BizKnowledge Watch

The Library will be holding a special training session for research assistants and Ph.D. students next Wednesday, June 19, at 15:30 in G-101.

The objective of this Training Session is to give researchers and students a basic understanding of ISI Web of knowledge, an index to research literature in the arts, sciences and social sciences. ISI Web of knowledge includes citation searching and impact factor of journals.

The session will last approximately half an hour.

Please, confirm your attendance by email to biblioteca@iese.edu or by phoning the Library desk directly (ext. 4423).

Overview

Your guide to becoming an explanation specialist.

You’ve done the hard work. Your product or service works beautifully – but something is missing. People just don’t see the big idea – and it’s keeping you from being successful. Your idea has an explanation problem.

The Art of Explanation is for business people, educators and influencers who want to improve their explanation skills and start solving explanation problems.

Author Lee LeFever is the founder of Common Craft, a company known around the world for making complex ideas easy to understand through short animated videos. He is your guide to helping audiences fall in love with your ideas, products or services through better explanations in any medium.

You will learn to:

• Plan: Learn explanation basics, what causes them to fail and how to diagnose explanation problems.
• Package: Using simple elements, create an explanation strategy that builds confidence and motivates your audience.
• Present: Produce remarkable explanations with visuals and media.

The Art of Explanation is your invitation to become an explanation specialist and see why explanation is now a fundamental skill for professionals. — Provided by publisher.

For more information, click here

You can find this title at IESE’s Library catalog

Interbrand jointly with Deloitte has published the “2013 Best Green Global Brands” ranking. The study measures the environmental perception of 100 global brands and compares it to those companies’ actual environmental performance.

This year’s ranking shows Toyota maintaining the No. 1 spot, with Ford, Honda, Panasonic, Nissan, Johnson & Johnson, Volkswagen, Danone, Nokia and Dell rounding out the top 10. Santander and Zara occupied the 46^th and 48^th positions, respectively.

The gap in question is the difference between the companies’ perception and performance scores.

The perception survey is conducted by Interbrand, interviewing more than 10,000 consumers in total. For each brand, more than 100 people aware of that brand in each country are asked to assess it in terms of six “pillars”: authenticity, relevance, consistency, presence, differentiation and their understanding of environmental claims.

The performance-side assessments are conducted by Deloitte, which also has six pillars: governance, stakeholder engagement, operations, supply chain, transportation and logistics, and products and services.

Access the full ranking here.

MarketLine has just published the report “Banks in Europe,” which provides top-line qualitative and quantitative data on the market’s size, value and volume between 2008 and 2012, as well as forecasts to 2017.

The report includes size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends and leading companies, and macroeconomic forecasts.

The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players, including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.

The full-text of the report is available on the web to members of the IESE community.

Towers Watson and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) recently released a knowledge paper describing these challenges under the title “Jobs and Skills in the Twenty-First Century.”

Over the next two decades, Asia is expected to add 494 million people to its workforce — nearly 54% of the growth projected for the entire global workforce — and nearly half of them will be in India alone. Developing Asia’s economies are undergoing rapid structural transformation, becoming increasingly integrated with the rest of the world and embracing technological advances. These developments are changing Asia’s jobs landscape. Will the region’s economies be able to generate sufficient jobs that are productive, well-paying and accessible to its burgeoning workforce?

Read the full-text here.