Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Decision Making & Problem Solving

Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial evaluation criteria and the presence of alternative investment opportunities. In particular, it discusses the evolution of these methods, presents new methodological advances and illustrates their use across several application domains.

The book offers a many-faceted treatment...

What people are saying about The New How

-How are you going to get rid of your Air Sandwich if you don't even know what it is? Provocative and practical at the same time.-
--Seth Godin, author of Linchpin

-The New How is informative and provides exciting insights because the suggestions are practical and doable. Merchant gets the new reality--leadership fails not so much from flawed strategy as it does from failed processes of engagement from those responsible for implementing the strategy. In high-performing organizations,...

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can't resist

Value Proposition Design helps you tackle a core challenge of every business -- creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. This practical book, paired with its online companion, will teach you the processes and tools you need to succeed.

Using the same stunning visual format as the authors' global bestseller, Business Model Generation, this sequel explains how to use the -Value Proposition Canvas- a...

Industrial sociologists for many years have been limited almost entirely to studies of Western factories. For the Communist world they have been compelled to advance hypotheses based upon the assumption that political ideology determines the character of management-labor relations. Now for the first time, Mr. Kolaja's pioneering examination of worker participation in the management of a textile factory in Lodz, Poland, provides specific evidence for testing these theories.

For eight weeks in the summer of 1957, while the liberal atmosphere of the "Polish October Revolution" of 1956...

The 15 most powerful practices for guiding breakthrough productivity improvements in any company

Management Lessons From Taiichi Ohno provides firsthand knowledge of the tools, techniques, and challenges to implementing the Lean values of the Toyota Production System (TPS) in an organization. Takehiko Harada spent four decades applying Lean principles at Toyota with Taiichi Ohno, and the motivating insights he shares on maintaining a Lean culture are peerless.

More than a set of rules for managers and executives to implement, this personal guidebook is from the...

Products and services cost money, but they often don't work as well as advertised ? if they work at all.

When you?re wronged, you shouldn't just accept it: You should fight back This guidebook gives you the tools and information you need to: ? get media attention to help solve the problem; ? decide whether to pursue legal action; ? determine if you need to hire a lawyer or if you can represent yourself; ? understand and navigate the legal process in various courts.

You?ll also learn the golden rule of negotiation: Go to the head and not the tail. If you do that, and then follow up...

Corporate leaders acknowledge that reputation is their most important asset. But, is reputation properly understood, proactively managed and protected from potentially damaging issues and crises? Andrew Griffin looks at where the risks to reputation come from and shows how organizations can predict, prevent and prepare. He provides guidance on how to devise issue-resolution strategies, respond to fast-moving crises and recover reputation. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies the book provides practical advice as well as insight and analysis.

An experienced specialist in strategy...