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Everyone encounters statistics on a daily basis. They are used in proposals, reports, requests, and advertisements, among others, to support assertions, opinions, and theories. Unless you're a trained statistician, it can be bewildering. What are the numbers really saying or not saying? Better Business Decisions from Data: Statistical Analysis for Professional Success provides the answers to these questions and more. It will show you how to use statistical...
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This ebook is a collection of Lectures comprising several units , which put together form a course in OR for aspiring under graduates. There are severtal worked out problems and exercises with case studies. An ebook is difficult to find where most of the publications are high priced print text books. It is hoped this would benefit students.
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Discover the revolutionary business model that lets you achieve success without the headaches of management or asset ownership.
In a zero space organization, knowledge is the only true currency and people are the only assets that matter. Through eight new organizational principles, Frank Lekanne Deprez and René Tissen illustrate how "zero-mindedness" is essential for the new economy. As organizations evolve into less tangible, less prescribed forms,...
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The complexity of managing a business today has increased exponentially due to rapid technological advancement and global events. This implies that the solutions of yesterday may not be applicable today or in the near future.
Some of the major problems faced by businesses today include financial management, competition, strategy, change and innovation. Business managers must therefore development a comprehensive understanding of business organisations...
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Malgré la place importante des PME dans l'économie, on retrouve peu d'ouvrages qui guident les entrepreneurs constamment à court de ressources. Ce manuel tente de répondre à la question : par quel chemin la PME peut-elle passer pour devenir un jour une grande entreprise ? Pour ce faire, ce manuel revisite quelques-unes des théories phares de la gestion des organisations, mais en adoptant l'angle de la PME : la légitimité, la gestion des impressions,...
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El libro tiene núcleo en el management, aunque su alcance excede esta área específica. Comienza presentando las características básicas de la complejidad como fenómeno humano y presenta distintos formatos para abordarla. Propone un modelo holístico, "El Ciclo del Valor", orientado a dotar de mayor eficacia a las estrategias utilizadas desde una perspectiva multi y transdisciplinaria que ayuda a superar las barreras del conocimiento, encaminándose...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "SSCB0110 - DINAMIZACIÓN, PROGRAMACIÓN Y DESARROLLO DE ACCIONES CULTURALES". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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Learn to lead, no matter who you are, with the tools, techniques, and inspirational stories found in this guide.
Anyone can lead. You don't have to be a CEO or work in a management position to have influence. Your Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques, and inspiration to discover your leadership potential. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a framework for Adaptive Leadership that can help anyone learn to lead.
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The Great Management Reset provides today's managers, as well as those working towards a career in management, with the skills to measure and understand their current management styles and supply unique, proven techniques required to achieve the ultimate status of being an effective and efficient manager. Additionally, the book provides a questionnaire at the end of each topic, allowing managers the ability to pinpoint their current management style,...
10) Hypercompetition
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General Motors and IBM have been battered to their cores. Jack Welch, the chairman of General Electric, called the frenzied competition of the 1980's "a white knuckle decade" and said the 1990s would be worse. In this pathbreaking book that will define this new age of "hypercompetition," Richard D'Aveni reveals how competitive moves and countermoves escalate with such ferocity today that the traditional sources of competitive advantage can no longer...
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"Cambridge O Level Business Studies 7115: Second Edition" is an invaluable resource for students preparing for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 examinations. This comprehensive guide brilliantly encapsulates the essence of business studies, offering a clear and accessible pathway for learners to understand and excel in the subject.The book is meticulously structured into six sections, each addressing a core area of business studies. The journey begins with...
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Some businesses have reduced staff and made resource cuts to survive the global economic downturn, while others have improved business practices and culture. Unfortunately, there is still a difference between successful and less successful businesses in terms of culture adaptability, people management, and process management. In organizations like Toyota, which, in contrast to its rivals, has a mindset of process improvement, culture drives competitive...
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In Zen Buddhism, a KOAN is a saying or mantra designed to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning for achieving enlightenment.
The KOAN concept is also a helpful framework for imagining new models for living and organizing in Kind, Open, Adaptive, Networks.
Rooted both in ancient wisdom, and cutting-edge research, the KOAN method gives us an alternative model for evaluating and evolving how we come together as humans to solve the important...
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Step into the ever-evolving realm of finance, a domain where critical decisions unlock potential and shape individual and global landscapes. This comprehensive guide serves as your portal to understanding the fundamental principles and practical applications that drive these choices. Whether you envision yourself steering the helm of a business, cultivating astute investment prowess, or simply seeking empowered financial navigation for personal growth,...
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The extensive book "How to Visualize a Project: Complete Guide to Project Management and Planning" is a useful manual for anyone working in project management. The book, written by a seasoned project management expert, is intended to assist readers in navigating the challenges of project planning and execution by making efficient use of visualization techniques. The book examines the application of visual aids for effective project planning and tracking,...
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Continuous improvement, also called "Kaizen," means always trying to make things better. It involves making small, gradual changes to processes, systems, and activities in order to keep improving them over time. The aim of getting better constantly is to get rid of unnecessary things and make things go smoother, be better, and make customers happier.Unfortunately, many people wrongly believe that plan-do-check-act (PDCA) is a cycle for improving things...
17) How Lean Can Improve Healthcare?: A Brief Guide on Eliminating Waste and Identifying Areas for Imp
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The lean operational concepts and techniques help make things more efficient for patients by reducing waste and wait times. This focuses on getting employees involved, constantly getting better, and thinking about what the customers want. All workers in the company, including doctors, staff, and support staff, always try to find ways to save time and money and get rid of anything that doesn't help patients, using lean methods in healthcare.To ensure...
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In Amazon: Managing Extraordinary Success in 5-D Value, Benjamin Wall offers structured insights into strategically managing value in the key relationships to customers, personnel, business partners, and investors in order to improve value management at any company.
The extraordinary success of Amazon is due to market-leading strength in three "dimensions" of value: owning the mightiest supply chain to deliver fastest and cheapest the broadest range...
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How do the most innovative and agile companies develop a winning mindset that runs throughout the entire organization?
Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. Based on a comprehensive seven-year study from Stanford University, Going on Offense provides an insider view into the drivers of success and challenges in 26 organizations-including industry giants...
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Wicked problems can never be solved-they can only be tamed.And they're a lot more common than we might think. The wickedest problems include the climate crisis, war, terrorism, pandemics and mass refugee migrations. In organisations, we see wicked problems like environmental accidents, hostile takeovers, sexual harassment, health and safety failures, product recalls, industrial espionage and reputational damage.Taming wicked problems requires people...
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