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Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role
of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business
organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack
as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups.
The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which
demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add
significant value. However this requires the centre to act in
specific ways depending on the external environment in which the
group is operating.
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies is highly readable, with
a large number of illustrative examples included in the text.
Academic references and theoretical underpinnings are placed in the
final chapter of the book, so that the book is focused on the
professional market for strategy and creating value.
*The examples used are from very well known multi-national
organisations in order to make the book attractive in international
markets.
*Tackles important issues incorporating theoretical and practical
dimensions.
First published in 2002. This is Volume XII of twelve in the
Library of Philosophy series on Ethics. Written in 1970, this book
seeks to elucidate the fundamental characteristics of Christian
ethics. The main concern has been with what is of most vital
concern to the moral philosopher-the exposition of the formal
characteristics of a system of morality rather than with the detail
of its content and application.
* Challenging and provocative book * Shows how management
accounting techniques can be integrated into the strategic decision
making process * Extensive use of practical examples from a variety
of contexts.An introduction to business strategy for management
accountants, financial accountants or managers with an accounting
orientation. The book places management accounting clearly within
the context of strategic management of the business. Offers
qualified accountants a sound introduction to strategic management,
and with practical examples and mini-cases provided throughout,
this book is comprehensive yet concise. Keith Ward addresses
strategic management accounting as a continuous process of
analysis, planning and control. Management accounting is about
supplying the right information to the right people at the right
time, and this can only be expressed in the context of the business
strategy and strategic plan. The implementation of appropriate
management accounting systems to complement different strategies is
discussed in detail. Applications and examples include
multinational organizations, non-profit organizations and varying
organizational structures. Finally the author covers methods of
using management accounting for strategic advantage.
First published in 2002. This is Volume XII of twelve in the
Library of Philosophy series on Ethics. Written in 1970, this book
seeks to elucidate the fundamental characteristics of Christian
ethics. The main concern has been with what is of most vital
concern to the moral philosopher-the exposition of the formal
characteristics of a system of morality rather than with the detail
of its content and application.
The work of a sports therapist is highly technical and requires a
confident, responsible and professional approach. The Routledge
Handbook of Sports Therapy, Injury Assessment and Rehabilitation is
a comprehensive and authoritative reference for those studying or
working in this field and is the first book to comprehensively
cover all of the following areas: Sports Injury Aetiology Soft
Tissue Injury Healing Clinical Assessment in Sports Therapy
Clinical Interventions in Sports Therapy Spinal and Peripheral
Anatomy, Injury Assessment and Management Pitch-side Trauma Care
Professionalism and Ethics in Sports Therapy The Handbook presents
principles which form the foundation of the profession and
incorporates a set of spinal and peripheral regional chapters which
detail functional anatomy, the injuries common to those regions,
and evidence-based assessment and management approaches. Its design
incorporates numerous photographs, figures, tables, practitioner
tips and detailed sample Patient Record Forms. This book is
comprehensively referenced and multi-authored, and is essential to
anyone involved in sports therapy, from their first year as an
undergraduate, to those currently in professional practice.
Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for
the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate
leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How
to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who
display the capability for great responsibility, are the themes
that run throughout. The book focuses on both the key value adding
activities and disciplines for driving through change and the
styles of corporate leaders that attract successExtraordinary
performance from ordinary people highlights how the leaders of the
company, as a corporate team, can adopt and adapt the four value
creating styles. It emphasises how to recognise which leadership
framework suits the challenges of particular competitive
environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively
adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies
of the organisation to achieve stretching performance targets. It
concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do.
Diagnostic models that show what really works and under which
circumstances are core to this book.
* Challenging and provocative book * Shows how management
accounting techniques can be integrated into the strategic decision
making process * Extensive use of practical examples from a variety
of contexts.An introduction to business strategy for management
accountants, financial accountants or managers with an accounting
orientation. The book places management accounting clearly within
the context of strategic management of the business. Offers
qualified accountants a sound introduction to strategic management,
and with practical examples and mini-cases provided throughout,
this book is comprehensive yet concise.
Keith Ward addresses strategic management accounting as a
continuous process of analysis, planning and control. Management
accounting is about supplying the right information to the right
people at the right time, and this can only be expressed in the
context of the business strategy and strategic plan. The
implementation of appropriate management accounting systems to
complement different strategies is discussed in detail.
Applications and examples include multinational organizations,
non-profit organizations and varying organizational structures.
Finally the author covers methods of using management accounting
for strategic advantage.
Challenging and provocative book
Shows how management accounting techniques can be integrated into
the strategic decision making process
Extensive use of practical examples from a variety of contexts
Designing World Class Corporate Strategies considers the key role
of corporate centres within very large, primarily multi-business
organisations. At present, these corporate centres are under attack
as not creating and value and merely adding cost to their groups.
