1 + 1 = 100: Achieving Breakthrough Results Through Partnerships

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1 + 1 = 100 guides readers through developing, implementing, and maintaining close relationships within their own company (employees, design engineering, product development, sales and marketing, operations, and supply chain) as well out outside (suppliers, customers, and the community). By avoiding overreliance on cost reduction measures and instead developing partnerships, the company, and its partners can achieve world-class profitability and cash flow.
For more than 30 years, the focus in industry has been to improve productivity and cut costs using approaches like Lean Thinking, World Class Manufacturing, Reengineering, Strategic Supply Chain strategies, and off-shoring. Unlike the techniques that these process improvement methods espouse, partnerships go beyond correcting mistakes or solving problems; they entail looking at the big picture and building on each partner’s strengths, making breakthrough results possible for all stakeholders in the relationship. 1 + 1 = 100 speaks directly to operations and supply chain executives in manufacturing and distribution environments, but the concepts are essential for all members of the executive team in any industry that has an operations component and suppliers.

Innovative Business Projects: Breaking Complexities, Building Performance, Volume Two: Financials, New Insights, and Project Sustainability

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“…innovation is not just a state of mind of entrepreneurs woven around new insights but a major challenge rests in commercializing it and gaining competitive advantage. Managing innovative business projects is thus an art and science, which has been meticulously explained in this book by Rajagopal through real business examples and illustrations. This book helps the managers learn how to lead the innovations of start-up enterprises to a successful business icon. The book is a distinctive reading on innovation projects, which stands apart from those on the project management. A simple, lucid, and intellectual journey through the book. Kudos to the author…” –Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School at Dartmouth, and Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School
“The global competitive environment has become exceedingly complex and changes more rapidly than most companies realize. Professor Rajagopal offers a systematic approach to how companies can cope with these challenges, remain competitive, and innovate. A must read for executives.”–Mauro F. Guillen, Director of The Lauder Institute and Dr. Felix Zandman, Professor of International Management, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA
This book addresses the project management tools and techniques in reference to innovation management analyzing global-local business scenarios, project environment, and administrative perspectives. It also details the financial, risk management, new project designs, complexities in managing innovation, and developing customer-centric innovation projects. Discussions in the book also deliberate on how innovation business project can be managed systematically to enhance organizational performance.

Managing Commodity Price Risk: A Supply Chain Perspective, Second Edition

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Check out the review in the just-released “Inbound Logistics, January 2018, Winter Reading Guide” !

Almost every organization is exposed to financial risk stemming from commodity price volatility. Risk exposure may be direct, from the prices paid for raw materials transformed into products sold to customers, or indirect, from higher energy, transportation costs, and supplier commodity purchases. Managing Commodity Price Risk: A Supply Chain Perspective provides a range of approaches organizations can implement and adapt for assessing, forecasting, and managing commodity price volatility and reducing financial risk exposure associated with purchased goods and services. Understanding and managing commodity price risk is important for organizations and supply chain professionals due to the significant direct financial effects price volatility has on profitability, organizational cash flow, the ability to competitively price products, new product design, buyer–supplier relationships, and the negotiation process.

Innovative Business Projects: Breaking Complexities, Building Performance Volume One – Fundamentals and Project Environment

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“…innovation is not just a state of mind of entrepreneurs woven around new insights but a major challenge rests in commercializing it and gaining competitive advantage. Managing innovative business projects is thus an art and science, which has been meticulously explained in this book by Rajagopal through real business examples and illustrations. This book helps the managers learn how to lead the innovations of start-up enterprises to a successful business icon. The book is a distinctive reading on innovation projects, which stands apart from those on the project management. A simple, lucid, and intellectual journey through the book. Kudos to the author…” –Vijay Govindarajan, Coxe Distinguished Professor at Tuck School at Dartmouth, and Marvin Bower Fellow at Harvard Business School
“The global competitive environment has become exceedingly complex and changes more rapidly than most companies realize. Professor Rajagopal offers a systematic approach to how companies can cope with these challenges, remain competitive, and innovate. A must read for executives.”–Mauro F. Guillen, Director of The Lauder Institute and Dr. Felix Zandman, Professor of International Management, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA This book addresses the project management tools and techniques in reference to innovation management analyzing global-local business scenarios, project environment, and administrative perspectives. It also details the financial, risk management, new project designs, complexities in managing innovation, and developing customer-centric innovation projects. Discussions in the book also deliberate on how innovation business project can be managed systematically to enhance organizational performance.

