Industrial Management category: 1113 books

Globalisation, technology and an increasingly competitive business environment have encouraged huge changes in what is known as supply chain management, the art of sourcing components and delivering finished goods to the customer as cost effectively and efficiently as possible. Dell transformed the...

Times are fundamentally changed. Hierarchical management according the Taylorian model is outdated. Companies can no longer survive by going on with what they've always done. There is a great need to answer the question how it should go on with our companies and industries. This book offers such an answer....

This monograph provides theoretical and practical perspectives on competency management as a key resource for producing competitive products. The authors develop and substantiate a law of dependence between competencies and emergence of new markets, and describe the practical aspects of developing...

This book is presented in the way a training is being conducted, and focus on common project management principles and elements that can be found in successful project delivery. It able audience who is not a professional project manager to learn the fundamentals of project management. The audience...

This book deals with World Class Operations Management (WCOM), detailing its principles, methods and organisation, and the results that this approach can bring about. Utilising real-world case studies illustrated by companies that have adopted this model (interviews with Saint-Gobain, L’Oréal,...

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling. Covering the entire process of presenting a comprehensive management system – from design, through measurement, scheduling,...

Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies. Barnard's study of interaction between people in economic settings was contentious in that he concluded that human behaviour within these settings is largely non-economic and instead approaches ritualistic symbolism.

There is more than a touch of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' in the way many organizations approach project management and the consequences are all too clear: project methodology inappropriately applied; little or no consideration of complexity or ambiguity; alienation of the stakeholders and a statistically...

Le management de projet, comme le management en général, s'appuie sur des formalismes et des modèles finalement assez simples. Ce qui est compliqué avec le management de projet, ce ne sont pas les modèles, mais la pertinence de leur mise en oeuvre. Cet ouvrage propose les outils incontournables...

Das Buch ist ein praktischer Leitfaden für die Einführung des Total Productive Management (TPM) im Unternehmen. Es baut auf den konkreten Arbeitsalltag auf. Weitgehende Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0 werden durch die kontinuierliche Modernisierung und Erhöhung der Wertschöpfung umgesetzt. Nicht...

Mounting scientific evidence shows that Earth’s climate is dramatically changing due to the greenhouse emissions caused by human activities, notably by burning fossil fuels for energy production and transport. Climate Change, Supply Chain Management and Enterprise Adaptation: Implications of Global...

The Knowledge Enterprise is a unique second edition about mastering business innovation. Industry-leading companies reveal the secrets and lessons of transition leadership, the importance of customer engagement and the power of open innovation. Building on the success of the first edition, this book...

The industry standard in supply chain management—fully revised and updated to provide today’s logistics solutions The proven pillars of success in logistics and supply chain management introduced in the first edition of Supply Chain Strategy now guide the supply chains of many of the world’s...

A paradigm shift is happening at this moment. Firms and consumers are aware of the fact that they cause environmental pollution, depletion of resources and are responsible for the dangers involved. At the same time awareness is growing that they need to and will develop the appropriate solutions in...