The authors have developed a corporate configurations model which
demonstrates four ways in which corporate centres can add
significant value. However this requires the centre to act in
specific ways depending on the external environment in which the
group is operating. Designing World Class Corporate Strategies is
highly readable, with a large number of illustrative examples
included in the text. Academic references and theoretical
underpinnings are placed in the final chapter of the book, so that
the book is focused on the professional market for strategy and
creating value.
Although Christianity is the world's largest religion, with its
numerous denominations, and differing opinions on many central
tenets, it can be a difficult faith to understand. In this unique
and authoritative introduction, renowned theologian Keith Ward
examines differing Christian perspectives on themes ranging from
original sin to eternal life, and reveals a wonderfully
multifaceted tradition united in a common belief, whose impact has
been felt in the most remote areas of the planet.
Keith Ward introduces this volume on the world's greatest ever
bestseller by suggesting that the Bible is neither a book dictated
by God, as some believe, nor just a set of out-dated taboos and
politically slanted histories, as those at the opposite extreme
would maintain. Rather, it is a very mixed set of documents, by
many different writers, from many different times, which records
the struggle of many people in one particular religious tradition
to respond to their discernments of a transcendent spiritual power.
What makes the Bible distinctive among other religious books is the
dominant image of transendence, of spirituality, that slowly
develops in its pages. This is the image of a power that helps
humans to seek a moral goal in history even when such a thing would
seem impossible to achieve - were it not for the power of grace.
The bible, in short, is a spiritual text.
Building on the author's previous book, Financial Aspects of
Marketing, Marketing Finance stresses the pivotal relationship
between finance and strategy in the marketing process, and clearly
demonstrates the techniques and calculations that are necessary to
formulate a comprehensive plan. Professor Ward also concentrates on
how financial input in marketing can create shareholder value and
demonstrates how to achieve the required integration of the finance
function with marketing for the successful modern business.
Marketing Finance is backed up with a number of integrated industry
examples and case studies to demonstrate the success and failure
caused by the marketing finance interface.
Is the mind just a by-product of the brain? Or is mind the
fundamental reality, which creates matter? In The Priority of Mind,
Keith Ward mounts a definitive defence of mind as prior to matter.
In an accessible style, he unpacks the sources and abilities of the
mind, situates it in the wider world, or cosmos, and proposes a
relation between mind and virtue, and the nature of mind after
death. Along the way, he explores the different philosophical
approaches to the mind-matter question taken by thinkers over time,
settling on idealism as the teaching of most classical
philosophers, and as most consistent with modern science. Lay
readers and scholars alike will relish Ward's clear, methodical
exposition, and his counterarguments against the materialist
narrative that dominates much of popular philosophical thinking
today. Â
The work of a sports therapist is highly technical and requires a
confident, responsible and professional approach. The Routledge
Handbook of Sports Therapy, Injury Assessment and Rehabilitation is
a comprehensive and authoritative reference for those studying or
working in this field and is the first book to comprehensively
cover all of the following areas: Sports Injury Aetiology Soft
Tissue Injury Healing Clinical Assessment in Sports Therapy
Clinical Interventions in Sports Therapy Spinal and Peripheral
Anatomy, Injury Assessment and Management Pitch-side Trauma Care
Professionalism and Ethics in Sports Therapy The Handbook presents
principles which form the foundation of the profession and
incorporates a set of spinal and peripheral regional chapters which
detail functional anatomy, the injuries common to those regions,
and evidence-based assessment and management approaches. Its design
incorporates numerous photographs, figures, tables, practitioner
tips and detailed sample Patient Record Forms. This book is
comprehensively referenced and multi-authored, and is essential to
anyone involved in sports therapy, from their first year as an
undergraduate, to those currently in professional practice.
Long before the release of The God Delusion, Keith Ward was
defending religious belief on all sides from its detractors. In the
new paperback edition of this influential bestseller, Keith Ward
examines the arguments put forward by a host of scientists,
sociologists, and psychologists, who claim that religion is nothing
more than a host of naive superstitions and delusions. Exploring
the work of thinkers from Sigmund Freud to Emile Durkheim, Ward
offers an alternative view, demonstrating religion's key
contribution to the human condition and its crucial relevance to
the world today.
Building on the author's previous book, Financial Aspects of
Marketing, Marketing Finance stresses the pivotal relationship
between finance and strategy in the marketing process, and clearly
demonstrates the techniques and calculations that are necessary to
formulate a comprehensive plan. Professor Ward also concentrates on
how financial input in marketing can create shareholder value and
demonstrates how to achieve the required integration of the finance
function with marketing for the successful modern business.
Marketing Finance is backed up with a number of integrated industry
examples and case studies to demonstrate the success and failure
caused by the marketing finance interface.
