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Innovation Casino

Author : Eisaiah Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (972 download)

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Download or read book Innovation Casino written by Eisaiah Engel and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you ready to outperform the competition in the digital economy-but are dissatisfied with how internal initiatives never get you far enough, fast enough? Innovation Casino is a new playbook on how executives at large firms can grow digital revenue in the 2020s. Challenged with COVID-19 at the outset, the 2020s are also poised for higher taxes and higher borrowing costs. In this new decade, large corporates will need to change course from betting on big acquisitions (a strategy used by "players" in the innovation casino) to growing organically by creating new reasons for customers to pay a premium and stay loyal. The "innovation casino" is a metaphor for the odds of delivering financial returns from innovation. To beat the odds, large firms must transform their core products into digital ecosystems-much like the App Store on the Apple iPhone. Digital ecosystems give large firms the opportunity to participate in thousands of bets on digital innovation produced by outside startups-rather than trying to innovate by themselves. By focusing on their core platforms and incentivizing startups to build everything else, large firms can play to their natural strengths as the "house" in the innovation casino. In his work with leading companies, digital innovator and best-selling author Eisaiah Engel has seen firsthand how innovation investments can be hampered by internal roadblocks and complexities. Engel founded three companies in the digital advertising space, including one that generated over $1 million annually with an initial investment of $25,000. Curious to learn the machinery of large organizations, Engel then divested his startups and worked as a consultant and later as a marketing leader at a Fortune 10 firm. Innovation Casino was born of Engel's struggles to innovate at the extreme ends of corporate structure-from his own startups to companies with billions in revenue. In Innovation Casino, Engel proposes a shift in corporate innovation financing: Use outside capital to fund startups, encouraging them to build new products and services on a large firm's platform. Through the research-based strategies in Innovation Casino, you will: Learn how to combine open innovation with seed funding-motivating startups to develop products and services that attract customers to your platform. Make thousands of bets on innovation with an Ecosystem Innovation Fund (EIF)-a cross between the US government's SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) grant program and venture capital. Maximize principal preservation and your returns with the unique risk management structure of an EIF. "Buy low" by giving entrepreneurs unprecedented control of their companies in exchange for valuation discounts to maximize your returns. Invest in "zebra" startups that are excited about delivering niche solutions on your platform, unlike their "unicorn" cousins who are trying to become your competitors. Free your digital ecosystem to participate in thousands of bets on innovation-overcoming the constraints of your organizational structure. Innovation Casino takes an odds-based view of strategy, basing its provocative recommendations on years of primary and secondary research by the author. With more than 21 graphs and detailed data tables, this book provides critical information for your digital ecosystem strategy. Giving this book to your corporate strategy, finance, and product teams would be a smart bet on your company's future in the platform economy.

How the South Joined the Gambling Nation

Author : Michael Nelson
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807135372
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book How the South Joined the Gambling Nation written by Michael Nelson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows eleven commercial casino states, most of them along the Mississippi River, forty-two states with state-owned lotteries, and racetrack betting, slot-machine parlors, charitable bingo, and Native American gambling halls flourishing throughout the nation. For the past twenty years, the South has wrestled with gambling issues. In How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason examine how modern southern state governments have decided whether to adopt or prohibit casinos and lotteries. Nelson and Mason point out that although the South participated fully in past gambling eras, it is the last region to join the modern movement embracing legalized gambling. Despite the prevalence of wistful, romantic images of gambling on southern riverboats, the politically and religiously conservative ideology of the modern South makes it difficult for states to toss their chips into the pot. The authors tell the story of the arrival or rejection of legalized gambling in seven southern states -- Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama. The authors suggest that some states chose to legalize gambling based on the examples of other nearby states, as when Mississippi casinos spurred casino legalization in Louisiana and the Georgia lottery inspired lottery campaigns in neighboring South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Also important was the influence of Democratic policy entrepreneurs, such as Zell Miller in Georgia, Don Siegelman in Alabama, and Edwin Edwards in Louisiana, who wanted to sell the idea of gambling in order to sell themselves to voters. At the same time, each state had its own idiosyncrasies, such as certain provisions of their state constitutions weighing heavily as a factor. Nelson and Mason show that the story of gambling's spread in the South exemplifies the process of state policy innovation. In exploring how southern states have weighed the moral and economic risk of legalizing gambling, especially the political controversies that surround these discussions, Nelson and Mason employ a suspenseful, fast-paced narrative that echoes the oftentimes hurried decisions made by state legislators. Although each of these seven states fought a unique battle over gambling, taken together, these case studies help tell the larger story of how the South -- sometimes reluctantly, sometimes enthusiastically -- decided to join the gambling nation.

