With the arrival of the new millennium, the role of human resources in Asian organizations take center stage. This book takes an Asian managerial orientation; that is, it looks at how HRM is practiced in Asian firms and views HRM as relevant to managers in every unit, project, or team. Pays attention to the application of HRM approaches in real organizational settings and situations in Asia. Re…
Forecasting in today’s business world is becoming increasingly important as firms focus on increasing customer satisfaction while reducing the cost of providing product and services. Business decisions almost always depend on some forecast about the course of event. Virtually every functional area of business makes use of some type of forecast. The sales forecast is often the root forecast fr…
It’s a paradox of today’s experience economy: the more contrived the world seems, the more we all demand what’s real. As reality is qualified, altered, and commercialized, consumers respond to what is engaging, personal, memorable, and above all, authentic. But what’s authentic? What authentic means to the postmodern consumers, and how companies can render their offerings as “really r…
Business Agility, Nicholas D. Evans shows you exactly how to transform the promise of M-Business into profitable reality. Drawing on lesson learned by leading M-Business implementers in many industries, Evans walks through every stage of the successful M-Business initiative : design, process models, architecture, and above all, execution.
This book serves as a comprehensive introduction to the field of e-commerce. At the core of e-commerce activities is the the strategy of the enterprise. Wrapped around this strategy process are four critical infrastructures: technology, capital, public policy, and media. These four infrastructures provide the context—both the opportunities and the constraints—within which the strategy oper…
Managers at all levels strive to develop effective teams while avoiding the pitfalls so common in team management. This invaluable collection of articles explores teamwork from a variety of angels, including emotional intelligence, creativity, decision making, how to create and manage teams that work efficiently, effectively, and collaboratively.
Operations management has been a key element in the improvement in productivity in businesses around the world. This book is about methods to effectively produce and distribute the goods and services sold by a company. This book is organized into four major sections : operations strategy and managing change, process selection and design, supply chain design, and planning and controlling the sup…
This book is an important contribution and major milestone for the supply chain community. Its includes many classic and new case studies, numerous examples as well as in depth analyses of some of technical issues involved in inventory management, network design, and strategic partnering.This book also includes two software packages, the Computerized Beer Game and the Risk Pool Game.