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A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of
people each year who consider setting up a small business or
becoming self-employed. 'Business Planning' outlines the options
and risks involved in setting up a business. The importance of
thorough planning is often overlooked and only becomes evident if
the business fails. This is highlighted in a recent study by the
SFEDI of 486 bankers and accountants where lack of planning was the
most common reason cited as to why businesses fail. 'Business
Planning' shows how to avoid this failure by focusing on the
planning stage and building on this framework as the business
develops. This is the only book based around the Small Firms
Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI) for first time
owner-managers. It contains all the underpinning factual
information required to prepare and present a successful Business
Plan for presentation to a bank manager, or an alternative
potential source of finance, or for use in an NVQ portfolio. It is
in line with the major syllabuses for Business Start-Up, and can be
used as a course book for anyone completing a formal NVQ level 3
qualification in this area, with tips on NVQ structure and
assessment.
'Business Development' provides a readable and practical book for
the growth and development of businesses. This is primarily a
textbook for the NVQ4 Business Development qualification, the
Institute of Management Certificate in Owner Management courses,
and HND Small business modules, but the text is also an invaluable
practical guide to owner-managers of small businesses.
All businesses pass through several stages of growth and it occurs
for a number of reasons, such as change in the commercial market,
increased customer demand for services or product, higher numbers
of customers. Business Development shows how to make the most of
this growth and also how to deal with the different types of
problems that are encountered along the way.
The book is structured to follow a logical sequence of questions
that makes it readily accessible: Where are we now? Where do we
want to go? What resources are needed to get there? What sales and
marketing policies do we need to develop? It examines the personnel
and staffing implications, the efficiency of the current financial
management process, and the owner's own abilities to make it all
happen. Most important of all it makes the owner-manager takes a
long, hard look at the business and where it is really going.
First textbook to relate closely to the NVQ4 and IM Certificate
course
First textbook to relate closely to the NVQ4 and IM Certificate
course
A readable and structured guide for the increasing numbers of
people each year who consider setting up a small business or
becoming self-employed.
'Business Planning' outlines the options and risks involved in
setting up a business. The importance of thorough planning is often
overlooked and only becomes evident if the business fails. This is
highlighted in a recent study by the SFEDI of 486 bankers and
accountants where lack of planning was the most common reason cited
as to why businesses fail. 'Business Planning' shows how to avoid
this failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this
framework as the business develops.
This is the only book based around the Small Firms Enterprise
Development Initiative (SFEDI) for first time owner-managers. It
contains all the underpinning factual information required to
prepare and present a successful Business Plan for presentation to
a bank manager, or an alternative potential source of finance, or
for use in an NVQ portfolio. It is in line with the major
syllabuses for Business Start-Up, and can be used as a course book
for anyone completing a formal NVQ level 3 qualification in this
area, with tips on NVQ structure and assessment.
Covers all the essential information for preparing a business plan
for funding applications, or as part of an NVQ
Endorsed by Tony Robinson at SFEDI and designed around approved
good practice in this area.
Written in clear English with practical examples and tips for
assessment
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
Starting a new business takes a lot of energy and organization. The
failure rate is alarmingly high and the task can look herculean at
the outset. This new textbook provides a simple guide to help plan
a successful new business, taking entrepreneurs and students
through the steps required to avoid pitfalls and get a business
going. Unlike most entrepreneurship textbooks, the author avoids
dwelling on theories in favour of providing effective and practical
guidance on how to start and manage a profitable business, with a
focus on new ventures operating in high-growth, innovative sectors.
Written by an expert with experience in academia and business
consulting, this concise textbook will be valuable reading for
students of entrepreneurship, new ventures and small business. The
practical focus of the book means that it will be useful both for
students in the classroom and for entrepreneurs wanting to start a
new business.
Sustainable Water Services: A Procedural Guide is the result of the
Sustainable Water industry Asset Resource Decisions (SWARD)
project, undertaken by a consortium of UK academics in
collaboration with water service providers in Scotland, England and
Romania. It has been developed to act as a practical tool to assist
with the explicit inclusion of ?sustainability? in the
decision-making processes of those responsible for providing water
services. The book contains a framework that comprises a set of
decision support processes that can be used by water service
providers to explicitly incorporate sustainability considerations
into their decision-making procedures, through the use of
sustainability principles, criteria, indicators and processes.
