Strategies for Management Innovation

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This text offers a practical approach for understanding the US Army's extremely complex global logistics system, widely acknowledged as one of the largest in the world. The focus is on inventory management policy where prescriptions are illuminated through the prism of an enterprise supply chain analysis. Although Army aviation logistics examples are emphasized throughout, the fundamental issues and potential solutions are broadly applicable to other large-scale military and industrial supply ch...

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Madison, AL; Retired; U.S. Army

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This book outlines the particulars of Japanese management and how modern Japanese management employs many practices which are very successful and worth adopting. The main objective of this book is to illustrate the many teachings that Japanese management practice can offer the rest of the world. The book thus targets managers who deal with Japanese business partners, or work in Japan, students of Japanese Studies, Asian Studies or International Business.

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Tokyo, Japan; Associate professor of international management; Faculty of Liberal Arts; Sophia University

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The purpose of this book is to provide readers with an introductory overview of family business, the most prevalent form of business in the world. The differences between family and nonfamily businesses are emphasized in this book. There are several key audiences: As a supplemental text for university undergraduate or graduate level courses such as small business management, introduction to business, entrepreneurship, or family studies. Members of family businesses will benefit from the book as ...

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Riverside, CA; Professor at the Robert K. Jabs School of Business; California Baptist University

Interpretation and Sources

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Executives and managers hear or read headlines about recent economic data nearly every business day. Most important economic statistics are the products of programs designed to collect and analyze data to report summary results at regular intervals. Properly interpreted, these economic indicators provide useful barometers for different aspects of the economy and identify trends that aid better planning decisions. Economic indicators are available at the national level, state level, and even the ...

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Fresno, CA; Professor and chair of the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences; California State University, Fresno

Refreshing Math Skills for Management

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Managers and analysts routinely collect and examine key performance measures to better understand their operations and make good decisions. Being able to render the complexity of operations data into a coherent account of significant events requires an understanding of how to work well in the electronic environment with raw data. Although some statistical and financial techniques for analyzing data are sophisticated and require specialized expertise, there are methods that are understandable and...

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Fresno, CA; Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences; California State University, Fresno

Exploration and Inference

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Managers and analysts routinely collect and examine key performance measures to better understand their operations and make good decisions. Being able to render the complexity of operations data into a coherent account of significant events requires an understanding of how to work well with raw data and to make appropriate inferences. Although some statistical techniques for analyzing data and making inferences are sophisticated and require specialized expertise, there are methods that are under...

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Fresno, CA; Professor of Information Systems and Decision Sciences; California State University, Fresno

Investing Strategies for the Post-Recession World

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Most 'managerial economics' textbooks are thinly disguised microeconomics texts: highly theoretical, too dependent on abstract and unproven assumptions, and simply undigestible by busy, practical-minded executives/readers. Furthermore, such texts leave it up to the reader to apply their lessons so as to gain value from the knowledge, and to reinforce that knowledge through practice. The 'theory of the firm' does not resonate with most corporate executives. But in fact, economic forces drive the ...

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Eugene, OR; Professor of Business Administration, Lundquist College of Business; University of Oregon Philip J. Romero Professor of Finance and former Business Dean, University of Oregon former Chief Economist, State of California

Making Skills a Competitive Advantage

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This book explores corporate training in the context of deploying strategic initiatives within organisations. It goes beyond merely explaining strategy, to investigating how it relates to skills training, and how companies can leverage this to implement their initiatives. Drawing on real-life client examples and the inspirational stories of highly successful individuals, this book highlights approaches that have transformed organisations and re-invented training. It dispels myths that exist arou...

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France; Founder; Korda & Partners

A Self-Paced Workbook for Newly Appointed CEOs and Executives

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This workbook is designed for CEOs, Executives and Senior Managers who have been assigned to a new position with sufficient authority, if not a mandate, to enact change in the organization. Even in situations where there is no overt instruction to effect change, the New Executive is expected to improve the situation, which in fact means to change things. It is expected of him or her, wittingly or unwittingly. The high failure rate of New Executives can be explained either by a too-rapid rush to ...

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Chicago, IL; Founder; Liebowitz & Associates, PC.

A Guide for International Managers

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The book targets managers in international business and teams. Students who study international business or plan to study overseas will also benefit from reading the book. The overall objective of the book is to present the main theories on cross-cultural management and prepare them for cross-cultural encounters in international business. The book closes with advice on how to prepare for an overseas assignment.

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Tokyo, Japan; Associate professor of international management; Faculty of Liberal Arts; Sophia University

The Five Critical Elements

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The subject of organizational change is receiving increasing attention. Whether it is re-inventing government, re-engineering corporations, or reforming churches, all kinds of organizations are attempting major transformations. This book will "walk" you through our framework of the five ingredients of transformation: Burning Platform, why should you do anything; Vision, where are you going; Leadership, are you leading the effort, and do you have the skills necessary to lead; Technical Plan, how...

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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Associate Professor; University of Alberta

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In the past, vertical integration was a way to gain efficiency in supply chains. Today, vertical integration doesn't work as well because specialty organizations have developed to perform specific tasks very efficiently. Efficiency through supply chains is achieved today by linking specialists throughout the vertical business hierarchy. This sort of linkage is possible because of the technology that has developed which facilitates it, making today supply chains both faster and more cost effectiv...

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Lincoln, NE; University of Nebraska; James and H. K. Stuart Professor in Management Information Systems and Chancellors Professor;

Practical Frameworks for Superior Performance

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In today's competitive global economy, a firm's market position and bottom-line financial performance is closely linked to its supply chain performance. All too often considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities and processes with little in the way of tangible results and outcomes. What supply chain executives require is the know-how to efficiently and effectively direct their planning activities so that the results lead to better business decisions from the long-ter...

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Radnor Township, PA; Professor; Villanova University; Matthew J. Liberatore is the John F. Connelly Chair in Management and Director of the Center for Business Analytics at the Villanova School of Business (VSB), Villanova University. He previously ser

The Right Product in the Right Place at the Right Time The Right Product in the Right Place at the Right Time

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Every company must continually wrestle with the problem of deciding the right quantity and mix of products or services that it should produce as well as when and where to produce them. The problem is challenging because the decision must be made with uncertain and conflicting information about future demand, available production capacity, and sources of supply. The decision is in fact a highly complex balancing act, involving tradeoffs along many dimensions - for example, inventory targets vs. c...

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Boston, MA; Consultant; Analytics Operations Engineering

Tools for Analysis

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One of the many outcomes resulting from the explosion of international trade is access to lower cost production opportunities through outsourcing. This phenomenon has increased the importance of supply chains, the information technology needed to coordinate them and the need for this relatively complex enterprise to be exceptionally well-managed. There are obviously many cost benefits to be had from maintaining a strong and far-reaching supply chain. However, this opportunity to lower costs enta...

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Lincoln, NE; University of Nebraska; James and H. K. Stuart Professor in Management Information Systems and Chancellors Professor;

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The purpose of this book is to trace the history of globalization and its impact on supply chain management and to look at the problems and some of the solutions facing global supply chains in the current era. The current challenge is surviving the challenge of global competition. Good supply chain management can be a valuable tool in winning this competition.

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Mosbach, Germany; Guest professor; Baden-Wurtemburg Cooperative State University

Designing Socially and Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains

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If you are a supply chain manager, entrepreneur, executive, or a stakeholder, this book will help you develop the awareness and skills needed to support sustainable supply chain management. The authors introduce the many ways that social and environmental responsibility can be integrated into supply chain management, from sustainable product and process design to programs and techniques that support product end-of-life management. The book begins with the initial stages of strategy and policy de...

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Portland, OR; Willamette Industries Professor of Supply Chain Management; Portland State University; Madeleine (Mellie) Pullman is the Willamette Industries Professor of Supply Chain Management at Portland State University. She earned her PhD in Busi

Managing for Wealth and Corporate Health

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Environmental and sustainability reporting involves nonfinancial and financial indicators of an organization's impact on environmental, economic, and social dimensions of their operations. This book is intended for MBA students, executives, and managers who can discover the internal and external benefits of environmental and sustainability reporting, the basics of reporting, and the reaction of the investment community.

