Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
How to Wow
68 Effortless Ways to Make Every Customer Experience Amazing
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Looking to improve your customer experience? These 68 strategies will show you how to stand out from your competitors, whatever your business.
Full of practical tips, inspiring insights and interviews with a wide range of leaders and entrepreneurs, How to Wow reveals all you need to deliver...
Agile Practices for Waterfall Projects
Shifting Processes for Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Projects in the near future will be managed with a hybrid of Agile and traditional waterfall processes to better address the speed to market, product innovation, and financial challenges that organizations face. The project managers who learn how to merge Agile with Waterfall methodologies first will...
Visual Consulting
Designing and Leading Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Visualization—in your own imagination, on the wall, and with media—supports any consultant who is learning to design and facilitate transformational change, leadership development, stakeholder involvement processes, and making sense of complex challenges. This book, from leaders in the field,...
by Bill W.Y. Cain
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Sun Tzu’s legendary manuscript about strategy, The Art of War, is utilized in business, sports, and every kind of modern day competition. You hear his words quoted by business moguls, political leaders, entrepreneurs, professional sport coaches, etc. And you may have even picked up a translated...
Performance Management Success
A Best Practices and Implementation Guide for Leaders and Managers of All Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
This book provides managers, leaders and practitioners with a dynamic framework that links several variables associated with performance management which can be applied across organizations and industries worldwide. Based on empirical evidence and experiences, this book provides a critical understanding...
by Akira Ishikawa, Tetsuro Saisho
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge deals with the very basics of productivity and cost performance — including abridgement of time, increase in speed, enhancement of capabilities, increase in sensitivity and precision, enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness, alteration of size,...
Performance Networks
Transforming Governance for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Problems cross boundaries and so must solutions. Multi-agency, cross-boundary coordination and partnerships are needed to solve today's problems. These networks coordinate, communicate, and leverage resources and best practices to deliver measurable results across traditional agency boundaries. Performance...
Reinventing Project Management
The Diamond Approach To Successful Growth And Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2007
Projects are the engines that drive innovation from idea to commercialization. In fact, the number of projects in most organizations today is expanding while operations is shrinking. Yet, since many companies still focus on operational excellence and efficiency, most projects fail-largely because...
by China Academy of Information and Communi, EU-China Policy Dialogues Support Facili
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
This book, examining smart-city trends and developments from global, Chinese and EU perspectives, shows how the concept of the smart city varies from city to city. A detailed analysis is made to present the smart city as an up-to-date model of world city. Thirty pilot cities answer questions designed...
by Edward H. Frazelle
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
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...
The Global Brain
Your Roadmap for Innovating Faster and Smarter in a Networked World
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2007
All the talk about "open innovation" and externally-focused innovation assumes that "one size fits all" in terms of what network-centric innovation is and how companies should harness external creativity. But the reality is that there is no one right way to master this tool. For instance, loosely governed...
by Celine Chew
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Rekindling the critical analysis of the adoption of generic commercial (for-profit) management approaches in the non-profit context, Strategic Positioning in Voluntary and Charitable Organizations reveals that charities are positioning themselves in their evolving external environment in distinctive...
Thinking Big Is Not Enough
Moving past the myths and misconceptions that stop business growth
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
As successful business owners, we grow our companies to a certain level—and then we seem to plateau. How do we take our businesses to the next level? Louise Pasterfield has worked with business consultant Michael Walsh to grow her UK company from £400,000 per annum to £2 million in four...
by Kristian J. Sund, Robert J. Galavan, Anne Sigismund Huff
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The study of management and organization has transitioned from approaches to deal with steady state management, to approaches that can cope with unknown or unknowable futures. The strategy field has has moved from business policy, through strategic planning, onto strategic management and now grapples...