The Strategy Manual is a practical handbook for anyone interested in the creation, management or governance of strategy. It demystifies strategy and provides a step-by-step guide on how to do it well.
This book is a manifesto urging deeper thought about what we design as well as how and why we design. As design thinking deepens, its reach widens, making this a book not just for designers but also for policymakers, government ministers, company CEOs and other makers-of-big-decisions. The world we live in presents a myriad of complex, critical challenges which design thinking has the potential to resolve. The hope in writing this book is that when future generations look back and reflect on how we succeeded in steering away from our climate-warming, species-killing, polluting habits of the past towards a more productive, life-fulfilling and equitable future, they might see the hand of deep design thinking on the tiller. Seaton and Mike Baxter are father and son who have both been Professors of Design and have contributed, over several decades between them, to the fields of ecological design, product design and strategy design. This book is the result of many years of discussions between them on the nature of design and the ideas and practicalities that lead to deep design thinking.
The discovery of market needs and the manufacture of a product to meet those needs are integral parts of the same process. Since most textbooks on new product development are written from either a marketing or an engineering perspective, it is important for students to encounter these two aspects of product development together in a single text. Product Design: Practical Methods for the Systematic Development of New Products covers the entire new product development process, from market research through concept design, embodiment design, design for manufacture, and product launch. Systematic and practical in its approach, the text offers both a structured management framework for product development and an extensive range of specific design methods. Chapters feature "Design Toolkits" that provide detailed guidance on systematic design methods, present examples with familiar products, and conclude with reviews of key concepts. This major text aims to turn the often haphazard and unstructured product design process into a quality-controlled, streamlined, and manageable procedure. It is ideal for students of engineering, design, and technology on their path to designing new products.
This cutting edge science fiction anthology features stories by award-winning authors who imagine what would happen if the vastness of cyberspace was replaced by things surprising and strange. Authors include Stephen Baxter, David Brin, and S.M. Stirling.
Sins and Other Worlds is a dark Science Fiction short story anthology comprised of reprint stories from 30 talented authors. The stories range from deep space, alien planets, alternate realities and beyond. Most stories within are flash fiction interspersed with several longer works from both emerging authors and titans in the field. The anthology collects some of the best dark sci-fi in recent memory. Sins and Other Worlds ToC (Ordered by Author Name) Alex Shvartsman - The Far Side of the Wilderness Alan Baxter - Once Was LostChristi Nogle - A Fully Chameleonic Foil Christina Sng - The Assassin ProgramDennis Mombauer - The Dust Bathynaut Douglas Smith - Nothing Ed Ahern - The Service Call Eric Choi - Most Valuable Player George Nikolopoulos - The Sin of Envy Gerri Leen - Floating in My Tin Can Gregg Chamberlain - Apocalypse Beta Test Survey Henry Szabranski - In The Maze Of His Infinities Holly Schofield - Tough Crowd James Dorr - The Cyclops Jeremy Szal - When There's Only Dust Left Jez Patterson - Between Two Distant Shores There Lies Space For an Ocean of Troubles John Dromey - Death, Where Is Thy Sting Ken Liu - The Plague Kevin J. Anderson - Job Qualifications Laird Long - The Last Racist Liam Hogan - Remembrance Day Lina Rather - Last Long Night Michelle Ann King - God State Mike Murphy - About Time Mike Resnick & Lezli Robyn - Benchwarmer Rhonda Eikamp - Angels Behaving Badly Robert Silverberg - Flies Russell Hemmell - Tugship Vaughan Stanger - The Eye Patch Protocol Wendy Nikel - Memory Ward
... Mike Minehan tells her very own version of life at the M?ori pa in Jerusalem on the Wanganui River...she gives a poetical and sensitive insight into her relationship with James K. Baxter, the son she bore him and the influence these events had on her..."--Back cover.
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