The Business of Cybersecurity
This book is primarily created for the objective of knowledge sharing and knowledge-enabling on the conceptual ideologies of cybersecurity.Cybersecurity could be defined as, beginning of the concept of trust and belief in cyber transactions. The era of computing began in the 20th century, with an enormous investment on computational research. Software programing languages were the foundational blocks of history of computing. Progressive research then led to networking, bringing about the formation of connectivity. Along with these creations, there was an accompanying factor of compromise on data privacy and hacking of data. This factor was the introduction to cybersecurity.This book is primarily created for the objective of knowledge sharing and knowledge-enabling on the conceptual ideologies of cybersecurity. This book is aimed at students, early-career researchers, and also advanced researchers and professionals. The case studies described in the book create renewed knowledge on the innovations built on the applied theories of cybersecurity. These case studies focus on the financial markets and space technologies.
Basic Income
"Powerful as well as highly engaging--a brilliant book."--Amartya Sen A Times Higher Education Book of the Week It may sound crazy to pay people whether or not they're working or even looking for work. But the idea of providing an unconditional basic income to everyone, rich or poor, active or inactive, has long been advocated by such major thinkers as Thomas Paine, John Stuart Mill, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Now, with the traditional welfare state creaking under pressure, it has become one of the most widely debated social policy proposals in the world. Basic Income presents the most acute and fullest defense of this radical idea, and makes the case that it is our most realistic hope for addressing economic insecurity and social exclusion. "They have set forth, clearly and comprehensively, what is probably the best case to be made today for this form of economic and social policy."--Benjamin M. Friedman, New York Review of Books "A rigorous analysis of the many arguments for and against a universal basic income, offering a road map for future researchers."--Wall Street Journal "What Van Parijs and Vanderborght bring to this topic is a deep understanding, an enduring passion and a disarming optimism."--Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post
The New Age Urban Transportation Systems, Volume I
Urbanization is a global phenomenon that hugely constrains existing transportation infrastructure in cities. Urban transportation (UT) challenges are more significant in developing countries with rapid development as the land occupation is dense.Limited urban space and infrastructure fail to meet the increasing traffic demands and to provide reasonable service quality. Therefore betterment of UT systems is more required than ever. Infrastructural development and transportation operations are mainly directed at citizen welfare and it requires huge capital investments. States initiate urban development by inviting private participation so that operational and commercial risks are minimized and quality of execution is better. Several aspects in planning and management of global UT projects are common. But the approach and solutions are typically developed for a local context and relevance. Specific UT challenges are land use planning, socioeconomic distribution, project designing, implementation, financial analysis and governmental policies. A comprehensive background of UT systems, challenges involved and various approaches adopted by different countries are presented along with five real-life Asian cases. The book is aimed as a one-point reference on modern day developments on urban transportation for a readership of consultants, practitioners, developers, policy makers, and academicians.
The New Age Urban Transportation Systems, Volume II
Urbanization is a global phenomenon that hugely constrains existing transportation infrastructure in cities. Urban transportation (UT) challenges are more significant in developing countries with rapid development as the land occupation is dense.Limited urban space and infrastructure fail to meet the increasing traffic demands and to provide reasonable service quality. Therefore betterment of UT systems is more required than ever. Infrastructural development and transportation operations are mainly directed at citizen welfare and it requires huge capital investments. States initiate urban development by inviting private participation so that operational and commercial risks are minimized and quality of execution is better. Several aspects in planning and management of global UT projects are common. But the approach and solutions are typically developed for a local context and relevance. Specific UT challenges are land use planning, socioeconomic distribution, project designing, implementation, financial analysis and governmental policies. A comprehensive background of UT systems, challenges involved and various approaches adopted by different countries are presented along with five real-life Asian cases. The book is aimed as a one-point reference on modern day developments on urban transportation for a readership of consultants, practitioners, developers, policy makers, and academicians.
