Gigatrends

Gigatrends
Author: Thomas Koulopoulos
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2024-02-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1637589816

Gigatrends offers a roadmap for navigating six of the most disruptive trends shaping the future. Humanity stands at the precipice of a remarkable new era in global history filled with both immense opportunities and daunting challenges. Gigatrends examines how six disruptive trends can be harnessed to create new social, economic, and organizational solutions that will usher in the promise of a human-centered future for billions of people. But moving forward won’t be easy. Gigatrends will disrupt nearly every existing socioeconomic system built over the past three hundred years. Navigating these seismic shifts will require a new set of skills, frameworks, and tools to help us move forward. Gigatrends will provide you with the insights to: • Understand how each of the six Gigatrends will shape your future • Predict how digital workers and AI will reshape the workforce • Create new social, economic, and organizational global ecosystems • Navigate the seismic shifts of a rapidly changing and uncertain world • Achieve a human-centered future that works for all of humanity • Recognize how digital identity will create a new era of prosperity The world is at an inflection point. It's time to understand and embrace the revolutionary power of Gigatrends to shape a future that’s filled with hope and opportunity for all of humanity.

REviewing REthinking REturning

REviewing REthinking REturning
Author: Alan Wittbecker
Publisher: 3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0911385134

This book reviews and recasts many popular ideas, using an ecological perspective, ecological design principles and ecological thought experiments.

Managing Sustainable Business

Managing Sustainable Business
Author: Gilbert G. Lenssen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 705
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9402411445

This book offers 32 texts and case studies from across a wide range of business sectors around a managerial framework for Sustainable Business. The case studies are developed for and tested in executive education programmes at leading business schools. The book is based on the premise that the key for managing the sustainable business is finding the right balance over time between managing competitiveness and profitability AND managing the context of the business with its political, social and ecological risks and opportunities. In that way, a sustainable business is highly responsive to the demands and challenges from both markets and societies and managers embrace the complexity, ambivalence and uncertainty that goes along with this approach. The book presents a framework that facilitates the adoption of best business practice. This framework leads executives through a systematic approach of strategic analysis and business planning in risk management, issues management, stakeholder management, sustainable business development and strategic differentiation, business model innovation and developing dynamic capabilities. The approach helps broaden the understanding of what sustainable performance means, by protecting business value against sustainability risks and creating business value from sustainability opportunities.

Good Forestry

Good Forestry
Author: Alan Wittbecker
Publisher: 3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2006
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0911385215

These essays describe the art, science, philosophy, and practice of ecological forestry, using examples drawn from the projects of the Ecoforestry Institute.

Decentralized Frameworks for Future Power Systems

Decentralized Frameworks for Future Power Systems
Author: Mohsen Parsa Moghaddam
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 502
Release: 2022-05-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0323985629

Decentralized Frameworks for Future Power Systems: Operation, Planning and Control Perspectives is the first book to consider the principles and applications of decentralized decision-making in future power networks. The work opens by defining the emerging power system network as a system-of-systems (SoS), exploring the guiding principles behind optimal solutions for operation and planning problems. Chapters emphasize the role of regulations, prosumption behaviors, and the implementation of transactive energy processes as key components in decentralizing power systems. Contributors explore local markets, distribution system operation and proactive load management. The role of cryptocurrencies in smoothing transactive distributional challenges are presented. Final sections cover energy system planning, particularly in terms of consumer smart meter technologies and distributed optimization methods, including artificial intelligence, meta-heuristic, heuristic, mathematical and hybrid approaches. The work closes by considering decentralization across the cybersecurity, distributed control, market design and power quality optimization vertices. - Develops a novel framework for transactive energy management to enhance flexibility in future power systems - Explores interactions between multiple entities in local power markets based on a distributed optimization approach - Focuses on practical optimization, planning and control of smart grid systems towards decentralized decision-making

Trendspotting-The Basics

Trendspotting-The Basics
Author: Alf Rehn
Publisher: Booktango
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2013-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1468927310

If you're tired of paying so-called experts to tell you about how to capitalize on trends, then why not figure out how to do it on your own? When you learn the basics of trendspotting, you've taken a key step towards understanding how these can affect your business, your life, and our world. Rather than presenting an exhausting catalogue of individual trends or methods of trend analysis, this guidebook quickly gives you the tools you need to get out there and start spotting, including basic terminology, fundamental principles and tools, and methodology. You will learn how to • identify micro-, macro-, mega-, and gigatrends; • avoid the pitfalls that can make you over-interpret what you see; • determine how trends can and will interact with each other; and • apply the methodologies that will work best for you. Trendspotting can be fun as well as profitable. Coming in contact with different cultures and ideas gives you the opportunity to celebrate the weirdness and beauty of the world; it offers you the chance to challenge your own worldview and preconceived notions. You too can go out into the wild world of trends, learning a variety of ways to live and work and love, and Trendspotting—The Basics can help you on the way.

Aviation Systems

Aviation Systems
Author: Andreas Wittmer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2021-10-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3030795497

This book provides an overview of the aviation sector by focusing on all major aspects embedded in the environment (subsystems) and the market of aviation. The book explains the linkages between subsystems politics, society, technology, economy, environment, and regulation, and how these subsystems influence each other and the market. The book starts by describing the aviation system, then focuses on the supply side and the demand side of the system and in a final part focuses on steering and controlling the system of aviation from a managerial, economic, and regulatory perspective. Examples and case studies of airports, airlines, and the production industry in each chapter support the application-oriented approach. The summary and review questions help the reader to understand the focus and main messages of each chapter. Students and researchers in business administration with a focus on aviation, as well as professionals in the industry looking to refresh or broaden their knowledge in the field will benefit from this book.

Eutopias Or Outopias

Eutopias Or Outopias
Author: Alan Wittbecker
Publisher: 3 Muses Books, SynGeo ArchiGraph
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 091138524X

Choosing to design and make good places with philosophical ideas and cultural images.

Global Dynamics in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality

Global Dynamics in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality
Author: Pappas, Nikolaos
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2016-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522502025

Worldwide, tourism is the third largest economic activity in direct earnings after petroleum and automobile industries, and by far the largest one if indirect earnings are also taken into consideration. Taking into account the profound economic impact the tourism and hospitality industries can have on regions and cities around the world, further research in this area is critical. Global Dynamics in Travel, Tourism, and Hospitality takes a holistic approach to tourism and hospitality operations, education, and research. Highlighting the latest research in the field, real-world examples of how these industries are shaping economic development as well as future outlooks and opportunities for growth, this publication is an essential reference source for researchers, professionals, and graduate-level students.

The End of Corporate Social Responsibility

The End of Corporate Social Responsibility
Author: Peter Fleming
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2012-12-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1446290115

Providing a much-needed critique of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practice and scholarship, this book seeks to redress CSR advocacy, from a political and critical perspective. A strident approach backed up by extensive use of case studies presents the argument that most CSR-related activity aims to gain legitimacy from consumers and employees, and therefore furthers the exploitative and colonizing agenda of the corporation. By examining CSR in the context of the political economy of late capitalism, the book puts the emphasis back on the fact that most large corporations are fundamentally driven by profit maximization, making CSR initiatives merely another means to this end. Rather than undermining or challenging unsustainable corporate practices CSR is exposed as an ideological practice that actually upholds the prominence of such practices. As CSR gathers momentum in management practice and scholarship, students in the fields of CSR, business ethics, and strategy, will find this text a useful companion to counter received wisdom in this area.