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The Business Value of Software

The Business Value of Software

In business driving value is a key strategy and typically starts at the top of an organization. In today’s digital age driving software value is also an important and often overlooked key strategy. Executives and the corporate board need to expect the highest level of business value from the software the organization is developing buying and selling. In today’s digital transformation marketplace it is imperative that organizations start driving business value from software development initiatives. For many years the cost of software development challenged organizations with questions such as: How do we allocate software development costs?Should these costs be considered an overhead expense?Are we getting the most value possible for our investment? A fundamental problem has been built into these questions – the focus on cost. In almost every other part of the organization maximizing profit or in the case of a not-for-profit maximizing the funds available provides a clear focus with metrics to determine success or failure. In theory simply aligning software spending with the maximizing profit goals should be sufficient to avoid any questions about value for money. Unfortunately this alignment hasn’t turned out to be so simple and the questions persist particularly at the strategic or application portfolio level. In this book Michael D. S. Harris describes how a software business value culture—one where all stakeholders including technology and business—have a clear understanding of the goals and expected business value from software development. The book shows readers how they can transform software development from a cost or profit center to a business value center. Only a culture of software as a value center enables an organization to constantly maximize business value flow through software development. If your organization is starting to ask how it can change software from a cost-center to a value-center this book is for you. | The Business Value of Software

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The Value of Resilience Securing life in the twenty-first century

The Value of Resilience Securing life in the twenty-first century

The Value of Resilience represents one of the first systematic studies of resilience in the field of security studies. At the turn of the twenty-first century resilience has become a ‘buzz-word’ within fields as diverse as network engineering ecosystems management child psychology and military training programmes. Resilience has emerged as a solution to the common problematic of radical contingency experienced across these fields. At its most general level resilience is understood as the capacity to absorb withstand and ‘bounce-back’ quickly and efficiently from a perturbation. It is considered to be both a natural property and a quality which can be improved within a broad array of complex systems. Rather than treating resilience as either a unified concept or technique of governance this book analyses resilience as an emergent security value. Utilizing a biopolitical analytic it demonstrates that the value of resilience has appreciated alongside transformations in the order of power/knowledge enacted by political economies of security. Zebrowski argues that resilience was not lying in wait for the march of science to provide the conditions for its recognition. Nor was it concealed by the distortions of ideology which lifted with the culmination of the Cold War. There is nothing natural about resilience. By drawing attention to the complex historical processes and significant governmental efforts required to make resilience possible this book aims to open up a space through which the value of resilience may be more critically interrogated. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations security studies and conflict resolution. | The Value of Resilience Securing life in the twenty-first century

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Literature and Understanding The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

Literature and Understanding The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

Literature and Understanding investigates the cognitive gain from literature by focussing on a reader’s close analysis of a literary text. It examines the meaning of ‘literature’ outlines the most prominent positions in the literary cognitivism debate explores the practice of close reading from a philosophical perspective provides a fresh account of what we mean by ‘understanding’ and in so doing opens up a new area of research in the philosophy of literature. This book provides a different reply to the challenge that we can’t learn anything worthwhile from reading literary fiction. It makes the innovative case that reading literary fiction as literature rather than as fiction stimulates five relevant senses of understanding. The book uses examples of irony metaphor play with perspective and ambiguity to illustrate this contention. Before arguing that these five senses of understanding bridge the gap between our understanding of a literary text and our understanding of the world beyond that text. The book will be of great interest for researchers scholars and post-graduate students in the fields of aesthetics literary theory literature in education and pedagogy. | Literature and Understanding The Value of a Close Reading of Literary Texts

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Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

Out of Architecture is both a call to reassess the architecture profession and its education and a toolkit for graduates and working architects to untangle their skills passions and value from traditional architectural practice and consider alternate pathways. Written by design professionals and expert career consultants this book is informed by numerous client accounts as well as the authors’ own stories and routes out of architecture. The initial chapters follow the narrative of a typical architecture training in the US highlighting the many highs and lows skills honed and ultimately the huge disconnect that can occur between architectural education and practice. Subsequent chapters explore a disillusionment with the profession unhealthy work cultures mentorship working with lead architects toxic perfectionism and the notion of a “calling. ” Authors then present the hopeful accounts of many architects who escaped a profession known for its grueling working conditions to find fulfilling well-paying creative jobs that better utilize the skills of architecture than the architectural profession itself. Written in a unique combination of storytelling and analysis this patchwork of client and author stories makes for an immersive provocative and enjoyable read. A wide range of architecture students graduates educators and professionals will recognize themselves within the pages of this book and find prompts to reassess their working practices teaching styles and the profession itself. It will be of particular value to those students skeptical of joining the architecture workforce as well as those further along and considering a career change. | Out of Architecture The Value of Architects Beyond Traditional Practice

