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Author : Andrew Holmes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Surviving in a Commoditized World written by Andrew Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Holmes
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1317163753
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Commoditization and the Strategic Response written by Andrew Holmes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizations and those who work within them are under attack from the increasingly pervasive impacts of commoditization. With little to distinguish one company's products and services from another or one person's skills and capabilities from the next, organizations and workers alike are finding themselves trapped in the me-too hell of commoditization. For many this means the survival of the cheapest, as price becomes the principal basis for decision making. For others it requires them to think creatively to avoid the trap of commoditization, even though this may only provide a temporary respite. In this groundbreaking book, Andrew Holmes sets out why commoditization represents such a clear and present danger to every corporation and all white-collar workers. Starting with the nature of the commodities we are familiar with such as coal and cotton, Holmes moves on to describe how commoditization is affecting entire industries and is increasingly touching the work of the professional classes. The evidence is both fascinating and compelling and it is clear that the impacts of commoditization are far reaching. The author also outlines the impact of commoditization on an organization's strategy towards brand, supply chain, value chain, innovation, pricing and competition. He explores the implications for skills, attitudes and behaviours in the workplace before describing a series of strategies for avoiding the risk and exploiting the opportunities offered by a new commoditized world, such as outsourcing, innovation, offshoring, mergers and acquisitions, divestments and first mover advantage. Holmes offers organizations and white-collar workers a range of strategic responses which can be used to combat its worst impacts. And as commoditization continues to make inroads into the corporate and working worlds, this book will be an invaluable companion to addressing the challenges which it presents.
Author : Kevin Morrison
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470697458
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Living in a Material World written by Kevin Morrison and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when the world is grappling with rising food and energy prices and climate change, Living in a Material World provides an insight into some of the contributing factors behind these challenges. The emergence of new consumers in China, India, Russia and the Middle East has added formidable competition to the natural resources that have been taken for granted in the developed world. Everything we consume involves the use of metals, fossil fuels or agriculture. Our high tech 'lifestyles' depend on the secure supply of these raw materials which we take from planet earth and use to make our lives more comfortable, more productive or more manageable. The effect of this increasing global demand for commodities has pushed up prices of materials from oil and copper to corn and wheat; forcing consumers to pay more for the many 'necessities' of life, from a loaf of bread to electricity bills. Since the commodity boom has unfolded, commodities have gone from the back page of the newspaper to the front; with more and more headlines about record food and oil prices, dire climate change warnings, energy security and China's demand for more raw materials. This era of high oil and food prices is no passing phase: The supply of many key natural resources is stretched to the limit. But what is the real cost? Living in a Material World makes the link between raw materials and the consumer, and shows how they are relevant to everybody, everyday - now more so than at any time since the last oil shock nearly three decades ago. A unique insight into this 'once in a generation' boom, the book shows how the increasing value of commodities is impacting on consumers and investors, in ways we are only just beginning to understand. "It was a great pleasure to read this book which provides an essential background to understanding commodities for anybody interested in understanding them more closely. It is so rare to see all the essential elements brought together in one book." –Chris Brodie, Krom River Partners LLP "Kevin Morrison set out to write a book about the daily relevance that raw materials have for the ordinary consumer. He has achieved his objective par excellence. The subject matter has been comprehensively researched and well documented - yet the writer has avoided using complicated technical language. The style of the book is more in tune with a novel and the main topics are treated with a special sense of humour. I would readily recommend this work to anyone interested in how global energy issues have a direct affect on us all." –Mehdi Varzi, President, Varzi Energy, London
Author : Saikat Dey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0578154102
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (781 download)
Download or read book UnCommoditized: Uncommon Ideas for Commoditized Markets written by Saikat Dey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commodity industries, such as oil and gas, chemicals, metals and mining, and many others, can be described as follows: You have to invest several billions of dollars into your facilities, your market grows slowly and in line with the gross domestic product at best, you can barely differentiate your product, and your sales price and cost structure are highly cyclical. Does this environment sound attractive to you? Managers find these markets frustrating, investors find them difficult, and business school graduates find them boring. Yet, there are several companies that consistently outperform others and create billions of dollars in shareholder value, such as ExxonMobil, Methanex, Cargill, or Koch Industries. How are these companies doing it? This book provides answers with basic micro-economic concepts and real-world case examples. Many of the explanations appear counter-intuitive to commonly applied industry practices, thereby providing for "uncommon ideas in commoditized markets."
