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Reinventing the Automobile: General Motors' AUTOnomy Project
by Alan MaccormackDescribes the history of General Motor's attempts to develop a hydrogen fuel-cell powered car. As of 2003, GM developed several prototypes of such a vehicle to demonstrate the viability of the overall concept. Many uncertainties remained, however, with respect to the issues of cost, safe storage of hydrogen on a vehicle, and the lack of a hydrogen-refueling infrastructure. Aids students in developing a strategy for pushing this initiative forward, including tackling the question of how radical the new design should be and what to do about competitors who have aggressively pushed interim technology-hybrid vehicles--which GM has chosen not to emphasize in its product portfolio. Includes color exhibits.
Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century (The\mit Press Ser.)
by William J. Mitchell Chris E. Borroni-Bird Lawrence D. BurnsHow to leave behind our unwieldy, gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide–emitting vehicles for cars that are green, smart, connected, and fun. This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities—where most of the world's people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William Mitchell and two industry experts reimagine the automobile, describing vehicles of the near future that are green, smart, connected, and fun to drive. They roll out four big ideas that will make this both feasible and timely.The fundamental reinvention of the automobile won't be easy, but it is an urgent necessity—to make urban mobility more convenient and sustainable, to make cities more livable, and to help bring the automobile industry out of crisis.
Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets
by John McmillanClear, insightful, and nondogmatic, this book gives us a new appreciation for one of our most ubiquitous institutions. From the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-Communist economies, markets have suddenly become quite visible. We now have occasion to ask, "What makes these institutions work? How important are they? How can we improve them?" Taking us on a lively tour of a world we once took for granted, John McMillan offers examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market in the Netherlands to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Eschewing ideology, he shows us that markets are neither magical nor immoral. Rather, they are powerful if imperfect tools, the best we've found for improving our living standards. A New York Times Notable Book.
Reinventing the C-Suite: Evolving Your Executive Team to Meet Today’s Challenges
by Terry WhiteThere is a fundamental mismatch between the way we organise our senior management teams and the way modern commerce has evolved. Wrapping finesse, technology, rules, bureaucracy, and “science” around our C-Suite conventions, designed for nineteenth-century businesses, is not nearly enough to meet the challenges of modern business environments and practices. This book is for executives who want to enable their C-Suite, and by extension their organizations, to survive and thrive into the future. It will help them to foresee future challenges and provide suggestions for new working practices at executive level to successfully adapt to those changes. How should executive teams organize themselves, reinvent their roles, and work with stakeholders to evolve and innovate? What is the role of the new C-grade executive – managers, leaders, or something else? Executives and aspiring executives will find new challenges for organizations and ways to deal with them. Forward-thinking business students will find startling ideas and practical tools for viewing business and its activities. What is the next evolution of the executive function in organizations? This book explores how we can predict it, shape it, and succeed in it.
Reinventing the CFO
by Jeremy HopeOn the heels of a decade of scandals and the new pressures brought on by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporations expect far more from their CFOs than simply managing the numbers. They expect decision-making support and performance insights that can improve bottom-line results. Unfortunately, the complexity and detail inherent in CFOs' jobs keep them shackled to budgeting and transaction-processing systems that leave little time for value-adding activities.Jeremy Hope says it's time to redefine the role of CFOs in today's organizations, liberating them from ineffective number-crunching responsibilities and enabling them to focus on helping managers improve performance. Grounded in extensive research, Reinventing the CFO outlines seven critical roles-from streamlining redundant processes to regulating risk to identifying a few key measures-that CFOs must take on in order to successfully transform the finance operation.Challenging many of the finance field's accepted practices and systems, this bold book revolutionizes the role of financial managers and frees them to make smart, ethical, strategic decisions that add real value to the firm.
Reinventing the CFO: Introduction
by Jeremy HopeExpectations around the role of the CFO have greatly intensified in recent years. The CFO is now expected to be business generalist, risk management expert, and all-knowing source of business intelligence; to provide instant replies to any question the CEO asks about business performance; and to meet these challenges with lower costs. This chapter looks at the origins of the increased pressure on CFOs and explains why it is necessary for CFOs to break out of dysfunctional systems and mental models to redefine their role and the role of finance organizations. This chapter is excerpted from "Reinventing the CFO: How Financial Managers Can Transform Their Roles and Add Greater Value."
Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation
by Giorgio Riello Anne Gerritsen Pat Hudson Kristine BrulandThe Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism. However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The interdisciplinary approach of Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrialising processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood. Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward.
Reinventing the Energy Value Chain: Supply Chain Roadmaps for Digital Oilfields through Hydrogen Fuel Cells
by David Steven Jacoby Alok R. GuptaAs the push for diversification of energy sources continues, this book provides a toolbox of techniques to enhance top-line as well as bottom-line results by successfully managing capital projects and operations & maintenance trade-offs across the value chain. Built on the foundations laid in Jacoby's previous books Optimal Supply Chain Management in Oil, Gas, and Power Generation and Guide to Supply Chain Management, it offers groundbreaking new ways to tap the power of supply chain management in conventional and emerging energy industries - from the small to the large project, and from solar to nuclear and everything in between. The organization of the book makes it a handy reference resource. It starts with a conceptual framework for value chain and supply chain management in the energy sector, laying out objectives, key business processes, and performance metrics that provide useful guideposts. It offers principles that should guide investments in the energy industry and explains how to organize the supply chain to maximize their results. Chapters on capital project and operations management explain tools and techniques that are relevant to energy value chains broadly speaking. Technology-specific chapters show how these concepts apply to ten energy domains: Hydrogen & Fuel Cells, Energy Storage, Wind, Solar, Biomass, Oil & Gas, Geothermal, Gas and Coal-Fired Power, Hydropower, Nuclear
Reinventing the Entrepreneur
by Maryellen TribbyIntroducing a million-dollar business model that you can do from home, on the road, or in your spare timeMary Ellen Tribby, founder of Working Moms Only, has created and perfected a business model that is 500% more profitable than blogging, that you can do from home, from an office, or from anywhere in the world, that's easy to learn, and extremely profitable. With it, Mary Ellen has made millions through her various own businesses and her clients, and now you can too.It's called The Inbox Magazine (The iMag for short) and regardless of the size of your staff--from one to one hundred--or whether you spend ten or forty hours a week working at it, this revolutionary approach to running a business is your ticket to success and financial independence.Makes Mary Ellen Tribby's extraordinarily successful business strategies available to the public in a book for the first timeIf you're already in business, it arms you with proven techniques for boosting your bottom line by an order of magnitude--in no timeIf you're a novice entrepreneur, it delivers powerful tools for getting your business off the ground and running full throttle--right awayThe perfect tool for the time, the Inbox Magazine is what you need to create a huge impact with the minimum investment of time, energy, and money
Reinventing the Heartland: How One City’s Inclusive Approach to Innovation and Growth Can Revive the American Dream
by Nicholas LallaThe story of one Heartland city&’s efforts to reinvent itself for the innovation age is a powerful example of the change America needs.Every city in America wants to become a tech hub, yet so few succeed—and that&’s the problem. Tech jobs, venture capital, and R&D are concentrated in a handful of big coastal cities, while the broad middle of the country is left out. But to thrive in the twenty-first century, cities must create innovation economies of their own and grow in more inclusive ways. In January 2020, Nicholas Lalla founded Tulsa Innovation Labs to help Tulsa, Oklahoma transition from its oil and gas legacy to tech. Lalla&’s organization would go on to build the first tech-led economic development strategy in northeast Oklahoma&’s history, raise over $200 million, and create thousands of tech jobs. This success catalyzed a massive, city-wide endeavor—the first time in American history a city has dedicated itself in such a concerted way to becoming a player in the innovation economy. Drawing upon Lalla&’s experience in Tulsa, Reinventing the Heartland lays out a bold and pragmatic plan for urban reinvention, showing cities how to reorient their entire civic ecosystems toward inclusive tech-led growth. Each chapter covers a core plank of the action plan—from how cities can establish their own tech niche based on existing assets to how they can rapidly up-skill talent in the era of AI to how to build urban-rural partnerships and compete for federal funding as a region. In Reinventing the Heartland, Lalla provides the path forward, not just for Tulsa, but for any city ready to embrace the future.
