"Typically today's tasks in management and consulting include project management, running workshops and strategic work - all complex activities, which require a multitude of skills and competencies. This standard work, which is also well accepted amongst consultants, gives you a reference or cookboo
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k-style access to the most important tools, including a rating of each tool in terms of applicability, ease of use and effectiveness. In his book, Nicolai Andler presents about 120 of such tools, grouped into task-specific categories entitled Define Situation, Gather Information, Information Consolidation, Creativity, Goal Setting, Organisational Analysis, Technical Analysis, Strategic Analysis, Decision Making, and Project Management. Checklists and application scenarios further enhance the use of this toolbox." (Publisher description)
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"Carrying out regional consultations with multiple stakeholders can help establish a shared understanding of major challenges and build consensus about promising paths forward. They are particularly useful in complex environments with many different actors. This guide provides some practical guidanc
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e on how to organize consultative processes on a regional scale in the field of media development. It should serve as a hands-on toolbox for practitioners working to advance media freedom and is based on an approach first developed and implemented by DW Akademie and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) in 2015. We aim to make this method available for international organizations carrying out consultations, as well as regional and local organizations who would like to do so. Consultations can take place in-person, online or in hybrid form." (Page 2)
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"Das Fernsehen ist angesichts des digitalen Wandels und allgegenwärtiger Bewegtbildinhalte einer existentiellen Bewährungsprobe ausgesetzt. Nur die Neuentwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen und Formaten, die echte „Originals“ darstellen, kann das langfristige Überleben der Sender sichern. Gleichz
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eitig gilt es eine systematische Technologie-Früherkennung und Implementierung zu betreiben. Der Band stellt ein geeignetes Innovations- und Veränderungsmanagement vor, um professionelle Content-Kreationen und Technologie-Lösungen qualitäts-, termin- und kostengerecht bereitzustellen. Dabei wird besonders den Möglichkeiten zum kreativen Arbeiten Rechnung getragen. Denn Kreativität ist am Ende entscheidend für den Erfolg im TV-Markt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Consultancy costs can be a large budget item for many NGOs and so getting the best out of it is essential. This guide provides tips that will help you learn from good practices and avoid common mistakes. It is for staff involved in commissioning and managing consultants, particularly in programmes,
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grant management and monitoring, evaluation and learning. In this guide, the person or the organisation who is hiring a consultant is called ‘the client’. This guide is a summarised and updated version of a longer publication produced by Oxfam. It follows a sequence of steps in managing a consultancy, but each can be read as a stand-alone section." (Introduction, page 3)
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"Using detailed checklists, the authors explain the stages of a typical consultancy, paying close attention to the practical, ethical, financial, and legal aspects of the process. Drawing on their own extensive experience and a wide-ranging survey of international NGOs and freelance consultants, the
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y discuss how to develop more effective working relationships with all the relevant stakeholders, including donors, partners, programme managers, local staff, and local communities. They also show how development agencies can manage particular consultancies in order to promote long-term learning and thus improve the general quality of their programmes." (Oxfam website)
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"This Toolkit on Procurement of Communication Activities is intended to help World Bank staff and client governments procure communication services in accordance with World Bank procurement guidelines. Communication activities do not always fit within the simple procurement distinction of works, goo
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ds and services. We have developed this toolkit to provide guidance on how to align them with the policies and procedures of the World Bank Procurement Guidelines. In preparing this toolkit, we identified specific features of communication-related activities that differ substantially from other activities procured under World Bankfinanced projects, and reviewed relevant documentation from most projects implemented in the past five years that included one or more communication components. We also interviewed many communication specialists, task team leaders and procurement specialists involved in projects with communication components, as well as local representatives and managers in the implementing agencies and with communication industry representatives. This toolkit identifies procurement issues implementing agencies commonly face in designing communication components and provides suggestions on how to mainstream communication components into project design, procurement planning and implementation." (Foreword)
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