Author : Ronald Williams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545533710
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Trading Commodities for Survival written by Ronald Williams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We always hear stories about how the stock market could crash, about the alarming number of bankruptcies and home foreclosures, inflation, and the skyrocketing national debt that could all cause our extremely fragile economic system to simply collapse. Have you ever asked yourself what you will do if you wake up one ordinary day only to find out that the paper money in your wallet no longer holds any value to it? There are many people and reputable economists today who believe that such a day is soon coming. Regardless of whether you believe the economy will collapse soon or not, one thing is certain: if it does collapse, it will easily create the biggest havoc throughout our country that we have ever seen. People will riot in the streets of big cities and small towns alike, and the world as you know it will completely change. No longer will you drive off to work each morning to earn money, no longer will you be able to buy what you need in the local grocery or convenience store, and no longer will you be able to enjoy food at restaurants. What's worse, is that an economic collapse will most certainly NOT be a short term disaster scenario. Rather, it will last several months if not years. What this means for you is what while there are many different potential disasters that could come your way, an economic collapse will easily be one of the most critical ones to prepare for. Once paper money becomes worthless, the items that will suddenly skyrocket in value are the ordinary items that we use every day. These are the items that you need to store not only for yourself, but for bartering and trading purposes as well, and they are the items we are going to cover in this book. Most survivalists and preppers will recommend to you that you stockpile supplies for you and your family to live off to outlast a disaster. I'm not at all disagreeing with that, but I would say that you should make a separate smaller stockpile of ordinary items that you could use for bartering and trading in a post-economic collapse world as well. The logic here is simple: when paper money becomes worthless, the new currency will become simple items that we need to use every day (food, water, toilet paper, soap, medicines, etc.). The whole purpose of bartering is to trade something that you have but that isn't as valuable to you for something that is valuable to you but that you don't have. In a long term SHTF situation, bartering and trading is going to become a part of your everyday life. Since there will no longer be any stores where you can go to purchase whatever you want or need, you will be forced to negotiate with other people instead. If you are running low on a particular item that you need for your survival, you better have something valuable that you can give in return. This is why it's important to have trading commodities that are universally recognized for their value, and this book will go over fifty two of the most valuable commodities that you can barter in a post grid down world and the reasons for each.
Author : B. Joseph Pine
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875848198
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (481 download)
Download or read book The Experience Economy written by B. Joseph Pine and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text seeks to raise the curtain on competitive pricing strategies and asserts that businesses often miss their best opportunity for providing consumers with what they want - an experience. It presents a strategy for companies to script and stage the experiences provided by their products.
Author : Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816501084
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book An Impossible Living in a Transborder World written by Carlos G. Vélez-Ibáñez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are known as cundinas or tandas in Mexico, and for many people these local savings-and-loan operations play an indispensable role in the struggle to succeed in today’s transborder economy. With this extensively researched book, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez updates and expands upon his major 1983 study of rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), incorporating new data that reflect the explosion of Mexican-origin populations in the United States. Much more than a study of one economic phenomenon though, the book examines the way in which these practices are part of greater transnational economies and how these populations engage in—and suffer through—the twenty-first century global economy. Central to the ROSCA is the cultural concept of mutual trust, or confianza. This is the cultural glue that holds the reciprocal relationship together. As Vélez-Ibáñez explains, confianza “shapes the expectations for relationships within broad networks of interpersonal links, in which intimacies, favors, goods, services, emotion, power, or information are exchanged.” In a border region where migration, class movement, economic changes, and institutional inaccessibility produce a great deal of uncertainty, Mexican-origin populations rely on confianza and ROSCAs to maintain a sense of security in daily life. How do transborder people adapt these common practices to meet the demands of a global economy? That is precisely what Vélez-Ibáñez investigates.
Author : Vandana Shiva
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623170427
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (231 download)
Download or read book Earth Democracy written by Vandana Shiva and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. She explores the issues she helped bring to international attention—genetic food engineering, culture theft, and natural resource privatization—uncovering their links to the rising tide of fundamentalism, violence against women, and planetary death. Struggles on the streets of Seattle and Cancun and in homes and farms across the world have yielded a set of principles based on inclusion, nonviolence, reclaiming the commons, and freely sharing the earth’s resources. These ideals, which Dr. Shiva calls “Earth Democracy,” serve as an urgent call to peace and as the basis for a just and sustainable future.
Author : Robert Orfali
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
ISBN 13 : 9780442017989
Total Pages : 1012 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Client/server Survival Guide with OS/2 written by Robert Orfali and published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ultimate guide into the mystical world of client/server computing and its explosion of technology. The book covers network operating systems, SQL database servers, image and multimedia servers, transaction monitors, distributed objects, and workflow servers. Also covered are the tools used to create applications and manage them in distributed environments.
Author : Jack P. Manno
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439822579
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Privileged Goods written by Jack P. Manno and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the obstacles in the way of effectively solving the environmental crises of our time? What can we do to overcome them? These may be two of the most important questions heading into the 21st century. Organized human societies have the ability to completely change the world. While we have excelled at building, destroying and rebuilding, we h
Author : BusinessNews Publishing,
Publisher : Primento
ISBN 13 : 2511017989
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Summary: Marketing 3.0 written by BusinessNews Publishing, and published by Primento. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read summary of Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya and Iwan Setiawan's book: "Marketing 3.0: From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit". This complete summary of the ideas from Philip Kotler, Hermawan Kartajaya and Iwan Setiawan's book "Marketing 3.0" charts the movements of marketing strategies and suggests how businesses should market themselves today. In their book, the authors explain the evolution of marketing approaches in detail and the benefits that each of them brought. This summary also shows how we are currently moving from marketing 2.0 to 3.0: every company who wants to market effectively needs to understand that customers want to buy from companies who deal with issues which impact on all humans, such as sustainability and global warming. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Expand your marketing knowledge To learn more, read "Marketing 3.0" and discover the key to choosing your marketing approach and communicating with your customers.
