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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service...
by Terence T. Burton
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
The book that reinvents Lean for a new generation, a new global culture, and a new benchmark of success
Global Kata: Success Through the Lean Business System Reference Model™ sets a new benchmark for the evolution of Lean and strategic improvement. The book and the reference model provide...
by William Truscott
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
There are a number of distinctive features of this book that makes it different from other on Six Sigma.
It recognizes that there are two diametrically opposing views expressed on Six Sigma, those that are strongly in favour, and those that are not, for various reasons. The book deals, head...
by Stephen Emmitt, Christopher Gorse
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Construction teams are usually complex, interdisciplinary and temporary, and, as such, the need for effective communication is crucial. However, published data regarding the manner in which individuals interact within the temporary project team is scarce, with little other than anecdotal evidence...
Reinventing Communication
How to Design, Lead and Manage High Performing Projects
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
In his ground-breaking book, Reinventing Communication, Mark Phillips shows how even the most mature organization can fail to deliver successful projects - and worse, how this can lead to an organization's demise. With clear examples, Mark reveals the underlying principles at work and introduces a...
Adaptation, Specialization, and the Theory of the Firm
Foundations of the Resource-Based View
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
This invaluable book provides the foundations for a new theory of the firm, drawing on Birger Wernerfelt's landmark work on economic theory and the resource-based view of the firm. It addresses a vigorous and long-standing academic debate over what exactly a 'firm' is, both in the field of management...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
It’s time once again to make much of a simple concept; that two groups with different names, languages and cultures might put aside their old habits, pettiness and grudges, recognize the overwhelming alignment of their most critical self-interests, and join their complementary strengths to achieve...
Global Organization Development
Managing Unprecedented Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2006
The purpose of this book is to address one of the most rapidly growing and important areas in the field of organization development. Despite its importance, relatively little is known about international and global organization development. This book is designed to summarize and apply the existing...
Profiting from Innovation
The Report of the Three-Year Study from the National Academy of Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
American industry is renowned for its scientific and technical breakthroughs -- and equally famous for its visible failures in commercializing its own technology. Drawing on many examples of successful innovation management, an elite panel of the nation's most accomplished technical managers demonstrates...
Leading processes to lead companies: Lean Six Sigma
Kaizen Leader & Green Belt Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity. Through both its theoretical concepts and practical examples it is a pocket book for a quick consultancy. Authors idea comes from companies needs in...
by Giles Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Is your MRP system helping your business to perform, or is it just creating more work for you?
‘Making MRP work’ is a practical guide aimed at Operations Managers and business directors who need some support with their MRP / ERP system. If you are operating an existing MRP system but feel...
Engineering Culture
Control and Commitment in a High-Tech Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2009
Engineering Culture is an award-winning ethnography of the engineering division of a large American high-tech corporation. Now, this influential book—which has been translated into Japanese, Italian, and Hebrew—has been revised to bring it up to date. In Engineering Culture, Gideon Kunda offers...
Strategic and Organizational Change
From Production to Retailing in UK Brewing 1950-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2006
The brewing industry, through its network of public houses, has a profound impact on the lives of much of the population of United Kingdom. Exploring the shaping of this industry in the years from 1950-1990, this book shows how it has moved from being largely concerned with the technical issues of...
The Art Collector's Handbook
A Guide to Collection Management and Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
With the rapid and unprecedented global expansion of the art market, new collectors are emerging every day. When buying art, whether for pure enjoyment, for investment or some other motive, few art collectors consider the practical and financial implications of owning and maintaining art, and many...