Logistics Management : An Analytics-Based Approach

Logistics Management : An Analytics-Based Approach

$31.99

Great article by the authors that highlight this book as well as their new book Supply Chain Planning: Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance, 2nd Edition

Logistics professionals must utilize a broad array of analytic techniques and approaches for decision-making. Effective use of analytics requires an understanding of both fundamental and advanced logistics decision-making techniques and methodologies. Further, logistics professionals must organize and view these analytics-based decision support tools through well-structured planning frameworks.

In this book, we illustrate and explain a wide range of practical logistics strategies and analytic techniques to facilitate decision-making across functions such as manufacturing, warehousing, transportation and inventory management. We also describe how to organize these analytics-based tools and strategies through logistics frameworks that span strategic, tactical and operational planning and scheduling decisions.

Logistics Management is intended for logistics professionals to use as a reference document that offers ideas and guidance for addressing specific logistics management decisions and challenges, and it will also serve as a valuable resource or secondary text for graduate and advanced undergraduate students.

Process-Oriented Healthcare Management Systems: Development, Use, and Maintenance for Patient-Safe Healthcare

Process-Oriented Healthcare Management Systems: Development, Use, and Maintenance for Patient-Safe Healthcare

$37.99

Public opinion polls suggests that most Americans trusts their medical team. When people go to the physician or are admitted to the hospital, few of them worries about being harmed by the doctor, or someone else from the medical team, making a mistake. Unfortunately, mistakes do happen, and a lot of the adverse events are both preventable and serious. The most common types of preventable harm includes hospital-acquired infections, surgical error, wrong site surgery, medication errors, in-hospital injury, misdiagnosis, and deep vein thrombosis.
This book shows a new way to health care management by presenting arguments for a new approach together with some concrete advice on how health care executives and practitioners can begin to think and act differently in order to provide safe health care. The book addresses medical professionals who have recently acquired leadership and management responsibilities. It is also useful for project members working on reviewing or building a management system to support patient safety. This hands-on book presents step by step how a management system can be formed, the prerequisites for having a management system that supports the daily work, and how it can result in increased patient safety.

How to Fail at Change Management: A Manager’s Guide to the Pitfalls of Managing Change

How to Fail at Change Management: A Manager’s Guide to the Pitfalls of Managing Change

$31.99

Change management efforts often fail. Business case studies are littered with examples of failed change management efforts. Why this is so is a mystery, given the many change management models in existence, highly paid executives equipped with degrees from top-tier schools, and the millions of dollars spent in pursuit of change.

Successful change management need not be a mystery, but perhaps change management success is best learned from failed attempts at change that seemed reasonable at the time according to theory—but proved to be bad ideas in retrospect.

This book presents notable examples of attempts by experienced managers to implement bad ideas that lead to failed change so that change managers are better equipped to avoid common pitfalls in managing change.

The Business-Minded CISO: How to Organize, Evangelize, and Operate an Enterprise-wide IT Risk Management Program

The Business-Minded CISO: How to Organize, Evangelize, and Operate an Enterprise-wide IT Risk Management Program

$28.99

Information technology (IT) risk and information security management are top of mind for corporate boards and senior business leaders. Continued intensity of cyber terrorism attacks, regulatory and compliance requirements, and customer privacy concerns are driving the need for a business-minded chief information security officer (CISO) to lead organizational efforts to protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data. A CISO must be able to both develop a practical program aligned with overall business goals and objectives and evangelize this plan with key stakeholders across the organization. The modern CISO cannot sit in a bunker somewhere in the IT operations center and expect to achieve buy in and support for the activities required to operate a program. This book describes the thought process and specific activities a leader should consider as they interview for the IT risk/information security leader role, what they should do within their first 90 days, and how to organize, evangelize, and operate the program once they are into the job. It provides practical, tested strategies for designing your program and guidance to help you be successful long term. It is chock full of examples, case studies, and diagrams right out of real corporate information security programs. The Business-Minded Chief Information Security Officer is a book for success as you begin this important position within any company.

Artificial Intelligence for Risk Management

Artificial Intelligence for Risk Management

$31.99

Artificial Intelligence (AI) for risk management is about using AI to manage risk in the corporate environment. The content of this work focuses on concepts, principles, and practical applications that are relevant to the corporate and technology environments.
The authors introduce AI and discuss the different types, capabilities, and purposes–including challenges. With AI also comes risk. This book defines risk, provides examples, and includes information on the risk-management process.
Having a solid knowledge base for an AI project is key and this book will help readers define the knowledge base needed for an AI project by developing and identifying objectives of the risk-knowledge base and knowledge acquisition for risk.
This book will help you become a contributor on an AI team and learn how to tell a compelling story with AI to drive business action on risk.

