Fortune Strategy
Fortune Strategy

Author: Arun Abey

Publisher: Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 9780273639275

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Increasing technological change and the opening of world markets have unleashed a flood of diverse opportunities for investors. For those with a basic knowledge of portfolio management and a smart strategy in place, true prosperity can be discovered in the new world economy. Fortune Strategy is the thinking person's guide to global investment opportunities and how smart portfolio management can shape your financial future. Benefits A good portfolio strategy is about more than merely keeping a lot of eggs in your basket. It is about successfully offsetting the risk of a breakage whilst ensuring that the individual investments reach a higher state of maturity together than if they had been left to develop on their own. Fortune Strategy is an invaluable guide to modern portfolio management and illustrates how through careful diversification you can obtain the highest returns possible from your portfolio without taking unacceptable risks. This book will: - explain how investment markets really work and how they can be harnessed for profit - provide you with information on the new global economy, technological developments, and the menagerie of new financial products available - show you how to take advantage of new trends - illustrate how to assess and manage the risks involved by using proven techniques - explain recent developments in portfolio theory, such as behavioural finance which sheds light on what drives investment markets, why and how they become misvalued, and how this affects your strategy. So, if you have a wide-ranging portfolio that needs a cohesive and integrated approach to risk and reward, you need a fortune strategy.

Bioregional Planning
Bioregional Planning

Author: D J Brunckhorst

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1134433182

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Presenting a pragmatic mixture of science, landscape ecology, ecosystem management, sociology, policy development and methods for transforming social and institutional cultures. Bioregional Planning: Resource Management Beyond the New Millennium is a timely and practical guide for the analysis, planning and development of bioregional projects for a sustainable future. Significantly, this book presents the strategic actions necessary to plan for, manage and adapt to Ecologically Sustainable Development with a view beyond the new millennium and towards the next. Postgraduates, researchers and policy makers in natural resources management, land planning, sustainable agriculture, rural sciences, ecosystem management and conservation biology will find this book captures the essence of bioregional planning succinctly and makes a compelling argument for why it is a key mechanism in the development of effective governance institutions.

Strategic Management in the 21st Century
Strategic Management in the 21st Century

Author: Timothy J. Wilkinson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-05-22

Total Pages: 919

ISBN-13: 0313397422

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Covering both practical and theoretical aspects of strategic management, this three-volume work brings the complex topic down to earth and enables readers to gain competitive business advantages in their marketplace. This clear, insightful, and interesting work covers all aspects of strategic management, including chapters that discuss SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, the Resource-Based View, transaction cost economics, and real options theory. Unlike other books, this three-volume work examines strategic management from different perspectives, effectively interweaving seemingly disparate subdisciplines, such as entrepreneurship and international business, with specialized foci, such as creativity, innovation, and trust. Incorporating information from contributors as varied as a proprietor of a worldwide motorcycle business to one of the most published scholars in the field of international strategic management, the practical and theoretical perspectives presented in Strategic Management in the 21st Century will benefit business strategists, professors of strategic management, and graduate students in the field.

Strategic Planning and Management for the New Millennium
Strategic Planning and Management for the New Millennium

Author: R. Henry Migliore

Publisher: Managing for Success

Published: 2018-11-28

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780578210209

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Strategic Planning needs no introduction, of course, to today's alert executive. But this practical reference reveals for the first time how it can serve as a totally reliable planning tool you can apply at once in your organization to meet both current and long-range growth objectives. The whole planning process is set forth for you here. Simply provide the specific inputs requested in the early chapters - and you have the first draft of your strategic long-range plan. The next group of chapters show you how to develop the functional plans in all five key areas of your organization: marketing, production, finance, capital budget, and human resources. Then you are shown how to manage the plan strategically, evaluate efficiency up and down the organization, oversee the appraisal and reward process, even see how the current corporate culture may affect growth potential of your operations (and how to take remedial action, if necessary). In-depth case studies illustrate how important concepts are applied in actual practice.