Internet Gambling Offshore

Author : A. Cooper
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230307760
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Internet Gambling Offshore written by A. Cooper and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of the financial crisis, Cooper locates the WTO-focused struggle between the US and the very small island state of Antigua on Internet gambling in the wider International Political Economy. He draws connections between gambling and offshore and/or enclave cultures and points out the stigmatization of 'Casino Capitalism'.

Tourism and Innovation

Author : Michael C. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134123175
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Innovation written by Michael C. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is often described as an industry with high growth rates, and it is subject to radical change in how it is produced and consumed. However, there is still a relatively poor understanding of how such changes are brought about – that is, through innovation. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive review of innovation in tourism, while also considering how tourism itself contributes to innovative local, regional and national development strategies. This timely book places tourism innovation in the context of current academic and policy concerns relating to knowledge, competition, and the management of change. A substantial introductory chapter provides an overview of what makes innovation in tourism both distinctive from, and similar to innovation in other economic sectors. This is followed by three general scene setting chapters which explore how competition and the search for competitiveness drive tourism innovation, how knowledge transfers and knowledge creation lead the process, and how institutions shape innovation. These provide a coherent theoretical framework for understanding the roles of different agencies in innovation, ranging from the state, to the firm, to the consumer. The next four chapters analyze innovation at different scales. Two chapters review the territorial dimensions of innovation through the fresh perspectives of the national and regional innovation systems, followed by reviews of the determinants of innovation in the firm, and the contested and complex role of entrepreneurship. The final chapter summarises the importance of understanding tourism innovation. This is a groundbreaking volume which provides an accessible introduction to a key but neglected topic. It provides a readable account of the multidisciplinary research on innovation and relates the emerging theoretical framework to tourism. A clear conceptual framework is complemented by fifty boxes which provide a range of illustrative international case studies. This book will be a useful guide for researchers and students of tourism studies, management and business and geography.

Organization Management in Construction

Author : Paul S. Chinowsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135147825
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Organization Management in Construction written by Paul S. Chinowsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-01-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today’s construction environment is changing at an unprecedented pace and executives are facing a diverse set of issues – globalization, economics, workforce demographics, and technology. Moreover the traditional issues of competition and delivery are being challenged by new laws and new industry entrants; and the tasks of project and organization management are being overhauled. This all demands greater leadership from senior management. Construction executives typically reach senior level after many years mastering the art of project management, which has given them very little time or opportunity to learn the concepts and principles of organization leadership – unlike their counterparts in other industries who have been steeped in this. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key issues that organization leaders must understand and address. It provides concise summaries by leading international authorities of the ten key strategic management issues, shows how they have emerged, and outlines their potential impact on the construction organization.

Resorting to Casinos

Author : Denise von Herrmann
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736607
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Resorting to Casinos written by Denise von Herrmann and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought on Mississippi's Gulf Coast casinos, media nationwide reported the loss in revenue the state was bound to suffer. From just those casinos shut down or destroyed by the storm, $500,000 in tax revenue had poured into Mississippi's coffers every day. Biloxi, Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Greenville, Lula, Natchez, Tunica, and Vicksburg-destinations once known for hanging moss, antebellum homes, or seaside fun are now also sought out for casino gambling. The phenomenal growth of the Mississippi casino resort industry has attracted substantial interest from industry observers, public officials, politicians, and public interest groups. This book seeks to begin the conversation about the effects the industry and its dramatic growth have had on the politics, culture, and people of Mississippi. Prior to the casinos' arrival in mid-July of 1992, the river and coastal regions of Mississippi were mired in economic recession. Unemployment was high, incomes were low, and prospects for improvement were dim. One state economic developer said the decision to authorize casinos was "born more out of desperation" than any ingenious plan. As the third largest casino gaming market in the United States before Katrina, Mississippi today has a more than ten-year history with the casino industry. The twenty-nine non-Indian casino properties generated nearly $3 billion in gross gaming revenues, resulting in about $330 million in direct gaming taxes to the state. Resorting to Casinos provides insight into the ongoing debate as to how well the casino industry and Mississippi fit together. Political scientists, economic developers, sociologists, and policy analysts provide essays on such topics as the casino workplace, casinos and crime, the historical and cultural influences of casinos, and the economic ramifications. It provides the first multidisciplinary examination of the casino resort phenomenon in Mississippi. Additional information updates new gaming laws in Mississippi that will allow casinos to build inland on the Gulf Coast. Editor Denise von Herrmann looks at the legislative battle fought in Katrina's aftermath and the future of gaming across the state.

