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Author: Robert H. Hayes
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 1984-06-25
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecommends a manufacturing strategy that develops production facilities, uses appropriate management systems, and establishes firm relationships with suppliers.
Author: John J. Huber
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2015-04-13
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0838912443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years since John Huber’s trailblazing Lean Library Management was published, budget pressures on libraries have only increased. Yet libraries who have adopted his strategies have turned conventional management thinking—that if budgets are reduced, customer service suffers—on its head. These libraries have proven that by streamlining and improving customer services, they can eliminate wasteful activities and bring down costs. In The Purpose-Based Library, Huber and seasoned public library administrator Potter build on insight gleaned from decades of experience to demonstrate how libraries can create real growth opportunities through concentrating on their true mission and purpose, and without spending a lot more money. With a focus on putting ideas into action, they point the way towards New ways to think about metricsReexamining customer self-driven servicesEffectively leveraging the considerable footprint of librariesIdentifying and assessing community needs and realigning library services accordinglyActively encouraging community fundraisingOffering cutting-edge services and programsPacked with boots-on-the-ground commentary, this book presents strategies to help libraries survive and succeed.
Author: Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 1496
ISBN-13: 1799891569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRunning a small business provides opportunity for greater success, increased growth, and potentially the chance to move to the global business arena, yet also much more risk. Small businesses not only have less employment, but also less annual revenue than a regular-sized business. With the growth of large corporations and chain businesses, it has become harder to maintain the survival of a small business. The COVID-19 pandemic has also brought more pressure onto the already unsteady survival of small businesses, due to forced closures, decreased agility, fewer technological innovations, and smaller customer bases. The Research Anthology on Small Business Strategies for Success and Survival offers current strategies for small businesses that can be utilized in order to maintain equal footing during challenging times. With the proper strategies available to small business owners, small businesses could not only survive, but also excel despite the environment that surrounds them. Covering topics including decision management, new supportive technologies, sustainable development, and micro-financing, this text is ideal for small business owners, entrepreneurs, startup companies, family-owned and operated businesses, restaurateurs, local retailers, managers, executives, academicians, researchers, and students.
Author: Stephen S. Cohen
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Published: 1987-06-03
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Atul Kumar Sahu
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2024-07-30
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 1394211740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book promotes the idea of creative thinking to those working on qualitative and quantitative analysis for reinforcing engineering designs relating to industrial and manufacturing domains. The book focuses on the development of the theoretical foundations and discusses the utility of integration of critical components and systems engineering for effective systems design. The book presents research directions and can be used as a tool to understand in-depth possible ways related to the management of industrial and manufacturing activities, processes, actions, benchmarks, and so on. The new ideas, theories, and methods related to qualitative and quantitative research will improve manufacturing knowledge linked to the manufacturing process. Readers will find that the book: Explains qualitative and quantitative research for exploiting system characteristics and attaining system efficiency, as well as what decision-making tools are available for attaining sustainability in industrial fields; Discusses the utility of qualitative and quantitative models and analytical frameworks for enduring sustainability and the exploration of new ideas, critical theories, and methods related to qualitative and quantitative research; Disseminates industrial and manufacturing knowledge and allied boundaries, including case studies and sustainable ways to retain excellence in industrial and manufacturing domains based on qualitative and quantitative analysis; Presents critical aspects related to lean manufacturing and lean management tools, and demonstrates pure research and practical solutions to manufacturing problems; Offers theoretical content and demonstrations of manufacturing applications, as well as critical thinking and methodological support for optimizing resources and consumption; Reviews the development of supply chain network designs based on qualitative and quantitative aspects.
Author: Klaus Schwab
Publisher: Crown Currency
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1524758876
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorld-renowned economist Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum, explains that we have an opportunity to shape the fourth industrial revolution, which will fundamentally alter how we live and work. Schwab argues that this revolution is different in scale, scope and complexity from any that have come before. Characterized by a range of new technologies that are fusing the physical, digital and biological worlds, the developments are affecting all disciplines, economies, industries and governments, and even challenging ideas about what it means to be human. Artificial intelligence is already all around us, from supercomputers, drones and virtual assistants to 3D printing, DNA sequencing, smart thermostats, wearable sensors and microchips smaller than a grain of sand. But this is just the beginning: nanomaterials 200 times stronger than steel and a million times thinner than a strand of hair and the first transplant of a 3D printed liver are already in development. Imagine “smart factories” in which global systems of manufacturing are coordinated virtually, or implantable mobile phones made of biosynthetic materials. The fourth industrial revolution, says Schwab, is more significant, and its ramifications more profound, than in any prior period of human history. He outlines the key technologies driving this revolution and discusses the major impacts expected on government, business, civil society and individuals. Schwab also offers bold ideas on how to harness these changes and shape a better future—one in which technology empowers people rather than replaces them; progress serves society rather than disrupts it; and in which innovators respect moral and ethical boundaries rather than cross them. We all have the opportunity to contribute to developing new frameworks that advance progress.
