The future of business is digital, yet most organizations (including many with high-tech origins) are struggling to adapt despite high levels of planning and multiyear investments. As it turns out, the key to digital transformation is hidden in plain sight -- Stop trying to predict the future. Instead, create the conditions for unanticipated innovations (AKA "happy accidents") to occur and then rapidly exploit them. APIs and optionality are what make this path possible. Unbundling the Enterprise provides a blueprint--proven but until now unarticulated--on how to architect your business for success in the digital economy. In this book, you will learn the power of using APIs to unlock your organization's existing business capabilities to accumulate optionality, and how that optionality can drive innovation and create new organic growth inside of your enterprise. In Unbundling the Enterprise, digital strategists Matt McLarty and Stephen Fishman document the insights they have gained from speaking with business and IT leaders at digital native companies like Amazon, Google, and Slack, as well as with established enterprises like Cox Automotive, Best Buy, and Coca Cola. By reading this book, you will see the landscape of digital business in a whole new way, and be able to apply what you've learned through its practical methods. You will be ready to take a compelling new model for creating impactful innovation into your enterprise and take advantage of all those happy accidents waiting to happen.

Stephen Fishman has kept the techno-babble to a minimum while retaining all that is important concerning Electronics Aboard. How a device works may not be necessary to your understanding of its use, but some things are simply interesting to learn. Stephen won't bore you with the details of how a microprocessor works or the theories of resistivity, but taking a moment to learn about sine waves and radio frequencies will be worth your time. Unlike many other electronics books, you will not be intimidated by the information you read in this book. It is written in a concise, easy to understand style.If you are the equivalent of a marine propeller head, run do not walk to the shelf where you found this book and put it back. You won't like it. But if you want plain-talk about truly useful equipment that can enrich your boating experience, you have definitely picked the right book.

Inspiring new techniques for engaging students with democratic ideals

"John Dewey and the Philosophy and Practice of Hope" combines philosophical theory with a study of its effects in an actual classroom. To understand how Dewey, one of the century's foremost philosophers of education, understood the concept of hope, Stephen Fishman begins with theoretical questions like: What is hope? What are its objects? How can hope foster a new understanding of democracy and social justice?

The book's second half is a classroom study that mir-rors in practice what Fishman explores in theory, as Lucille McCarthy observes Fishman's undergraduate students reading the theorists. Illustrating students' own vital engagement with the hope literature, McCarthy reveals how the discussions deepen student understandings, simultaneously showing education's power to promote hope and turn social ideals into reality.