Strategic ROADMAP: An intentional, memorable approach to achieving success


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Strategic ROADMAP© is an approach to strategy that is simple, comprehensive, and clear. Used successfully by start-ups and large global organizations, Strategic ROADMAP enables business owners, executives and leaders to utilize a proven approach to defining a clear plan that is easily communicated to and recalled by everyone in their business, making success easier to achieve. Strategies developed using the Strategic ROADMAP are intentional, definitive and clear, memorable, and integrated for impact. If you’ve every completed a Business Model Canvas and wondered “what’s next,” this is what you need. Each letter in the word ROADMAP represents a critical element of a successful and effective strategy. Simultaneously, the two words that make up ROADMAP—ROAD and MAP—represent two critical activities required for success – planning and execution. The book starts with helping define the strategic ROAD: The Results, Opportunities, Advantage and Design the business intends to take, clearly answering the questions of: What’s success? How to get there? How to win? And where to invest? It then continues on to help determine how to execute, focusing on the Milestones, Action plans, and Partners that are needed to get to success; measuring progress, getting it done and identifying and engaging partners who can help. Use this book to provoke and inspire you and your team, as a framework for planning and communicating your journey with your organization, and as reference to help keep you on course on your way to success.




Strategic ROADMAP


Book Description

Strategic ROADMAP(c) is an approach to strategy that is simple, comprehensive, and clear. Used successfully by start-ups and large global organizations, Strategic ROADMAP enables business owners, executives and leaders to utilize a proven approach to defining a clear plan that is easily communicated to and recalled by everyone in their business, making success easier to achieve. Strategies developed using the Strategic ROADMAP are intentional, definitive and clear, memorable, and integrated for impact. If you've every completed a Business Model Canvas and wondered "what's next," this is what you need. Each letter in the word ROADMAP represents a critical element of a successful and effective strategy. Simultaneously, the two words that make up ROADMAP-ROAD and MAP-represent two critical activities required for success - planning and execution. The book starts with helping define the strategic ROAD: The Results, Opportunities, Advantage and Design the business intends to take, clearly answering the questions of: What's success? How to get there? How to win? And where to invest? It then continues on to help determine how to execute, focusing on the Milestones, Action plans, and Partners that are needed to get to success; measuring progress, getting it done and identifying and engaging partners who can help. Use this book to provoke and inspire you and your team, as a framework for planning and communicating your journey with your organization, and as reference to help keep you on course on your way to success.




Developing Faculty in Liberal Arts Colleges


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Developing Faculty Members in Liberal Arts Colleges analyzes the career stage challenges these faculty members must overcome, such as a lack of preparation for teaching, limited access to resources and mentors, and changing expectations for excellence in teaching, research, and service to become academic leaders in their discipline and at these distinctive institutions. Drawing on research conducted at the thirteen institutions of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Vicki L. Baker, Laura Gail Lunsford, and Meghan J. Pifer propose a compelling Alignment Framework for Faculty Development in Liberal Arts Colleges to show how these colleges succeed—or sometimes fail—in providing their faculties with the right support to be successful.




The No-Plan Plan


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Are you ready for The No-Plan Plan? ? Do you have an automatic, unconscious need to plan in order to feel safe and secure in your life? ? Have you ever felt like planning might actually be a stressful waste of your time? ? Have you ever heard your inner voice calling you to be more creative or spontaneous? ? Have you ever felt that your work was meaningless and that somewhere there is a better ?fit? for you?a more authentic alignment of who you are inside with what you do for a living? ? Are you willing to share who you are at your core to help others, even if it means you have to be more vulnerable than you have ever been courageous enough to be? If you answered ?yes? to one or more of these questions, then you just might be ready to reclaim the power of your creative spirit through your genuine adoption of The No-Plan Plan in your life and the regular practice of the approaches I share in this book.




Boundary Spanning


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This book includes critical information regarding the systems and organizations in which social workers practice; the nature of the relationship between social workers and clients/consumers/communities; planning, contracting, and strategizing functions; intervention techniques using advocacy, brief work, case management, and group work; and evaluation.




