Pearson Ft Press imprint: 180 books
The Definitive Guide to Manufacturing and Service Operations
Master the Strategies and Tactics for Planning, Organizing, and Managing How Products and Services Are Produced
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in manufacturing or service operations, anywhere in your supply chain! Now, there’s an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice manufacturing and service operations in any organization. Co-authored by a leading...
The Applied Business Analytics Casebook
Applications in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, and Operations Research
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The first collection of cases on “big data” analytics for supply chain, operations research, and operations management, this reference puts readers in the position of the analytics professional and decision-maker. Perfect for students, practitioners, and certification candidates in SCM, OM, and...
Computational Intelligence in Business Analytics
Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Big Data Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Use computational intelligence to drive more value from business analytics, overcome real-world uncertainties and complexities, and make better decisions. Drawing on his pioneering experience as an instructor and researcher, Dr. Les Sztandera thoroughly illuminates today's key computational intelligence...
Advanced Analytics Methodologies
Driving Business Value with Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Advanced Analytics Methodologies is today's definitive guide to analytics implementation for MBA and university-level business students and sophisticated practitioners. Its expanded, cutting-edge coverage helps readers systematically "jump the gap" between their organization's current analytical capabilities...
Real-World Data Mining
Applied Business Analytics and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Use the latest data mining best practices to enable timely, actionable, evidence-based decision making throughout your organization! Real-World Data Mining demystifies current best practices, showing how to use data mining to uncover hidden patterns and correlations, and leverage these to improve...
BIG Ideas to BIG Results
Leading Corporate Transformation in a Disruptive World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A PROVEN, NO-NONSENSE, STEP-BY-STEP, RESULTS-DRIVEN APPROACH TO DRIVING CORPORATE TRANSFORMATION AND BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE IN A DISRUPTIVE WORLD
Why do most corporate transformation leaders fail to achieve breakthrough performance? They make things too complex. They clutter it...
Applied Business Analytics
Integrating Business Process, Big Data, and Advanced Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Bridge the gap between analytics and execution, and actually translate analytics into better business decision-making! Now that you've collected data and crunched numbers, Applied Business Analytics reveals how to fully apply the information and knowledge you've gleaned from quants and tech teams....
How to Make Money with Social Media
An Insider's Guide to Using New and Emerging Media to Grow Your Business
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Set up, launch, and run your winning social/mobile media campaign! This guide is packed with actionable tools, techniques, and tips you can really use – all fully revamped for today's newest platforms and opportunities. Authors Jamie Turner and Reshma Shah have unsurpassed experience using social and...
Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape
How Private Exchanges are Bringing Choice and Consumerism to America's Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
2018 International Book Awards Finalist in "Business and Management" Category
We shop for everything else online…why not benefits?
Using private benefit exchanges (a.k.a. “online benefits marketplaces”), employers can bring a consumer-centric online shopping experience...
by Matthew J. Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Using Lean Six Sigma techniques, this new case study challenges readers to analyze why a local pizza restaurant is experiencing a rapid increase in customer complaints, ranging from late delivery to poor crusts. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many industries and...
The Definitive Guide to Supply Chain Best Practices
Comprehensive Lessons and Cases in Effective SCM
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) brings together state-of-the-art supply chain management case studies to help readers systematically identify challenges, evaluate solutions, plan implementation, and prepare for the future. Commissioned by CSCMP, these realistic, fact-based...
Stranded in the Nyiri Desert
A Group Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This unique case study challenges readers to use business analytics techniques to survive a bus accident in a remote area of Amboseli National Park in Kenya's Nyiri Desert, without access to communication. Crystallizing several realistic analytical challenges, it exposes readers to the entire decision-making...
by Matthew Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new business analytics case study challenges readers to help a company's sustainability coordinator choose her first high-profile project, based on both qualitative and quantitative inputs, including alignment with the company's mission. Readers will consider three alternatives with significantly...
by Matthew Drake
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
This new case study challenges readers to help a leading online book swap site retool its business model to overcome increased postal costs and the growing popularity of e-books. Crystallizing realistic analytical challenges faced by companies in many industries and markets, it exposes readers to the...