The Strategic Alliances Fieldbook: The Art of Agile Alliances is for technology and professional services practitioners and executives seeking faster value from their partnerships as traditional alliances are changing rapidly in form and tempo. Digitising customer channels and internal operations has been a long-running initiative for most companies, and the global COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the urgency and budgets associated with the digital transformations that technology and professional services companies support. The Strategic Alliances Fieldbook compiles a century of the authors’ experience of leading joint businesses to solve the problem of how to go fast and avoid common issues that delay alliances. The reader will get a detailed analysis of professional services companies and technology companies and how the dynamics of their collective culture and operating model are shaped when working in partnership. The book provides a ‘Blueprint’: a library of methods that includes 15 templates which can be applied to accelerate any alliance. The book also includes 19 case studies to illustrate real-life situations. This book is particularly relevant to executives involved in partnership initiatives, specifically in professional services and technology firms, and can be read in conjunction with The Strategic Alliance Handbook by Mike Nevin.
In this annual publication Gavin Booth, the editor of 'Classic Bus' magazine, has put together a selection of articles and photo-features on subjects that will be of interest to those regular readers of the magazine.
ROAD & MOTOR VEHICLES: GENERAL INTEREST. The UK bus operating and manufacturing industries are multi-million-pound businesses affecting the lives of millions of people every day, so it is inevitable that mistakes will be made as a result of over-enthusiasm, misreading the market, bad management or just plain poor judgement. Political misjudgements also played a part, with the New Bus Grants scheme of the 1970s that provided operators with cheap buses but ultimately skewed the market and the supply of buses, as well as other government-inspired ideas such the creation of British Leyland which ended up weakening the stronger Leyland bus. Illustrated throughout with over 200 nostalgic photographs, it will be of interest to all bus enthusiasts who are interested in a heady mix of discussion and debate about all significant issues which have affected the road transport industry over the years.
In this annual publication Gavin Booth, the editor of 'Classic Bus' magazine, has put together a selection of articles and photo-features on subjects that will be of interest to those regular readers of the magazine.
The Leyland Atlantean revolutionized bus layouts in Britain, setting a standard that has dominated double-deck designs since. Appearing in the late 1950s, it represented significant change, and was probably the last British bus to achieve massive sales worldwide. This book looks at its origins and examines its importance over the past half-century.
With a highly fragmented bus industry, even though the major cities were dominated by the big four municipal operators and much else was controlled by the subsidlarles of the Scottish Bus Group, Scotland still managed to provide the bus enthusiast with an almost infinite variety of bus type and livery. Part of this was the result of the very strong tradition of independent operators in places like Ayrshire, but also the fact that, whereas in England and Wales the National Bus Company imposed a rigid corporate style, in Scotland the SBG allowed the constituent companies to retain much of their Individual identity. Thus it was possible to see, for example, green buses from Lowland Scottish and yellow buses from Alexander Northern. In towns and cities like Dundee and Edinburgh it was possible to see vehicles from the local municipal fleet alongside many of the different SBG liveries as well as those from noted independent operators - standing on a major thoroughfare in any of these places you could see a huge variety of different coloured vehicles.Following on from his earlier and hugely successful volume in the 'Heyday' series covering Scottish bus operations, Gavin Booth now provides a further exploration into the great variety of bus types and liveries to be found in Scotland over the past 30 years. Although covering predominantly the era prior to deregulation and privatisation, the book also examines the changes wrought in Scotland as a result of reforms from the mid-1970s onwards, when names like Stagecoach came to the fore, taking advantage of changed circumstances to launch new services. As with the earlier 'Heyday' volume, the book includes over 80 vivid colour photographs showing bus operations in Scotland.
Scotland's capital city is a place of contrasts: the grandeur of the New Town, for example, providing a radical difference to the twisting streets and alley-ways of the old. The history of public transport in the city also shows considerable contrasts, not only within Edingburgh itself but also between it and other cities. Edinburgh possessed, until the 1920s, one of the most extensive cable tramsways in the British Isles and electric trams came relatively late to the grandiose streets that make up the heart of the city. As a tramway operator, the city continued to develop and expand its network into the postwar years, resulting in it being considered one of the networks considered safe for the future. In the event, the last Edinburgh trams ceased to operate in late 1956, leaving the city to be dominated by the buses of the corporation and others. In his latest book for Ian Allan Publishing, noted expert and Edinburgh resident Gavin Booth recalls the changing streetscape of his native city during the 30 years after the end of World War 2.Examining the gradual decline of the tramway network and the rise of the all-conquering diesel bus, he portrays through some 85 colour illustrations public transport in its urban setting. Recalling both the vehicles as well as the street scenes portrayed, the book represents a colourful reminder of continuity and change in one of Europe's finest cityscapes. Illustrated in colour throughout, Streets of Edinburgh will appeal to transport enthusiasts and historians as well as to tourists and locals, providing all with an affectionate portrait of Edinburgh and its transport.
This illustrated history of UK motor buses concentrates on different double-deck and single-deck types. In each case models that successfully broke new ground are identified, and the types that followed them are looked at. Some of these buses were ahead of their time, while others never sold in any great numbers. Illustrated with more than 160 photographs, this book shines a light on the fascinating buses that were something more than the ordinary.
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