Quality Assurance (QA) and Total Quality Management (TQM)

Three decades ago competitiveness was unheard-of; today it has taken the world by storm.

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance.

Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society offers a sound introduction to Stafford Beer's Viable System Model (VSM) and clarifies its relevance to support organisational sustainability and self-governance.

Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World will help practitioners in any field of change engage more effectively in transformative innovation.

Systems Thinking for a Turbulent World will help practitioners in any field of change engage more effectively in transformative innovation.

This book provides detailed instructions for reading and writing a patent.

This book provides detailed instructions for reading and writing a patent.

Fashion buying and merchandising has changed dramatically over the last 20 years.

Fashion buying and merchandising has changed dramatically over the last 20 years.

This book provides a new perspective on innovation in consultancy firms.

This book provides a new perspective on innovation in consultancy firms.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

The science is clear: climate change is a fact and the probability is extremely high that it has been caused by humans.

This book discusses the growing use and importance of frugal innovation in society.

This book discusses the growing use and importance of frugal innovation in society.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

This work focuses on the creation of new knowledge, and how this has happened throughout all ages, as far back as the time of ancient philosophy to today.

Responding to a recent surge in interest and application, this book is the first to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture and agribusiness.

Marketers have recently witnessed an explosion of technology-based innovation that has profoundly affected their management and strategy.

Marketers have recently witnessed an explosion of technology-based innovation that has profoundly affected their management and strategy.

The key to success and reaching peak performance is integrating three processes to optimize business through the use of human performance improvement tools, lean thinking, operational excellence, along with a strong organizational culture as the underpinning.

The key to success and reaching peak performance is integrating three processes to optimize business through the use of human performance improvement tools, lean thinking, operational excellence, along with a strong organizational culture as the underpinning.

This is a practical guide for those who do the work of maintaining and improving the reliability of mechanical machinery.

This is a practical guide for those who do the work of maintaining and improving the reliability of mechanical machinery.

Published in 1998.

Published in 1998.

This book comprehensively outlines what a holistic and effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) system looks like.

This book comprehensively outlines what a holistic and effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA) system looks like.

More than ever, organisations are facing a data avalanche from various sources, be they in electronic or hard copy format.

More than ever, organisations are facing a data avalanche from various sources, be they in electronic or hard copy format.

Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life.

Technological advance affects almost all areas of human life.

The growth of global corporations has led to the development of new business strategies whose complexity and configuration rest on corporate networks; corporate cross-culture and intangible corporate and product assets.

The growth of global corporations has led to the development of new business strategies whose complexity and configuration rest on corporate networks; corporate cross-culture and intangible corporate and product assets.

Copyright law regulates creativity.

Copyright law regulates creativity.

Every organizational endeavor is based on project management.

Every organizational endeavor is based on project management.

This book helps apply managerial accounting techniques to problems in areas including that of cost estimation, cost control, product pricing, and business segment discontinuation.

This book helps apply managerial accounting techniques to problems in areas including that of cost estimation, cost control, product pricing, and business segment discontinuation.

This book sets new trajectories for language-sensitive business and management research and pedagogy.

This book sets new trajectories for language-sensitive business and management research and pedagogy.

Effective risk and opportunity management is key to the successful delivery of any major engineering and construction project.

Effective risk and opportunity management is key to the successful delivery of any major engineering and construction project.

Airline business models continue to be shaped by powerful forces relating to customers, complexities and regulators.

Airline business models continue to be shaped by powerful forces relating to customers, complexities and regulators.

Digitalization is changing the world of work.

Digitalization is changing the world of work.

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Other Restructuring Activities: An Integrated Approach to Process, Tools, Cases, and Solutions, Eleventh Edition presents the most current and comprehensive M&A information available.

This book focuses on the Base of the Pyramid (BOP) in Africa and examines the role of the private sector in the fight against poverty.