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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...
by Inder Sidhu
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today’s Profit and Drives Tomorrow’s Growth (9780137083640) by Inder Sidhu. Available in print and digital formats. How to focus your innovation where it offers the greatest promise for...
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,...
Inside the Mind of the Shopper
The Science of Retailing
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
World-Renowned Shopper Scientist Dr. Herb Sorensen Reveals: How Today’s Shoppers Think, Behave, and Buy
New Insights for Creating High-Profit Retail Experiences!
In retail, there’s only one number one. It’s not Wal-Mart or Costco, or even Amazon: It’s the shopper. To create high-profit...
Unlocking Opportunities for Growth
How to Profit from Uncertainty While Limiting Your Risk
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008
“This book is a must for any Business Development Manager, Corporate Strategist, R&D Director, and anyone else who is accountable for growth in a corporation. It is an easy read that is practical and not fraught with useless academic theories.”
Ron Pierantozzi, Ph.D., CEO of PPT Research...
Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2009
This is the eBook version of the printed book.In this essential and illuminating book, top business strategist Dev Patnaik tells the story of how organizations of all kinds prosper when they tap into a power each of us already has: empathy, the ability to reach outside of ourselves and connect with other...
The Definitive Guide to Manufacturing and Service Operations
Master the Strategies and Tactics for Planning, Organizing, and Managing How Products and Services Are Produced
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in manufacturing or service operations, anywhere in your supply chain! Now, there’s an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice manufacturing and service operations in any organization. Co-authored by a leading...
The Network Challenge (Chapter 20)
Relating Well: Building Capabilities for Sustaining Alliance Networks
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2009
In an environment of rapid and discontinuous change, managers have turned to alliances to access the resources they need. But research on alliances shows that more than half fail, demonstrating the difficulty of managing these relationships. Based on their extensive research on alliances, the authors...
by Frank A. Tillman, Deandra T. Cassone
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
It is notoriously difficult to measure work in management, professional, and service roles, where management can’t quantify the number of units produced, and repetition of work occurs only on much longer cycle times. Nevertheless, you must make accurate measurements to correctly size your organization--and...
by Terry J. Fadem
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
This is the eBook version of the printed book. This Element is an excerpt from The Art of Asking: Ask Better Questions, Get Better Answers (9780137144242) by Terry J. Fadem. Available in print and digital formats. Learn questioning techniques that help you control the agenda, overcome challenges,...
by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont, Laura Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
This Element is an excerpt from Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits: Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence (9780137047659) by Barry Dym, Susan Egmont and Laura Watkins. Available in print and digital formats. How to manage both the predictable and unpredictable challenges...
Managing Leadership Transition for Nonprofits
Passing the Torch to Sustain Organizational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
For nonprofits leadership transitions are a time of exceptionally high risk. Here, three internationally-respected experts show how to systematically identify, introduce, support, and monitor leaders in ways that enhance rather than undermine their performance. They explain why leadership transitions...
Chips, Clones, and Living Beyond 100
How Far Will the Biosciences Take Us?
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
The key scientific discoveries of the 21st century will emerge from the biosciences. These discoveries will impact our lives in ways we can only now begin to imagine. In this book, two of the field's leading experts help us imagine those impacts. Paul and Joyce A. Schoemaker tour the remarkable field...