Download or read book Redesigning CapEx Strategy A Groundbreaking Systems Approach to Sustainably Maximize Company Cash Flow written by Fredrik Weissenrieder and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is about more than ‘redesigning capex.’ It’s about transforming the way you look at capital allocation and seeing that you’re completely wrong. It’s about realizing that capex strategy is the enterprise’s strategy.” –John Williams, CEO, Domtar Corporation The systems-thinking approach to capex decisions that can double your company cash flow The way most business leaders deploy capex right now is nothing short of a train wreck. Very few look at their asset base as a collective network; rather, they see their assets as standalone performers, have no strategy for the role each asset plays in the grand scheme of things, and, therefore, fail to invest in their network for the long term to generate more cash for the business, asset by asset. Redesigning CapEx Strategy provides an effective—and almost painfully obvious—solution to some of the greatest missed opportunities happening in business today. In this resource that will revolutionize your capex decision-making, globally renowned capex strategists Fredrik Weissenrieder and Daniel Lindén share their proven methodology for focusing on the entire range of potential strategies and cash flow outcomes for hundreds of scenarios across a multi-asset base. It’s not about incremental improvement. It’s a radical transformation of how you allocate capital—and avoid throwing good money after bad. With a capex strategy that accounts for each asset’s role as part of the asset network, there’s never a question about the best path forward. Redesigning CapEx Strategy doesn’t just redesign your capex strategy—it helps you redesign your entire company’s future.

Download or read book Information Systems for Global Financial Markets written by Alexander Yap and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers focused research on the systems and technologies that provide intelligence and expertise to traders and investors and facilitate the agile ordering processes, networking, and regulation of global financial electronic markets"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Risk Management and Simulation written by Aparna Gupta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The challenges of the current financial environment have revealed the need for a new generation of professionals who combine training in traditional finance disciplines with an understanding of sophisticated quantitative and analytical tools. Risk Management and Simulation shows how simulation modeling and analysis can help you solve risk managemen

Download or read book Introduction to Composite Products written by Kevin Potter and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-11-30 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books sets out an approach to the design and development of composite products that will lead to the maximum likelihood of developing commercially successful products, generally in the face of a great deal of uncertainty in most areas of the development process. The book is practically orientated, covering those areas of composite technology most critical to product developments, rather than those of the most theoretical importance, therefore providing a basis for mutual understanding among the broad field of composite specialists. The author's experience provides a hands-on approach to the methodology of design with composites. All those interested in composites design and manufacture, including those practising in such diverse fields as resin formulation, reinforcement, manufacture, design processing and manufacturing engineering will find this book invaluable.

Download or read book Process Capability Indices written by Samuel Kotz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A solid, rigorous, yet comprehensible analysis of process capability indices, this work bridges the gap between theoretical statisticians and quality control practitioners, showing how an understanding of these indices can lead to process improvement.

Download or read book New Product Development written by Robert M. Monczka and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As technology continues to advance into new and uncharted territories, expectations placed on manufacturers will continue to grow. To stay competitive, manufacturers need to have a solid strategy to deal with issues such as shortened product life cycles, increased technology, and global competition. However, a growing part of this strategy needs to relate to suppliers and their roles in the product development process. More effective integration of suppliers into a firm's product value/supply chain will be a key factor in achieving improvements necessary to remain competitive. This issue is at the heart of New Product Development: Strategies for Supplier Integration. Written by a team of experts in the new product development field, this book is based on a three year study at Michigan State University that investigated the integration of suppliers into new product development, and provides a complete how-to guide for establishing new supplier strategies.

