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by Richard J. Arend
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation of evil that harms our economic and social transactions, as the greatest socio-economic problem of our time and offers strategies to identify and address this phenomenon.
Sustainable Development for the Healthcare Industry
Reprogramming the Healthcare Value Chain
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
This volume addresses the dynamics of sustainable development in the healthcare industry, covering all major aspects, including R&D, manufacturing, regulation, market access, commercialization, and general management. Healthcare markets are evolving under demographic and economic pressures....
Infrastructure Investments in Developing Economies
The Case of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in the system limiting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on construction...
The Operations Manager's Toolbox
Using the Best Project Management Techniques to Improve Processes and Maximize Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Operations managers: use project management (PM) tools and techniques to supercharge efficiency, free up resources, eliminate unnecessary meetings, and get more done faster! Long-time operations manager and PMP-certified project manager Randal Wilson shows how to apply PM to complete the crucial "smaller"...
by Randal Wilson, Arthur V. Hill, Hillel Glazer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
A brand new collection of state-of-the-art operations management tools and tactics… 3 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 3 authoritative eBooks bring together today’s most valuable new operations management techniques and solutions! Apply today’s...
Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models
Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along...
Don't Spook the Herd!
How to Get Your Agile Projects Running Smoothly
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
The word Agile has grown to mean many things. You're not alone if you have ever found yourself thinking: "What is agile, really? Does agile work? How can I use agile on my projects?" It seems every man and his dog has an interpretation these days. There is a world of confusion about what...
by Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Coup de Coeur prize at the Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain, Paris.
Focusing on the design of robust value-creating supply chain networks (SCN) and key strategic issues related to the number; location, capacity and mission of supply chain facilities (plants, distribution...
World Class Sales & Operations Planning
A Guide to Successful Implementation and Robust Execution
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2006
The sales and operations planning (S&OP) process is a major baseline for high-performance companies because, when done correctly, it keeps supply and demand in balance at the volume and detailed mix level, integrates and builds teamwork between general management, sales, operations, finance and product...
by Li-hui Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Repetitive Project Scheduling: Theory and Methods is the first book to comprehensively, and systematically, review new methods for scheduling repetitive projects that have been developed in response to the weaknesses of the most popular method for project scheduling, the Critical Path Method (CPM).
As...
Collaboration with Potential Users for Discontinuous Innovation
Experimental Research on User Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Creativity and innovation are important drivers of economic welfare and growth in contemporary societies. Collaborating with and learning from users in the early phase of the innovation process has been considered a successful approach to stimulate those creative sparks for organizations. However,...
Costovation
Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want--And Nothing More
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Wow your customers . . . with "less." Cut costs-it's a common corporate refrain. But if you constantly slash expenditures, what happens to innovation? How can you stay competitive and satisfy customers? Costovation solves the dilemma of how to spend less and innovate more. The book's revolutionary...
by Stewart Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Excel VBA recipes provides a simple, step by step guide to using visual basic within excel as well as providing an in depth resource of useful code that you can immediate copy and paste into your own VBA projects.
by Nick T. Thomopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Assembly Line Planning and Control describes the basic fundamentals of assembly lines for single model lines, mixed model make-to-stock lines, mixed model make-to-order lines and for one-station assembly. The book shows how to select the quantity of units to schedule for a shift duration, compute...