These principles and criteria can be applied at an overall
corporate strategic level, for example in the service provider?s
mission statement, or at an application level, where these
strategic principles are being applied to a particular decision.
Sustainable Water Services is designed to inform and to provide
support for strategic activity, both as a resource containing
information about sustainability, and by employing feedback from
application to inform the strategic processes of the water service
provider. Presents an inclusive and generic set of sustainability
criteria for use in water industry decision making processes;
Discusses the legislative drivers for sustainable decision making
for the UK water industry; Presents clear case study examples of
the sustainability framework in action; Discusses the use and
applicability of a wide range of tools and techniques for
undertaking environmental, economic and social analyses, e.g. life
cycle assessment, multi-criteria analysis.
This collection of papers is aimed at both the research community
and the professional involved with water supply systems within the
context of integrated urban water systems as a whole. Based on both
field expertise and research results, this book offers a range of
innovative techniques such as diagnostics, demand management,
uncertainty analysis and transients models, alongside more
traditional methods such as optimisation and network analysis,
designed to enable the practitioner to devise the most sustainable
and cost-effective solutions. Topics discussed include data
management; management and detection of leakage; analysis, design
and rehabilitation of distribution networks; water quality
management; effectiveness of water conservation; water economics;
consumption trends and demand forecast; specific country
experiences with demand management.
Enterprise Planning and Development outlines the options and risks
involved in setting up a business. It shows how to avoid this
failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this
framework as the business develops. The book contains all the
underpinning factual information required to prepare a successful
Business Plan for presentation to a bank manager, or an alternative
potential source of finance, or for use in an NVQ portfolio. It is
in line with the major syllabuses for Business Start-Up, and can be
used as a course book for anyone completing a formal NVQ level 3
and 4 qualification in this area, with tips on NVQ structure and
assessment. Enterprise Planning and Development shows how to make
the most of business growth and also how to deal with the different
types of problems that are encountered along the way. All
businesses pass through several stages of growth and it occurs for
a number of reasons, such as change in the commercial market,
increased customer demand for services or product and higher
numbers of customers. The book is structured to follow a logical
sequence of questions that makes it readily accessible: Where are
we now? Where do we want to go? What resources are needed to get
there? What sales and marketing policies do we need to develop? It
examines the personnel and staffing implications, the efficiency of
the current financial management process and the owner's own
abilities to make it all happen
'Business Development' provides a readable and practical book for
the growth and development of businesses. This is primarily a
textbook for the NVQ4 Business Development qualification, the
Institute of Management Certificate in Owner Management courses,
and HND Small business modules, but the text is also an invaluable
practical guide to owner-managers of small businesses. All
businesses pass through several stages of growth and it occurs for
a number of reasons, such as change in the commercial market,
increased customer demand for services or product, higher numbers
of customers. Business Development shows how to make the most of
this growth and also how to deal with the different types of
problems that are encountered along the way. The book is structured
to follow a logical sequence of questions that makes it readily
accessible: Where are we now? Where do we want to go? What
resources are needed to get there? What sales and marketing
policies do we need to develop? It examines the personnel and
staffing implications, the efficiency of the current financial
management process, and the owner's own abilities to make it all
happen. Most important of all it makes the owner-manager takes a
long, hard look at the business and where it is really going.
Enterprise Planning and Development outlines the options and risks
involved in setting up a business. It shows how to avoid this
failure by focusing on the planning stage and building on this
framework as the business develops.
The book contains all the underpinning factual information required
to prepare a successful Business Plan for presentation to a bank
manager, or an alternative potential source of finance, or for use
in an NVQ portfolio. It is in line with the major syllabuses for
Business Start-Up, and can be used as a course book for anyone
completing a formal NVQ level 3 and 4 qualification in this area,
with tips on NVQ structure and assessment.
Enterprise Planning and Development shows how to make the most of
business growth and also how to deal with the different types of
problems that are encountered along the way. All businesses pass
through several stages of growth and it occurs for a number of
reasons, such as change in the commercial market, increased
customer demand for services or product and higher numbers of
customers.
The book is structured to follow a logical sequence of questions
that makes it readily accessible: Where are we now? Where do we
want to go? What resources are needed to get there? What sales and
marketing policies do we need to develop? It examines the personnel
and staffing implications, the efficiency of the current financial
management process and the owner's own abilities to make it all
happen
* New topical material on innovation, intellectual property and
exit strategies
* Includes current issues of entrepreneurship such as the relevance
of family support, entrepreneurial characteristics, enterprise
cultures inorganisations.