Reinventing the IT Department (Computer Weekly Professional Ser.)
by Terry White'Reinventing the Information Technology Department' is both anecdotal and informal but deals with a subject which is of vital interest to Chief Information Officers and IT Managers, addressing questions such as:* How does the IT department keep pace with business change?* How do we provide stable and responsive IT platforms?* How do we add recognised value to the organisation?* How do I reinvent my department?* How do I get onto the board? It offers an alternative view of the new roles of the in-house IT function and proposes a rethink about IT services within companies, suggesting a self-help approach to redefining/reinventing in-house IT for CIOs.The author explains that new modes of business thinking and operation are essential if a company is to succeed in the near future and in light of this covers topics such as self-organising systems, knowledge management, multi-stakeholder perspectives, and empowerment initiatives in relation to the overall business and in particular the IT function.Each chapter contains implementation templates for the readers to take themselves through the repositioning or reengineering of the IT function and their own departments.
Reinventing the Leader: How to Change Yourself to Change Your Company
by Gui Loureiro Carlos E. MarinFrom Gui Loureiro, Regional CEO overseeing Walmex, Walmart Canada, and Walmart Chile, and his executive leadership coach Carlos Marin, this inspiring and practical book reveals how even the most successful leaders must be open to personal change in order to transform their companies.In the midst of a successful year, visionary CEO Gui Loureiro decided that Walmex—Walmart&’s biggest division outside of the United States—needed to make massive changes to turn the iconic company into a more data-driven, customer-centric business that would be competitive in our digital economy. The stakes were high: few companies the size of Walmex had ever attempted a transformation at such a magnitude of scale. Reinventing the Leader is the turbulent story of how it happened that&’s especially relevant in this age of globalization. Gui learns from Carlos that to change the company he must first transform his own leadership style. This candid book provides an insightful blueprint for any organization&’s success. Readers will learn: The importance of connecting a transformation to a meaningful purpose How any change brings risk but the biggest risk is not to change The three crucial questions to ask team members to discern if they&’re ready to contribute to a transformation The power of telling the story of a transformation by showing its impact on customers Why it&’s necessary to listen attentively and embrace change independently of how successful you are Today&’s leaders are expected to inspire by sharing a vision based on purpose, not just profits. Loureiro and Marin&’s enlightening account of self-discovery and business reinvention defines a fresh new approach to leadership for the future.
Reinventing the Local in Tourism: Producing, Consuming and Negotiating Place
by Greg Richards Antonio Paolo RussoThis book investigates the way localities are shaped and negotiated through tourism, and explores the emerging success of local peer-produced hospitality and tourism services which are transforming the tourist experience. Tourists are now being brought into much closer contact with locals and have new opportunities to experience the community at their destination. This book examines these place experiences and travel-sharing arrangements that have now spread globally due to the use of social communication platforms such as Airbnb. It analyses the existence of global communities of 'place experts' that are redefining the organisational structures, value systems, market opportunities, affordabilities and geographies in travel and tourism. This volume brings together the work of established tourism scholars as well as early career researchers and is one of the first books to examine the global-local relationship at tourism destinations and the way that the rapidly developing field of peer-to-peer tourism is transforming tourist destinations.
Reinventing the Power Grid: Renewable Energy, Storage, and Grid Modernization
by Nesimi ErtugrulIn this comprehensive guide for practicing engineers and students, Ertugrul explains the field of renewable energy and distributed generation technologies and describes the transformation occurring in power grids due to the rise of renewable energy sources and emerging technologies.This book covers key areas such as the status of grid transformation, photovoltaic (PV) solar energy, wind energy systems, distributed energy resources, microgrids, grid‑scale and domestic battery storage systems, e‑mobility and emerging distributed energy technologies. The text presents an equilibrium between theoretical concepts and practical applications, with each chapter emphasizing both theory and practical application. Each chapter commences with a lucid explanation of the subject matter, which is then succeeded by an investigation into its real‑world applications and implications. Supplementary material is also provided, such as real wind data files, PV data files and Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB®) and Excel codes. This includes a sample real data set from grid‑scale autonomous microgrid test platforms and household, distribution and transmission‑level power system data. The book also incorporates a section consisting of problems, quizzes and solutions. This element prompts the reader to put the theoretical knowledge to use in addressing real‑world challenges, thereby cultivating a more in‑depth grasp of the topic. Through this in‑depth approach, readers will be able to apply their comprehensive knowledge and practical understanding to decision‑making regarding future challenges in the energy industry.This book is an invaluable guide for professionals working in the field, particularly those who aim to stay updated on the latest technologies and trends. Undergraduate and postgraduate students will also benefit from the book’s comprehensive approach and inclusion of real‑world data and problems to solve, which will build their expertise and give them a solid foundation for their future careers.
Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age
by Eric Schaeffer David SovieReinventing the Product looks at how the disruptive waves of digital technologies will affect product companies. Eric Schaeffer and David Sovie assess how digital technologies such as the Internet of Things, data analytics, blockchain, cloud computing and particularly AI are transforming traditional products into smart connected products. The book will demystify concepts such as the digital twin, digital product lifecycle management, platform engineering and digital continuity of enterprises.Reinventing the Product makes a stringent case for companies to rethink their product strategy, their product road map and their digital capabilities. Complemented by compelling case studies from around the globe - such as Haier, Faurecia, Symmons and many more - and by interviews with thought leaders and business executives, it provides practical "how-to" advice for business organizations as they develop digital products.
Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru
by Carol WiseThe political economic history of Latin America in the post-World War II era has largely been one of underachievement and opportunities lost. This all changed with the wave of market reforms that were implemented in the 1990s. However, the precise role of these reforms as an agent of change is still hotly debated. This in-depth analysis of the Peruvian case argues for an explanation that treats institutional innovation and state reconstruction as necessary conditions for the apparent success of the market in Latin America. Exploring how state intervention has been both the cause of Latin America's economic downfall in the 1980s and the solution to its recovery, Reinventing the State analyzes three main phases of state intervention: the developmentalism that lasted until 1982, the state in retreat of the 1980s, and the streamlined state of the 1990s. Through a comprehensive examination of the Peruvian experience, the book explains the country's impressive turnaround from the standpoint of institutional modernization and internal state reform. Written for a broad academic audience, the public-policy community, and the private sector, this book is also meant as a quick primer for any journalist, consultant, or private-sector analyst in need of an overview of the region's market-reform effort and how it has played out in Peru.
Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers
by Chris ZaneWhen Chris Zane bought his bicycle shop at age 16, his business struggled until he discovered the secret that catapulted his store into one of the largest in the country. His secret? Provide unbelievable, over the top, excessively generous customer service.Chris Zane isn't a management consultant or professor preaching a theory of customer service; he's a hands-on entrepreneur whose customer service approach has yielded enormous success. Zane has become a business celebrity, including being featured in the most recent round of American Express television ads.Featured in the New York Times and in Associated Press articles and bestowed numerous awards for its unique business practices and outstanding customer relations, Zane's Cycles has produced ideas thought by many to be pie-in-the-sky. But these counterintuitive concepts have proven to be hard-headed and effective. For example, Zane's offers a trade-in program for families who can turn in bicycles their kids have outgrown for a 100 percent credit toward new ones. Initially thought impossibly generous, this program has proven to be good business. Experience and a clear understanding of the lifetime value of a customer makes this program, and many others Zane's implements, work.In Reinventing the Wheel, commonly overlooked elements that make a business exceptional are revealed. Zane produces a case study unlike any other-one that shows the importance of investing in customers and employees and how businesses are really selling experiences, not products. His philosophies and tried-and-true methods of guerilla marketing will show entrepreneurs and business owners how to knock out the competition while thriving in any kind of economy and doing good for the community along the way.
Reinventing the Workplace
by John WorthingtonIncorporating a diversity of practices, cultural and organization change, and new building forms, this book provides ideas, inspiration and analysis of the multitude of ways in which an office space can be designed and utilized. Updated to cope with technological advances, as well as including a new series of case studies on recent Australian, North American and Scandinavian experiences, the contributors draw on a wealth and variety of professional experience to present the best and most innovative solutions for today's office - and tomorrow's workplace.