This title is the first in a series that employs a simple and
effective concept to illustrate and describe the multiplicity of
equipment and weapons systems used on the ground during World War
II. Whilst many books have described such weapons and war materiel,
Keith Ward's unique abilities as a 3D technical artist bring these
items to life, illustrated throughout in full color. Here, in a
single concise volume, are all major and many minor and less
well-known items of German weaponry and equipment, rendered
precisely, including detailed cutaways showing their internal
workings, information which is often absent from other
publications. Technical details are also provided. This is an
essential volume for anyone interested in the German Armed Forces
of World War II."
This is the recommended principal text for the Financial Aspects of
Marketing paper of the CIM Certificate Examination.
The ultimate test of marketing investment, and indeed any
investment, is whether it creates value for shareholders. But few
marketing investments are evaluated from this perspective.
Increasingly, boards of directors and city analysts the world over
are dissatisfied with this lack of accountability.
Cranfield School of Management has been addressing this problem by
working with a range of blue-chip companies. They have created a
new framework which shows how marketing systematically contributes
to shareholder value based on three key questions-
-Does the promised market exist?
-Will the strategy deliver the market share promised?
-Will the market share create shareholder value?
This groundbreaking new book explains the principles and practice
behind rigorous due diligence in marketing for Marketing and
Finance Directors, CEOs, Strategists and MBA students wanting to
understand the key drivers of modern business
Surely, the time has come for marketing directors to take their
rightful place in the boardroom by proving that what they are doing
creates shareholder value added?
* Top level Cranfield based author team utilising latest Cranfield
in-company research
* Connects marketing plans and investment to the valuation of the
firm and how it can contribute to increasing stakeholder value
* Systematic and practical approach so that it can be used by both
practitioners and students
From Plato to Wittgenstein and religions from Judaism to the Hindu
tradition, interspersed with divine influences from Classical
Greece, Romantic poetry, and the occasional scene from 'Alien',
'God: A Guide for the Perplexed' charts the path of humanity's
great spiritual odyssey: the search for God. Leading the way
through this minefield is acclaimed philosopher-theologian Keith
Ward, blending the sublime and the eclectic in a narrative which
offers wit, erudition and moments of genuine pathos. As a survey of
the different manifestations of God through the centuries, and an
examination of humanity's search for the divine, this is an
engaging and informative book. As a deeply moving testament to our
endless capacity for spiritual hope, it is compulsive reading for
anyone interested in, or embarking on, the great quest for meaning.
'A lively and very clearly written discussion summarizing and
criticizing the thoughts of many significant thinkers.' Times
Literary Supplement 'Wry but delightfully non-ironic, intelligent
and clear, this book is a blessing. ' Publishers Weekly 'Highly
informed, witty and immensely accessible. One of the most
congenial, lively and informative introductions to this field.'
Alister McGrath, Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford
University
A short definitive account of Keith Ward’s theology, based on the
philosophy of Personal Idealism. It records Ward’s views about
God, revelation, the kingdom of God, life after death, the
incarnation, atonement, and Trinity. In summary, it is a concise
and clear account of most central Christian doctrines, formed in
the light of modern science and Idealist philosophy.
Straddling the boundaries between science, religion, and
philosophy, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in
the current cultural war between atheism and belief A wide ranging
and informed discussion that addresses the key questions raised by
the New Atheists, this engaging and stimulating read debunks the
notion that rationality and intelligence are incompatible with
belief in God. If the New Atheists are to be believed, religious
belief is dangerous and irrational. With increasingly intolerant
polemic they are dismissing the views of religious people, and
misconstruing them in the process. Written with wit, style, and
clarity of meaning, this book directly addresses many of the main
criticisms raised by the New Atheists--such as "Does God cause
evil? Is the universe intelligently designed? Is God free?"--and is
an indispensable read for anyone interested in the arguments for
and against religious belief.
When Steve Duncan is asked to go on an archeological search on a remote Caribbean island, he never imagines the stallion he will find there. But the giant horse is unapproachable, showing nothing but fear and fury towards people. When the stallion gets caught in quicksand, can Steve get close enough to save the wild horse?
The subject of religious diversity is of growing significance, with
its associated problems of religious pluralism and inter-faith
dialogue. Moreover, since the European Enlightenment, religions
have had to face new, existential challenges. Is there a future for
religions? How will they have to change? Can they co-exist
peacefully? In this book, Keith Ward brings new insights to these
questions. Applying historical and philosophical approaches, he
explores how we can establish truth among so many diverse
religions. He explains how religions have evolved over time and how
they are reacting to the challenges posed by new scientific and
moral beliefs. A celebration of the diversity in the world's
religions, Ward's timely book also deals with the possibility and
necessity of religious tolerance and co-existence.
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