Michael Wade Livres

"Practical, proven strategies for transforming your company from a digital dabbler into a full-fledged digital business Several years ago, digital disruption inspired business leaders to rethink and redesign their business model for the digital age. Next, they shifted toward the organizational and cultural aspects of digital transformation. And there they stalled. In fact, up to 90 percent of companies undergoing some form of digital transformation are failing to meet their original objectives. Written by a team of global digital transformation thought leaders, Hacking Digital walks you through the implementation phase by providing the practical advice and information you need to ensure overall success. Equipping you to successfully navigate your business through the entire transformation process, the authors organize Hacking Digital into five thematic sections: Creating a solid foundation for digital transformation Dealing with organizational dynamics and culture Meeting the external challenges you'll inevitably face Generating revenue though digital products and services and business model renewal Building the skills and capabilities required to be an effective leader in a digital environment Sustaining transformation momentum How do you set up digital governance? How do you create successful digital offerings? How do you manage the relationship between digital transformation and IT? Hacking Digital answers these and all the other questions you need to transform your company and seize the competitive edge for years to come"-- Provided by publisher

Across the globe, populations of plants and animals live in clusters, but maintain a connectivity a population of populations. There are naturally occurring metapopulations, such as clusters of groupers spread across coral reefs, and there are metapopulations humans have helped create by fragmenting landscapes: stands of trees separated by roads, prairies separated by agricultural farms. As the dynamics of landscape change have accelerated, and understanding of how metapopulations functions has played a critical role in ecology and evolutionary biology. Adaptation in Metapopulations synthesizes the role of genetic interactions in adaptive evolution and their influence on the effectiveness of different types of selection. Drawing on extensive field work and lab experiments, cohered with a strong conceptual arc, the work also integrates molecular and organismal biology, as Wade explores adaptation at multiple scales, and shows how evolutionary dynamics scale from the gene to the metapopulation. "

"How do people come up with truly original ideas? For the past decade, the authors of this book have studied individuals who have made leaps of creativity-inventors, scientists, doctors, entrepreneurs and artists-and concluded that there are five patterns of thinking that distinguish them from the rest of us. These five patterns-Attention, Levitation, Imagination, Experimentation and Navigation-lead to a fresh and flexible approach to problem-solving. Alien thinkers know how to free the imagination so it can detect hard-to-observe patterns. They practice deliberate ways to retreat from the world in order to see the big picture underlying a problem. And, they have learned how to change their prototype ideas in systematic ways to reflect feedback and the constraints of reality. Through surprising and compelling stories, the authors show how readers can adopt their five patterns of thinking and use it to develop world-changing ideas. From the WHO's first major breakthrough in treating the Ebola virus, to the balloonist Betrand Piccard's first circumnavigation of the Earth without using fuel, and a British inventor's device that creates electrical power from human footsteps, ALIEN Thinking can help any of us find innovative solutions to the most difficult problems"--Publisher's description

Exploring deep emotions and the complexities of human experience, this collection of poems delves into the struggles of confronting personal demons and making difficult choices. Notable pieces like "Gladiator" illustrate the battle between good and evil, while "Mizchief's Dead" emphasizes the consequences of our actions and the inevitability of fate. Ultimately, the poems challenge readers to reflect on their paths and the choices that shape their lives, leaving them with the profound question of whether to embrace light or darkness.