Decision Making category: 1513 books
Human Capital Analytics
How to Harness the Potential of Your Organization's Greatest Asset
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
An insightful look at the implementation of advanced analytics on human capital
Human capital analytics, also known as human resources analytics or talent analytics, is the application of sophisticated data mining and business analytics techniques to human resources data. Human Capital Analytics...
7 Paths to Managerial Leadership
Doing Well by Doing It Right
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Put timeless management practices to work.
The most important relationship is between a manager and a direct report. Studies confirm that the majority of people leave their jobs because they dislike their manager and the way they are supervised. After all, managers directly influence staff...
The Effective Organization
Practical Application of Complexity Theory and Organizational Design to Maximize Performance in the Face of Emerging Events.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Project Overview: What the Book’s About
"It may not be possible to predict when an organization will confront an operation-challenging event but it is possible to predict the organization's capacity to manage the event when it emerges." (Introduction to Chapter Nine)
Performance...
Project: Impossible
How the Great Leaders of History Identified, Solved, and Accomplished the Seemingly Impossible — and How You Can Too!
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Nothing is impossible if you have unlimited time, resources, and flexible objectives. Project managers never find themselves in such a situation. Our projects are impossible if they can’t be done within the constraints…but sometimes there’s a way around even the most challenging barrier....
by Charles H Strange
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
There is money hidden in your company right now. Money that you can’t see. It is not on a financial statement, performance review, or production report. Depending on how long you have been in business and how large your company has grown, it could be hundreds of thousands of dollars. The first in...
Creativity Research
An Inter-Disciplinary and Multi-Disciplinary Research Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Compared to its ‘cousin’ innovation, academic research on creativity has been less well covered in journals and books. This is despite the fact that creativity has a profound role in many different subject disciplines.
This book is a unique collection of some of the latest research from...
Strategy As Action
Competitive Dynamics and Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2005
Strategy as Action presents an action plan for how firms can build, improve, and defend their competitive advantage at every stage of their life cycle. For start-up firms entering a market, it provides a model for exploiting competitive uncertainty and blind spots; for growth firms who have established...
Collaborative Evaluations
Step-by-Step, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Collaborative Evaluations: Step-by-Step, Second Edition is a comprehensive guide for evaluators who aim to master collaborative practice. Liliana Rodríguez-Campos and Rigoberto Rincones-Gómez present their Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE) with its six major components: identify the situation,...
by Nancy R. Tague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Quality Toolbox is a comprehensive reference to a variety of methods and techniques: those most commonly used for quality improvement, many less commonly used, and some created by the author and not available elsewhere. The reader will find the widely used seven basic quality control tools (for example,...
Academic-Practitioner Relationships
Developments, Complexities and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
While executives are keen to harness organizational knowledge and improve business performance, the topic of how academics can produce rigorous and relevant theory in working relationships with practitioners is a much contested topic. Many aspects of this knowledge co-creation can create tensions,...
Stinkin' Thinkin': 37 Mental Mistakes, False Beliefs & Superstitions That Can Ruin Your Career & Your Life
37 Mental Mistakes, False Beliefs & Superstitions That Can Ruin Your Career & Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The US space program faced a problem. Astronauts didn't have a pen that could write inside a zero-gravity capsule. NASA invested upward of $1 million to devise a pen that could. Their rivals faced the same problem, but they solved it for less than a dollar. They decided to use a pencil. This story...
by Ralph R. Pawlak
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book deals with the improvement of suppliers in order to increase a company's top and bottom-line. The enhancement of suppliers can be accomplished in a series of steps when conditions warrant intervention. They can also be generated through direct quality mentoring when the supplier does not...
Collaborative Search and Communities of Interest
Trends in Knowledge Sharing and Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Since the dawn of the 21st Century the invention of Web 2.0 has enabled people from all backgrounds to contribute content on the Internet. In doing so, the Internet has become more of a social platform, thus establishing a growing need for innovative social software and the organization of collaborative...
by Craig Cochran
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2011
Why does ISO 9001 have to be so confusing? It doesnt. Bestselling author Craig Cochran has translated ISO 9001 into plain English that anyone can understand. ISO 9001 in Plain English was written so that anyone at any level of the organization can get to the heart of the standards requirements and how...