Author: IMechE Engineering Manufacturing Industries Division
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Published: 1991
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arkebe Oqubay
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-07-23
Total Pages: 800
ISBN-13: 0192590944
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndustrialization supported by industrial hubs has been widely associated with structural transformation and catch-up. But while the direct economic benefits of industrial hubs are significant, their value lies first and foremost in their contribution as incubators of industrialization, production and technological capability, and innovation. The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Hubs and Economic Development adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine the conceptual underpinnings, review empirical evidence of regions and economies, and extract pertinent lessons for policy reasearchers and practitioners on the key drivers of success and failure for industrial hubs. This Handbook illustrates the diverse and complex nature of industrial hubs and shows how they promote industrialization, economic structural transformation, and technological catch-up. It explores the implications of emerging issues and trends such as environmental protection and sustainability, technological advancement, shifts in the global economy, and urbanization.
Author: Carol Williams
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2012-10-30
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0252094263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in Indigenous Women and Work create a transnational and comparative dialogue on the history of the productive and reproductive lives and circumstances of Indigenous women from the late nineteenth century to the present in the United States, Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, and Canada. Surveying the spectrum of Indigenous women's lives and circumstances as workers, both waged and unwaged, the contributors offer varied perspectives on the ways women's work has contributed to the survival of communities in the face of ongoing tensions between assimilation and colonization. They also interpret how individual nations have conceived of Indigenous women as workers and, in turn, convert these assumptions and definitions into policy and practice. The essays address the intersection of Indigenous, women's, and labor history, but will also be useful to contemporary policy makers, tribal activists, and Native American women's advocacy associations. Contributors are Tracey Banivanua Mar, Marlene Brant Castellano, Cathleen D. Cahill, Brenda J. Child, Sherry Farrell Racette, Chris Friday, Aroha Harris, Faye HeavyShield, Heather A. Howard, Margaret D. Jacobs, Alice Littlefield, Cybèle Locke, Mary Jane Logan McCallum, Kathy M'Closkey, Colleen O'Neill, Beth H. Piatote, Susan Roy, Lynette Russell, Joan Sangster, Ruth Taylor, and Carol Williams.
Author: Philippe Huysveld
Publisher: Philippe Huysveld - GBMC
Published: 2014-08-24
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1291988157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first edition of this book was released under digital format (eBook) in 2014. In 2015, a second edition of the eBook was released, containing, besides minor changes here and there, two important additions: Chapter VII about “the Japanese Consumer Mindset” and Chapter XI about “3 Keys for Success in Japan”. In 2017, the third edition is being released with a new Table of Contents and a revision of Chapter XI, becoming “5 Keys for Success in Japan”. This book is targeted at business executives of companies: • approaching the Japanese Market, • reviewing their options in terms of Japan Entry Strategy, • already exporting to Japan (Indirect Sales) or, • already established and doing business in Japan (Direct Sales). In this book, we show: • That the Japanese Market is a great market to approach and that, provided the right methodology and marketing mix, there are great opportunities to seize in the long-term for foreign companies. • That it is necessary to get familiar with cross-cultural differences and to understand better your Japanese clients, their country, their culture and their business system. • How to market your products or services in Japan (B2C and B2B Marketing Guidelines). • Which Entry Strategies are available to foreign companies to choose from and guidelines for selection. Keywords: Japan, Japon, Economie du Japon, Japanese Economy, Commercer avec le Japon, Doing Business with Japan, Commercer au Japon, Doing Business in Japan, Faire des Affaires au Japon, Marketing in Japan, Japan B2B Sales, Japan B2C Sales, Selling in Japan, Vendre au Japon, Exporter vers le Japon, Export to Japan, S'implanter au Japon, Set up an office in Japan, Japan Entry Strategies, Trade with Japan, Doing Business with the Japanese, Faire des Affaires avec les Japonais, Japan Cross-cultural Management, les Japonais, the Japanese
