Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Business Value and Sustainability
An Integrated Supply Network Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green product development, worker safety, child labour...
Lean Sustainable Supply Chain The
How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Lean, green supply chain management combines the efficiency that lean technologies deliver with the environmental and cost benefits of sustainability. The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain illuminates the business benefits of combining "lean" and "green," and offers start-to-finish...
Industrial Megaprojects
Concepts, Strategies, and Practices for Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Avoid common pitfalls in large-scale projects using these smart strategies
Over half of large-scale engineering and construction projects—off-shore oil platforms, chemical plants, metals processing, dams, and similar projects—have miserably poor results. These include billions of dollars...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
Research and development (R&D) as well as innovation are the drivers of change and the key determinants of growth in many industry and service sectors. In spite of the financial turmoil and restructuring of the world economy after 2008, investment in R&D is expected to grow further. Innovation...
Changing Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Globalization and New Ways of Drug Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The internationalization of research and technology is one key component of the globalization of trade and business, with potentially major impacts on patterns of economic development and public policies worldwide. Although certain aspects of this internationalization trend are well documented, and...
by Gregory Balestrero, Nathalie Udo
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
BOOST LOYALTY, PROFITABILITY, AND GROWTH WITH A STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABILITY
Organizational Survival provides a rational, research-based approach to creating a durable business strategy designed to meet the needs of today's customers and position an organization to outperform while positively impacting...
by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
At last - the first comprehensive and practical guide to the work breakdown structure (WBS) in 45 years! This book offers vital new perspectives on how to apply the WBS to today's different types of projects that produce products, services or results. You'll learn how to use WBS throughout the...
A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation
Concepts, Processes, Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
This book enables enterprise business leaders - from CEOs to supervisors - to understand what "Continuous Improvement" is, why it is probably the best answer to improved business performance in years, and how to put it to work in the unique environment of a specific organization. The book...
Behavior Modeling Instructor Manual
Training for Developing Supervisory Skills
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Behavior modeling has been a highly successful training method for centuries. However, refinements based upon extensive research about its components began only recently. This manual presents the fruits of this research, and provides handson, proven, detailed instructions for productive implementation....
Claves del lean management en tiempos de maxima competitividad.
Cómo gestionar en la práctica una empresa altamente competitiva
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Claves para una economía y unas finanzas más responsables, personalizadas y alejadas del despilfarro. La reciente crisis ha sido el resultado de un modelo de gestión implantado desde inicios del siglo pasado, que ha llevado al mundo a un consumo desbocado y a generar burbujas, malgastando recursos...
Transforming Through Processes
Leading Voices on BPM, People and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2014
This book presents a series of twelve short interviews with inspiring practitioners and academics sharing insights in the world of process and transformation. The interviews tackle issues and questions about the future of Business Process Management (BPM), the impact of emerging technologies and customer...
Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation
The Lean Six Sigma Framework and Systematic Methodology for Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management....
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk
Practical Methods for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years.
For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex...
Network Embeddedness
Examining the Effect on Business Performance and Internationalization
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
This book systematizes the concepts of business relationships and network embeddedness, taking a new approach to internationalization, relevant for the global economy. It reflects the growing importance of network internationalization theory and explores the impact of embeddedness in domestic and...