Planning Forecasting category: 2658 books
The Complexity Crisis
Why too many products, markets, and customers are crippling your company--and what to do about it
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Delivering on the Promise
How to Attract, Manage, and Retain Human Capital
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2001
Business has long struggled with the notion of "human capital," but do companies really know the value of their people? All too frequently, companies lay off thousands of workers to boost share price while, at the same time, their annual reports promise that "people are our greatest...
Organization Development
A Process of Learning and Changing
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Master the modern discipline of Organizational Development (OD), and use it to plan and drive effective change. Organization Development, Third Edition is today's complete overview of the OD discipline for managers, executives, administrators, consultants, and students alike. Fully updated to reflect...
Execution IS the Strategy
How Leaders Achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Turn Strategy into Performance! In today’s world of rapid, disruptive change, strategy can’t be separate from execution—it has to emerge from execution. You have to continually adjust your strategy to fit new realities. But if your organization isn’t set up to be fast on its feet, you could...
by Paul A. Argenti, Courtney M. Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The explosion of blogs, social networking sites, wikis, video sharing sites, and other powerful digital communications platforms may be the biggest game-changer to impact business since mechanized manufacturing. In today’s Web 2.0 world, company stakeholders--including employees, customers, and...
Playing to Win
How Strategy Really Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Are you just playing-or playing to win?
Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It’s hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future-something that doesn’t happen in most companies.
Now two of today’s best-known business thinkers get...
The Truth About Managing People
Proven Insights to Get the Best from Your Team
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
Discover today's quick, practical, proven guide to overcoming "killer" management problems and succeeding brilliantly as a leader! Unlike other management books, The Truth About Managing People, Fourth Edition is 100% practical and completely based on tested evidence, not mere anecdote or...
Great Minds in Management
The Process of Theory Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2005
In Great Minds In Management Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development,...
Strategic Supply Management
Creating the Next Source of Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2007
The popular press is loaded with stories about supply problems affecting many industries. Extensive outsourcing of major portions of a firms value chain, relentless pressure from customers to improve product and service functionality and to reduce costs across almost every industry, and steep global...
Supplier Evaluation & Performance Excellence
A Guide to Meaningful Metrics and Successful Results
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Understanding supplier performance is vital to ensuring a well-functioning supply network. This how-to book will help you develop and implement an evaluation process to help you reduce costs, lower risk, and improve both the performance of your company and your suppliers. This practical text includes...
Spend Analysis
The Window into Strategic Sourcing
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2008
A growing number of senior executives are coming to realize that strategic supply management can be a significant driver of improved corporate performance and better risk management. Spend analysis is the most critical component, and the starting point, of strategic supply management and is essential...
B4b
How Technology and Big Data Are Reinventing the Customer-Supplier Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Industry after industry is becoming technology-driven as software rapidly eats the world. As it spreads, so do complexity and opportunity. There are clear signs that the traditional B2B business model designed 125 years ago as a simple “make, sell, ship” approach for early manufacturing companies...
Scaling Up (Escalando sua Empresa)
Como Algumas Empresas Conseguem Crescer... e Porque as Demais Não
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 31, 2015
Faz mais de uma década desde que o livro best-seller de Verne Harnish, Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, foi lançado pela primeira vez*.* Scaling Up: How a Few companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don’t (Scaling Up: Como Algumas Poucas Empresas Crescem... E Porque as Demais Não) é a maior revisão...
Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals
Research, Process, and Resources
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In many organizations, procurement has evolved from a tactical, transaction-oriented department into a strategic function responsible for establishing spend management objectives for the entire organization. While the tools they use and the skills they possess have increased overall effectiveness and...