Powerful Profits From Video Slots

Author : Victor H Royer
Publisher : Lyle Stuart
ISBN 13 : 0818407832
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Powerful Profits From Video Slots written by Victor H Royer and published by Lyle Stuart. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve your odds every time you play! Video slots can be an exciting and profitable alternative to traditional slot machines, especially for those who know the right wagering strategies. In this updated guide, nationally renowned gambling columnist and casino insider Victor H. Royer offers outstanding advice for improving your odds at video slots. He explains how to play the most common video slot games in the casino and exactly how to maximize your chances of success with each. Pick up insider tips for such casino favorites as Wheel of Fortune and Megabucks. No matter which game you choose, the odds of winning consistently can be dramatically improved through proper playing technique. You'll learn: Why all video slot games are not alike! How to determine which games and machines offer the best odds of winning Strategies for maximizing potential payouts while minimizing potential loss How to avoid common mistakes Smart and simple advice for money management And many more tips for increasing your odds! This essential guide also includes a fun and informative video slots quiz and complete payout tables for 20 of the casinos' most popular video slot games. From Royer's proven "Keys to Winning" strategies to uncovering games with the best bonuses and even navigating the EZ Pay® TITO—ticket in, ticket out Ticket System, you'll be better prepared than ever before. When it comes to video slots, knowing more means winning more—so let this book make you the smartest player on the floor. 106,000 Words

Tourism and Innovation

Author : C. Michael Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351669389
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Innovation written by C. Michael Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking volume on the relationships between tourism and innovation provides an overview of relevant innovation theories and related literatures on entrepreneurship, productivity, regional development and competitiveness, and their significance to contemporary tourism practices. Innovation is a key concept in business and entrepreneurial studies and the broader social sciences. Yet, despite its policy and academic importance, historically little attention has been given to the role of innovation in tourism and the corresponding contribution of tourism-related human mobility to regional, firm, and product innovation. This book emphasises that innovation in tourism is much more than a series of technological innovations, as important as they are, and instead needs to be understood in an economic, social, and political context, with particular stress being placed on the extent to which innovations are shaped by the framework of governance and regulation, as well as by institutional factors and activities of individual actors and entrepreneurs. It is structured so as to introduce the reader to the overall significance of innovation at various levels and the role that innovation plays in firm and place competition. Supported with case studies throughout, this book is essential reading for all tourism students.

The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader

Author : Mark R. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501347268
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader written by Mark R. Johnson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Casino games and traditional card games have rich and idiosyncratic histories, complex subcultures and player practices, and facilitate the flow of billions of dollars each year through casinos and card rooms, and between professional players and amateurs. They have nevertheless been overlooked by game scholars due to the negative ethical weight of “gambling” – with such games pathologized and labelled as deviance or mental illness, few look beyond to unpick the games, their players, and their communities. The Casino, Card and Betting Game Reader offers 25 chapters studying the communities playing these games, the distinctive cultures and practices that have emerged around them, their activities and beliefs and interpersonal relationships, and how these games influence – both positively and negatively – the lives and careers of millions of game players around the world. It is the first of a new series of edited collections, Play Beyond the Computer, dedicated to exploring the play of games beyond computers and games consoles.

Summary of Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
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Download or read book Summary of Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the Summary of Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Scarcity Brain" by Michael Easter delves into the psychological phenomenon where humans are driven by scarcity, leading to repeated consumption and behaviors. Easter investigates the allure of slot machines, visiting Black Fire Innovation and the Center for Gaming Innovation, where technology's impact on human behavior is studied. He traces the evolution of slot machines, highlighting Si Redd's designs that exploited the "scarcity loop" to increase gambling revenues...

Learning and Innovation of Chinese Firms

Author : Jacky Hong
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110715023
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Learning and Innovation of Chinese Firms written by Jacky Hong and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-01-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume explores the learning and innovation of Chinese firms. In particular, it examines the difficulties and obstacles affecting the technological collaboration between Chinese firms and foreign partners as well as some of the key organizational and institutional challenges of innovation facing Chinese firms. Despite enjoying rapid economic growth in previous decades, learning and innovation of Chinese firms has received relatively limited attention among management and international business scholars in the past. However, some significant changes in the Chinese institutional environment have occurred in recent years. On one hand, the Chinese central government has devised a number of policy initiatives to promote and support innovative activities in China, ranging from the ‘Mass Entrepreneurship and Innovation by All’ to the latest ‘Made in China 2025’. On the other hand, we have witnessed an increasing number of indigenous Chinese firms (e.g. Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, Huawei and DJI) adopting business model innovation with global inputs and impacts in different business sectors, namely electronic commerce, telecommunication network equipment, social media, mobile payment and drones. In view of these recent developments, we aim to further our understanding about the learning and innovation processes of Chinese firms in this edited volume.

