This book is presented in a format that will hopefully help you understand the limits of your equipment, give you a guide to follow when operating fire streams, and help you best manage your water delivery system.
If lean manufacturing moves your products through processes faster, and Six Sigma improves their quality, just imagine what combining these two powerful disciplines will do for you!
Kanban Made Simple is the first simple "e;how-to"e; guide for incorporating the just-in-time ingenuity of the Kanban system into any manufacturing environment.
When the pressure is on to resolve an elusive software or hardware glitch, what's needed is a cool head courtesy of a set of rules guaranteed to work on any system, in any circumstance.
Innovation management can provide a competitive edge in the business world, and research shows a major correlation between profitability and innovation.
Innovation management can provide a competitive edge in the business world, and research shows a major correlation between profitability and innovation.
This monograph provides empirical evidence on the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and organizational performance of social cooperative enterprises (SCEs) that work in the non-profit sector.
If you are a supply chain manager, an executive, an entrepreneur, or a stakeholder in a sustainable business, this book will help you develop the awareness and skills needed to support sustainable supply chain management in your firm.
This book is unique in that it does not simply discuss an author's practitioner experience or present a summary of academic research on what makes projects succeed.
Workplace Safety: Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program includes a powerful model on how to overcome organizational rationalization, objection, and denial when confronted with proposing a workplace violence protection program.
Use Predictive Analytics to Uncover Hidden Patterns and Correlations and Improve Decision-Making Using predictive analytics techniques, decision-makers can uncover hidden patterns and correlations in their data and leverage these insights to improve many key business decisions.
This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge.
The most up-to-date practical tools to manage the people and processes that allow businesses to gain and maintain competitive advantage through their supply chains.
In einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt reden wir zwar viel über die Wissensgesellschaft, aber was mit den Netzwerken der Technik, der Ökonomie, der Kultur oder einer zeitgemäßen Bildung wirklich gemeint ist, durchschaut keiner so richtig.
Providing the necessary background information and hands-on tools to build compelling business cases, this book will increase the reader's capability to champion new business development ideas, take them to senior management, and facilitate the decision process by understanding the key theories and practices of finance and corporate investments.
A Complete Blueprint for Maximizing the Value of Business Intelligence in the Enterprise The typical enterprise recognizes the immense potential of business intelligence (BI) and its impact upon many facets within the organization-but it's not easy to transform BI's potential into real business value.
Multilingual Natural Language Processing Applications is the first comprehensive single-source guide to building robust and accurate multilingual NLP systems.
Drive Powerful Business Value by Extending MDM to Social, Mobile, Local, and Transactional Data Enterprises have long relied on Master Data Management (MDM) to improve customer-related processes.
Quantitative Finance with R offers a winning strategy for devising expertly-crafted and workable trading models using the R open source programming language, providing readers with a step-by-step approach to understanding complex quantitative finance problems and building functional computer code.
The Only Book That's Completely Focused on Maximizing the Business Value of SharePoint 2010 Solutions Essential SharePoint(R) 2010 approaches Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 from a strict business value perspective, explaining exactly how to plan and implement SharePoint solutions to achieve superior business results.
Use Lean Techniques to Integrate Enterprise Systems Faster, with Far Less Cost and Risk By some estimates, 40 percent of IT budgets are devoted to integration.
The Knowledge of Culture and the Culture of Knowledge explores the construct of information and information culture and its relationship to the prevailing culture.
In einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt reden wir zwar viel über die Wissensgesellschaft, aber was mit den Netzwerken der Technik, der Ökonomie, der Kultur oder einer zeitgemäßen Bildung wirklich gemeint ist, durchschaut keiner so richtig.
This book examines the role of local knowledge in promoting agricultural innovation and legislative support for agricultural innovation through intellectual property laws and the protection of farmers' rights.
