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Turner, Geoff (Management consultant)
Call Number
658.15 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
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 organization, guiding managerial actions, motivating behaviors, and creating and supporting the cultural values necessary to achieve an organization's strategic objectives. This book is all about the second set of eyes, which are the lenses of financial management, that help organizations plot their ways through an environment filled with opportunities and dangers. For students and aspiring managers, as well as those who already have management responsibilities, this book provides an insight, through the eyes of the characters of a start-up company, of some of the ideas and models that help to identify the possible strategies capable of maximizing an organization's value, which is the same as making the owners as wealthy as possible, to determine how to finance the organization in the most proper way, to allocate the collected capital in the most effective way, to monitor the implementation of the chosen strategy to see whether it is meeting the planned objectives, and to reasonably decide on the reinvestment and distribution of profits.
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Rouse, Paul, 1951-
Call Number
658.1554 22
Publication Date
2011 2010
Summary
Revenue management is concerned with maximizing revenue flows while controlling costs. This is a new management framework combining conventional management accounting concepts and methods with notions of yield management, pricing, and process management. The revenue objective provides a unifying goal for the aforementioned concepts and methods that are especially suitable for service organizations, where revenue considerations are inextricably linked to the activities performed. While our focus is on service organizations, any organization will find something of value in this book.
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Kruger, Elizabeth Rush.
Call Number
658.8 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Research verifies that the 80/20 rule summarizes the stable relationship of inputs to outputs-- including the impact of customers on the profit of a business. According to this universal law, a business can predict that the most profitable 20% of its customers generates 80% of its profit from customers and that customers in this top market segment are 16 times more profitable than customers in the bottom market segment. Thus when a business replaces all customers in the bottom market segment with new customers in the top market segment, the business can expect to quadruple its profit from customers.
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Wong, Ho Yin.
Call Number
658.8 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
"The book aims to provide a comprehensive, holistic and practical framework for readers who are interested or involved in developing a marketing plan so that they can appreciate various marketing concepts and put them together in an easy to read guide. Demanding and savvy customers along with a turbulent marketing environment, require marketers to be highly sensitive to the environmental monitoring systems capable of identifying the latest marketing trends and opportunities and threats at an early stage. In response to these issues, the proposed manuscript covers the themes of planning, implementing and controlling marketing activities, which will provide guidance to marketers and non-marketer alike, in undertaking a marketing plan. The latest research findings in the marketing area are included. This book is written for marketing students and it is the intention of the authors to make this manuscript as basic, straightforward and to the point as possible. Business practitioners will also find this book useful"--Provided by publisher.
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Feigin, Gerald.
Call Number
658.7 22
Publication Date
2012 2011
Summary
Supply chain planning is concerned with making decisions about how many goods to procure, make, and deliver before knowing exactly what the demand for products is going to be. These planning decisions are difficult because they must be made with uncertain and dynamic information about future demand, available production capacity, and sources of supply. This book focuses on the three interlinked processes that compose effective supply chain planning: demand planning, sales and operations planning, and inventory and supply planning. If executed well, these planning processes will help a company to achieve its targeted balance between efficiency and responsiveness. If executed poorly, they can be the root cause of any number of supply chain problems. This book describes these processes, how they are interconnected, and the practical challenges of implementing them. It also explains the important ways in which analytical tools and methods can be utilized to make better supply chain planning decisions.
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by
Surma, Jerzy.
Call Number
658.47 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
This book is about using business intelligence as a management information system for supporting managerial decision making. It concentrates mainly on practical business issues and demonstrates how to apply data warehousing and data analytics to support 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 fi nally the actual use of discovered knowledge. All examples are based on the newest achievements in business intelligence (BI). Finally, this book outlines an overview of a methodology that takes into account the complexity of developing applications in an integrated BI environment.
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0.0680
by
Killingsworth, William R.
Call Number
658.7 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Almost everything made today is manufactured by large networks of companies. Hundreds, if not thousands, of companies provide components, subassemblies, and major assemblies to a final manufacturer or integrator. These large distributed supply chains have created many problems and headaches across a variety of industries.
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0.0657
by
Kumar, Piyush.
Call Number
658.802 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
More than even before, marketers need to justify their decisions by linking them to the corporate bottom line. While this is a challenging task, what makes it more daunting is the absence of a systematic approach and an overarching metric to help make financially sound marketing decisions.
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Washington, Marvin.
Call Number
658.406 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
One subject that is receiving a lot of attention is organizational change. Whether it is reinventing government, reengineering corporations, or reforming churches, all kinds of organizations are attempting major transformations. The pace of organizational change projects is perhaps only overshadowed by the number of books on the subject of organizational change. One only has to scan the business section of any local bookstore to see that there are numerous titles on the subject of organizational change. While each book may be interesting, the books often do not build on each other and sometimes develop contradictory ideas and concepts.
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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.
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Iyer, Ananth V.
Call Number
658.5 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
This book provides a flexibility, agility, real options (FAR) framework to orchestrate supply chain opportunities. Using best-practice cases across the industry spectrum, from nonprofits to retail, from demand surges to regulatory impacts and natural disasters, orchestrating supply chain opportunities requires deliberate management choices. This book provides a primer for success.
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Everett, Ken.
Call Number
658.044 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Ken Everett proposes the network as the organization of the future, and he wrote this book, with the help of five colleagues, to help the architects of such future organizations. He started a network of necessity - limited financial resources - but then encountered surprising benefits. He discovered networked organizations to be resilient, innovative, and leader-full and that these characteristics arise out of the design. This potential, he says, applies equally to networks of independent associates as it does to traditional organizations willing to adopt a new style of leadership - a style closer to "hosting" than "commanding." This is a practice-based book: Its developmental model was earned through experience. The model lays out three phases: from connections to communities to coalitions, or from "doing fine" to "getting better" to "getting better at getting better." Ken Everett illustrates these claims with real-life examples. He describes how a family company with only 3 employees grew to be represented in 30 countries via 300 colleagues. The potential of the networked organization is new, and that's what this book is about.
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