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The Children's Play Centre Its Psychological Value and its Place in the Training of Teachers

The Children's Play Centre Its Psychological Value and its Place in the Training of Teachers

First published in 1937 The Children’s Play Centre is an account of Gardner’s Play Centre and her work in assessing its value in the education of children and the training of teachers. The book puts forward the value of play in the development of children and provides a detailed report of Gardner’s experiment. It also explores the significance of the Play Centre to the technique of training students. It will have lasting relevance for those interested in the history of education and the psychology of education. | The Children's Play Centre Its Psychological Value and its Place in the Training of Teachers

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The Value of Transnational Medical Research Labour Participation and Care

The Value of Transnational Medical Research Labour Participation and Care

What is the value of medical research? With contributions from anthropologists sociologists and activists this approach brings into focus the forms of value – social epistemic and economic – that are involved in medical research practices and how these values intersect with everyday living. Though their work covers wide empirical ground –from HIV trials in Kenya and drug donation programs in Tanzania to industry-academic collaborations in the British National Health Service – the authors share a commitment to understanding the practices of medical research as embedded in both local social worlds and global markets. Their collective concern is to rethink the conventional ethical demarcations betwweenpaid and unpaid research services in light of the social and material organisation of medical research practices. . Rather than warn against economic incursions into medical knowledge and health practice or alternatively the reduction of local experience to the standards of bioethics we hope to illuminate the array of practices knowledges and techniques through which the value of medical research is brought into being. This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Cultural Economy. | The Value of Transnational Medical Research Labour Participation and Care

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Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

Nathan Tierney’s powerful storytelling is rarely seen in today’s health care business environment. We must redesign the health care delivery system-a team sport in service of patients hold it accountable with measurement to improve outcomes and quantify the resource costs over the full cycle of care. Value-based health care is a framework through which these goals are achieved and Tierney provides a detailed playbook to get your organization there. Outlined in incredible detail and clarity he presents core concepts and dives into the key metrics needed to build maintain and scale a successful value-based health care organization. Nathan shares a realistic vision of what any CEO should expect when developing their own Value Management Office. Nothing is more important to me than improving the lives of those I love. My personal mission is to create systemic change with an impact on the global stage. This playbook needs to be on the desk of every executive clinician and patient today. -Mahek Shah MD Senior Researcher and Senior Project Leader Harvard Business SchoolOur current healthcare system’s broken. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) predicts health care costs could increase from 6% to 14% of GDP by 2060. The cause of this increase is due to (1) a global aging population (2) growing affluence (3) rise in chronic diseases and (4) better-informed patients; all of which raises the demand for healthcare. In 2006 Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg authored the book ‘Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. ’ In it they present their analysis of the root causes plaguing the health care industry and make the case for why providers suppliers consumers and employers should move towards a patient-centric approach that optimizes value for patients. According to Porter value for patients should be the overarching principle for our broken system. Since 2006 Professor Porter accompanied by his esteemed Harvard colleague Profesor Robert Kaplan have worked tirelessly to promote this new approach and pilot it with leading healthcare delivery organizations like Cleveland Clinic Mayo Clinic MD Anderson and U. S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Given the current state of global healthcare there is urgency to achieve widespread adoption of this new approach. The intent of this book is to equip all healthcare delivery organizations with a guide for putting the value-based concept into practice. This book defines the practice of value-based health care as Value Management. The book explores Profesor Porter’s Value Equation (Value = Outcomes/ Cost) which is central to Value Management and provides a step-by-step process for how to calculate the components of this equation. On the outcomes side the book presents the Value Realization Framework which translates organizational mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures and contextualizes the measures for healthcare delivery. The Value Realization Framework is based on Professor Kaplan's ground-breaking Balanced Scorecard approach but specific to healthcare organizations. On the costs side the book details the Harvard endorsed time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) methodology which has proven to be a modern catalyst for defining HDO costs. Finally this book covers the need and a plan to establish a Value Management Office to lead the delivery transformation and govern operations. This book is designed in a format where any organization can read it and acquire the fundamentals and methodologies of Value Management. It is intended for healthcare delivery organizations in need of learning the specifics of achieving the implementation of value-based healthcare. | Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

