Multicriteria Location Analysis
First book to fully incorporate MCDM techniques with location analysis Tailors specific techniques to particular location problems Eiselt and Marianov are two of the best known scholars/authors in the field
Category Management in Purchasing
Approach purchasing and procurement strategically, effectively and sustainably, with this comprehensive and practical guide to category management. Category Management in Purchasing equips those working in procurement with the tools they need to ensure effective procurement in an ever changing landscape. Combining practical advice and theory, this essential resource is crucial for developing successful purchasing strategies. Covering new technology-driven approaches to category management, this new edition outlines digital transformations and technological advancements, from digital sourcing platforms to new tools and systems. This edition also provides readers with the knowledge to approach complex sourcing situations not only effectively, but also sustainably. Including new guidance on how organizations and businesses can implement sustainability into their procurement strategies, Jonathan O'Brien recontextualizes category management in a time when responsible sourcing is more important than ever. This highly regarded and essential text provides what everyone in procurement needs when striving to make category management a reality.
World Class Quality
Bhote, a highly-experienced quality consultant, presents the Design of Experiments tools created by quality guru Dorian Shainin. The author explains and elucidates in a clear and nontechnical style how Shainin's techniques work and how to apply them to a company's quality problems.Readers will see that these proven techniques not only solve quality problems, but prevent them from developing in the first place. Included are case studies to illustrate all techniques and practice exercises.
Designing Virtual Learning for Application and Impact
Show the value of virtual learning to demonstrate business impact. In Designing Virtual Learning for Application and Impact, virtual learning expert Cindy Huggett teams with evaluation experts Jack and Patti Phillips and learning transfer authority Emma Weber to create a guidebook for TD practitioners to ensure that their online programs achieve measurable results beyond the virtual classroom. This practical book outlines a design process focused on how to deliver on-the-job application of learning and a positive impact on business results. It gives 50 techniques you can immediately use to effectively design an engaging virtual learning program that helps learners apply the knowledge they've gained back on the job. Virtual learning is here to stay. And it must add value to an organization, otherwise it's a waste of time and resources. As budgets are slashed, the ability to show that a program is an investment, rather than an expense is vital. Thus, we need a renewed sense of urgency to make sure virtual learning delivers results for those who support it, expect it, and even demand it. Step up to the challenge and get serious about delivering business impact with your virtual learning programs. This book will show you how.
The Positive Impact of Ethical Leadership
The current study aimed to find out how ethical leadership positively impacts on employee innovative working behavior; through the mechanism of moderating the role of self-efficacy. The study also investigated self-efficacy as a moderated role to strengthen the relationship between ethical leadership and innovative working behavior. Data were collected from 307 individuals working in the public ICT sector in Kabul Afghanistan. Data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, reliability, correlation and regression analysis as well as tested the null hypothesis through SPSS. The findings suggested that ethical leadership was positively and significantly associated with innovative working behavior. Furthermore, self-efficacy as a moderation strengthens the relationship of ethical leadership and innovative working behavior. The thesis is concluded by discussing the practical and theoretical implications along with the recommendations, limitations, and room for further research.
Process Automation Strategy in Services, Manufacturing and Construction
International Logistics
Implementing effective logistics strategies when operating internationally differs from managing domestic logistics because of specific factors such as shipping regulations, transportation concerns, and cultural differences. This indispensable guide presents a coherent perspective on contemporary global logistics from raw materials through production to the customer.Now in its second edition, the book includes sections on: The roles of governments and intermediariesInternational sourcingThe application of local trade lawsOcean, air, and surface carriers and systems.Plus, this second edition has been revised with new information on supply chain management, important updates of U.S. shipping regulations, new case studies, chapter review questions, and standardized international terms of sale.
Insights to Performance Excellence 2021-2022
For decades, this book has served as a guide to organizations that document their continuous improvement efforts using Baldrige Award-type management systems. Readers will learn what each area of the system means for organizations and how the synergy between process-oriented parts-leadership; strategy; customers; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; workforce; and operations-can lead to excellent performance results. This book provides a valuable, step-by-step approach to help identify and put in place properly focused continuous improvement systems. Seven types of information are provided in this book for each of the Items in Categories 1 through 7 of the 2021-2022 Baldrige Framework and Performance Excellence Criteria: 1. The actual language of each Item, including Notes 2. A plain-English explanation of the requirements and rationale for each Item 3. A table showing the similar requirements of the Criteria 4. A summary of the requirements of each Item in flowchart form 5. The key linkages between each Item and other Items 6. An explanation of some potential adverse consequences 7. Examples of effective practices Features of this edition include: - A stakeholder matrix table of contents that identifies relevant material within the book for key stakeholder groups: senior leaders, examiners, performance excellence initiative leaders, application writers, and program administrators - Tables for each Criteria Item showing the similar expectations of the Criteria award (and award program administrators) presented only once at the scoring level where the expectation first appears to help examiners determine at what level an expectation belongs - Online resources, including scoring calibration guides for education, healthcare, and business/nonprofit/government organizations, a guide to self-assessment of organizations and management systems, and a guide to the alignment of Baldrige, Six Sigma, Lean, and Balanced Scorecard - A new crosswalk between Baldrige and ISO standards and a set of global performance excellence best practices - Information on other award programs throughout the world such as the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), which has undergone significant changes in the 2020 model, and the China Association for Quality Mark L. Blazey has retired from more than 26 years as president of Quantum Performance Group, a management consulting and training firm specializing in organization assessment and high-performance systems development. Paul L. Grizzell is president of Core Values Partners, a perfor mance excellence consulting firm that helps organizations focus, align, and accelerate their improvement efforts through the use of the Baldrige Framework for Performance Excellence, the EFQM Model, the China Quality Award, and other integrated management systems.
The ASQ Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Handbook
This handbook is designed to help candidates preparing for the ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam. Meant for those who already understand the basic concepts of reducing variation and improving processes, it also serves as a helpful reference to the appropriate materials needed to conduct successful Green Belt projects. The layout of the handbook is mapped to the 2022 version of ASQ's Body of Knowledge (BoK). This revised edition includes new information about: - SMART goals, key process indicators, Takt time, just-in-time processes, and spaghetti diagrams - The Kano model, risk management, business continuity planning, SWOT analysis, and RACI charts - Data collection plans and quality checks - Gap analysis, 5 Whys analysis, and fault tree analysis - Maintaining quality improvements - Document control, audits, training plans, the PDCA cycle, Andon, and Jidoka system
Supply Chain Integration for Sustainable Advantages
This book offers a systematic literature review and a set of empirical studies on supply chain integration. Supply chain management is recognized as an essential means for firms to achieve competitive advantages, in which supply chain integration is regarded as the core for operational excellence: shorter lead time, lower inventory, faster delivery, and higher product and service quality. Using data from an international survey of manufacturing firms, an interrelated set of studies that investigate supply chain integration from different perspectives at multiple levels are conducted. Intra-organizational factors such as products, production systems, and socio-technical systems are examined to understand their effects on supply chain integration, indicating that firms need to implement different types of supply chain integration for specific competitive priorities. Then, the outcomes of supply chain integration, including its impact on risk management and sustainability management, are investigated from an inter-organizational perspective. The firm is embedded in a manufacturing network, a global supply chain, or both, and it can use supply chain integration as a strategic action for risks. Sustainability has been a vital issue for manufacturers, and supply chain integration can enhance its success. This book makes significant contributions to the relevant literature on supply chain integration and offers insights to supply chain managers in manufacturing industries.
A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity
A well-monitored supply chain is key to any business' productivity and profit. Learn the tactical advice on how to mitigate the effects of supply chain disruptions.Certified business continuity professional (CBCP) Betty Kildow identifies the different phases of business continuity program development and maintenance to help you ensure each link in that chain is contributing to a positive outcome.In Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity, Kildow teaches you: how to recognize and mitigate potential threats, risks, and hazards;evaluate and select suppliers, contractors, and service providers;develop, test, document, and maintain business continuity plans;and follow globally accepted best practices, among many other crucial supply chain management skills.Each link in your supply chain is its own entity, subject to ups, downs, and business realities.Filled with powerful assessment tools, detailed disaster-preparedness checklists and scenarios, and instructive case studies in supply chain reliability, Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity will help you keep each business unit running smoothly to secure the long-term stability of your organization.
50 Things to Know About Substitute Teaching
Do you struggle to get students' attention?Are you unsure how to monitor your students' work?Don't know what to do with the last ten minutes of class?If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you...In these pages you'll discover new ways to approach this sometimes daunting task of taking over a classroom!So grab YOUR copy today. You'll be glad you did.For each 50 Things to Know book that is sold (not including free days), 10 cents is given to teaching and learning. Go to 50ThingsToKnow.com/GivingBack to find out more.
Principles of Quality Costs, Fourth Edition
Recent decades have seen wide changes in how quality standards are applied in industry. We now have two functions: quality assurance and process improvement. Quality assurance focuses primarily on product quality, while process improvement focuses on process quality; the principles of quality cost support both.The purpose of this book remains the same as the third edition: to provide a basic understanding of the principles of quality cost. Using this book, organizations can develop and implement a quality cost system to fit their needs. Used as an adjunct to overall financial management, these principles will help maintain vital quality improvement programs over extended timeframes.This fourth edition now includes information on the quality cost systems involved with the education, service, banking, and software development industries. You'll also find new material on ISO 9001, cost systems in small businesses, and activity-based costing. Additional information on team-based problem-solving, customer satisfaction and the costs involved with the defense industry are also offered.
