Download or read book Cases in Operations Management written by Robert D. Klassen and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring case studies from varied settings with strong grounding in real-world decisions, this text illustrates basic concepts while expanding students' understanding of economic, political and cultural concerns that must be interwoven into such key areas as process design, quality and supply chain management.

Download or read book Managing for World class Quality written by Edwin Shector and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1991-09-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schecter contends that proper attention to the quality function in American industry can result in enormous economic benefits to companies, and can help prevent recessions in the US. In this volume he presents information in such a way as to help the manager understand the concept of quality, using

Download or read book World class New Product Development written by Dan Dimancescu and published by Amacom Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Success in global markets means faster time to market, sharper response to customer needs, and better value. To be a world-class competitor, you must do this while expending fewer product development resources per project and while increasing the efficiency with which those resources are deployed. In this book, two international experts show you how the "champions" manage robust product development operations. Recounting the key findings of five years of researching, benchmarking, and working with scores of the world's most competitive companies, they crystallize the workings of a new system of managing fast product development in the '90s. The companies benchmarked were chosen because of their fast cycle times, rapid market share gains, high percentage of sales from products introduced within the last three years, and favorable industry image. You will closely explore the practices by which such winners as NEC, Hewlett-Packard, Toyota, and Boeing have achieved success - and you will learn how to apply their methods, tools, and techniques to your own improvement efforts. Significantly, rather than offering a single process for success, World-Class New Product Development gives you a cross-section of proven, repeatable methodologies. The authors synthesize their findings into 12 concepts that can revolutionize the way you conceive and develop products.

Download or read book Product Leadership written by Richard Banfield and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t? This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in product design and development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful product managers. If you want to understand what drives good product leaders, this book is an irreplaceable resource. In three parts, Product Leadership helps you explore: Themes and patterns of successful teams and their leaders, and ways to attain those characteristics Best approaches for guiding your product team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a company’s evolution Strategies and tactics for working with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders

Download or read book Network World written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-04-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

Download or read book Concept to Reality written by Mukesh Kumar Madhup and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of writing this book originated after recognition of my developmental work by Fast Company as a world-changing idea 2020 [honorable mention] in the energy category. This book is a small effort from my side to share my experience of developing various coating products and managing the new product programs from an idea to a real product. The purpose of writing this book is to help and support product developers, project managers and business owners in the creation of world class ideas and illustrate the process of converting them into a real life product which can be recognised as a great solution by customers and external bodies. The examples used throughout this book are related to my coating development experience, but I am sure this will help all product development professionals irrespective of their business domain. Dr. Mukesh Kumar Madhup has an excellent track record in coating development and innovation while working with various companies. This book, in which he has shared his experiences on creating and transforming an idea to a great product, might turn into a prodigious guidebook for professionals working in the ‘coatings’ and other such related fields. Dr. Nisha K. Shah Former Professor and head, Dept. of Chemistry, School of Sciences Gujarat University, Ahmedabad - 380 009, Gujarat, INDIA.

Download or read book The Global Entrepreneur written by Ervin Williams and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WEALTH CREATING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES WHO ARE GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURS? There is a new breed of entrepreneurs today - the Global Entrepreneur. They are different from past entrepreneurs; they are completely wired for Information Age businesses, they know how to harness knowledge and technology, and frequently engage a network of global business partners to help operate their international ventures. The Global Entrepreneur understands that the soft assets of knowledge and technology are greater creators of wealth than hard assets such as land, equipment, factories and mines. They realize the management models and organizational paradigms of the Industrial Era are giving way to a fresh appreciation of virtualization, strategic alliances, empowerment of individuals, and a new understanding that plentitude creates wealth. What is really new is that Global Entrepreneurs frequently use virtual organizations, virtual products, and micro-virtual manufacturing processes to develop efficient global ventures. They are strongly motivated towards creating a global enterprise for generating substantial personal wealth. WHO SHOULD BUY THIS BOOK? There are three individual groups who will substantially benefit from reading this book. Nascent Entrepreneurs. These are individuals who are thinking about owning a business, but haven't taken the leap. This book provides a roadmap and shows you the essential elements for starting a successful business. Small Business Owners. Small and medium enterprises are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve new growth in today's economic environment. This book shows business owners how to explore and find extraordinary growth in developing fast-growing foreign markets. Students. College students in the 1600 U.S. institutions that teach entrepreneurship can use this book to better understand the dynamic contribution of entrepreneurship to world economic growth and wealth creation. WHAT IS THE ROUTE FOR WEALTH CREATION? Very few people become wealthy working for others. But don't quit your job! Instead, seek the most challenging position possible involving creativity, unique knowledge, and advance technology. Master that position in every possible dimension and, when appropriate, establish it as the basis of your new wealth-generating venture.

