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The first 100 days are crucial for analysing your organisation and building a robust growth strategy. This is your essential guide, offering the tools and insights necessary to succeed.

Ready to turn your contracting skills into a thriving business?The Contractor’s Handbook is your ultimate guide to launching, running, and scaling a profitable contracting company. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to elevate your existing business, this book covers everything you need to know to succeed in the competitive world of contracting. Inside, you’ll discover:Proven Business Strategies: Learn how to establish a solid foundation, from business planning to securing your first clients.Essential Financial Management: Master budgeting, pricing, and financial forecasting to ensure your business remains profitable and sustainable.Winning Sales Techniques: Develop effective marketing strategies to attract clients, close deals, and build a strong reputation in your market.Operational Excellence:Streamline your processes, manage projects efficiently, work effectively with vendors, and deliver high-quality work that keeps clients coming back.Leadership and Team Building: Learn how to hire, train, and lead a skilled team that will help your business grow.Packed with real-world examples, expert advice, and actionable tips, The Contractor’s Handbook is your comprehensive roadmap to building a successful and sustainable contracting business. Whether you're aiming to stay small or expand into a multi-million-dollar enterprise, this book will give you the tools and confidence to achieve your goals.Start your journey to contracting success today!

Artificial intelligence and Generative AI threaten to change everything about how we work, but how can you be prepared for these changes? This is the book for you. From a leading expert on artificial intelligence and generative AI, this practical, engaging, and pragmatic step-by-step approach to understanding AI, and how to use it effectively in your work. Understand how to make the best use of fast-changing technologies like generative AI and artificial intelligence. A practical step-by-step guide to harnessing the power of AI in your work and avoiding the pitfalls.  Each chapter has a framework, links to effective tools to try, and revealing case studies.  Covering the foundations of AI, you'll quickly get up to speed on what it is and how it works, before deep dives into how to use it at work in areas such as strategy, marketing, communication, and product development. You'll discover how to increase profits, save time, and improve customer experience, amongst other benefits.  AI is coming get up to speed.

This book provides unique value by developing an institutional analytical framework for energy cluster policies, identifying the conditions for the development of energy clusters, and proposing actionable policy recommendations in this area.

Most often managers come up through the ranks of employees and are chosen because of their success, drive, abilities, education, other accomplishments, and personal factors. However, collectively their accomplishments as employees do not necessarily prepare them for managing and leading.

This book provides a comprehensive study of Japan's evolving relationship with China since 1949, tracing the shifting dynamics from a distant relationship during the early communist era to a more cooperative phase in the late 20th century, and finally to the growing tensions of the 21st century.

This book explores how trust can be built, maintained, and evaluated in a world increasingly reliant on AI technologies. Designed to be accessible to a broad audience, the book blends theoretical insights with practical approaches, offering readers a comprehensive understanding of the topic.

Unlike most of the existent human factors resources on the market today, which all require some fluency in the concepts and a certain level of pre-understanding, This book presents the material in a simple, easy-to-read language that does not require academic background or prior experience to ensure you can deliver lasting results.

Unlike most of the existent human factors resources on the market today, which all require some fluency in the concepts and a certain level of pre-understanding, This book presents the material in a simple, easy-to-read language that does not require academic background or prior experience to ensure you can deliver lasting results.

This book explores the emergence and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in developing economies in response to the shift in AI research towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals, as well as the environmental problems and methods to solve them. A useful resource for scholars, policy makers and SME stakeholders.

Presenting a rich collection of insights into investment by foreign corporations into different types of cities around the world, Foreign Direct Investment and Cities uses original and revelatory case studies to help readers to turn theory into practice.

Presenting a rich collection of insights into investment by foreign corporations into different types of cities around the world, Foreign Direct Investment and Cities uses original and revelatory case studies to help readers to turn theory into practice.

This book investigates the symbiotic links between ergonomics and DEI and how workplaces and work practices can be improved through a better understanding of both. It reveals how to utilize DEI strategies to improve ergonomics and human factors efforts and how professionals, in turn, can apply their expertise to improve DEI strategies.

From uninsured losses to workplace injuries, from absenteeism to addiction, alcohol consumption can have a major impact on the workplace. Alcohol at Work will guide health and safety professionals through the practical steps that they can take to mitigate risk and improve wellbeing, safeguarding and inclusivity.

This book comprehensively analyses non-financial reporting, specifically sustainability reporting, in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. It identifies key trends and common practices among regional companies.

Revised edition of the author's Global entrepreneurship, 2014.

International Marketing in Practice features select case studies relating to businesses from various markets and countries facing the challenges and decisions involved when undertaking international marketing.

International Marketing in Practice features select case studies relating to businesses from various markets and countries facing the challenges and decisions involved when undertaking international marketing.