Background
Smith, Donald Kendall was born on August 1, 1929 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of Leslie Frederick and Nina Christina (Coffee) Smith.
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Creating Market Insight: How Firms Create Value from Market Understanding
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"Brian Smith and Paul Raspin demonstrate a thorough and pragmatic approach to creating and applying sound market insight. Using numerous practical examples, learning points and provocative takeaways, they build on established strategic marketing principles to give you actionable knowledge you can apply your business to create lasting market advantage." Beverley Dipper, Market Insight Manager, Microsoft UK Ltd "I have no hesitation in saying buy this book. It will find a front and centre position in your bookshelf, with plenty of post-its marking pages that you will return to again and again." Mark Irvine, Strategy Manager, De Beers Diamond Trading Company "A readable and well-founded description of how to generate actionable customer insight and follow it through with passionate and consistent execution" Dag Larsson Global Brand Insight Director, AstraZeneca Creating Market Insight addresses the key strategic issue facing any company: How do we make sense of our market and find those precious nuggets of knowledge that lead to real competitive advantage? Creating Market Insight: • Explains how firms tailor their market scanning behaviour to work well in the special conditions of their market • Describes the process through which data is translated first into information, and then knowledge • Differentiates routine market knowledge from true insight and details how firms turn insight into value • Provides a detailed, step-by-step process that enables the reader to emulate the success of insightful firms Creating Market Insight is written for managers who need to need to create value in the real world.
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Creating Understanding: A Handbook for Christian Communication Across Cultural Landscapes
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This book is built on twenty-three propositions about communication, propositions that, when taken together, encompass fundamental truths about human communication from a Christian perspective. Creating Understanding puts communications media into proper perspective. It makes meaning and understanding the focus of the effort of communication. It is committed to having the purposes of communication determine the means to be employed. This book is a foundation on which the enterprise of Christian ministry can be built or refined. It provides perspective, constantly, on the ways the cultural landscape is informing and affecting the communication process.
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Make Haste Slowly Growing Effective Intercultural Communication
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Sustainable growth happens gradually! Here you will find the resources to stimulate reproducible growth among the people you serve. The first edition of this book sold over 15,000 copies. It has had an impact on and through Christian workers world-wide. This newer edition offers a broader readership the insights and time-tested principles . . . refined over decades of teaching, research and interaction with people from around the globe. This book is available in both soft cover and eBook versions. Recent adoptions by institutions of higher education include: Trinity Western University and Warner Pacific College.
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Donald Kendall Smith
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Bachelor of Science in Biology, University Oregon, 1951. Master of Science in General Studies, University Oregon, 1952. Master of Arts with honors in Journalism, University Oregon, 1967.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Oregon, 1969.
Career
Lecturer, Evangelical Teacher Training College, Vryheid, Natal., Union South Africa, 1952-1955;
director, public, Africa Christian Literature Advance, Johannesburg, Transvaal., Union South Africa, 1956-1963;
editor-in-chief, Our Africa monthly magazine, Johannesburg, 1958-1963;
director, Daystar Publs., Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1964-1973;
director, Daystar Comm., Bulawayo, 1969-1973;
director, Daystar Comm., Nairobi, Kenya, 1974-1979;
founder, Daystar U., Nairobi, 1979-1981;
director, Institute International Christian Comm., Portland, Oregon, since 1981;
professor intercultural committee, Western Seminary, Portland, since 1981. Co-director WorldView Center, Portland, since 1995. Research director Comm. for Development Project, Lutheran World Federation, Sudan, Cameroon, 1979-1985.
International Research.dir. Living Bibles International, Wheaton, Illinois, 1971-1980. Chair division Intercultural Studies Western Seminary, since 1992.
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Creating Understanding: A Handbook for Christian Communication Across Cultural Landscapes
(This book is built on twenty-three propositions about com...)
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Make Haste Slowly Growing Effective Intercultural Communication
(Sustainable growth happens gradually! Here you will find ...)
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Creating Market Insight: How Firms Create Value from Market Understanding
("Brian Smith and Paul Raspin demonstrate a thorough and p...)
- Make Haste Slowly Developing Effective Cross-Cultural Communication
- Make Haste Slowly: Developing Effective Cross-Cultural Communication
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Creating Understanding: A Handbook for Christian Communication Across Cultural Landscapes
Membership
Member International Communications Association, American Society Missiology, Evangelical Society of Missiology.
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Married Faye Gladys Schick, June 25, 1950. Children: Donald Vance, Julisa Faye.
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