Management Science

For the want-to-be entrepreneur thinking about taking the leap, the boot-strapped entrepreneur trying to energize a business three or four years in, and the venture-backed entrepreneur trying to scale, Why Startups Fail shows you the key mistakes new...

Government information systems are big business (costing over 1 per cent of GDP a year). They are critical to all aspects of public policy and governmental operations. Governments spend billions on them - for instance, the UK alone commits GBP14 billion...

"This evidence-based book provides the framework and guidelines that professionals need for working with the contemporary explosion of data that is creating opportunities and challenges to all phases of our society and commerce." -Larry R. Medsker,...

'An adventure into the very human science of making breakthroughs together.' - Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Power of HabitThe best groups are more than the sum of their parts - but why does teamwork so often fail to...

The concepts for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) will fundamentally change supply chains, production processes and industries. Intelligent technologies such as IoT, edge and cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence and...

How do the most innovative and agile companies develop a "winning mindset" that runs throughout the entire organization?Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization or themselves, exploring the key...

Includes 10 handy do's and don'ts of using management ratios Want to measure the true performance of your business? Need a quick overview of the most useful ratios and how to use them? Only want what you need to know, rather than reams of theory? With...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to learning and successfully applying QCA Social phenomena can rarely be attributed to single causes-instead, they typically stem from a myriad of interwoven factors that are often difficult to untangle. Drawing on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399918022Author Liam CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Bonner PublishingPublisher Bonner PublishingWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Containing practical tools and proven techniques for managing virtual teams for optimum performance, this text uses real-world examples and specific guidelines to show the reader how distributed work groups can be even more productive, effective and...

A group is working on a business challenge. The group members are under pressure. They have a lot to accomplish and a limited amount of time. After first attempting to develop an overview of their common task, they try to make a plan to ensure an...

What makes an engaging presentation or a useful meeting? How can companies motivate and inspire people to do their best at work? Who are the most effective leaders? Bestselling author and scientist Dr John Medina uses peer-reviewed research to answer...

Advanced Negotiation Techniques provides a wealth of material in a winning combination of practical experience and good research to give you a series of tools, techniques, and real-life examples to help you achieve your negotiation objectives. For 25...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048125Author Kimiz DalkirFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book is about the behaviour of systems. Systems are important, for we interact with them all the time, and many of the actions we take are influenced by a system - for example, the system of performance measures in an organisation influences, often...

Turning Insight into ActionIn this collection of essays, Peter F. Drucker focuses on the steps leaders can take today to prepare themselves and their organizations for tomorrow. Covering key areas such as technology, economics, people, and the...

Although Lean and Six Sigma appear to be quite different, when used together they have shown to deliver unprecedented improvements to quality and profitability. The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Handbook: Tools and Methods for Process Acceleration explains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062390851Author Seth Stephens-DavidowitzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dey Street BooksPublisher Dey Street BooksWeight(grams) 408g

With 30 years of driving Lean transformations under his belt-both in-house at Danaher and as the founder of Lean Horizons-Mark C. DeLuzio has a vantage point across a variety of industries. He often hears the challenges Lean leaders face now that they've...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688067670Author Ken BlanchardFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams)...

CFO Techniques: A Hands-on Guide to Keeping Your Business Solvent and Successful is a comprehensive and instructive working manual for multitasking chief financial officers and controllers working in the fast-paced commercial environment. Every senior...

Take The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to an Entirely New Level with this Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author"With laugh-out-loud humor and unconventional wisdom, Management Mess to Leadership Success will provide you with the tools to become...

By the bestselling author of The One Minute Manager, a business parable that teaches organizations to cope successfully with change. Every day organizations around the world launch change initiatives - often big, expensive ones - designed to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061345012Author Peter F DruckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

"Outstanding business insights in a work brimming with energy and vitality." -Kirkus Reviews In this visual guide to thriving in the midst of chaos, scientist, entrepreneur and "Reinvention Guru" Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva brings together the insights...

Holding stock is expensive - problems of inventory control almost universal. Over the past decade organisations have been trying to improve customer service while lowering stocks and increasing the speed of material flow through their supply chains. This...

'Critical Management Studies', or 'CMS', has emerged over the last ten years as the term to describe a diverse group of work that has adopted a critical or questioning approach to the traditional concerns of Management Studies. In this time, CMS has come...

In this timely manifesto, the authors of the New York Times bestseller Rework broadly reject the prevailing notion that long hours, aggressive hustle, and "whatever it takes" are required to run a successful business today.In Rework, Jason Fried and...

Analytical skills are in high demand but short supply. Through a unique combination of data visualisation and analytics (both theoretical and applied), this ground-breaking textbook provides you with the expertise to analyse, interpret and communicate...

Understand what's required to deliver top-of-the-line customer experiences As organizations around the world do their best to deliver meaningful, effective, and efficient customer experiences, many are encountering difficulty translating their actions...

Every leader should know the surprising research and strange conclusions of behavioral economics--for fairness, teamwork and productivity You and your colleagues don't always make rational decisions. Sometimes that's a problem that leaders must address,...

The Operational Research / Management Science profession is growing in strength worldwide. Management Science in Practice contains four similarly sized parts. Part 1 defines the field of Management Science, lays the foundations and gives an overview of...

"This is probably the single most valuable resource for the entrepreneurs aspiring to build successful companies"-Ron Conway, Special Adviser, SV Angel, and investor in Facebook, Google, Twitter, Foursquare, PayPal, Zappos "I highly recommend Venture...

Big-picture business transformation with specific game-changing strategies In Adaptive Resilience, Global Strategic Leader, Board Executive Advisor, Speaker and renowned Author Maria Santacaterina delivers a groundbreaking discussion of how to build a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047777Author Elizabeth J. AltmanFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060559533Author Michael HammerFormat PaperbackImprint Harper BusinessPublisher Harper Business

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542777Author Marco BertiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Financial Modeling for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs: Developing Excel Models to Raise Capital, Increase Cash Flow, Improve Operations, Plan Projects, and Make Decisions may be one of the most important books any entrepreneur or manager in a small or...

One of the most pressing needs of modern society is to understand and construct organizations that are not only effective in terms of carrying out work but that also allow and encourage people to develop their full human potential. Psychoanalytic theory...

Increasingly, business leaders are either looking to start a new developer program at their company or looking to increase the impact of their existing DevRel program. In this context, software developers are finally recognized as legitimate decision...