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Business Transformation through Blockchain: Volume II
by Roman Beck Horst TreiblmaierThe second volume of this edited collection offers a number of contributions from leading scholars investigating Blockchain and its implications for business. Focusing on the transformation of the overall value chain, the sections cover the foundations of Blockchain and its sustainability, social and legal applications. It features a variety of use cases, from tourism to healthcare. Using a number of theoretical and methodological approaches, this innovative publication aims to further the cause of this ground-breaking technology and its use within information technology, supply chain and wider business management research.
Business Transformation: A Roadmap for Maximizing Organizational Insights
by Jim Davis Aiman ZeidEffectively introduce and promote analytics within your enterprise All companies use information to set strategies and accomplish business objectives. But how many CEOs and CIOs would say they are satisfied that their companies get maximum value from information? Business Transformation reveals how SAS's Information Evolution Model (IEM) can be used together with analytics for groundbreaking results. Author Aiman Zeid provides the necessary information you need to introduce and promote the use of analytics and insight across your organization. Along with examples and best practices of global companies that have successfully been through this process, you'll learn how to identify the starting point and develop a road map for execution. Reveals how to introduce and promote the use of analytics and insights across your organization Written by a lead developer at SAS global Business Intelligence Competency Center program and services Features global case studies and examples Practical and insightful, this reference provides businesses with an essential blueprint for creating improvements that optimize business returns and put the potential of data analytics to work.
Business Transformation: Praxisorientierter Leitfaden zur erfolgreichen Neuausrichtung von Unternehmen und Geschäftsfeldern
by Jörg KlasenUnternehmen stehen vor der ständigen Herausforderung, sich im Markt erfolgreich zu behaupten und auf veränderte Rahmenbedingungen in Teilbereichen oder umfangreich zu reagieren. Sind die Verantwortlichen im Managen dieser sogenannten Transformationen nicht geübt, müssen sie sich die nötigen Grundlagen hierfür – das wissenschaftliche Fundament der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, die Forschung zu Transformationsprozessen und die praktischen Erfahrungen aus der Wirtschaft – aus vielen Quellen erarbeiten. Zwar gibt es Bücher zur Unternehmens- und Geschäftsfeldtransformation (Business Transformation), doch größtenteils beschreiben sie nur Teile einer Transformation und sind meist wenig handlungsorientiert. Dieses Buch soll dem Leser in der diffusen Begriffswelt aus Restrukturierung, Change Management und Transformation Orientierung und praktische Hilfen anbieten. Es definiert den Begriff der Business Transformation und beschreibt einen am Prozess des strategischen Managements angelehnten, anwendungsorientierten Leitfaden für die wirkungsvolle strategische Neuausrichtung und organisatorische Umwandlung von Unternehmen und Geschäftsfeldern. Ergänzt durch Checklisten in jedem Kapitel ermöglicht es eine leichte Umsetzung in die Praxis. Für Unternehmer, Führungskräfte, Projektmanager, Betriebsräte und Studierende, die sich mit der Neuausrichtung von und in Unternehmen beschäftigen.
Business Travel Management: Praxis-Know-how für den Einkäufer
by Rüdiger MahnickeDer Praxisleitfaden bietet eine Einführung in den Einkauf von Reiseleistungen. Der strategische Einkauf von Geschäftsreisen wird in vielen Unternehmen immer noch stiefmütterlich behandelt. Eine klar erkennbare Tendenz ist aber, dass die Zuständigkeit für das Thema, wenn Unternehmen sich damit beschäftigen, in den Einkauf gegeben wird. Häufig wird die Zuständigkeit für den Einkauf von Geschäftsreisen einem strategischen Einkäufer zugeschlagen, ohne dass dieser Fachkenntnisse im Bereich Geschäftsreisen sammeln konnte. Das Buch behandelt die Bereiche Flug, Bahn, Mietwagen und Hotel, Methoden und Besonderheiten der Ausschreibung sowie Einkaufshebel werden benannt. Großen Raum nimmt die Auswahl von und Zusammenarbeit mit Reisebüros ein. Dem Einkäufer wird gezeigt, welche Statistiken und Kennzahlen für seinen maximalen Erfolg wichtig sind und wie er sein Travel-Portfolio intern an den Mann bringen kann.
