Management Pragmatics reflects over 40 years of experience and findings from leadership, management, sales, engineering and service in Dutch, Italian, American and Japanese companies delivering automation solutions to many and major international customers.

The past ten years are characterized by a strong growth in entrepreneurship and the accelerated creation of new businesses offering innovative products and services.

The focus of this book is on startups and scaleups intending to scale their business through collaboration with corporates, primarily in the capacity of client or venture partner. No startup or scaleup can go-it-alone entirely and is required to collaborate with other partners to ensure growth.

It is crucial for startups and sca...

Besides the Blockchain Foundation Courseware - English publication you are advised to obtain the Introduction to Blockchain Technology by Tiana Laurence.

Blockchain and other emerging technological breakthroughs will most likely be part of the fourth industrial revolution. These disruptive concepts will form the cornerstone of how business will be conducted in the future. Are you ready for the challenge?

Blockchain technology is not just about bitcoin, or digital currencies and is not a topic...

Water is a combination of hydrogen and oxygen, the magic is in the combination water. Likewise combining different creative talents is an exciting challenge. Voyage to Laputa reviews the traps, opportunities and magic in steering the creative process, leadership and different intelligences in practice.

The journey explores different models of organization, design and scenarios with AI. It is about our relationship to the new, our sense of wonder. And, about transparancy for the ethical conseq...

The Art of Business Modelling helpt je bij de ontwikkeling van je startende bedrijf. In fase 1 gebruik je de Lean Canvas, om jouw markt te ontdekken. In de tweede fase stap je van de Lean Canvas over naar de BMG Canvas, waarmee je het businessmodel van je onderneming opzet en leert hoe je het kunt verbeteren. Vervolgens gebruik je in de derde fase de Scale-up Canvas, om te onderzoeken hoe je je bedrijf kunt opschalen, welke bottlenecks je tegen kunt komen en hoe je die oplost. In de laatste f...

Summary This book is about achieving behavioral change in organizations. It provides a specific, practically applicable answer to the ‘how’ question of behavioral change, based on scientifically validated principles. This distinguishes this book from many other management books.

Organizational Behavior Management, or OBM for short, is the field that deals with behavioral change in organizations. Some prefer to speak of ‘targeted behavioral influence’.

OBM is not about changing people...

The guide all MBAs and exec ed students need. If you're enrolled in an MBA or executive education program, you've probably encountered a powerful learning tool: the business case. But if you're like many people, you may find interpreting and writing about cases mystifying and time-consuming.

In The Case Study Handbook, Revised Edition, William Ellet presents a potent new approach for efficiently analyzing, discussing, and writing about cases. Early chapters show how to classify cases accordin...

Wicked World advocates the need to acknowledge the complex contexts in which managers, professionals and policymakers operate. Conventional tools do not serve us well in these new contexts, and regularly, aggravate the situation. This book offers a systemic perspective in exploring complex challenges and a sensemaking framework to deal with interconnected, persistent problems. Looking beyond the problem; seeking deeper patterns and linkages to other problems; realizing that cause and effect m...

Which roles and practices do you adopt to effectively guide businesses towards a sustainable future? And what skills and competencies do you need to establish sustainable transformation? In '7 Roles to Create Sustainable Success', Carola Wijdoogen shares the insights of 25 professionals around the world and her own experiences as Chief Sustainability Officer of Dutch Railways (NS), which she helped transform into a climate-neutral, circular and inclusive railway company. For example, the Neth...