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Muncie, IN; Associate professor of accounting; Ball State University

An Executive's Primer

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This book is a brief introduction to sustainability as it applies to business and offers an overview of how sustainability is applied throughout the organization. Chapters are organized by familiar departments or functions of the business and cover the applications and terminology of sustainability throughout each area. Whether you are an executive, an entrepreneur, an employee, or a business student, this book will help you understand the big picture of what it means to be a sustainable busines...

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Tahlequah, OK; Associate Professor and MBA Director; Northeastern State University

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The book can be viewed from the perspective of a medium to large firm's journey towards sustainability. A firm that wants to be sustainable considers the triple bottom line when making decisions, i.e., the firm takes into account economic (profit), environmental (planet), and social (people) impacts when making decisions. By focusing on the triple bottom line (3Ps), the firm ensures a steady supply of inputs such as raw materials and labor indefinitely. The first step towards sustainability is a...

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Bloomington, IN; Professor; Kelley School of Business

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This book is unique in that it does not simply discuss an author's practitioner experience or present a summary of academic research on what makes projects succeed. Rather, this book does not hide the real complexity of the issue and does not attempt to introduce the reader to some elusive nonexistent boilerplate solution. The book does include real world experience and does summarize academic research, but it also treats outsourcing for what it is -- an incredibly complex process. There are how...

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Philadelphia, PA; Professor of Management Information Systems; Drexel University

Strategies for Entry and Growth

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Mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures in the Middle East have developed rapidly between 2000 and 2008, driven by strong economic growth, increasing openness to foreign investment and an appetite for deals among local and foreign investors. Given restrictions on foreign ownership, M&A activity has been nearly all by companies from within the Middle East, whereas outside investors have entered into joint ventures. Over time, greater openness will make M&A as well as joint ventures valid options...

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Dubai, UAE; Professor; Zayed University

The Dynamics of the Family Owned Firm

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Family businesses are a breed unto themselves. Though they share many features in common with other business models, they possess unique traits that clearly differentiate them. Similarly, though consultation to family buisnesses is in many respects what other businesses experience when seeking assistance, those features that set family business consultation apart are so distinctive that failure to honor and understand them can (and does) too often lead to disaster. The needs of those family mem...

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Chicago, IL; Founder; Liebowitz & Associates, PC.

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This book is based upon detailed research on the behavior and skills of successful negotiators. From this research, the book extracts Five Golden Rules along with simple tools and techniques which, if applied, guarantee a successful negotiation outcome. The book itself is based upon a fictional buyer- salesperson relationship. The book starts with the two protagonists meeting over lunch on the day the Buyer is due to retire. They begin to discuss their business relationship over the years and th...

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France; Principal; Korda & Partners

Consumer Resistance in Retail

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The book highlights research undertaken by marketers, social researchers and anthropologists who have an interest in this field. Anti consumption is of relevance to practitioners and academics as it is important to understand consumer trends and values. The book has a particular relevance to professionals employed in marketing, retail and associated industries, who need to consider anti consumption as an influence on their target markets. The study of anti consumption can be seen as the 'flip si...

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Australia Senior Lecturer, Graduate Business School; Deakin University

Masters of the Global Game

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This book is about people - extraordinary people who have the unique mindset and capability to survive and thrive in the complex and often confounding world of global business. Based on interviews with more than 100 internationalistsA" from all corners of the world, and supplemented with academic research, the book analyzes and identifies those characteristics, shows how their presence benefits organizations, then offers strategies for companies to find, to use, and to keep this important human ...

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Seattle, WA; President; Simon and Barklee, Inc.

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This book describes the role of the controller in a nonpublic company (small business), and provides a detailed 'how to' guidance of the various duties and responsibilities the controller of a nonpublic company may be required to assume. It describes the functions many small business controllers usually perform. The audience for this portfolio is new controllers for small business and/or those aspiring to become controllers.

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Manchester, NH; Professor of Accounting and Taxation; Southern New Hampshire University

Serving Students as Customers for Institutional Growth

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If you are a professional interested in reorganizing or restructuring your higher education or postsecondary institutions, youll need this book. Inside, the author smartly examines the needs of learners in the 21st century, the rise of for-profit highereducation institutions, and the technological innovations impacting postsecondary education. Kazeroony provides examples of administrative processes and how to satisfy regulatory agencies standards to take advantage of a particular marketing niche...

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Inver Grove Heights, MN; Professor; Minnesota State Universities and Colleges system at Inver Hills

How to Be Effective Inside and Outside the Boardroom

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This book provides an overview of the organizational mechanisms of TMT impact. When having finished this book, readers will know how a TMT exerts influence and have more insight in how to make TMTs more effective in their organizations. Insight into the ways in which TMTs influence their organizations can benefit practicing top managers, as well as non-executive directors, consultants, team coaches etc. It may help them in establishing early indicators of organizational performance, selecting n...

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St. Gallen, Switzerland; Assistant professor; University of St. Gallen

Applying the 80/20 Rule

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Virtually every business seeks to increase its profit from customers, but few business executives realize that a universal principle governs their customer profitability. They may be applying the 80/20 rule to sales, quality control, investing, production, or other business functions without realizing that the 80:20 ratio actually summarizes the Pareto distribution of inputs to outputs. According to his equilibrium theory of relationships, stability is reached when inputs in the top 20% generate...

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Daytona Beach, FL Consultant

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A central theme to the text is in fact that the commercial process is central to the human condition. The onus to exchange, the bartering of the fruits of one's labor, achieved by physical work or applied knowledge, with another is the natural condition of humankind. It separates us from all other species on earth and underscores humankind's desire to reach out and touch - integrate with others. Such natural process, the trade initiative, is the root of modern globalization. It is also the prime...

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Tempe, AZ Retired: Profressor, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University

Best Practices

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New opportunities are emerging constantly, as part of the globalization process creating new markets, with new players and challenging current business practices. Creating or exploiting opportunities on an individual basis is not the best practice: it is much more productive (and much less risky) to participate in national Trade Promotion Programs designed and implemented with government assistance. In recent years, Trade Promotion Institutions have developed national strategies and new tools to...

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Geneva, Switzerland; Vice President for External Relations; International University in Geneva; and professor in cross cultural business negotiations; He is also visiting professor at the Paris School of Management.

A Transformative Model for Tomorrow's Leaders

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The challenge facing leaders in the 21st century is to restore stakeholder trust, build employee commitment, and create organizations that are able to sustain long-term competitive advantage. Great leadership combines both character and competence, but corporate values must include excellence and quality as well as integrity and honesty. Creating organizational systems that reinforce and support core values and that achieve outstanding performance must be founded upon principles that work on th...

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Norwich, CT; Norwich University; Singapore in 2012 to teach for James Cook University in the fall 2012.

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Customers are increasingly demanding higher levels of speed and quality, yet leaders often focus mainly on reducing the costs of operations. This book outlines the needed evolution in leadership attitudes and behaviors in the key operational areas such as new product development, sales, operations, customer service, human resources, finance, and information technology.

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CT Consultant

Waiting Line Applications

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The intent of this book is to help business practitioners and students expand their knowledge of how waiting line analysis can be used to address situations beyond the simple examples they were presented in basic operations courses. Throughout the book, practical examples are given and worked out to aid in understanding the material presented. Some emphasis is given to the caveats in applying waiting line theory and the importance of being aware of the assumptions used in developing that theory....

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Corvallis, OR; Consultant

Achieving Stretch Goals, Efficiently

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Efficient planning and superior execution against clear objectives is the way companies operate best. For many companies, the planning process is carefully orchestrated, objectives are set, budgets are negotiated, resources are allocated, and then it's up to the organization to execute. But what happens when the unexpected occurs? Say, an event occurs that throws the status quo into turmoil. What if your business declines by 40% in 1 month, what do you do? Conversely, what if your demand spikes ...