Business Travel Success: How to Reduce Stress, Be More Productive & Travel with Confidence
by Carol MargolisDo you find yourself dreading an upcoming business trip? Do you fear gaining weight while away? Are you feeling guilty about not being home with your family? Do you find it difficult to manage your time when you are away? Do you worry about safety when traveling? Do you know how to get through airport security with ease and not let jet lag get you down? Now, in this comprehensive business travel/life management book, get answers to these questions and hundreds more. Business Travel Success was written for all business travelers, whether traveling once a year or every week. It is packed with tips and strategies to make your travel safer, less worrisome, more efficient, and in better harmony with your life. You will find unique tips on how to take care of your home while away, enjoy solo travel, find new relationships, take advantage of social media, and eat healthy on the road. There is advice on packing, driving, flying, renting a car, getting the most from a hotel room, international travel, and much more. On a tight travel budget? Even if you attend only one conference, seminar, or workshop a year, you will discover the answers to make your travel more enjoyable. If you are looking for ways to reduce travel stress, be healthier, have a harmonious work/family travel life, be more productive, and travel with more confidence, then look no further! Business Travel Success is for you!
Business Travel and Tourism
by John Swarbrooke Susan Horner'Business Travel and Tourism' provides a comprehensive, international overview of business tourism from both a theoretical and practical perspective. With the use of case studies from around the world, 'Business Travel and Tourism' explores a broad range of issues, including:* The global business tourism market* The design of business tourism facilities* The role of the destination in business travel and tourism* The social, economic, and environmental impacts of business tourism* The ethical dimension of business tourism* The marketing of business tourism products* The impact of new technologies on the business tourism market* How to organise successful conferences, exhibitions, and incentive travel packagesCase studies include Disneyland Paris, Hong Kong, Amsterdam RAI International Exhibition and Congress Centre, Hilton, Page and Moy Marketing, Lufthansa, Air France, and Legoland UK.'Business Travel and Tourism' is the first text to offer a comprehensive overview of the growing but neglected area of business tourism. With the use of a wide range of up-to-date case studies and major practical exercises to help students to broaden and deepen their understanding of this area of tourism, it is an invaluable text for all students on travel and tourism courses at degree and BTEC/HND level, or those taking tourism options in leisure, business studies, hospitality management or geography.
Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Trends That are Redefining Organizations
by Bernard MarrStay one step ahead of the competition with this expert review of the most impactful and disruptive business trends coming down the pike Far from slowing down, change and transformation in business seems to come only at a more and more furious rate. The last ten years alone have seen the introduction of groundbreaking new trends that pose new opportunities and challenges for leaders in all industries. In Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Trends That Are Redefining Organizations, best-selling business author and strategist Bernard Marr breaks down the social and technological forces underlying these rapidly advancing changes and the impact of those changes on key industries. Critical consumer trends just emerging today—or poised to emerge tomorrow—are discussed, as are strategies for rethinking your organisation’s product and service delivery. The book also explores: Crucial business operations trends that are changing the way companies conduct themselves in the 21st century The practical insights and takeaways you can glean from technological and social innovation when you cut through the hype Disruptive new technologies, including AI, robotic and business process automation, remote work, as well as social and environmental sustainability trends Business Trends in Practice: The 25+ Trends That Are Redefining Organizations is a must-read resource for executives, business leaders and managers, and business development and innovation leads trying to get – and stay – on top of changes and disruptions that are right around the corner.
Business Trends in the Digital Era: Evolution of Theories and Applications
by Rui Li Xiaoming Zhu Bingying Song Yingzi Ni Yifan RenThis book introduces 10 mega business trends, ranging from big data to the O2O model. By mining and analyzing mountains of data, the author identifies these 10 emerging trends and goes to great lengths to explain and support his views with up-to-date cases. By incorporating the latest developments, this book allows readers to keep abreast of rapidly advancing digital technologies and business models. In this time of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, acquiring deep insights into business trends and grasping opportunities for innovation give readers (business executives in particular) and their companies a competitive advantage and the potential to become the next success story. The Chinese version of the book has become a hit, with some business schools using it as a textbook for their S&T Innovation and Business Trends programs. It also provides business executives with a practical guide for their investment and operation decisions.
