Economics, Finance, Business and Management

Logistics and supply chains play a vital role in the overall success of retail management.

Using e-business technologies to manage supply chains increases the efficiency and performance of logistics, production, distribution and other related activities.

The growth of the Internet has had a profound effect on the way business is carried out, and has provided an unprecedented opportunity for third-party individuals and organisations to attack brands with relative ease.

Contract management is a key management skill, yet it is underplayed in most organizations, which usually default to project management skills as a proxy for contract management skills.

Supply chains, including logistics, are the functional elements of an organisation's operations.

This practical guide for employers in the UK continues to provide managers with the essential advice on how to establish health and safety procedures in organizations.

The Employer's Handbook 2017-18 has established itself as a source of reliable, unambiguous guidance for all small- to medium-sized employers in the UK, clearly identifying the legal essentials and best-practice guidelines for effective people management.

In order to buy well it is important to understand a few basic principles and apply a series of tools and approaches in given situations.

In a world of political and economic uncertainty where stress and unhappiness are on the rise, improving employee wellbeing has never been more important.

A primer for marketing professionals and students, the second edition of Malcolm McDonald On Marketing Planning provides a clear guide to marketing planning.

The management of logistics and supply chain operations is of vital importance in the defence sector.

Managing changes to the supply chain comes with its unique challenges.

We are living in an age of continual motion and change, and as a result traditional strategy planning has become outmoded.

Inspirational leaders make us want to achieve more.

Project managers leading international projects must deliver value and align the project outcomes to the wider strategic goals of the organization.

The pressure on professional service firms and their professionals has never been higher.

The role of a contracting professional begins well before the award of a contract and doesn't end until the benefits of the acquisition have been realised, long after the deliverables arrive in a box on a loading dock.

Advanced Customer Analytics provides a clear guide to the specific analytical challenges faced by the retail sector.

The TV Brand Builders is the definitive account of how the biggest television networks, channels and programmes are created as brands, with rare privileged access to the marketing strategies and creative thinking behind culturally defining TV promos, digital and social media campaigns and design identities.

Many strategies are explained as actions that will achieve the desired goals or visions of the company, but in order to predict the success of your strategy it is vital to gain an understanding of how it will impact on the financial statement.

Practical Enterprise Risk Management addresses the real need for organizations to take more managed risks in order to maximize business strategies and achieve long term goals.

It is often claimed that 70% of organizational change efforts fail, despite the popularity of linear change models.

Advertising Transformed is the ultimate guide to advertising in the 21st century.

This book is about action, results and leadership.

With the rate of change in organizations at an all-time high, the need for strong organization design has never been more pressing.

One of the hallmarks of maturity as a coach is awareness of how your values, beliefs, and other factors affect your coaching interventions.

Group Coaching is everything you need to run successful coaching sessions effectively.

There's a well-known saying: what doesn't get measured doesn't get done.

Price is the most significant factor affecting the profitability of every business, profit centre or department.

The Lean Practitioner's Handbook bridges the gap between the tools and concepts of Lean and the practical use of the tools.

In a working life of 35 years, a manager can expect to make at least 10 job changes - or transitions - where the demands for rapid business delivery and effective leadership will only increase with each new job.

Imagine a workplace where people are energized and motivated by being in control of the work they do.

With a growing demand for psychometric testing in the coaching profession, coaches and practitioners alike need to understand the psychology underpinning the tests as well as how to select and apply them effectively.

While substantial advances have been made in the L&D profession over the last decade, evaluation remains by far the weakest part of the L&D cycle.

Following a quiet period in global M&A activity, a new boom seems to be underway, but in an age where two-thirds of all merger deals can be said to fail (where deals fall short of the minimum required financial returns to the acquiring company), how can future success be guaranteed?

Creating a successful strategy, and the process of strategic thinking, is key to the growth plans of all businesses.

Anyone involved in sales faces huge challenges these days, from fierce global competition and increased pressure on margins to the power of internet-savvy buyers and difficulties with getting time with prospective buyers.

All organizations recognise the importance of strategy creation and execution: strategy is the process of developing the corporate future.

The training and development needs of any workforce vary dramatically between the generations and levels even so far as the style of communication needed to be effective.

The Winning Bid is an easy-to-read practical guide which will teach the reader how to think like a professional bid manager.

A recent report for the CIPD indicated that stress is now the more common cause of long-term sick leave in the UK for the first time ever.

What do Coca-Cola, McDonald's, IBM, Microsoft and Virgin all have in common?

Facilitating Reflective Learning: Coaching, Mentoring and Supervision is written by two leading experts in the field.

Few business strategy books talk about brand management and talent management under the same cover.

The Mindful International Manager tackles the management situations that international managers have to handle every day.

Operating under tight budget constraints and with an ever-increasing range of tools and technologies to choose from, PR professionals have never been under so much pressure to justify their decisions.

Ethical Leadership shines a light on the role of both culture and ethics in organizations by making the issues more transparent, accessible and above all, connected.

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the spotlight is even more on the role and activities of the CFO.

Risk management is not just a topic for risk professionals.

Strength-based Lean Six Sigma is a new way of approaching process improvement that combines the best practices of two established methodologies to generate a new approach in order to help you develop and deliver increased high performance in any organization.