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West Lafayette, IN; Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management and the director of the Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises (DCMME) and the Global Supply Chain Management Initiative (GSCMI) at the Krannert School of M

Increasing Employee Productivity

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A mythology has arisen in American business that being 'tough' and unreasonable are keys to extracting high productivity from employees. But profound demographic and cultural changes are suggesting just the opposite. This book explains how to achieve higher productivity through positive management and how to use PM in a variety of situations, including difficult and negative ones.

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Madison, SD; Professor; Dakota State University

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One of the most significant developments in recent years has been the emergence of global markets, which has triggered opportunities for multinational firms to seek business across national borders. Global markets offer unlimited opportunities. But competition in these markets is intense. To be globally successful, companies must learn to operate and compete in multiple environments which may be different from the home environment. One important prerequisite for success in foreign markets is the...

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Geneva, Switzerland; Vice President for External Relations; International University in Geneva; and professor in cross cultural business negotiations; He is also visiting professor at the Paris School of Management.

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Pricing analytics uses historical sales data with mathematical optimization to set and update prices offered through various channels in order to maximize profit. With this outstanding contribution to this subject, you will learn just how to identify and exploit pricing opportunities in different business contexts. Each chapter looks at pricing from an economist's viewpoint beginning with the basic concept of pricing analytics and what type of data are needed to use this powerful science; the co...

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Groningen, Netherlands; Assistant Professor in the Operations Group; University of Groningen, Faculty of Economics and Business

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Process Mapping & Management is a 10-chapter book comprised of three sections: Process mapping mechanics, process improvement analysis, and process redesign and justification. Written for executives and graduate students the text offers practical techniques for simplifying and improving business processes that are immediately actionable. The improvement analysis is based on lean six sigma techniques and discusses leaning for the removal of process waste, cleaning for improving the remaining step...

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Dallas, TX; Director, IT and IT Service Management Programs; University of Dallas

A Comprehensive Guide for Managers

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This book covers the area of unpaced, unbalanced production lines. You will find an up-to-date discussion of how designing these lines can be made more efficient by taking advantage of inherent imbalance -- for example operators who work at different speeds- a concept which has traditionally been seen as an obstacle to efficient production. A series of experiments are presented to illustrate the issues involved in improving performance through production line imbalance. This area is of interest ...

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France; Associate professor in the Department of Finance and Operations; ESC Rennes School of Business

Understanding and Building Business and Economic Models Using Excel

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This book covers essential elements of building and understanding regression models within the context of business and economics. It is a nonmathematical treatment that is accessible, even to readers with limited statistical backgrounds. It is useful for business professionals, MBA students and others who seek to understand regression analysis without having to work through tedious mathematical and statistical theory. The importance of using regression models in modern business and economic anal...

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Mt. Pleasant, MI; Professor, Department of Marketing; Central Michigan University

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Regression analysis is the most commonly used statistical method in the world. Although few would characterize this technique as simple, regression is in fact both simple and elegant. The complexity that many attribute to regression analysis is often a reflection of their lack of familiarity with the language of mathematics. But regression analysis can be understood even without a mastery of sophisticated mathematical concepts. This book provides the foundation and will help demystify regression...

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Hattiesburg, MS; Full professor at the International Policy and Development Doctoral Program; University of Southern Mississippi; Dr. Shahdad Naghshpour received the Distinguished Professorship Award for 2008-09 in the category of Research, and in 1999,

A Path to Increased Profits

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This book will present the topic of revenue management from a managerial accounting and financial management perspective. Its audience includes finance and accounting executives and managers, CPAs and consultants, and MBA and EMBA students and faculty interested in managerial accounting and financial management. It adds a field of parallel interest to the well-established field of cost management. The topic is important as individuals in the above-mentioned audience need to analyze revenue manag...

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Buffalo, NY; Retired: Professor; State University of New York at Buffalo

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This book places revenue management at the forefront of management accounting with cost management and performance measurement in supporting roles. Revenue management introduces new ideas such as yield management, while uniting previously disparate subjects such as project management, capacity costing, and the theory of constraints. Methods of pricing and their associated strategies are included as well as techniques for segmenting consumer markets.

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Auckland, New Zealand; Associate professor; University of Auckland

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The quality and effectiveness of decisions made within an organization and its supply chain depend upon the accuracy and timeliness of the information upon which they are based. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology that can provide more accurate information in near real time and thus increase the quality and timeliness of decisions based on that information. RFID systems are currently in use in areas such as inventory management, process control, asset tracking and monitoring, a...

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Huntsville, TX; Assistant professor of management, as well as the Director of the Sower Business Technology Laboratory (SBTL); Sam Houston State University

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This book, written by a 30-year veteran in planning, market research, and running a business, shows you how to educate your guesses with real world common sense, to make practical business forecasts, and to use them to manage your business better. While it goes through some of the more sophisticated techniques as well, its focus is on what people really use. The book includes cases, stories, examples, and real experience.

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Palo Alto, CA; President and founder; Palo Alto Software

Making the Most of Your Investment

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Contemporary sales organizations are spending billions of dollars or euros on sales technologies with the objective of streamlining the sales process, enhancing sales force productivity, and improving customer relationships. A variety of sales technologies exist such as customer relationship management (CRM) software, mobile sales force automation (SFA) applications, contact management software, and territory planning applications, to name just a few. In spite of the amount being invested in suc...

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Athens, Greece; Lecturer of Marketing; Athens University of Economics & Business Department of Marketing & Communication

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Targets are an important part of our work life, whether we are setting them or meeting them. Target setting forms part of the budgeting process and the performance management of business units and individuals. Unfortunately the behavioral impacts of target setting on performance are not well understood, and this can lead to serious consequences such as game playing. Target setting is an under-researched area. This book will help you fill the gap in target setting for performance. The pivotal iss...

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Dunedin, New Zealand; Senior lecturer in the Department of Accountancy and Finance at the School of Business; University of Otago

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In the hard-fought business world, only one new business in 20 lives to see its fifth anniversary. Typical management books do not address the unique nuances of early stage companies. Most entrepreneurial books often profile successful entrepreneurs or companies who are better known, which usually includes only the small percentage that achieve stratospheric success. Growing Your Own Business shares the secrets of long-term survival and success, detailing practical guidelines and relevant "tales...

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New York, NY; President; Atma Global, Inc.

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Statistics is the branch of mathematics that deals with real-life problems. As such, it is an essential tool for economists. Unfortunately, the way you and many other economists learn the concept of statistics is not compatible with the way economists think and learn. The problem is worsened by the use of mathematical jargon and complex derivations. Here's a book that proves none of this is necessary. All the examples and exercises in this book are constructed within the field of economics, thus...

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Hattiesburg, MS; Full professor at the International Policy and Development Doctoral Program; University of Southern Mississippi; Dr. Shahdad Naghshpour has over 65 publications in journals, such as Journal of Economics and Finance; Review of Regional

Creating Store Space That Encourages Buying

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In an age of self-service stores, saturated markets and ever more demanding customers, the careful and science-driven design of the point of sale has become a crucial success factor for both retailers and service businesses. In this book, the interested reader will find a variety of hands-on suggestions on how to optimize the design of retail stores and service environments to increase customer satisfaction and sales. While the focus is on the practical applicability of the concepts discussed, t...

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Vienna, Austria; Associate professor of marketing and business administration; University of Vienna President of Market Mentor

A Structured Approach

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Strategy and strategic planning at the firm level often gets a bad reputation because managers aren't trained in it and the tools are unfamiliar, infrequently used and often poorly applied. The outcomes of these efforts can therefore be incomplete, biased, and far too subjective -- and the results disappointing. One purpose of this book is to overcome this problem of familiarity by developing a systematic approach to conducting a strategic analysis. From assessing the general industry environmen...

