The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain

The Supply Chain Revolution: Unlocking the Sustainable Profit Chain

$41.99

Does your company suffer from inventory obesity? Is the balance between your supply and demand a constant struggle?

In The Supply Chain Revolution, Art Koch unveils a masterful system for any organization to build better supply chain fundamentals and overcome the evils of inventory. This is the ultimate playbook for CEOs, COOs, and CFOs to revolutionize supply chains and convert them from cost centers to profit and value drivers.

Turn your supply chain into a powerful weapon for sustainable profitability by unlocking the power of inventory velocity with innovative strategies for process optimization, team engagement, and corporate valuation. It’s not just good management—it’s a proven competitive advantage.

Project Teams, Second Edition: A Structured Development

Project Teams, Second Edition: A Structured Development

$34.99

A project team is critical to project success which in turn leads to success of an organization. Projects are routinely conceived and executed to operationalize strategic objectives of organizations. Managing a project is challenging, as project managers and project team deal with both internal and external challenges. Complicating it further, developing, managing, and leading teams for traditional and agile projects are quite different. Furthermore, virtual teams present additional challenges for managing global projects.

Additional challenges arise when many generations from Baby Boomers to Generation Y work together in the workplace today. A systematic structuring and developing project teams is critical for successful project performance and for a strong collaborative team effort.

This book details:

  • Team development
  • Team process
  • Team performance
  • Social and behavioral skills

Project Teams addresses all these topics in detail and offers a practical approach to managing projects successfully in the current business environment by including concepts, processes, techniques, and tools to manage and enhance performance of project teams and projects.

This book is for project management professionals and management in the corporate world and will also be a useful resource for academic institutions in teaching management and project management disciplines.

Digital Leadership Framework: Cultivating the Four Key Competencies

Digital Leadership Framework: Cultivating the Four Key Competencies

$34.99

In the digital age we are currently living in, customer needs change. Industry dynamics change. Business models change. Competence requirements change. Project parameters change. However, the leadership required to drive these changes has not changed much. Most leaders continue to drive digital transformation using the old pre-digital style of leadership. As per a recent study by McKinsey, 70 percent of digital transformation projects fail. The main reason for failure is a lack of Digital Leadership.

Digital transformation is the main driver behind digital leadership. Digital leadership is the set of behaviors a leader must demonstrate in the digital age, which are: learning new skills, connecting with people, leveraging data, and delivering results. To demonstrate them successfully, one must develop the following four key competencies:

  • Growth mindset
  • Empathy
  • Informed decision-making
  • Fast execution

Each of these competencies uniquely maps to a behavior: Growth mindset enables learning, Empathy enables people connections, Informed decision-making enables leveraging data, and Fast execution enables delivering results.

This book contains a complete framework for digital leaders to develop these competencies. They can be an executive or a manager leading a team, a transformation driver, or a change agent in an organization.

The success of this book lies in how effectively the leaders cultivate the competencies and apply them at their workplace. This book is not just about information…. It’s all about transformation!

Lead With AI: Igniting Company Growth with Artificial Intelligence

Lead With AI: Igniting Company Growth with Artificial Intelligence

$31.99

Forget the hype, the tech buzzwords, and the mystifying charm of AI. If you’re not channeling AI for business success, it’s all just noise. Whether you are aiming to pioneer technological change, fuel growth through AI, or spark its transformative power, Lead with AI is your blueprint.

The author—a seasoned technologist and MIT graduate—takes us on a journey to the epicenter of modern technological evolution. From the bustling innovation hub of Kendall Square to intimate study sessions unveiling pivotal AI concepts, the book goes beyond AI’s technicalities to spotlight its applications in real-world business scenarios.

In a sea of AI content, Lead with AI stands apart. It’s not just about building AI systems; it’s about crafting an environment where AI truly thrives, delivering unmatched value.

How will the reader benefit?

This book transforms AI from a buzzword into a practical tool for industry leaders. By mastering the insights in this book, leaders, managers, and professionals will be able to:

  • Integrate AI seamlessly into strategic decision-making.
  • Recognize AI-driven opportunities throughout the company.
  • Assess AI’s potential pitfalls and limitations in business settings.
  • Boost organizational performance with AI-driven strategies.

So You Want to Start a Business: Eight Steps to Startup Success

So You Want to Start a Business: Eight Steps to Startup Success

$34.99

If you think that entrepreneurs are born and not made, it may be because you never learned the steps to starting a business.

John Vinturella, who has more than forty years of experience as an entrepreneur, explores how to sharpen business skills, identify opportunities, and take an orderly approach to business planning in this guide to becoming your own boss.

Learn how to:

  • cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset.
  • conduct market research and feasibility analyses.
  • write a comprehensive business plan.
  • overcome obstacles business owners face.