Business Intelligence applied to University Management
This paper addresses the problem of an institution that defines as a management objective the implementation of a system of indicators to support decision making, based on a Business Intelligence (BI) solution.In this sense, the challenge focuses on the design of a system that allows the implementation of a solution that is not only efficient, but also sustainable over time.For this purpose, we worked with primary information obtained through in-depth interviews; and also from the identification and documentary and bibliographic survey and important processes, in order to detect strengths and weaknesses related to the generation of data with impact on the indicators system.Finally, based on the data collected and their analysis, information was obtained to formulate a proposal for a management indicator dashboard model aligned with the institutional strategy, as well as considerations for the sustainability of the system.
Fundamentals of accounting theory and analysis
The monograph outlines the theoretical foundations of accounting and economic analysis in organizations.The economic essence, meaning and tasks of accounting, the subject and method of accounting, balance sheet, accounts and double entry, classification of accounts of accounting, as well as accounting of economic processes, documentation and inventory, the basics of accounting statements are considered.Tasks and types of economic analysis are described, the characteristic of the basic techniques and methods of economic analysis is given. The methods of factor analysis, the method of calculating economic reserves on the example of a commercial organization are highlighted. This monograph is addressed to students, graduate students, postgraduate students and researchers in the field of accounting and economic analysis in organizations.
The Protected Designation of Origin Jumilla
The purpose of this book is to analyze the situation of the Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) Jumilla from a historical, geographical and economic point of view. The Jumilla PDO, located in the province of Murcia, has a great winemaking tradition dating back centuries, through which its companies have evolved over time. It is currently showing a positive evolution in its sales, as well as a focus increasingly oriented towards the production of quality wines. This situation implies an enormous effort in R&D that must continue to be consolidated in order to improve its competitiveness and continue to expand in the most demanding segments.
Process Improvement to Company Enrichment
Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy presents a unique, proven methodology for achieving an environment of innovation.This book details a comprehensive and integrated approach to optimization: acting strategically; refining business processes; energizing personnel development; forging reasoned technology decisions; and synchronizing corporate governance, organizational design, and company culture.Practices and principles are delivered in a conversational tone and are accompanied by intriguing historical anecdotes that entertain and help illustrate the authors' position points for each chapter-making for an interesting read.Whether the goal is improving select aspects of your company or totally rethinking the business model, this book furnishes the roadmap for achieving that successful transformation.
Econometric Tools for Panel Data
This book on Panel data econometrics is for graduate students from institutes, schools and faculties of economics and management. It can also be very useful for any teacher or business practiciens (bank, ministry, hospital, etc). It is an ideal textbook for a first course in panel analysis and modeling. The book starts with an outline of some ratio related to bank financial activity and of prices for stock market situation, and gives analysis tools to the use for panel data treatment. Then, some techniques and models are presented including linear static and dynamic models dealing with stationary and non-stationary data and binary dependent variable approaches. Along the way, real case studies are presented in each chapter of relevant financial applications from fresh investigations using STATA and/or Eviews packages. Sample instructions or codes are also given for the software package.
IFRS 9 Moderating Effects on Listed Banks
The book investigates the moderating effects of IFRS 9 implementation on listed banks in Kenya. It explores the effects on loan loss provisions, creation of buffer to withstand shocks and effect on performance of listed banks on the Nairobi Securities Exchange. The book explores the period before IFRS 9 implementation and post implementation and compares performance before and after. It also looks at provisions before and after same to reserves.
Logic-Driven Traffic Big Data Analytics
This book starts from the relationship between urban built environment and travel behavior and focuses on analyzing the origin of traffic phenomena behind the data through multi-source traffic big data, which makes the book unique and different from the previous data-driven traffic big data analysis literature. This book focuses on understanding, estimating, predicting, and optimizing mobility patterns. Readers can find multi-source traffic big data processing methods, related statistical analysis models, and practical case applications from this book. This book bridges the gap between traffic big data, statistical analysis models, and mobility pattern analysis with a systematic investigation of traffic big data's impact on mobility patterns and urban planning.
Advanced Analytics in Mining Engineering
In this book, Dr. Soofastaei and his colleagues reveal how all mining managers can effectively deploy advanced analytics in their day-to-day operations- one business decision at a time.Most mining companies have a massive amount of data at their disposal. However, they cannot use the stored data in any meaningful way. The powerful new business tool-advanced analytics enables many mining companies to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes with impressive results.From statistical analysis to machine learning and artificial intelligence, the authors show how many analytical tools can improve decisions about everything in the mine value chain, from exploration to marketing.Combining the science of advanced analytics with the mining industrial business solutions, introduce the "Advanced Analytics in Mining Engineering Book" as a practical road map and tools for unleashing the potential buried in yourcompany's data.The book is aimed at providing mining executives, managers, and research and development teams with an understanding of the business value and applicability of different analytic approaches and helping data analytics leads by giving them a business framework in which to assess the value, cost, and risk of potential analytical solutions. In addition, the book will provide the next generation of miners - undergraduate and graduate IT and mining engineering students - with an understanding of data analytics applied to the mining industry. By providing a book with chapters structured in line with the mining value chain, we will provide a clear, enterprise-level view of where and how advanced data analytics can best be applied. This book highlights the potential to interconnect activities in the mining enterprise better. Furthermore, the book explores the opportunities for optimization and increased productivity offered by better interoperability along the mining value chain - in line with the emerging vision of creating a digital mine with much-enhanced capabilities for modeling, simulation, and the use of digital twins - in line with leading "digital" industries.
