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Workflow Patterns: The Definitive Guide
A comprehensive guide to well-known workflow patterns: recurrent, generic business process constructs, described from the control-flow, data, and resource perspectives.The study of business processes has emerged as a highly effective approach to coordinating an organization's complex service- and knowledge-based activities. The growing field of business process management (BPM) focuses on metho…
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- 9780262329408
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- 1 online resource (384 pages).
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A ghost's memoir : the making of Alfred P. Sloan's "My years with General Mot…
Includes index.The story of the ghostwriting of Alfred P. Sloan's best-selling memoir, General Motor's attempts to block the book's publication, and the author's eventual triumph over the corporation.Published in 1964, My Years with General Motors was an immediate best-seller and today is considered one of the few classic books on management. The book is the ghostwritten memoir of Alfred P. Slo…
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- 9780262279420
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 202 pages)
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- 620 MCD
The new economics :for industry, government, education
A new edition of a book that details the system of transformation underlying the 14 Points for Management presented in Deming's Out of the Crisis . It would be better if everyone would work together as a system, with the aim for everybody to win. What we need is cooperation and transformation to a new style of management." --from The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education In this boo…
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- Third edition
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- 9780262355445
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- 1 online resource (240 pages).
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Out of the crisis
Deming's classic work on management, based on his famous 14 Points for Management. " Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment." --from Out of the Crisis In his classic Out of the Crisis, W. Edwards Deming describes the fou…
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- [Reissue].
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- 9780262355438
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- 1 online resource (448 pages).
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Worker leadership : America's secret weapon in the battle for industrial comp…
How can American manufacturing recapture its former dominance in the globalized industrial economy? In Worker Leadership, Fred Stahl proposes a strategy to boost enterprise productivity and restore America's industrial power. Stahl outlines a revolutionary transformation of industrial culture that offers workers real control of production operations and manufacturing processes (as well as a mon…
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- 9781461943822
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- 1 online resource
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Enabling Horizontal Collaboration Through Continuous Relational Learning
Now that supply chain operations are facing new challenges due to the necessity of reducing costs and CO2 emissions, companies are increasingly leveraging cooperation from companies from other supply chains as a source of competitive advantage. Horizontal Collaboration has been proved an efficient tool for cutting logistic costs up to 49%. Zaragoza Logistics Center, member of the MIT-Scale N…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-08093-2
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- 1 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
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Environmental Management the Supply Chain Perspective
In view of the increasing quest for environmental management in businesses, this book provides a good reference to firms to understand how they may manage their supply chains to improve business and environmental performance. The book consists of six chapters covering such topics as environmental management, environmental management practices with supply chain efforts, collaborative environment…
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- 978-3-319-23681-0
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- XI, 140
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Integrated Management Systems
Examining the challenges of integrated management, this book explores the importance and potential benefits of using an integrated approach as a cross-functional concept of management. It covers not only standardized management systems (e.g. International Organization for Standardization), but also models of self-assessment, as well as different types of integration. Furthermore, it demonstrate…
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- 978-3-319-10027-2
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- IX, 194
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- 338.7 INT
Inside the competitor's mindset :how to predict their next move and position …
"Practical guidance for business leaders to learn what their competitors will do and why, so organizations are better prepared to meet competitive challenges"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373647
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- 1 online resource.
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Enterprise Risk Management in International Construction Operations
This book provides readers an understanding of the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for international construction operations. In an extended case study, it primarily focuses on Chinese construction firms (CCFs) based in Singapore. In this regard, the book explains the differences and similarities between Risk Management (RM), Project Risk Management (PRM) and ERM in the const…
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- 978-981-287-549-5
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- 31 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
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