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Wow your customers . . . with "less." Cut costs-it's a common corporate refrain. But if you constantly slash expenditures, what happens to innovation? How can you stay competitive and satisfy customers? Costovation solves the dilemma of how to spend less and innovate more. The book's revolutionary approach broadens the definition of innovation beyond products to the business model itself. With costovation, you let go of assumptions, take a fresh look...
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Project economic analysis is a tool used by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to ensure that ADB operations comply with its Charter. The guidelines in this publication are a revised version of the 1997 edition. The revision responds to the changing development context and ADB operational priorities, and aims to address the recommendations of the ADB Quality-at-Entry Assessments for more methodological work on project economic analysis. The revised...
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Este texto presenta desde un punto de vista sistémico, el proceso de la planeación de la producción con el propósito de que el lector comprenda, analice, desarrolle, relacione e implemente las diferentes etapas que lo conforman. Teniendo en cuenta sus experiencias docentes y empresariales, el autor brinda un enfoque aplicativo de cada uno de los temas tratados, mediante la utilización de una adecuada formulación matemática, ejemplos ilustrativos...
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El libro Planeación y Desarrollo de Productos es un compendio de elementos que brindan a los docentes, estudiantes y los interesados en el tema, los conceptos a considerar para dotar al producto/servicio de las características y atributos que le sean favorables en su tránsito por el ciclo de vida, y la secuencia de pasos que deben tenerse en cuenta en los procesos de planeación y desarrollo que faciliten su entrada y permanencia en el mercado...
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Every product owner faces a complex and unique set of challenges within their team. This provides each individual the opportunity to fill the role with different ambitions, skills, and insights. Your product ownership journey can take a variety of paths, and “The Art of Agile Product Ownership” is here to be your guide.
Author Allan Kelly, who delivers Agile training courses to major companies, pulls from his experience to help you discover what...
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This is the only book that makes all planning methods and tools available to project managers at all levels easy to understand ... and use. Instead of applying techniques piecemeal, you'll take a cohesive, step-by-step approach to improve strategic and operational planning and scheduling throughout the organization. You'll master advanced scheduling techniques and tools such as strategic planning models and critical chain and enterprise project management....
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Through this book, practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations.
The critical role that supply chain planning contributes to a firm's financial well-being has never been greater. All too often, however, considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities with minimal results. In this book, we present proven, practical...
8) Lean On!: Evolution of Operations Excellence with Digital Transformation in Manufacturing and Beyond
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If someone told you Domino's Pizza and Tesla might not be all that different through their manufacturing process, would you believe them?
In Lean On! Mohit Gupta reinvigorates the power of Lean manufacturing and the importance of adopting optimization in a world of limited resources by sharing stories from well-known companies such as Tesla, Tata, Domino's, Boeing, Amazon and many successful operations experts and consultants. With interviews from...
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Why do companies exert high effort to reduce the costs of products that are production? Because they can! Because unnecessary product costs were not removed during product development.
C-O-S-T, short for Cost Optimization System and Technique, details how a company's product development teams, their supporting functions, and company leaders can optimize product costs before production starts and thereby maximize lifecycle profits.
Since product development...
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Use this practical, step-by-step guide on lean agile strategy to harness technological disruption at your large business to successfully advance your business rather than suffer a loss of business. The lean agile enterprise concept is demystified and translated into action as the author shares his experience with both success and major failure in areas such as healthcare, insurance, major airline, manufacturing, financial services, education, and...
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Process Improvement to Company Enrichment: An Integrated Strategy presents a unique, proven methodology for achieving an environment of innovation.
This book details a comprehensive and integrated approach to optimization: acting strategically, refining business processes, energizing personnel development, forging reasoned technology decisions, and synchronizing corporate governance, organizational design, and company culture.
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Are you struggling to develop relevant and effective key performance indicators (KPIs) for your organization? Introducing Streamline Success - the ultimate solution for harnessing the power of flowcharts to develop KPIs that align with your organizational goals. Using this flowchart methodology, you can create a systematic framework that aligns with your organization's goals and objectives. This will enable you to track and measure the metrics that...
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"In most companies, procurement is an unglamorous, unloved part of the business. A job in the procurement office? A fast track to nowhere. Sourcing and supplier management is strictly about costs, the thinking goes, and all that matters is playing hardball to get these as low as possible. No connection to innovation or strategy or creating positive value. Not so fast. As Boston Consulting Group thought leaders Christian Schuh, Wolfgang Schnellbacher,...
14) How to Get Your Amazing Invention on Store Shelves: An A-Z Guidebook for the Undiscovered Inventory
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Every year, more than 1. 6 million new patents are filed worldwide and millions of new ideas sit on the desktops of basement inventors waiting to be turned into the life altering product that they have dreamed of creating since childhood. Turning those ideas into marketable products though can be an incredibly lengthy, complex process, especially for the independent inventor with limited resources. With the help of this comprehensive guide you will...
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The must-read summary of Jim Champy's book: "Deliver! How to Be Fast, Flawless and Frugal".
This complete summary of the ideas from Jim Champy's book "Deliver!" explains that it is hard to find funding for new initiatives. Therefore, new businesses need to adopt models which allow them to outsmart competitors, engage customers more fully and operate in and then retool the basic day-to-day activities of their organisations in savvy ways.
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The must-read summary of Richard E. S. Boulton, Barry D. Libert and Steve M. Samek's book: "Cracking The Value Code: How Successful Business Are Creating Wealth in the New Economy".
This complete summary of the ideas from Richard E. S. Boulton, Barry D. Libert and Steve M. Samek's book "Cracking The Value Code" shows that successful organizations are creating value in completely new and original ways today which take advantage of the opportunities...
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This complete summary of the ideas from Joe Calloway's book "Becoming a Category of One" shows that instead of aspiring to lead your product category, you should create a new category and be the only one in it. That's the goal of true business differentiation. The very best way to win and keep customers today is to create compelling customer experiences. If you can do that, you place your company beyond the reach of price wars and into the realm of...
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Offering guidance on the opportunities and threats for future generations, and featuring interviews with business leaders, this book provides a constructive look at change. It directs the youth to become job creators, not job seekers, and to approach the corporate and political worlds with an entrepreneurial mind-set.
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All projects are inherently risky, and especially complex ones can potentially be the downfall for even the most experienced project manager. From technical challenges to resource issues to overwhelming and unrealistic deadlines to the rarely dependable commitment of your subcontractors, any number of things can go completely wrong--any day of the week! Therefore, perhaps the most essential component of every project manager's job is the ability to...
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The must-read summary of Davie Bovet and Joseph Martha's book: "Value Nets: Breaking the Supply Chain to Unlock Hidden Profits".
This complete summary of the ideas from Davie Bovet and Joseph Martha's book "Value Nets" shows how the concept of "value nets" bring supply chain management and performance into the digital business era. In their book, the authors explain how a value net marries a concise customer interface with a powerful and responsive...
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