Engineering Management
Engineering Management

Author: C. M. Chang

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 1498730116

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Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Value addition, customer focus, and business perspectives are emphasized throughout. Also underlined are discussions of leadership attributes, steps to acquire these attributes, the areas engineering managers are expected to add value, the web-based tools which can be aggressively applied to develop and sustain competitive advantages, the opportunities offered by market expansion into global regions, and the preparations required for engineering managers to become global leaders. The book is organized into three major sections: functions of engineering management, business fundamentals for engineering managers, and engineering management in the new millennium. This second edition refocuses on the new strategy for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals and managers to meet the global challenges through the creation of strategic differentiation and operational excellence. Major revisions include a new chapter on creativity and innovation, a new chapter on operational excellence, and combination of the chapters on financial accounting and financial management. The design strategy for this second edition strives for achieving the T-shaped competencies, with both broad-based perspectives and in-depth analytical skills. Such a background is viewed as essential for STEM professionals and managers to exert a strong leadership role in the dynamic and challenging marketplace. The material in this book will surely help engineering managers play key leadership roles in their organizations by optimally applying their combined strengths in engineering and management.

Managing Information Technology Resources in Organizations in the Next Millennium
Managing Information Technology Resources in Organizations in the Next Millennium

Author: Information Resources Management Association. International Conference

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 1154

ISBN-13: 9781878289513

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Managing Information Technology Resources in Organizations in the Next Millennium contains more than 200 unique perspectives on numerous timely issues of managing information technology in organizations around the world. This book, featuring the latest research and applied IT practices, is a valuable source in support of teaching and research agendas.

Engineering Management
Engineering Management

Author: C. M. Chang

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1498730094

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Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges prepares engineers to fulfill their managerial responsibilities, acquire useful business perspectives, and take on the much-needed leadership roles to meet the challenges in the new millennium. Value addition, customer focus, and business perspectives are emphasized throughout. Also underlined are discussions of leadership attributes, steps to acquire these attributes, the areas engineering managers are expected to add value, the web-based tools which can be aggressively applied to develop and sustain competitive advantages, the opportunities offered by market expansion into global regions, and the preparations required for engineering managers to become global leaders. The book is organized into three major sections: functions of engineering management, business fundamentals for engineering managers, and engineering management in the new millennium. This second edition refocuses on the new strategy for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals and managers to meet the global challenges through the creation of strategic differentiation and operational excellence. Major revisions include a new chapter on creativity and innovation, a new chapter on operational excellence, and combination of the chapters on financial accounting and financial management. The design strategy for this second edition strives for achieving the T-shaped competencies, with both broad-based perspectives and in-depth analytical skills. Such a background is viewed as essential for STEM professionals and managers to exert a strong leadership role in the dynamic and challenging marketplace. The material in this book will surely help engineering managers play key leadership roles in their organizations by optimally applying their combined strengths in engineering and management.

Nasa New Millennium Problems and Solutions
Nasa New Millennium Problems and Solutions

Author: Don A. Nelson

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2001-06-27

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 146283647X

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THIS BOOK PREDICTED COLUMBIA DISASTER.. NASA New Millennium Problems and Solutions is a wake up call about the dire conditions of the U.S. space transportation program. NASAs management philosophy of faster, better, cheaper has resulted in the Agency trying to do, too much... with too little... too fast. The space programs momentum has been eroded by NASAs numerous project failures, cost overruns, and mismanagement. NASAs space transportation operations have been compromised to the point where serious safety conditions exist. Astronauts, ground personnel, and even the general public are exposed to unsafe flight operations. This book examines the following daunting questions: Why isnt the Space Shuttle safe? Why doesnt the Space Shuttle have a crew escape system? What happened to NASAs commercial Space Shuttle? Will the International Space Station be worth the cost? Was the X-33/VentureStar launch project a $1 billion blunder? Are the proposed X-33 population over-flight tests safe? Will the human exploration of Mars be postponed for decades? Is there light at the end of this dark tunnel? This book gives the reader with an insiders knowledge of decisions that have placed the future of the U.S. space transportation programs in grave peril. It is a compelling reading for the space enthusiast, the aerospace professional community, those seeking aerospace careers, and political supporters and opponents of the space program.