The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defining correct habits and behaviour, Nova Scotia's improvers embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government. Daniel Samson moves Nova Scotia and rural Canada from the colonial margins to the heart of a modernizing society, showing how the countryside functioned as a centre of change and innovation. He connects a fascinating spectrum of sites, actors, and strategies and links settlement, farm-building,...
The notion of improvement permeated social and political discourse in colonial Canadian society. From agriculture to building roads and mills to defin...
Operations Management: An Integrated Approach provides an account of the systems, processes, people and technology that determine an organisation's strategy and success. With contributions from leading experts internationally, the text takes a comprehensive, comparative, and best-practice approach and applies this specifically to the Asia-Pacific region. Rigorous in scholarship yet eminently accessible in style, Operations Management is replete with pedagogical features - figures and tables, discussion exercises, 'Learnings from the Internet', and a diversity of long and short case studies...
Operations Management: An Integrated Approach provides an account of the systems, processes, people and technology that determine an organisation's st...
From agriculture to building roads and mills, Nova Scotians embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government. This title presents an overview of rural colonial Nova Scotia and provides insights into the formation of modern liberal practices of government and self-government in British North America.
From agriculture to building roads and mills, Nova Scotians embraced the ideals of innovation and progress and promoted modern programs of government....
This book provides practitioners with strategies and tools for establishing and maintaining a successful, value-centric internal audit organization. It explores opportunities to gain management support through early wins; methods to systematically identify process improvement opportunities, cost savings and avoidance, and potential revenue recoveries; and tips on marketing and branding the audit organization for maximum impact. It introduces the Audit Value Factor, a concept to determine the estimated value of a given audit, as well as methods for calculating the return on recommendations...
This book provides practitioners with strategies and tools for establishing and maintaining a successful, value-centric internal audit organization...
