This book presents a cutting-edge customer-centric design approach, equipping readers with specific tools to effectively analyze customer needs and develop top-tier designs while taking pricing and competition into account.
A guide to help readers meet the demands of an evolving competitive business environment, Modeling of Responsive Supply Chain outlines novel concepts and strategies for implementing a fully integrated system of business improvement methodologies.
Purpose-driven Innovation Leadership for Sustainable Development presents invaluable insights into how leaders can balance competing innovation demands.
Starting with the receipt of materials and continuing all the way through to the final completion of the construction phase, Concrete and Steel Construction: Quality Control and Assurance examines all the quality control and assurance methods involving reinforced concrete and steel structures.
Safety Management Systems: Applications for the Aviation Industry provides an in-depth review of specific applications of an aviation-related Safety Management System (SMS) by following it from design through application.
WINNER: NYC Big Book Award 2025 - Business: GeneralHow can you redesign your operating model to drive growth, agility and sustainability in a changing economy?
This research volume aims at outlining the substantial role of information asymmetry in agri-food chains and how building trust and mitigating this problem could enhance the performance of these chains.
Uncover the opportunities web3 offers marketers whilst avoiding the potential pitfalls with this all-encompassing guide to the metaverse, AI and the future of digital marketing strategy written by industry expert Simon Kingsnorth.
If you believe that the answer no is but a request for more information and understand that the best closing questions are rhetorical, you understand the basic art of sales.
Across the country ambulances are turned away from emergency departments (EDs) and patients are waiting hours and sometimes days to be admitted to a hospital room.
How can government leaders build, sustain, and leverage the cross-organizational collaborative networks needed to tackle the complex interagency and intergovernmental challenges they increasingly face?
Detailing the role of senior management in achieving a successful transformation to organizational excellence, Simple Excellence: Organizing and Aligning the Management Team in a Lean Transformation charts a course of simplification through the complexity often associated with managing performance improvement initiatives.
Best Practices in Configuration Management to Ensure QualityMany organizations are invoking a new kind of management technique - Configuration Management - meant to ensure a product maintains its originally intended design, materials, composition, and processing throughout its entire lifecycle.
You can't understand, manage, or improve what you don't measureWhile every smart executive now knows the truth of those words, perhaps more so than anyone, it was Jerry Harbour who turned that adage into a science.
In a pull production system, the final process pulls needed parts from the previous process, which pulls from the process before it, and so on, as determined by customer demand.
Athletic trainers often find themselves immersed in organizations that can critically influence the way in which they fulfill their professional obligations.
Hofstede Matters offers an updated presentation of the evolving views of academics and teachers who have worked with Hofstede's research findings since the publication of the first edition of Culture's Consequences in 1980.
Outlining the critical need to apply innovation to reduce costs and improve efficiency in the healthcare industry, Unlocking Sustained Innovation Success in Healthcare explains why innovation management is a must for all healthcare organizations.
This book makes a compelling case for the urgent need to develop a new approach to food and farming-one that integrates the principles of food security and sovereignty.
Work Matters brings together a strong collection of narratives from the ethnographic field to discover the reality of pressure and change in the modern workplace.
Now in its third edition, Profession and Purpose is the essential resource for MBA students interested in applying their business skills and expertise in careers that address the climate and sustainability challenges the world is facing.
Safety Management Systems: Applications for the Aviation Industry provides an in-depth review of specific applications of an aviation-related Safety Management System (SMS) by following it from design through application.