University-Industry Knowledge Interactions
University-industry interaction combines several layers of actors, states and effects. People make choices, based on their individual characteristics, at different stages of a scientific career, in a highly internationalised profession. Tensions arise when university administrators and managers need to strike a balance among different promotion instruments, or when the university or public research organisation tries to solve the trade-offs between long- and short-term relationships, or among new management practices. Impacts are related to scientific agendas, the economic returns for firms or the societal benefits. This book adopts a people-tension-impact approach to identify key insights, by combining qualitative and quantitative research, established and novel methodologies, and different geographic settings. The chapters in this volume provide new perspectives on university-industry interactions related to gender biases, entrepreneurial involvement of PhD students and the role of international mobility. They also focus on how the positive impacts of university-industry interactions coexist with unresolved tensions linked to policy combinations, long-term contractual relationships, management practices and organisational strategies.Chapters 4 and 6 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Human-Centered Agile
This book is a guide on how to apply Human-Centered Design (HCD) practices to an Agile product development model that is used widely throughout industry and government, where it is applied primarily to software and technology development efforts.
Beyond Strategic Kaizen
Currently, the challenge for manufacturing organizations is how to achieve their expected profit by continuously improving productivity or reducing costs. Manufacturing organizations have been using different improvement approaches to achieving cost reduction and productivity improvement for years by eliminating various losses and waste structures, such as excess inventory, excessive workforce, excessive capacity, excessive utility consumption, and so on. But is the problem solved? Unfortunately, no! Often manufacturing companies focus on maximizing the flow and meeting customer needs but forget their real aim - to make a profit for their stakeholders. Too many organizations meet customer expectations by seeking to continuously synchronize the flow to market demand but forget to check that they are doing it profitably enough to ensure business continuity and prosperity. When the financial results show that they are not so profitable, it is already too late. Moreover, the strategic direction of systematic improvements according to the sales trend - depending on the current degree of production capacity utilization and its dynamic effects on cost structures - is deficient in many manufacturing companies. So, would the failure of strategic and profitable systematic improvements be an option? Of course not! If the ultimate goal of the organization is to create target profit for stakeholders, then the behavior and strategic systematic improvements must be directed to those scenarios, strategies, tasks, problems, and "production levers" that are best based on creating the target profit. That's what Strategic Kaizen thinking does - the simultaneous and consistent achievement of systematic operational and financial improvements in a strategic and operational manner. It achieves both synchronous operations at market demand by fulfilling takt time and profitable operations in accordance with profit demand by fulfilling takt profit. In short, the Strategic Kaizen mission is striving for the fulfillment of the ideal state of operations called synchronous profitable operations. In this book, the author, while presenting in detail the seven processes of Strategic Kaizen methodology, exposes the answer to historically incomplete thinking of productivity improvements for target profitability. The uniqueness of the book is reinforced by the detailed presentation of the successful application of the Strategic Kaizen thinking over the years in two multinational manufacturing organizations operating in highly competitive markets, addressing the synchronous profitable operations for both the sales increase scenario and the sales decrease scenario. Moreover, it presents examples of the practical application of the "white-collar" Strategic Kaizen. Essentially, by adopting the Strategic Kaizen methodology presented in detail in this book to consistently achieve the ideal state of a manufacturing organization, organizations will enter a new paradigm of thinking of strategic improvements - Strategic Kaizen thinking - to meet annual and multiannual target profits in a unique and effective way that operates according to its own strategic and operational management system.
