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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Supply Chain Management (SCM) has always been an important aspect of an enterprise’s business model and an effective supply chain network is essential to remaining competitive in a global environment. By properly managing the flow of goods and services, businesses can operate more efficiently while...
Lean Management
The Essence of Efficiency Road to Profitability Power of Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
This book is unlike many other books you may see on the bookshelf that focus on the theory of LEAN management. It goes beyond theory to provide practical examples and actual case studies to enhance the understanding of LEAN concepts. It is also as a valuable source of practical ideas.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This book addresses the issue of intangibles' contribution to growth at macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. It provides a review of a set of new approaches to innovation growth. It also considers the issue of how to invest in intangibles, especially with regard to the market failure issue....
Successful Integrated Planning for the Supply Chain
Key Organizational and Human Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Managing changes to the supply chain comes with its unique challenges. Supply chain planning presents an especially complex challenge for the change practitioner as multiple stakeholders and functions are involved. Successful Integrated Planning for the Supply Chain evaluates different approaches...
High Performance Operations: Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage
Leverage Compliance to Lower Costs, Increase Profits, and Gain Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
This is the eBook version of the printed book.
Companies in highly regulated industries face unique challenges in optimizing business performance and profitability while maintaining strong governance and regulatory adherence. In this start-to-finish guidebook, leading business performance consultant...
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Supply Chain Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study examines how leading network technology provider Cisco responded to a tsunami in Japan that could have disrupted delivery from 250 key "Tier 1" suppliers. In addition to natural disasters, it shows how Cisco manages lean supply chain risks associated with political upheavals, regulatory...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study offers an insider view of Stanford Blood Center’s crucial initiative for improving processes associated with the supply of platelets, crucial blood products with a short five-day shelf-life and volatile demand patterns. Walking through the entire platelet supply chain--collection,...
Designing Better Services
A Strategic Approach from Design to Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book provides accessible, comprehensive guidance on service design and enables practitioners approaching the discipline for the first time to develop the strategic mindset needed to exploit its innovation potential. The opening chapters trace the origins of service design and examine its links...
Open Tourism
Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation Challenging the Tourism Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Thisbook examines the concepts of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation from a holistic point of view and analyzes them considering their suitability to the tourism industry. Methods, theories and models are discussed and examined regarding their practical applicability in tourism. The bookillustrates...
by Patrick Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2019
Effective Operations Management - The Organizational and Functional Integration of Quality, Productivity, Safety and Environmental Responsibility - is a summation of over 40 years observing, assessing, teaching and consulting to organizations of all sizes in various industries. It takes the reader...
Developing Innovative Organizations
A roadmap to boost your innovation potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.
by John S. Bircham, Heather J. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Take a journey down into the inner-workings of organizations as they strive to meet the addiction-fuelled expectations of their stakeholders - what they do and what they don't do. Moveover, don't just look through the eyes of success, but look also through the eyes of failure and learn, both from...
Supplier Relationship Management
Unlocking the Hidden Value in Your Supply Base
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2018
Supplier Relationship Management enables organizations to secure vast value from their supply base by determining the suppliers that are important or hold potential and, based upon what makes them important or even strategic, putting in place interventions unique to each supplier to unlock real tangible...
Leading Medicaid Managed Care Plans
A State Relationship Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Leading Medicaid Managed Care Plans examines leadership actions necessary to successfully operate a Medicaid managed care plan with emphasis on the relationship with the state Medicaid agency the health plan is contracted with. With appropriate operational and governance oversight, and with solid...