Download or read book Capital Allocation Principles Strategies and Processes for Creating Long Term Shareholder Value written by David R. Giroux and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seize the competitive edge through intelligent, differentiated capital allocation The intelligent deployment of capital is one of the most effective ways to create long-term value. But despite this, there are very few capital allocation experts on the boards of the largest publicly traded companies, and academic research consistently finds that most firms deploy capital sub-optimally. Capital Allocation aims to educate senior leaders, board members, investors, students, and anyone interested in business on this important topic. Until now very little has been written on capital allocation outside of academia, even though the strategic deployment of excess capital is an increasingly significant source of competitive advantage for many companies. David Giroux, Chief Investment Officer for Equities and Multi-Asset and Head of Investment Strategy at T. Rowe Price, covers the entire gamut of capital allocation issues, including optimal capital structure, capital allocation alternatives, mergers & acquisitions, and special situations. Capital Allocation walks you through this critical topic from beginning to end, including: Stories of companies that allocated capital in ways that created significant shareholder value Several real-life decision-making models you can use for strategically allocating your firm’s capital Guidelines for generating high returns in the long term to build sustainable shareholder wealth Giroux uses academic research, personal experience, and uncomplicated mathematics to reveal approaches and actions that create long-term value. He provides case studies from Kodak, Comcast, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Danaher, General Electric, Microsoft, and others showing how capital allocation has―and hasn’t―worked in real-life situations. And he shows how to use capital allocation to head off possible activist investors. Capital Allocation offers everything you need to know for deploying capital wisely to outperform your competitors over the long term.

Download or read book Startup Idea Action Plan written by Ryan Mulvihill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking about starting a business? Learn how to get your first 10 customers - Without spending thousands of dollars or wasting months on a business idea that won't sell * Do you want to avoid debt from spending all your money on a startup doomed to fail? * Do you want to finally join the ranks successful entrepreneurs who live on their own terms?Start up Action Plan is the guidebook you have been waiting for. Getting these first potential customers is the hardest thing to do for business owners, and I'm going to teach you the easiest, fastest way to do it. Best of all you are going to find your customers BEFORE YOU EVEN HAVE A PRODUCT TO SELL * I will show you how to get 100's of prospects in your target market for less than $50 (Chapter 1) * Destroy your fears of speaking to your market and develop a value giving mindset (Chapter 2) * Learn how to pitch your potential customers properly on your business idea (Chapter 3) * Create a battle plan for calling potential customers and pre-selling them on your business idea (Chapter 4) * Learn the strategies to guarantee you will have a list of customers eager to buy your product when it's finished (Chapter 5) * Gain confidence in the quality of your business idea-Create a product customers are EAGER to buy (Chapter 6)If you want stay a comfortable wantrepreneur working the same boring job you have your entire life, DON'T READ THIS BOOK. However, if you that BURNING DESIRE to build a dream business that makes you money, this is book is for you.Are you ready to take action?

Download or read book Integrate your Logistic Processes with OpenERP written by Els Van Vossel and published by OpenERP SA. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The OpenERP Solution OpenERP can build a new breed of business applications, more modular, more customer-friendly, fully web-based, which others cannot due to the heritage of their legacy systems. OpenERP is a comprehensive suite of business applications including Sales, CRM, Project management, Warehouse management, Manufacturing, Financial management, and Human Resources, just to name a few. More than 1000 OpenERP modules are available from the OpenERP Apps market place (http://apps.openerp.com/). The key to continued logistics success is effective Purchase, Sales & Warehouse Management, and these are precisely the main topics of the book you are reading. OpenERP’s Purchase, Sales and Warehouse features are flexible and highly developed to assist you in managing all aspects of logistics, also in a multicompany environment. OpenERP allows you to set up advanced push and pull rules to manage complex routes in your warehouses. Purchase proposals and sales forecasts can easily be created from OpenERP. In a few clicks, your sales person can transfer necessary information to the customer about the current and virtual stock. Accountants can have real-time stock valuation for all or selected products. Structure of this book In part One, Configuring your OpenERP (page 3) we will show you how to set up an OpenERP database. A step-by-step approach will guide you through a complete workflow to discover OpenERP’s features. Part Two, Advanced Features in Sales Quotation Management (page 43), guides you from quotation to sales order, explaining several advanced sales features. In part Three, Advanced Features in Purchase Quotation Management (page 77), you will learn more about price requests, purchase proposals and goods receipt. Several advanced purchase features will also be explained. Part Four, Managing your Warehouse (page 99), explains the principles of OpenERP’s double-entry stock management. The book will provide you with ways to manage inventories, both on a physical and a financial level. Upstream and Downstream traceability and extensive reporting will be discussed as well. You will also learn more about how to manage push and pull locations in a multicompany environment. Part Five, On Site Installation (page 179), explains the basic steps to install OpenERP on site. Both Linux and Windows installations will be described. To manage your logistics, you do not need all the elements described in this book. But we find it very important to include an integrated flow, from the first quotation to the final billing of the customers including all the steps: quotation, order, receiving goods, inventory, shipping and billing.

