Operations and Cash Management Series

Operations and Cash Management Series

$75.00

Now you can own all of Reginald’s books in one convenient set!

Lies, Damned Lies, and Cost Accounting

Business leaders rely on accounting data such as profit and calculated costs as a guide to whether they are making money. Should they?

Accounting was designed to report financial performance not model cash flow. Accruals can disconnect cash flow from the timing and extent to which it occurs. Statements of cash flow do not provide insight into what was bought and how efficiently it was used. Costs and profits are not absolute, they change based on the model you use to calculate them. To manage cash, you must manage what you buy and how effectively you use it. The largest expenditure for most companies is capacity; space, labor, materials, equipment, and technology. Unless you model and manage capacity effectively, you will not achieve the cash flow results you seek.

This book introduces capacity management, describes cash flow dynamics, and offers ideas about how to manage both. After reading it, you be able to see, understand, and manage cash flow as never before.

Strategic Cost Transformation

Your product costs $2.86 to make. What does the number tell you about your operations, how effectively they were run, demand, or how much money you spent on capacity? Nothing. Shouldn’t you know?

Accounting information creates a limited picture of operations and true cash performance. Strategic Cost Transformation offers a new framework, business domain management, which creates a comprehensive picture of your organization for improved cash based decision-making.

Project Profitability

Consultants and internal project teams often make substantial claims about the savings opportunities resulting from their projects. Most of the time, these claims do not come true. Project Profitability explains why these opportunities are not realized and offers a framework that will guarantee your teams identify projects that align with your strategy, calculate cash savings appropriately, and realize these cash savings upon implementation.

Customers of consulting organizations can use this book to keep their consultants honest when savings are promised. Consulting organizations can use this book to help document the value their solutions bring, how much of that value can be realized, and what’s necessary to achieve it.

If you are a consultant, you do not want to risk having your customer know the content of this book and challenge the value promise!

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume II: Building a Program

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume II: Building a Program

$34.99

This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations.

This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume I: Describing Emergency Management

Emergency Management for Healthcare, Volume I: Describing Emergency Management

$31.99

This series of books focuses on highly specialized Emergency Management arrangements for healthcare facilities and organizations. It is designed to assist any healthcare executive with a body of knowledge which permits a transition into the application of emergency management planning and procedures for healthcare facilities and organizations.

This series is intended for both experienced practitioners of both healthcare management and emergency management, and also for students of these two disciplines.

Hotel Revenue Management: The Post-Pandemic Evolution to Revenue Strategy

Hotel Revenue Management: The Post-Pandemic Evolution to Revenue Strategy

$28.99

This book guides the reader from the building blocks of revenue management, to pricing science and merchandising, and to broader issues of setting objectives in support of a revenue strategy.

The discipline is evolving, and that evolution has been accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Leaders in hotel revenue management, and more broadly in sales & marketing, need to understand these changes, and lead and adapt accordingly. This will require a strong foundation in analytics – not just modeling, but also business analytics in support of a holistic strategy.

As more of the tactics of revenue management are executed through automation, and powered by machine learning, revenue managers will become more focused on strategy, and will need to think about revenue management in the context of marketing, loyalty, and distribution. As the strategy component of the discipline increases, so too must the breadth of knowledge of revenue managers.

Strategic Data Management for Successful Healthcare Outcomes

Strategic Data Management for Successful Healthcare Outcomes

$28.99

Strategy is paramount for successful modern healthcare data management.

The healthcare landscape continues to evolve in an effort to accommodate our ever-connected world. A digital healthcare system poses new challenges and exposes existing issues as professionals—like you—strive to solve concerns. This book recognizes the unique tasks of dedicated professionals while attempting to decrease confusion on this key topic.

It’s time to discuss why strategy is important for modern healthcare data management, how strategy can create new business or upscale a business in healthcare data management, and how these tactics assist your business in gaining a competitive advantage.

Cut through the frustration generated by the staggering amount of healthcare data currently being created, collected, and distributed—this book will teach you how.

This book will help you to understand:

  • Critical types of data
  • How to strategically manage data
  • How to build better patient care
  • Tips for improving performance
  • New ways for your business to thrive

And so much more…

Lean Knowledge Management: How NASA Implemented a Practical KM Program

Lean Knowledge Management: How NASA Implemented a Practical KM Program

$28.99

Lean Knowledge Management Helped Change NASA’s Culture and It Can Do the Same for Your Organization.

NASA suffered three human spaceflight tragedies and Lean Knowledge Management was a major tool that helped NASA management implement massive cultural changes.

Traditional knowledge management is too often regarded as overly complicated or a wasteful bureaucratic exercise, but Lean Knowledge Management can become a critical component for your organization to operate effectively, efficiently and safely.