Agile L&d
Agility is no longer a buzzword; it's now a business imperative. Apply Agile thinking, tools and processes to the learning function with this expert guide written specifically for learning and organizational development professionals. Agile L&D explains how to develop an Agile approach to workplace learning. The business context has dramatically changed, so the way to approach specialisms like learning and OD must too. Based on five design principles, the book provides a dedicated toolkit to help you design learning and OD solutions that solve workplace challenges and improve business performance. How we design work, upskill people and deploy teams is now intrinsically linked with modern business strategy. To continually adapt to a complex business environment, companies need a more fluid movement of people and skills across the organization in order to better reflect customer needs, market opportunities and capability requirements. This book has the answer. Full of tools, tips and frameworks as well as real-world examples from global organizations, this is essential reading for all learning and development, OD and people professionals in this constantly changing area of work. Online resources include templates and infographics
Supply Chain Risk Management
Navigate a continually evolving global risk landscape and react to new logistical challenges effectively with this vital guide on supply chain risk. Implementing robust supply chain strategies has never been so essential in today's everchanging world. From geo-political risks to the continued effects of global crises, Supply Chain Risk Management is an essential resource for those wanting to mitigate risk and ensure supply chain resilience. Offering crucial insight from a management perspective, this updated 4th edition offers new guidance on the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, supply-chain bottlenecks and evolving geo-political risks. With new global case studies including disruption to the supply chain due to the Suez Canal blockage and global tensions like the US-China trade war, this edition explores a variety of real-world risks. This book details ongoing threats like climate change, corruption and technological risks while providing crucial detail on how to implement robust systems and safeguard supply chain operations. Combining theoretical and practical learning, Supply Chain Risk Management is essential for those needing to understand risk and how it can be approached.
Agile L&d
Agility is no longer a buzzword; it's now a business imperative. Apply Agile thinking, tools and processes to the learning function with this expert guide written specifically for learning and organizational development professionals. Agile L&D explains how to develop an Agile approach to workplace learning. The business context has dramatically changed, so the way to approach specialisms like learning and OD must too. Based on five design principles, the book provides a dedicated toolkit to help you design learning and OD solutions that solve workplace challenges and improve business performance. How we design work, upskill people and deploy teams is now intrinsically linked with modern business strategy. To continually adapt to a complex business environment, companies need a more fluid movement of people and skills across the organization in order to better reflect customer needs, market opportunities and capability requirements. This book has the answer. Full of tools, tips and frameworks as well as real-world examples from global organizations, this is essential reading for all learning and development, OD and people professionals in this constantly changing area of work. Online resources include templates and infographics
Fundamentals of Daily Shop Floor Management
This book takes take you on a journey to explore the fundamentals elements, management practices, improvement methods, and future direction of shop floor management.
Effective Processes for Quality Assurance
The book provides a common operating framework in which best practices, process improvements, and cost avoidance activities can be shared, and quality assurance responsibilities assigned. The framework unites quality assurance methods thereby promoting best practices for improvement processes execution and reduction of operational costs.
Benefits Realization Management
Benefits realization management (BRM) is a key part of governance, because it supports the strategic creation of value and provides the correct level of prioritization and executive support to the correct initiatives. This book guides portfolio, program, and project managers through the process of benefits realization management so they can maxi
Game Theory
Game Theory: A Modeling Approach quickly moves readers through the fundamental ideas of the subject to enable them to engage in creative modeling projects based on game theoretic concepts.The authors match conclusions to real-world scenarios and applications. The text engages students in active learning, group work, in-class discussions and interactive simulations.Each chapter provides foundation pieces or adds more features to help readers build game theoretic models. The chapters include definitions, concepts and illustrative examples. The text will engage and challenge both undergraduate and graduate students.Features: Enables readers to apply game theorty to real-world scenarios Chapters can be used for core course materials or independent stuides Exercises, included at the end of the chapters, follow the order of the sections in the text Select answers and solutions are found at the end of the book Solutions manual for instructors is available from the authors
Creating Smart Enterprises
This book guides IT and business executives through the technologies that create an intelligent, agile, and competitive enterprise. It examines social, contextual, search, and physical intelligence, and the technologies that emulate them. Each technology is covered in-depth and shown how at work in an intelligent enterprise.
Managing Agile Business Technology
This book describes a conceptual management system derived from the Business and Technology Relationship Model (BTRM). The BTRM describes the relationship between business and technology and provides simple definitions for service quality, alignment, agility, and governance. It explains our problems with traditional methods, democratizes the management and governance of enterprise technologies, and is suitable for introducing process automation. This book describes in detail how the BTRM, combined with a focus on value creation and value delivery, will enable continuous change, in the context of current, emerging and future technologies. It illustrates the potential for real-time insight and control not previously considered and provides a wide range of information to plan an implementation, understand where AI can be applied, and its importance in the world of self-managing systems. The topic of this book is particularly relevant for business managers, business technology managers and technology service providers.