Business Under Crisis Volume I: Contextual Transformations (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business)
by Leonidas Efthymiou Demetris Vrontis Yaakov Weber Alkis Thrassou Evangelos Tsoukatos S. M. Riad ShamsThis book examines businesses under crisis conditions through a composition of contextual accounts. The Editors argue that crises are transformative, evolutionary and even revolutionary in the development of organizations, industries and markets. Moreover, crises reform the context in which organizations operate, including customers and their behaviour. As such, they need to be viewed as conduits to change, accelerators of evolution and catalysts of innovation in organizations. Emphasising the importance of ‘context’ and its complexities, the book argues that for crisis, as a concept and notion, context is crucial to any understanding of the meaning that should or could be attached to it. Drawing on different types of changes and crises that substantially affect business, including economic, technological, political, and environmental, chapters Bringing together scientific research and case studies on contextual transformations, the book provides a balanced selection of works across business disciplines, including management, strategy, marketing and finance as well as geographic regions, market types and industries. The book examines the context of crises, its indicators and triggers, and encompasses topics such as Artificial Intelligence, e-mobility, changes in consumption patterns, militancy and the impact of pandemics.
Business Under Crisis, Volume II: Organisational Adaptations (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business)
by Leonidas Efthymiou Demetris Vrontis Yaakov Weber Alkis Thrassou Evangelos Tsoukatos S. M. Riad ShamsCrises present significant challenges for organizations. But, while critical events are inevitable, not every business is sufficiently equipped for when things don’t go according to plan. This book focuses on business under crisis conditions, along with organizational responses and adaptation. Adaptation can be seen as a learning process. It encompasses meaningful ways that help companies sustain their viability over the long term. Companies that respond quickly, often achieve more than just surviving. Some organizations will learn from a crisis, develop reactive resilience, and emerge stronger from the period of turbulence. They will be able to explore possibilities and create new patterns of relationships. Bringing together descriptive and prescriptive research studies, chapters explore adaptation in different sectors, including public health, tourism, garment, Information Technology, high-tech companies, global trade networks, hospitality, security and the social sector. Ultimately, the book covers wide range of topics, linking strategy, entrepreneurship, and leadership to reciprocal organizational adaptations that help us delineate crisis, as well as its interconnections in differing settings.
Business Under Crisis, Volume III: Avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (Palgrave Studies in Cross-disciplinary Business Research, In Association with EuroMed Academy of Business)
by Leonidas Efthymiou Demetris Vrontis Yaakov Weber Alkis Thrassou Evangelos Tsoukatos S. M. Riad ShamsFrom recurring episodes of great depression, oil crises, political crises, wars, debt crises, to the ongoing climate change, there is a constant pressure on businesses to cope with critical events. However, throughout history, crises have been pivotal in advancing businesses and societies. This contributed volume approaches crisis not simply as a source of problems, but also as a set of choices. It seeks to explore critical events as possible opportunities for sustainability, through process improvement, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.Chapters reveal that times of crisis provide opportunities for new start-ups, creativity, resilience, organisational change, and revitalisation. This book also emphasises the importance of sustainability, driven either by the market or as a response to critical events. Within the wider attempt to explore avenues for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at times of crisis, the book is loosely organised in three thematic sections: organisational responses to crisis; digitisation, and how technology facilitates or hinders sustainability under conditions of crisis; and SMEs, Family Firms (FF), Entrepreneurship, which explores how critical events offer opportunities for innovation.