Optimizing the Supply Chain
Supply Chain Optimization Field Guide is an essential book to help readers understand the dynamics of how a global business operates. In a recent article about the death of supply chain management, it was stated that in this world, forecasts are perfect, machines have no operators, and block chain drives it all. Practitioners in the world of supply chain know that it is central to the management of cash and that systems are never the silver bullet as they do not foresee events; they only provide calculations from the data they are fed. Chapter by chapter, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of people, process, and tools; and how a supply chain should operate in today's complex world. Readers will learn about how an ideal business maintains no unnecessary inventory, responds to changes, and delivers products on time or defect free-and how this ability is a competitive advantage for any business that can solve the equation. Key functional processes are explained in detail for practitioners to learn how to operate effectively in today's arena.
Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success, Second Edition
The objective of Creating a Culture for Information Systems Success is to assist CIOs and IT managers on how to use their managerial actions to create a suitable cultural environment in the organization that leads to a successful and sustainable implementation of information systems function. In the era of disruptive technology, the dilemma of why a particular information system encountered unanticipated resistance and never met expectations is still considered an emerging issue. While this context has been intensively studied, we still lack evidence on how this organizational context is affecting the success of information systems from a managerial action perspective. This type of managerial involvement is often neglected to the extent that it becomes a major obstacle to organizational performance. The book provides guidelines for managers on how to create this organizational context, measure it, and make sure it leads to a successful implementation and use of information systems. It carefully illustrates its main theme by providing examples and cases to explain how the behavioral context of an organization led by its managers and executives would lead to the success of the information systems function.
New World Technologies
In today's high-pressured world, digital transformation is everywhere on the agendas of corporate boards and has risen to the top of CEOs' strategic plans. Artificial intelligence, blockchain, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, and drones are some of the emerging technologies that are already transforming our world. In this fast changing domain- predicted by few and now reality for all how can companies transform today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities? This book is targeted to help a broad audience such as students, professionals, business, and technology managers to transform an old-world brick and mortar organization to a new-world digital leader. The author addresses various questions including: what essential components does digital transformation include, and how does it impact the enterprise? How does convergence of emerging technologies benefit your organization? How can you start transformation and technology planning projects?
Big-time Sports in American Universities
For almost a century, big-time college athletics has been a wildly popular but consistently problematic part of American higher education. The challenges it poses to traditional academic values have been recognized from the start, but they have grown more ominous in recent decades, as cable television has become ubiquitous, commercial opportunities have proliferated, and athletic budgets have ballooned. In the second edition of his influential book Big-Time Sports in American Universities, Clotfelter continues to examine the role of athletics in American universities, building on his argument that commercial sports have become a core function of the universities that engage in them. Drawing on recent scandals on large-scale college campuses and updates on several high-profile court cases, Clotfelter brings clear economic analysis to the variety of problems that sports raise for university and public policy, providing the basis for the continuation of constructive conversations about the value of big-time sports in higher education.
Stay on Target
You plan and write your meal plans because that way, you won't forget about them. When you plan your meals ahead, you are motivated to actually make them because you know exactly when their caloric contents are. This is very helpful when you're trying to lose or keep a healthy weight. Plan today!
Dine on a Dime! Meal Planner and Budget Organizer
Having a meal planner greatly reduces your expenses on meals. This is because you won't have to eat or even order food because you have a plan written on paper. A meal plan will also guide you when you do your shopping. Once you enter the grocery store, you go directly to the aisles for your meal ingredients. This prevents wandering aimlessly and buying items not on your list.
Problem Solved! The Ultimate Meal Planner and Cookbook
If it's a problem in health that your family is battling against, then a meal planner could be your best weapon. A meal planner allows for healthier choices because you get the chance to assess your meals based on their nutritional value. Since you're planning ahead, you get the chance to modify your meals, if needed. So invest in health. Start a meal planner today!
Mother Nature and Her Majestic Kingdom, Monthly Planner
Why should you keep a monthly planner? Well, because of the benefits, of course! Keeping a planner reduces the chances of stress because it gives you peace of mind. You will feel confident that you have planned well and that you have checked all possibilities before actual steps can be done. So if you have either a short-term or a long-term project, begin planning today!
