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  • The Myth of Market Share

    Why Market Share Is the Fool's Gold of Business

    Series Book 1 - Crown Business Briefings
    Richard Miniter skewers the sacred cow of market share and debunks the conventional wisdom that corporate profits rise as you grab more territory in the marketplace.Market share is the fool’s gold of modern business. In reality, companies that maximize market share end up minimizing profits, while their smarter rivals earn higher returns. Three times out of four, on average, the most profitable ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reengineering the Corporation

    Manifesto for Business Revolution, A

    The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Summary of Extreme Ownership

    by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Includes Analysis

    Summary of Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin | Includes AnalysisPreview:Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a guide to applyingleadership principles of the United States Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land Teams(SEALs) to business. At the center of the strategies that Willink and Babinillustrate is taking complete responsibility for everything in which all leaders ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slack

    Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency

    by Tom DeMarco ...
    To most companies, efficiency means profits and growth. But what if your “efficient” company—the one with the reduced headcount and the “stretch” goals—is actually slowing down and losing money? What if your employees are burning out doing the work of two or more people, leaving them no time for planning, prioritizing, or even lunch? What if you’re losing employees faster than you can hire them? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Manager's Guide to Operations Management

    by John Kamauff ...
    The secrets to improving operations while maintaining the highest qualityHow do you operate at maximum efficiency with minimum cost? Manager’s Guide to Operations Management addresses one of the most pressing business issues of our time by offering easy-toimplement advice on creating the most effective, streamlined operations possible. This quick-reference guide explains how to:Improve your ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • World Class Manufacturing

    In his best-selling book Japanese Manufacturing Techniques, Richard J. Schonberger revolutionized American manufacturing theory and, more important, practice. In that breakthrough book, he revealed that Japanese manufacturing excellence was not culturally bound. Offering the first demystified explanation of the simple techniques that fueled Japan's industrial success, he demonstrated how the same ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The McGraw Hill 36 Hour Six Sigma Course

    Series series McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses
    Learn the essentials of Six Sigma in just 36 hoursThe McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Six Sigma Course provides you with the knowledge you need to understand, implement, and manage a Six Sigma program. This detailed yet accessible guide explores 10 essential Six Sigma tools for manufacturing along with other core components of a Six Sigma program. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Evaluation in Organizations

    A Systematic Approach to Enhancing Learning, Performance, and Change

    Take control of your resources and get the most out of your work with this helpful guide on organization and productivity.From new product launches to large-scale training initiatives, organizations need the tools to measure the effectiveness of their programs, processes, and systems. In Evaluation in Organizations, learning theory experts Darlene Russ-Eft and Hallie Preskill integrate the most ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Product Operations

    How successful companies build better products at scale

    Product Operations is the discipline of helping your Product Management function scale well. Surrounding the team with all of the essential inputs to set strategy, prioritize, and streamline ways of working.Many companies want to reap the benefits of economies of scale that comes with being a product-led company. As our businesses change shape to focus more on software, so do our ways of working. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Operations Strategy

    Operations Strategy, 6th Edition, by Slack and Lewis, builds on concepts from strategic management, operations management, marketing and HRM. The text encourages a thorough understanding of operations strategy, exploring key activities, decisions and processes adopted by a broad range of organisations in different sectors, making it the ideal text for MBA students, upper-level undergraduates, ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Faster Cheaper Better

    The 9 Levers for Transforming How Work Gets Done

    A bold and revolutionary thinker’s legacy for how business can meet the greatest economic challenge in decades...It’s no secret: everyone knows that the way most companies do things is screwed up. Surprisingly, though, herein lays the biggest opportunity for improving growth and profitability in a world in which consumers are tapped out and competition is coming from the devastating combination of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $4.99 USD

  • Adventure Risk Research Symposium, Proceedings 2019-2021

    Proceedings from the Adventure Risk Research Symposium, 2019 to 2021. The Adventure Risk Research Symposium brings together adventure risk and safety researchers to present their findings and share ideas. The focus of the symposium is on qualitative and quantitative empiricism as a means of improving understanding or practice for wilderness and adventure risk management and safety.Download the app ... Read more

