeable harm, which can cost a company in the form of extensive fines, productivity loss, business interruptions, stock price loss, litigation, and even potential bankruptcy. This book is the first to bridge the gap between the topics of travel management, security, and risk management. It serves as a reference point for working with other departments, including human resources and legal, paving the way for better internal cooperation for travel managers and security managers. In addition, it helps organizations craft a travel risk management program for their unique needs that incorporates the most important policies and procedures that help them comply with legal obligations.Illustrates common mistakes that can have a devastating impact across the entire enterprise with real-world examples and case studiesIncludes testimonies from corporate travel risk security experts on best practices for meeting the constantly changing duty of care standardPresents best practices for reducing the risk of exposure and liabilityOffers models for effectively promoting and advocating for travel risk management programs within the organizationCompares laws like the UK"s “Corporate Manslaughter Act" (considered one of the world’s most strict legislative standards) to similar laws around the world, showing how compliance requires constant supervision and process improvement
Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition (Political Evolution and Institutional Change)
by J. KornaiBuilding a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume draws on the experience of those who have lived through and studied the transition and contrasts their insights with those of generalist scholars who study government accountability and democracy. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition, organized by János Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman. A second volume entitled, Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition , is being published simultaneously.
Building a Values-Driven Organization
by Richard BarrettRichard Barrett, author of the best-selling book Liberating the Corporate Soul, presents his new thinkingBased on his experience working with over 1,000 organizations in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
Building a Values-Driven Organization
by Richard BarrettRichard Barrett, author of the best-selling book Liberating the Corporate Soul, presents his new thinkingBased on his experience working with over 1,000 organizations in 32 countries on cultural transformation for the values-driven organization. He presents a whole system approach to cultural transformation, showing organizations how they can change their culture to become values-driven organizations that support their employees, their customers, their partners, their leaders, and ultimately drive effectiveness and profit.
Building a Wellness Business That Lasts: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
by Rick StollmeyerStart and grow a durable business in the rapidly growing wellness industry! Wellness has become one of the largest and most important business opportunities of our age, fueled by massive societal trends, rapid technology innovations and hundreds of thousands of wellness business entrepreneurs. It is these independent teachers, trainers, and therapists, and studio, gym, spa and salon owners who transforming shopping malls and downtown districts with wellness experiences that help hundreds of millions of people live healthier, happier lives. Whether your goal is to open a neighborhood wellness business, work independently from home, or launch the next highly successful wellness brand Building a Wellness Business That Lasts: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love is your definitive guide. This book will teach you how to translate your passion for wellness into a compelling business vision, weave that vision into an effective business plan, and leverage the latest technologies to accelerate your growth. Author Rick Stollmeyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mindbody, Inc., the leading technology platform for the wellness industry. Across more than two decades, Rick built Mindbody from a garage startup into a multi-billion-dollar technology platform for the wellness industry, helping thousands of wellness business owners achieve their visions in the process. This experience gave Rick a front-row seat to the explosive growth of the wellness industry. He brings that unique experience and his passion for entrepreneurialism to Building a Wellness Business That Lasts. This book will inspire and inform you at the same time and will serve as a powerful guide you can refer back to on your path to success.
Building a Wellness Business That Lasts: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
by Rick StollmeyerStart and grow a durable business in the rapidly growing wellness industry! Wellness has become one of the largest and most important business opportunities of our age, fueled by massive societal trends, rapid technology innovations and hundreds of thousands of wellness business entrepreneurs. It is these independent teachers, trainers, and therapists, and studio, gym, spa and salon owners who transforming shopping malls and downtown districts with wellness experiences that help hundreds of millions of people live healthier, happier lives. Whether your goal is to open a neighborhood wellness business, work independently from home, or launch the next highly successful wellness brand Building a Wellness Business That Lasts: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love is your definitive guide. This book will teach you how to translate your passion for wellness into a compelling business vision, weave that vision into an effective business plan, and leverage the latest technologies to accelerate your growth. Author Rick Stollmeyer is the Co-Founder and CEO of Mindbody, Inc., the leading technology platform for the wellness industry. Across more than two decades, Rick built Mindbody from a garage startup into a multi-billion-dollar technology platform for the wellness industry, helping thousands of wellness business owners achieve their visions in the process. This experience gave Rick a front-row seat to the explosive growth of the wellness industry. He brings that unique experience and his passion for entrepreneurialism to Building a Wellness Business That Lasts. This book will inspire and inform you at the same time and will serve as a powerful guide you can refer back to on your path to success.