What’s for Dinner All Week? Meal Planner Pages
Sure, you may be thinking of what to cook and what to eat; but have you ever considered writing down your plans? Writing helps cement your meal plans because you will have a visual representation of them. This increases the likelihood of actually sticking to your plans, which ensures you get all the benefits of healthy meals. So what are you waiting for? Write your meal plans now!
Preparing Your Kitchen! The Year-Round Meal Planner for Families
What's a meal planner and why is it important? A meal planner tells you what to prepare for your family. It helps you count the components of each meal and check if you are providing enough protein, calories, nutrients, and so on. As a result, your family will eat healthier because chances of eating out or ordering food are reduced. Write your meal plans here.
Keeping Track of the Money
Money is a limited resource so it must be handled well. With the use of this tracker, you should be able to check if you're underspending or overspending. You can do this by monitoring the flow of your money for at least three months. Information that you will get will help you in determining if you need to adjust your spending habits. Grab a copy of this tracker now!
The Low Carb Diet’s Best Friend
Different diet systems follow their own rules and guidelines. In this case, a low carb diet means you'll be cutting carbs by ditching processed foods. What you eat should be all-natural and that's pretty difficult to follow if you are not 100% determined and motivated. So monitor your progress, remember your success and just write. Grab a meal planner today!
The Best Meals are made from the Best Recipes! Meal Planner Recipes Edition
Use this planner to keep recipes that you created or those that you found somewhere and loved. You can also use this planner to plan your meals ahead and thus, you get to enjoy variety because you can see if the meal plans are recurrent. Writing down your plans keeps you motivated and determined to actually follow your plans. Grab a copy now!
Complete Daily Planner for Today’s Active, Busy Woman
There are two good reasons why any busy woman should write in a planner. First, writing helps her realize priorities and therefore, follow prioritization. This will greatly contribute to the success of any task. Second, writing helps her get a better control of her emotions. When she's stressing out, she can write in this journal to relax. So if you know a busy woman, get her a planner today!
Vehicle Expense With Annual Summary Section
You need to have a log of all the money you spend on your car, as well as its overall health. At the end of each year, review your expenses to determine if there's a need to buy a new vehicle or perhaps change some items on your insurance. An annual summary will also help you determine which aspects of car care you can cut down.
Ready, Set, Dinner! Daily Meal Planner with Recipes
A meal plan is a set of recipes that have been laid out over a period of time. To plan your meals, you have to know about the food pyramid and how to count calories. Don't worry, though, because there are many resources to make this feat easy for you. The difficult part is trying to follow the meal plan to the T. Are you ready for the real challenge?
Hey, Good Lookin! Whatcha Got Cookin’? Meal Planning Organizer
What's that smell wafting from the kitchen? Is that mommy cooking our favorite meal? The good thing about planning meals is that the family knows what to expect. Their minds will be conditioned for the next meals, which removes the urge to eat out or order take out. As a result, meals are healthier and within the family's budget range. Use this meal planner today!
Paleo Meal Planner
When you're trying to lose weight, you need more than just the right choice of diet. For example, if you go with Paleo Diet then you have to remember to stick to it. The lack of determination and motivation are really what make any diet fail. To remain motivated and determined to complete the diet, you can use your struggles as documented in this compact journal. Write today!
Takt-ical Leadership
Takt-ical Leadership is a story about a company that is failing its customers, and has come under siege to improve quickly in order to save their business. Each chapter has a "story" segment that establishes the business challenge and is followed with a "how to" style solution that will help you think through your day to day management style. DFC-P Products Inc. is a fictional company whose customers have put them on notice, threatening to leave. In addition to the performance deficiencies plaguing them, their culture imposed a significant barrier, confusing the difference between doing their best and doing what the customer needs. With a new president tasked to correct the problems before all business was lost, they discover Lean process improvements that improve responsiveness. This book weaves real business situations and Lean Enterprise solutions into a story about how to energize culture change and succeed in saving the future of an organization. While the story is comprised from actual experiences with multiple companies, the solutions: use of Lean tools, business excellence principles, and cultural diagnostics; have been employed time after time by companies trying to resurrect their own performance. Takt-ical Leadership is named to emphasize the concept of time. Just as "Takt" is used in Lean Enterprise to represent the rhythm of the marketplace, so is "Takt-ical" meant to represent the need to keep time in the forefront of your management approach and even in your key metrics. Although this book is centered around a manufacturing business, the leadership, Lean Enterprise, and cultural change concepts it advocates are applicable to any type of business. I hope you enjoy this fictional chronical of the challenges and successes I've enjoyed in my forty-three years of manufacturing.