Download or read book The Future of Design Methodology written by Herbert Birkhofer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Design Methodology gives a holistic overview of perspectives for design methodology, addresses trends for developing a powerful methodical support for design practice and provides a starting point for future design research. The chapters are written by leading scientists from around the world, who have great expertise in design methodology, as well as the farsightedness needed to develop design methodology further. The Future of Design Methodology is a detailed contribution to consolidated design methodology and design research. Instead of articulating the views of one scientist, it provides a comprehensive collection of perspectives and visions. The editor highlights the substantial deficiencies and problems of the current design methodology and summarizes the authors’ findings to draw future-oriented conclusions. The comprehensive overview of the status of design methodology given in The Future of Design Methodology will help enhance the individual scientific development of junior researchers, while the authoritative perspectives on future design methodology will challenge the views of experts. It is suitable for readers working in a wide range of design fields, such as design methodology, engineering design and industrial design.

Download or read book Computerworld written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-10-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.

Download or read book The 20 Solution written by John J. Cotter and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1995-11-17 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Today, change flashes across the landscape like lightning. Simple, single-focus fix-it schemes no longer work, and isolated, unintegrated, one-time improvement efforts fail miserably. Organizations require periodic revolution, not just constant evolution." —John J. Cotter The first law of the jungle is that the most adaptable species are always the most successful. In the struggle for survival, the winners are those who are most sensitive to important changes in their environment and quickest to reshape their behavior to meet each new environmental challenge. As author John Cotter makes abundantly clear in this groundbreaking book, the law of natural selection holds as true for business organizations as it does for animal species. For Cotter, the key to getting a jump on change and beating out the competition in today's tumultuous, hypercompetitive business jungle is Rapid RedesignTM. A dynamic new approach to formulating and implementing strategic change, Rapid Redesign is based on the ongoing, systematic assessment of "the 20% of what you do that will contribute most to your success in the future," and then doing less to accomplish more by concentrating your time and energies on that 20%. Cotter demonstrates how Ford, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, and many other outstanding companies have successfully used this technique to become leaders in their respective industries. More important, he provides managers with a comprehensive blueprint for making Rapid Redesign work in companies of any size to increase their efficiency and effectiveness today and in the future. Cotter begins by spelling out the changes in perspective required of every member of a company attempting to make the transition to a flexible, change-centered organization. This is followed by a series of interrelated chapters in which he provides step-by-step guidelines on how to go about designing, planning, building, and managing such an organization. You'll learn how to identify and prioritize key strengths and weaknesses in your organization's structure, work routines, and personnel in the context of tomorrow's opportunities. You'll discover hundreds of innovative new approaches to improving productivity—such as horizontal business teams and internal and external alliances—and you'll learn how to tailor them to the unique demands of your own organization and industry. You'll also learn how to reshape your organization in the three key areas of structure, support, and staffing, and how to build mechanisms for continuous reflection and renewal into the new organizational structure. Read The 20% Solution and find out how to help your organization make the leap from merely surviving change to thriving on it. Don't wait for change to happen . . . make it happen! A dynamic approach to building flexible, change-driven business organizations for greater profit and productivity Rapid, unrelenting, all-encompassing change and uncertainty are the only constants in business today, and the most successful organizations aren't the ones that have learned how to survive change, but the ones that actually thrive on it. Now, find out how to transform your company into a sleek, hard-driving glutton for change in The 20% Solution. Written by one of the world's leading authorities on redesigning organizations for changing times, this groundbreaking book shows you how to design, plan, build, and manage a super-flexible, change-centered organization. John Cotter presents hundreds of real-life success stories that show how leading companies have applied The 20% Solution, and provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to make it work for you. He tells you everything you need to know to redesign your organization for success in the future. The 20% Solution shows you how to: Identify your company's core competencies and capabilities Zero in on the small number of key issues that are critical to your company's future growth and profitability Reshape your organization around the three key areas of structure, support, and staffing Create innovative new approaches to improving performance and custom-tailor them to your company alone Guarantee continuous rethinking and renewal of the way your organization does business

Download or read book Computerworld written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-10-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 40 years, Computerworld has been the leading source of technology news and information for IT influencers worldwide. Computerworld's award-winning Web site (Computerworld.com), twice-monthly publication, focused conference series and custom research form the hub of the world's largest global IT media network.

