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Lead with Your Customer: Transform Culture and Brand into World-Class Excellence
Author J. Jeff Kober , Mark David Jones
What do successful organizations do that makes them consistently successful? It's simple and yet, deep—they serve their customers by understanding their needs and expectations and then, deliver to those needs and expectations. With years of experience and research ....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author Glenn Wallis , David Pilbeam
EVERY LEADER IS DIFFERENT. MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR LEADERSHIP STRENGTHS WITH LEADER ID. With a diagnostic test to discover your strengths and areas to improve, you’ll become a more effective, authentic and confident leader. What’s your Leader ID? To be a confident, ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Leadership Paradigms for Remote Agile Development: How To Lead Your Team Remotely
Author Benjamin Jakobus , Pedro Henrique Lobato Sena , Claudio Souza
If you are asking yourself Why are my engineers unable to deliver?, Why are so many engineers leaving? or Why is our software riddled with bugs?, then you've come to the right place. This book acts as a concise, practical guide on how to lead successful agile projects in a remote environment. ....
Release Date 2022/12 -
Leadership Skills for Project Managers
Author Jeffrey W. Trailer , Jeffrey K. Pinto
Chosen from the best of Project Management Journal ® and PM Network®, the articles reprinted in this volume revolve around the nature of the project management challenge, the skills required of effective project management practitioners, and some of the i....
Release Date 2003/01 -
Author Doug Rose
Leading Agile Teams is a practical and engaging guide to help your organization embrace a more agile mindset. Most organizations work in large groups when trying to find solutions for big problems. Agile teams are different. They get more done by having a small s....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Gene Fliedner
Lean is a comprehensive, integral system consisting of four interdependent elements: leadership, culture, team, and practices and tools. This book examines these elements following a systematic, hierarchical orientation and explains their relevance for guiding....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Neeraj Nandurdikar , Edward W. Merrow
Quantitative analysis of outcomes vs PMs at the individual levelLeading Complex Projects takes a unique approach to post-mortem analysis to provide project managers with invaluable insight. For the first time, individual PM characteristics are quantitatively linked....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Jean Dahl
Companies from startups to corporate giants face massive amounts of disruption today. Now more than ever, organizations need nimble and responsive leaders who know how to exploit the opportunities that change brings. In this insightful book, Jean Dahl, a senior exe....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Leading Lean Software Development: Results Are Not the Point
Author Tom Poppendieck , Mary Poppendieck
Building on their breakthrough bestsellers Lean Software Development and Implementing Lean Software Development, Mary and Tom Poppendieck’s latest book shows software leaders and team members exactly how to drive high-value change throughout a software organization—....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Author Benjamin Yoskovitz , Alistair Croll
Whether you’re a startup founder trying to disrupt an industry or an entrepreneur trying to provoke change from within, your biggest challenge is creating a product people actually want. This book shows you how to validate your initial idea, find the right customers....
Release Date 2013/03 -
Author Pamela Gordon
When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how ....
Release Date 2001/09 -
Author Rob Ptacek , Jaideep Motwani
Over the past decade, Lean methods and tools have helped manufacturing organizations improve their productivity levels significantly by focusing on data, systematic elimination of waste, and improvement of flow. Today many nonmanufacturing organizations are applying....
Release Date 2014/06 -
Author N Smart
With decreasing profit margins, increasing cost pressures, growing regulatory compliance concerns, mounting pressure from generic drugs and increasing anxiety about the future of healthcare reimbursement, pharmaceutical manufacturers are now forced to re-examine and....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Author Cindy Alvarez
How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? This practical guide shows you how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before you waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Lean Development and Innovation
Author Luciano Attolico
Using Toyota's principles for product and process development, this book focuses the implementation of the Lean system during the past 10 years in dozens of corporations across various industries. The book highlights all steps on the journey from common trouble are....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Author Natalie J. Sayer , Bruce Williams
Take charge and engage your enterprise in a Lean transformationHave you thought about using Lean in your business or organization, but are not really sure how to implement it? Or perhaps you're already using Lean, but you need to get up to speed. Lean For Dummies s....
Release Date 2012/04 -
Author Henrik Kniberg
You know the Agile and Lean development buzzwords, you've read the books. But when systems need a serious overhaul, you need to see how it works in real life, with real situations and people. Lean from the Trenches is all about actual practice. Every key point is ....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Mark Graban
Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. Lean Hospitals, Third Edition explains how to use the Lean methodology an....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Susanne Pejstrup , Vibeke Fladkjaer Nielsen
Responding to a recent surge in interest, this is the first book to comprehensively address how Lean thinking and tools can be implemented in agriculture. This handbook breaks down barriers, clearly showing how techniques originally developed for use in factories wo....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Author Mangalam Nandakumar
A guide to product management exploring the best practices: identifying the impact-driven product, planning for success, setting up and measuring time-bound metrics, and developing a lean product roadmap.About This BookIdentifying Impact-Driven ProductsInvesting in....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Lean Startup in Large Organizations
Author James A. Euchner
Large corporations must become far more agile in implementing new products and new business models. The pace of technology change, the blurring of industry boundaries, and the agility and resources of startups in almost every industry segment demand it.Many companies have begun to adopt the principl....
Release Date 2022/02 -
Lean Startups for Social Change
Author Michel Gelobter
For years, the lean startup has been revolutionizing both new and established businesses. In this eye-opening book, serial social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter shows how it can do the same for nonprofits.Traditionally, whether creating a new business or a new p....
Release Date 2015/11 -
Learn Popular Retail Strategies (Collection)
Author Dick Blatt , Rick DeHerder , Richard Hammond
The world's #1 guide to retail success, complete with crucial, up-to-date insights--including new case studies, ideas, strategies, and tactics from today's best retailers, like TopShop, IKEA, and Best Buy. Smart Retailincorporates several valuable chapters, includ....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Chris Pine
For this new edition of the best-selling Learn to Program, Chris Pine has taken a good thing and made it even better. First, he used the feedback from hundreds of reader e-mails to update the content and make it even clearer. Second, he updated the examples in the ....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Learning Agility: Unlock the Lessons of Experience
Author George Hallenbeck
Experience is vital for a leader's success, but merely having an experience (such as a challenging new job, a stretch assignment, or an unexpected hardship) isn't enough. The best leaders know not just how to seek out developmental experiences, but how to extract....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Ben Kuipers , Chantal Savelsbergh , Peter Storm
In Learning For Success, authors Peter Storm, Chantal Savelsbergh and Ben Kuipers contend that most projects have two different but complementary aims: to perform and to learn. Learning helps the performance of the current project and of future projects. It works i....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Leaving ADDIE for SAM Field Guide
Author Richard Sites , Angel Green
Make your foray into successive approximations successful and as easy as possible.In the 2012 bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM, learning professionals were introduced to the Successive Approximation Model (SAM) and the Savvy Start—the key to a successful project ki....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Lessons from a Lean Consultant
Author Chris A. Ortiz
Making Lean Work: “In-the-Trenches” Help from a World-Class Expert Lean manufacturing can improve productivity and quality, shorten lead times, reduce costs, and improve competitiveness. However, succeeding with lean is not easy. Chris A. Ortiz, one of the country’s....
Release Date 2008/03 -
Lessons in Project Management, Second Edition
Author Jeff Mochal , Tom Mochal
Most of the project management books on the market are basically textbooks. They are dry to begin with, and don't focus on the practical advice that most people need to run their projects. Lessons in Project Management, Second Edition does not assume that you are a....
Release Date 2011/09