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Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

Know Thyself: The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge takes the reader on tour of the nature value and limits of self-knowledge. Mitchell S. Green calls on classical sources like Plato and Descartes 20th-century thinkers like Freud recent developments in neuroscience and experimental psychology and even Buddhist philosophy to explore topics at the heart of who we are. The result is an unvarnished look at both the achievements and drawbacks of the many attempts to better know one’s own self. Key topics in this volume include: Knowledge – what it means to know the link between wisdom and knowledge and the value of living an examined life Personal identity – questions of dualism (the idea that our mind is not only our brain) bodily continuity and personhood The unconscious — including the kind posited by psychoanalysis as well as the form proposed by recent research on the so-called adaptive unconscious Free will – if we have it and the recent arguments from neuroscience challenging it Self-misleading – the ways we willfully deceive ourselves and how this relates to empathy peer disagreement implicit bias and intellectual humility Experimental psychology – considerations on the automaticity of emotion and other cognitive processes and how they shape us This book is designed to be used in conjunction with the free ‘Know Thyself’ MOOC (massive open online course) created through collaboration of the University of Connecticut's Project on Humility and Conviction in Public Life and the University of Edinburgh’s Eidyn research centre and hosted on the Coursera platform (https://www. coursera. org/learn/know-thyself). The book is also suitable as a text for interdisciplinary courses in the philosophy of mind or self-knowledge and is highly recommended for anyone looking for a short overview of this fascinating topic. | Know Thyself The Value and Limits of Self-Knowledge

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Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

This book presents an in-depth careful study of our understanding of the concept of beauty in everyday objects and its impact on markets and brands. Moving beyond artistic notions of beauty it demonstrates how beauty is an asset that can be leveraged in the marketplace. Traditionally beauty has been examined in relation to its influence on painting sculpture literature music and architecture. However its value and power in the marketplace is understudied. Álvarez del Blanco provides a systematic analysis of beauty in commonplace objects and brands drawing on cutting-edge research at the intersection of marketing and neurosciences. Through examining the neuroscientific evidence for how the brain processes beauty the author articulates the implications this may have on marketing and brand management. He also offers a glimpse of how beauty may evolve and its marketing implications for firm strategy in the coming decades. Written by a recognized authority in marketing and brand strategy Brand Beauty Unleashed gives students with an interest in marketing consumer behavior branding and neuromarketing an exciting new perspective on this intangible asset. | Brand Beauty Unleashed The Value of Aesthetics in Marketing

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Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is always and everywhere bad. But might suffering also be good? If so in what ways might suffering have positive as well as negative value? This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international contributors explore the nature of suffering pain and valence as well as the value of suffering and the relationships between suffering morality and rationality. Philosophy of Suffering: Metaphysics Value and Normativity is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind philosophy of psychology cognitive and behavioral psychology as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues regarding suffering and pain. | Philosophy of Suffering Metaphysics Value and Normativity

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Healthcare Value Proposition Creating a Culture of Excellence in Patient Experience

Healthcare Value Proposition Creating a Culture of Excellence in Patient Experience

Never before in the healthcare industry has there been such intense emphasis and open debate on the issue of quality. The steady rise in the cost of healthcare coupled with the need for quality have combined to put the healthcare industry at the top of the national agenda. Quality costs and service are not just socially provocative ideas. They are critical criteria for decision-making by patients physicians and many key constituents of healthcare organizations. The pursuit of improved performance has driven a host of executives and managers in search of techniques for structuring rehabilitating redesigning and reengineering the organizations they serve. Unfortunately the narrow-mindedness with which programs are implemented and the discontinuity in their application weaken the promise of success. The process of quality improvement can become an undisciplined search for illusions rather than reality. For many years healthcare managers have embraced the narrow definition of performance solely in the context of financial success. Forward-thinking executives now realize that the road to financial success begins with success in quality and service. Quality and service are no longer separate issues – they are the same. Neither one by itself will bring about lasting success. The ultimate measure of performance is in an organization’s ability to create value for its customers and true performance must be measured in the context of the customers’ total experience. This book is about how to manage performance in the context of value to the customer or patient. It brings together the many pieces of the performance improvement puzzle – quality technology costs productivity and customer service. The author also covers process improvement tools including Lean and Six Sigma and how to create a culture of continuous improvement as well as how to improve the patient experience and productivity improvement strategies. The book is filled with examples illustrations and tools for improving key aspects of a healthcare organization’s performance. | Healthcare Value Proposition Creating a Culture of Excellence in Patient Experience

