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  ClustERPuck - 21 Critical ERP...

  Shane Williams

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  Want to keep your ERP on track? 
  In ClustERPuck, Shane Williams breaks down the common pitfalls that can derail even the most well-intentioned enterprise resource planning (ERP) projects. This insightful guide reveals the often chaotic and problematic nature of mismanaged ERP implementations, offering practical advice and strategies to avoid turning your ERP project into a costly disaster. Written for small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) manufacturers, this book provides clear, actionable steps to ensure successful ERP adoption, helping business leaders navigate the turbulent waters of digital transformation with confidence and clarity.

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  Reinvent - Navigating Business...

  Faisal Hoque

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  #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERThe 21st Annual American Business Awards®2023 Best Business Book of The Year | Silver Stevie WinnerThe Journey to Organizational TransformationGiven the rate of change that we have experienced and will continue to see in the world, it’s a challenge trying to stay on top of everything. Organizations must consider revising and possibly scrapping decades-old habits, processes, and their very ways of thinking and operating. In so doing, organizations can literally reinvent themselves. Transformation requires much more than simply obtaining the latest technology, plugging it in, and sitting back to watch reinvention take place. From top to bottom, organizations will be compelled to change entire mindsets, attitudes, and assumptions about how they operate, how they can grow, and even the very reason for their existence.This book introduces readers to ideas, concepts, and a comprehensive framework (LIFTS) that they can use to better position themselves and their organizations to reap the greatest number of benefits that business and digital transformation can afford. It’s a journey rich with promise that explains complex concepts in an understandable common language.The book is divided into three distinct sections. The First section, “Why? The Case for Business Transformation in a Hyper-Digital Era,” makes the argument for organizational reinvention—from the changing nature of consumers to shifting workforce priorities to the necessity for greater organizational security.The second section, “Transformation via Digitalization—Necessary Steps,” examines actions necessary to prepare for transformation, including overcoming significant obstacles, recognizing the essential value of leadership, and forecasting what your organization is likely to become in the future.The final section, “What to Do: Navigating with LIFTS,” offers a comprehensive discussion of a five-step process geared to guiding your company through its transformation. Using the acronym LIFTS — learn, investigate, formulate, take off, and study—you’ll learn what goes into a successful transformative effort, including elements that, if overlooked, can sink otherwise solid planning.REINVENT is the result of the author’s personal and professional journey — one that is made possible by three decades of work with colleagues, customers, partners, academics, and industry experts from around the globe.***“With exponentially advancing technologies and COVID-type viruses, companies are going to have to adapt or perish. Faisal Hoque’s book REINVENT brilliantly illustrates how businesses can change their mindsets, attitudes, and assumptions about how they operate and thrive in the midst of change; it is an approachable guide to the art of business reinvention. Faisal explains complex concepts in a way that most people will be able to understand.”—VIVEK WADHWA, award-winning academic; entrepreneur; former Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, Carnegie Mellon School of Engineering, and Emory University and author of five best-selling books, including From Incremental to Exponential“In my world, you either ‘learn to ski or get swept away by the avalanche.’ The avalanche in business is change—massive and coming faster and faster. As Faisal Hoque points out in REINVENT, the answer is more than adopting new digital tools—it requires changing the entire mindset of the organization to use those tools and learn how to deal with the ever-changing world.”—HAP KLOPP, author and founder of The North Face“A digital transformation ideally changes everything about how a company works. But it often fails to achieve this end, wasting considerable sums in the process. Faisal Hoque’s invaluable book REINVENT shows how such holistic change is especially necessary since the pandemic completely upend

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  Advanced Scrum Case Studies Vol...

