Business failures occur when leaders fail-to align an organization with its strategy, to break down plans into doable chunks, or to ensure that project leaders get needed resources and apply them in priority order. Dr. Levitt emphasizes the critical need to revise your strategic portfolio to fit the demands of a dynamic environment. He details the imperatives that enable you to do the right projects, and do these products rights” Clarify and communicate purpose, Align structure and culture with strategy, Create clear goals and metrics and Move outputs effectively into operations.
Languages: English
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Leaving Microsoft to Change the World
While John Wood was a top executive at Microsoft, he made a life-changing decision to found Room to Read, a non-profit organization which now provides educational access to 1.3 million children in developing nations through its 400 schools and 5,000 Reading Rooms. What John brought to this organization was a vision for scalable solutions to world problems, an intense focus on results, and an ability to attract a high-level group of employees, volunteers and investors.
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Strategy by Design
Successful innovations must be desirable to consumers, technically feasible, and viable from a business point of view. But how do you meet these requirements? Tim Brown advocates using the three stages of “design thinking”: inspiration, ideation, and implementation. For inspiration, innovators must look at the world, performing research that is generative rather than evaluative and using empathy to understand consumer needs. For ideation, they can gain insight by finding analogous situations or studying extreme users. Implementation involved early prototyping and realistic testing. Then for the ultimate test: does it tell a story? If a narrative can be developed around an innovation, that’s when it has the best chance of taking off.
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Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
The Age of Collaboration has dramatically changed business forever through blogs, wikis, chat rooms, peer-to-peer networks and personal broadcasting. Millions of people -consumers, employees, suppliers, business partners and even competitors-now harness technology to innovate and collaborate like never before. Based one $9 million research project, Tapscott describes how winning companies innovate and succeed using the knowledge, resources and computing power of millions of people self-organizing into a massive collective force.
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Good Coach, Bad Coach
Sporting achievements often celebrate the talented individual or the triumphant team, but behind any significant success there is always a hard-working coach pulling it all together. What exactly does a coach do? This entertaining program investigates the role of a coach, and explores the reasons why some coaches are more effective than others. Featuring expert advice and humorous demonstrations, the program examines controlling, cooperative and casual coaching styles, bad coaching, good coaching and finishes with a clear explanation of an effective training session. An engaging and revealing look at the all-important coach.
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All About Motion: Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration
Everything moves – even things that appear to be stationary are moving. Being able to accurately describe and analyze qualitatively common situations involving motion is one of the cornerstones of physics. This program clearly illustrates how displacement, velocity and acceleration in which an object is traveling, how far it goes, how fast it travels and whether it slows down or speeds up. In student friendly terms we examine vectors, displacement, velocity, acceleration and acceleration on Galileo’s planes. A great introduction to some fundamental physics concepts.
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Forces, Materials and Explosions
This program explores the forces released by explosions and their impact on materials. It identifies key features of explosions: rapid gas expansion and – with high explosives – shock waves.
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Managing an International Tourism Destination: The Great Ocean Road
This program examines the importance of tourism to local economies. It covers all aspects of managing an international trouist destination using The Great Ocean Road as a case study. The broad topics covered include a description of the region and why it is a tourist destination; who visits The Great Ocean Road; managing tourism at the international level; managing tourism at the local level; how tourism benefits the region and some of the challenges that are subsequently created. This program provides students with an understanding of how different groups must work together to create an appealing destination for international tourists.
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Astrophysics: A Tour of the Universe
Astrophysicist Rachel Webster – a Professor at Melbourne University – reviews key aspects of our current knowledge of the Universe and other topics and concepts that excite students.
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Einstein’s Heroes: Newton, Faraday and Maxwell
Dr Robyn Arianrhod, a writer and mathematician at Monash University takes us on a remarkable journey as she traces the connections between the development of electrodynamics by Faraday and Maxwell, and Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Along the way, she looks at the roles both mathematics and experimentation have played in establishing these key areas of modern physics.