Increasingly, people working in teams face complex issues that need resolving in an efficient, participatory manner that honors the group's diverse perspectives and individual creativity.
The supply chain management field is one of the fastestgrowing fields in our economy, given the heavygrowth in international trade as a means to accessoutsourced production opportunities to lower costsand the growth in information technology to coordinatesupply chains.
The objective of this research annual is to present state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to such areas as sales, marketing and strategic decision making.
Advances in Business and Management Forecasting presents state-of-the-art studies in the application of forecasting methodologies to suce areas as finance, economics, technology, and forecasting accuracy.
Managing colour from the design stage to the finished product can be a difficult activity as colour perception is subjective and can therefore be inconsistent.
Scholarly interest in the areas of sustainability, stakeholder relations and corporate social responsibility (CSR) has increased considerably in recent years.
This readable and engaging book will help managers and executives understand the major trends affecting digital technology so they are prepared to make the right decisions for their organisation.
Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.
The Performance Principle is written for any manager, supervisor, or business leader who feels there must be a better, more systematic way to motivate their team and achieve phenomenal results.
In order to survive and attain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical, paradigm-shifting improvements that affect the organization and its competitive position.
Improving Convention Center Management Using Business Analytics and Key Performance Indicators presents sound practical advice from an author who successfully lived the experience.
Survey research is a powerful tool used in business, health care, government, and other fields that seek to understand how and why individuals behave the way they do.
The Civic Health Diagnostic Workbook was written with purpose: to help you diagnose your communitys civic health, plan for effective public engagement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of your engagement processes, and also identify, benchmark, and share best practices.
The focus of this book is aimed at providing a mechanism to determine the individual and cumulative contribution of portfolio components to strategic objectives so that the right decisions can be made regarding those components.
The Barn Door Is Open: Frameworks and Tools for Success and Fulfillment in the Workplace is a business book, a playful and humorous read, an intelligent metaphorical and philosophical tale anchored in the tools and techniques of innovative and proven management frameworks.
This book offers an essential review of central theories, current research and applications in the field of numerical representations of ordered structures.
This book presents a novel approach to the formulation and solution of three classes of problems: the fully fuzzy transportation problem, the fully fuzzy transshipment problem, and fully fuzzy solid transportation problem.
This textbook covers the fundamental mechanisms of the Six Sigma philosophy, while showing how this approach is used in solving problems that affect the variability and quality of processes and outcomes in business settings.
This book provides a detailed understanding of optimization methods as they are implemented in a variety of manufacturing, fabrication and machining processes.
This book demonstrates the theoretical value and practical significance of systems science and its logic of thinking by presenting a rigorously developed foundation-a tool for intuitive reasoning, which is supported by both theory and empirical evidence, as well as practical applications in business decision making.
Disjunctive Programming is a technique and a discipline initiated by the author in the early 1970's, which has become a central tool for solving nonconvex optimization problems like pure or mixed integer programs, through convexification (cutting plane) procedures combined with enumeration.
This book considers the problem of determining how many barrels of crude oil an oil-producing and exporting country should produce annually for export-along with several other important problems that decision-makers in the crude oil industry face-and discusses procedures for finding optimum solutions for them.
The book provides an introduction to logistics and supply chain management and the application of evolutionary computation, focusing on specific fields related to supply chain issues, from strategic sourcing decisions, and production planning and control to inventory to logistics and its application using evolutionary / heuristics techniques.
This edited book presents the state-of-the-art of applying fuzzy logic to managerial decision-making processes in areas such as fuzzy-based portfolio management, recommender systems, performance assessment and risk analysis, among others.
This book presents a diversity of innovative and impactful research in the field of industrial and systems engineering (ISE) led by women investigators.
