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The Aesthetic Turn in Management
Author Stella Minahan
Organization students and scholars are able to trace the rise of aesthetics in management studies through the papers presented in this volume. The papers are arranged for individual review or thematic explorations of aesthetic thinking; including review papers and ....
Release Date 2017/11 -
Author Guenther Ruhe
Business success hinges on successfully creating products with the right features. You must correctly analyze the needs of the customer and match these needs with your resources to not only produce a product and but also deliver it in a timely manner. An in-depth u....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author Brett Harned
Project management—it’s not just about following a template or using a tool, but rather developing personal skills and intuition to find a method that works for everyone. Whether you’re a designer or a manager, Project Management for Humans will help you estimate an....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Old?
Our later years need not be a time of loss. This book helps readers embrace the positive possibilities of aging and provides guidance on doing so purposefully, with courage, compassion, and curiosity.None of us know for sure what will happen as we age. What Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapi.... -
Effectiveness in Project Portfolio Management
Author Brian Koppel , Audrey Curtis , Peerasit Patanakul
Join project management researcher-practitioners from Pennsylvania State University and the Stevens Institute of Technology as they go inside five different organizations from across the business spectrum in search of the answers. These dramatically different organ....
Release Date 2013/05 -
Project Procurement: A Real-World Guide for Procurement Skills
Author Ajay Bhargove
Project Procurement: A Real-World Guide to Procurement Skills provides insight into the procurement community across sectors and across the globe. Here, the author covers the most widely used techniques and methods for supplier management, including supplier qualif....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Author Michael F. Kay
Feeling rich is the difference between just existing and being gloriously, deeply, passionately alive, living the very best life you were born to lead. What does feeling rich have to do with actually being rich? Plenty, it turns out. Your beliefs and feelings about....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Lynda Girvan , Simon Girvan
This book is an introductory guide to agile principles, values and mindset that will equip individuals and teams, regardless of role, to apply Agile from first principles. Practical examples are used throughout to bring real-world context to agile theory. This book is ideal for those wanting to achi....
Release Date 2022/05 -
JIRA Essentials - Third Edition
Author Patrick Li
Use the features of JIRA to manage projects and effectively handle bugs and software issuesIn DetailAtlassian JIRA is an enterprise issue tracker system. One of its key strengths is its ability to adapt to the needs of the organization, ranging from building Atlassi....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition
Author Patrick Li
Explore the new and improved Jira 8 features such as agile board and advanced search for efficient project managementKey FeaturesWork on agile projects in Jira from both the administrator and end user's perspective Explore the improved Scrum and Kanban board and b....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Practice Standard for Project Estimating
Author Project Management Institute
Consistent with the PMBOK® Guide - Fourth Edition, the Practice Standard for Project Estimating describes the life cycle stages of project estimating. It details the aspects of resources, durations, and costs, and explains the concept of progressive elaboratio....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies: Understanding Patterns of Project Behavior
Author Tim Lister , Peter Hruschka , Steve McMenamin , Tom DeMarco , James Robertson , Suzan
This is the digital version of the printed book (Copyright © 2008).Adrenaline junkies, dead fish, project sluts, true believers, Lewis and Clark, template zombies . . .Most developers, testers, and managers on IT projects are pretty good at recognizing patterns of b....
Release Date 2013/07 -
Successful Management Guidelines (Collection)
Author Stephen Robbins , Martha I. Finney
Each book in the bestselling Truth About series offers the author's practical and distilled knowledge on a particular business topic, showing readers how to apply these principles in their daily work lives. With an 'aha' on every page, information is presented i....
Release Date 2013/08 -
Author Cindy Bush , Ira Blake
Are you responsible for getting results? Do you need to get things to change and then make sure that change sticks? Do you want to know the most effective ways to really get things to change – for the better? Project Managing Changegives you practical, sensible sol....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Author Douglas H. Reynolds , John C. Scott
Praise for Handbook of Workplace Assessment"Wow—what a powerhouse group of authors and topics! This will be my go-to s ource for in-depth information on a broad range of assessment issues."—Wayne F. Cascio, editor, Journal of World Business, and Robert H. Reynolds C....