Business Under Fire: How Israeli Companies Are Succeeding In The Face Of Terror And What We Can Learn From Them
by Dan CarrisonDespite facing the constant grim reality of terrorism, the Israeli economy is surprisingly robust. How do businesses in Israel stay viable in a chaotic environment, and how do they rebuild in the wake of destruction? Based on in-depth personal interviews conducted in Israel by the author, Business Under Fire offers inspirational and instructive stories about the techniques Israeli companies have used to thrive in the face of extraordinary adversity. Readers will learn how to: * prepare for the worst * find new markets and customer bases * motivate in a stressful, uncertain environment * make a profit under previously unimaginable conditions * make quick, intuitive decisions * build flexibility into long-term plans. Packed with fascinating first-person accounts from CEOs, managers, and in-the-trenches employees who have been through it all, Business Under Fire contains hard-won insights every business can learn from."
Business Unintelligence: Insight and Innovation Beyond Analytics and Big Data
by Barry DevlinBusiness intelligence (BI) used to be so simple—in theory anyway. Integrate and copy data from your transactional systems into a specialized relational database, apply BI reporting and query tools and add business users. Job done. No longer. <p><p>Analytics, big data and an array of diverse technologies have changed everything. More importantly, business is insisting on ever more, ever faster from information and from IT in general. An emerging biz-tech ecosystem demands that business and IT work together. <p><p>This book reflects the new reality that in today's socially complex and rapidly changing world, business decisions must be based on a combination of rational and intuitive thinking. Integrating cues from diverse information sources and tacit knowledge, decision makers create unique meaning to innovate heuristically at the speed of thought. This book provides a wealth of new models that business and IT can use together to design support systems for tomorrow's successful organizations. <p><p>Dr Barry Devlin, one of the earliest proponents of data warehousing, goes back to basics to explore how the modern trinity of information, process and people must be reinvented and restructured to deliver the value, insight and innovation required by modern businesses. From here, he develops a series of novel architectural models that provide a new foundation for holistic information use across the entire business. From discovery to analysis and from decision making to action taking, he defines a fully integrated, closed-loop business environment. <p><p>Covering every aspect of business analytics, big data, collaborative working and more, this book takes over where BI ends to deliver the definitive framework for information use in the coming years.
Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience (Kogan Page Inspire)
by Nathalie NahaiIt all feels pretty overwhelming right now. People are feeling uncertain and disillusioned. How do business leaders create resilient organizations that can reassure people, deliver and truly connect with a values-driven audience, often through digital-first channels? Explore how your customers and your people demand more than business as usual. This book reveals the psychology behind how we feel about businesses, their communications and their leaders in a digital world. From understanding the new dynamics shaping online behaviour, to the evolving expectations driving employees and consumers, Business Unusual will teach you how to build a resilient business - one that is built on trust, an engaged and fulfilled workforce, and the brand values that can empower you to craft resonant communications and relationships. Join the trailblazers that are transforming how we think of, and conduct, business. With insights from cutting-edge research and real-world case studies, learn how to apply psychological frameworks and practices that can help you develop a futureproof brand that people believe in, both inside and outside the organization.
Business Valuation Across the Industry Life Cycle: A Quantitative Study Focusing on Internet-Enabled Businesses
by Adelin TrusculescuThis book examines the valuation of internet-enabled businesses across their industry life cycles, demonstrating the shifts in valuation multiples and drivers over time, providing a comprehensive framework to better understand and optimize business valuations. Internet Evolution as Natural Experiment: The internet&’s rise – from innovation to necessity, driven by 5G and AI – offers a unique lens on valuation methodologies across industry life cycles. Methodological Approach: Unprecedented quantitative and qualitative research analyzing 1,767 companies globally across 21 industries and 15 years, covering 120 multiples, 216 drivers, and 100 million data points. Valuation Framework: It proposes a groundbreaking framework linking valuation multiples and drivers to industry life cycles, illustrating the shift from revenue- to profitability-based multiples and from growth-centric to growth-and-profitability drivers as companies mature. Practical Implications: It concludes with recommendations for stakeholders on monitoring valuation multiples and drivers for value-maximizing strategies across virtually all mature and emerging technologies.
