This book provides important guidelines for the digital transformation process and shows how established companies in particular can use digitization for their strategic further development. It highlights developments in IT and data management supported by AI and analyzes how marketing sales HR the corporate organization and controlling must be transformed in the digital age in order to take advantage of these new opportunities as early and comprehensively as possible. The tools offered in this book will support companies in actively shaping the change.

The Smart Classroom Management Way is a collection of the very best writing from ten years of Smart Classroom Management (SCM). It isn t however simply a random mix of popular articles. It s a comprehensive work that encompasses every principle theme and methodology of the SCM approach. The book is laid out across six major areas of classroom management and includes the most pressing issues problems and concerns shared by all teachers. The underlying SCM themes of accountability maturity independence personal responsibility and intrinsic motivation are all there and weave their way throughout the entirety of the book. Together they form a simple unique and sometimes contrarian approach to classroom management that anyone can do. Whether you re an elementary middle or high school teacher The Smart Classroom Management Way will give you the strategies skills and know-how to turn any group of students into the motivated well-behaved class you love teaching.

A Financial Times Book of the Year 2020! What is a responsible business? Common wisdom is that it s one that sacrifices profit for social outcomes. But while it s crucial for companies to serve society they also have a duty to generate profit for investors - savers retirees and pension funds. Based on the highest-quality evidence and real-life examples spanning industries and countries Alex Edmans shows that it s not an either-or choice - companies can create both profit and social value. The most successful companies don t target profit directly but are driven by purpose - the desire to serve a societal need and contribute to human betterment. The book explains how to embed purpose into practice so that it s more than just a mission statement and discusses the critical role of working collaboratively with a company s investors employees and customers. Rigorous research also uncovers surprising results on how executive pay shareholder activism and share buybacks can be used for the common good.

This series summarizes current thinking in the field of comparative management. The series is intended to make an academic contribution through focused essays presenting material in a fashion suitable for both scholars and advanced students.

This book forms the proceedings of the 18th European conference on irrigation and drainage. Water is not a free commodity and demand is becoming more and more intense for its allocation. This book focuses on the role of irrigation and drainage in the debate on water and will be used by planners designers and policy makers internationally.