Qualitative Research in Gambling

Author : Rebecca Cassidy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134445857
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Qualitative Research in Gambling written by Rebecca Cassidy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. Gambling is both a multi-billion-dollar international industry and a ubiquitous social and cultural phenomenon. It is also undergoing significant change, with new products and technologies, regulatory models, changing public attitudes and the sheer scale of the gambling enterprise necessitating innovative and mixed methodologies that are flexible, responsive and ‘agile’. This book seeks to demonstrate that researchers should look beyond the existing disciplinary territory and the dominant paradigm of ‘problem gambling’ in order to follow those changes across territorial, political, technical, regulatory and conceptual boundaries. The book draws on cutting-edge qualitative work in disciplines including geography, organisational studies, sociology, East Asian studies and anthropology to explore the production and consumption of risk, risky places, risk technologies, the gambling industry and connections between gambling and other kinds of speculation such as financial derivatives. In doing so it addresses some of the most important issues in contemporary social science, including: the challenges of studying deterritorialised social phenomena; globalising technologies and local markets; regulation as it operates across local, regional and international scales; and the rise of games, virtual worlds and social media.

Gambling games - Casino games

Author : Nicolae Sfetcu
Publisher : Nicolae Sfetcu
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gambling games - Casino games written by Nicolae Sfetcu and published by Nicolae Sfetcu. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for beginners is part of three books dedicated to the gambling, the other two being ”Poker Games Guide - Texas Poker” and ”Gaming Guide for Beginners - Gambling in Europe”. It is an introduction in the theory of games, general gambling strategies, casino rules, and a short description and rules of the major gambling games, including sport games and sports betting. For sponsorship opportunities please contact me.

Principles of Retailing

Author : John Fernie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317648285
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Retailing written by John Fernie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retailing is one of the biggest and most important sectors in today's economy. Graduates who are seeking a career in the sector will therefore require a solid knowledge of its core principles. The Principles of Retailing Second Edition is a topical, engaging and authoritative update of a hugely successful textbook by three leading experts in retail management designed to be a digestible introduction to retailing for management and marketing students. The previous edition was praised for the quality of its coverage, the clarity of its style and the strength of its sections on operation and supply chain issues such as buying and logistics, which are often neglected by other texts. This new edition has been comprehensively reworked in response to the rapid changes to the industry, including the growth of online retail and the subsequent decline of physical retail space and new technologies that improve customer experience and help track consumer behaviour. It also builds upon the authors' research over the last decade with new chapters on offshore sourcing and CSR and product management in addition to considerable revisions to existing chapters to highlight changes in online retailing and e-tail logistics, retail branding, retail security, internationalisation and the fashion supply chain. This edition will also be supported by a collection of online teaching materials to help tutors spend less time preparing and more time teaching.

Marketing Innovations for Sustainable Destinations

Author : Alan Fyall
Publisher : Goodfellow Publishers Ltd
ISBN 13 : 190688496X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Marketing Innovations for Sustainable Destinations written by Alan Fyall and published by Goodfellow Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2009-09-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of groundbreaking and stimulating chapters that explore innovative marketing operations, interactions and experiences, illustrating how each contributes to the sustainable development of destinations.

New Casino Slots

Author : Victor H. Royer
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450238025
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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The Art Of Innovation

Author : Tom Kelley
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847656781
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book The Art Of Innovation written by Tom Kelley and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There isn't a business that doesn't want to be more creative in its thinking, products and processes. In The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley, partner at the Silicon Valley-based firm IDEO, developer of hundreds of innovative products from the first commercial mouse to virtual reality headsets and the Palm hand-held, takes readers behind the scenes of this wildly imaginative company to reveal the strategies and secrets it uses to turn out hit after hit. Kelley shows how teams: -Research and immerse themselves in every possible aspect of a new product or service -Examine each product from the perspective of clients, consumers and other critical audiences -Brainstorm best when they are focussed, being physical and having fun The Art of Innovation will provide business leaders with the insights and tools they need to make their companies the leading-edge top-rated stars of their industries.