Business Engineering and Service Design, Second Edition, Volume I

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The author presents business engineering (BE) and its application to service offerings design by using:
‧ Several disciplines—strategy, business models, modularization, business processes (BP), business intelligence (BI), information systems (IS) and IT- in generating enterprise architecture designs for services, which are aligned with and make operational stakeholders’ interests.
‧ A hierarchical methodology that allows managing the complexity of full enterprise design by starting with overall aggregated designs detailed by hierarchical decomposition. ‧ Business, architecture, and process patterns that abstract and formalize the knowledge and experience generated from hundreds of cases.
‧ Advanced analytics—data based and operation research (OR) models – to support business development, by generating new or improved service designs, and management, by embedding models in operating process design, allowing truly BI that optimize service performance.
‧ Formal constructs to model designs based on BPMN, allowing simulation and their eventual execution using BP management suits.
This book provides the foundations of BE, reviews the disciplines integrated within its methodology, and presents plentiful evidence of its power by giving detailed application cases, including impressive results in private and public situations.

Making HR Technology Decisions: A Strategic Perspective

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The goal of this book is to help HR decision makers recognize where to capture value from HR technology, learn how to demonstrate that value, and make better implementation decisions. The authors include topics such as how HR technology can deliver strategic value; whether to outsource HR processes, HR technology, and project management; training and change management; measuring value through ROI analyses and HR Analytics; and, how to evaluate and manage future HR innovations.
Our approach is to introduce theoretical frameworks from management science to guide decision making about HR technology. These theoretical approaches provide a scientific basis and structure to analyze business challenges and improve decision making compared with using intuition alone or relying on vendor best practices. The theories and frameworks come from strategic management, economics, accounting, finance, organizational behavior, and information systems. This breadth helps managers understand the many ways HR technology decisions can increase value.

Dark Sides of Business and Higher Education Management, Volume II

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Contemporary management studies usually focus on positive and desirable solutions that increase the organizational effectiveness and performance. As a result, graduates of higher business schools are totally unaware of the risk associated with management misconduct that often results in corrupt scandals, erosion of public trust to their organizations, or even the collapse of profitable corporations. The last decade, in fact, has been abundant in numerous examples of corruption scandals in modern organizations and instances of management misconduct that have eroded public faith (such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, Arthur Andersen, and Parmalat).
Due to repeated misconducts and a highly active dark side, scholars started paying more attention to the so-called “dark side” of organizations, as something no longer exceptional to organizational life. This book attempts to shed light on the reality of challenges for business practices and higher education management that stem from misconduct occurring in various aspects of business and educational environment.

The Essential Guide to Business Communication for Finance Professionals

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Communication skills are a competitive advantage for today’s finance professionals. Savvy professionals know that employers want and need employees with excellent relationship building, writing, and presentation skills. The Essential Guide to Business Communication for Finance Professionals asks its readers to adopt the “communicate or die” philosophy in their approach to their careers.
Two business professors with years of experience in finance and communication offer advice and tips for approaching some of the most common business communication situations faced by today’s finance professionals. Readers will walk away from this book with tools to manage their professional image and reputation.

The Patient Paradigm Shifts: Profiling the New Healthcare Consumer

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Award-Winning Finalist in the Social Change category of the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest!!
The dynamics of health care are shifting the patient paradigm in dramatic ways. The former patient is now both a consumer and a customer. The mantra of this new consumer is “convenient, fast, simple, and high value.” Their expectations for health care are similar to what they experience in other industries such as transportation, banking, short-stay rental housing, retail shopping online, same-day deliveries, and more. Smart mobile devices enable the customer to conduct transactions at any place and at any time, and without waiting in line.
Health care providers need to offer customer service experiences similar to Apple, Amazon, Nordstrom, and other benchmark companies in order to stay competitive. The mindset of the new patient-turned-consumer has fundamentally shifted and there is no looking back.
Anyone connected to health care needs to learn the profiles of the new consumer, better understand their behaviors, and comprehend their expectations as customers who have a choice. The patient paradigm shifts tells you everything a successful business needs to know about the powerful new health care consumer.

Dark Sides of Business and Higher Education Management, Volume I

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Contemporary management studies usually focus on positive and desirable solutions that increase the organizational effectiveness and performance. As a result, graduates of higher business schools are totally unaware of the risk associated with management misconduct that often results in corrupt scandals, erosion of public trust to their organizations, or even the collapse of profitable corporations. The last decade, in fact, has been abundant in numerous examples of corruption scandals in modern organizations and instances of management misconduct that have eroded public faith (such as Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, Adelphia, Arthur Andersen, and Parmalat).
Due to repeated misconducts and a highly active dark side, scholars started paying more attention to the so-called “dark side” of organizations, as something no longer exceptional to organizational life. This book attempts to shed light on the reality of challenges for business practices and higher education management that stem from misconduct occurring in various aspects of business and educational environment.