Production Operations Management category: 1955 books

Written by the world's leading academics in the outsourcing field, this books gives the most recent overview of developments in research and practice. It focuses on new practices in innovation, offshoring, onshoring, capabilities, project management and cloud services, offering a distinctive theory of outsourcing.

This book deals with complex variants of Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) and Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) within the manufacturing and service industries. The objective is to develop heuristics for these supply chain problems in order to offer practical solutions to improve operational efficiency....

This volume presents the refereed papers given at the International Conference on Managing the Asian Century, held in Singapore in July 2013. The proceedings of this conference include original papers contributed by researchers from many countries on different continents. The papers cover multi-disciplinary...

Logistics is the ideal book for Bachelor students of logistics, providing a solid foundation as well as a practical guide. In modular and clear form, it explains key concepts, principles, and practices of logistics. Learning objectives as well as several case studies are integrated into each chapter.  It...

Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays. Risk Navigation Strategies for Major Capital Projects builds on conventional best practice to provide a risk-based view of current practices for planning and executing large international projects. As...

Die IT von Großprojekten der Industrie steht vor besonderen charakteristischen Herausforderungen: Hoher Zeitdruck, Positionierung der IT im technischen Projektumfeld und Fehlen ausgereifter Systemlandschaften und Vorlagen. Dieses Buch zeigt am Beispiel von fünf bekannten Großprojekten, wie IT Management...

Es ist gängige Industrie-Praxis, dass ERP-Projekte IT- und keine Business-Projekte sind und damit den Unternehmenszweck nicht in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Andreas Leiting entwickelt einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, um das Unternehmensziel und das IT-Ziel über das Geschäftsprozessmanagement miteinander...

Das Buch beantwortet die Frage, wie Forschungskooperationen zwischen Unternehmen und Forschungseinrichtungen erfolgreich organisiert und gemanagt werden können. Dazu zählen Themen wie Innovations- und Projektmanagement, Wissens- und Schutzrechtsmanagement sowie die Vermarktung der Ergebnisse der...

This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructordirected program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author. Behaviormodeling training is a form of skilldevelopment training that is distinguished...

In a knowledge-based economy, the development of a particular type of services, knowledge intensive business services (KIBS), becomes one of the characteristic trends in economic evolution. Current research focuses mainly on service innovation in developed countries, but little consideration...

This Brief focuses on strategies for innovation. Top-Down Innovation discusses the barriers to successful organizational and product innovation, distills the leading theories about how to foster innovation, and presents six case studies of well-known brands that have succeeded (and in one case failed)...

Manage and improve your organization's agile transformation Adopting an enterprise agile framework is a radical organizational change, and this book will help you get there without ever breaking a sweat. In Enterprise Agility For Dummies, you'll discover how to successfully choose and implement...

This book focuses on understanding the strategic role of the knowledge workers in  companies, especially in creating an innovative company. The author presents the 'Sknowinnov method' and a decision-making model for the assessment of the value of strategic knowledge resources in companies. This method...

While there are numerous project management books on the market and a number on business processes and initiatives, there has been a lack of comprehensive guides to successfully manage business process improvement (BPI) projects, until now.BPI projects are some of the most difficult and challenging to...