Inspirational and compelling bite-size quotes illustrated by motivational stories on two key competitive advantages of the future--service and leadership.
This text explains, outlines and illustrates the principles of yield management. The second edition contains new chapters on the areas in which yield management has caught on since initial publication, including railway pricing, sports event pricing, and more.
'Lekgotla' is an African word for 'meeting circle' and 'tribal management', on which this title is based, is founded on the African concept of 'Ubuntu' - meaning 'I am because we exist'. In this book the author champions the idea of the company as tribe.
This revised edition highlights opportunities for achieving cost savings and environmental improvements to enhance competitiveness in organizations of all sizes, with specific guidance for small businesses. An extended chapter on energy and utilities offers an update of environmental legislation.
The key to a successful MDM initiative isn't technology or methods, it's people: the stakeholders in the organization and their complex ownership of the data that the initiative will affect. This title equips you with a practical, business-focused way of thinking about MDM. It also provides guidelines for determining which data to 'master'.
This book examines the factors involved in the social mediation of risks, the social construction of reality, and professionals' attempts to re-design how social reality appears. It looks at single-issue politics, the mass media and how corporations can respond to threats to their political and ideological perspectives.
Presents approaches and methodologies for implementing pollution prevention (P2) and waste minimization programmes to reduce manufacturing operational costs significantly. This book focuses on reducing manufacturing and environmental compliance costs by instituting feedstock substitution, improved operational schemes, and recycling.
Announcing the Third Edition of the Bestseller - unrivalled both in its contemporary relevance to research methodology, and in its coverage of the interplay between the philosophy of science, methodology and business.
Accessible, refreshingly candid, but above all helpful, this pragmatic guide addresses a real need by dealing with the problems that face the new IT manager.
The expert guide to effective internal consulting This book guides internal consultants through the steps necessary to bolster their credibility, build relationships within the organization, develop internal marketing abilities, and apply proper methodologies to their work.