The Modern Lean Enterprise
The book addresses a modern reorientation of Lean, abandoning the classical waste dogma that brings direct efficiency gains and substituting by a way to achieving indirect efficiency in a continuous and sustainable manner. Waste is the output of a process that cannot be of further use, while value is a matter of valuation, a process whose output we conceive to be of further use. Value and waste are not antithetical, they are just not comparable issues. We achieve added value to the modern Lean Enterprise through synergies that bring sustainable economic benefits to the company. Such synergies use the complementarity theory developed by Milgrom and Roberts in 1990 on the principle that we can achieve maximal gains via the joint investment on complement activities and not investing. Complementarity is not something specific to Lean Enterprises; however, Lean Enterprises can benefit the most from such a concept. The reason is that Lean uses the principle of achieving more with less effort. Less effort does not mean the use of fewer resources, but the use of resources in a complementary way in order to achieve more, rather than using them. Complementarity is a feature by design. Complementarity by design will help modern Lean companies have an easier transition in the digital era and the new world of Industry 4.0. In this second edition, we have preserved the method of how to achieve Lean and have enhanced it to show how to move towards modern Lean within Industry 4.0 paradigm. However, if a company has not yet made the Lean step, there is no need to make that step first before yielding the benefits. Technology is the key. Modern Lean Enterprise strengthens out of the old paradigm into the new one of Industry 4.0. Because of evolution, such an enterprise achieves optimal technological complementarity necessary for synergies that sustain increasing profits.
When Graduation's Over, Learning Begins
What They Didn't Teach You in School: Lessons for STEM Students and ProfessionalsScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math education has been described as, "drinking from a firehose." STEM students are required to absorb an overwhelming amount of technical information before they can earn their undergraduate degrees. But it takes more than a thorough understanding of math, science, and engineering concepts to become successful in today's job market.NASA's former Chief Knowledge Officer, Roger Forsgren, was responsible for training the agency's technical workforce and provides critical lessons learned for STEM students and graduates to build successful careers as they compete in today's workplace.Being an introvert in an extroverts' world: You may certainly be the smartest person in the room but that may not be enough to convince a client, make a persuasive presentation, or effectively manage others. Learn how to remain in your comfort zone yet still make a compelling impact by becoming an ambivert.Communication Skills: How to get your point across and express yourself in a cogent, concise manner. How to make yourself heard, and respected, in a group of experienced professionals.Critical Thinking: Avoid jumping to conclusions by training yourself to look beyond the obvious for the real clues to a problem or situation.Ethics: STEM professionals possess unique skills, but such technical expertise also requires a sense of personal responsibility ensuring your talents are being put to the best use for yourself and for society.Case studies have proven to be valuable learning tools and Roger Forsgren includes twelve compelling historical case studies that demonstrate the critical knowledge needed for STEM students as they progress through their careers.
Constraint Management
The performance of a business can be greatly improved by closely managing a few key bottlenecks (constraints) within the organization. Constraint Management is a valuable resource for locating and managing these constraints. It does so by describing the impact of constraints and how they can be managed to optimize profitability. The text includes discussions of where the constraint may be located, how constraint analysis compares to traditional cost accounting, and how to design measurement, reporting, and control systems around a constraint. There is also extensive treatment of financial modeling around constraints, as well as how to develop constraint-based strategies. In short, this book is an invaluable guide to enhancing the performance and earnings of your business.
Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. Edoc 2022 Workshops
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the international workshops, the EDOC Forum and the Demonstration and Doctoral Consortium track, that were held at the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022. The conference took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October 3-7, 2022.The conference focuses on the area of enterprise computing, this year with the special emphasis on the theme of designing and operating "Flexible Enterprises". Workshops within EDOC cover more focused topics and allow for the presentation and discussion of work that is in the earlier development stages. The 18 full and 8 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They stem from the following satellite events: - Workshop on Intelligent Digital Architecture, Methods, and Services for Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 (IDAMS) - 14th Workshop on Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE) - 17th Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR) - EDOC Forum - Demonstrations Track - Doctoral Consortium
Enabling the Internet of Value
This book shows how blockchain technology can transform the Internet, connecting global businesses in disruptive ways. It offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted examination of the potential of distributed ledger technology (DLT) from a new perspective: as an enabler of the Internet of Value (IoV). The authors discuss applications of blockchain technology to the financial services domain, e.g. in real estate, insurance and the emerging Decentralised Finance (DeFi) movement. They also cover applications to the media and e-commerce domains. DLT's impacts on the circular economy, marketplace, Internet of Things (IoT) and oracle business models are also investigated. In closing, the book provides outlooks on the evolution of DLT, as well as the systemic governance and privacy risks of the IoV. The book is intended for a broad readership, including students, researchers and industry practitioners.
The Supply-Based Advantage
It's not enough for companies to simply try to find ways to save money through suppliers. In this forward-thinking guide, author Stephen Rogers explains why--and how--you should integrate suppliers into your corporate strategy. Filled with enlightening examples from companies such as Mars, Procter & Gamble, Intel, and Walmart, The Supply-Based Advantage does this by revealing how any organization can design, build, maintain, and remodel its supply base to better support total business strategy and operations. Blending theory, best practices, and relevant examples, this book can help any reader: achieve greater profitability by using suppliers to capture value beyond price; develop a supply management strategy that creates real, renewable benefits; maintain flexibility in their supply chain to deal with unique business situations; and link supply execution into product marketing and fulfillment purposes. If companies' suppliers aren't fully integrated into their corporate strategy, there's no way for them to discover and deliver important savings. As a leader, it's up to you to ensure supply decisions fit with your organization's changing goals. The Supply-Based Advantage teaches you how to get all those responsible for inventory on the same page to produce bottom-line results.
