Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
FT Guide to Lean
How to streamline your organisation, engage employees and create a competitive edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Learn how to make your company more efficient, increase customer value with less work and make better use of your organisation’s resources by implementing a Lean management strategy.
The Financial Times Guide to Lean is a guide to the tools that are used to implement Lean, showing you how...
Teaching Leadership and Organizational Behavior through Humor
Laughter as the Best Teacher
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
A unique, non-traditional, Organizational Behavioral-oriented book that is geared toward flexible leadership, and that offers a series of funny, yet thought-provoking, motivating, growth-oriented jokes and humor anecdotes that will help readers tap into their internal locus of control.
Supply Chain Coordination Mechanisms
New Approaches for Collaborative Planning
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Integrated supply chain planning is well understood by theory and widely applied in practice – however, only with respect to intra-organisational supply chains. In inter-organisational supply chains, an additional, yet unresolved problem arises: due to confidentiality reasons, decentralized parties...
Business Strategies for a Messy World
Tools for Systemic Problem-Solving
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
Using current business examples and academic research, Tools for Systematic Problem-Solving educates managers and executives on how to systematically examine key assumptions to ensure survival and success for their organizations.
The Ambidextrous Organization
Exploring the New While Exploiting the Now
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
How can businesses balance the demands of both exploiting and exploring? Companies and their leaders have to use both hands: on the one hand making next quarter's targets through existing business, whilst simultaneously exploring new opportunities. This is the first book to explain how to use this approach to encourage innovation.
Handbook on 3D3C Platforms
Applications and Tools for Three Dimensional Systems for Community, Creation and Commerce
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
This book presents 3D3C platforms – three-dimensional systems for community, creation and commerce. It discusses tools including bots in social networks, team creativity, privacy, and virtual currencies & micropayments as well as their applications in areas like healthcare, energy, collaboration,...
Starts with One, It
Changing Individuals Changes Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Today, virtually every organization faces massive change. Unfortunately, change is extraordinarily difficult, and most attempts to initiate and sustain it fail. In It Starts with One, J. Stewart Black and Hal B Gregersen identify the core problem: changing individuals and the “mental maps”...
Propeller
Accelerating Change by Getting Accountability Right
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
The newest addition to Partners In Leadership's accountability series that began with the classic The Oz Principle.
The Oz Principle has sold more than a million copies since it debuted in 1994, establishing it as the go-to reference on workplace accountability throughout the world. By embracing...
Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship
Startups for the 99%
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Startups for the 99% details the implications of the post-capitalist society on entrepreneurship around the globe, and it challenges many of our underlying assumptions about how entrepreneurs form startups and the objectives and roles, or lack thereof, of startup...
Theory of Constraints
Creative Problem Solving
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book was written to assist professionals and students to become proactive in their own education, improve thinking, resolve personal and interpersonal conflicts, improve pedagogy, manage departmental affairs and guide administrative decisions. The text captures the practical experience of the...
Smart Technologies for Smart Nations
Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific Region
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
This book emphasizes the need for new directions and approaches for social and economic development in the emerging nations of the Asia-Pacific region through the use of Smart Technologies. It takes a holistic view of socio-economic and technical developments taking place through ASEAN and South Asia....
Slow Tech and ICT
A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book makes an important contribution to the recent evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are human-centred and socially desirable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically acceptable. It introduces the concept of moral, equitable and environmental limits in the...
by John Mautner
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Tap into solutions for the Top 10 Challenges Every Business Encounters and Learn the Keys to Transform Your Business today.The Profit Pattern by John Mautner: Learn the key solutions to solve the ten proven, repeatable and beatable challenges that every business encounters. Whether you are...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A friend of mine asked a great question in response to one of my recent Lean books. His question was in essence how do you keep Lean initiatives moving ahead and not going the way of another flavour of the month program. We have all seen managers with the best intentions launch new initiatives that...