Press Releases from Gower Publishing Ltd (45 total)
Business Leadership for IT Projects
The track record of IT projects is poor. Less than a third of IT projects deliver what they said they would, on schedule and on…
Business Transformation Essentials: Case Studies and Articles
Transformation programs are an increasing feature of global companies carrying out major change projects with high strategic relevance. These programs combine business and technical content…
Naked Project Management: The Bare Facts
Project management depends largely on common sense and a logical, systematic approach. But it is necessary also to acquire some special skills to organize, schedule…
Project Risk Analysis: Techniques for Forecasting Funding Requirements, Costs an …
Risk and opportunity are inherent in projects and yet, whilst many organizations invest heavily in project management methodologies and processes in the hope of ensuring…
Branding and Product Design: An Integrated Perspective
Branding and design are moving closer together. Despite the strong link between famous brands and the products sold under their name, there is still a…
Threat Finance
Criminal and terrorist organisations are increasingly targeting victims indiscriminately around the globe through white collar and violent crime to fund and pursue their goals. Furthermore,…
Customer-Centric Project Management
This short guide explains what customer-centricity means in terms of how a company works and its importance for project performance; using tools and processes to…
Managing Value in Organisations
Managing Value in Organisations offers new ideas, starting by acknowledging that old thinking is now the first barrier to progress. It experiments with value creation…
Third Generation Leadership and the Locus of Control
First Generation Leadership (command and control) was the dominant model until the 1940s and Second Generation Leadership (compliance coupled with rewards and punishments) is still…
The Palestinian Executive: Leadership Under Challenging Conditions
The Palestinian Executive is based on field research in the West Bank and Gaza, which involved interviewing 110 executives from 63 publicly and family-owned companies.…
Taking Technology to the Market
Taking Technology to the Market provides a practical guide to the critical success factors in marketing technology. It uses a project-based approach, providing comprehensive guidelines…
Game Theory in Management
Architects and engineers can build models to test their ideas - why not managers? Game theory can be used to evaluate rival technical approaches to…
Sustainability in Project Management
Sustainability is one of the most important challenges today. How can prosperity be developed, without compromising the life of future generations? Companies are integrating ideas…
The Principles of Project Finance
The Principles of Project Finance highlights the ideas behind an important concept in the global capital markets-project finance. This technique is used to fund large…
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters
In Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Clusters, Dr Panos Piperopoulos provides a comprehensive introduction to what entrepreneurship is all about, how and why entrepreneurs innovate and…
Communicating Clearly about Science and Medicine
Communicating Clearly about Science and Medicine helps to develop and deliver impactful presentations on medical and scientific data and tell a clear, compelling story based…
The Road to Co-operation
Gordon Pearson offers this critical and informed protest against the absurdity and error of economic theory, shedding new light on the predicament faced in 2012.…
The Focused Organization
In The Focused Organization Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez shows how fewer, more effectively elected and managed projects are the key to strategic and long-term success. Using his…
The Rise and Fall of Management
Pearson reviews how management became a practice and body of understanding, the development of its crucial role in economic progress, and then how its corruption…
Reconstructing Medical Practice
Change in the medical profession carries with it disturbing features – established practitioners are no longer sure what to recommend to their trainees about how…
Global HR
The HR function is having to adjust itself to the implications of the globalisation of business activity. This has meant adjusting its philosophy, policies and…
The Internationalisation of Corruption
With an inclusive and broad-based understanding of corruption from the perspective of international studies as an interdisciplinary space in the social sciences, the authors of…
Measuring Performance
David Jenkins' book examines many of the more traditional measures of performance and highlights their shortcomings as well as assessing the merits of the alternative…
Islamic Values and Management Practices
Islamic Values and Management Practices explains how a set of management principles based on Islamic values, has been developed over time by the author and…
Second Order Project Management
Second Order Project Management will help alleviate the frustration that every member of the profession has experienced when trying to gain approval for investment in…
Human Resources or Human Capital?
Are people really an organisation's most important asset? Not necessarily. Some are liabilities – but some undoubtedly are the most important drivers of value that…
Universal Design
Universal Design offers every organization, whether a provider of services or of products, a clear understanding of the role and value of Design for All/Universal…
Human Dignity and Managerial Responsibility
The treatment of employees is increasingly becoming recognised as an important ingredient of sustainable enterprise. As sustainability, and all that it implies, becomes ever more…
Project Psychology
Whether looking to set up and manage a new project or working to develop the competence and maturity of an organization's project management capability,…
Action Learning in Practice
Previous editions of this book established themselves as authoritative overviews of action learning practice around the globe. Given the increase in action learning activity since…
Age Discrimination
Age Discrimination looks at how both young and old can be penalised by prejudice against their age group. This comprehensive new book is essential to…
Vulnerable Workers
Vulnerable Workers considers the growth of job insecurity, the prevalence of flexible or temporary work, and the emergence of precarious forms of self-employment. It looks…
Father–Daughter Succession in Family Business
Using case studies from many different cultures and continents Father–Daughter Succession in Family Business looks at the cultural and other changes which have led to…
Disability Management and Workplace Integration
Disability Management and Workplace Integration considers the development of disability management over the last three decades in different countries. It looks at the ongoing debate…
Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations
For anyone involved in strategy and performance, Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations is a detailed guide to developing, rolling out and managing strategy. It incorporates…
International Operations Management
International Operations Management: Lessons in Global Business, uses a fascinating selection of case studies researched during the international operations management project sponsored by the European…
Interactive Business Communities
In Interactive Business Communities, Mitsuru Kodama shows how a new business approach can enable managers to access, share and integrate diverse knowledge both inside and…
Design Education
Design Education encapsulates and analyses the research findings facilitated by the UK based Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning through Design. By examining over…
Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management
Assessment Centres and Global Talent Management focuses on strategies that influence the design of the assessment centre in terms of the competencies being assessed, the…
Reconnecting Markets
Reconnecting Markets is the second volume of case examples from the Regoverning Markets Project, (2005-2007). It focuses on the keys to inclusion of small scale…
Marketing Research with SAS Enterprise Guide
Marketing Research with SAS Enterprise Guide provides a detailed explanation of the SAS® Enterprise Guide software. Using 236 screen shots and based on a…
Solvency II
Stakeholder communications need to be robust, at every level, to secure Solvency II compliance and gain internal buy-in for Solvency II as the new business-as-usual.…
Playing with Purpose: How Experiential Learning Can Be More Than a Game
Playing with Purpose shows how a facilitator, coach, manager, people developer or trainer can invent or reinvigorate an artificial learning experience and make it so…
Bullying in the Arts: Vocation, Exploitation and the Abuse of Power
Diva, Prima Donna, Maestro, Virtuoso: creative geniuses with the ability to deliver artistic excellence. However this perception can serve to tilt the balance of power…
Project Management for the Pharmaceutical Industry
'A comprehensive set of tools and techniques...The techniques and advice can be applied to many projects in the pharmaceutical industry, including drug development. This is…
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