The Board book : Making your corporate board a strategic force in your compan…

Founded in the early 1980s, SSA is a general, retained search firm with exclusive allegiance to client organizations, affiliated with a network of powerful international resources and has a division devoted to corporate boards, helping companies, public and private, small and large, structure, strengthen, diversify and benchmark their statutory and advisory boards. Board of directors can spe…

Grow from within

IBM reports $15 billion of annualnew revenues from 22 EmergingBusiness Opportunities. In 2008, $4 billion in revenues fromcompanywide innovation efforts allowedWhirlpool to maintain its top line, despiteglobal recession and the steep dropin housing markets. A DuPont business group leader,Ellen Kullman, backed an ambitious newbusiness creation program and laterbecame DuPont’s CEO. Eac…

M & A Integration : a framework for executives and managers

TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgments Ch. 1 The Promising World of Mergers and Acquisitions Ch. 2 Strategic and Financial Objectives: The Drivers of Integration Ch. 3 Laying the Groundwork: Managing the Transaction Stage Ch. 4 Assessing Key Target People Ch. 5 Preparing Stakeholder Communications and Value Preservation Ch. 6 Preparing for Integration: Managing the Transition Sta…

Handbook of integrated risk management in global supply chains

In the field of business, the ever-growing dependency on global supply chains has created new challenges that traditional risk management must be equipped to handle. Contributions from leading academics and researchers provide an action-based framework that captures real issues, implementation challenges, and concepts emerging from industry studies.The handbook is divided into five parts: …

Strategic risk taking

In recent years, risk management has been defined as merely eliminating or reducing risk exposure. Companies are learning today that is far to naroow and constaring a definition. Risk, exploited judiciously, is absolutely central to business success. In this book, author covers both sides of the risk equation, offering a complete framework for maximizing profit by 'limiting' some risk and 'expl…

Managing quality : integrating the supply chain

For undergraduate or graduate courses in Quality Management. This text focuses students on how to effectively manage quality. Students must understand their businesses, understand the quality body of knowledge, understand the available tools, and have a method for planning quality improvement based on this knowledge. ( www.amazon.com )

How we learn : the surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens

In the tradition of The Power of Habit and Thinking, Fast and Slow comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today—and how we can apply it to our own lives. From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We’re told that learning is all self-discipline,…

Operations management : processes and supply chains

Edisi

11th ed.

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-292-09386-4

Deskripsi Fisik

663 p. : figs., tabs., index. ; 27 cm.

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

CA 79 Kra

Operations management

A broad, practical introduction to operations, reinforced with an extensive collection of practice problems. Operations Management presents a broad introduction to the field of operations in a realistic and practical manner, while offering the largest and most diverse collection of problems on the market. The problems found in this text also contain ample support—found in the book’s solv…

Chaotics

We have entered into an entirely new era, an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy. Unlike past recessions, today's crises have precipitated a need for businesses to develop a new mindset, one that takes into account intermittent periods of disturbance, allowing them to thrive while under the constant threat of chaos. This book complete with metri…