Drawing on his own experiences running a successful small business for twenty years, Vinturella lets you know what to expect as you start a business. He also shares numerous case studies based on actual companies to help you identify common mistakes and best practices in building a business.

Whether you already have a business idea, want to find one, or are considering career options, this book will improve your chances of success.

The author prepared teaching notes, lecture slides, and quantitative examples to accompany this book. Please contact [email protected] to request the ancillary materials.

Key Account Rock Stars: Raising Your Volume by Lowering Your Decibels

Key Account Rock Stars: Raising Your Volume by Lowering Your Decibels

$28.99

Key Account Rock Stars: Raising Your Volume by Lowering Your Decibels brings fresh new thoughts to the topic of Key Account Management.

This book reveals the secrets of how to successfully engage with customers and how to become organizationally savvy, plus practical tools for succeeding on the job. It is written for the practitioner and takes readers through the soft sides of the job, which is exactly what is needed to succeed and achieve career fulfillment.

Account managers must keep the relationship fresh, with creative ways to add value to the customers so customers remain genuinely satisfied with the relationship. Losing a customer will always be a burden on the individual Key Account Manager, whatever the reason for the loss.

Readers will

  • Gain awareness of what a good customer relationship looks like,
  • Learn tools to solve issues and improve ways of working,
  • And most importantly, learn how to succeed as a Key Account Manager

Remember, the importance of customer centricity is higher than ever. The decade long transition of the economy away from production towards services and the need to differentiate from the competition will certainly continue. A company today that fails to engage with the customers will not succeed; the era of making a good product and trusting it to sell itself is long gone.

Lead Then Learn: Powering Project Teams with Collaboration

Lead Then Learn: Powering Project Teams with Collaboration

$31.99

Whether you are a Project Manager just starting your career or a seasoned expert trying to introduce more collaboration into your organization, this book is for you!

This practical guide is full of collaboration templates and techniques for every type of project at any stage. It will give you ways to reduce the chaos of a startup and improve your project team’s morale.

Starting with project initiation, moving through planning, executing, and ultimately closing, and reflecting on the project are all covered. Each phase is supplemented with ways to gather input from your team, and continuously improve project processes in your organization all while ensuring your project meets expectations.

All these tools and techniques are tailored to be used with Miro – the leading collaboration tool available. That said they can be used in any collaboration setting. You can utilize these techniques wherever you are in your project by jumping into the appropriate phase or by what appeals to you and your team.

The author created downloadable resources to accompany this book. Visit projectcollaboration.ca to access the ancillary materials.

The Warehouse Revolution: Automate or Terminate

The Warehouse Revolution: Automate or Terminate

$34.99

This book is a must-read for technologists, retailers, and investors who seek to understand the warehouse automation industry and the tradeoffs of the various technologies.

It walks through an array of automation options using understandable terms. It describes the history of the industry and how e-commerce catapulted warehouse automation to the forefront of supply chain operations.

The Warehouse Revolution will also be of interest to those who are just curious and seek to understand what’s happening behind the curtain–the highly choreographed movement of people and machines that enable packages to show up at our respective doorsteps in less than a day.

Spinout Ventures: Transitioning from Employees to Entrepreneurs

Spinout Ventures: Transitioning from Employees to Entrepreneurs

$31.99

For many aspiring entrepreneurs, the path to entrepreneurship begins within the walls of established corporations. This book is uniquely tailored for employees and executives in the private sector either experiencing entrepreneurial ambitions, or dealing with them in their organizations. Whether you’re considering launching your own business or managing spinout ventures within your organization, this is your essential guide to the journey from employment to entrepreneurship.

Delve into the choices that employee entrepreneurs make and the consequences they face. If you work in or run an organization, gain insights into the processes and critical decision-making moments through real-life spinout stories like Chevrolet, Apple, Zoom, Zillow, Intel, and Electronic Arts.

Spinouts have a distinct advantage, which comes from what they inherit from their parent firms. Their advantage hinges on what they absorb or carry forward from their parent firms. While some parent companies actively support and cultivate their spinouts, leveraging them to bolster their reputation, others adopt a more defensive approach. Learn from parent firm cases like Fairchild, Palantir, AstraZeneca, Nokia, and Paypal.

Explore the controversial, yet often successful path of spinout ventures! Visit spinoutventures.net to learn more!

Proximity Marketing: Converging Community, Consciousness, and Consumption

Proximity Marketing: Converging Community, Consciousness, and Consumption

$34.99

This book discusses emerging concepts and practices of proximity marketing through theoretical foundations, design arguments, and managerial analysis. It converges the business, social, crowd, and behavioral ecosystems with the proximity marketing approaches.

Success factors of the proximity marketing in the context of customer-centric companies synchronized with crowd-based business modeling, co-creation, and coevolution initiatives have been explained through the people-oriented models. This book presents innovative concepts, best practices, and case studies on proximity marketing strategy in the emerging markets and contributes to the new concepts in business.