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First published in 1911, "The Principles of Scientific Management" by the American mechanical engineer and efficiency expert Frederick Winslow Taylor, is the highly influential study on industrial organization and management theory. Taylor is often referred to as the "Father of Scientific Management" and his approach to decision-making and management to optimize efficiency is often referred to as "Taylor's Principles", or "Taylorism". The impact on...
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This intellectual history interprets recent American business management ideas as political theory, describing their underlying assumptions about power and value. According to Stephen Waring, most business management theory descends from either Frederick Taylor's bureaucratic theory of scientific management or Elton Mayo's corporatist idea of human relations. Waring discusses the subsequent evolution of several management theories and techniques,...
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For most managers technology is a mystery. Must it endlessly eat away at profit, hamper productivity, and bring business to its knees with outages? According to author Anthony L. Butler, it almost feels like a crime in progress conducted by three super villains: Money Pit, The Productivity Bandit, and the business destroyer-Outage. Businesses are in a constant struggle with the evil triad that continues to rear up over and over again. Cracking the...
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If you deal with product lifecycle management technology or the challenges that come from managing product development, inside this slim guide you will find the answers to your most critical questions. It combines hands-on knowledge with best practices derived from numerous business authors and studies with an engaging perspective on the critical aspects of successfully selecting the deploying technology to manage the product development process....
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Dynamic Focus is about creating a meaningful legacy while effectively navigating the inherent multifaceted challenges of life. Mental habits can become subtle traps that distort perceptions, thoughts and relationships into limitations. Dynamic Focus provides a practical, powerful and integrated methodology with tools for breaking these traps or "spells of limitation" and living a more meaningful life.
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Es conocida la importancia que tienen las empresas de familia (EF) en el sistema económico de la región de Latinoamérica. Más del 80 % de todas las empresas son de familia, generan un alto porcentaje del producto bruto y la mayor cantidad de nuevos empleos. Por otro lado, el aumento de la expectativa de vida hace que cada vez más convivan varias generaciones en las EF, y esto hace que sea más compleja su gestión y que ellas necesiten de mayor...
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All too often, when investors go in search of investment advice, they are met with television personalities and so-called investment "gurus" who do little more than push the latest and greatest scheme to retire rich. Your retirement funds-in the form of IRAs, 401(k)s, SEP or Simple IRAs, and other plans you can direct to some degree-are, however, far too precious to bet on the latest scheme, trend, or tip you heard at a party. In Invest Like an Institution:...
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In a way that anyone can understand, How to Speak Tech: The Non-Techie's Guide to Tech Basics in Business spells out the essential technical terms and technologies involved in setting up a company's website or web application. Nontechnical business readers will find their digital literacy painlessly improved with each ten-minute chapter of this illustrative story of one successful technology startup building its Web-based business from scratch.
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Recursos Humanos ha pasado a de ser un área de soporte a constituirse en la mano derecha de los CEO de aquellas compañías que han entendido realmente la importancia que el talento humano tiene en las organizaciones de hoy. Es simple: si no involucramos a nuestros colaboradores en los proyectos no alcanzaremos los objetivos planteados de negocio. Esta realidad nos convoca a desarrollar una comunicación interna eficaz y comprensiva para las diversas...
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Le Québec est un territoire composé d'une diversité d'espaces urbains, ruraux, régionaux, métropolitains, ctiers et nordiques. Il est en mouvance : polarisation des lieux à différents degrés, érosion de zones rurales et urbaines, extension des lisières périurbaines, densification de nouvelles formes territoriales. La politique publique québécoise tente de saisir et de comprendre globalement les contextes territoriaux particuliers et...
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This is one unique book which describes in detail some of the core concepts related to Knowledge Management in organizations as well as the use of those values in personal lives of individuals. Initial chapters introduce the basics of the Knowledge Management, the process, the terms used and their meanings. Part A of the book pertaining to Knowledge Management in Organizations deals with the concepts of structuring any organization for knowledge management....
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken precious lives and devastated the global economy. It has also revealed chinks in our supply chains. Not only have manufacturers found themselves scrambling unsuccessfully to find new suppliers when their Asian sources shut down, but the Western world has experienced across-the-board shortages of essential consumer packaged goods for the first time in decades.
Blockchain technology has the potential to minimize these...
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En Tu primer trabajo como líder encontrarás consejos prácticos que provienen directo de quienes ya han recorrido ese camino. No solo incluye docenas de herramientas para asegurar tu éxito, sino que también se basa en la amplia experiencia e investigación de los autores y de la consultora DDI, que ya ha servido para el desarrollo de millones de líderes en todo el mundo. De hecho, solo este año 250.000 líderes lo conseguirán gracias a la capacitación...
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El desarrollo de los hijos en la empresa familiar del fundador o la fundadora no es fácil. Los hijos sienten que no les dan espacio para mostrar aquello de lo que son capaces, y los padres no se animan a poner en sus manos lo que tanto les costó conseguir. La falta de motivación, los sermones y conflictos aparecen en escena al poco tiempo del ingreso de los hijos.
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Le Lean est une question de flux. Ce livre fournit les bases du Lean afin que chacun, dans tout type de travail, puisse être Lean. Pour mieux comprendre pourquoi des organisations Lean comme Toyota sont si innovantes au quotidien, le livre se penche sur l'ingrédient secret du Lean, l'expérience optimale.
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To build a sustainable, diversified business requires continuous search for ways to parlay available scarce resources into new opportunities for profit. This book describes a framework to identify new business opportunities. Leveraging scarce resources into new business angles can increase profit, improve the sustainability of profits, and diversify the contributors of profit, and thereby increase business value. The scarce resources considered are...
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Multisided Platforms: Evaluating launch conditions deals with a specific type of organisation, the multisided platform that operates in multisided markets with positive feedback effects. These are some of the most exciting and valuable but rare organisations. Examples can be found in a variety of settings from postal delivery, shopping malls, print publishing, open source software projects, through to internet based social media, to name a few instances.
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Some of you think you have succeeded in transforming your company into a Lean enterprise just because your quality and delivery metrics and your customer relations are improved? You are wrong. Your performance may even have reached the so-called 'best-in-class' status among your peers and you'd still be wrong. Offering a high Lean assessment score, as further proof of your success doesn't help either, you'd be wrong again. You may also object that...
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The complexity of managing a business today has increased exponentially due to rapid technological advancement and global events. This implies that the solutions of yesterday may not be applicable today or in the near future.
Some of the major problems faced by businesses today include financial management, competition, strategy, change and innovation. Business managers must therefore development a comprehensive understanding of business organisations...
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