Financing and Managing Projects, Volume I: A Guide for Executives and Professionals

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Project is an instrument of change and no project is complete unless its objective is achieved. Every project is specific and unique and the term “project” is constantly expanding and ever changing.

This first volume deals with the managerial aspects of a project, i.e., project phases; its formulation and appraisal techniques; there is no single best technique and executive judgment is essential. Every chapter outlines the objectives to be delivered and includes project instances, brief case examples, and case studies that provide an analytical kit for executives and professionals.

The book makes for a lucid reading and serves as a guide for the reader. It has been written based on our experiences gained and feedback collected from teaching, training, and delivering various consultancy projects.

Licensing Myths & Mastery: Why Most Ideas Don’t Work And What To Do About It

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This book is for the 97 million Americans who want to quit their job and make money with their ideas. Licensing is one of the fastest and most profitable ways to make money with ideas. It is fast because it facilitates existing production, distribution, and marketing, and it is more profitable because it eliminates your costs and a percentage of the revenue goes in your pocket. “Most Ideas Don’t Work” because of bad decisions, which come from bad information. Myths are everywhere, hard to recognize, and impossible to avoid. Failure precedes success, and knowing how to fail small, fail fast, and fail forward allows you to focus on what works. “And What To Do About It” explains how to master what works. It reveals valuable tips and secrets that will give you a distinct advantage. Learn new information like the Royalty Rule, Active Licensing, and the Acceptable Profit Threshold. Understand when to manufacture and when to license with the 5X Rule. The right license with the right company is everyone’s dream and may be the highlight of your career and your life. If you want to make money with your ideas, this book is for you.

Sustainable Operations and Closed Loop Supply Chains, Second Edition

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This book has been written for any organization that needs guidance on the journey toward sustainability. To be sustainable, your organization needs to consider the triple bottom line of economic, environmental, and social returns, so that it can be assured of a steady supply of inputs such as materials and labor.

The author explains the first step toward sustainability: to reduce waste in operations, with such tools as lean and Six Sigma. He also helps guide your firm through a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology for each of the main products or processes. LCA assesses the environmental impact (such as energy consumption) of a product or process through its life cycle: sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, use by consumers, and end of life. You then learn about becoming eco-efficient through ISO 14001, green buildings, renewable energy, and biofuels.

The final step is to close the loop.To close the loop, you learn about servicizing, Design for Environment (DfE), and remanufacturing.

Project Management for Archaeology

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Archaeology, the science in charge of studying ancient cultures, is without a doubt one of the most alluring professions in to- day’s academic world. It is a versatile and complex discipline requiring a lot of skill expertise from both students and specialists, including the ef?cient management of team of coworkers, logistics, resources, etc.

Project Management for Archaeology is a ?rst approach to students and inexperienced archaeologists striving to better organize, lead, and execute an archaeological project. It also offers great insight and strategies to experienced and “old-school” researchers in order to improve efficiency, leadership, and organizational skills, following the most effective management techniques in the market.

Presented with a flexible approach that accommodates all types of archaeological research (from academic to rescue and salvage projects), Project Management for Archaeology is meant to be a practical handbook to be used all along the lifetime of any archaeological project.

Infectious Innovation: Secrets of Transforming Employee Ideas into Dramatic Revenue Growth

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Market leaders need innovation to sustain their lead. Disruptors need innovation to become market leaders. While organizations in all industries need innovation, few business leaders are creating ecosystems which are able to grow and cultivate innovation. Meanwhile, employees in these organizations are coming up with ideas daily on how to create and sustain growth. But these ideas aren’t being heard, or aren’t being acted upon. So, while any business leader will tell you people are their most important resource, they are not being genuine! They seem to always prefer to go outside their organization to come up with big ideas that can help create and sustain revenue growth. Since innovation is necessary, and an organization’s people are their most important resources, Infectious Innovation will teach you how to systematically collect employee ideas, and then turn them into improved and sustainable profits.

Statistical Process Control for Managers, Second Edition

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If you have been frustrated by very technical statistical process control (SPC) training materials, then this is the book for you. This book focuses on how SPC works and why managers should consider using it in their operations. It provides you with a conceptual understanding of SPC so that appropriate decisions can be made about the benefits of incorporating SPC into the process management and quality improvement processes.

Today, there is little need to make the necessary calculations by hand, so the author utilizes Minitab“ and NWA Quality Analyst—two of the most popular statistical analysis software packages on the market. Links are provided to the home pages of these software packages where trial versions may be downloaded for evaluation and trial use. The book also addresses the question of why SPC should be considered for use, the process of implementing SPC, how to incorporate SPC into problem identi?cation, problem solving, and the management and improvement of processes, products, and services.

Communicating to Lead and Motivate

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Effective leaders lead by communicating. It is through communication that leadership is enacted as leaders influence followers to behave in ways that achieve the leader’s and the organization’s goals. This book applies leadership theory and research to communication in ways that are easily understood and can be applied to any situation where individuals find themselves in a leadership position in an organization whether as a front-line or top-level leader.

The book begins with a basic explanation of the leadership process and how leaders express their vision. It then looks at how leaders can create positive relationships with followers that pay off in effective performance. Next, the book investigates how leaders motivate their followers by creating follower self-efficacy, trust, and valued rewards. Then, the focus changes to the specific types of messages a leader can use to motivate followers. Leading is about change, so the book next looks at ways effective leaders communicate in leading change in organizations and at how the changing workforce is effecting how effective leaders communicate with the new workforce.

Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership: Advocacy and Ethics

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Corporate Communication Crisis Leadership: Advocacy and Ethics addresses strategic of leadership during corporate communication crises. This work examines the interplay of issue, argument, conflict, and crisis in eventual organizational success or failure. This book explicates the performative consequences of inadequacy in crisis leadership. With investigation of the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill off the southern coast of the United States.

Human Resources As Business Partner: How to Maximize The Value and Financial Contribution of HR

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In current “what’s New” topics this is the biggest. Just how does HR become a business partner? This book is a step-by-step guide to becoming a business partner and showing the financial benefit of HR participation. The book contains six chapters and includes a self-diagnostic for HR functions to complete. In addition, the key competencies needed are explained together with worked examples of how HR Can add financial value. The methodologies will work in Public and private sectors and is the future direction for any HR function This book is focused on providing those interested with a “how to do it” approach to lift HR and to transform it into an effective unit with the capacity of becoming a true business partner and possibly a profit value centre.

Mastering Leadership Alignment: Linking Value Creation to Cash Flow

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This book raises the bar on what it means to be a high performance enterprise, providing methods and tools to engage the senior leadership team in building and sustaining rock-solid alignment. It demonstrates how to generate wholehearted unanimity on precisely what creates value in the enterprise, who creates it, and how the value created shows up in the financial statements.

Simple, step-by-step procedures given bring about wholehearted unanimity in the senior leadership’s understanding of how the enterprise makes money. Where to focus energy (and where not to) is revealed. Readers are guided to apply “non-directive leadership skills” to co-creating maps and reports of their enterprises’ value creating activities into a Management Operating System? (MOS).

Based on more than 30 years and over 50 hands-on projects using the work of legendary IBM Executive School leader, finance and values innovator, Lou Mobley, and Chuck Kremer, CPA, this book builds on Lou’s original breakthrough works building IBM’s executive leadership culture from 1955 to 1970.