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This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's bureaucratic theory of scientific management or Elton Mayo's corporatist idea of human relations. Waring discusses the subsequent evolution of several management theories and techniques,...
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All too often, when investors go in search of investment advice, they are met with television personalities and so-called investment "gurus" who do little more than push the latest and greatest scheme to retire rich. Your retirement funds-in the form of IRAs, 401(k)s, SEP or Simple IRAs, and other plans you can direct to some degree-are, however, far too precious to bet on the latest scheme, trend, or tip you heard at a party. In Invest Like an Institution:...
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Le Québec est un territoire composé d'une diversité d'espaces urbains, ruraux, régionaux, métropolitains, ctiers et nordiques. Il est en mouvance : polarisation des lieux à différents degrés, érosion de zones rurales et urbaines, extension des lisières périurbaines, densification de nouvelles formes territoriales. La politique publique québécoise tente de saisir et de comprendre globalement les contextes territoriaux particuliers et...
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This is one unique book which describes in detail some of the core concepts related to Knowledge Management in organizations as well as the use of those values in personal lives of individuals. Initial chapters introduce the basics of the Knowledge Management, the process, the terms used and their meanings. Part A of the book pertaining to Knowledge Management in Organizations deals with the concepts of structuring any organization for knowledge management....
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To build a sustainable, diversified business requires continuous search for ways to parlay available scarce resources into new opportunities for profit. This book describes a framework to identify new business opportunities. Leveraging scarce resources into new business angles can increase profit, improve the sustainability of profits, and diversify the contributors of profit, and thereby increase business value. The scarce resources considered are...
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Le Lean est une question de flux. Ce livre fournit les bases du Lean afin que chacun, dans tout type de travail, puisse être Lean. Pour mieux comprendre pourquoi des organisations Lean comme Toyota sont si innovantes au quotidien, le livre se penche sur l'ingrédient secret du Lean, l'expérience optimale.
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Es conocida la importancia que tienen las empresas de familia (EF) en el sistema económico de la región de Latinoamérica. Más del 80 % de todas las empresas son de familia, generan un alto porcentaje del producto bruto y la mayor cantidad de nuevos empleos. Por otro lado, el aumento de la expectativa de vida hace que cada vez más convivan varias generaciones en las EF, y esto hace que sea más compleja su gestión y que ellas necesiten de mayor...
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The complexity of managing a business today has increased exponentially due to rapid technological advancement and global events. This implies that the solutions of yesterday may not be applicable today or in the near future.
Some of the major problems faced by businesses today include financial management, competition, strategy, change and innovation. Business managers must therefore development a comprehensive understanding of business organisations...
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In a way that anyone can understand, How to Speak Tech: The Non-Techie's Guide to Tech Basics in Business spells out the essential technical terms and technologies involved in setting up a company's website or web application. Nontechnical business readers will find their digital literacy painlessly improved with each ten-minute chapter of this illustrative story of one successful technology startup building its Web-based business from scratch.
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Topics covered: Data-Driven Process Excellence: Leveraging Big Data, Analytics, Process Simulation, BPMN Modeling for Measurable Optimization Results.
This custom mini-book was developed to highlight a recent WfMC Workshop in addition to showcasing the knowledge and expertise of the WfMC presenters. These chapters present valuable background information on not only the workshop agenda, but also new content on groundbreaking technologies to support...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Jeff Chamberlain, the head of the Argonne Lab, was extremely worried about Wan. He was a Chinese materials scientist and the head of the Department of Energy in Beijing, and he wanted to steal Chamberlain's team's breakthrough lithium-ion battery technology and bring it back to China.
#2 The Chinese were making huge advancements in electric car technology, and were...
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Multisided Platforms: Evaluating launch conditions deals with a specific type of organisation, the multisided platform that operates in multisided markets with positive feedback effects. These are some of the most exciting and valuable but rare organisations. Examples can be found in a variety of settings from postal delivery, shopping malls, print publishing, open source software projects, through to internet based social media, to name a few instances.
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This ebook is a collection of Lectures comprising several units , which put together form a course in OR for aspiring under graduates. There are severtal worked out problems and exercises with case studies. An ebook is difficult to find where most of the publications are high priced print text books. It is hoped this would benefit students.
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This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth, inflation, rationality of bankers, monetary and fiscal policy, the role of central banks, tax policies, social security, US federal, state, municipal and personal debt, and valuation...
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El contexto de las organizaciones actuales sufrió cambios drásticos a causa de la digitalización, la virtualidad, la remotización del trabajo y la pandemia. La supervivencia de las empresas requiere repensar una estrategia en la dirección de personas, a fin de potenciar la organización y generar ventajas competitivas y comparativas.
Este manual acepta el desafío de conceptualizar, generar herramientas y profundizar sobre las estrategias y...
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Malgré la place importante des PME dans l'économie, on retrouve peu d'ouvrages qui guident les entrepreneurs constamment à court de ressources. Ce manuel tente de répondre à la question : par quel chemin la PME peut-elle passer pour devenir un jour une grande entreprise ? Pour ce faire, ce manuel revisite quelques-unes des théories phares de la gestion des organisations, mais en adoptant l'angle de la PME : la légitimité, la gestion des impressions,...
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A Look at Student Money Management. This ebook covers a variety of topics, including the importance of money management for students, smart spending planning, cost-cutting ideas, storing credit and debit cards, setting aside money for emergencies, keeping track of your spending in a journal or spreadsheet, earning extra money online, choosing a part-time job after classes, and saving money with student discounts.
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "ADGG0108 - ASISTENCIA A LA DIRECCIÓN". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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FACING CHALLENGING GOALS AND UNPREDICTABLE PATHS?
PRACTICE SCIENTIFIC THINKING!
Your team's ability to learn and adapt is paramount, and scientific thinking is the key to unlocking this invaluable skill. The bad news: It's not our natural default position as adults. The good news: There's a simple and proven approach to developing it in any organization or team-including yours-called Toyota Kata. Professor Sylvain Landry lays out a straightforward...
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Business fads come and go, but the importance of corporate leadership as a determining factor for success has never been doubted. But, exactly what is corporate leadership? Is it a CEO with a strong personality, one with strong management skills, one who has a combination of these traits-or something else entirely? What factors, in other words, make a powerfully effective corporate leader? In this era of increasingly fierce global competition few...
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