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Erie, PA; Associate Professor of Management; Penn State, Erie

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Increasing business competition is compelling managers not only to develop realistic and achievable strategies but also to analyze goals in financial terms and to evaluate performance. Whether in manufacturing, service, or the non-profit sector managers need to know the key methods and techniques of cost analysis. The interaction of the organisation's activities, the influences of the external world and the responsibilities of managers need to be captured in financial terms to plan, control and ...

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China; Bristol, United Kingdom; Dean, Guangzhou International Business School; Guangzhou College South China University of Technology; Professor Emeritus; University of the West of England

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As an executive in today's economy, your organization may have limited resources and bench strength. How can you and other leaders make the most of your company's assets? This book will instruct you and leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal combination of projects and other work. Inside, you'll learn how to manage every project stage, as well as instruct your project managers and direct reports to follow your ...

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Cincinnati, OH; Castellini Distinguished Professor of Management; Xavier University; Timothy J. Kloppenborg is the Castellini Distinguished Professor of Management at Xavier University Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He has nearly 100 publications. His previo

Writing a Marketing Plan

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Eighty percent of small to medium sized new businesses fail within 2 years of their inception. Ninety percent of businesses close after 10 years of operation. While many factors contribute to failure, the lack of an organized, measurable, strategic marketing plan often is the underlying cause. Creating a strategic marketing plan for your business may appear to be a daunting task. Indeed, many business owners do not create a strategic marketing plan or the plan they create is flawed due to the la...

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Broken Arrow, OK Founder AMSI Marketing Consulting

Fundamentals for Small Business

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Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage. This book is about the fundamentals of strategic planning for the small business owner and his or her leadership team. Strategic planning is an essential process for every size business. While large businesses may have more resources and time to devote to strategic planning, small businesses have the advantage of being close to their stakeholders and the ability to move quic...

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Morrow, GA; Professor of management in the School of Business; Clayton State University

Government Resources for International Business, Sixth Edition

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This sixth edition of a national bestseller is organized the way businesspeople think--by product rather than by agency. It is a comprehensive, yet user-friendly, resource for navigating the products and services of various U.S. and foreign government agencies as well as multilateral organizations including the International Finance Corporation and Inter-American Development Bank.

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Washington, DC President; Delphos International

Beyond Continuous Improvement

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In order to survive and attain and maintain market leadership, organizations must engage in longer-term strategic quality activities to address radical -- possibly paradigm-shifting -- improvements that might affect the organization and its competitive position. Doing so requires a different way of thinking and acting by leaders and managers. This is known as insightful thinking, and this book can show you how to achieve this kind of success. This book is about how to think differently about qu...

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Huntsville, TX; Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Operations Management; Sam Houston State University

Its Creation, Development, and Protection

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Intellectual Property Rights have been a part of the American pantheon of types of Property Rights since the beginning of the nation, but using the term to describe a particular type of property right is a new phenomenon dating to the second half of the last century. The recognition of the importance of protection of intellectual property rights became extremely important and distinctly more difficult at that time as new technologies made it possible for unscrupulous 'intellectual property pirat...

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New Orleans, LA; Professor, Department of Marketing and Logistics; The University of New Orleans

Pathways to Personal and Corporate Impact

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The book is attractive to the target readers for the following reasons : 1) there has been a growing interest in the topic of social entrepreneurship and yet there are limited academic materials, this book will offer a concise, straight-forward compilation of theories, concepts, and cases, 2) with globalization, students and executives have been empowered to make positive impact around the world; this book will identify and discuss viable strategies, 3) in today's business environment, many stud...

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Decatur, IL; Associate professor of international business; Millikin University

Using Web 2.0 Strategies for Success

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Don't know a blog from a tweet? After reading this book, you'll not only understand these terms, you'll be able to use them to market your business! This book is your introduction to Marketing 2.0. It shows you how to leverage new media tools like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and the New Media Press Release to grow your business and your followers, as well as how to participate in meaningful conversations with past, present, and future customers

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El Cajon, CA; Managing Partner; Egg Marketing & Public Relations

The Death of Wisdom: Why Our Companies Have Lost It--and How They Can Get It Back

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Conceived less than 20 years ago, Knowledge Management (KM) is the business discipline about which managers perhaps know the least. Having spent pots of money investing in it, the benefits are still marginal. This is because practitioners are still feeling their way. Now that the boom days are temporarily over, it is timely that KM can be more fully exploited, for it conceals an application that is indispensable for the foreseeable struggle ahead - and after, including an overlooked way out of t...

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London, UK; President; Pencorp

Begging for a Bigger Role

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This book points up a significant area that has been, and is being, overlooked - education. This book describes a set of innovative management tools that will help organizations and their 'walkabout' decision makers cope with the new workplace environment of corporate amnesia alongside individuals' short, selective and defensive memory. It outlines a 'how-to' plan to overcome the corporate equivalent of Alzheimer's, which will also be around when economic conditions improve.

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London, UK; President; Pencorp

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This book develops a new model for lean management. The intent is to demonstrate a model framework consisting of four critical components: leadership, culture, team and tools. The development of the model and these four components will be built from empirical theories reported in the research literature and in successful applications. This framework will offer a path to develop lean leaders with practical, actionable guidelines. The model framework is suited to broad applications offering practi...

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Rochester, MI; Professor; Oakland University

The Story of a Cruise Line Transformation

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Every business aspires to be competitive and profitable in its market. To do this, an organization needs to offer customers value propositions, which may be manifest in the product it produces or the service it provides. This in turn will create customer loyalty and growth. There are a number of organizational philosophies and strategies used by businesses to help accomplish this goal, among which are the concepts of Six Sigma and Lean. This book proposes to integrate the best practices from eac...

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Allendale, MI; Chairperson and Professor of Management, Seidman College of Business; Grand Valley State University; Jaideep Motwani, PhD, is chairperson and professor of management at Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, since

Turning Knowledge into Action

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Learning Organizations: Turning Knowledge into Actions discusses the importance of transforming traditional organizations into learning organizations-- entities that foster a culture of continuous learning so that external change in all its facets can be recognized when it happens and internal change can be effected and managed when necessary. Learning organizations are poised to transform knowledge into actions, which become best practices that ultimately lead to improved performance. The book ...

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Dudley, MA; Assistant Professor of Management, the International Business Chair, and Director of Academic Programs at the Graduate and Professional Studies department; Nichols College

The People-Centered Approach to Firing and Laying Off Employees

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Whether they do so willingly or not, employees get terminated all the time. It's simply a fact of business. But poorly executed terminations may result in challenges ranging from short term annoyances to complete brand destruction. Terminations must be done right! This book covers why terminating employees correctly is important and provides a framework for doing so. It covers both firings and layoffs. This book reviews terminations from the organizational perspective, not from the legal perspec...

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Columbia, MD; Consultant

10 Keys to Survival and Success When Interviewing and on the Job

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This book is a unique guide to creating a thriving career, no matter what stage your career path is in. It outlines 10 Keys which engage you in creating your own success in any organizational culture. You can take the necessary steps toward sustaining the quality of your career, and this book is your guide. The 10 Keys ensure that you can manage your career by thinking about your needs and the needs of the organization, and how you can satisfy both.

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Boston, MA; Former professor; Harvard Business School

Evaluating the Right Dose

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The metaphor of dosage offers us a rich organizing principle for managers. It focuses our efforts on such fundamental, pragmatic communication issues as: amount, frequency, delivery system, sequencing, interaction with what other agents, and contraindications. It suggests compelling new answers to fundamental problems that all managers must face, with an appreciation of basic issues beyond our conscious awareness. In our day-to-day lives - whether we are discussing things with our housing contr...

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Lexington, KY; Professor in the Department of Communication; University of Kentucky

Concepts and Principles

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Economic principles inform good business decision making. Although economics is sometimes dismissed as a discourse of practical relevance to only a relatively small circle of academicians and policy analysts who call themselves economists, sound economic reasoning benefits any manager of a business, whether they are involved with production/operations, marketing, finance, or corporate strategy. Along with enhancing decision making, the field of economics provides a common language and framework...