Lean Knowledge Management simplifies the process by:

  • Clearly defining your organization’s key employees,
  • Filtering the enormous amount of internal “information” into “critical knowledge”.
  • Utilizing a myriad of resources to get this critical knowledge to the people who need it most – the very people that can make your organization successful.

Repetitive mistakes and failures can cost an organization millions of dollars in lost revenue, scrap, and even lawsuits. Lean Knowledge Management strips away the academic jargon and implements a practical, cost-effective, organic program emphasizing lessons of the past.

Knowledge is free! Your hard-earned corporate knowledge is right in front of you, why risk losing it and having to pay for it all over again?

Knowledge is power! Lean Knowledge Management is a structured plan to harness that power for your organization.

Achieving Success as a 21st Century Manager

Achieving Success as a 21st Century Manager

$34.99

Becoming a Successful Executive Won’t Require Spending Thousands on Training or Years Studying in a Degree Program!

This book is about taking personal control of your management career by planning for your development outside of training sessions or university degree programs. Careers and organizations are changing rapidly so personalizing your own training and competency development is critical.

Talent management is what your employer offers you but action learning in the workplace is building your own managerial competencies without losing a single day on the job. Use this book to spot your best learning opportunities within your current job and then learn how you can plan your job assignments to build valuable, portable, and job-relevant skills.

Included in this book are self-evaluations for cognitive competence, virtual competence, emotional competence, cross-cultural competence, socialization competence, health competence, and competencies in spotting leadership differences and situational recognition.

You will find sound applied strategies in each chapter for building these competencies into strengths that will further your career in management, such as:

  • How Do I Know What Competencies I Need?
  • What Are My Strengths and What Are My Weaknesses?
  • How Do I Build Valuable Skills On-The-Job?

Project Management for Banks

Project Management for Banks

$28.99

Project management processes have been intertwined within every fabric of human evolution including advances in communication, farming, construction, medicine, law, architecture, physics, and economics to name a few. At each evolutionary stage, there was a project manager who was studying the how and why of everything, trying new techniques, and documenting trials, errors and successes until a specific craft was mastered, thrusting progress forward in an upward trajectory that has been carved into human history.

There are countless books and articles that focus on the practice of project management. What makes this book different is the focus placed largely on the project management processes for United States (U.S) bankers. This book starts with a look at the historical progression of project management processes but quickly focuses the material on project management processes for bankers, heavily leaning towards project managers in United States (U.S.) banks. The book also looks at the bank regulatory agencies that govern U.S. banks, regulations critical to the U.S banking system, and concludes with an overview of U.S. banking technologies and the management of a U.S. banking customer call center.

The book provides a comprehensive perspective on the U.S. banking project management processes, the regulatory agencies that govern and influence those processes, how technology, and more specifically, the development and use of artificial intelligence, will create a shift in the evolutionary trajectory of U.S. banking practices, and how U.S. banking project management practices will be at the core of how quickly and how successfully this evolution unfolds.

Operations Management in China, Second Edition

Operations Management in China, Second Edition

$31.99

This book takes readers inside Chinese organizations and shows how factories are built, labor is managed, goods are sourced, quality is controlled, and logistics are handled.

Leading business schools routinely offer undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in operations and supply chain management. Yet 200,000 U.S. jobs in supply chain management go unfilled each year owing to lack of talent. The talent that U.S. companies need, and that this book provides, is understanding how to make and buy products from China.

How important is China to U.S. operations? In 2018, U.S. imports from China reached $600 billion. Half of these imports were bought by U.S. manufacturers. A dependency on Chinese goods is even greater when looking at U.S. supply chains. Sixty cents of every dollar that U.S. consumers spend on goods made in China go to U.S. workers and companies.

Successful operations and supply chain managers understand manufacturing in China. This book takes readers inside Chinese organizations and shows how factories are built, labor is managed, goods are sourced, quality is controlled, and logistics are handled. Through this immersion experience, readers are able to see the opportunities and pitfalls in manufacturing in China.

Successfully Achieving Strategy Through Effective Portfolio Management

Successfully Achieving Strategy Through Effective Portfolio Management

$41.99

Organizations are successful based on their ability to achieve strategic goals.

Why didn’t you achieve your strategy? Too many organizations waste time and money on developing strategy but don’t achieve their goals. What goes wrong? Poor predictions about the future; internal politics that impact the projects selected; biases in the decision-making process, and other stumbling blocks.

This book provides the approach that significantly increases an organization’s ability to achieve its strategy. This is not a book about developing strategy. This is a book that will help you actually achieve the strategy the organization’s leadership has developed.

Strategy is necessary but it is a complete waste of time unless it is effectively turned into real results. If you want to see where an organization will be in 5 years, don’t look at its strategic goals. Look at where management spends the money.