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Turnaround, Shutdown and Outage Management
Effective Planning and Step-by-Step Execution of Planned Maintenance Operations
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2011
Shutdown management is project management of a special kind: managing the repair, replacement or maintenance of critical systems. Manufacturing and process plants, computer systems, airliners, and many other systems must be regularly closed down or taken out of service for planned maintenance operations....
Project Management, Planning and Control
Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Covering the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, Project Management, Planning and Control is an established and widely recommended project management handbook.
With clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling...
by P. J. H. Baily
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Perspectives on Supplier Innovation
Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights on Open Innovation and the Integration of Suppliers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of...
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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...
Innovation in High Reliability Ambidextrous Organizations
Analytical Solutions Toward Increasing Innovative Activity
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Companies need to invest in innovation in order to ensure their long-term survival. This book focuses on how and why key players support or obstruct the implementation of a technological innovation in ambidextrous organizations, and how the interaction between players involved in daily business and...
Research in the Decision Sciences for Innovations in Global Supply Chain Networks
Best Papers from the 2014 Annual Conference
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
The papers in this volume introduce powerful new innovations in global supply chain networks. The best papers from the 2014 annual conference of the European regional subdivision of the Decision Sciences Institute (EDSI), they analyze the latest global trends associated with:
Sustainability and...
Applied Insurance Analytics
A Framework for Driving More Value from Data Assets, Technologies, and Tools
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Insurers: use analytics to drive far more value from your most important asset -- data! Today, many insurers radically underutilize their data, leaving them vulnerable to traditional and non-traditional competitors alike. Now, drawing on 25 years of industry experience, Patricia Saporito shows how...
Performance Management Systems
Design, Diagnosis and Use
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
This book presents an analysis and a critical discussion on performance management systems. It seeks to advance the current state of knowledge in the subject by introducing a holistic performance management system - the loosely coupled performance management system. This new system presents a framework...
Scaling up Business Solutions to Social Problems
A Practical Guide for Social and Corporate Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
A silent revolution is underway, as entrepreneurs challenge prevalent notions of business motives and methods to invent market-based solutions to eradicate social injustice. Yet many fail to succeed. Based on original research, the authors uncover why impressive solutions fail to scale up, featuring global case studies and practical solutions.
The CMIO Survival Guide
A Handbook for Chief Medical Information Officers and Those Who Hire Them, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
The CMIO Survival Guide is the handbook for the new Chief Medical Information Officer, as well as for those recruiting or planning to recruit a CMIO. This quick reference is organized by real-world topics that CMIOs need to know, as well as the criteria that the CIO, CMO or CEO should consider in...
The Business Owner's Compendium
A layman's guide to starting, owning, and operating a business
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Do you wish your business came with an instruction manual?
Do you know how to make your customer smile but can't figure out how to get your business to hum?
Opportunity knocked, you answered and now you find you have a growing business to operate. This book is for you and the millions...
by Colin Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Back in 1983 I was chatting with Dick Coleman, publisher of Traffic World magazine, when he unexpectedly proposed that I write a column for the magazine on computer applications in the transportation/physical distribution industry. "But, Dick, I don't know all that much about computers,"...
by Frank A. Tillman, Deandra T. Cassone
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
How much warehouse space will your company need throughout the year? That’s a brutally complex question--and companies that get it wrong can waste huge amounts of money. In Developing a Warehouse and Inventory Level Optimization System, Frank A. Tillman and Deandra Cassone introduce a complete model...