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by Bo Begole
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
This Element is an excerpt from Ubiquitous Computing for Business: Find New Markets, Create Better Businesses, and Reach Customers Around The World 24-7-365 (9780137064434) by Bo Begole. Available in print and digital formats. How a leading commercial printer is finding and delivering powerful new...
by Thomas J. Goldsby, John E. Bell, Arthur V. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
A brand new collection of insights and actionable techniques for world-class supply chain management… 2 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
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2 authoritative eBooks deliver comprehensive resources for managing state-of-the-art supply chains in...
Powerful Times
Rising to the Challenge of Our Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
Understand the most revolutionary human transformation in four centuries... and prepare for it! We're not just living through an age of change: we're living through a 'change of age': the most profound inflection point in human history since the Enlightenment. That's the thesis of Eamonn Kelly's remarkable...
More for Less
Security Operations Centers -- Improving Resiliency while Simultaneously Reducing Cost
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
This is the eBook version of the printed book. Today, businesses can monitor security and operations at all facilities within an integrated infrastructure of Global Security Operations Centers (GSOCs)—thereby responding more quickly, effectively, and cost-efficiently to any actual or potential breach...
The Genius of Instinct: Reclaim Mother Nature's Tools for Enhancing Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Work
Reclaim Mother Nature's Tools for Enhancing Your Health, Happiness, Family, and Work
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
Why do we sometimes get into the wrong relationships, take the wrong jobs, and make the wrong choices? The answers and solutions to these everyday plights are revealed by today’s “scientists of the mind,” evolutionary psychologists who have discovered stunning new lessons about the power of instincts...
Follow the Money
A Framework for Investors to Evaluate Management as Capital Allocators
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This is the eBook version of the printed book. An objective framework for assessing management’s effectiveness in deploying capital to increase shareholder value. Shareholders’ lack of direct control over cash flow represents a blind spot in traditional cash flow-based valuation. Management...
The Esoteric Investor
Alternative Investments for Global Macro Investors
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2011
Massive demographic, environmental, economic, and regulatory shifts are generating huge new investment opportunities with an exceptionally high probability of success over the coming years and decades. In The Esoteric Investor, a world-class portfolio manager identifies these investments, and shows...
Multi-Echelon Inventory Decisions at Jefferson Plumbing Supplies
To Store or Not to Store?
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study examines "store or don't store" multi-echelon inventory decisions faced by Jefferson Plumbing Supplies. It drills down to review inventory decision-making associated with a single product: A customer wishes to order larger quantities less frequently, but Jefferson's...
Perdue Farms
A Vertically Integrated Supply Chain
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new case study examines the remarkable vertically integrated supply chain built by Perdue Farms, which supplies 2.7 billion pounds of poultry annually to customers in more than 40 countries. It reviews processes across the entire supply chain, from breeding eggs and hatching chicks through manufacturing...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
This new supply chain management case study examines the challenges faced by a leading recycling business in efficiently unloading city trailers that deliver electronic waste. eCycle faces stiff fines if it cannot unload trailers on a timely basis, yet it must handle growing volume without compromising...
by Chuck Munson
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2013
This new supply chain management case study illuminates the interplay between demand management and production strategies at TractParts, a leading Indian manufacturer of pumps, engines, electric motors, and transformers. It presents the firm's seasonal demand patterns, shows how they might be met through...
How to Pay Less for Life and Auto Insurance
Know What You Need and How to Shop
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Living Rich by Spending Smart: How to Get More of What You Really Want (ISBN: 9780132350099) by Gregory Karp. Available in print and digital formats. How just a few hours of work can save you hundreds of dollars every year on life and car insurance! Shopping...
Integrity Matters
Trust Is the Bedrock of Success
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2009
This Element is an excerpt from Five Minutes on Mondays: Finding Unexpected Purpose, Peace, and Fulfillment at Work (ISBN: 9780137007783) by Alan Lurie. Available in print and digital formats. Real insights for handling the professional, personal, and moral conflicts that don’t have easy answers...
Saving Adam Smith
A Tale of Wealth, Transformation, and Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2001
Adam Smith ... Father of Modern Economics ... Died in 1790 ... but 200 years later, his spirit is tortured by the caricatures we remember in his name. In Saving Adam Smith, he is tortured enough to return to Earth ... and so begins a journey of discovery that cuts across two centuries, as doctoral...