Management Science category: 4086 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organisations and nations? How are the supply and - more importantly - the utilisation of skill - current evolving?...
by James Utterback, Bengt-Arne Vedin, Eduardo Alvarez;Sten Ekman;Susan Walsh Sanderson;Bruce Tether;Roberto Verganti
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2006
When an innovation is inspired by design, it transcends technology and utility. The design delights the user, seamlessly integrating the physical object, a service, and its use into something whole. A design-inspired innovation is so simple that it becomes an extension of the user. It creates meaning...
Fashion and Textiles
Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Management technique and operation strategies vary depending on the particular industry. This allows businesses in that industry to thrive and increase competitive advantage. Fashion and Textiles: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice is a critical source of academic knowledge on the latest business...
Warehouse Management
A Complete Guide to Improving Efficiency and Minimizing Costs in the Modern Warehouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Offering comprehensive advice on all aspects of managing a warehouse, the third edition of Warehouse Management is an ideal guide and detailed reference book for anyone looking to gain a real insight into warehouse operations. It examines everything from the latest technological advances, operations...
Chains of Finance
How Investment Management is Shaped
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Investment is no longer a matter of individual savers directly choosing which shares or bonds to buy. Rather, most of their money flows through a 'chain': an often extended sequence of intermediaries. What goes on in that chain is of huge importance: The world's investment managers, who are now almost...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
In present days more and more academics and practitioners are seeking to understand how organizations manage their knowledge and intellectual capital in order to obtain more effective competitive advantages. Taking into account these issues, and in order to answer the concerns expressed by these professionals,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Globalization, sustainable development, and technological applications all affect the current state of the business sector in Asia. This complex industry plays a vital part in the overall economic, social, and political aspects of this region, as well as on a larger international scale. Managerial Strategies...
A Rendezvous with My Professional Destiny
Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2003
The books title is not an accident, as Belmont Haydel feels strongly about A Rendezvous with My Professional Destiny. Providence took him to Latin America and other places around the world in macro-economic pursuits. He found his work as an accountant, a military officer, and a diplomat not adequately...
Taylorism Transformed
Scientific Management Theory Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's 'bureaucratic' theory of scientific...
Risk Management
Lever for SME Development and Stakeholder Value Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Risk management practices are growing both in number and complexity in businesses, notably driven by new regulatory standards that feature risk management at their core. Although large businesses are more likely to adopt a formal, holistic approach to risk management, the stakes are just as high for...
The New Ecology of Leadership
Business Mastery in a Chaotic World
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
David Hurst has a unique knowledge of organizations—their function and their failure—both in theory and in practice. He has spent twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crises and turnaround conditions, and is also a widely experienced consultant, teacher, and writer on business....
Il linguaggio del progetto. Riflessioni intorno al project management
Riflessioni intorno al project management
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Tutti i modelli di project management (e un’ampia letteratura specialistica) riconoscono che la comunicazione è il fattore più importante per il successo dei progetti. Il libro è destinato a project manager, manager, imprenditori, studenti, ma anche a tutti coloro che vogliono avvicinarsi alla disciplina del project management partendo da una prospettiva inusuale.
Customer Knowledge Management
Improving Customer Relationship through Knowledge Application
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Managing and transferring knowledge - at the right time, in the right place and with the right quality for customers - enables companies to survive in times of fierce competition. The focus of this work is therefore on Knowledge Management and Customer Relationship Management. The theoretical part...
Japan’s Disaster Governance
How was the 3.11 Crisis Managed?
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Natural disasters are often multifaceted and cause severe damage. Disasters initiated locally can become national and even global crises. Today’s world urgently needs a new body of knowledge and techniques for the mitigation of and response to disaster. Central to such a body of knowledge are disaster...