Management Science list 25

Continuous Improvement By Improving Continuously (CIBIC)

Addressing the Human Factors During the Pursuit of Process Excellence

by F. Allen Davis
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Although many businesses, organizations, and institutions have currently implemented continuous improvement initiatives that address wants, needs, and challenges at the process and systems level, very few have effectively considered and addressed human factors. Thus, even businesses, organizations,...

Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 1

Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership

by Miles Anthony Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012

What is leadership? How do we define leadership? What is servant leadership? What are the most effective leadership characteristics? Do you wish your company had a leadership development program, or are you frustrated with organizational leadership? Do you wonder why some leadership styles suck? You...

Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs

Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions

by Tom Y. Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014

Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs*: Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions* may be one of the most important books any entrepreneur or manager in a small or medium-sized enterprise will read. It combines...

Eurasian Business Perspectives

Proceedings of the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference

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Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2019

This volume of Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics includes selected papers from the 24th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Bangkok. The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of business and management from different geographic regions;...

How Innovation Really Works: Using the Trillion-Dollar R&D Fix to Drive Growth

by Anne Marie Knott
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017

Are you spending too much on R&D? Too little? Is your innovation program successful? And how do you measure that success? Your company is spending millions on R&D every year, but despite your best efforts, that R&D isn’t driving growth. If you’re like 95% of firms, you aren’t...

Balancing Time and Workload

by Andrew Bird
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012

This eBook has been designed to provide you with information on the basic principles of balancing time and workload. In this practical, easy to read eBook you’ll be presented with evidence-informed and experience tested strategies for getting the most out of your day without burning the candle at...

The Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, Chapter 2 - Foundations of the Six Sigma Management System

by Thomas McCarty, Lorraine Daniels, Michael Bremer
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2004

Here is a sample chapter from Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, which offers the best and the latest information to assist you in solving some of the most complex problems imaginable. In this book written by the instructors of the world renowned Motorola University, you'll find valuable advice on how to...

Transfer of Learning

Contemporary Research and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014

Since the mid-1970s, scientific and educational research has left a gap in the field of basic and applied research on transfer of learning. This book fills the gap with state-of-the-art information on recent research in the field, emphasizing methodological paradigms and interpretive concepts based...

Sport Business Analytics

Using Data to Increase Revenue and Improve Operational Efficiency

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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016

Developing and implementing a systematic analytics strategy can result in a sustainable competitive advantage within the sport business industry. This timely and relevant book provides practical strategies to collect data and then convert that data into meaningful, value-added information and actionable...

How to Speak Tech

The Non-Techie's Guide to Technology Basics in Business

by Vinay Trivedi
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014

"A great book everyone can use to understand how tech startups work." —Rene Reinsberg, GM/VP at GoDaddy, CEO and Co-founder at Locu "Finally a book non-techies can use to understand the web technologies that are changing our lives." —Paul Bottino, Executive Director,...

The Unfinished Revolution

How to Make Technology Work for Us--Instead of the Other Way Around

by Michael L. Dertouzos
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

In a world spiralling into a state of technological excess, Michael Dertouzos shows us how to make technology—in all its infinite varieties—work for, rather than against, us in our everday business lives. Now includes a new foreword by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. At...

Lean Agile Marketing

How to Become Agile and Deliver Marketing Success

by Femi Olajiga
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017

Lean Agile Marketing explains how to apply agile methodologies to marketing. The book contains a realistic and actionable guide to starting agile in marketing, including practical examples and more detailed case studies of different types of agile marketing teams which illustrate the application of...

Organizations as Complex Systems

An Introduction to Knowledge Cybernetics

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

Managing the Complex is an ambitious title and it would be an audacious one if we were not to begin with a frank admission: to date few to none of us have a skill set which includes managing the complex. We try various things, we write about others, and we wonder about still others. When a tool, perspective,...

The Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook, Chapter 5 - Six Sigma Management System Case Study