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Systemic Coaching Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

Systemic Coaching Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee including those they lead colleagues investors customers partners their local community and also the wider ecology. Systemic Coaching contains key chapters on how to contract in various settings how to work relationally and dialogically how to expand our own and others’ ecological awareness how to get greater value from supervision work with systemic ethics and expand our impact. While illustrating why a new model of coaching is necessary Hawkins and Turner also provide the tools and approaches that coaches and clients need to deliver this greater impact accompanied by real-life case examples and interviews from the authors and other leading coaches and leaders globally. Systemic Coaching will be an invaluable resource for coaches in practice and in training mentors coach supervisors consultants in leadership development and HR and L&D professionals and leaders. | Systemic Coaching Delivering Value Beyond the Individual

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The Patient Centered Value System Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design

The Patient Centered Value System Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design

Imagine: You are a hospital Chief Executive Officer Chief Financial Officer medical or nursing director patient safety specialist quality improvement professional or a doctor or nurse on the front lines of patient care. Every day you’re aware that patients and families should be more engaged in their care so they would fare better both in the hospital and after discharge; their care could be safer and more seamlessly coordinated; patients should be ready for discharge sooner and readmitted less often; your bottom line stronger; your staff more fulfilled. You enter into new payment models such as bundling with an uneasy awareness that your organization is at risk because you don’t know what the care you deliver actually costs. Like most healthcare leaders you are also still searching for a way to deliver care that will help you to achieve the Triple Aim: care that leads to improved clinical outcomes better patient and family care experiences and reduced costs. Sound familiar? If so then it’s time to read The Patient Centered Value System: Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design. This book explains how to introduce the Patient Centered Value System in your organization to go from the current state to the ideal. The Patient Centered Value System is a three-part approach to co-designing improvements in healthcare delivery—collaborating with patients families and frontline providers to design the ideal state of care after listening to their wants and needs. Central to the Patient Centered Value System is seeing every care experience through the eyes of patients and families. The Patient Centered Value System is a process and performance improvement technique that consists of 1) Shadowing 2) the Patient and Family Centered Care Methodology and 3) Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing. Shadowing is the essential tool in the Patient Centered Value System that helps you to see every care experience from the point of view of patients and families and enables you to calculate the true costs of healthcare over the full cycle of care. Fundamental to the Patient Centered Value System is the building of teams to take you from the currents state of care delivery to the ideal. Healthcare transformation depends not on individual providers working to fix broken systems but on teams of providers working together while breaking down silos. The results of using the Patient Centered Value System are patients and families who are actively engaged in their care which also improves their outcomes; providers who see the care experience from the patient’s and family’s point of view and co-design care delivery as a result; the tight integration of clinical and financial performance; and the realization of the Triple Aim. | The Patient Centered Value System Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design

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Lean Higher Education Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition

Lean Higher Education Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition

In an environment of diminishing resources growing enrollment and increasing expectations of accountability Lean Higher Education: Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition provides the understanding and the tools required to return education to the consumers it was designed to serve – the students. It supplies a unifying framework for implementing and sustaining a Lean Higher Education (LHE) transformation at any institution regardless of size or mission. Using straightforward language relevant examples and step-by-step guidelines for introducing Lean interventions this authoritative resource explains how to involve stakeholders in the delivery of quality every step of the way. The author details a flexible series of steps to help ensure stakeholders understand all critical work processes. He presents a wealth of empirical evidence that highlights successful applications of Lean concepts at major universities and provides proven methods for uncovering and eliminating activities that overburden staff yet contribute little or no added value to stakeholders. Complete with standardized methods for correctly diagnosing workplace problems and implementing appropriate solutions this valuable reference arms you with the understanding and the tools to effectively balance the needs of all stakeholders. By implementing the Lean practices covered in these pages your school will be better positioned to provide higher quality education at reduced costs with efficient processes that instill pride maximize value and respect the long-term interests of your students faculty and staff. This second edition contains a substantial update with expanded material and reflects the significant growth of LHE practices in colleges and universities worldwide. Because of advances in best practices as well as some modest research-based evidence this second edition includes many enhancements that provide particular value to LHE practitioners and higher education (HE) leaders. Since the initial publication of Lean Higher Education in 2010 the challenges of cost and affordability competition for students and faculty and calls for efficiency and accountability have only continued to grow requiring colleges and universities to pursue more radical and transformative change to ensure their success. This new edition provides a model for change based on more than 50 years of application in business and industry and almost 20 years in HE. It provides the information and evidence demanded by HE leadership to understand and embrace LHE as well as best practices processes and tools for implementing LHE in targeted areas or institution-wide. This book provides a conceptual framework for redesigning any university process such as admitting students paying a bill hiring faculty or processing a donor gift in a way that delights the beneficiary of that process respects the employees who support the process and reduce the cost of the process. A free companion guide to this book is available here: https://cabaa139-7c62-47ae-af03-e18f51efab1c. filesusr. com/ugd/f5359d_a064ca39f666408f851ffd282eb9a0a7. pdf The goal of this companion guide is to help you get the most out of your reading of Lean Higher Education. The guide is designed to support your deeper understanding and application of LHE whether you are reading the book (a) from cover to cover or select chapters; (b) reading it alone as a member of a workplace reading group or as a student in a classroom; (c) facilitating discussions of the chapters in the book; or (d) seeking guidance as you begin your own personal Lean Higher Education journey. | Lean Higher Education Increasing the Value and Performance of University Processes Second Edition

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The Stakeholder Perspective Relationship Management to Increase Value and Success Rates of Projects

The Stakeholder Perspective Relationship Management to Increase Value and Success Rates of Projects

The Stakeholder Perspective places people at the center of both projects and project management. It gives to the project management community a helpful innovative stakeholder-centered approach to increase projects’ delivered value and success rate. It presents a logical model also called the Stakeholder Perspective which acts as the reference point in a structured path to effectiveness. Starting from the analysis of a project’s stakeholders the model integrates both rational and relational innovative approaches. Its continuous focus on stakeholder requirements and expectations helps to set a proper path and to maintain it in order to target success and to achieve goals in a variety of projects with different size and complexity. The book presents a set of innovative and immediately applicable techniques for effective stakeholder identification and classification as well as analysis of stakeholder requirements and expectations key stakeholders management stakeholder network management and more generally stakeholder relationship management. The proposed stakeholder classification model consists of just four communities each one based on the commonality of main interests and behavior. This model features an accurate and stable identification process to increase effective communication and drastic reduce relationship complexity. A systemic approach is proposed to analyze both stakeholder requirements and expectations. The approach aids in detecting otherwise unclear stakeholder requirements and/or hidden stakeholder expectations. An interactive communication model is presented along with its individual and organizational frames of reference. Also presented are relevant cues to maximize effective and purposeful communication with key stakeholders as well as with the stakeholder network. The importance of satisfying not only the project requirements but also the stakeholder expectations is demonstrated to be the critical success factor in all projects. An innovative approach based on the perceived value and key performance indicators shows how to manage different levels of project complexity. The book also defines a complete structured path to relationship effectiveness called Relationship Management Project which can be tailored to enhance stakeholder and communication management processes in each one of the project management process groups (i. e. initiating planning executing monitoring and controlling and closing). The book concludes with a look ahead at Project Management X. 0 and the stakeholder-centered evolution of both project and portfolio management. | The Stakeholder Perspective Relationship Management to Increase Value and Success Rates of Projects

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Sustainable Value Creation

Sustainable Value Creation

The goal of this book is to define Sustainable Value Creation in terms of a set of principles that differentiate it from existing definitions of CSR and from related concepts such as sustainability and business ethics. To internalize these ten principles is to understand how the firm can respond to stakeholder needs to optimize value creation over the medium to long term. Ultimately this second edition book aims to reform both business practice and business education. By building a theory that redefines CSR as central to the value creation process the ten principles of Sustainable Value Creation redefine how firms approach each of their operational functions but also how these subjects should be taught in universities worldwide. As such this book will hopefully be of value to instructors as a complement to their teaching students as a guide in their education and managers as a framework to help them respond to the complex dynamic context that they are expected to navigate every day. This book is a manifesto for success in today’s complex dynamic business environment. The book is designed as an easy-to-digest critical introductory text to CSR. With supporting online teaching resources it is aimed primarily at the MBA and Executive MBA market and for CSR sustainability and business ethics courses taught by instructors skeptical of existing definitions and organizing principles of CSR sustainability or business ethics.