  Frederik Mark Fowler

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  You are a Scrum Master and you have a challenge: 
  You have been hired to "fix" a poorly performing software development team.  When you join the group you find that it is dominated by a very capable by a strong willed woman that the team calls "Bossy Bobbie".  She makes every decision and assigns tasks to all of the other developers.  She follows them up and takes over their tasks if they fall behind.  No one is happy about the situation, but no one seems willing to do anything about it.   
  Now the problem has fallen into your lap.  What do you do about it? 
  This case and the others in the series come from the real-world experiences of a group of Scrum professionals who meet regularly to discuss the Scrum Framework and how to apply it to actual situations they have encountered.  These discussions have been led since 2015 by Frederik Mark Fowler, A Doctor of Scrum and Holder of the Professional Scrum Master level III certification awarded by Scrum.org.  Fred has worked with the Scrum Framework for almost 20 years and has trained more then 300 people to become Scrum Masters and Product Owners.  For more information, visit www.Patreon.com/SiliconValleyScrum.

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  The Bogleheads' Guide to the...

  Taylor Larimore, John C. Bogle

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  Twenty benefits from the three-fund total market index portfolio. 
   
    
   
  The Bogleheads' Guide to The Three-Fund Portfolio describes the most popular portfolio on the Bogleheads forum. This all-indexed portfolio contains over 15,000 worldwide securities, in just three easily-managed funds, that has outperformed the vast majority of both professional and amateur investors. 
   
   
   
  If you are a new investor, or an experienced investor who wants to simplify and improve your portfolio, The Bogleheads' Guide to The Three-Fund Portfolio is a short, easy-to-listen-to guide to show you how.

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  Innovation is a State of Mind -...

  James O'Loghlin

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  Everyone says that innovation is important. The problem is that no one tells you how to be innovative. Innovation is a State of Mind sets out a step-by-step guide to creating innovative ideas and putting them into action. You'll learn how to generate more ideas with greater potential, how to grow and evaluate them, test their effectiveness, and then implement the ones that are going to improve your business. 
   
   
   
  Author James O'Loghlin has worked with over a thousand of Australia's best inventors and innovators in the eight years he hosted ABC-TV's The New Inventors. He studied what they do differently and how they are able to identify and take advantage of opportunities that the rest of us miss. Packed with engaging stories and a good dose of humor, this insightful guide helps you to make innovation a part of what you do every day. 
   
   
   
  ● Change your thinking and identify overlooked opportunities 
   
   
   
  ● Step around common roadblocks to innovation 
   
   
   
  ● Generate better ideas, and find the ones that will improve your business 
   
   
   
  ● Create a culture where innovation is part of everyone's job 
   
   
   
  ● Harvest innovative ideas from the entire staff and find the ones that will make a difference

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  Essential Austrian Economics The...

  Christopher J. Coyne, Peter J....

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  The origin of the Austrian School of economics is the publication of Carl Menger’s Principles of Economics in 1871. Menger, William Stanley Jevons, and Léon Walras are considered the co-founders of the “marginal revolution” in economics, a shift to the marginal utility theory of value from the labour theory of value. The revolutionists argued that value is not based on the amount of labour expended but reflects how useful people perceive the commodity to be in satisfying their ends. 
  This revolution had radical implications for the way economists understood the world: consumer valuations, and not the amount of effort, is what determines prices. But what determines consumer valuations? This question had long perplexed social scientists. Why do consumers value diamonds, a luxury item, more than water, an essential for life? By introducing the concept of marginal utility, Menger and his co-revolutionaries were able to resolve this paradox. 
  The labour theory of value, however, was not Menger’s only target in his Principles. He was also engaging the German Historical School, which held that economic science is incapable of producing universal principles. In contrast, Menger, using marginal utility analysis as a foundation, argued that universal economic laws do apply across time and geographic space. Those in the German Historical School took issue with the claims by Menger and his colleagues about the possibility of universal theory and labeled them the “Austrian School” because they taught at the University of Vienna. 
  Subsequent generations of scholars have developed the insights of the Austrian School. The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the key tenets of Austrian economics by synthesizing the insights from these thinkers in a set of eight topics that capture the core elements of Austrian economics.

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