Business Valuation Discounts and Premiums
by Pratt Shannon P.Leading authority Shannon Pratt demystifies discounts and premiums in business valuation "A must-read! Shannon Pratt continues to add to the business valuation body of knowledge. " -Jay Fishman, FASA There is often more money in dispute in determining the discounts and premiums in a business valuation than in arriving at the pre-discount value itself. Discounts and premiums affect not only the value of the company, but also play a crucial role in determining the risk involved, control issues, marketability, and contingent liability, to name a few. Approaching a business valuation without a thorough understanding of all the ins and outs of discounts and premiums can cause a deal to topple like a house of cards. Business guru Shannon Pratt's critically acclaimed Business Valuation: Discounts and Premiums, Second Edition compiles all the key information practitioners need to successfully and accurately determine discounts and premiums in business valuation. Thoroughly updated throughout, this must-have tool of the trade for business appraisers, accountants, attorneys, and business owners now includes: New database chapters that help quantify the discount for lack of marketability Analysis of the most comprehensive database, with over 5,000 entries on transactions in minority interests in private company stocks prior to an IPO Scores of valuable court case citations Court cases covering divorces, gift, estate, income taxes, bankruptcies, corporate and partnership dissolutions, and ESOPs Many new, never-before-published studies providing real-world benchmarks that can be applied to the practitioner's own cases Learn how to master the complex issues of business valuation and capitalize on the numerous uses for discounts and premiums with the help of the most recognized authority on business valuation, Shannon Pratt.
Business Valuation For Dummies
by Lisa Holton Jim BatesBusiness Valuation For Dummies is filled with expert guidance that business owners, managers at all levels, investors, and students can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company's financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses.
Business Valuation and Bankruptcy
by Grant Stein Ian RatnerAn essential guide to business valuation and bankruptcy Business Valuation and Bankruptcy helps you-whether you are an accountant dealing with a troubled company, a lender, an investor, a bankruptcy and restructuring lawyer/financial advisor, or a private equity player-to focus on solving everyday and case determinative disputes when creditors, lenders, and debtors have differing views of value. Introducing valuation issues early on in the restructuring/bankruptcy process so you can plan accordingly, this book offers Many real life case examples, case descriptions, and tables to demonstrate the applicable sections of the Bankruptcy Laws A review of the methods, applications, pros and cons of restructuring with the basic tools to understanding it A description of the life cycle of a troubled company and the various stages of a restructuring An analysis of the valuation issues that confront practitioners in the real world of application of the law Business Valuation and Bankruptcy is written in terms that are common to bankruptcy professionals and is essential, timely reading for players in the bankruptcy and restructuring environment.
Business Valuation and Company Value: New Qualitative Approaches Considering Business and Financial Risks (Contributions to Finance and Accounting)
by Peter Brusov Tatiana FilatovaBusiness valuation and company value play a very important role in making an informed investment decision; buying and selling shares and bonds of a company on the stock market; insurance; taxation, etc. This book develops new approaches to business valuation and company value. The existing methods of business and company valuation have many shortcomings, two of which are global, related to the impossibility of estimating one of the fundamental parameters of valuation – the discount rate, and the impossibility of correctly accounting for the retrospective period of valuation. Both of these shortcomings can currently be overcome only within the framework of the modern theory of Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova (BFO), which is done in this monograph, devoted to the development of a qualitatively new approach to the valuation of businesses and companies. The second most important method of business valuation – CAPM – was generalized by the authors to include financial risk along with business risk, and for the first time this was done correctly. A new model – CAPM 2.0 – was created and applied to many companies. And finally, CAPM 2.0 was included in the modern theory of Brusov-Filatova-Orekhova (BFO), which allows for a correct assessment of a business and a company, taking into account both business and financial risks, illustrating the practical application of the developed innovative approach.
Business Valuation and the Cost of Capital
by Timothy A. LuehrmanThis note is an introduction to the cost of capital as used in discounted cash flow valuation analyses. The note covers basic financial economic principles and practical problems encountered in calculating the cost of capital, especially WACC. It concludes with cautionary advice about computing and applying WACC. The note is suitable for undergraduates, MBAs and executives studying basic cases on business valuation and capital budgeting.