Data and Analytics for Instructional Designers
Add Data and Analytics to Your TD Toolkit Instructional design pro Megan Torrance addresses the importance of instructional designers accessing and applying learning and performance data-from how to design learning experiences with data collection in mind to how to use the data to improve and evaluate those experiences. With the advance of new learning technologies and data specifications, instructional designers have access to more and richer data sources than ever before. With that comes the question of what to do with the data. While most data and analytics books focus on their application for measurement and evaluation and assume a prior baseline understanding of what learning data and analytics mean, Data and Analytics for Instructional Designers delves into the foundational concepts that will enable instructional designers and L&D professionals to use data in their roles. Split into two parts, the book first defines key data and analytics terms, data specifications, learning metrics, and statistical concepts. It then lays out a framework for using learning data for planning how to gather data and to building scale and maturity in your data operations. Megan reassures readers that basic math skills with some computer assistance is what you'll need to get going. So set aside any math anxiety! Through a "If I can see it, I can be it" approach to learning data and analytics, the book blends practical what-is and how-to content with real-world examples and longer case studies from practitioners. Chapters conclude with opportunities for you to put these techniques to work right away, whether you are in a data-rich environment already, or whether you are just getting started and working on hypotheticals.
Entrepreneurship Education
The discussion around whether entrepreneurship can be taught is becoming obsolete as the number of entrepreneurship courses, specializations and degrees is rising at an unprecedented rate all over the world and the demand for entrepreneurial education teachers or instructors is constantly growing.
Spatiotemporal Transportation Economics Development: Theories and Practices in China and Beyond
Introduction.- General Spatiotemporal Transportation Theory Development.- Key Transportation Elements.- Transportation Mode Development in Practices.- Transportation Events and Viewpoints.- Conclusions.
Organizational Physics
There are hidden laws at work in every aspect of your business. Understand them, and you can create extraordinary growth. Ignore them, and you run the risk of becoming another statistic. It's become almost clich矇 8 out of every 10 new ventures fail. Of the ones that succeed, how many truly thrive-for the long run? And of those that thrive, how many continually overcome their growth hurdles ... and ultimately scale, with meaning, purpose, and profitability? The answer, sadly, is not many. Author Lex Sisney is on a mission to change that picture. After more than a decade spent leading and coaching high-growth technology companies, Lex discovered that the companies that thrive do so in accordance with 6 Laws - universal principles that govern the success or failure of every individual, team, and organization. Lex has put those laws into an elegant, easy-to-understand framework called Organizational Physics. In this groundbreaking book, now you can discover how to apply this powerful system of growth to your own life and business. When you read Organizational Physics: The Science of Growing a Business, you'll learn how to: - Understand your business structure, team, strategy, and execution in a whole new way - Make better, and faster, decisions - Create a purposeful, fulfilling, high-growth business - Turn the inevitable breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs for rapid growth - Build and manage aligned, passionate, high-performing teams - Consistently choose the right strategies for growth-even in the midst of seemingly impossible complexity - Design your organizational structure to scale The book is divided into 4 sections and each section builds on the prior one: Part 1 - Learn the law of success and happiness and where to prioritize your time and attention by paying attention to energy drains. Part 2 - Discover the four styles of management and how to build high-performing teams. Part 3 - Choose the right growth strategy in any situation. Part 4 - How to Execute fast by integrating culture, organizational structure and design, team-based decision making, and staffing to role fit The book relies on easy to understand core principles. Once you understand the principles, then you can unlock your own artistry in scaling your business.
Large-Scale Group Decision-Making
This book explores clustering operations in the context of social networks and consensus-reaching paths that take into account non-cooperative behaviors. This book focuses on the two key issues in large-scale group decision-making: clustering and consensus building. Clustering aims to reduce the dimension of a large group. Consensus reaching requires that the divergent individual opinions of the decision makers converge to the group opinion. This book emphasizes the similarity of opinions and social relationships as important measurement attributes of clustering, which makes it different from traditional clustering methods with single attribute to divide the original large group without requiring a combination of the above two attributes. The proposed consensus models focus on the treatment of non-cooperative behaviors in the consensus-reaching process and explores the influence of trust loss on the consensus-reaching process.The logic behind is as follows: firstly, a clustering algorithm is adopted to reduce the dimension of decision-makers, and then, based on the clusters' opinions obtained, a consensus-reaching process is carried out to obtain a decision result acceptable to the majority of decision-makers. Graduates and researchers in the fields of management science, computer science, information management, engineering technology, etc., who are interested in large-scale group decision-making and consensus building are potential audience of this book. It helps readers to have a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of clustering analysis and consensus building in large-scale group decision-making.