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Fresno, CA; Professor and chair of the Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences; California State University, Fresno

A Supply Chain Perspective

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Every business is exposed to financial risk stemming from commodity price volatility. Risk exposure may be direct from the prices paid for raw materials needed for operations or indirect from higher energy and transportation costs. The purpose of this book is to provide an approach that organizations can implement to manage commodity price volatility and reduce their exposure to financial risk. This topic is important for current and future supply chain professionals due to the significant direc...

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Bowling Green, OH; Associate Professor; Bowling Green State University

Dispelling Myths and Fostering Evidence-Based Retention Strategies

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Get ready to deal with 'pent-up' turnover! When the job market improves, many employees who have had few options will be looking for new alternatives. Employee turnover can be expensive, disruptive, and damaging to organizational success. Despite the importance of successfully managing turnover, many retention management efforts are based on misleading or incomplete data, generic best practices that don't translate, or managerial gut instinct at odds with research evidence. We synthesize volumes...

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Memphis, TN; First Tennessee Professor of Management; University of Memphis

Principles and Processes for Promoting Good, Right, and Virtuous Conduct

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It was once believed that business and ethics constituted separate and mutually exclusive realms. Businesses that perpetuate such a belief or still hold that 'business ethics' is an oxymoron are at risk. If you are a manager, you may have been called on to actively promote ethical-organizational integrity. But this means understanding the defining principles of and creating an organizational culture that measurably encourages ethical conduct. This book will help provide you and other managers wi...

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South Orange, NJ; Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy; Seton Hall University

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This book dispels these myths and shows that people rely on the relation-based system not owing to specific cultural factors, but because of the stage of development in these countries. When the market is limited in scale and informal networks are thick, the relation-based system can be quite effective and efficient.

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Norfold, VA; E. V. Williams Fellow and Professor of International Business; Old Dominion University

Strategies for Effective Communication

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This book will examine the profession of investor relations from the practical standpoint. The book will define what investor relations is, what investor relations professionals do, what skills and competencies are required to become a successful investor relations practitioner and, finally, how to outsource investor relations services. Investor relations is a profession on the borderline between communication, finance and law. This book will address each of these three competencies as essential...

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Hamden, CT; Assistant professor at the Department of Public Relations; Quinnipiac University

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Virtual teams are an integral part of today's global business environment. Traditional face-to-face communication is frequently being replaced with technology mediated communication methods including phone, email, fax, synchronous chat programs, and videoconferencing. While virtual teams offer various advantages to organizations and individuals in flexibility and the ability to overcome geographic distance, they face unique challenges. Virtual teams are often made up of members of various cultur...

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Nacogdoches, TX; Associate Dean; Stephen F. Austin State University

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This book outlines and illustrates strategies that you must employ to protect your intellectual property. There are legal means available to you, and this book defines these means and explains them in plain language. If you want to protect your innovative product and service from your competition this book shows you how. It also provides you with the steps and actions needed to generate competitive advantage and profit for your company.

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Cleveland, OH; Malachi Mixon III Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies; Case Western Reserve University

Capturing Formal and Tacit Knowledge to Improve Performance

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Workflow, process, or business process mapping has been discovered by organizations of all kinds as being a powerful tool to analyze and improve their internal processes. It has attracted major attention from software vendors, including Oracle and IBM, who market systems that are designed to map processes and quantify all aspects of their operations. These systems can be very effective at capturing the formal or explicit knowledge inherent to any workflow; however, a long-term problem with these...

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Newark, DE; University of Delaware; President; Transition Assistance Associates

Questioning to Create Difference

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The ideas presented in this book explain marketing thinking and how to cultivate it, and ultimately, the ways in which marketplace differences are created. Instead of offering marketing steps, processes, and models, the focus here is on developing the practitioner's thinking rather than providing some formulaic series of steps, processes, and/or models based upon someone else's thinking. This provocative perspective requires a deeper reading and thinking about many of the familiar notions found ...

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Montclair, NJ; Associate Professor of marketing; Montclair State University

Bringing Together the Academic and Popular Literature

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This book is designed to provide a roadmap for business students worldwide. The broad scope of academic research coupled with real-world application makes this book unique. It describes the contemporary and historical premise of motivation today. Each chapter has one or two theoretical concepts interwoven with motivational literary scholars. The heart of the book is based on the premise that many people read motivational books by non-academics such as Tony Robins and miss out on the theoretica...

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Ft. Lauderdale, FL; President, Motivational Leadership Training; Distance Education and Training Council

Turmoil in Top Management Teams

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This book provides executives with an in-depth look at the consequences of M&As for acquired top management teams. It examines M&As as a corporate growth strategy, the importance of top management teams to a firm's long-term performance, the reasons why executives depart after an acquisition, and the effects of these departures on target company performance.

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New Orleans, LA; Jack & Vada Reynolds Chair in International Business Director, International Business Center; Loyola University New Orleans

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The service process design landscape is changing, with a much broader range of design options now available. Opportunities for new service design configurations are being supported, to a large extent, by technology-enabled innovations; many tasks previously performed by the service provider may now be performed by either the customer or the service provider. As a result, customers are playing a more active role in the service process not only through self-service but also by providing informatio...

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Boston, MA; Associate Professor of Operations Management; Boston College; Joy M. Field is associate professor of operations management in the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. She received an MBA, an MS in statistics, and a PhD in operat

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This book explores how naturally connected organizations ( NCOs) can survive and thrive in an increasingly unpredictable world using the principles of natural connectivity, organic growth and collaboration. It shows how naturally connected organizations are resilient through cycles of boom and bust. The book argues that the success of these organizations is in their design, and that they are the organizations of the 2lst century. They demonstrate that a natural way of running a global business...

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Singapore Think on Your Feet International, Inc.

People Power

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This book outlines a critical approach to developing employee talent within your company-strategy dynamics. It removes the shroud of mystery from effectively attaining desired performance outcomes by clearly defining the links between people issues and performance. It is well illustrated and provides real-world examples along with action checklists to drive and monitor results.

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London, England; Professor; London Business School

Learning, Differentiation, and Innovation

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This book will focus on the up-front activities required for product and service differentiation, the learning methodologies that contribute to arriving at that differentiation, and the role that technology plays in implementing the process. The book will show how technology factors into such entrepreneurial activities as engaging in business planning and utilizing creativity and innovation, and how creative innovation, in turn, is achieved and enhanced through an understanding of two different ...

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Buffalo, NY; Professor in the Department of Management Science and Systems in the School of Management; State University of New York at Buffalo

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This outstanding new title introduces at a high level the actual relationships between branding, strategy, and corporate performance. It provides a fresh perspective on, and approach for, developing robust customer-focused strategy and describes the important role of the brand in competing successfully for stakeholder choice. Developing Winning Brand Strategies adds significant value providing a holistic, in-depth understanding of the business dynamics and consumers' selection criteria enabling ...

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London, England; Founder and CEO of Vanguard Strategy

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Southeast Asia is home to the ten ASEAN nations of Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Collectively they comprise a huge market of over half a billion people, with a total land area of 4.5 million square kilometers, a combined domestic product in excess of US$1.1 trillion and total trade of over US$1.4 trillion. It is the most dynamic and fastest growing region in the world but also has some of the world's most distincti...

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Fairfield, CT; Associate professor of international business at the John F. Welch College of Business; Sacred Heart University

Activities, People, and Connecting with Management

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This book is about drivers of successful controllership. Successful controllership services provide an imperatively required support to managers, especially in times of change. But what makes controllership services successful? Our book provides the first comprehensive set of answers to this question. We argue it is not the selection of latest tools and techniques but carefully customized services, motivated and skillful employees, and intensive mutual exchanges with managers and open cooperatio...

