Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems assimilates the principal views from international authors, who provide a combination of industrial experience and scholarly research, in the area of supply chain systems. This book discusses the business and technical reasons for integrating supply chain systems, and provides excellent arguments for globalization resulting through integration of supply chain systems. Readers of Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems will receive an excellent overall understanding of what comprises supply chain systems, why they should be integrated and how the resultant global organization will be able to compete and grow in this age of communication. They will also find practical business reasons for the crucial need to integrate supply chain systems in global enterprises and, more importantly, collaborating clusters of organizations.

Entrepreneurship has been a subject of much recent discussion among academics and policymakers because of the belief that it invigorates the economy -- producing greater productivity, more jobs, and higher economic growth. President George W. Bush promoted his economic plan by pointing to its encouragement of entrepreneurship. Yet, despite its importance, the topic of entrepreneurship is underrepresented in the economics literature. The contributors to Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship examine different aspects of entrepreneurship and its relation to public policy to help us reach a better understanding of the economic role of entrepreneurs.

Ideal for organizations setting up a project management maturity model, this book provides effective strategies for the implementation of efficient systems, time and cost conservation, quality assurance, and project success. The author details areas critical to organizational improvement such as the project office, management oversight, professional development, risk assessment, and streamlining processes. Summarizing methods to identify, analyze, and control factors affecting project quality and scheduling, the book covers the components of each layer of the maturity level; techniques to build a culture of project management excellence; tools to measure company progress; and more.

Financially Focused Project Management by Thomas M. Cappels is a straightforward business guide to saving hundreds of millions of corporate dollars by learning from the best practices of hundreds of successful companies. Individual chapters address accurately and comprehensively assess aspects of project risks, management strategies for the changing technology of the 21st century, proposals and pricing, and more. A solidly presented guide Financially Focused Project Management is filled from cover to cover with practical, applicable, insightful, "hit-the-ground-running", goal-oriented corporate financial management advice.

Developed by industry guru and mega best-selling author Eli Goldratt, Viable Vision is a proven strategic plan and approach that lays out the steps to transform an organization’s current total sales into net profits within 4 years. This book explains the Viable Vision concept and provides readers the proven frame of reference and roadmap for achieving exponential growth in profits, without relying on minor miracles such as a new product breakthrough.

Quality is a much mentioned but little employed component of project success. There are many quality books, tools, and training courses on the market oriented toward the manufacturing domain, yet they provide little information of relevance to project managers who work with intellectual processes more than the action details of production. So where does a project manager go for guidance on integrating the quality demanded in project implementation? Right here!

Successful business ideas are not so much about talent as about a systematic approach. The Business Idea encourages new ways of thinking when it comes to entrepreneurship and innovation. Too many ventures originate in the solutions the entrepreneur has to offer and not in the problem the customer needs solved. Business plans done this way can often lead to disappointment. The Business Idea leaves behind this product orientated logic. The book presents new, applicable entrepreneurship methods for developing creative market insight, for identifying windows of opportunity, creating business concepts and entrepreneurial strategies for successful market entry. Entrepreneurship is a complex and risky process compared to almost everything else in business life, so it richly deserves to have its own theoretical and methodological toolbox. The Business Idea provides the tools making it of interest to anyone who works with getting an enterprise off the ground or studies entrepreneurship.

I'm an instructor / developer with a large midwest insurance company. In that role, I teach writing skills to our employees. While I have many other style guides, this book by FranklinCovey is a delightful surprise. It has 440 magazine quality pages with vivid color illustrations, side bars, explanations, definitions, descriptions, and examples. If you're looking for a comprehensive style guide that you'll be happy with on your first purchase, make this book your first choice.

This is a very unusual business strategy book on an esoteric topic: solving complex problems with scenario planning and analysis. Author Adam Kahane also discusses how change occurs in complicated social systems. Kahane, a conflict resolution consultant, shares a pivotal skill he learned at his former jobs with Royal Dutch/Shell and Pacific Gas & Electric.

Whether your business is just a gleam in your eye, a newly launched operation, or a full-fledged firm that's humming right along, you'll never experience real growth without a substantial infusion of cash. Long gone are the days when venture capital groups seemed to pour millions into every "next big thing." Now it's clear that there is real competition for investors, and that only the most viable businesses -- and carefully executed fundraising -- will reap the capital necessary to drive continuous growth

German Business Correspondence is a handy reference and learning text for all who use written German. 80 written communications are simply presented covering memos, letters, faxes and resumes. The situations covered include: * arranging meetings * acknowledging orders * enquiring about products * applying for jobs With full English translations, this text is suitable for both students and professionals and can be used for either reference or class use.

The Airline Industry is currently faced with its longest and deepest crisis to date: many of them are losing hundred of millions of US dollars, several have collapsed entirely, whilst others have had to be rescued by their governments. This crisis has been precipitated by external shocks such as the attack on the Twin Towers in New York, the invasion of Iraq and the SARs epidemic. However, in addition to this, the effect of these events has been exacerbated by dynamic and potentially destabilising internal developments.

Executives today recognize that their firms face a wave of retirements over the next decade as the baby boomers hit retirement age. At the other end of the talent pipeline, the younger workforce is developing a different set of values and expectations, which creates new recruiting and employee retention issues.

This book describes the "strategic community" concept, which integrates knowledge possessed by people, groups, or organizations across organizational boundaries to create new products and services, or new business models. Through detailed case studies of Japanese high-tech industries, including joint product innovation with US-based companies, the author suggests that strategy, organization and leadership that realizes knowledge integration across multiple organizational boundaries represents the dynamic view of strategy that a company needs to obtain organizational capability with a competitive edge.

The potential for conflict exists in every interaction. But when one doesn’t know how to deal with these disagreements constructively, they can escalate into unproductive and even destructive situations. The key is not to avoid conflict, but to recognize and manage it skillfully to produce the best possible outcome. In this powerful and practical guide, author Gini Graham Scott shows readers how to identify the reason for the conflict, recognize and control the emotional factors, and find the best solution. Disagreements, Disputes, and All-Out War offers a simple but proven system for resolving conflicts resulting from..