Project Management Next Generation


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PROJECT MANAGEMENT NEXT GENERATION Strategic guidance on enabling transformational change in the project management landscape In Project Management Next Generation: The Pillars for Organizational Excellence, a team of world-renowned project management leaders delivers an expert discussion on project management implementation in organizations of all kinds. The book explores 10 pillars of project management that will be critical for companies in the coming decade. It offers contributions from industry changemakers and thought leaders that provide the perfect balance between practical experience across a variety of programs, projects, and transformation initiatives. It’s a must-have title for practicing project managers who seek hands-on guidance and insightful case studies complete with discussion questions and instruction materials, including PowerPoint lecture slides and a full Instructors Manual on the companion website. In addition to the perspectives of several global commercial organizations on the project management industry’s future, readers will find: Thorough introductions to project management as a strategic competency and corporate project management cultures Comprehensive explorations of workforce upskilling and defining project success Practical discussions of flexible project management frameworks and flexible life cycle phases and project governance In-depth examinations of value-driven project management and metrics, as well as metrics for intangible assets, and strategic metrics Perfect for mid-level corporate, project, and team managers, as well as executives and business consultants, Project Management Next Generation: The Pillars for Organizational Excellence will also earn a place in the libraries of students in courses on advanced project management at the upper-level undergraduate and graduate levels.




Telehealth Essentials for Advanced Practice Nursing


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A timely, practical, and concise resource for advanced practice registered nursing (APRN) students, faculty, and providers, Telehealth Essentials for Advanced Practice Nursing provides readers with an understanding of and tools to embrace the emerging field of telehealth and optimize its application in clinical practice. Telehealth offers a unique solution to many health-care challenges, such as provider shortages, chronic disease management, an aging population, protection from infectious disease, and limited access to care. As telehealth is being incorporated into health care and health care delivery at an ever-increasing rate, APRNs that can navigate the telehealth arena are uniquely positioned to serve as leaders in the health care of the future. Using Telehealth Essentials for Advanced Practice Nursing, readers will learn how to utilize telehealth to provide new and innovative methods of care. Authors Patty A. Schweickert and Carolyn M. Rutledge present a multi-modal approach to telehealth education that layers telehealth onto nurses’ existing knowledge of nursing practice. The text begins with the history and basics of telehealth before moving on to critical content that a provider must understand to maximize its use in the health care arena, covering topics including: Technology used in the early response to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 The process of integrating telehealth in practice Laws, policies, and regulations governing telehealth practice Barriers to implementation and strategies for overcoming them Telehealth etiquette and ethics Using telehealth for effective interprofessional collaboration Each chapter includes group exercises, prompts for reflection, questions for discussion, and case studies. Included with the text are online supplemental materials for faculty use in the classroom. With Telehealth Essentials for Advanced Practice Nursing, APRN students, faculty, and practicing providers will learn to advocate for telehealth implementation, establish telehealth programs, and utilize telehealth to overcome barriers to care in order to optimize access and quality of care.




Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators


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Management and Leadership for Nurse Administrators, Seventh Edition provides professional administrators and nursing students with a comprehensive overview of management concepts and theories. This text provides a foundation for nurse managers and executives as well as nursing students with a focus on management and administration. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.




Strategic Planning


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Strategic Planning A Practical Guide Peter Rea, Ph.D., HaroldKerzner, Ph.D. In today's business world, now more than ever, theonly constant is change. With technology producing a steady streamof innovations, consumer preferences shifting rapidly, andworld-wide free trade increasing, successful managers face agrowing challenge to remain a step ahead of the future. Frombusiness students to corporate managers, anyone interested in thisdiscipline will find no resource more insightful and engaging thanStrategic Planning: A Practical Guide. From their extensiveexperience consulting with Fortune 500 companies, Rea and Kerznerhave succeeded in crafting the definitive introduction to strategicplanning and management policy and strategy--from the grass-rootsprinciples to the practical applications utilized by organizationstoday. Examining the integral roles of finance, marketing, learningcurves, research and development, inventory control, andmanufacturing techniques, Strategic Planning presents acomprehensive overview of the development and implementation ofcontemporary strategic planning models applicable to both small andlarge businesses. Rather than teaching complex, integrated theory,the authors offer a straight-forward approach to demonstratestrategic planning and management policy techniques. Withstep-by-step methods on how to apply relevant material, along withdiscussion questions, and problems designed to highlight thepractical application of particular issues, companies cansuccessfully formulate and implement strategic initiativesto: * Establish a clear direction for the future * Make decisions across levels and functions * Improve organizational performance * Build teamwork and expertise * Aid executives in thinking and behaving strategically * And more!