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Vallendar, RP, Germany; Chair of Management Accounting at the Finance and Accounting Department (as well as Director of the Institute of Management Accounting and Control); WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management

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This book outlines a cost-effective process for dynamic strategic planning in the domain of the small entrepreneurial firm. The model presented in the book is simple and dynamic. The objective is to allow a focus on the strategic as well as the tactical implementations of the vision of the small business leader, owner, or entrepreneur. To do so in a manner that will be cost effective and produce a strategy that is brief, clear, concise, and understood at all levels of the organization. The objec...

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Wasilla, AK Quilcene, WA Retired; Management & Logistics Assoc., Inc

The Cornerstone for Success

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In a fast changing world, brimming with social and economic uncertainty, financial information plays a vital role in the life of an organization and does so with two sets of eyes. One set looks back to see what has happened. This is the accounting function, which is simply about the recording of events and the production of the financial reports that satisfy the stewardship responsibility of management. The other set looks forward to determine the most appropriate strategic direction for an orga...

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Cyprus; Associate professor of accounting; University of Nicosia

A Focus on Selection and Implementation

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As we move deeper into the 21st century, firms continue to struggle with the implementation of sales force technology tools and the role they play in sales representative performance. Foreseeing a changing environment, many sales organizations have begun to focus on technology-related strategies, business processes, and applications to adapt to these emerging issues. With this in mind, sales force technology usage has changed the methods of selling. Salespeople are no longer selling just a "prod...

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Wayne, NJ; Assistant Professor at the Russ Berrie Institute for Professional Sales; William Paterson Universit

What Executives Need to Know

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The context of international business has evolved over the years, and has always reflected the climate of the time. This book addresses three major changes that have taken place in the last decade in a series of articles compiled by the authors.

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Washington, DC; Professor, international business and marketing in the Graduate School of Business; Georgetown University

Building on What We All Share

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You may recognize the statement on the back cover of so many textbooks concerning the global environment of commerce--'to help you understand and appreciate the economic, political, and technological context in which international business operates.' But this defined approach is tantamount to placing three wheels on a car and expecting it to drive smoothly. It cannot be operated without the balance that a fourth one provides, and that required wheel is culture. The author believes, in this moder...

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Tempe, AZ Retired: Profressor, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University; Lawrence A. Beer is an attorney and accountant with senior executive tenure as president of international operations and house legal counsel to global corporati

Striving for Excellence and Competitive Advantage

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Striving for excellence in customer service is critical to gain a competitive advantage. It is the keystone for business growth and prosperity as it builds repetitive sales to existing customers and referrals for new customers. If customer service is looked at as a major business component and all customers are treated with excellence prior to the sale, during the sale, and after the sale, customer service will become a profit center that builds sales dollars to the top line and real profits to ...

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Santa Fe, NM; Visiting professor and Director of the Entrepreneurial Institute; New Mexico Highlands University

Tactics and Skills That Work

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If you find that the domestic market is saturated, exporting is a very important strategic initiative, and you need this book to understand everything inherent in export marketing. This book describes the steps necessary to achieve success in export marketing. It is a step-by-step guide to the art and science of export marketing, from initial discovery to researching new markets, to the financial aspects, to managing ongoing operations.

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Columbia, MO; Robert J. Trulaske, Sr., professor of marketing and associate professor; University of Missouri

A Decision-Making Perspective for Non-Accountants

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Accounting is the score keeping system in the 'game' of business - you can't do well in any 'game' if you don't understand how the score is kept. This book is intended to benefit MBA students and upper division non-accounting business majors. It should also serve as an excellent desk reference for practicing managers. The book emphasizes how management's choice of accounting methods and their required estimates in reporting transactions and events impact financial statements, both immediately an...

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Erie, PA; Associate Professor of Accounting; Penn State Erie

A Business Model Approach

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The globalization of the competitive landscape has forced companies to fundamentally rethink their strategies. Whereas once only a few industries such as oil could be labeled truly global, today many-from pharmaceuticals to aircraft to computers-have become global in scale and scope. As a consequence, creating a global competitive advantage has become a key strategic issue for many companies. Crafting a global strategy requires making decisions about which strategy elements can and should be glo...

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Claremont, CA; Masatoshi Ito Professor of Management Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; Claremont Graduate University

A Step-by-Step Guide for Quick and Effective Results

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This book contains the basic elements necessary for an individual with little marketing or public relations experience to write promotional materials including the news release, newsletter, brochure, web copy, and blog. Students studying business, marketing, public relations or communication as well as small business owners and entrepreneurs will find this easy-to-use, practical guide vital to their efforts to promote and inform various publics about their organization. Written by two seasoned p...

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Santa Barbara, CA; Continuing lecturer in the Writing Program; University of California, Santa Barbara

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Thanks to the development of internet- and network-based information and communication systems, virtually every product and service produced today has a supply chain that extends around the globe. For the last twenty-five years, companies such as Wal-Mart, Dell, and Toyota have enjoyed strong competitive advantages in their respective markets as a result of their world-class supply chains. As the supply chain increasingly lengthens, managers at all levels of the organization must understand the ...

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Pittsburgh, PA; Director of International Business Programs and Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management; Duquesne University

Competitive Strategy in 3-Circles

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Growth and competitive advantage are about effective positioning. Building effective positioning is challenging today for firms facing new and stronger competition, volatile and uncertain markets, and shifting customer desires and demands. The 3-Circle Model facilitates speed of understanding and action by focusing attention on the most critical strategy concepts in this uncertain environment. Growth strategy emerges in the model from systematically addressing four key strategy directives in a ...

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South Bend, IN; Professor of Marketing in the Mendoza College of Business; University of Notre Dame

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In the hard-fought business world, only one new business in 20 lives to see its fifth anniversary. Typical management books do not address the unique nuances of early stage companies. Most entrepreneurial books often profile successful entrepreneurs or companies who are better known, which usually includes only the small percentage that achieve stratospheric success. Growing Your Own Business shares the secrets of long-term survival and success, detailing practical guidelines and relevant 'tales...

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New York, NY; President; Atma Global, Inc.

Making Human Resources Work for You

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This book explains why you should grow your business and describes some of the major challenges of growth. It identifies several strategies that enhance the growth of new firms. It explains how entrepreneurs can select high-performing employees and describes various ways of enhancing employees motivation and commitment, including the use of pay systems that help to retain high-performing employees. It describes various techniques entrepreneurs can use to increase trust in their new ventures and ...

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Troy, NY; Dean R. Wellington Professor of Management and Professor of Psychology; Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Perhaps the most confounding characteristic of the competitive marketplace is that everyone wants a piece of the action. If a firm successfully enters a new market, creates a new product, or designs new innovations for an existing product, its just a matter of time before competitors follow suit. And the influx of competition inevitably places downward pressure on both price and profitability. But the speed at which competitors invade ones market is not the same in all industries; some are more...

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Jonesboro, AR; Professor of Economics; Arkansas State University

Surfing Tsunamis

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Transformational coaching by a person who has personally experienced transformation and has mastered a specific coaching methodology is a powerful catalyst for holistic change. The transformational coach can awaken individuals and groups to greater awareness and a sense of purpose that enables them to move through these barriers and access untapped sources of energy for breakthrough potential. This book offers a practical yet provocative approach and gives coaches, organizational and business le...

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Bend, OR; Consultant

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This textbook is a concise introduction to the essential concepts and tools used in the 'Lean' method of improving business processes; it constitutes a sufficient 'toolkit' to enable a reader to successfully improve business processes in their workplace. While Lean was first applied in manufacturing, arguably evolving out of the Toyota Production System, it is now applied widely to service and administrative processes as well. Lean, in comparison with other business improvement processes such as...

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Williamsburg, VA; Hays T. Watkins Professor, Mason School of Business; College of William and Mary

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According to the economic theory of the firm, businesses strive to determine the single price that maximizes profits. In fact, many firms can extract more revenue and increase profits with pricing strategies that are far more innovative than the single-price strategy. However, in the world of pricing, there is no 'one size fits all' strategy. Some pricing strategies are better suited to some situations than others. Sam's Clubs, owned by WalMart Stores, Inc., for example, charge a membership fee ...

