Management Science category: 4086 books
The PLM Primer
A Guide to Successfully Selecting and Deploying Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
If you deal with product lifecycle management technology or the challenges that come from managing product development, inside this slim guide you will find the answers to your most critical questions. It combines hands-on knowledge with best practices derived from numerous business authors and studies...
Profit Beyond Measure
Extraordinary Results through Attention to Work and People
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2001
Waste has plagued almost every industrial-age firm for the past century. In this powerfully argued alternative to conventional cost management thinking, experts H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Bröms assert that any company can avoid the waste that is generated through excessive operating costs in the...
The Success Healthcheck for IT Projects
An Insider's Guide to Managing IT Investment and Business Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Downsizing, outsourcing and the accelerating pace of change have led to project management becoming one of today's hottest disciplines. Project management is about managing ad hoc, one-off projects instead of ongoing operations. Effective project management delivers better ROI, better benefits realization....
by Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Vikas Kumar, Juan Luis Martinez-Covarrubias
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
This book is for directors, consultants, practitioners, and professionals aspiring to effectively manage operations, but is targeted at applying innovation to the management of operations, including supply chains. It is appropriate for those establishing a career in innovation and operations management....
Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary
Conditions in Organizational Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This volume of the Research in Organizational Sciences is entitled “Received Wisdom, Kernels of Truth, and Boundary Conditions in Organizational Studies”. Received wisdom is knowledge imparted to people by others and is based on authority and tenacity as sources of human knowledge. Authority refers...
by James P Ignizio
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2009
TQM, Reengineering, Theory of Constraints, JIT, Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing . . .
These are just some of the methods that, over the past five decades, have promised to transform any manufacturing firm into a lean, mean, moneymaking machine. While each incorporates certain fundamental truths,...
Organizational Learning and Knowledge
Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
The impact that information technology has on collective knowledge, the lifeblood of any organization, is still being fully realized and understood. Organizational Learning and Knowledge: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications demonstrates exhaustively the many applications, issues, and techniques...
by Alessandro Musso
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
This analytic study originates with properly modifications of course and needed simplifications for educational purposes, from internal documentation of a company, in order to share a common approach of controlling tracks, a same terminology and to frame some issues which involve different business...
NeuroLeadership
How The World's Best Leaders Use Psychology To Win
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Science has discovered many things about people in the workplace; how output can be increased, happiness improved, patterns of communication optimized. But these research insights rarely make it outside the lab. This book bridges that gap.
Organizational Psychologist Samual Page artfully weaves...
Stress-Proof
The Scientific Solution to Protect Your Brain and Body--and Be More Resilient Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
Discover simple, science-based strategies for beating stress at its own game
When’s the best time to exercise – and how much is too much?
Which foods fortify the brain, and which do the opposite?
How can we use music, movement, and motivation to boost our rational brain and keep our cool...
Thriving in the Middle
Why Managers Need to Be Coaching Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
How does your company train its operational-level managers? Do they go offsite, learn new information from a management expert, receive a training manual, or something similar? Most businesses fall into this development category, treating managers as our academic system treats students. The results,...
Passive Addiction or Why We Hate Work
An Investigation of Problems in Organizational Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This work examines various organizational problems that contribute to the phenomenon of passive addiction, problems so entrenched and quotidian that they no longer register in the organizational consciousness as problems. Passive addiction refers to the phenomenon in which the individual is addicted...
Managing Projects in the Real World
The Tips and Tricks No One Tells You About When You Start
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Managing Projects in the Real World provides clear and actionable advice to project managers for recognizing, anticipating, and overcoming challenges associated with the human component of leading others. The mechanics of project management are rational and straightforward to learn. The art of project...
From Techie to Boss
Transitioning to Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
From Techie to Boss teaches technical people who are making or mulling the transition from team player to team leader all the management techniques and soft leadership skills they never needed before—but need now, pronto. Veteran team lead and project manager Scott Cromar lays out the classical...