by
Spanyi, Andrew.
Call Number
658 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
Operational Leadership examines the comprehensive combination of leadership and management behaviors needed to fundamentally improve how businesses get products and/or services developed, sold, delivered, and serviced. It is written for executives and graduate students and includes examples of both success and failure in improving operations, in the belief that while people are motivated by success stories, they often learn as much, or more, from the mistakes that others have made. This book integrates and extends key concepts in the literature on leadership and process management and applies them to the improvement of operational performance. The importance of viewing operations in the context of a company's key capabilities, or end-to-end processes, is emphasized where collaboration across traditional organizational boundaries is essential. It is proposed that performance-oriented organizations will come to recognize the need to appoint key senior executives as change agents, aligned with the company's core capabilities, to continuously improve and manage operational performance.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.2146
by
Dunung, Sanjyot P.
Call Number
658.11 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
"Growing Your Own Business shares the secrets of long-term survival and success, detailing practical guidelines and relevant 'tales from the trenches' to help entrepreneurs tackle common concerns and obstacles. A welcome combination of first-person how-to advice and peer mentoring support, this comprehensive, essential resource book provides sound, battle-proven advice for developing effective sales and marketing strategies, managing employees, and navigating business cycles. Growing Your Own Business continues after the first book, Starting Your Own Business. This resource is designed to work as independent resource or integrate into business curriculums."--Resource description page.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.2031
View Other Search Results
by
May, Gary L.
Call Number
658.4012 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
"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 quickly"--Resource description page.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1987
by
Dunung, Sanjyot P.
Call Number
658.022 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
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 from the trenches" to help entrepreneurs tackle common concerns and obstacles. A welcome combination of first-person how-to advice and peer mentoring support, this comprehensive, essential resource book provides sound, battle-proven advice for developing effective sales and marketing strategies, managing employees, and navigating business cycles. Growing Your Own Business continues after the first book, Starting Your Own Business. This resource is designed to work as independent resource or integrate into business curriculums.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1912
by
Stengel, Donald N.
Call Number
338.5024658 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
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 and operations, marketing, finance, or corporate strategy. Along with enhancing decision making, the field of economics provides a common language and framework for comprehending and communicating phenomena that occur within a business, as well as between a business and its environment.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1907
by
Gefen, David.
Call Number
658.4038 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
As with other pressing issues of information systems (IS) management, managing IS outsourcing also began as a solution to industry needs, and much of this book is accordingly based on industry experience cloaked as it were in academic theory garb to add depth to these proven practices as well as allow for borrowing insight from other academic disciplines.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1848
by
Korda, Philippe.
Call Number
302.3 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Reveals the art of negotiation and helps you get the skills needed in becoming a master negotiator in today's business environment. The first part of the book outlines the fundamentals of negotiating, while the second part is devoted to getting the reader to understand their opponent's interests and tactics during the negotiation process. Finally, you get the opportunity to learn how to strategize successfully.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1704
by
Sellars, David.
Call Number
658.4012 22
Publication Date
2009
Summary
Business Plan Project provides detailed instructions on how to write a comprehensive business plan for new ventures. The intended market segments are graduate or upper-level undergraduate students, entrepreneurs, consultants, and college instructors or corporate trainers. Business Plan Project can be used in executive development programs and over 10 college level courses.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1697
by
Caldwell, Cam.
Call Number
303.34 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Trust in leaders has reached its low point in recent years as employees, peers, and the public-at-large voice their disapproval of decisions made by those who head corporations, government, churches, and public institutions in virtually every country throughout the world. In a society that Princeton scholar David Callahan has labeled "the cheating culture," people of every class, culture, and country yearn for leaders whom they can believe, respect, and follow.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1680
10.
by
Penfield, Patrick C.
Call Number
658.72 22
Publication Date
2010
Summary
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 dollars!
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1680
by
Boutilier, Robert, 1950-
Call Number
659.2 22
Publication Date
2012
Summary
Offers a fact-based strategy development process for managing issues and controversies. The book shows practitioners how to ground their strategic advice on 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 stakeholder theory and social network analysis. Readers learn how to track the socio-political environment in order to (a) avoid risks and crises, (b) obtain essential environmental scanning information for strategy development or adjustment, and (c) secure the organization's reputation and access to vital resources.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1677
12.
by
Goncalves, Marcus.
Call Number
658.4038 23
Publication Date
2012
Summary
In a world that's facing economic recession, more and more professionals, teams, organizations, and inter-organizational networks are facing the need to restructure and renew themselves with the primary purpose of profitably trading their knowledge to add even higher value to their bottom line. Knowledge management has become a key strategic asset for the 21st century economy, and for every organization that values knowledge, it must invest in developing the best strategy for identifying, developing, and applying the knowledge assets it needs to succeed; it must strive to become a learning organization. To remain competitive every organization must invest in creating and implementing the best knowledge networks, processes, methods, tools, and technologies. This will enable them to learn, create new knowledge, and apply the best knowledge much faster. The aim of this book is to provide readers with key information necessary to become more successful with knowledge creating, transfer, and management, ultimately turning themselves and their organizations into a learning organization.
Format:
Electronic Resources
Relevance:
2633.1658
Limit Search Results