With rapidly expanding attacks and evolving methods of attack, organizations are in a perpetual state of breach and must deal with this existential threat head-on. Cybersecurity Readiness is intended to help students and practitioners develop and enhance this capability, as individuals continue to be both the strongest and weakest links in a cyber defense system. In addition to providing the non-specialist with a jargon-free overview of cybersecurity threats, Dr. Chatterjee focuses most of the book on developing a practical and easy-to-comprehend management framework and success factors that will help leaders assess cybersecurity risks, address organizational weaknesses, and build a collaborative culture that is informed and responsive. Through brief case studies, literature review, and practical tools, he creates a manual for the student and professional alike to put into practice essential skills for any workplace.
Written in response to the pressures on universities to produce highly skilled and work-ready graduates and intended to map across a three-year business course, this book covers essential skills, from study, presentation and leadership to practical advice on securing that all-important job after university. A number of hands-on learning aids feature throughout, including: Skills self-assessment tables, 'For You to Do', Integration and Application, Interview questions. This second edition has been thoroughly updated, and is complemented by a companion website featuring a range of tools and resources for lecturers and students, including an Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slides, answers and guidance on skills assessment tasks, templates and examples to download as well as additional online chapters on topics such as testing, assessment and alternative options for graduates. Suitable for all students taking a business degree.
Written in response to the pressures on universities to produce highly skilled and work-ready graduates and intended to map across a three-year business course, this book covers essential skills, from study, presentation and leadership to practical advice on securing that all-important job after university. A number of hands-on learning aids feature throughout, including: Skills self-assessment tables, 'For You to Do', Integration and Application, Interview questions. This second edition has been thoroughly updated, and is complemented by a companion website featuring a range of tools and resources for lecturers and students, including an Instructor's Manual and PowerPoint slides, answers and guidance on skills assessment tasks, templates and examples to download as well as additional online chapters on topics such as testing, assessment and alternative options for graduates. Suitable for all students taking a business degree.
Sustaining Competitiveness in the Face of Disruption
To succeed in the face of disruptive competition, companies will need to harness the power of a wide range of partners who can bring different skills, experience, capacity, and their own networks to the task. With the advent of new technologies, rapidly changing customer needs, and emerging competitors, companies across more and more industries ......
Case Studies in Survival, Sustainability and Success
Brings together highly regarded specialists to stimulate new ideas for innovation, community action and social enterprise, and to offer advice for deploying new skills across a range of fields and contexts.
The social sector is undergoing a major transformation. We are witnessing an explosion in efforts to deliver social change, a burgeoning impact investing industry, and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth. Yet we live in a world of rapidly rising inequality, where social sector services are unable to keep up with societal need, ......
Covering the strengths of existing works on crisis management such as systems, leadership, communication and stakeholder perspective, this new innovative text includes global, ethical, change and emotional aspects of crisis communication. Using her proven Transformative Crisis Management Framework, Sarah Kovoor-Misra shows how organizations of all sizes can be adaptable, proactive, resilient and ethical in the face of a crisis. Real world cases analyse the cause and impact of these crises at organizations like Apple, Uber, SpaceX and Wells Fargo.
This fully updated manual offers a complete training programme for individuals and organisations committed to developing genuine leadership as a foundation for effective, humane workplaces.
With a special emphasis on contemporary issues as well as visionary and strategic leadership, this text uses an innovative framework to develop students' leadership abilities. Video cases capture real-world leaders, ranging from first-time managers to CEOs, who share their leadership challenges and successes, helping students learn through role-modelling.
