Ross Publishing: 135 books
by Anita Cassidy and Dan Cassidy
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Eliminating or lowering costs have long been second nature for many IT organizations. In challenging economic times, even further cutting of IT costs is a requirement for the survival of many organizations. Whether in the midst of an economic downturn or upturn, effective cost management is critical...
Mastering Project Portfolio Management
A Systems Approach to Achieving Strategic Objectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
This unique text provides a holistic view of project portfolio management (PPM) that includes people, process, tools, and techniques that work synergistically within the organization to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success. It illustrates the entire PPM process from strategic planning...
Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
Building Competencies for R&D and IT Investment Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
This unique guide and professional reference presents a structured framework for practitioners and students of project, program, and portfolio management to enhance their strategic and analytic capabilities in the evolving discipline of project portfolio management (PPM). It provides a practical, step-by-step...
Strategic Project Management Transformation
Delivering Maximum ROI & Sustainable Business Value
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
In todays changing and competitive economic environment, CEOs, corporate executives, and shareholders are no longer strictly concerned with how well a project was executed even if it was finished on time and on budget. Most projects are now being viewed as strategic investments with the primary concern...
Organizational Project Portfolio Management
A Practitioner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Organizational Project Portfolio Management: A Practitioner’s Guide offers a generic, practical methodology and tool kit to design, build, and manage a balanced portfolio at any level of the enterprise. These techniques can be used irrespective of business industry, where the portfolio management group...
Software Estimation Best Practices
A Complete Guide for Software Project Estimators
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Worldwide growth in the number of companies specializing in the development of software for use by other companies is staggering. India alone has nearly 20,000 such companies. Intense competition has led to an increased demand for fixed-bid pricing in client/vendor relationships, and has made effective...
Aircraft Finance
Strategies for Managing Capital Costs in a Turbulent Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
One of the largest assets that an airline has are aircraft, therefore it is critically important to develop a methodology that estimates an aircrafts value, and which also determines efficient utilization to ensure an acceptable rate of return on the asset. Aircraft Finance provides a comprehensive review...
Demand Management Best Practices
Process, Principles, and Collaboration
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2003
Demand Management Best Practices outlines an effective demand management model process tied to an integrated business process that will give your organization a competitive edge. This book helps you effectively respond to ever-increasing expectations for improved supplier delivery performance, product...
Next Level Supply Management Excellence
Your Straight to the Bottom Line Roadmap
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
In this sequel to the best-selling book, Straight to the Bottom Line, the authors and their panel of distinguished contributors outline the critical success factors for leading your company to the next level in procurement practices and performance and provide a proven transformation model to improve...
Supply Management and Procurement
From the Basics to Best-in-Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Driven by a down economy and difficult economic realities, many organizations are discovering that what worked well in the past may not be what is needed now to move forward or even survive. This comprehensive and analytical resource draws comparisons between practicing basic procurement and the more...
Managing Global Supply and Risk
Best Practices, Concepts, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
Due to the profound growth in international trade, the need to pursue global supply and institute risk management practices has never been greater. The globalization of world markets has reconfigured supply networks, causing increasing complexities and challenges in sourcing and risk management. Managing...
by C. Jotin Khisty, Jamshid Mohammadi, Adjo Amekudzi
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
This extensively revised comprehensive textbook, covering a wide range of topics, is suitable for courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, each with a different emphasis. There is more than enough material to cover two semesters of an undergraduate course, as well as a one semester graduate...
Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations
A Guide to Sustainable World-Class Capability and Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2010
Leading Effective Supply Chain Transformations clearly defines how to achieve and maintain a supply chain leadership position by focusing on real-world execution and detailed integration of specific actions and process techniques. These distinguished experts and accomplished authors have gathered the...
Managing Corporate Communications in the Age of Restructuring, Crisis and Litigation
Revisiting Groupthink in the Boardroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Corporate executives, lawyers, and board of directors suffer from groupthink when confronted with a crisis, restructuring or litigation, which results in a communications meltdown that hurts a company’s number one asset—its reputation. This failure to understand how to communicate in distressed situations...