Making strategy work : leading effective execution and change

Offers a comprehensive process model for making strategy work in the real world. This book shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives realize, and describes why businesses fail to deliver on even their most promising strategies.

Learning to think strategically

Presents an account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is a primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. It traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning.

Jihad and international security

"The book explores the global jihad movement and its emergence in the latter half of the twentieth century. The book investigates the nature and extent of this threat; traces its religious and ideological roots; relevant history; the goals of the movement; who is fighting jihad; how they end up in the movement; how it is being funded and sponsored; and what nations, particularly the United Stat…

21st century political science: a reference handbook

the SAGE 21st Century Reference Series volumes on political science highlight the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates any student obtaining a degree in this field ought to have mastered for effectiveness in the 21st century. 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook serves as an authoritative reference source that meets students' research needs with more detailed in…

Performance dashboards: measuring, monitoring, and managing your business

Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performanceIn Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence profess…

The action research dissertation: a guide for students and faculty

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ISBN/ISSN

0761929908

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xvii, 155 p. ; 24 cm.

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[KOM-LIB-108]

Participatory action research

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ISBN/ISSN

9781412953665

Collation

xviii, 79 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series Title

Qualitative research methods ; v. 52

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[KOM-LIB-107]

Social media marketing all-in-one for dummies

Everything your business needs for a successful social media campaign Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are today's hottest marketing tools. This all-in-one guide by an expert on social media strategy helps you take full advantage of them in creative new ways. Lena West is a consultant who helps her clients develop a social media strategy uniquely designed for their businesses. She offers her t…

Textual poachers: television fans & participatory culture

"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them to serve alternative interests. Rejecting stereotypes of fans as cultural dupes, social misfits, and mindless consumers, Jenkins represents media fans as active producers and skilled manip…

Digital futures for cultural and media studies

An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate social media, participatory action, and user-creativity Leads the way for new interdis…