Download or read book Design for Profitability written by Salah Ahmed Mohamed Elmoselhy and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the success of products significantly depends on the quality of product performance, inadequate management of the product design process can lead to improper performance of products that can result in significant long-term business losses. Design for Profitability: Guidelines to Cost Effectively Manage the Development Process of Complex Products presents a design guideline for complex product design and development that enables you to cost-effectively improve the technical performance of your products and consequently improve your competitiveness in the marketplace as well as improve profitability. The book helps you improve the competitiveness of your organization in the market and eventually improve profitability. It presents a mobile robots design guideline based on an empirical study of the mobile robots design process. This is an unprecedented guideline based on the empirical investigation of the internal aspects of the design process of complex products for cost-effectively enhancing the competitiveness in the market. The book also presents a hybrid lean-agile design paradigm for mobile robots. In addition, it points out key approaches and risks to manage the product development process efficiently. In designing complex products and integrated systems, industrial designers face a dilemma of cost-effectively striking a balance between product development time and product performance attributes. This book shows how and when value is added in product design and development through identifying statistically the most and least correlated design activities and strategies to product performance attributes. Introducing a new paradigm in the field of engineering design, the book gives you key approaches to efficiently manage the product development process.

Download or read book Property Development written by Richard Reed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 6th edition of this extremely popular and classic textbook has been updated to reflect ongoing changes in the field of property development. Attention is paid to the impact of the global financial crisis on the property development process and, in addition, to the increasing relevance of technology to the property profession. Whilst the successful style and format of the text has been retained, new chapters have been added and existing chapters updated and enhanced to guide lecturers and students in their teaching, reading and studying. Other new features in this edition include: Fully updated discussion points and reflective summaries Examples of contemporary best practice based on international case studies covering the UK, USA and Australia New chapters on ‘Property Cycles’ and ‘Technology’ Online materials for lecturers and students This fully revised edition of a standard text for all property development and real estate students will also be of interest to early career professionals and those pursuing similar professional degrees in the industry and in wider built environment courses.

Download or read book Sustainable Solutions written by Martin Charter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toughening environmental legislation, national and supra-national environmental product policies and growing customer demands are focusing the attention of companies on the environmental and broader social issues linked to the creation and delivery of their products and services. There is now an urgent need for appropriate management structures, practical tools and increased awareness among all stakeholders in the product development process and throughout the entire product life-cycle. These are huge issues – with major implications for corporate management, design and production strategies. Sustainable Solutions provides state-of-the-art analysis and case studies on why and how cutting-edge companies are developing new products and services to fit "triple-bottom-line" expectations. The book is split into three sections: first, the broad issues of business sustainability are examined with focus on sustainable production and consumption and consideration of North–South issues. Second, the book tackles the major methodologies and approaches toward organising and developing more sustainable products and services. Third, an outstanding collection of global case studies highlights the progress made by a wide range of companies toward dematerialisation, eco-innovation and design for durability. Finally, the book collects together a comprehensive list of web addresses of useful organisations. Practical and comprehensive, Sustainable Solutions will be essential reading for corporate managers, product designers, R&D staff, academics and all individuals interested in a definitive source on how new product and service development can and is contributing toward tacking the challenge of sustainable development.

