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  • My Small Part in WWII or How I Discovered St. Tropez Before Brigitte Bardot

    by William D. Rouse ...
    In what may be our last personal account of WWII, 91 year old veteran William D. Rouse has just released his memoir, My Small Part in WWII or How I Discovered St. Tropez Before Brigitte Bardot. Rouse's witty and sometimes darkly perceptive series of snapshots of the life of a sailor on a hospital ship, the U.S. Refuge, both offshore and on, brings an era to life through its dangers, its music, and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essential Business Challenges

    How to Understand Complexity, Address Change, and Make Better Decisions

    by William B. Rouse ...
    Society seems increasingly complex, in part due to constant “breaking news,” likes, tweets, etc. Considerable change is being entertained, or at least debated. Significant decisions are required. Decision-making lately has been flawed, laced with contention, hesitancy, and poor outcomes.The author has long helped clients and sponsors to understand complexity, address needs for change, formulate ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Innovations for Transformation

    How Cities Can Reinvent Themselves for Economic Success

    by William B. Rouse ...
    This book chronicles how four resort cities (Asheville, Aspen, Key West and Laguna Beach) addressed failing economic situations to reinvent themselves and prosper. The author explores bottom-up reinventions of local community value propositions, often driven by economic forces that require reinvention due to declining or disappearing traditional economic opportunities.The author foregoes broad ... Read more

    $68.99 CAD

  • Health and Well-Being Risks for Organizations and People

    How Innovative Business Strategies Can Better Understand and Address These Challenges

    by William B. Rouse ...
    From climate disasters to technological disruptions, society faces an unprecedented wave of risks that threaten global stability and economic security. Each year, over 20 million people die due to pollution, disease, accidents, and environmental hazards, while millions more suffer long-term health effects. Yet, within these challenges lie vast business opportunities for industries prepared to lead ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • From Human-Centered Design to Human-Centered Society

    Creatively Balancing Business Innovation and Societal Exploitation

    by William B. Rouse ...
    A human-centered society creatively balances investments in sources of innovation, while also governing in a manner that eventually limits exploitation by originators once innovations have proven their value in the marketplace, broadly defined to include both private and public constituencies. The desired balance requires society to invest in constituencies to be able to create innovations that ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Plucked Again!

    by William D. Rouse ...
    A highly original tale of a man given a second chance at life with the guidance of a talking chicken…A bump on the head sends Jackson Fitzroy, known as Flanker, into a temporary amnesia. But all is not lost: As the owner of a chicken broiler house, he now has the companionship and assistance of MAC, a talking chicken, the most ancient spokes-chicken. MAC, who has the uncanny ability to not only ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Resilient Systems

    Evidence-Based Management of Pervasive Failures

    by William B. Rouse ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book adopts a case-based or story-based approach to addressing questions such as what happens when we cannot fix failures in the sense of returning the system to “normal” operations in less than many years or maybe decades, or perhaps never, or how do we recognize that we are facing pervasive failures? Can we develop evidence-based resilience to mitigate the consequences of pervasive failures ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • Bigger Pictures for Innovation

    Creating Solutions, Managing Enterprises, and Influencing Policies

    by William B. Rouse ...
    This book comprises a set of stories about being an engineer for many decades and the lessons the author learned from research and practice. These lessons focus on people and organizations, often enabled by technology. The settings range from airplanes, power plants, and communication networks to ecosystems that enable education, healthcare, and transportation. All of these settings are laced with ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Innovation Ecosystems

    How Driving Forces and Success Factors Affect Opportunities for Business Innovation

    by William B Rouse ...
    This book is about geography, economics, society, and innovation. Why did different regions evolve in different ways? What caused economic priorities and activities to go in one direction or another? The author believes that happenstance played a relatively minor role in this process. There were and are driving forces, as well as success factors.In each ecosystem, ambitious immigrants arrived, ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Computing Possible Futures

    by William B. Rouse ...
    Mathematical modelling and simulation is an increasingly powerful area of mathematics and computer science, which in recent years has been fuelled by the unprecedented access to larger than ever stores of data. These techniques have an increasing number of applications in the professional and political spheres, and people try to predict the results of certain courses of action as accurately as ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Power of Games

    Business Impacts and Innovation Opportunities

    by William B Rouse ...
    Games have long played a central role in society – actually a central role in the animal kingdom. Their play provides primary behavioral mechanisms that enable animals to learn and socialize. Indeed, "play" is a core animal activity. The principal focus of this book is on how games foster human playing, learning, and competing, including how we can design games to do this better. The author ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Transforming Public-Private Ecosystems

    Understanding and Enabling Innovation in Complex Systems

    by William B. Rouse ...
    Public-private collaborations are central to the functioning and provisioning of most essential ecosystems. Ecosystems such as security, healthcare, education, and the environment face challenges of governance, diverse constituencies, numerous advocacy organizations, incompatible outcome metrics, and persistent media attention, to name a few. There is a wide range of public and private players ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD