Business Management Production

Operations management is a critical skill for all current and aspiring business leaders. Now, Operations Management for Dummies takes the guesswork out of this often-intimidating subject. Whether you are a professional just promoted into your first operations management job who needs to learn operations fast or your aim is to score your highest in an undergraduate or MBA operations management class, the plain-English, step-by-step information in Operations Management for Dummies gives you the critical toolkit for operations success.

The Lean Tech Manifesto is a major step toward solving your greatest challenge: getting ahead of the competition without the need for massive investments in staff and resources, which always result in higher levels of organizational confusion and waste.

Fortunately, you do not need any programming skills nor project management certifications to start your dream career now. You will just need the right guidance to learn the fundamentals of agile project management. I’ve provided everything you need to know in this audiobook for you to start now. Are you ready and set to become Agile?

Wouldn’t you love to use all your skills, including leadership, communication, prioritization, organization, and teamwork? Your vision and the ability to execute on it are key to managing winning projects, not the degrees and certifications you have. You’re the one who would take all the resources and leverage them to fit all the pieces of the project puzzle together.

Production is a lively cultural process with its own rules and structures. In order to understand production correctly, it must be learned and experienced. Not in the lecture hall - but on the shop floor! Like every other discipline, production, too, is a field of enterprise with its own rules and structures comparable with a kitchen. A top cook learns the hard craft over several years, despite the fact that the taste is not of the same quality for every cook. And that is how it is, too, with production.

The primary purpose of The Information Management Engine™ is to describe a system of interconnected, Key-Stone Trade-Practices designed to provide the Information Value-Delivery required to meet the Business-Ultimatum defined in this work.

Dr. Liker's book, Developing Lean Leaders at All Levels: A Practical Guide was a 2016 winner of the Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award. We have taken the time to extract the individual seminars and lectures of Dr. Liker used to create this world-renowned publication and offer them in a series of bite-sized, topic-specific learning modules. Follow along as we see and hear Dr. Liker at those actual presentations delivered first hand to the students of Lean and Lean Practitioners.

Are you prepared to elevate your focus and maximize your daily output in ways you never thought possible? Embark on this enlightening path to manage your time and master it. Curiosity is only the beginning—the answers within this audiobook will transform your workflow and personal success forever.

Leadership happens out of the safe place. When you don't realize what to think, say, or do, now is the ideal time to venture up and lead. You have to relinquish your reasons for alarm and be moving and bold, notwithstanding when you don't know how. This book will help you do precisely that.

The soul of an organization is the character of that organization. From that organizational character stems the behaviors, values, and actions that drives the organizational economic engine. Since excellence is a habit demonstrated by consistent behavior, the human capital attraction and development becomes the new frontier of organizational excellence.

The Power of Intentional Leadership is a comprehensive guide to engaging your team and communicating well to build long-term credibility for high-trust organizations. It shows you exactly how to assert yourself as a leader with the right mindset and the actions that follow. Communicating effectively and giving feedback, be it praise or criticism, in the appropriate context and style is the cornerstone of intentional leadership.

This qualitative research focuses on risk management in the supply chain of industrial entomology companies that are mass-rearing insects for human food or for feed for farmed animals. This research presents answers to such questions as what are the risks related especially to the entomology industry, what are the reasons behind the risks, and finally how the risks can be mitigated.

Today the market entry for new ideas and entrepreneurs is easier than ever as the digital age is reshaping how business is done. Through digitalization, the business environment has become highly open and widely connected. The combinations of digital technologies like edge computing and artificial intelligence, AI, enable new business model opportunities. In this fast-changing environment, the most important thing is to learn as fast as possible what to do next and what is worth doing at all.

The Art of Lean: Production Systems and Marketing Strategies in the Modern Era explores a range of production and operations management systems, including the Toyota Production System, the Speedy System, the Henry Ford Assembly Line, and Zara Just In Time, as well as the marketing and branding strategies of the Golden Circle and the "Lucky strike—It's toasted" scene from Mad Men.

With over 50 percent of businesses failing in the first five years, there’s no doubt that the pressure to perform is ever increasing. Most new business owners say they’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and lost on how to create businesses of their dreams. For those who have the goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur, it’s absolutely crucial to understand and develop the skills for running a business so that it doesn’t become the entrepreneurial nightmare.

Are you ready to grow or give up? So you have started your business, congratulations! But now the excitement is over, the bills are stacking up, and the late nights are relentless. You're not getting any new clients and as much as you want to put your prices up you're afraid that it might deter people from working with you.

There's a leader inside all of us, yet often we can't see it. Instead, we settle for a quiet life on the sidelines. To become a leader who motivates, influences, and inspires others to succeed you need to find that inner leader. You need to develop a LEADERSHIP ATTITUDE.

Known as the Mojo Maker, Nikki Fogden-Moore specializes in working with CEOs, entrepreneurs, and high achievers in creating the life they want. She divides her time between private coaching, corporate vitality, boardroom, and bespoke retreats, workshops, and presenting. With her vitality coach podcast downloaded in over 80 countries and the Monday Mojo blog going out globally, Nikki's mission is to inspire and empower high achievers to truly bring business and personal vitality to life.