Business Valuation: An Integrated Theory (Wiley Series in Finance #17)
by Z. Christopher Mercer Travis W. HarmsA guide that demystifies modern valuation theory and shows how to apply fundamental valuation concepts The revised and updated third edition of Business Valuation: An Integrated Theory explores the core concepts of the integrated theory of business valuation and adapts the theory to reflect how the market for private business actually works. In this third edition of their book, the authors—two experts on the topic of business valuation—help readers translate valuation theory into everyday valuation practice. This important updated book: Includes an extended review of the core concepts of the integrated theory of business valuation and applies the theory on a total capital basis Explains “typical” valuation discounts (marketability and minority interest) and premiums (control premiums) in the context of financial theory, institutional reality and the behavior of market participants Explores evolving valuation perspectives in the context of the integrated theory Written by two experts on valuation theory from Mercer Capital The third edition of Business Valuation is the only book available regarding an integrated theory of business valuation—offering an essential, unprecedented resource for business professionals.
Business Valuation: Real-World Applications in Emerging Markets
by Guillermo L. DumraufBusiness Valuation: Real-World Applications in Emerging Markets serves as a useful guide for those who want to learn business valuation methodology from scratch, applying corporate finance theory to real-world cases. Based on the author’s extensive professional and teaching experience, this text illustrates how basic corporate finance principles and theories shape decisions made by market practitioners and offers an in-depth discussion of various business valuation methods and models with a focus on emerging markets.By adopting a step-by-step approach, it helps the reader to gain a deeper understanding of this topic, starting with an explanation of essential concepts before gradually moving on to more advanced valuation techniques. To help the reader navigate common valuation processes, brief real-world examples are woven throughout the text with the final part containing four real valuation cases on which the author served as the appraiser. Vital learning and teaching features include: key terminologies; discussion questions; boxed examples and real-world cases; mathematical appendices; and a suite of supplementary instructor’s resources.This will be a valuable textbook for students taking advanced undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses in business valuation, as well as a practical guide for appraisers.
Business Valuation: Theory and Practice
by Marco FazziniThis book provides an applied theoretical approach to modern day business valuation. It combines elements from both finance and accounting to help practitioners identify the most suitable method for analysis, showing when and how methods can be applied in different contexts and under specific constraints. It describes how business valuation techniques can be applied to calculate value in case of transactions, litigation, IPOs, and the fair value under an IFRS framework.The purpose of this book is to offer a guideline for the application of an integrated approach, thereby avoiding "copy and paste" valuations, based on pre-packaged parameters and the uncritical use of models. Specifically, an Integrated Valuation Approach (IVA) should be adopted that encompasses, within any specific method, a wide range of elements reflecting the characteristics and specificities of the firm to be valued.The book is based on the International Valuation Standards issued by the International Valuation Standards Council. Valuation standards allow for an alignment of both the methods and their application, providing a common basis for valuers.
Business Value and Sustainability: An Integrated Supply Network Perspective
by Ki-Hoon Lee Stephan VachonThis book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green product development, worker safety, child labour and relations with local communities, Business Value and Sustainability advances the understanding of sustainability in supply network management. In presenting a supply management perspective including a tighter control of the supply base and the development of supplier capability through collaboration with NGOs, the authors contribute to both the theoretical advancement and practical development of this field. The book aims to raise the sustainability standards of businesses in an increasingly complex and inter- and intra-connected global supply network.
Business Wargaming for Mergers & Acquisitions: Systematic Application in the Strategy and Acquisition Process (essentials)
by Jan-Philipp BüchlerBased on a systematic description of possible applications and case studies in the acquisition process, the essential offers a practice-oriented introduction to business wargaming. The high degree of integration of business wargaming with classic strategy instruments from the strategy process is made clear. On this basis, the author describes the development of strategy-compliant acquisition projects that consistently contribute to the achievement of objectives. Readers receive valuable advice for the individual conception of business wargames for strategic, tactical and operational questions from the development of the M&A strategy to post-merger integration