Decision Making Problem Solving category: 1513 books
by Nancy R. Tague
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Quality Toolbox is a comprehensive reference to a variety of methods and techniques: those most commonly used for quality improvement, many less commonly used, and some created by the author and not available elsewhere. The reader will find the widely used seven basic quality control tools (for example,...
Coherence
The Secret Science of Brilliant Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Every business leader faces innumerable challenges every working day, each one taking their toll on precious energy levels and the ability to respond and react positively in a commercial environment. Coherence recognizes the key factors that take their toll on a leader's effectiveness and ability...
by ASQ Quality Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"The Old Seven.""The First Seven.""The Basic Seven."Quality pros have many names for these seven basic tools of quality, first emphasized by Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of “quality circles.”Start your quality journey by mastering these...
The Project Workout
The ultimate handbook of project and programme management
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
"an important book, taking a lead role in growing a new generation of professional project managers." Oded Cohen, The Goldratt Institute.
Put yourself and your business through the Project Workout learn to direct and manage the programmes and projects that will deliver...
How Innovation "Reimbursement from Medicare" or, "Medicare Advantage" Was Created
SHORT STORY # 43. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2016
One thing in life is constant—stressful events. They ambushed us very often. The same time they occurred on purpose—for us to grow and became much stronger individuals.
Such stressful events come down on the author when she went to work (she is a structural engineer) in post colonial Africa...
Remaking Ourselves, Enterprise and Society
An Indian Approach to Human Values in Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Decision makers interested in going beyond their own personal and professional interests and involving themselves in humanising their organization, community and society should read Remaking Ourselves, Enterprise and Society. This book is about adherence to human values at an institutional level,...
The Art of Action
How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Business is highly competitive, complex, risky and fast paced - like combat.
What do you want me to do? This question is the enduring management issue, a perennial problem that Stephen Bungay shows has an old solution that is counter-intuitive and yet common sense. The Art of Action is a thought-provoking...
Analytics
The Agile Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
For years, organizations have struggled to make sense out of their data. IT projects designed to provide employees with dashboards, KPIs, and business-intelligence tools often take a year or more to reach the finish line...if they get there at all.
This has always been a problem. Today, though,...
Rethinking Retention in Good Times and Bad
Breakthrough Ideas for Keeping Your Best Workers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Keep the workers you want - in good times and bad.
How do organizations keep the workers they want? Until now, employee retention strategies have been based on instincts rather than research. With no firm body of knowledge to use as a guide, employee turnover has been a problem for all organizations....
Advances in Project Management
Narrated Journeys in Uncharted Territory
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
On the evidence of the authors of Advances in Project Management: Narrated Journeys in Unchartered Territory, there is a sea change coming. That change will affect the way projects are perceived, lead and governed, particularly in the context of the wider organisation to which they belong; whether...
Managing for Success
Spotting Danger Signals - And Fixing Problems Before They Happen
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The damage that incompetent managers do is incalculable. Every year they wipe tens of billions off the value of companies around the world. But the routinely incompetent behaviour that leads to failure is often covered up, incompetent managers are paid off and the causes of failure are swept under...
Feeling Smart
Why Our Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
Distinguished authors like Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb have written much about the flaws in the human brain when it comes time to make a decision. Our intuitions and passions frequently fail us, leading to outcomes we don't want.
In this book, Eyal Winter, Professor...
Profit From Your Forecasting Software
A Best Practice Guide for Sales Forecasters
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Go beyond technique to master the difficult judgement calls of forecasting
A variety of software can be used effectively to achieve accurate forecasting, but no software can replace the essential human component. You may be new to forecasting, or you may have mastered the statistical theory...
Beating Uncertainty
7 winning strategies to manage insecurity in life & business
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
This book is all about "managing uncertainty" which is packaging everything around us. Uncertainty is looming over economy, politics, climate and health and many other things. It's always obvious when you, personally, cannot fully understand the present or are unable to predict the future. Thus it...