by
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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by
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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52745.5781
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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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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by
Judge, William Q.
Call Number
658.406 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Never before have strategic leaders been confronted with so much overwhelming change. The traditional approach taken by the leader or leaders is to direct or control the organization's reaction on a monthly, weekly, or even daily basis. This approach is stressful and overwhelming for executive leaders, makes middle managers feel torn between honoring their senior leaders and listening to the demands of frontline employees, and is alienating for frontline employees. This approach is hardly a prescription for the pursuit of excellence, and does not enable the organization to be sufficiently agile or nimble to cope with the "white water" conditions in which the organization typically finds itself.
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by
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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64936.3477
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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by
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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by
Chaffe-Stengel, Priscilla.
Call Number
519.5 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
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 understandable and applicable by anyone with basic algebra skills and the support of a spreadsheet package. By applying these fundamental methods themselves rather than turning over both the data and the responsibility for analysis and interpretation to an expert, managers will develop a richer understanding and potentially gain better control over their environment. This text is intended to describe these fundamental statistical techniques to managers, data analysts, and students. Statistical analysis of sample data is enhanced by the use of computers. Spreadsheet software is well suited for the methods discussed in this text. Examples in the text detail for the reader how to apply Microsoft Excel.
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by
Girard, John P., 1961-
Call Number
658 22
Publication Date
2011
Summary
Despite several false starts, the concept of virtual business is finally coming to fruition. A melding of four critical enablers drives this new reality: social technology, visionary leadership, an increasing recognition of the value of a collaboration culture, plus virtual worlds. This so-called TLC+V (technology, leadership, collaboration, and the virtual) of virtual business has suddenly combined to create exciting and uncharted business opportunities waiting to be harnessed. This book examines four 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. The "people know best" strategy harnesses the power of everyday people to create value. The "everyone has a stake" strategy considers the stakeholder view of the organization and guides leaders in tapping this vast store of wisdom. Finally, the "real in the virtual world" strategy offers incredible opportunity for real businesses to sell their wares in the virtual world. Throughout the book, we present a collection of best practices derived from our case studies of real virtual business successes.
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by
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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Electronic Resources
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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.
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