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Value and Waste in Lean Construction

Value and Waste in Lean Construction

Non-value adding activities are otherwise known as ‘waste’ in the lean construction lexicon. The aim of this collection is to build a common understanding of the role and contribution of value-adding activities in achieving stipulated objectives and continuous improvement in construction projects and to contrast this with waste. Although the lean approach to construction projects has been widely covered this is the first book that explicitly provides the link between value and waste in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. This internationally researched collection seeks to create a paradigm shift which will shape work processes and future directions for how value is conceptualized and operationalized in both the project management and business aspects of construction. The readers will gain an understanding of: The value-adding paradigm in construction How to make value-supporting decisions Waste identification and control in practice With contributions from South Africa Brazil Norway and the USA the implications of this book are globally relevant. This is essential reading for all higher level students of construction management and economics and all professionals interested in value management. | Value and Waste in Lean Construction

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Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

Why did Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine come as such a surprise to the West? This is a key question considered by this reflective and wide-ranging book. The book argues that Russia and the West were playing different games: while Russia under Putin had become obsessed with using hard power to restore the Cold War security architecture in Europe the major Western powers had become equally obsessed with value promotion that would ensure a global triumph for the values of the West touted as “universal values. ” The Russian play for spheres of interest was clearly defined and demarcated the Western play for values was by definition without limits. Hence there could be no common ground no constructive communication and no common understanding. While Russia convinced itself that it would be successful in forcing the West to accept its claims for a new security order based on hard power Western governments deluded themselves into believing that value promotion would transform Russia into a liberal democracy and a rules-based market economy. Examining the full situation exploring political military economic and business spheres the book provides a deep analysis of how the present confrontation has come about. | Ukraine Russia and the West When Value Promotion Met Hard Power

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The Baseball Glove History Material Meaning and Value

The Baseball Glove History Material Meaning and Value

The baseball glove is a ubiquitous item a crucial piece of equipment in the game of baseball and it offers the opportunity to examine the production of material culture and social practice at numerous levels. Where and how is a glove made and how does its manufacture square with the narratives surrounding its place in American cultural life? What are the myths superstitions and beliefs surrounding its acquisition care use and significance? How does a glove function as the center of a web of cultural practices that illustrate how individuals relate to a consumer good as a symbol of memory personal narrative and national identity? How do the manufacturers of baseball gloves draw upon promote and in some sense create these practices? How do these practices and meanings change in other national and cultural contexts? The Baseball Glove offers students the opportunity to examine these questions in an engagingly written and illustrated book that promotes hands-on interaction with a quintessential item of material culture. At the same time the book gives students the space for critical self-reflection about the place of material goods like sporting equipment in their lives and it provides the chance to learn different methodological approaches to studying everyday objects. | The Baseball Glove History Material Meaning and Value

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The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

We have forgotten how to think about limits. Most philosophical approaches to the environment have focused primarily on the value of the natural world the status of anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene and the largely ethical questions of our impact on the world. While fully acknowledging these concerns this book emphasizes the centrality of the confrontation between the imperative of growth that has been present since the Enlightenment and our belated rediscovery of limits. The expression Limits to Growth the title of a famous book from 1972 by Donella H. Meadows et al. may have passed into a common discourse yet the notion of limits itself remains insufficiently theorized or even reflected upon in the current movement of environmental advocacy. Sometimes it even seems as if there is an effort to avoid it. This book argues that on the contrary we can only resolve the present global challenges by confronting the question of limits and making it central to our reflection. This entails discussing the long history of thinking about limits in which Malthus is the most infamous figure but which also includes such major participants as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx. Ultimately The Question of Limits contends that the value of embracing limits extends beyond the environment and offers the potential to become a transformative social good. The Question of Limits will be of great interest to students and scholars working at the intersection of environmental studies economics intellectual history and philosophy. | The Question of Limits A Historical Perspective on the Environmental Crisis