Takt-ical Leadership
Takt-ical Leadership is a story about a company that is failing its customers, and has come under siege to improve quickly in order to save their business. Each chapter has a "story" segment that establishes the business challenge and is followed with a "how to" style solution that will help you think through your day to day management style. DFC-P Products Inc. is a fictional company whose customers have put them on notice, threatening to leave. In addition to the performance deficiencies plaguing them, their culture imposed a significant barrier, confusing the difference between doing their best and doing what the customer needs. With a new president tasked to correct the problems before all business was lost, they discover Lean process improvements that improve responsiveness. This book weaves real business situations and Lean Enterprise solutions into a story about how to energize culture change and succeed in saving the future of an organization. While the story is comprised from actual experiences with multiple companies, the solutions: use of Lean tools, business excellence principles, and cultural diagnostics; have been employed time after time by companies trying to resurrect their own performance. Takt-ical Leadership is named to emphasize the concept of time. Just as "Takt" is used in Lean Enterprise to represent the rhythm of the marketplace, so is "Takt-ical" meant to represent the need to keep time in the forefront of your management approach and even in your key metrics. Although this book is centered around a manufacturing business, the leadership, Lean Enterprise, and cultural change concepts it advocates are applicable to any type of business. I hope you enjoy this fictional chronical of the challenges and successes I've enjoyed in my forty-three years of manufacturing.
Escaping the Build Trap
To stay competitive in today's market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap," cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer's needs. In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores: Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent How to set up a product organization that scales How product strategy connects a company's vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs
Management Theory
Narrative approaches to organisation and management studies are very much in vogue. Offering a new challenge to management scholarship, Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading exposes the subtexts of five influential texts by Taylor, Follett, Drucker, Mintzberg and Kanter. In doing so, it encourages readers to recognise the stories that management theories tell, and more significantly, those that they exclude.The book has been constructed as the story of the author's own research journey, using a unique blend of management theory and poetry. The resulting work is an academically rigorous and clearly described post-modern method of text analysis that draws on a wide range of literary theory. Management Theory: A Critical and Reflexive Reading provides novice researchers and teachers with a transparent view of the researcher's methodological workshop, while also modelling an alternative narrative mode of reporting.
Leading a Surgical Revolution
This book describes the 60-year history of the AO Foundation and its impact on the treatment of bone trauma. Originally founded by a group of Swiss surgeons, the AO has since established its osteosynthesis treatment approach to trauma, using surgery and implants, as the global standard. The AO successfully convinced the medical community that surgery of bone trauma was superior to the standard conservative treatment using plaster casts. This new technique meant that patients no longer had to spend long weeks at the hospital in traction, and prevented many disabilities. This book describes the struggle with the medical community, explains how the AO surgeons enlisted the support of an entire industry for their advanced tools and their research and teaching efforts, and details the AO's evolution into a non-profit foundation that now trains more than 50,000 surgeons, on all continents, every year. The efforts of the AO's affiliated surgeons, undertaken largely on a volunteer basis and with their own financial resources, serve as a stellar example of social entrepreneurship. Today the AO Foundation numbers over 20,000 surgeon members worldwide, and the industry that emerged to produce related implants and tools employs thousands of skilled staff. Professionals in consulting as well as in healthcare can use this book as a source of successful strategies, and as a blueprint for active social entrepreneurship.
