As digital technology continues to revolutionize the world, businesses are also evolving by adopting digital technologies such as artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and analytical methods into their daily practices. Due to this growing adoption, further study on the potential solutions modern technology provides to businesses is required to successfully apply it across industries. AI-Driven Intelligent Models for Business Excellence explores various artificial intelligence models and methods for business applications and considers algorithmic approaches for business excellence across numerous fields and applications. Covering topics such as business analysis, deep learning, machine learning, and analytical methods, this reference work is ideal for managers, business owners, computer scientists, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.

Exam Board: Pearson BTEC Academic Level: BTEC National Subject: Business First teaching: September 2016 First Exams: Summer 2017 For all four of the externally assessed units 2, 3, 6 and 7. Builds confidence with scaffolded practice questions. Unguided questions that allow students to test their own knowledge and skills in advance of assessment. Clear unit-by-unit correspondence between this Workbook and the Revision Guide and ActiveBook.

The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State's first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower's new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much as Oklahoma banks shed their frontier persona to become more tightly integrated in the national economy, so too was decentralized banking revealed as an anachronism, utterly unsuited to an increasingly global economy. With creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 and subsequent choice of Oklahoma City as the location for a branch bank, frontier banking began yielding to systems commensurate with the needs of the new century.
Through meticulous research and personal interviews with bankers statewide, Hightower has crafted a compelling narrative of Oklahoma banking in the twentieth century. One of the first acts of the new state legislature was to guarantee that depositors in state-chartered banks would never lose a penny. Meanwhile, land and oil speculators and the bankers who funded their dreams were elevating get-rich-quick (and often get-poor-quick) schemes to an art form. In defense of country banks, the Oklahoma Bankers Association dispatched armed vigilantes to stop robbers in their tracks.
Subsequent developments in Oklahoma banking include adaptation to regulations spawned by the Great Depression, the post-World War II boom, the 1980s depression in the oil patch, and changes fostered by rapid-fire advances in technology and communication. The demise of Penn Square Bank offers one of history's few unambiguous lessons, and it warrants two chapters--one on the rise, and one on the fall. Increasing regulation of the banking industry, the survival of family banks, and the resilience of community banking are consistent themes in a state that is only a few generations removed from the frontier.

Learn how to thrive in the modern world by unlocking the ancient art of stoicism. This practical and accessible guide will show you how to cultivate wisdom and cope with life’s everyday challenges.

The Little Book of Stoic Wisdom is a classical primer for anyone wanting to understand true stoicism – and even though we’re living in drastically different times to the ancients, many of the lessons of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius still stand today.

The millennia-old mindset will show you how to learn the stoic art of mindful acceptance, foster calmness and reach your full potential. Featuring a breakdown of the central pillars of stoic philosophy alongside practical everyday examples, this essential book will help you to sharpen your focus, build your self-discipline and banish negative thinking.

A stoic life well-lived is one which has been adopted by some of the most successful business leaders, from Steve Jobs to Bill Gates and Elon Musk, as well high-performing sportspeople such as Rory McIlroy, and historic figures such as George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson among others. The Little Book of Stoic Wisdom will show you what it truly means to live stoically and reach your goals.

This work chronicles how the cacao plant is grown commercially in the Philippines; how to properly grow, harvest and sell the cacao plant is detailed. An authoritative overview of the cacao growing process, William Scrugham Lyon's chronicle was popularly consulted by planters and cultivators for many years after publication in the early 20th century. He offers a concise overview of the entire process; from choosing the seeds to plant, to germination, to growing and tending the crop, harvesting and finally selling the produce. Inclusive of charts which document the business model adopted by cacao cultivators, Lyon shows how even a small plot of land can be purposed for a steady, profitable business. At the time he published this account in Manila in 1902, demand for cacao was rocketing - as a result, many entrepreneurial farmers and growers were looking at moving into the market for cacao.