"Cycle to Accelerate" book bundle synopsis

Van Bommel and Van Engelen published four books in exactly four years in the Netherlands, on IT and management. Now these books are also available in English. In this new era of everyone being connected to everyone else, with ever greater ease of access to information, with new technology businesses overthrowing the old company hierarchies as if it were child's play, information technology turns out to be the driving force behind sustainable societal ...

Since the late nineties of the last century, the business started to use the term “Business Model” and authors began to analyze the phenomenon and created Business Model concepts. Anyhow, regardless of the fact that this buzzword emerges everywhere, still dissension exists concerning the definition. Multiple Business Model concepts exists, but are not actively used in daily business life and the bridge to controlling is never made.

In this book, I want to answer three questions: What is i...

It is August 26, 2015. A crucial day during the Conference of State Parties in Cancún, Mexico. 67 of the 69 member states of the Arms Trade Treaty vote for a location of the new Secretariat. Three candidate host states and their cities are bidding: Austria (Vienna), Switzerland (Geneva), and Trinidad and Tobago (Port of Spain). In the first round, Port of Spain wins with 32 votes, Geneva gets 21, and Vienna drops out with 14 votes. The second round, Geneva gets 35, scooping up all of Vienna�...

This 20th anniversary edition of The Ultimate EU Test Book covers the updated 2025 suite of tests used by EPSO for Administrator competitions. It is packed with practical advice on learning strategies to maximise your chances of success. There are hundreds of practice test questions explaining the shortcuts to finding correct answers quickly and the common errors that candidates make. And, for the first time, the Administrators edition now includes coverage of the interviews and other oral te...

This book is a foundation text explaining in detail how EU legislative decision-making works in the Commission/European Parliament term that runs to 2029. Successive chapters explain the role of each of the EU institutions in the legislative process, describing the internal mechanisms and each step in sequence.

The book then moves on to show how the interplay of the institutions, and the engagement of stakeholders, works in practical terms to shape legislation from start to finish, with deta...

The Ultimate EU Test Book Administrators 2024 edition has been updated to reflect the new format of European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competitions and includes hundreds of new test questions and exercises.

The 2024 Administrators edition covers the new competition process all the way through to the establishment of the Reserve List − the list of laureates eligible for recruitment to permanent posts by the EU institutions. It is packed with practical advice on how to maximise your ...

Het bouwen van een groeicultuur is geen hocuspocus; het is een werk van het duidelijk definiëren van de fundamenten en deze dan stukje bij beetje samenstellen. Om een cultuur te ontwikkelen, moeten we de doelstellingen expliciet maken, zowel op zakelijk als op persoonlijk niveau.

Engineering culture is bedoeld voor leiders in start-ups, scale-ups en meer rijpe organisaties die tot volle ontplooiing willen komen. Het boek biedt een houvast om stap voor stap een groeicultuur te ontwi...

This work presents the peer-reviewed and updated conference papers presented at the 12th Winelands Conference on Public Leadership for Added Citizen Value. In order to produce good results, public leadership must be ethical and effective. Context is important when seeking to understand the concept of public leadership as well as to provide guidelines for action. Such an understanding is imperative when the focus is on effective and ethical public leadership that adds value to the lives of cit...