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El Plan Estratégico de Turismo de la Mancomunidad de la Canal de Navarrés es una apuesta de ocho municipios para trazar las líneas de trabajo que permitan el diseño participativo de una comarca como territorio de interior de la Comunidad Valenciana. Pretende reforzar su potencial para convertirse en referente turístico en la provincia de Valencia. El plan constituye un instrumento flexible de planificación, destinado a dotar a los municipios...
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Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis Preview: The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a guide for businesses to reliably commit to the goals and plans they set, authored by associates from FranklinCovey, a management consultancy. Rather than focusing on what a business must accomplish to be successful, the four disciplines establish how to accomplish those things. One reason commitments...
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Good to Great by Jim Collins | Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review Preview: What does it take to make something-an activity, a work of art, a company-great? What are the factors that distinguish the merely good from the truly great? In Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what makes a business truly great…
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Esta publicación es resultado de un trabajo colectivo entre diversos investigado-res nacionales e internacionales, articulados por el interés de reflexionar sobre el valor de los procesos relacionados con lo humano como elementos esenciales para el desarrollo organizacional y la calidad de vida laboral. El valor que repre-sentan las personas en cualquier tipo de organización las vuelve epicentro funda-mental para la competitividad y el fortalecimiento...
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Summary of Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne | Includes Analysis Preview: Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy text of the same name originally published in 2005. The text offers a practical handbook to business students and entrepreneurs who wish to rise above the fray of the competition, become...
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Summary of The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly | Includes Analysis Preview: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future is Kevin Kelly's in-depth exploration of the imminent changes on the technological horizon that will ultimately impact all of humanity. Inevitability, in this context, is defined as a pattern that is unquestionably trending forward due to the ways in which technological developments favor certain...
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Is your company spending too much time on strategy development - with too little to show for it?
If you read nothing else on strategy, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Is Strategy?" by Michael E. Porter). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you catalyze your organization's strategy development and execution.
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“Studies of Urban Squares” suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology, the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these squares. The squares are all located in the metropolitan...
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Sendas de la modernidad ha sido concebida como una serie abierta de publicaciones que ofrece una mirada comprensiva a los procesos de diversificación de las tradiciones modernas en arquitectura y ciudad. Académicamente estamos situados en la convergencia disciplinar de la historia y teoría de la arquitectura, la crítica cultural y social, y en un sentido amplio, los estudios del paisaje cultural. La investigación que soporta el seguimiento a...
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This publication helps guide investment planning and financing across key urban infrastructure sectors of Azerbaijan to improve the performance of cities with a focus on economy, equity, and environment. The National Urban Assessment for Azerbaijan is among a series prepared by the Asian Development Bank for selected developing countries under its Urban Operational Plan 2012–2020.
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Este libro analiza las relaciones entre niveles de gobierno; entre entidades territoriales locales y entre el sector público y privado en el proceso de gestión de tres Sistemas Integrados de Transporte Masivo en áreas metropolitanas o conturbaciones de Colombia. Se realiza un análisis comparado de tres casos de estudio: Transmilenio (Bogotá-Soacha), Megabús (Área Metropolitana de Centro Occidente), y Transmetro (Área Metropolitana de Barranquilla)....
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The road transport subsector tends to be vulnerable to risks. This is due to large budgets that often comprise a sizable percentage of a country's national budget (20%-30%), an unclear strategic vision, nontransparent policy decisions that lead to inappropriate priorities, procurement contracts for goods and services that lend themselves to corruption, and political interference. Additional factors include weak business processes and control systems,...
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Una propuesta colectiva para plantear un nuevo escenario donde poder transformar las ciudades y los territorios donde desarrollamos nuestras vidas. Una propuesta que crecerá con las aportaciones de diferentes expertos en urbanismo, ecología y medio ambiente para presentarnos otras maneras de vivir posibles. Con cada nueva actualización podrás descargarde manera gratuita las nuevas aportaciones de los autores a este texto en crecimiento.
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San Antonio de Guajui es una aldea mayor del consejo comunitario Rio Guajui, uno de los seis consejos comunitarios del Municipio de Guapi Cauca. Queda en el área selvática del municipio. Población de vocación minera. Aldea mayor compuesta por mas de 200 familias con grandes problemas de saneamiento básico y viviendas con deficiencias constructivas. La comunidad de la Aldea mayor desde un ejercicio de Diseño participativo busca mejorar su hábitat...
15) At Extremes
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Bracket [at Extremes] includes critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate architecture, infrastructure and technology as they operate in conditions of imbalance, negotiate tipping points and test limit states. We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an...
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From 2010 onward, Fiji witnessed one of its strongest spells of economic growth since independence. Extreme poverty is in the single digits, but nearly a third of the population is unable to meet basic needs. Fiji thus faces two major challenges: to create a business environment that can attract more private investment to help sustain its growth momentum, and to make that growth inclusive so that all of Fiji can benefit. This country diagnostic study...
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This book contains multiple short critiques, reflections and manifestos, affording each contributing architect and intellectual the time and space to imagine new social paradigms in China. Emerging from a tumultuous history of high culture and complex territorial conditions, there is nothing straightforward about the social development of China. The complexity of the social practices developed by architects and shapers of the built environment can...
18) HBR's 10 Must Reads 2016: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review
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A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place.
We've examined the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to bring you the latest, most significant thinking driving business today. With authors from Marcus Buckingham to Herminia Ibarra and company examples from Google to Deloitte, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.
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Thailand's economic and social transformation of the last 50 years has placed it in the ranks of upper middle-income countries and made it an integral part of global value chains. It has also established itself as a regional hub for key transport and logistics, with a world-class airport. To continue its rise, Thailand needs to move into the higher-value segments of economic activity and create high-quality jobs that are regionally broader based....
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How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown?
If you read nothing else on preparing for a tough economy and coming back stronger, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help your company persevere through economic challenges and continue to grow even as your competitors stumble.
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