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The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen much of the book is devoted to the royal institutions; the network of links woven by kinship marriage and marriage cattle the legal procedure of compromise and appeasement and various aspects of magic witchcraft and religion. Considered as a whole the culture emerges as a structure supporting and in turns supported by the Rain-Queen. | The Realm of a Rain Queen A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society

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Bringing Value to Healthcare Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model

Bringing Value to Healthcare Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model

The healthcare sector is on the cusp of sweeping disruption. The hallmarks of the old system—pricing that’s disconnected from outcomes and incentives for treating sickness rather than maintaining health—are no longer sustainable. And yet after decades of financial success it’s difficult for most established industry players to grapple with meaningful changes to their business models. In their latest book Bringing Value to Healthcare: Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model Rita Numerof and Michael Abrams lay out the roadmap to a healthcare system that is accountable for delivering optimal patient outcomes at a sustainable cost. Based on in-depth research and decades of experience consulting with leading hospitals insurers and device and drug manufacturers Numerof and Abrams provide a market-based approach to addressing the ills of the current healthcare system. In addition to highlighting industry challenges and opportunities the authors also outline the changes required of consumers employers and policy makers to move to a patient-centered model characterized by value accountability and transparency. This is the handbook for payer provider pharmaceutical and medical device executives who are seeking to preserve today’s profitability while positioning their organizations for success in the very different markets of tomorrow. The book’s guidance is illuminated by case studies and each chapter concludes with a self-assessment tool and key questions. Getting to a new future isn’t easy. But if it can’t be envisioned it can’t be realized. Bringing Value to Healthcare is that critical first step. | Bringing Value to Healthcare Practical Steps for Getting to a Market-Based Model

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An Architecture of the Mind A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life

An Architecture of the Mind A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life

An Architecture of the Mind proposes a mathematically logical and rigorous theory of lived experience and a comprehensive and coherent theory of psychology. It is also remarkably simple. Building on the core proposition that the mind is a network structure it proposes a theory of the psychological process as operating within and upon that structure and a theory of behaviour as determined by that process. The theory presents a view of the mind which reveals a new perspective on the process of reasoning in thinking and how it may coexist with processes more akin to simple rule-following and computation. It allows us to understand the role and influence of social influences in the psychological process by revealing their role in and influence on mental networks. It reveals the place of motivations in the psyche as complexes in mental networks from whence aesthetics preference and value judgements arise and demonstrates their necessity for behaviour. This book is especially useful for the perspective it offers on behavioural change. It reveals the conditions under which traditional economic theories of incentives will be appropriate and the conditions under which they will not be. This book draws on psychology social science cultural science neuroscience and economics to offer an interdisciplinary contribution which resists the tendency for disciplines to become over-specialised and fragmented. It will be of interest to any interested in the functioning of the human mind and the government of human behaviour. | An Architecture of the Mind A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life

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Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth which has too often been reduced to merely ‘accumulated assets’ this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction relational flows and life vitality. The authors therefore outline wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital the commons and power. Viewing wealth as firstly a product of relational capacities the book explores the processes wherein it is constantly being pulled at from forces that demand appropriation be that finance community or state. The chapters tackle perceptions (and practices) of wealth in the commons in mythical narrative immaterial substance aristocratic orders antimafia money real and imagined and conspiracy theory with contributions from Melanesia Italy Greece India and Mongolia. The comparative perspective lies at the heart of the book bringing together instances of commonwealth and the commons as well as hierarchical relational and substantial understandings of wealth. As the first collection in recent decades to address the anthropology of wealth openly in a comparative perspective this book will spark discussions of the concept in anthropology not least at the back of a renewed debate over it due to Piketty’s legacy. This book was originally published as a special issue of History & Anthropology. | Towards an Anthropology of Wealth Imagination Substance Value

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The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

Originally published in 1957 and forming a companion volume to The Balavariani this volume provides valuable research into the biography of Gautama Buddha and its influence on medieval Christian thought. This work the romance of Barlaam and Josaphat was included by Caxton in The Golden Legend and inspired the episode of the Caskets in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice; its heroes were venerated as Saints. Over a century ago however the legend was finally identified as an adaptation of episodes from the life and ministry of the Buddha. The first part of the book is devoted to tracing the development and migration of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend from its original Buddhist environment to the West. The second part is a translation of the Georgian text – the first published in any Western European language. The volume therefore gives one of the oldest Near Eastern versions of the story. | The Wisdom of Balahvar A Christian Legend of the Buddha

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