Author : The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000949095
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Survival August-September 2020: Crisis and response written by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survival, the IISS’s bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment. In this issue: Dalia Dassa Kaye and Shira Efron argue that only a major shift in US policy towards Iran would rekindle debate in Israel about its approach to the Islamic Republic Jordan Calinoff and David Gordon contend that the accusation of ‘debt-trap diplomacy’ against China lacks convincing evidence Erik Jones examines the impact of COVID-19 on the EU economy Michael J. Mazarr calls for a new international norm to safeguard the virtual territorial integrity of states from subversive cyber attacks And ten more thought-provoking pieces, as well as our regular book reviews and Noteworthy column
Author : Samuel Martinez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317261518
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Decency and Excess written by Samuel Martinez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on periodic ethnographic fieldwork over a span of fifteen years, Martinez shows how impoverished plantation dwellers find ways of coping with the alienation that would be expected while laboring to produce goods for the richer countries. Despite living in dire poverty, these workers live in a thoroughly commodified social environment. Ritual, eroticism, electronic media, household adornment, payday-weekend "binging" are ways even chronically poor plantation residents dream beyond reality. Yet plantation residents' efforts to live decently and escape from the dead hand of necessity also deepen existing divisions of ethnic identity and status. As the divide between "haves" and "have-nots" worsens as a result of neoliberal reform and the decline of sugar in international markets, this book reveals on an intensely human scale the coarsening of the social fabric of this and other communities of the world's poorer nations.
Author : Chip Conley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119434920
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book PEAK written by Chip Conley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proven principles for sustainable success, with new leadership insight PEAK is the popular, transformative guide to doing business better, written by a seasoned entrepreneur/CEO who has disrupted his favorite industry not once, but twice. Author Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of one of the world’s largest boutique hotel companies, turned to psychologist Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs at a time when his company was in dire need. And years later, when the young founders of Airbnb asked him to help turn their start-up home sharing company into a world-class hospitality giant, Conley once again used the principles he’d developed in PEAK. In the decade since this book's first edition, Conley's PEAK strategy has been developed on six continents in organizations in virtually every industry. The author’s foundational premise is that great leaders become amateur psychologists by understanding the unique needs of three key relationships—with employees, customers, and investors—and this message has resonated with every kind of leader and company including some of the world’s best-known, from Apple to Facebook. Avid users of PEAK have found that the principles create greater loyalty and differentiation with their key stakeholders. This new second edition includes in-depth examples of real-world PEAK companies, including the author’s own at Airbnb, and exclusive PEAK leadership practices that will take you—and your company's performance—to new heights. Whether you're at a startup or a Fortune 500 company, at a for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental organization, this book can help you and your people reach potential you never realized you had. Understand how Maslow's hierarchy makes for winning business practices Learn how PEAK drove some of today's top businesses to success Help employees reach their full potential—and beyond Transform the customer experience and keep investors happy The PEAK framework succeeds because it elevates the business from the inside out. These same principles apply in the boardroom, the breakroom, and your living room at home, and have proven to be the foundation of healthy, fulfilled lives. Even if you think you're doing great, you could always be doing better—and PEAK gives you a roadmap to the next level.
Author : Christopher Rosin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113652942X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Food Systems Failure written by Christopher Rosin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Yun-han Chu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100020216X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Decline of the Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order written by Yun-han Chu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Western liberal democratic world order, which seemingly triumphed following the collapse of communism, is looking increasingly fragile as populists and nationalists take power in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, as the momentum of democratization in developing countries stalls, and as Western liberal establishments fail to deal with economic stagnation, worsening political polarization, social inequality, and migrant crises. At the same time there is a shift of economic power from the West towards Asia. This book explores these critical developments and their consequences for the world order. It considers how far the loss of the West’s power to dominate the world order, together with the relative decline of US power and its abdication of its global leadership role, will lead to more conflict, disorder and chaos; and how far non-Western actors, including China, India and the Muslim world, are capable of establishing visionary policy initiatives which reconfigure the paths and rules of economic integration and globalization, and the mechanisms of global governance. The book also assesses the sustainability of the economic rise of China and other non-Western actors, explores the Western liberal democratic order’s capacity for resilience, and discusses how far the outlook is pessimistic or optimistic.
Author : Harold Brookfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134122268
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Family Farms: Survival and Prospect written by Harold Brookfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the social conditions of family farming across the world and the conditions of its survival into the twenty-first century.
