Managing Using the Diamond Principle
Managing Using the Diamond Principle

Author: Mark W. Johnson

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2018-05-16

Total Pages: 147

ISBN-13: 1947843796

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Change is inevitable, but, poorly handled, can spell disaster. A bold new vision for imple­mentation 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 pro­cess 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).

Leading and Managing Strategic Suppliers
Leading and Managing Strategic Suppliers

Author: Richard Moxham

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1948198673

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This book provides practical guidance on the knowledge and skills required for managers whose role involves the management of the relationship with and the performance of strategically important suppliers. Strategic suppliers provide critical products and services to their clients. In a production environment, if the supply chain for critical components breaks down and delivery dates are missed, the production line may stop. If an IT supplier fails to deliver key system development projects on time, the implications for the business can be catastrophic. With the growth of outsourcing, where entire business functions are delegated to a supplier, the dependency on them is further increased; with offshoring there are additional complexities. An organization’s ability to manage its strategic supplier base effectively is central to its performance, competitiveness, and future success. This book provides practical guidance on the knowledge and skills required for managers whose role involves the management of the relationship with and the performance of strategically important suppliers. Although the focus is on the management of suppliers during the live relationship, the approach is holistic as the entire supplier management process is discussed in detail using a Supplier Lifecycle model. There are five stages—identify the business requirement, research the supply market, carry out procurement and supplier selection, integrate and transition to the new supplier and their services, and manage the delivery of the products and services for the contracted period.

Supply Chain Planning
Supply Chain Planning

Author: Matthew J. Liberatore

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1953349218

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Through this book, practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. The critical role that supply chain planning contributes to a firm’s financial well-being has never been greater. All too often, however, considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities with minimal results. In this book, we present proven, practical management frameworks used by the authors to support supply chain operations management and planning in private industry. These frameworks provide methodologies for managing critical activities such as supply chain strategic planning and project selection, manufacturing and distribution planning, performance measurement, supply chain risk management, and customer logistics and inventory deployment. This book is intended for supply chain professionals, as well as for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of real-world approaches for supply chain planning, decision support, and many other key activities.

Recent Trends in Decision Science and Management
Recent Trends in Decision Science and Management

Author: Tao-Sheng Wang

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-07

Total Pages: 758

ISBN-13: 9811535884

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This book discusses an emerging field of decision science that focuses on business processes and systems used to extract knowledge from large volumes of data to provide significant insights for crucial decisions in critical situations. It presents studies employing computing techniques like machine learning, which explore decision-making for cross-platforms that contain heterogeneous data associated with complex assets, leadership, and team coordination. It also reveals the advantages of using decision sciences with management-oriented problems. The book includes a selection of the best papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Decision Science and Management (ICDSM 2019), held at Hunan International Economics University, China, on 20–21 September 2019.

Woodland Conservation and Management
Woodland Conservation and Management

Author: G.F. Peterken

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1993-09-30

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780412557309

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New edition of book which is a course text in woodland conservation and management. The text has been updated throughout and has a major new chapter dealing with developments in conservation and management policies over the last ten years in a European context, including developments in vegetation classification systems and outcomes of management policies.

Applying Ecological Principles to Land Management
Applying Ecological Principles to Land Management

Author: Virginia H. Dale

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-07-20

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780387951003

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This volume incorporates case studies that explore past and current land use decisions on both public and private lands, and includes practical approaches and tools for land use decision-making. The most important feature of the book is the linking of ecological theory and principle with applied land use decision-making. The theoretical and empirical are joined through concrete case studies of actual land use decision-making processes.

Managing International Business in Relation-Based versus Rule-Based Countries
Managing International Business in Relation-Based versus Rule-Based Countries

Author: Shaomin Li

Publisher: Business Expert Press

Published: 2009-12-25

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1606490850

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This book dispels these myths and shows that people rely on the relation-based system not owing to specific cultural factors, but because of the stage of development in these countries. When the market is limited in scale and informal networks are thick, the relation-based system can be quite effective and efficient.

Principles of Ecology and Management
Principles of Ecology and Management

Author: Alan Sitkin

Publisher: Goodfellow Publishers Ltd

Published: 2011-01-03

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 190688482X

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An environmental business book written by a business school professor for business school students.

Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management
Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management

Author: Salvatore Schiavo-Campo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 539

ISBN-13: 1317293312

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The government budget should be the financial mirror of society's choices. Yet most people view budgeting as the epitome of eye-glazing subjects, rarely explained in a way that is understandable to the non-specialist and too often presented without adequate consideration of a country’s governance and institutional capacity. Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management fills a gap in the literature to redress these failings and does so in comparative international perspective. This book provides a comprehensive but pithy and easy-to-understand treatment of public financial management, taking into account a variety of special issues including budgeting in post-conflict situations, at subnational government levels, for military/security expenditures, and in countries with large extractive revenues. Distilling the lessons of budgeting reform in countries at different levels of income and administrative capacity, each chapter gradually progresses from the basic principles to the more technical aspects and then on to implementation issues, using concrete examples and illustrations from around the globe. Government Budgeting and Expenditure Management is ideally suited as the primary text for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses in government budgeting or public financial management, or as a supplementary text for courses in public finance, public economics, economic development, public administration or comparative politics. With its attention to practical implementation aspects, the book will also be of direct interest to practitioners, policy-makers, and government employee training organizations.