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First published in 1911, "The Principles of Scientific Management" by the American mechanical engineer and efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor, is the highly influential study on industrial organization and management theory. Taylor is often referred to as the "Father of Scientific Management" and his approach to decision-making and management to optimize efficiency is often referred to as "Taylor's Principles", or "Taylorism". The impact on...
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This ebook is a collection of Lectures comprising several units , which put together form a course in OR for aspiring under graduates. There are severtal worked out problems and exercises with case studies. An ebook is difficult to find where most of the publications are high priced print text books. It is hoped this would benefit students.
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For most managers technology is a mystery. Must it endlessly eat away at profit, hamper productivity, and bring business to its knees with outages? According to author Anthony L. Butler, it almost feels like a crime in progress conducted by three super villains: Money Pit, The Productivity Bandit, and the business destroyer-Outage. Businesses are in a constant struggle with the evil triad that continues to rear up over and over again. Cracking the...
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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 with an engaging perspective on the critical aspects of successfully selecting the deploying technology to manage the product development process....
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Discover the revolutionary business model that lets you achieve success without the headaches of management or asset ownership.
In a zero space organization, knowledge is the only true currency and people are the only assets that matter. Through eight new organizational principles, Frank Lekanne Deprez and René Tissen illustrate how "zero-mindedness" is essential for the new economy. As organizations evolve into less tangible, less prescribed forms,...
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Advanced Negotiation Techniques provides a wealth of material in a winning combination of practical experience and good research to give you a series of tools, techniques, and real-life examples to help you achieve your negotiation objectives.
For 25 years and across 40 countries, the Resource Development Centre (RDC), run by negotiation experts Alan McCarthy and Steve Hay, has helped thousands of people to conduct successful negotiations of every...
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Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you're a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success provides the answers to these questions and more. It will show you how to use statistical...
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The first year of developing a new sales territory is a daunting task-especially in dog-eat-dog industries. The traditional advice is to train quickly on product, grab a customer list, start calling for appointments, discover opportunities, and close deals. In fact, almost every sales model out there is based on nothing more than "opportunity" management. But jumping straight to opportunity will have new salespeople-or veterans developing new territories-chasing...
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The complexity of managing a business today has increased exponentially due to rapid technological advancement and global events. This implies that the solutions of yesterday may not be applicable today or in the near future.
Some of the major problems faced by businesses today include financial management, competition, strategy, change and innovation. Business managers must therefore development a comprehensive understanding of business organisations...
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Some of you think you have succeeded in transforming your company into a Lean enterprise just because your quality and delivery metrics and your customer relations are improved? You are wrong. Your performance may even have reached the so-called 'best-in-class' status among your peers and you'd still be wrong. Offering a high Lean assessment score, as further proof of your success doesn't help either, you'd be wrong again. You may also object that...
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Multisided Platforms: Evaluating launch conditions deals with a specific type of organisation, the multisided platform that operates in multisided markets with positive feedback effects. These are some of the most exciting and valuable but rare organisations. Examples can be found in a variety of settings from postal delivery, shopping malls, print publishing, open source software projects, through to internet based social media, to name a few instances.
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Le Québec est un territoire composé d'une diversité d'espaces urbains, ruraux, régionaux, métropolitains, ctiers et nordiques. Il est en mouvance : polarisation des lieux à différents degrés, érosion de zones rurales et urbaines, extension des lisières périurbaines, densification de nouvelles formes territoriales. La politique publique québécoise tente de saisir et de comprendre globalement les contextes territoriaux particuliers et...
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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 management or Elton Mayo's corporatist idea of human relations. Waring discusses the subsequent evolution of several management theories and techniques,...
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Dynamic Focus is about creating a meaningful legacy while effectively navigating the inherent multifaceted challenges of life. Mental habits can become subtle traps that distort perceptions, thoughts and relationships into limitations. Dynamic Focus provides a practical, powerful and integrated methodology with tools for breaking these traps or "spells of limitation" and living a more meaningful life.
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Es conocida la importancia que tienen las empresas de familia (EF) en el sistema económico de la región de Latinoamérica. Más del 80 % de todas las empresas son de familia, generan un alto porcentaje del producto bruto y la mayor cantidad de nuevos empleos. Por otro lado, el aumento de la expectativa de vida hace que cada vez más convivan varias generaciones en las EF, y esto hace que sea más compleja su gestión y que ellas necesiten de mayor...
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Received wisdom has it that lobbyists run the American government on behalf of moneyed interests. But what makes lobbyists run, and how do they induce legislators and bureaucrats to do their bidding? These are questions for which even the harshest critics lack satisfying answers. Lobbyists at Work explores what lobbyists really do and why. It goes behind the scenes and brings back in-depth interviews with fifteen political advocates chosen to represent...
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All too often, when investors go in search of investment advice, they are met with television personalities and so-called investment "gurus" who do little more than push the latest and greatest scheme to retire rich. Your retirement funds-in the form of IRAs, 401(k)s, SEP or Simple IRAs, and other plans you can direct to some degree-are, however, far too precious to bet on the latest scheme, trend, or tip you heard at a party. In Invest Like an Institution:...
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Business Journalism: How to Report on Business and Economics is a basic guide for journalists working in countries moving to open-market economies, students in journalism courses, journalists changing direction from general news reporting to business and economic reporting, and bloggers. It also explains the differences in technique required for general reporters to deliver business news for text, TV, or radio.
Veteran journalist Keith Hayes, who...
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This is one unique book which describes in detail some of the core concepts related to Knowledge Management in organizations as well as the use of those values in personal lives of individuals. Initial chapters introduce the basics of the Knowledge Management, the process, the terms used and their meanings. Part A of the book pertaining to Knowledge Management in Organizations deals with the concepts of structuring any organization for knowledge management....
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken precious lives and devastated the global economy. It has also revealed chinks in our supply chains. Not only have manufacturers found themselves scrambling unsuccessfully to find new suppliers when their Asian sources shut down, but the Western world has experienced across-the-board shortages of essential consumer packaged goods for the first time in decades.
Blockchain technology has the potential to minimize these...
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