Building a Workplace Writing Center: A Sustainable Solution and Practical Guide
by Jessica Weber MetzenrothThis practical resource provides guidance for writing professionals to sustainably tackle the organizational writing challenges of any professional environment. Rooted in applied experience, Building a Workplace Writing Center guides readers through the process of developing a writing center, from assessing the needs of an organization and pitching the idea of a writing center, to developing a service model and measuring progress. Chapters explore what a writing center can offer, such as one-on-one writing consultations, tailored group workshops, and standardized writing guidance and resources. Although establishing a writing center requires time and a shift in culture up front, it is a rewarding process that produces measurably improved writing, less frustration with the writing and revision processes, and more confident, independent writers. This guide is an invaluable resource for professionals across industries and academia considering how to establish an embedded, sustainable, and cost-effective workplace writing center. It will be of particular interest to business and human resource managers considering how best to improve writing skills within their organizations.
Building a Workplace Writing Center: A Sustainable Solution and Practical Guide
by Jessica Weber MetzenrothThis practical resource provides guidance for writing professionals to sustainably tackle the organizational writing challenges of any professional environment. Rooted in applied experience, Building a Workplace Writing Center guides readers through the process of developing a writing center, from assessing the needs of an organization and pitching the idea of a writing center, to developing a service model and measuring progress. Chapters explore what a writing center can offer, such as one-on-one writing consultations, tailored group workshops, and standardized writing guidance and resources. Although establishing a writing center requires time and a shift in culture up front, it is a rewarding process that produces measurably improved writing, less frustration with the writing and revision processes, and more confident, independent writers. This guide is an invaluable resource for professionals across industries and academia considering how to establish an embedded, sustainable, and cost-effective workplace writing center. It will be of particular interest to business and human resource managers considering how best to improve writing skills within their organizations.
Building a World-Class Civil Service for Twenty-First Century India
by S.K. DasToday, India is one of the leading players on the global stage. It is competing with other countries not just in the marketplace but also in respect of its governance structures. This book underscores the need for creating a modern civil service, which epitomizes best practices overseas and in the private sector, and exemplifies contemporary management philosophy, and techniques. Using a comparative approach, S.K. Das identifies a range of initiatives that will serve to transform the civil service into a world-class organization, compatible with strategic, economic, and technological requirements of the twenty-first century. Based on the reform experiences of Australia, New Zealand, Sweden, and the UK, these initiatives have been carefully modulated to suit India's requirements. Underlining the challenges involved in reforming the bureaucracy, the author also discusses the legislative, administrative, and procedural changes necessary to build a high-performing civil service.
Building a World-Class Compliance Program: Best Practices and Strategies for Success
by Martin T. BiegelmanWritten by a long-standing practitioner in the field, this timely and critical work is your best source for understanding all the complex issues and requirements associated with corporate compliance. It provides clear guidance for those charged with protecting their companies from financial and reputational risk, litigation, and government intervention, who want a robust guide to establish an effective compliance program.
Building a World-Class NHS
by I. SmithThe author of this book believes passionately in the National Health Service and through his work offers the government recommendations for how its reform process can be saved from failure. The NHS will only survive and be true to its founding principles if the reform programme is driven forward - and if the book's recommendations are implemented.
Building Adaptation
by James DouglasAs existing buildings age, nearly half of all construction activity in Britain is related to maintenance, refurbishment and conversions. Building adaptation is an activity that continues to make a significant contribution to the workload of the construction industry. Given its importance to sustainable construction, the proportion of adaptation works in relation to new build is likely to remain substantial for the foreseeable future, especially in the developed parts of the world.Building Adaptation, Second Edition is intended as a primer on the physical changes that can affect older properties. It demonstrates the general principles, techniques, and processes needed when existing buildings must undergo alteration, conversion, extension, improvement, or refurbishment.The publication of the first edition of Building Adaptation reflected the upsurge in refurbishment work. The book quickly established itself as one of the core texts for building surveying students and others on undergraduate and postgraduate built environment courses.This new edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to all the key issues relating to the adaptation of buildings. It deals with any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance.
Building Adaptation
by James DouglasAs existing buildings age, nearly half of all construction activity in Britain is related to maintenance, refurbishment and conversions. Building adaptation is an activity that continues to make a significant contribution to the workload of the construction industry. Given its importance to sustainable construction, the proportion of adaptation works in relation to new build is likely to remain substantial for the foreseeable future, especially in the developed parts of the world.Building Adaptation, Second Edition is intended as a primer on the physical changes that can affect older properties. It demonstrates the general principles, techniques, and processes needed when existing buildings must undergo alteration, conversion, extension, improvement, or refurbishment.The publication of the first edition of Building Adaptation reflected the upsurge in refurbishment work. The book quickly established itself as one of the core texts for building surveying students and others on undergraduate and postgraduate built environment courses.This new edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to all the key issues relating to the adaptation of buildings. It deals with any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance.
Building Agreement
by Daniel Shapiro Roger FisherWhether you're negotiating with an angry boss or a difficult colleague - or, indeed, a stubborn teenager - you can learn to use your emotions to help you achieve the result you want.Building Agreement shows you how to control the five 'core concerns' that motivate people:-- Express appreciation for what others think, feel or do-- Build affiliation and turn an adversary into a colleague-- Respect autonomy in others and gain autonomy in return-- Acknowledge status and simultaneously establish your own worth-- Choose a fulfilling role during the process of negotiatingUsing the latest research of the Harvard Negotiation Project, the group that brought you the groundbreaking book Getting to Yes, this is a superbly practical guide to mastering essential negotiating skills.Originally published in hardback under the title Beyond Reason.
Building Agricultural Institutions: Transferring The Land-grant Model To India And Nigeria
by Arthur A GoldsmithShortly after World War II the United States began to export to developing countries the ''land-grant model"-its system of applied agricultural science. This system is made up of subnational agricultural universities, extension services, and experiment stations, and also of national-level organizations to support and coordinate agricultural develop
Building Agricultural Institutions: Transferring The Land-grant Model To India And Nigeria
by Arthur A GoldsmithShortly after World War II the United States began to export to developing countries the ''land-grant model"-its system of applied agricultural science. This system is made up of subnational agricultural universities, extension services, and experiment stations, and also of national-level organizations to support and coordinate agricultural develop
Building AI Driven Marketing Capabilities: Understand Customer Needs and Deliver Value Through AI
by Simon Grima Pallavi Tyagi Neha Zaidi Mohit MauryaThis book provides insight into technologies that offer competitive advantage in marketing. These technologies can help us with describing and predicting customer behavior with the help of analytics, designing of radical products, creating of meaningful value, optimization of distribution, informing and promoting solutions, and making marketing more effective overall by aligning marketing with business goals. A range of technologies, such as analytics, big data, artificial intelligence, IoT, machine learning are expected to transform future businesses. Understanding customer needs, matching them to solutions and delivering value can all be dramatically optimized with the help of technology. Businesses need to realize that AI has already made inroads in marketing and can be expected to wield its influence across functional areas in the foreseeable future. The business world is headed towards acceptance of technology to synthesize knowledge by interpreting diverse information and facilitating decision making.This book is an attempt to reflect deployment of technologies across businesses and sectors. As the functional discipline comes together, harnessing a gamut of technologies becomes indispensable to deliver a superior customer experience and driving profits. Marketers should thus adopt the concepts of openness, convergence, and creation of value through new emerging technologies. A resultant hyper connected market will thus have to adopt innovative changes in its existing processes and services. The proposed book offers its readers an insight into technological interventions in various aspects of marketing domain. From understanding various technologies as an enabler to marketing efforts and its impact on decision making and mapping of various facets of customer experience, this book is recommended for marketers and learners to understand the advantages of using technology. What You Will LearnThedevelopments and applications of Artificial Intelligence in marketingThe precise, practical framework necessary to discover, utilize, and embrace AI potential to optimize the outcomes for company growthAutomation and optimization of media planning through AIWho This Book is ForThe book is designed for marketers, academicians, business professionals, data scientists, practitioners, and researchers.
Building an Effective Information Security Policy Architecture
by Sandy BacikInformation security teams are charged with developing and maintaining a set of documents that will protect the assets of an enterprise from constant threats and risks. In order for these safeguards and controls to be effective, they must suit the particular business needs of the enterprise. A guide for security professionals, Building an Eff
Building an Effective IoT Ecosystem for Your Business
by Sudhi R. Sinha Youngchoon ParkThis descriptive, practical guide explains how to build a commercially impactful, operationally effective and technically robust IoT ecosystem that takes advantage of the IoT revolution and drives business growth in the consumer IoT as well as industrial internet spaces.With this book, executives, business managers, developers and decision-makers are given the tools to make more informed decisions about IoT solution development, partner eco-system design, and the monetization of products and services. Security and privacy issues are also addressed.Readers will explore the design guidelines and technology choices required to build commercially viable IoT solutions, but also uncover the various monetization and business modeling for connected products.
Building an Enterprise Architecture Practice: Tools, Tips, Best Practices, Ready-to-Use Insights (The Enterprise Series)
by Martin van den Berg Marlies van SteenbergenThis book provides practical advice on how to develop an enterprise architecture practice. The authors developed different tools and models to support organizations in implementing and professionalizing an enterprise architecture function. Coverage applies these tools and models to a number of different organizations and, as a result, will help readers avoid potential pitfalls and achieve success with enterprise architecture.
Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program
by Kelley OkolitaIf you had to evacuate from your building right now and were told you couldn't get back in for two weeks, would you know what to do to ensure your business continues to operate? Would your staff? Would every person who works for your organization? Increasing threats to business operations, both natural and man-made, mean a disaster could occur at any time. It is essential that corporations and institutions develop plans to ensure the preservation of business operations and the technology that supports them should risks become reality. Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program goes beyond theory to provide planners with actual tools needed to build a continuity program in any enterprise. Drawing on over two decades of experience creating continuity plans and exercising them in real recoveries, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Master Business Continuity Planner, Kelley Okolita, provides guidance on each step of the process. She details how to validate the plan and supplies time-tested tips for keeping the plan action-ready over the course of time. Disasters can happen anywhere, anytime, and for any number of reasons. However, by proactively planning for such events, smart leaders can prepare their organizations to minimize tragic consequences and readily restore order with confidence in the face of such adversity.
Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program
by Kelley OkolitaIf you had to evacuate from your building right now and were told you couldn't get back in for two weeks, would you know what to do to ensure your business continues to operate? Would your staff? Would every person who works for your organization? Increasing threats to business operations, both natural and man-made, mean a disaster could occur at any time. It is essential that corporations and institutions develop plans to ensure the preservation of business operations and the technology that supports them should risks become reality. Building an Enterprise-Wide Business Continuity Program goes beyond theory to provide planners with actual tools needed to build a continuity program in any enterprise. Drawing on over two decades of experience creating continuity plans and exercising them in real recoveries, including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, Master Business Continuity Planner, Kelley Okolita, provides guidance on each step of the process. She details how to validate the plan and supplies time-tested tips for keeping the plan action-ready over the course of time. Disasters can happen anywhere, anytime, and for any number of reasons. However, by proactively planning for such events, smart leaders can prepare their organizations to minimize tragic consequences and readily restore order with confidence in the face of such adversity.
Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation
by Simon Mosey Hannah Noke Paul KirkhamEntrepreneurship is often focused on understanding new ventures, but the entrepreneurial flame is required in growing organisations too. This textbook examines how organisations can become more entrepreneurial to achieve sustainable growth. The authors show how entrepreneurship can be used to address crisis points of growth within small firms and to overcome the limitations of stagnation within large firms. By integrating entrepreneurship and innovation management, the book presents a framework to diagnose entrepreneurial behaviour within existing firms. Drawing upon research and reflecting practice across a range of industries, from football, through Silicon Valley, to the retail sector, it includes insights from leading practitioners. The authors build an understanding of entrepreneurship in context to provide diagnostic tools to help organisations make entrepreneurship central to their culture. This unique text is therefore useful reading for business students from advanced undergraduate to executive education.
Building an Entrepreneurial Organisation
by Simon Mosey Hannah Noke Paul KirkhamEntrepreneurship is often focused on understanding new ventures, but the entrepreneurial flame is required in growing organisations too. This textbook examines how organisations can become more entrepreneurial to achieve sustainable growth. The authors show how entrepreneurship can be used to address crisis points of growth within small firms and to overcome the limitations of stagnation within large firms. By integrating entrepreneurship and innovation management, the book presents a framework to diagnose entrepreneurial behaviour within existing firms. Drawing upon research and reflecting practice across a range of industries, from football, through Silicon Valley, to the retail sector, it includes insights from leading practitioners. The authors build an understanding of entrepreneurship in context to provide diagnostic tools to help organisations make entrepreneurship central to their culture. This unique text is therefore useful reading for business students from advanced undergraduate to executive education.
Building an Import / Export Business
by Kenneth D. WeissThis bestselling, up-to-date guide shows you how to start your own import/export business, from researching a raw idea to a successful launch to ongoing, profitable business operations. Complete with real-life examples from importers and exporters, it helps you every step of the way, from targeting a market and preparing a business plan to dealing with foreign currencies, shipping procedures, customs requirements, and more. It also shares tips to help you take advantage of NAFTA and other trade pacts, plus online resources to help you start and grow your business.