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James A. Gardner
Innovation, the conversion of the new to business as usual, is a very special business process. It is the business process able to reprogram all others. Creating the practices that make this process work is a key challenge for all in financial services that are worried about responding to the future. When an institution can identify things that are outside its present practices and convert them, production line style, into products, processes, cultural changes, or new markets, it will never be outpaced by internal or external change again. The institution becomes 'Future Proof'. This is a book about those practices in banks. It explains, using examples from institutions around the world, what it takes to create an innovation culture that consistently introduces new things into undifferentiated markets and internal cultures. It shows how banks can leverage the power of the new to establish unexpected revenue lines, or make old ones grow. And it provides advice on the social and political factors that either help or hinder the germination of the new in banks. Moreover, though, this is a book about the science of innovation in a banking context.
Drawing from practices already highly developed in financial services - managing portfolios of assets to mitigate risk - it explains how practitioners can run their innovations groups like any other business line in the bank one that delivers a return on investment predictably and at high multiples of internal cost of capital. For leaders, "Innovation and the Future Proof Bank" provides the diagnostic tools to guide benchmarking and investment decisions for the innovation function. And for innovation practitioners, the book lays out everything needed to make sure that converting the new to business as usual is predictable, measurable, and profitable.
336pp, 244 x 168mm
Leidykla
John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
2009,
ISBN:
9780470714195
Kaina 218,00 Lt
John Bourn
Provides an account of the role and influence value for money auditing has in holding governments to account and in helping public bodies improve the ways in which they deliver services. This book provides an analysis of complex areas of public expenditure such as health, education, privatisation, regulation, defence and IT.
426pp, 236 x 163mm, 762g, Illustrations
Leidykla
John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
2007,
ISBN:
9780470057223
Kaina 147,00 Lt
Paul Blokker; Bruno Dallago
In economies once dominated by centralised planning and large-scale enterprise, models of local development can play a crucial role in restructuring and revitalising the economy. This book contributes to the topical debate concerning the economics of European integration, by focusing on the EU member states of Central and Eastern Europe, and their convergence to a Western-European form of advanced capitalist economy. It recognises the significant role of local development and SME development to socio-economic transformations in the post-communist societies. However, it is increasingly acknowledged that the reality of transformation involves divergence as well as convergence, and the reproduction of deep-rooted historical disparities as well as innovation and creativity. The book includes a wide comparative and in-depth analysis, through a substantial number of new case-studies, it provides a critical reading of the regionally and locally existing socio-economic disparities, which constrain and facilitate local development within the EU enlargement. This volume includes contributions from a wide range of experts on transition economics, entrepreneurship and local development, and will be of great interest to scholars and policy-makers in these crucial areas.
328pp, 222 x 141mm, 9 maps, 56 black & white tables, 14 figures
Leidykla
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009,
ISBN:
9780230218192
Kaina 368,00 Lt
Mario Mazzocchi; W. Bruce Traill; Jason F. Shogren
208pp, 234 x 156mm, 323g
Leidykla
Oxford University Press,
2009,
ISBN:
9780199213863
Kaina 104,00 Lt
Ellen M. Immergut; Karen M. Anderson; Isabelle Schulze
The Handbook of West European Pension Politics provides scholars, policy-makers and students with a complete overview of the political and policy issues involved in pension policy, and well as case studies of contemporary pension politics (1980 to present) in 16 countries: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. The handbook is suitable as a text for courses in comparative politics, European Studies, social policy, comparative public policy and public administration. Each chapter is written by an expert on pension politics and is presented in a standardized format with standardized tables and figures that describe: political institutions; government coalitions, parliamentary and electoral majorities; the party system; the pension system; proposed and enacted pension reforms.
968pp, 246 x 171mm, 1610g, numerous tables and figures
Leidykla
Oxford University Press,
2009,
ISBN:
9780199562473
Kaina 149,00 Lt
E.A. Brett
The book provides a systematic assessment of the evolution of development theory, its relationship to orthodox social science analysis and the liberal pluralistic orthodoxy that now dominates the mainstream approach to international development, showing how we can transcend its failure to address some key problems of late and uneven development.
368pp, 233 x 157mm, 560g, 5 black & white tables, 4 black & white line drawings
Leidykla
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009,
ISBN:
9780230229815
Kaina 125,00 Lt
Lyn C. Thomas
A text aimed at credit analysts in industry and students in Statistics, Management Science, Operational Research and Banking and Finance Masters courses that will use simple probability models and logical arguments to explain consumer credit scoring.
400pp, 234 x 156mm, 717g, 77 line drawings
Leidykla
Oxford University Press,
2009,
ISBN:
9780199232130
Kaina 218,00 Lt
Javier Carrillo-Hermosilla; Pablo del Rio Gonzalez; Totti Konnola
Eco-Innovation considers the impact economic activities have on our environmental surroundings whilst exploring new ways towards more sustainable development. The concept of eco-innovation is addressed with regard to competitiveness and sustainability from the viewpoints of both business leaders and policy-makers in this thought-provoking new book.
256pp, 240 x 159mm, 26 black & white tables, 18 figures
Leidykla
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009,
ISBN:
9780230202061
Kaina 135,00 Lt
Jan Nederveen Pieterse
'This exciting book is a tour de force, spanning a broad range of approaches to development. It does not stop at critique, as so many previous books on these issues have done, but offers a unique perspective on future possibilities and the shape of things to come. It should be essential reading on all development studies courses' – Andrea Cornwall, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Praise for the previous edition: 'This marvelous book should be read by every social scientist interested in development studies' - Keith Griffin, University of California, Riverside. This is the second edition of this successful book. Written by one of the leading authorities in the field, the book: situates students in the expanding field of development theory; provides an unrivaled guide to the strengths and weaknesses of competing theoretical approaches; explains key concepts; examines the shifts in theory; and, offers an agenda for the future. In this book, the author brings a huge range of experience and knowledge about the relationship between the economically advanced and the emerging, developing nations.
272pp, 234 x 156mm
Leidykla
SAGE Publications Inc,
2009,
ISBN:
9781412945158
Kaina 130,00 Lt
Gary Koop
Econometrics is concerned with the tasks of developing and applying quantitative or statistical methods to the study and elucidation of economic principles. This book shows how to apply econometric techniques in the context of real-world empirical problems, and adopts a non-mathematical approach relying on verbal and graphical intuition.
264pp, 246 x 172mm, 476g, Illustrations
Leidykla
Wiley-Blackwell,
2009,
ISBN:
9780470713891
Kaina 158,00 Lt
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