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Jonesboro, AR; Professor of Economics; Arkansas State University

Five Best Practices to Ensure Organizational Effectiveness and Profitability

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Information systems are a critical component of business success today. Unfortunately, many companies do not truly understand what an information system is; where, when, and how it should be implemented; or the effects of integrating it into the organization. As such, we continue to see implementation horror stories of projects run amuck-- going over time and over budget--or information systems that never get fully implemented, requiring 'work-around' by employees in order to get things done. So...

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Dallas, TX; University of Texas at Dallas; Professor; Dr. Michael J. Savoie is president and CEO of HyperGrowth Solutions, Inc., a company specializing in the integration of business and technology. Dr. Savoie also serves as director of the Center for

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A basic understanding of multiple regression is helpful in carrying out good business practices--specifically in the areas of demand management and data analysis. This book on correlation and regression analysis will have a non-mathematical, applied, data-analytic approach. Readers will benefit from its practitioner language and frequent use of examples. Multiple regression is at the heart of business data analysis because it deals with explanations of why data behaves the way it does and correl...

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Marietta, GA; Chair of the Business Administration Department and a professor of Operations Management; Southern Polytechnic State University

Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies

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This book combines academic theory with real world, practitioner success stories to provide executives a summary of current best practices. This book examines five virtual business strategies that are showing unprecedented opportunity. The Any Place, Any Time strategy focuses on providing high quality service 24/7 by ignoring traditional geographic challenges.

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Minot, ND; Tenured full professor of management; Minot State University

Insights from International Case Studies

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The quest for integrity in business is not only a reaction against malfeasance in business and associated calls for reform but also a search that stems from changes and new demands in the global business environment. Among the sources of these new demands are the expectations of stakeholders that corporations and their leaders will take more active roles as citizens within society and in the fight against some of the most pressing problems in the world, such as poverty, environmental degradation...

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Poland; Associate Professor of Management; Silesian University of Technology;

Making Decisions Through Data Analytics

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This book is about using business intelligence as a management information system for supporting managerial decision making. It concentrates primarily on practical business issues and demonstrates how to apply data warehousing and data analytics to support business decision making. This book progresses through a logical sequence, starting with data model infrastructure, then data preparation, followed by data analysis, integration, knowledge discovery, and finally the actual use of discovered kn...

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Warsaw, Poland; Assistant professor; Warsaw School of Economics

A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Business Plan

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This book is designed to meet important needs of each segment; (1) the business plan serves as a means for college students to learn about the major functions of business and how they are interrelated, (2) entrepreneurs need a business plan to provide direction in the organization and launch of a new business and secure initial capital from funding sources, (3) consultants need a user-friendly business plan format to assist clients that have limited or no business experience, and (4) instructors...

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Caledonia Township, MI; Professor; Davenport University

An Accounting Approach

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This book will focus on the fundamental steps of business planning within a managerial accounting framework, those being: (a) the business model, (b) volume and process flow, (c) product and service costing, (d) revenue and pricing, and (e) investment value. It will also use the core principles of risk management to address challenges that inevitably arise whenever situations fail to unfold according to plan.

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Boston, MA; Accounting professor; Suffolk University

Doing Business in the Middle Kingdom

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Foreign firms typically engage China as a sourcing location or as a market to sell their goods. China is increasingly taking on a more prominent role in global business. After 30 years of economic reforms that have enabled China to become the workshop of the global economy, we are now witnessing the transformation of the 'Middle Kingdom' into one of the world's largest consumer markets and one of the world's most productive centers of innovation. If you are interested in doing business in China,...

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Azusa, CA; Azusa Pacific University; Professor; Stuart C. Strother has lived and worked in China offand- on since 1994. He is a professor of economics at Azusa Pacific University where he leads China study programs for two months every year. He also

Strategies, Concepts, and Cases

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Stakeholders today want to know about your company's social and environmental performance. Effectively communicating these topics has become critical to economic success. This book offers an extensive toolbox of the most effective instruments that can help you, and each chapter provides specific examples of how to communicate social and cause-related marketing, sustainability reporting, issues and crisis communication, vision, mission statements and codes, and web-based stakeholder communication...

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San Luis Potosi, Mexico; Professor of business; Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM)

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Given that communication is the lifeblood of an organization, managerial leaders need to understand how to use communication strategies to build their teams to achieve organizational objectives. Studies repeatedly point to the impact communication skills have on the ability of managerial leaders to succeed or fail. Too often individuals move into managerial leadership roles without awareness of the need to improve their communication skills. These individuals may be subject matter experts whose ...

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Kennesaw, GA; Professor of Management; Kennesaw State University; Over the last 25 years, Deborah Britt Roebuck has focused on helping individuals develop their leadership and communication skills.

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This practical guide leads you through all the issues you will face in developing new marketing opportunities in foreign markets. From initiating a project, to sampling and analyzing data, to taking advantage of your knowledge by approaching the market; this book is your guide to understanding and overcoming the most pressing issues that international marketers face.

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Atlanta, GA; Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair and Director at the Institute of International Business of the Robinson College of Business; Georgia State University

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Conscious Branding is a step-by-step process that enables entrepreneurs to consciously build a differentiating brand using the Brand Map, a simple visual diagram of how brands function throughout an organization. The Brand Map helps managers and staff visualize their brand and demonstrates how they can make their brand real through everything they do. Conscious Branding describes a simple, easy to understand and tested in real life system.

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Eugene, OR; Founder, Funk/Levis & Associates, Inc.

Women and Shopping

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Why study women and shopping? Why is it important? Women matter because of their consumer spending power; they are crucial to survival in the competitive retail industry in America. Women matter because they control over $20 trillion in consumer spending. Women are better educated, have more financial power and decision making abilities and mobility than any previous generation. Why Women Shop provides a fascinating insight into women's shopping habits and motivations. This book is of interest ...

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East Lansing, MI; Professor of retailing; Michigan State University

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Cosmopolitans are individuals with a distinctive kind of extended national and international orientation, a global vision, and sense of belonging to the world. These people are sophisticated and importantly engaged in the cultures outside of local geographical boundaries. But what do we know about them as consumers--their origins, values, media usage, and buyer behavior? This unique book details much about this group, and fills a knowledge gap that has long been overlooked largely because other ...

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New Haven, CT; Professor of marketing; Southern Connecticut State University; Melvin Prince holds a PhD from Columbia University, and is a professor of marketing at Southern Connecticut State University. Past academic appointments include teaching and

A Communication Perspective on the Appraisal Process

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Organizational appraisals systems are often ineffective and result in unnecessary spending on the part of a company and unnecessary anxiety on the part of employees. Written for practitioners and advanced students, this book presents an alternative approach to the performance appraisal process that focuses on communication rather than evaluation. In this communication-centered approach to performance, the appraisal process is designed to facilitate meaningful and open interaction between employe...

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New Brunswick, NJ; Professor; Rutgers University

Fundamental Principles and Processes

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This book does not attempt to provide advice; each case is unique and should be addressed by competent legal counsel. Rather, this work is intended to provide an overview of the fundamental principles and processes of both Chapter 11 reorganizations and Chapter 7 liquidations, incorporating examples drawn from relevant legal decisions, research findings and common experience to highlight the issues involved and provide a basis for discussion. In addition, the text covers the bankruptcy law impli...

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Springfield, MO; Professor; Missouri State University

Tactical Guidelines for Strategic Practice

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The chief communication officer at a Fortune 500, multi-national corporation today faces the challenges of a rapidly changing global economy, a revolution in communication channels fueled by the Internet, and a substantially transformed understanding of what a 21st century corporation stands for. This book investigates these forces and the specific communication challenges that they pose for the global corporation. Examining these forces and how they are interrelated should offer insights and st...