Download or read book Ultimate Gig written by John T. Fleming and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimate Gig will serve to answer questions and help gig-providing companies and workers make decisions by informing, inspiring and motivating as well as serving as a teaching tool. Most importantly it will give the reader a better understanding of the most significant labor revolution in the past 100 years as to how work can be done.

Download or read book The Dawn of the Pacific Century written by William McCord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a bold affirmation of the Asian 'miracle' of development, an explanation of reasons for its success, and a review of its implications. As McCord reminds us, understanding why and how these nations have propelled themselves so far, so fast, is a key to anticipating the destiny of much of the rest of the world. Despite their interest, analysis have been confounded in attempts to explain Asian Development-without resources and colonies, without internal violence, and broadly distributing wealth as they have grown. Existing theories of development offer little guidance. Even explanations that look to the special circumstances of Asian countries have their weaknesses. Reviewing all of these explanations, McCord identifies a common group of socioeconomic values and policies shared by most of these nations. And these, he shows, tell us much. The Dawn of the Pacific Century convincingly makes the case for a genuinely Asian model of development-one that must be understood on its own terms. It should find a broad professional social science readership. In addition, those general readers who wish to learn from and understand the Asian challenge will find this book a good beginning.

Download or read book Global growth and distribution written by Maurizio Bussolo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Over the past 20 years, aggregate measures of global inequality have changed little even if significant structural changes have been observed. High growth rates of China and India lifted millions out of poverty, while the stagnation in many African countries caused them to fall behind. Using the World Bank's LINKAGE global general equilibrium model and the newly developed Global Income Distribution Dynamics (GIDD) tool, this paper assesses the distribution and poverty effects of a scenario where these trends continue in the future. Even by anticipating a deceleration, growth in China and India is a key force behind the expected convergence of per-capita incomes at the global level. Millions of Chinese and Indian consumers will enter into a rapidly emerging global middle class-a group of people who can afford, and demand access to, the standards of living previously reserved mainly for the residents of developed countries. Notwithstanding these positive developments, fast growth is often characterized by high urbanization and growing demand for skills, both of which result in widening of income distribution within countries. These opposing distributional effects highlight the importance of analyzing global disparities by taking into account - as the GIDD does - income dynamics between and within countries.

Download or read book Concurrent Engineering written by Christopher J. Backhouse and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of the book is a series of case studies written by senior industrialists. In each chapter companies that have employed similar approaches to Concurrent Engineering are compared. The case studies range from multinationals, such as Rolls-Royce, IBM and Marconi, through to smaller enterprises. By reference to these real examples, executives concerned with evaluating or implementing Concurrent Engineering can see how the most appropriate techniques can be selected and introduced into their own company.

Download or read book South South Globalization written by S. Mansoob Murshed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two prominent features of the current global economy are the world-wide recession brought about by the recent financial crisis, and the emergence of major economic powers from within the developing world such as Brazil, China and India. The former represents the failure of global regulatory policies and macroeconomic imbalances between surplus and deficit countries; the latter is symptomatic of a partial shift in economic power towards developing nations, who are often collectively labelled the global South. The macroeconomic imbalances are unsustainable in the longer run as they mean greater absorption relative to income in deficit nations; they require corrective action and international policy coordination. Reducing imbalances also requires large developing countries to raise their domestic consumption and also imports from the rest of the world and international financial institutions to operate as a lender of last resort. Furthermore, the engines of global growth, especially for developing countries, may no longer lie solely in the traditional developed country markets in the USA, Europe and Japan, known collectively as the global North. Rather South-South trade is growing rapidly, and that could be an engine of growth for the global economy, including both developed and developing countries. The various chapters in this edited volume address issues surrounding global imbalances and the prospects for growth in developing countries propelled by South-South interaction. This book should be of interest to students and researchers focussing on political economics, international economics, globalization, global imbalance and the world-wide recession after 2008.

Download or read book The ICFAI Journal of Entrepreneurship Development written by Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India and published by Dr. Vuong Quan Hoang. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: