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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2017

        Making work more equal

        A new labour market segmentation approach

        by Damian Grimshaw, Colette Fagan, Gail Hebson, Isabel Tavora

      • Entrepreneurship
        July 2020

        Growing by Numbers

        How to scale up your business with confidence

        by Della Hudson

        So, you’re feeling ready to start scaling up your business. But how can you be sure your finances are properly primed to make this momentous step the success it deserves to be? This authoritative, motivating and highly practical guide will take you step-by-step through everything you need to think about, know and do to get your business into the best possible shape for growth. Leading business finance mentor, Della Hudson FCA, will walk you through a tried, tested and rigorous process that will help you: Get organised, plan and strategise for success. Take control of your costs so you can mitigate risks and grow with confidence. Build a strong, productive team that will drive the growth you want. Shape your role so you can move from the engine room to the bridge with ease. Numbers are the language of your business and this book will help you unlock their secrets. So, whether or not your balance sheet usually baffles you, you’ll be empowered with all the expert know-how you need to map a financially secure route to sustainable growth for your business.

      • Business, Economics & Law

        Go the Extra Inch

        By the inch its a cinch ... by the yard it's hard

        by Guy Arnold

        Go the Extra Inch is a simple powerful syatematic approach to continual improvement in systems, processes and behaviours, both at home and in the workplace. Using the principles of common sense, this process can help find solutions to life's most pressing problems, whilst at the same time reducing cost and stress.

      • Business & management

        Sales Through Service

        Focus on Service and the Sales will follow: not the other way round

        by Guy Arnold

        Sales through Service is a ‘Sales’ book like no other. It turns the world of ‘sales’ upside down, and align the process with the customers’ REAL needs in the world of the empowered customer, social media and the transparent business. It seeks to drag the world of Sales kicking a screaming from the 19th to the 21st Century in a powerful, easy to read and fun way by applying 4 powerful principles of blindingly obvious common sense and human behaviour at all stages in the process. It’s written in simple, powerful, easy to digest chunks, with Pictures, Exercises and Top Tips at every stage. It follows on from Guy’s 1st book: Great or Poor: reviews of which can be seen here: http://goo.gl/23Yve   This book and process dispels the myths and frustrations from the process of finding, getting and keeping customers, and realigns it to the customer’s point of view, so that the whole process becomes more enjoyable, less frustrating, and much more effective … at all levels and for everyone. It addresses the key question: ‘How can I sell more AND at the same time reduce costs in this scary new world of social media, the transparent business and the empowered customer?’ It empowers non ‘sales people’ to excel in sales without selling anything, using the power of reputation, referral and recommendation. It delivers simple ideas and tools to improve the sales process from both the ‘seller’ and the customer’s point of view at every step of the process. It does this in small easily readable and understandable chunks, that can be actioned immediately at any level for great results. It makes your actions and processes 100% customer focused at every step, so customers are more likely to buy quickly, remain loyal, pay more, buy more, rave about you on social media and recommend what you do to their friends. It is suitable for anyone selling anything at any level, internally or externally, profit making or non profit making, as it is focused on simple powerful principles of common sense … that are so often not common practice! It is especially helpful to people who do not regard themselves as ‘sales people’ or who don’t want to be ‘sales people’ but who would still want more sales for less effort. It covers the whole sales process from marketing, through getting leads, getting decisions and then building loyalty and referrals. The key message is to systematically align everything in your processes and behaviour around the key principles of customer behaviour and needs … and the sales will follow like magic!

      • Technology, Engineering & Agriculture
        May 2013

        Advantage

        A Roadmap for Entrepreneurs and Leaders in The Digital Age

        by Declan Kavanagh

        Advantage is what creates value for your customers and your organisation. By having a focus on advantage and the sources of advantage through the life cycle of a business, whether it is commercial or not for profit ensures entrepreneurs and leaders minimise risk and maximise value. This book presents a framework called “The Business Advantage Model (BAM™)” that supports leaders in the identification, creation, proving, securing, leveraging and changing of advantage. It is about “Doing the right things, the right way at the right time” across every aspect of starting, scaling and readjusting a business. Its goal is to help create more high performing organisations.

      • Purchasing & supply management

        Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains

        A Guide for Innovation and Growth

        by William B. Lee, Ph.D.

        The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting a new business; however, in recent years, the term has been extended to include other forms of entrepreneurial activity. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process by which teams within an established company conceive, foster, launch, and manage a new business that is distinct from the parent company but leverages the parent’s assets, market position, capabilities, or other resources. A new, but similar form of entrepreneurial activity is the entrepreneurial supply chain. A supply chain connects customers with suppliers. An entrepreneurial supply chain is an innovative portion of that connection. The entrepreneurial supply chain usually consists of a new venture that is developed out of new and innovative ideas. The venture is responsible for resources, takes on risks, and is accountable for the payoffs. Most organizations view their supply chains merely as cost centers, not recognizing the fact that supply chains are well positioned to be the entrepreneurial drivers of the company. Entrepreneurial supply chains can look for innovation and revenue opportunities wherever they may be found: upstream on the supply side, downstream on the demand side, or with competitors in the middle. This book focuses on unexplored opportunities for growth and innovation through entrepreneurial supply chains. It shows how entrepreneurial supply chains can enhance the value of a business regardless of its form. Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains: A Guide for Innovation and Growth takes the reader through the entire process of opportunity identification, due diligence, writing the business plan, managing risks, integrating the entrepreneurial supply chain venture, and reaping the payoff.

      • Purchasing & supply management

        The Procurement Game Plan

        Winning Strategies and Techniques for Supply Management Professionals

        by Charles Dominick, SPSM, and Soheila R. Lunney, Ph.D.

        This valuable guide provides an easy-to-follow game plan with strategies for procurement and supply management professionals to improve supplier relationships, secure measurable cost reductions, achieve operational effectiveness and efficiency, and positively impact margins and competitiveness for their organizations. The Procurement Game Plan offers the guidance needed to take the procurement professional’s career and department to the next level. This tool is ideal for self-learning, training, and classroom instruction. Key Features: Provides valuable insights and knowledge into the principles, processes, and practices of strategic procurement and how to manage a productive and successful procurement organization Uses real-world scenarios and examples to make the procurement and supply management principles and concepts more relevant and easy to understand Presents guidelines, techniques, and tools for converting a transaction-based reactive function into a proactive and powerful strategic contributor, and includes practical advice on selecting the most effective organizational design Simplifies complex concepts and breaks them down into easy-to-follow steps so that professionals with different skill levels can apply them and secure tangible results for their organization Demonstrates how to gain the buy-in of “C” level executives for approving resources and supporting various procurement initiatives and programs

      • Purchasing & supply management

        Lean & Agile Value Chain Management

        A Guide to the Next Level of Improvement

        by Ehap H. Sabri, Ph.D. and Salim N. Shaikh

        One of the biggest challenges for companies in today’s competitive environment is to get products to customers when and where they need it, exactly the way they want it, with a competitive price and in a cost effective manner. Managing the value chain is becoming more complicated because of globalization, outsourcing, the need for shorter time to market, and the requirements for greater responsiveness and flexibility due to customer changes. Although the benefits of applying lean concepts or improving the flexibility of a value chain are clear and desperately needed in today’s competitive environment, none of the current literature provides guidance on how to do this. Lean & Agile Value Chain Managementfills that gap by providing a breakthrough start-to-finish roadmap for organizations to implement a lean and agile value chain transformation program successfully. It brings together the field’s latest advances and offers practical, proven tactics and detailed guidance into every aspect of value chain process redesign, including mapping the existing process, intelligently leveraging new technologies, building a strategy for strengthening the relationship with suppliers and customers, identifying comprehensive related metrics, and much more.

      • Purchasing & supply management

        Next Level Supply Management Excellence

        Your Straight to the Bottom Line® Roadmap

        by (Edited by) Robert A. Rudzki & Robert J. Trent

        In this sequel to the best-selling book, Straight to the Bottom Line®, the authors and their panel of distinguished contributors outline the critical success factors for leading your company to the next level in procurement practices and performance and provide a proven transformation model to improve bottom-line results. Next level supply organizations have the capability to look at where they have been, understand the current state of knowledge, and project what they need to do to be successful over the next ten years. As supply organizations take a broader view of their domain, entirely new areas of opportunity and growth begin to take shape. This book defines those areas that require next level thinking, including collaborating early and often with suppliers, talent management, strategic sourcing, negotiations management, and supply risk management beyond today’s commonly accepted body of knowledge. Next Level Supply Management Excellence is for anyone interested in understanding what a more advanced state of procurement and supply management will look like over the next ten years. Part I includes six chapters that build the foundation and provide the framework for moving to the next level of supply management. Part II contains ten chapters that provide significant detail about areas that essentially define a next level supply organization. And Part III presents a variety of topics that will add value to the reader’s knowledge base and next level professional agenda. In this sequel to the best-selling book, Straight to the Bottom ne®, the authors and their panel of distinguished contributors outline the critical success factors for leading your company to the next level in procurement practices and performance and provide a proven transformation model to improve bottom-line results. Next level supply organizations have the capability to look at where they have been, understand the current state of knowledge, and project what they need to do to be successful over the next ten years. As supply organizations take a broader view of their domain, entirely new areas of opportunity and growth begin to take shape. This book defines those areas that require next level thinking, including collaborating early and often with suppliers, talent management, strategic sourcing, negotiations management, and supply risk management beyond today’s commonly accepted body of knowledge. Next Level Supply Management Excellence is for anyone interested in understanding what a more advanced state of procurement and supply management will look like over the next ten years. Part I includes six chapters that build the foundation and provide the framework for moving to the next level of supply management. Part II contains ten chapters that provide significant detail about areas that essentially define a next level supply organization. And Part III presents a variety of topics that will add value to the reader’s knowledge base and next level professional agenda.

      • Purchasing & supply management

        Managing Business Analysis Services

        A Framework for Sustainable Projects and Corporate Strategy Success

        by Barbara Davis

        This unique desk reference offers the information, models and guidance needed to plan and deliver complete, end-to-end business analysis services. Its step-by-step approach enables maximum utility of the business analysis (BA) role, development of more complete solutions for meeting the strategic goals of a business, and dramatic and sustainable improvements in project success rates. Managing Business Analysis Services: A Framework for Sustainable Projects and Corporate Strategy Success provides chief information officers, business analysis managers and consultants the information required to maximize the efficiency and productivity of technology projects, obtain higher returns on investment from BA services, reduce operating costs, and increase alignment of products to better serve the company or the client organization. Key Features: Describes the benefits of employing an end-to-end managed business analysis services model over one-off contractors and pinch-hitters provided by recruiters Presents a pragmatic view of a robust business analysis as a service model, and illustrates opportunities for the business to maximize technology spending through the utilization of managed business analysis services Highlights productivity and satisfaction increases that can be gained by utilizing the recommended business analysis as a service model

      • Management of specific areas

        Mastering IT Project Management

        Best Practices, Tools and Techniques

        by Murali Chemuturi

        In previous years, setting up IT infrastructure involved just the preparation of the data center. It has become much more complex and evolved today. The infrastructure includes not only the data center facility, but also the entire organization by providing internet connectivity to customers, vendors, and company executives on the move. Mastering IT Project Management is the first book to detail how to create IT infrastructure rather than simply describe how to manage the IT function or software development. This unique and comprehensive reference covers all aspects needed to successfully manage this type of project in an organization. Key Features: Outlines a process-based approach for setting up effective IT infrastructures in organizations Provides a thorough discussion on conducting a feasibility study for setting up IT infrastructure, sizing of IT components, and quality assurance Explains numerous management concepts, decision making, people management, problem resolution, cash management and stakeholder expectation management Covers planning, scheduling, executing, controlling and project closure Gives insights into industry best practices and the common pitfalls in setting up an IT infrastructure

      • Management of specific areas

        Mastering Software Project Requirements

        A Framework for Successful Planning, Development & Alignment

        by Barbara Davis

        This book is a concise step-by-step guide to building and establishing the frameworks and models for the effective management and development of software requirements. It describes what great requirements must look like and who the real audience is for documentation. It then explains how to generate consistent, complete, and accurate requirements in exacting detail following a simple formula across the full life cycle from vague concept to detailed design-ready specifications. Mastering Software Project Requirements will enable business analysts and project managers to decompose high-level solutions into granular requirements and to elevate their performance through due diligence and the use of better techniques to meet the particular needs of a given project without sacrificing quality, scope, or project schedules.

