Activity-Based Management: A Comprehensive Implementation Guide |
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'Downsizing' staff in order to cut costs is an effort that is ultimately doomed to fail unless the non-value-added work that created the need for staff is eliminated, too. That's the premise at the heart of activity-based management (ABM). While there are plenty of books out there that discuss ABM approaches in the abstract, here's the first book that actually shows you how to transform your organization from a traditional hierarchical structure to one that is activity-based - thereby enabling your business to operate more productively, more profitably, and more in concert with the tenets of reengineering, TQM, and end-to-end process improvement. Based on methods that have proven highly successful at companies such as AT&T, this hands-on resource provides the detailed guidance you won't find elsewhere on the planning, organizational, and implementation phases of a total ABM program. You'll also benefit from the book's description of the critical factors that form the 'chain of success' in an ABM program, its incisive comparison of traditional costing methods versus those of ABM, and more.
Activity-Based Management: A Comprehensive Implementation Guide
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Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization |
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This is the first book to focus on the people side of knowledge management--what it takes to get employees to contribute to a knowledge system. Robert Buckman explains how to orchestrate this culture change, drawing from the lessons learned by Buckman Laboratories--the leader and pioneer in knowledge management--in implementing award-winning knowledge systems. His book is a practical primer on how organizations can move from 'hoarding' knowledge to 'sharing' it, building a global strategy that allows them to respond faster than the competition to any customer's need on a global basis. Buckman reveals how to: Combat the biggest problem with implementing knowledge management--creating the culture that supports it Increase the speed of innovation globally across an organization Resolve technical problems quickly Make immediate, informed decisions to help solve customer issues Create new products based on customer input and demand
Building a Knowledge-Driven Organization
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Business In Action |
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'Business in Action, 3/E' is an introduction to business that provides readers with a wealth of the most current information available, allowing them to experience firsthand a variety of highly involving information that no other book on the market can match. Numerous cases and examples simplify the material, encourage active reading, and provide a life-long useful reference source. Topics include: the global economy, starting and organizing a small business, management issues, human resources and employee relations, marketing strategies, and financial information and resources. An excellent resource for managers, corporate trainers, and those interesting in owning and operating small to medium businesses; this book is also a must-read for people just entering the corporate job market.
Business In Action
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Business is Combat: A Fighter Pilot's Guide to Winning in Modern Business Warfare |
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(ReaganBooks) A pocket-sized guide based on the analogy that business is like war. Offers a full-scale training course in the 'military' techniques needed to succeed in modern business. Includes tips on how to focus, how to plan and execute each new mission, and how to devise winning tactics and strategies. Softcover.
Business is Combat: A Fighter Pilot's Guide to Winning in Modern Business Warfare
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Business Portfolio Management: Valuation, Risk Assessment, and EVA T M Strategies |
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The Ultimate Guide to Applied Strategies for Managing Business Units and Portfolios Two of the most important business trends of recent years are increasing corporate acquisitions and managing business units as individual companies with a synergistic relationship to the parent company. Business Portfolio Management is an indispensable tool for corporate managers and strategists involved in these pursuits. This no-nonsense reference cuts through the competing claims and conventional wisdom to take a hard look at the realities of portfolio management. It provides the concepts and strategies necessary to create real strategic alternatives, estimate accurately the value of each alternative, and understand the risks involved in each. It supplies a framework for choosing between alternatives, for making tradeoffs between risks and opportunities, and for understanding how individual units in a portfolio will interact. From beginning to end, the concepts, techniques, and situations discussed in Business Portfolio Management are illustrated with detailed examples drawn from actual consulting engagements conducted by the author and his colleagues. These examples not only provide specific descriptions of how portfolio management concepts are implemented in the real world, they also give a real-world picture of the magnitude of value increases that are created through effective portfolio management.
Business Portfolio Management: Valuation, Risk Assessment, and EVA T M Strategies
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Communicating Effectively |
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Communicating Effectively shows busy managers how to combine proven techniques and strategies with the latest technologies for successful, results-directed interaction. Included are techniques for shaping positive perceptions, tips for giving instructions and corrective feedback, strategies for making your points in presentations and e-communications, and more.
Communicating Effectively
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Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines |
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Freeman identifies the Marine's simple but devastatingly effective principles for managing people and resources--and ultimately winning.
Corps Business: The 30 Management Principles of the U.S. Marines
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Design for Six Sigma |
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'THE BRIEFCASE BOOKS SERIEs Now translated into 11 languages! This reader-friendly, icon-rich series is must reading for all managers at every level All managers, whether brand new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little 'brushing up' now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations. DESIGN FOR SIX SIGMA Six Sigma has revolutionized the ways in which companies meet and beat today's stringent quality expectations. But achieving Six Sigma results first requires Six Sigma building blocks. 'Design for Six Sigma unveils a systematic methodology for enabling the design of products, services, and processes to meet Six Sigma quality levels. Designed to be easily read and implemented, this concise Briefcase Book shows managers at all levels how to include Six Sigma at the earliest stages of virtually any manufacturing process. Here are DFSS's techniques for: Optimizing the design p
Design for Six Sigma
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Designing, Managing, and Improving Operations |
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A collection of action and implementation-oriented cases focused on improving the operations of a business unit. Focuses on the individual operating unit in both manufacturing and services Addresses the design, management and improvement of the fundamental building blocks of operations -- operations processes. Looks at the systems used to coordinate processes, focusing on the use and management of information technology as part of such systems.
Designing, Managing, and Improving Operations
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El Manager Al Minuto |
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Durante mas de diez anos, miles de managers de alto nivel y companias de la lista de Fortune 500 en todo el pais, han seguido la metodologia de este libro logrando asi aumentar la productividad, la satisfacciin laboral y la prosperidad personal. Estos resultados concretos se lograron mediante el aprendizaje de metodos directivos que se traducen en ganancias para la organizaciin y sus empleados, razin por la cual se considera que son la respuesta a la Teoria Z del Japin. 'El Manager al Minuto es una historia concisa y facil de leer que demuestra tres metodos directivos muy practicos. El desenlace de la historia revela estudios llevados a cabo en el campo de la medicina y de las ciencias del comportamiento humano. Explican claramente por que estos metodos, aparentemente sencillos, funcionan de forma tan eficaz para tantas personas. Al terminar de leer libro usted sabra cimo aplicarlos a su propia situaciin. Es por eso que El Manager al Minuto se ha convertido en uno de los libros sobre metodos directivos de mas venta en Estados Unidos y ha causado sensaciin a
El Manager Al Minuto
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