New Patterns of Power and Profit
How did Capital One and Uber implement nearly identical business models, focusing on customers that are most profitable to serve? Why are Google and Amazon so valuable to us? Why are Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon so difficult for competitors to displace? And why can Google charge almost anything it wants for keywords, since no form of competition will force prices down? The information-based business models of these companies, and many more, are exploiting the patterns described in this book.This book instills pattern-based thinking that will prepare all readers for greater success in our rapidly changing world. It will help executives, regulators, investors, and concerned citizens better navigate their way through the digital transformation of everything.Professor Clemons presents six patterns for staying competitive and achieving profitable business models. The author'sreframe-recognize-respond framework teaches readers how to transform unfamiliar problems into familiar patterns, how to determine which patterns to apply in different situations, and how to respond most effectively.Information changes everything. This book is a guide to power and profit from understanding changes in the age of digital transformation.
Deliver Great Products That Customers Love
Building a great product that customers love requires a variety of skills, mindsets, and techniques. Starting from the three pillars of customer focus, culture of Agility, and team empowerment, this book explains how to go from theory to practice. Building a great product requires working across the Five Dimensions of product management: Discover, Design, Develop, Deploy, and Deliver. Each dimension is important to deliver great products that customers love, and none can be shortcut. By having a "5D" vision of their product, innovators make sure to understand customer needs, design the right solution, build a great product, and deliver an awesome customer experience.Product managers and entrepreneurs face the continuous challenge of creating new solutions and deliver value to their customers. Too often companies of all sizes jump into building something without proper validation of the ideas. Many more struggle with the dynamics of building a new product or service, gaining market traction, making their early customers happy, all while building for scalability and reliability with limited resources.This book is designed for product managers, innovators, and entrepreneurs that need a guide to product management, that want to learn a variety of techniques to create products, and that seek continuous opportunities for learning and improving.The author shares stories from the trenches - lessons learned developing products and coaching companies large and small. The vivid case studies and examples provide practical insights into how different companies and leaders have implemented various techniques, and the challenges and difficult choices they faced. This is a book every product manager should have on their shelf.
Sustain
This is a work of system-think on why breakthroughs mostly don't sustain. In answer, it recalls mutual learning, by which the exceptional have defied the norms of decline since before humans could write about it. Part 1 shows the mechanics how complex adaptive systems extend order-Hayek's catallaxy. How lean exploits this is unpacked. Part 2 isolates popular fallacies of control that incentivize undoing. Part 3 offers countermeasures-leveled exploration and exploitation in strategy deployment, standard work, and development of employees, products, services, and methods.Lean turns paradigms and routines from holding on, to sustainably moving on. Lean is not just a factory thing. Lessons abound in nature's fractals and adaptations, admin, and history too; from the present back through World War II, the Industrial Revolution, the Reformation, to its roots in the civilizing of Antiquity. Learners mine hard lessons while knowers sadly repeat them. Great sources on catallaxy-Juran, Hayek, Popper, Kuhn, Sproul, Rother, March-have left us rich deposits of distilled experience. Sustain is a trail guide, locating pivotal insights to defy the entropy of abandon-and-revert, in any enterprise that coordinates resources, time, and treasure in the face of varying, alternative uses.
The Basics Lean Implementation Model
In 2004 Charlie Protzman created The BASICS Lean Implementation Model, which covers the full spectrum of what is needed to be effective and successful at implementing a Lean System. The reader is taken through a step by step approach developed over the last 15 years, in the use and understanding of Lean tools, principles, and processes. The authors break down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners. You will learn an integrated, structured, problem-solving approach identified by the acronym BASICS (Baseline, Analyze, Suggest Solutions, Implement, Check and Sustain). This methodology is combined with a proven business strategy to help ensure a successful and sustainable transformation of any organization. The BASICS approach produces "real" bottom line savings with 20% to 50% or more increases in productivity when compared to pure batching environments. As those who have read the book will tell you, this is not a theory book... but rather a book you can return to over and over again for reference, throughout your Lean journey.