* Practical and relevant start-up text that provides the necessary
follow-on development material.
This book encourages and demonstrates an innovative approach to the
design and operation of urban wastewater systems: integrated
modelling and control. Consideration of sewer system, wastewater
treatment plant and receiving water body as a single system (rather
than as three moderately independent units as before) opens up new
types of analyses and new control algorithms for urban wastewater
systems. After a comprehensive review of the literature of various
fields including processes affecting water flow and quality in
urban wastewater systems and their description by different types
of models, this book also introduces some of the fundamental
concepts of the operation of such systems. It discusses
conventional as well as innovative control approaches - ranging
from control by simple set-points to elaborate hierarchical control
concepts taking into account the water flow and the quality of
sewer systems, treatment plants and receiving water body. Thus it
will enable the researcher as well as the practising engineer to
analyse and to implement various types of control for a particular
case study site.In order to illustrate the concepts developed, a
detailed simulation study, covering the complete urban wastewater
system, is presented. The conclusions drawn demonstrate that the
application of innovative control concepts can lead to improved
performance of wastewater systems. In addition, a comprehensive
survey of mathematical optimisation methods is presented. This book
can assist the practising engineer and the student to gain
knowledge of all aspects of wastewater systems. To the researcher,
this book provides a thorough survey of existing simulation and
control concepts and inspiration for further work.
This book encourages and demonstrates an innovative approach to the design and operation of urban wastewater systems: integrated modelling and control. Consideration of sewer system, wastewater treatment plant and receiving water body as a single system (rather than as three moderately independent units as before) opens up new types of analyses and new control algorithms for urban wastewater systems.After a comprehensive review of the literature of various fields including processes affecting water flow and quality in urban wastewater systems and their description by different types of models, this book also introduces some of the fundamental concepts of the operation of such systems. It discusses conventional as well as innovative control approaches - ranging from control by simple set-points to elaborate hierarchical control concepts taking into account the water flow and the quality of sewer systems, treatment plants and receiving water body. Thus it will enable the researcher as well as the practising engineer to analyse and to implement various types of control for a particular case study site. In order to illustrate the concepts developed, a detailed simulation study, covering the complete urban wastewater system, is presented. The conclusions drawn demonstrate that the application of innovative control concepts can lead to improved performance of wastewater systems.In addition, a comprehensive survey of mathematical optimisation methods is presented. This book can assist the practising engineer and the student to gain knowledge of all aspects of wastewater systems. To the researcher, this book provides a thorough survey of existing simulation and control concepts and inspiration for further work.
The most authoritative study of a landmark British General Election
- the fifteenth book in the renowned Nuffield series of election
studies. This highly readable account covers all the salient
features - the background, the campaign, the results and the
consequences of Labour's victory. Based on close observation of
party headquarters, it explores each party's strategic decisions
and their implementation, showing how 1997 saw campaigning
techniques at an altogether new level of sophistication. The battle
in the media and the constituencies is analysed in detail. There is
a mass of data and thorough statistical analysis of the campaign
and results. Plates and cartoons entertainingly illustrate the
campaign trail and recapture the drama of the election.
The holding of referendums has returned to the British political
agenda. The re-issue of the story of what happened in the country's
only nationwide referendum so far is therefore timely. This book
tells the full story of the politics, high and low, as well as the
innovative campaigning and administration involved in a key event
in United Kingdom history.
The 1994 Euro-elections may have marked a sea-change in British
politics. The Conservatives lost seats, but the Prime Minister
narrowly saw off threats to his position. The Liberal Democrats won
seats, but did not make the breakthrough in the south that pundits
had been predicting. Perhaps above all, John Smith's untimely death
led to the appearance of a new phenomenon in British politics, the
`Blair effect'. This study is primarily about the short and complex
1994 Euro-campaign in Britain, but it places this in the more
general context of Britain's awkward relations with its continental
partners and the changing positions on Europe of British political
parties. Deprived of power in Westminster, Labour became stronger
in Strasbourg, and Europe remained firmly on the British political
agenda.
This new edition of a well-established textbook covers the
environmental and engineering aspects of the management of
rainwater and wastewater in areas of human development. Urban
Drainage deals comprehensively not only with the design of new
systems, but also the analysis and upgrading of existing
infrastructure. Keeping its balance of principles, practice and
research, this new edition has significant new material on
modelling, resilience, smart systems, and the global and local
context. The two new authors bring further research and
practice-based experience. This is an essential text for
undergraduate and graduate students, lecturers and researchers in
water engineering, environmental engineering, public health
engineering, engineering hydrology, and related non-engineering
disciplines. It also serves as a dependable reference for drainage
engineers in water service providers, local authorities, and for
consulting engineers. Extensive examples are used to support and
demonstrate the key issues throughout the text.
The 1987 election, which returned Mrs Thatcher for a
record-breaking third term, was notable for a new level of
campaigning professionalism. This book, the thirteenth in a series
that has covered every election since the Second World War,
examines in detail the nature of the Conservative victory, with its
roots in recent history and social changes, but depending to the
end on argument and presentation. The authors explore the way in
which the party system adapted itself to and blunted the renewed
Alliance challenge; the way in which the Labour party picked itself
up from the disaster of 1983 to put on a brilliant but ultimately
unsuccessful campaign; and the way in which Mrs Thatcher steered
herself and her party back onto a winning course after the Westland
disaster. The book describes how the Labour party adopted a modern
communications strategy to promote Mr Kinnock and it examines the
secret battle for control of the Conservative campaign between
different groups and advertising agencies. The authors have been
given exceptional access to persons and papers.
The 1987 election, which returned Mrs Thatcher for a
record-breaking third term, was notable for a new level of
campaigning professionalism. This book, the thirteenth in a series
that has covered every election since the Second World War,
examines in detail the nature of the Conservative victory, with its
roots in recent history and social changes, but depending to the
end on argument and presentation. The authors explore the way in
which the party system adapted itself to and blunted the renewed
Alliance challenge; the way in which the Labour party picked itself
up from the disaster of 1983 to put on a brilliant but ultimately
unsuccessful campaign; and the way in which Mrs Thatcher steered
herself and her party back onto a winning course after the Westland
disaster. The book describes how the Labour party adopted a modern
communications strategy to promote Mr Kinnock and it examines the
secret battle for control of the Conservative campaign between
different groups and advertising agencies. The authors have been
given exceptional access to persons and papers.
Originally published in 1983, Democracy and Elections analyses the
main electoral systems of modern democracies, and places them in
their institutional and historical context. A distinguished group
of contributors provide interpretations of the electoral systems of
the EEC countries and Japan, and assess the ways in which different
electoral systems affect the political practice of each country. If
the book has a single theme, it is that one should be sceptical
about attributing fixed qualities to electoral systems. Although
amongst the quantifiable of political phenomena, they do not
conform to mechanistic rules, but must be understood in terms of
the historical experience and cultural outlook of different
societies. What is striking is the great variety of ways in which
different countries have attempted to meet the problem of
translating votes into seats.
A thrilling tale of passion, courage and determination. Michael
Collins became a hero: a soldier, a freedom-fighter, a ghost:
Ireland's Rebel Son. In life, in death, a legend. Raised on songs
and stories of Irish heroes and the struggle for Irish
independence, young Michael Collins was sworn into the IRB in
London by Sam Maguire. As Joseph Plunkett's aide-de-camp he took
his place in the GPO at Easter 1916. He rose through the ranks in
the universities of Revolution, the prisons of Stafford and
Frongoch, and returned to the work of independence when released.
Mick was the man behind the scenes: creator of the Intelligence
network, the Squad and orchestrated the war against the British.
When De Valera demanded he take his place as a negotiator of the
Treaty, he did his duty, and then defended his beliefs as the
country degenerated to Civil War. Cut down by his countrymen in his
own country, the Big Fella died on 22 August 1922 at Beal na
mBlath, but his legend continues to grow. This graphic novel
chronicles the life and legacy of the legendary Michael Collins.
Starting a new business takes a lot of energy and organization. The
failure rate is alarmingly high and the task can look herculean at
the outset. This new textbook provides a simple guide to help plan
a successful new business, taking entrepreneurs and students
through the steps required to avoid pitfalls and get a business
going. Unlike most entrepreneurship textbooks, the author avoids
dwelling on theories in favour of providing effective and practical
guidance on how to start and manage a profitable business, with a
focus on new ventures operating in high-growth, innovative sectors.
Written by an expert with experience in academia and business
consulting, this concise textbook will be valuable reading for
students of entrepreneurship, new ventures and small business. The
practical focus of the book means that it will be useful both for
students in the classroom and for entrepreneurs wanting to start a
new business.
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