Reinvention Made Easy: Change Your Strategy, Change Your Results
by Jim MathisSelf reinvention is easy! Everybody can reinvent themselves in a challenging economy by incorporating the simple indisputable truths in Reinvention Made Easy. But even the most creative leaders will find this a personally challenging and value changing read. "The economy doesn't go up or down; it becomes different!" The realities of your business have changed forever. Leaders manage the way they react to change. The next year is probably the end of the way we will do business. Your business purpose is not determined by you, but by the needs or wants that are satisfied when the customer buys a product or service. Effective market leaders see themselves from the customer's viewpoint. To reinvent yourself, you must answer these questions raised in Reinvention Made Easy: When will the recession end?, Why don't people buy what I sell?, Why does my team hate me?, Why doesn't my team work always work?, How am I punishing my customers?, What is costing me more money than making me? The answers are so un-comfortable, you will be forced to think your way to very last page.
Reinvention Roadmap: Break the Rules to Get the Job You Want and Career You Deserve
by Liz RyanBreak the rules and take charge of your career! The traditional job-search approaches just don't work anymore, and the days of trusting your career to your employer are long over. The new-millennium workplace requires all of us to rewrite the rules and start treating our careers like we're running a business—which means understanding the markets for our talents, knowing our value, and looking out over the horizon to plot our paths going forward. Liz Ryan is a former Fortune 500 HR SVP and the world's most widely read workplace thought leader. She understands the recruiting system as only an insider can, and she shows you how to stay focused on your goals and distinguish yourself from masses of job seekers. In Reinvention Roadmap, you'll discover new tools, such as a "Pain Letter" and your "Human-Voiced Resume" to land not just any job, but a job that celebrates your unique talents and takes you to the level where you want to be. Whether you're entering the workplace or looking to switch careers, you can get the perfect job if you step off the beaten path and follow the approaches insiders use to gain access to the best positions. Reinvention Roadmap is the colorful, fun, irreverent, and deeply practical guide to getting the job you want and building the career of your dreams.
Reinvention: Changing Your Life, Your Career, Your Future
by Arlene DickinsonDo you want or need to change your life, but aren’t sure where to start—or whether you have what it takes?At fifty-seven, Arlene Dickinson’s life was turned upside down. Her company was on the brink of disaster. Her sense of herself as a strong, confident leader was in tatters. She was overwhelmed by feelings of loss, fear, and shame. Five years later, her business is booming, she’s never been happier or more excited about the future, and she’s raised tens of millions of dollars and built a whole ecosystem to help other entrepreneurs.How did she turn things around? By following the process she’s always used to transform underperforming companies—only this time, she used it to transform her own life. Applying business principles to her personal life helped her figure out very quickly where she wanted to go and how to get there. Having a clear set of practical steps to follow kept her on track when emotions threatened to derail her progress. In Reinvention, Dickinson shares this blueprint for locating your sense of purpose, realistically evaluating your strengths, assessing opportunities outside your comfort zone, and charting a bold new path. Whether you have a big career dream to achieve, or you need to rebuild after a personal setback, this step-by-step plan for reinvention will help you change your own life—for the better.
Reinvention: How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life
by Brian TracyIf you knew you couldn&’t fail, what is the greatest thing you would dare to dream? Is the job you now have the one you&’ve always wanted? As personal success expert Brian Tracy can attest, it&’s not until you deal with the dissatisfactions of the present that you can move onward and upward to create the wonderful future that is possible for you.This transformative book reveals how everyone can remake themselves and put an end to the chronic stress, unhappiness, and dissatisfaction in career and life.In Reinvention, Tracy helps readers reach this ultimate goal through a series of interactive exercises that show them how to:take control of their careers;turn unexpected shakeups and turbulence into positive occasions for growth;dramatically improve their earning ability;develop the self-confidence to take the kind of risks that lead to rapid advancement;decide on and get the job they really want;set clear goals for their lives;write resumes that get results;determine their own salary range; and more.We live in a time of rapid change but also of unprecedented opportunity. Reinvention supplies readers with a proven system to turn their greatest dreams into reality.