Drones and the Creative Industry
This open access, interdisciplinary book presents innovative strategies in the use of civil drones in the cultural and creative industry. Specially aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the book offers valuable insights from the fields of marketing, engineering, arts and management. With contributions from experts representing varied interests throughout the creative industry, including academic researchers, software developers and engineers, it analyzes the needs of the creative industry when using civil drones both outdoors and indoors. The book also provides timely recommendations to the industry, as well as guidance for academics and policymakers.
The Effect of Supply Chain Management on Business Performance
Supply chain management (SCM) is the process of managing the operations of a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in efficiently moving products or services from suppliers to customers. SCM can effectively conduct the movements of physical items, knowledge, and information from the original supplier to the final end-user. In this book, we explore the systemic analysis of SCM and its effect on business development performance. We identify the structural problems in the supply chain, clarify how they influence the functioning of business development, and suggest elaboration of strategic approaches to address those problems. The author includes professional perspectives and insights from experts including various SCM sources.
The Channel Whisperer
One of the first books to tackle every aspect of dealing with distributors. Features a chronological, easily applicable and international approach. Contains useful templates.
Managing Assertively: How to Improve Your People Skills
A proven program for increasing your management skills Managing Assertively has helped tens of thousands of businesspeoplebecome more effective managers by sharpening their people skills.Leading management trainer Madelyn Burley-Allen shows you how you, too, can learn to resolve conflicts and defuse interpersonalproblems that invariably arise at work. Her step-by-steptechniques, clear examples, and competence-building exercises willimmediately improve your supervisory skills, sharpen yourself-awareness, and make you a more confident, assertive manager.You'll learn how to: * Use eight building blocks to become a more effective manager * Overcome self-defeating behavior * Handle criticism to maintain and enhance self-esteem * State limits and expectations to clarify assignments * Become a more effective listener * Receive and give positive feedback to enhance team building * Handle conflict, stress, personal problems, and a wide range ofother difficult on-the-job situations * By following the user-friendly, interactive, self-teachingformat, you can work at your own pace as you master managementessentials.
Managing Using the Diamond Principle
Change is inevitable, but, poorly handled, can spell disaster. A bold new vision for imple-mentation of new strategies and processes call for an understanding of what is to be changed, based on The Diamond Principle. The Diamond Principle, briefly, is that the people who actually do the work in question need to be consulted before the work is changed, or a new pro-cess is implemented. There is a knowledge diamond in most organizations that will show you where to get the information you need for success in change management. This book will show where to look for the information, how to get it when you find it, and how to implement changes with a view toward success. Written in a conversational style that is easy to follow, examples both good and bad are analyzed to determine what did and did not work, and how implementation of the principles in this book were used to effectuate better performance (or not used, to ruin performance).
Ultimate Guide to Email Marketing for Business
Send Better Email. Build a Better Business. With more than 2.6 million email messages sent every second, it's becoming harder to stand out in inboxes-not to mention in a sea of spam, which accounts for 67 percent of those emails. Marketing and strategic branding expert Susan Gunelius gives you the tools you need to grow your list of email subscribers, keep them engaged, and turn them into lifelong customers. By focusing on building a strong foundation first, you'll learn how to develop a comprehensive email marketing program designed to evolve with your business. Then, Gunelius shows you how to convert subscribers into buying customers and vocal brand advocates with the techniques that marketing professionals use to build their businesses and increase their revenue using email. You'll learn how to: Use free content to encourage people to subscribe to your email list Develop conversion funnels that drive people to buy from you or sign up for your webinars Save time and keep subscribers engaged with your brand with email automation Boost conversions with list segmentation techniques designed to get the right message to the right people at the right time Test your messages and analyze your performance using key metrics to improve your results Win back customers with automation and personalization strategies designed to build a one-on-one relationship with your audience Understand the laws and deliverability rules you must follow and tools to help you along the way
Insightful Quality, Second Edition
In order to survive and attain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that affect the organization and its competitive position. This requires a different way of thinking and acting by leaders and managers that is known as insightful thinking. This book can show you how to achieve this kind of success. It is about how to think insightfully about quality and to increase the creativity, innovation, and agility of an organization and its employees. Quality must be addressed in strategic as well as operational terms in order for organizations to compete effectively over the long term. Strategic quality management requires insightful leadership.The second edition updates the case discussions about real organizations that illustrate the main points of the book. It challenges leaders and managers to adopt a new way of thinking and presents thought-provoking ideas about how organizations can begin the process of charting their own paths to insight and lasting success.
Essential Upstream Kanban
Ideas for fulfilling customer needs can be generated much faster than they can actually be realized. This is the source of much tension between the organization and its customers, but also within the organization itself.Upstream Kanban isn't so much about "managing flow," as seen with downstream, Delivery Kanban systems. Instead, it is about marshaling options--having enough choices at the right time, without overburdening the system and the workers who generate those options.Discover the mechanisms of Upstream Kanban and Customer Kanban for better enterprise business agility.
The Global Supply Chain and Risk Management
The heightened intensity of global competition has increased the necessity of manufacturing and distribution organizations to continuously improve production, product quality, cost, and delivery. Supply chain professionals must be knowledgeable about the relevance of supply chain concepts-adapt supply chain to customer needs, customize logistics networks, align demand planning across the entire supply chain, and differentiate products close to customers.The goal of The Global Supply Chain and Risk Management is to assist in meeting these challenges as to the education of many supply chain practitioners, the implementation of formal supply chain contingency and control systems and the continued edification in recent global developments for all those working in the field. It is written for two groups, those who are preparing for a career in supply chain and for those seeking to improve their proficiency. The book will teach the best practices, high-tech and analytical solutions for the entire global supply chain-customer service to inventory planning to transportation to warehousing.
The Simple Implementation Guide to Robotic Process Automation (Rpa)
It is simple to start robotic process automation at your organizationas long as you start small. If you make it more complicated than it needs to be or try to have one person do everything, then youre destined to fail. In this guide to implementing RPA, the author examines critical issues, including how to: overcome common problems when implementing RPA in a full-scale effort; start an RPA implementation and successfully carry it out; obtain funding and support from leaders; and build an RPA team poised to succeed. The book includes pros and cons of various deployment strategies as well as key factors to consider for each option. Its filled with real examples and time lines to give you a realistic view of how to manage the process. This is a perfect quick-start guide to ensuring your organization has thought of all of the factors required to successfully navigate your RPA deployment.
Moving into the Express Lane
Moving into the Express Lane: How to Rapidly Increase the Value of Your Business will show readers how to exponentially increase their company's value by aligning operations strategy with the business model. Increasing a business's value and potential sale price is important for business transitions as well as for ongoing operations to accelerate revenue growth, increase profits and cash flow, and to allow the company to increase capacity and grow without capital expense. Many companies focus on implementing tactics, such as lean, without a strategic framework, which renders their efforts fruitless. By taking a holistic operations-based view of strategy and tactics, executives can exponentially improve their company's value. The concepts and resources in Moving into the Express Lane are useful to manufacturing, distribution, and retail organizations, as well as any company that has an operations component and suppliers. Executives, managers, and practitioners at all levels-as well as consultants-will use it as a desktop reference
Radical Focus
"This book is useful, actionable, and actually fun to read! If you want to get your team aligned around real, measurable goals, Radical Focus will teach you how to do it quickly and clearly." - Laura Klein, Principal, Users Know An actionable business book in the form of a fable. Radical Focus tackles the OKR movement and better goal setting through the powerful story of Hanna and Jack's struggling tea startup. When the two receive an ultimatum from their only investor, they must learn how to employ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with radical focus to get the right things done. Will they be able to accomplish the few critical actions that will save their startup? Or will they end up mired in distractions and choices as their time runs out? The author pulls from her experience with Silicon Valley's hottest companies to teach practical insights on goal setting in fable form. How do you inspire a diverse team to work together, going all out in pursuit of a single, challenging goal? How do you stay motivated despite setbacks and failures? As you see through Hanna and Jack's story, it's about creating a framework for regular check-ins, key results, and most of all, the beauty of a good fail. Wodtke adds a bonus section in the second half of the book to lay out her most practical insights into applying Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to your specific workplace and challenges. Ready to move your team in the right direction? Read this book together, and learn Wodtke's powerful system of decision making to create your focus and find success.