      • Purchasing & supply management

        Procurement Project Management Success

        Achieving a Higher Level of Effectiveness

        by Diana L. Lindstrom

        Based on the author’s real world experience during the course of her career in supply management, engineering, and as a project management professional, this unique guide demonstrates a practical and proven approach to using project management strategies, tools, and techniques to consistently create successful procurement practices that go beyond mere cost savings. Procurement Project Management Success integrates supply management best practices and processes with those applicable from the field of project management. It explains how to initiate, plan, manage, and complete both simple and complex procurement projects successfully. Through the use of scheduling, communication plans, risk management and other project management processes, these procurements satisfy stakeholders by setting expectations, continuously communicating status, and getting the best value for the dollar. This book shows project managers all the steps and processes used in procurement, and details for procurement professionals how adding and applying a few project management processes and techniques to their skill set can substantially improve both their company’s results and their career opportunities.

      • Purchasing & supply management

        Supply Market Intelligence for Procurement Professionals

        Research, Process, and Resources

        by Jeanette Jones and Kelly Barner

        In many organizations, procurement has evolved from a tactical, transaction-oriented department into a strategic function responsible for establishing spend management objectives for the entire organization. While the tools they use and the skills they possess have increased overall effectiveness and efficiency, procurement’s internal reputation has not evolved at the same rate. The transformation of the reputation of the procurement function must be directly associated with its ability to generate measurable value. Supply market intelligence (SMI) creation is just such a capability. This book provides procurement professionals with the process, skills, and resources to develop a supply market intelligence program that will deliver value to the organization as a whole. The authors clearly explain each of the concepts introduced and then provide the background and steps required to make execution possible. Part I of the text outlines how to design a supply market intelligence program that meets the needs of the organization while integrating with existing procurement team structures and processes. Part II is a detailed listing of resources available to procurement professionals that will prove to be a trusted guide to a seemingly endless pool of resources and a targeted quick reference for more experienced researchers.

      • Knowledge management

        Hyper-Productive Knowledge Work Performance

        The TameFlow Approach and Its Application to Scrum and Kanban

        by Steve Tendon & Wolfram Muller

        This unique reference shows how to lead knowledge workers, manage knowledge work and build a hyper-productive knowledge work organization, by taming and managing the four flows of organizational performance (psychology, information, work, and finance) to produce spectacular operational and financial throughput results. Inspired by his experience and knowledge gained at Borland International, where a hyper-productive level of performance was achieved resulting in the most productive software project ever documented, author Steve Tendon devised “TameFlow”—an approach that can be superimposed on any preexisting process, method, and practice to enable performance improvement by several orders of magnitude, and a state of hyper-productivity. Adaptable to nearly every industry and applicable to any knowledge work domain or organization that generates business value through knowledge. TameFlow blends different ideas from a variety of schools of thought. It is founded in pattern theory and organizational performance patterns which are used to analyze and decompose processes, methodologies, and management practices into constituent parts to observe productivity patterns, and then recombined in new configurations to enable hyper-productive levels of performance. In this volume of The TameFlow Hyper-Productivity Series, the TameFlow approach is explained within the context of knowledge work performed in a software development organization. Mr. Tendon teams up with author, Wolfram Müller, a thought-leader and expert in Critical Chain and Advanced Agile Project Management, to demonstrate how constraints management (TOC) can improve Scrum and Kanban in powerful ways, bringing more predictability of behavior of the system as a whole, as well as to the individuals involved. Their combination becomes a breeding ground for the development of Unity of Purpose and Community of Trust. Both Scrum and Kanban (a method used for knowledge work with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery and change management) can be extended with features of the TOC, and help create a hyper-productive organization.

      • Personnel & human resources management

        Coping With Unplanned Absences

        A Pocket Guide

        by Sarah Cook

      • Information technology industries

        Coaching for High Performance

        How to Develop Exceptional Results Through Coaching

        by Sarah Cook

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