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New York, NY; Professor and Director of the MA in Corporate Communication; Baruch College, The City University of New York

Principles and Practice

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This book is intended for both practising managers who require a thorough knowledge of the principles of making investment decisions in the real world and for students undertaking financial courses whether at undergraduate, MBA or professional levels. The subject matter encompasses relevant aspects of the investment decision varying from a basic introduction to the appraisal techniques available to placing investment decisions within a strategic context and coverage of recent developments includ...

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Coleraine, Northern Ireland; Professor; University of Ulster

Fighting the Cost War Through Leadership Driven Management

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Government organizations spend enormous amounts of money. They employ a large percentage of the work force. They have an undeniably huge impact on the national economy and wealth. Yet they are, for the most part, unmanaged. What passes for management is a combination of oversight and audit. Oversight is primarily reactive: offering negative feedback for failures and demanding additional rules and regulations to prevent reoccurrences. Audits look for "bright line" discrepancies and clear violatio...

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Valley Center, CA; Retired, tenured professor; California State University

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The book offers an introduction to cross cultural management through an exploration of the major theories that have been developed in the fields of business anthropology and international management. An introduction to the concept of culture will be followed in subsequent chapters by the comparative description of different typologies which will be used to explain various expected behaviours in intercultural business settings. This will be followed by an introduction of the fundamental issues in...

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France; Founder & Director; Veronica Velo & Associates Head of Marketing and International Affairs Bachelor; Ecole de Management de Normandie

Leading Through Intercultural Interactions

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The purpose of this book is to outline the important ideas of cultural intelligence and the steps that must be considered and then practiced to become a culturally intelligent leader. The most important aspect covered within this book is that cultural intelligence is both a strategy and a tool towards cultural competency and proficiency. This book outlines the importance of understanding culture and its impact on organizations, the strategic value of cultural intelligence, and the significance o...

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Fremont, CA; St. Paul, MN; Leadership Paradigms, Inc.

Prepare, Engage, Execute: The Small Business Guide for Growth

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This comprehensive budgeting book emphasizes that the customer drives the business organization and processes and becomes the overriding purpose for a company's existence and success. Customer-driven Budgeting offers a complete guide that covers every step in the budgeting cycle from the basics of organization, processes, and funding to budget execution and monitoring. It emphasizes that the budget is the starting point and catalyst for gaining customers. The budget prepares the company to supp...

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Elk Grove, CA; Consultant; MBA Pepperdine; Market-focused Customer-driven Budgeting packs between its pages over 30 years of accounting and financial management experience in large, medium, and small businesses through financial management consulting

The Ultimate Metric to Connect Marketing Actions to Profits

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In this book, we introduce Decision Equity as a breakthrough, overarching metric that can help free marketing managers from their existing mental models, and provide avenues to efficiently convert the vast amounts of data at their disposal into powerful information to make informed long-term and short-term decisions about products, customers, markets, and overall business health. There are four key objectives that we wish to achieve through this book. First, we wish to introduce the underpinning...

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Athens, GA Philadelphia, PA Associate professor of marketing at the Terry College of Business; University of Georgia and currently a visiting associate professor of marketing; Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania

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This book is targeted to busy managers and MBA students who need to grasp the basics of computerized decision support. Some of the topics covered include: What is a DSS? What do managers need to know about computerized decision support? And how can managers identify opportunities to create innovative DSS? Overall the book addresses 35 fundamental questions that are relevant to understanding computerized decision support.

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Cedar Falls, IA; Professor of Information Systems and Management at the College of Business Administration; University of Northern Iowa

A System Dynamics Approach

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Intended for an audience of graduate students, executive MBA students, and mid-to upper level government and corporate managers, Design, Analysis and Optimization of Supply Chains: A System Dynamic Approach examines the complexity of the types of organizations that comprise a modern supply chain, the problems that arise as a result of this complexity, and the solutions and analytical approaches available to managers that can help resolve these real world problems and dilemmas. The modern enterpr...

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Cambridge, MA Huntsville, AL Executive director of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also director of the Office for Enterprise Innovation and Sustainment at the University of Alabama in Huntsvi

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This book is designed for corporate directors and senior executives who want to gain a better understanding of accounting. Corporate directors and managers are under pressure from recent changes in the law (especially The Sarbanes-Oxley Act 2002) and demands by shareholders and the public to be more informed, vigilant and involved in the governance of business organizations.

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Edmonton, AB, Canada; Professor; University of Alberta

Drawing on the Past to Enhance Future Performance

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This book is your guide to ensuring future generations know what you know and can apply it in their time. This book is your guide to knowledge management for the future leaders of your organization. In other words, it ensures that they will know what you know and be able to apply your experiences to similar encounters in their time.

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Minot, ND; Tenured full professor of management; Minot State University

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This book will provide the business reader with the necessary understanding of the problems and promises of public relations research, measurement, and evaluation and the public relations practitioner as guide to effective use of methods, measures, and evaluation in providing grounded evidence of the success (or failure) of public relations campaigns.

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Coral Gables, FL; Professor of public relations and associate dean for Faculty Research and Creative Support; University of Miami's School of Communication

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This book is a primer on corporate governance for executives. It is designed to guide you to become an effective participant by discussing corporate governance from both a macro- and micro-perspective. Historical data and examples including the recent scandals that have torn the fabric of capitalism pave a pathway to the principal challenges facing today's boards, and how to successfully manage them. This book is your guide; using well-known examples throughout history to illustrate the key poin...

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Claremont, CA; Masatoshi Ito Professor of Management Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; Claremont Graduate University

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In today's world everyone is looking for cost reduction opportunities. The main opportunity to reduce costs is through negotiations with suppliers. Many companies struggle with the 'methodology' in order to prepare for a negotiation. This book was written to help buyers develop a road map to negotiation success. Planning for a negotiation is an important skill set that can impact the bottom line and help your company save money. The process within this book has saved companies millions of dollar...

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Syracuse, NY; Assistant professor of supply chain practices and director of Supply Chain Executive Management Programs; Syracuse University

Facing the Challenges of the 21st Century

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The electricity industry plays an important role in the US economy. Electricity is used in the vast majority of economic activity and consumption. The business is very capital intensive and is a significant part of the economy. In addition the characteristics of the industry illustrate many important concepts in economics. This book is designed to provide information about the industry to students and the wider public. The student audience includes those studying business, economics, public poli...

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Palo Alto,CA; Independent consultant to the electricity industry

Global Reinvention for a New Economy

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Steel companies were at the birth of the modern business corporation. The first billion dollar corporation ever formed was US Steel in 1901. By the mid-Twentieth Century the steel mill and the automobile plant were the two pillars upon which the Twentieth Century industrial economy rested. Given the scale of capital and operations, vertical integration was seen to be pivotal, from the raw materials of iron ore and coal on one end of the supply chain to the myriad of finished products on the othe...

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Toronto, Canada; Economist and Senior Research Fellow; University of Toronto; Peter Warrian PhD, is an economist and Senior Research Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. He was formerly Research Director of the United

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The book will appeal to corporate managers who must manage issues and controversies involving outside groups and organizations The book shows practitioners how to ground their strategic advice on the kind of empirical research that reveals the socio-political dynamics of the issue. It is the first book to approach issues management from a blended application of advances in institutional theory, social movement theory, stakeholder theory and social network analysis.

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Vancouver, Canada; President of Robert Boutilier & Associates. He is also Executive Director of the Atzingo Institute for Stakeholder Network Studies and an associate at both the Centre for Sustainable Community Development at Simon Fraser University, Va

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Ethics is a compendium of moral interpretations steeped in a multitude of religious and philosophical applications. It is subject to various cultural intrusions as well as independent personal interpretation. The study of international business and all related managerial disciplines usually includes ethical content. The majority of global management textbooks offer a chapter on ethics, and its often misaligned cousin, social responsibility. They tend to cover the subject matter by stating the pr...

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Tempe, AZ Retired: Profressor, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University