The Essentials of Packaging
Packaging remains the most effective medium through which goods can be made available to the consumer wherever he resides. The Essentials of Packaging: A Guide for Micro, Small, and Medium Sized Businesses has been written to guide manufacturers or anyone who has any marketable product to package. As the books title shows, some emphasis has been focused on MSMEs that are at a disadvantage for various reasons, among which is their lack of financial muscle to engage full-time packaging professionals to handle their packaging needs on a routine basis.
Process Mastering
The benefits include: cost reduction; increased productivity; improved safety; higher morale; and the ability to meet the changing expectations of your customers. Step-by-step, the authors guide you through the creation and implementation of a process master. You will learn: Identify and gain control of your organization's key processes.Get the right people involved.Establish boundaries and measures.Use the process master to support ISO and HACCP complianceProcess Mastering contains two fully completed sample Process Masters as well as numerous improvement examples. An appendix provides blank Process Master forms and shows you how to use a Deployment Flow Chart.
Learning to Succeed
Learn why rethinking corporate education in a world of constant change is crucial to establishing a foundation for long-term business success.Frequent market shifts...The rapid pace of technological change...We're all familiar with the old saying, "the only constant is change," but this has never been as true for business as it is today--nor have the penalties for companies who fail to learn and adapt been as high.Learning to Succeed insists that an integrated model for corporate education--one that links development programs with strategic goals--is critical to building agile and resilient learning organizations that will survive in our fast-evolving business landscape. Companies need to: continually assess where they need to go in relation to where they are nowuse educational training to bridge the gapwork on strategic plans and action projects tied to key objectivesdesign new education initiatives to advance concrete corporate goalsLearning is reinforced and ROI is optimized. For companies ready to embrace what it means to be a learning organization, to welcome the CLO to the C-Suite, to weave strategy and learning tightly and continuously into the fabric of their businesses, the opportunities are limitless. Complete with practical guidelines and illuminating case studies, Learning to Succeed puts them on the path to long-term success.
The Toyota Kata Practice Guide
Take the Kata path to scientific thinking and superior results!In this long-awaited companion to the groundbreaking book Toyota Kata, Mike Rother takes you to the next level of developing business mindset and capability for the 21st Century. Much more than a list of management concepts, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide walks you through the process of making improvement, adaptation, and even innovation routine behavior.Designed to help a coach (the manager) and a learner work together for developing new skillsets, The Toyota Kata Practice Guide delivers the information, insight, and frameworks you need to: * Form habits that help you solve problems and achieve challenging goals * Modify the thought patterns that drive your behavior* Develop an organizational mindset that drives superior results The Improvement Kata gives learners the means to experiment their way through obstacles and achieve tough goals; the Coaching Kata gives managers the means to accelerate and cement their people's learning.In the new age of business, increasing efficiency and decreasing costs is no longer the end game. A manager's job today is to develop patterns of thinking and acting in their people that lead to success with any challenge. Consistent, mindful practice is the best way to do it--and The Toyota Kata Practice Guide is the best way to get there.
Lean Six Sigma for the Practitioner
Lean is simple: Get the product to the customer defect-free and as quickly as possible. To get the benefit of lean, you don't need courses offered by academics or consultants who sell an acronym or a buzzword. This book will walk you through process-improvement regimes such as Six Sigma and Total Quality Management and help you decide which one is right for you. It will also show you how to engage your employees so that your process improvements are not only sustainable, but infectious. Whether you believe in lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, or any other related processimprovement regime, this book will clarify what you know and tie it together in a way that makes the problem solvable. It's time to bring back the simplicity of lean.