A Book of Open Shop Scheduling
This book provides an in-depth presentation of algorithms for and complexity of open shop scheduling. Open shops allow operations of a job to be executed in any order, contrary to flow and job shops where the order is pre-specified. The author brings the field up to date with more emphasis on new and recent results, and connections with graph edge coloring and mathematical programming. The book explores applications to production and operations management, wireless network scheduling, and timetabling. The book is addressed to researchers, graduate students, and practitioners in Operations Research, Operations Management, computer science and mathematics, who are developing and using mathematical approaches to applications in manufacturing, services and distributed wireless network scheduling.
Technical Asset Management for Railway Transport
This book introduces readers to the key provisions of the URRAN-based technical asset management system - a methodology for managing resources and risks by analyzing and ensuring the required levels of reliability and safety in Russia's railway transport facilities. It describes the architecture of the URRAN information system's unified corporate platform (UCP URRAN) and its subsystems for infrastructure facilities and rolling stock complexes. It also highlights the UCP URRAN's prospects for development, especially in the application of artificial intelligence to predict dangerous events in railway transport operation. The book is chiefly intended for specialists engaged in practical work on the technical maintenance of railway transport facilities. It can also be used as a reference guide for students and researchers at railway universities or professionals who are dealing with problems in technical asset management in other industries.
A Systems Thinking Decision-Making Process
This book illustrates how to access the right information for making the best decisions during turbulent times. It is written from an experienced-based perspective that is beneficial for those looking for the development and improvement of the decision-making process. The approach is centered on the author's experience in developing and implementing effective and efficient approaches to decision-making in business and government. Based on those experiences, this book provides insights into how to improve the decision making process of your organization, whether it be large or small. For decision makers and those providing market information for making decisions, this book provide guidelines for a framework which includes systems thinking. For those interested in change management and corporate governance, the book presents examples where it was done well and some examples where it was not and the ensuring consequences. Praise for Systems Thinking Decision-Making Process... "This is an absolutely incredible book by a distinguished practitioner. The range of knowledge and experience that Vince Barabba has had is astounding. I urge everyone who is interested in complex, messy problems to read this amazing book." --Ian I. Mitroff "...Vince has masterfully blended the art of organizational respect with the science of data inquiry to drive change and realize strategic vision. A master storyteller, he does not just teach, his book brings his learnings to life in a meaningful way that if carefully listened to, can change the course of a career." -- Paul D'Alessandro Principal, Health Industries, PwC US "In his latest book, Vince Barabba integrates his vast knowledge from 50 years of dedicated work in both the public and private sectors in order to provide leaders with an actionable framework for radically improving how their organizations collect and use information to make the best decisions for all the wicked messes that now appear in our global village... This book can save your company from living in the dark with false assumptions about all your key stakeholders." -- Ralph H. Kilmann, Ph.D. CEO, Kilmann Diagnostics Co-Author, The Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument (TKI) "Absorbing just a few of the many smart ideas in this book will make you a better leader and decision maker. Thinking systemically about how the hard-earned lessons from Vince Barabba's brilliant career apply to your enterprise could make you a great one." -- Chunka Mui Co-Author, A Brief History of a Perfect Future and Billion Dollar Lessons "...if you are interested in 'thinking in systems, ' this book is for you. The 'On Star' story demonstrates to you how the initial product-centered thinking was proselytized to 'thinking in systems'." -- John Pourdehnad Visiting Professor, IESE Business School and Faulty of Systems Leadership, Thomas Jefferson University "In writing Systems Thinking Decision-Making Process: How to Avoid Burnt Toast, Vince Barabba is addressing the limits of knowledge management systems which enable 'organizations as usual' to share best practices on how to scrape toast faster and cheaper... The examples shared by Vince, from his first-hand experiences in corporate America or his services as a marketing consultant, contribute invaluable clarity to his goal of providing a "sketch of an Inquiry Center Learning and Support System" for those with the ambition to lead efforts to work smarter, not harder, firmly against the grain of 'organizations as usual'..." -- Bill Bellows, Ph.D., President, InThinking Services Adjunct Professor, California State University, Northridge and Southern Utah University Advisory Council Member and Former Deputy Director, The W. Edwards Deming Institute(R) "In his 'last book', Vince weaves the experiences and learning of a lifetime into whole cloth of insight and wisdom. He helps us to find relevant information from a rapidly changin
The Lazy Project Engineer's Path to Excellence
Revised and Updated for 2023. This book is intended as a complete guide for the project, process or software engineer in heavy industries, with emphasis on the pulp and paper industry. Read it from cover to cover, follow its precepts, and you should be able to execute successful projects, if your manager leave you alone!
