Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Diagnosing Greatness
Ten Traits of the Best Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Diagnosing Greatness is the first supply chain book targeted at all levels and functions of business management. It explains how business performance can be enhanced through a concerted effort to implement improvements across a full supply chain network. Using a significant amount of academic studies,...
American Shale Energy and the Global Economy
Business and Geopolitical Implications of the Fracking Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2018
This brief explores the business and global implications of the American shale energy, or natural gas, revolution. Specifically, it provides a rational, comprehensive look at the major business themes and management implications that surround the new abundance of natural gas in the United States and...
The Procurement Game Plan
Winning Strategies and Techniques for Supply Management Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This valuable guide provides an easy-to-follow game plan with strategies for procurement and supply management professionals to improve supplier relationships, secure measurable cost reductions, achieve operational effectiveness and efficiency, and positively impact margins and competitiveness for their...
by Bob Wernly
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2018
Think back about any day at work. Whether as the owner, the boss, or the lowest level employee, everyone shares one common experience. Problems.
Problems can be minor, some time consuming, some expensive to fix, or even more expensive to not fix. The good news is…There are only two...
by Mike Rother
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
Create more scientific thinking in your company—two popular guides in one convenient package
The Toyota Kata Field Guide Power Pack includes Mike Rother’s groundbreaking companion volumes to his internationally renowned Toyota Kata—the book that launched a global business movement toward...
by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
This is the only book that makes all planning methods and tools available to project managers at all levels easy to understand ... and use. Instead of applying techniques piecemeal, you'll take a cohesive, step-by-step approach to improve strategic and operational planning and scheduling throughout...
Leading the Transformation
Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most technology executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require.
Leading-edge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software...
Mastering Operational Risk
A practical guide to understanding operational risk and how to manage it
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
A practical guide, from the basic techniques, through to advanced applications, showing you what operational risk is, and how you can manage it.
Mastering Operational Risk provides a step-by-step guide from the basic elements of operational risk through to advanced applications of...
Globalization 2.0
A Roadmap to the Future from Leading Minds
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
. . . Eat not up your property among yourselves unjustly except it be a trade amongst you, by mutual consent . . . and help you one another in righteousness and piety. . . (Al-Hadid 4:29; Al-Ma’idah 5:2) There cannot be any doubt that the current ?nancial crisis, which began in the US, has gone...
The Value Imperative
Harvesting Value from Your IT Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Organizational executives must change the way they think about how to invest in and manage IT if they want to get lasting value from computer-based innovations. The old way of thinking has not served organizations well. They continue to experience high levels of technological and operational failures...
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...
by Daniel Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Akademische Arbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich BWL - Beschaffung, Produktion, Logistik, Note: 1,3, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Analyse des Beschaffungsmanagements der im Laufe der Arbeit noch näher beschriebenen Krankenhäuser unter der Zielstellung, Optimierungsmöglichkeiten...
by Vincenzo Morabito
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This book describes the trends in digital innovation that are of most importance for businesses and explores the key challenges. The book is in three parts, the first of which focuses on developments in digital systems. Here, the ever-growing relevance of big data, cloud computing, and mobile services...
Design Thinking Research
Making Design Thinking Foundational
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. The authors offer readers a closer look at Design Thinking with its processes of innovations and methods. The contents of...