Download or read book Software Process Dynamics written by Raymond J. Madachy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for professionals and students in software engineering or information technology who are interested in understanding the dynamics of software development in order to assess and optimize their own process strategies. It explains how simulation of interrelated technical and social factors can provide a means for organizations to vastly improve their processes. It is structured for readers to approach the subject from different perspectives, and includes descriptive summaries of the best research and applications.

Download or read book Successfully Achieving Strategy Through Effective Portfolio Management written by Frank Parth and published by . This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your organization one of the 85% who develop strategic goals but fail to achieve them? The difference between successful, growing organizations and dying organizations is the ability to achieve future goals. Why didn't you achieve your strategy? Too many organizations waste time and money on developing strategy and then never achieve their goals. What goes wrong? Items that derail the best intentions include poor predictions about the future; internal politics that impact the projects selected; biases in the decision-making process, and other stumbling blocks. This book provides the approach that significantly increases an organization's ability to achieve its strategy. This is not a book about developing strategy. This is a book that will help you actually achieve the strategy the organization's leadership has developed. Strategy is necessary but it is a complete waste of time unless it is effectively turned into real results. If you want to see where an organization will be in 5 years, don't look at its strategic goals. Look at where management spends the money. This book is designed to bridge the gap between the managers who are involved in the strategy selection process and the project managers who lead the projects.

Download or read book Sterile Product Facility Design and Project Management Second Edition written by Jeffrey N. Odum and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-03-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowing how to deal with the regulatory issues, understanding the impacts of cleanliness, and recognizing the affect that poor facility layout will have on GMP spaces are only some of the issues an experienced Project Manager must focus on. Completely revised and updated, Sterile Product Facility Design and Project Management, Second Edition provides comprehensive guidance on how to develop and execute biotech and other sterile drug facilities based on current industry best practices. Each chapter highlights a specific issue centered on managing biotech facilities projects in a GMP environment. The author uses real-world examples of common industry practice to lead you through the idiosyncrasies of a biotech project in an effort to answer some of the more common, and often perplexing, questions that can stand in the way of success. You get a mini seminar on each topic covered. Breaking the project life-cycle into four phases, the text takes you through each phase from the Project Manager's viewpoint. Unlike other books that cover design, technology, and validation in general terms, this book addresses the industry specific issues that make biotech facilities so costly and difficult to deliver. It puts the pieces of the puzzle together in a manner that increases your opportunity for success.

Download or read book Effective Time Management Time Management written by Akinniyi Joseph Akinwumi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accentuated the importance of time as a definite resource that is germane to the survival of entire living things and lapses whether effectively or ineffectively utilized. Human activities that can cause unnecessary delays in the global workplace were analyzed. The customary techniques of effective time management for achieving noteworthy professional career development, corporate, institutional and societal growths were thoroughly examined. Also, people who share the primary responsibility of effective time management for optimum goals attainment were elucidated.

Download or read book Managing Corporate Social Responsibility written by W. Timothy Coombs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing Corporate Social Responsibility offers a strategic, communication-centred approach to integrating CSR into organizations. Drawing from a variety of disciplines and written in a highly accessible style, the book guides readers in a focused progression providing the key points they need to successfully navigate the benefits and implications of managing CSR. Chapters are organized around a process model for CSR that outlines steps for researching, developing, implementing, and evaluating CSR initiatives Emphasizes stakeholder engagement as a foundation throughout the CSR Process Model Discusses ways to maximize the use of social media and traditional media throughout the process Offers international examples drawn from a variety of industries including: The Forest Stewardship Council, Starbucks Coffee, and IKEA. Draws upon theories grounded in various disciplines, including public relations, marketing, media, communication, and business