Release Date 2009/07 -
Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day
Author Evgenii Geno Prussakov
Affiliate marketing is hot; here's how to get your program goingNearly every retailer in the Internet Retailers' Top 500 has an affiliate marketing program. Now free affiliate networks, automation software, and pay-for-performance compensation models are making it....
Release Date 2011/04 -
Author Keith Ferrazzi , Mark Goulston
Do you ever feel like you're talking to a brick wall?The first step in persuading anyone to do anything is getting them to hear you out. But whether the person is a cynical colleague, furious customer, or overwhelmed spouse, their emotional barriers may be blocking....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Economic Systems Analysis and Assessment: Intensive Systems, Organizations, and Enterprises
Author William B. Rouse , Andrew P. Sage
An Authoritative Introduction to a Major Subject in Systems Engineering and ManagementThis important volume fills the need for a textbook on the fundamentals of economic systems analysis and assessment, illustrating their vital role in systems engineering and system....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Author Maia Heyck-Merlin
Streamline your workflow and bring your vision to lifeThe Together Leader is a practical handbook for the busy mission-driven leader. With an emphasis on time management, the book provides all of the tools, templates, and checklists necessary for leaders to stay or....
Release Date 2016/05 -
PMP Project Management Professional Exam Deluxe Study Guide: Updated for the 2015 Exam, 2nd Edition
Author Kim Heldman
Review for the updated 2015 PMP® exam with complete, interactive online practiceUPDATE: The PMP® exam update has moved to January 11, 2016 to allow all stakeholders adequate time to prepare for this changePMP® Project Management Professional Exam Deluxe Study Guide....
Release Date 2015/12 -
The Employee Experience Advantage
Author Marshall Goldsmith , Jacob Morgan
Research Shows Organizations That Focus on Employee Experience Far Outperform Those That Don'tRecently a new type of organization has emerged, one that focuses on employee experiences as a way to drive innovation, increase customer satisfaction, find and hire the ....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Choose Your Customer: How to Compete Against the Digital Giants and Thrive
Two top specialists in profitable growth and innovative customer-supplier relationships show companies of all sizes how to compete with the tech giants—by choosing and providing peerless value to the right customers for long-term success.Every year, managers at companies large and small are finding .... -
Project Management for Profit: A Failsafe Guide to Keeping Projects On Track and On Budget
Author John Case , Brad Angus , Roger Thomas , Joe Knight
No More Headaches, Hypertension, or HeartburnIf your work involves projects, then this book is for you. It will show every company owner and project manager—at businesses large and small—how to run projects differently. You’ll benefit if you’ve ever:• been over budg....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Microsoft Project 2010: The Missing Manual
Author Bonnie Biafore
Microsoft Project is brimming with features to help you manage any project, large or small. But learning the software is only half the battle. What you really need is real-world guidance: how to prep your project before touching your PC, which Project tools work bes....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Author Ralph L. Kliem
Lean is a set of disciplines that can result in tremendous savings and profitability for companies. It can significantly reduce cycle times and increase customer satisfaction. Lean, however, must be applied efficiently and effectively to achieve optimum results. Th....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Author Michael Nir
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 int....
Release Date 2018/04 -
Digital Customer Experience Engineering : Strategies for Creating Effective Digital Experiences
Customer experience engineering applied to the engineering department is rare, but needed. Most companies keep support, UX, engineering, product, and CX separate. To address this gap, this book highlights roles and techniques that are proven to accelerate issue detection and prevention by 30% or mor.... -
The wonderful, horrible truth about Agile
Author Matt LeMay
This lesson focuses on strategies and approaches that will help guide you through the successful implementation of any practices, processes, and frameworks that could fall under the broad banner of “Agile.” Show and hide more
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Rick Freedman
What began as an approach to manage individual software projects, agile has blossomed into a powerful group of principles and practices that any organization can use to stay successful in an ever-evolving business environment. This article from Rick Freedman, autho....
Release Date 2018/05