How to Navigate Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures: A Concise Guide For Managers

How to Navigate Strategic Alliances and Joint Ventures: A Concise Guide For Managers

$31.99

Organizations, large and small, are realizing the importance of collaborations to achieve their business objectives. Organizations to create independent and joint values are entering into strategic alliances with their suppliers, customers, and even their competitors. Every alliance follows a lifecycle and decisions have to be taken by executives at each stage. Anticipated revenues and other sources of financial value remain unrealized if inadequate decisions are taken and alliances fail or under perform.

This book takes readers across the different stages of an alliance lifecycle and, through practical incidents, discusses and debates on the decisions to be taken. The book also demonstrates the various challenges faced by executives in an alliance. This book is perfect for managerial executives who are contemplating proposing a strategic alliance for their organizations or are part of an organization juggling various ongoing alliances, alliance managers, and business development professionals. In short, the content of the book should be of interest to anyone for whom alliances are a topic of interest.

Core Concepts of Project Management

Core Concepts of Project Management

$28.99

This book addresses project management in the context of general project management. An introductory chapter discusses project features in general. Part I of the book focuses on the important human element in project management. Part II discusses two processes involved in the initial project definition stage, as well as covering estimation. Part III involves planning, and also deals with project risk and implementation.
A feature of the book is an effort to tie content to that of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Each chapter includes reference to how each chapter relates to the PMBOK structure and relationship to the 2020 PMP Exam Outline.

Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations

Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations

$31.99

This book positions risk management as a key element in successfully managing a nonprofit organization. Risk management in nonprofits has several unique characteristics that distinguish it from risk management in for-profit organizations. The authors present and explain specifically tailored strategies and tactics for risk management in nonprofits.
Risk Management for Nonprofit Organizations is a straightforward, yet comprehensive guide that can be used to easily communicate effective risk management ideas among the various stakeholders who comprise a nonprofit organization. This is a book that can be used to educate and inform nonprofit professionals as well as the nonprofessional volunteers who are so critical to the operations of many nonprofits. It is a tool that will enhance both understanding and communication of risk management principles.
Written in clear, jargon-free language, it is a resource that can be read by board members, professional nonprofit managers, volunteers, and other stakeholders of the nonprofit organization. As a tool for building a common appreciation and understanding of risk management, this book has the potential to become a valuable asset for the nonprofit organization.

Small Business Management: A Road Map for Survival During Crisis

Small Business Management: A Road Map for Survival During Crisis

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This book gives us a holistic description of all paragons involved in small business operations during crisis years and suggests the necessary steps that need to be taken to help them overcome their problems. The author clearly demonstrates the crisis implications to small businesses by using personal research and real-life examples in addition to a big bibliography from renowned academics. The book contains useful and practical information for small business owners, entrepreneurs from all industries, business students, academics and strategists, and business coaches and can be used as a road map during turbulent periods for small business in all industries.
The text covers the topic from different approaches, giving a bird’s-eye view of contemporary trends and new approaches. Several concepts like risk management, blue ocean strategy, and turnaround management are discussed, in order to create a crystal clear understanding of why there is no such thing as dead end for small businesses—even under the worst possible situations—and how businesses can achieve sustainable development and grow.
This book was inspired by the significant problems that small and medium enterprises faced during the last huge global financial crisis.

Capital Project Management: Evolutionary Forces, Volume III

Capital Project Management: Evolutionary Forces, Volume III

$31.99

As an extension of Volumes I and II of this series, this book contains a detailed elaboration of the Tesla story, in a way that also serves to examine the interaction of technology and economic forces that determine the structural profitability of any industry, especially capital-intense industries. The economics are the “five forces” introduced to the management lexicon by strategic management scholars. Here there is strong emphasis on the interplay among product technology, production and supply chains, and “Wall Street.”
The author is a retired business professor; his research interest has been the management of technology and innovation. For this book, he double-checked none of the 1,250 media items collected, accepting their overall veracity at face value. This approach advocates no one person, no one company, no one technology, and no portion of the global automobile industry. Analysis and practical application came foremost.