Reinventores: Descubra creatividad y nuevos modelos de negocio con los mejores cocineros
by Marta Fernández GuadañoLo que todos podemos aprender del éxito de los grandes cocineros españoles. La transformación de la cocina española en las últimas décadas ha supuesto un fenómeno de dimensiones mundiales y ha dado a conocer a una serie de cocineros que se han convertido en referente social y empresarial. Reinventores explica las claves de este fenómeno, y ofrece una serie de lecciones que todos podemos aplicar en nuestro trabajo, por muy alejado que este se encuentre de la gastronomía. Partiendo de los casos de los cocineros más conocidos y de otros que no lo son tanto, comprenderemos gracias a este libro la importancia de la creatividad, la relación con el cliente y la exploración constante de nuevos modelos de negocio, a veces visionarios, y aprenderemos a aplicar estas lecciones en nuestra propia empresa. Marta Fernández Guadaño nos adentra en el mundo de los fogones de una forma amena, directa y de primera mano para explicarnos qué se esconde en realidad detrás del éxito de la cocina española, y que ha convertido a este sector en puntero y en un referente en todo el mundo. Reseña:«Un estudio profundo, preciso y directo de las claves empresariales de los restaurantes que han conducido la revolución gastronómica española.»Joan, Josep y Jordi Roca, propietarios de El Celler de Can Roca (Girona) «Es la obra imprescindible para entender las claves del éxito profesional y empresarial de la mejor cocina española de todos los tiempos.»Andoni Luis Aduriz, cocinero y propietario de Mugaritz (Rentería, Guipúzcoa) «Reinventores es una referencia única, el primer libro de management con la gastronomía y sus diferentes modelos de negocio como hilo conductor.»Diego Guerrero, cocinero y director gastronómico de El Club Allard (Madrid) «No es fácil condensar en un solo libro tantas enseñanzas prácticas. Una herramienta básica para reflexionar en el camino del éxito.»José Carlos Capel, crítico gastronómico y creador de Madrid Fusión «Estamos condenados a innovar para crecer. La cocina se volverá a reinventar con internet y con los modelos disruptivos como los que cuenta Marta.»Pablo Rodríguez, director de Investigación de Telefónica I+D y del Proyecto de Telefónica I+D con el Bullifoundation
Reinvigorating Growth in Developing Countries
by Sharmini Coorey Mauro Mecagni Jianping Zhou Kalpana Kochhar Louis Dicks-Mireaux Balazs Horvath David Goldsbrough Erik OfferdalThis study examines the links between adjustment policies and growth in a small group of developing countries- Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, India, Mexico, Morocco, Senegal, and Thailand - during 1970 -93. It provides an overview of the adjustment and growth experience, examines in depth several policy issues of particular interest, and distills the principal policy lessons for the design of adjustment policies.
Reinvigorating the United Nations (Routledge New Diplomacy Studies)
by Sławomir Redo Markus KornprobstThis book examines pathways for how to reinvigorate the United Nations, in light of recent crises.The United Nations requires reinvigoration. The organisation’s supply of global governance falls short of global demand in areas ranging from health to environment, while intra-state armed conflicts are on the rise again, and fullblown inter-state war has returned to the agenda. At the same time, decision-making mechanisms are deadlocked, and their legitimacy is increasingly questioned. But what pathways are there for reinvigorating the United Nations? This book argues for consolidating key principles pertaining to inter-state relations and human rights, for elaborating on the UN system in order to avoid fragmentation and make it possible for it to keep pace with a changing world, and for revisiting UN decision-making structures so that it can become more inclusive and rebuild trust among stakeholders. The volume embraces a comprehensive approach to studying the organisation, and the authors analyse the institutions comprising the UN system, as well as the social context within which actors put these institutions to use. The book contributes to scholarly debates about the United Nations and about how it is embedded in a broader international order currently beset by crises and, ultimately, aims to show what concrete steps for strengthening the organisation might look like.This book will be of much interest to students of international organisations, diplomacy studies, global governance, and International Relations in general.The Introduction, Chapter 5, Chapter 10 and the Conclusion of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International License. Chapter 7 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International License.