    Free

  • Whiplash

    How to Survive Our Faster Future

    by Joi Ito, Jeff Howe ...
    This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist.The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Hustle and Float

    Reclaim Your Creativity and Thrive in a World Obsessed with Work

    OUR CULTURE HAS BECOME OBSESSED WITH HUSTLING.As we struggle to keep up in a knowledge economy that never sleeps, we arm ourselves with life hacks, to-do lists, and an inbox-zero mentality, grasping at anything that will help us work faster, push harder, and produce more.There’s just one problem: most of these solutions are making things worse. Creativity isn’t produced on an assembly line, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

    Free

  • Design of Heuristic Algorithms for Hard Optimization

    With Python Codes for the Travelling Salesman Problem

    Series series Graduate Texts in Operations Research
    This open access book demonstrates all the steps required to design heuristic algorithms for difficult optimization. The classic problem of the travelling salesman is used as a common thread to illustrate all the techniques discussed. This problem is ideal for introducing readers to the subject because it is very intuitive and its solutions can be graphically represented. The book features a ... Read more

    Free

  • The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma

    Series series McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses
    Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skillsWith the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products. But you don’t need to be a Black Belt to build quality and efficiency into all areas of your operation; you just need The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma.Sheila Shaffie ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Public Systems Modeling

    Methods for Identifying and Evaluating Alternative Plans and Policies

    Series Book 318 - International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
    This is an open access book discusses readers to various methods of modeling plans and policies that address public sector issues and problems. Written for public policy and social sciences students at the upper undergraduate and graduate level, as well as public sector decision-makers, it demonstrates and compares the development and use of various deterministic and probabilistic optimization and ... Read more

    Free

  • Deming's 1950 Lecture to Japanese Management

    In August 1950 at the Hakone Convention Center in Tokyo, Dr. Deming delivered a lecture on what he called "Statistical Product Quality Administration". Many in Japan credit Deming as one of the inspirations for what has become known as the Japanese post-war economic miracle of 1950 to 1960, when Japan rose from the ashes of war on the road to becoming the second-largest economy in the world ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breakthrough Marketing Plans

    How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth

    by Tim Calkins ...
    Almost every company creates a marketing plan each year, and many spend hundreds of employee hours researching, preparing and presenting their tomes to senior executives. But most marketing plans are a waste of time; they are too long, too complicated and too dense. They end up sitting on a shelf, unread and unrealized. Breakthrough Marketing Plans is an essential tool for people who create ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Measuring Data Quality for Ongoing Improvement

    A Data Quality Assessment Framework

    Series series The Morgan Kaufmann Series on Business Intelligence
    The Data Quality Assessment Framework shows you how to measure and monitor data quality, ensuring quality over time. You’ll start with general concepts of measurement and work your way through a detailed framework of more than three dozen measurement types related to five objective dimensions of quality: completeness, timeliness, consistency, validity, and integrity. Ongoing measurement, rather ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Logistics Handbook

    The Logistics Handbook encompasses all of the latest advances in warehousing and distribution. It provides invaluable "how to" problem-solving tools and techniques for all the ever-increasing logistical problems managers face -- making it the most complete and authoritative handbook to date.Special features include:* The most in-depth coverage of a wide range of topics, including information ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dynamics in Logistics

    Twenty-Five Years of Interdisciplinary Logistics Research in Bremen, Germany

    This open access book highlights the interdisciplinary aspects of logistics research. Featuring empirical, methodological, and practice-oriented articles, it addresses the modelling, planning, optimization and control of processes. Chiefly focusing on supply chains, logistics networks, production systems, and systems and facilities for material flows, the respective contributions combine research ... Read more

    Free

  • The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Operations Management

    by Linda Brennan ...
    Series series McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Courses
    Take a crash course in boosting operational efficiency!Whether a business manufactures trucks, delivers packages, or sells coffee, it lives and breathes on its operations. Without exception. Ensuring smooth, efficient processes is a challenging task--but the rewards are immense. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Operations Management puts you on the fast track to bolstering and managing the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD