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What to know?In recent years, digital development has accelerated and digital turbulence is the new normal. So, it's time for a synthesis, time to bring stability to that turbulence: What have we learned? What do we know? What should we no longer have doubts about? Whether you're a CEO or a dedicated worker, you have an important role to play in your organisation's digital transformation. But it's hard when you don't have a common frame of reference or common language. What's the big picture? How do things align? How can you contribute?This book offers you a practical perspective on six critical elements of successful digital transformation design: Strategy for the digital age: Digital transformation invests in strengthening the core and growing the more - page 25. Customer experience design: Great customer experience emerges from the way you solve your customers' problems - page 45. Data and analytics: Giving data hands and feet is crucial to the success of a digital transformation - page 65. Digital partnership strategies: Combinatorial innovation drives digital partnerships, but they still must be earned - page 85. Digital transformation leadership: Technology skills are an organisation's ticket to ride, agility its ticket to heaven - page 105. Scaling agility: The paradox involved in scaling agility is introducing fast flexibility and stability at the same time - page 133

In an internationalised academic environment, lecturers and researchers increasingly need to use English to give lectures and presentations, to participate in seminars and conferences and to coach international students.Academic Spoken English offers help in the following areas: - adapting a written text for a spoken register - expanding spoken academic vocabulary - using discourse markers, which structure the presentation for the audience - improving delivery (pace, clarity, interaction with the audience) - acquiring seminar skills (handling questions and comments) - improving grammatical and lexical accuracy - improving pronunciation (downloadable audio file)Examples and exercises are based on the MICASE Corpus and the John Swales Conference Corpus, extensive collections of transcripts of lectures and presentations, ensuring relevance and authenticity. The book can be used in the context of a presentation skills course or as a self-study resource.

Mangomoment: a moment of great value brought about by small, unexpected gestures that require little or no time, money or effort. This book provides inspiration and motivation that will help you in your search for greater resilience, positivity, kindness and leadership.

Globally, the way the animal production industry copes with infectious diseases is changing. The (excessive) use of antimicrobials is under debate and it becomes standard practice to implement thorough biosecurity plans on farms to prevent the entry and spread of pathogenic micro-organisms. Not only in farm animal production, but also in facilities where companion animals are kept, including in veterinary practices and clinics, awareness of the beneficial implications of a good biosecurity plan has raised. The book ‘Biosecurity in Animal Production and Veterinary Practices’ is the first compilation of both fundamental aspects of biosecurity practices, and specific and practical information on the application of the biosecurity measures in different animal production and animal housing settings.The book starts with a general introductory chapter on the epidemiology of infectious diseases, followed by a chapter explaining the general principles of biosecurity. Specific topics of biosecurity, including rodent and insect control, cleaning and disinfection, hygiene and decontamination of feed, drinking water and air, and measuring the biosecurity status of farms, are detailed in dedicated chapters. Explanations on the relevance of the implementation of biosecurity plans in order to improve animal health and performance and reduce antimicrobial usage are described, and a chapter on ways to motivate farmers to implement a biosecurity plan is written. Practical chapters deal with biosecurity in the poultry, pig and cattle industry, horse facilities, dog kennels, veterinary practices and clinics, laboratory animal facilities and aquaculture.The book is a practical guide that can be used by farm and animal facility managers, consultants, veterinarians, animal caretakers, and people with interest in prevention of diseases in animals. Academics and students will benefit from the book because it contains all relevant information on animal biosecurity.