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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.

With an easy-to-understand approach, Cost Estimation: Methods and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the quantitative techniques needed by professional cost estimators and for those wanting to learn about this vibrant career field. Featuring the underlying mathematical and analytical principles of cost estimation, the book focuses on the tools and methods used to predict the research and development, production, and operating and support costs for successful cost estimation in industrial, business, and manufacturing processes.

Do systems have souls? This book, based on a popular elective at IIM Ahmedabad, looks for answers in the hard trade-offs inherent in the design of operating systems and business models. It encourages business leaders to ask two different sets of existential questions: Does the organization that...

In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area - not with formulating strategy, but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy.

Discover marketing and operations tips, tricks and tactics that you can start to implement today on how to successfully grow your restaurant business.

Growing a business in the twenty-first century has become a capital intensive and data-driven team sport. In Revenue Operations, an accomplished team of practitioners, academics, and experts provide a proven system for aligning revenue teams and unlocking growth. You'll understand what it takes to successfully transition to the new system of growth without killing your existing business. As a perfectly balanced combination of academic insight and data-driven application, this book belongs on the bookshelves of anyone responsible for driving revenue and growth.

People Operations explains how leaders at small- and medium-sized businesses can stop spending time on HR administration - "paperwork" - and start focusing on the "peoplework" that truly fuels employee growth and productivity. Authors Jay Fulcher, Kevin Marasco, and Tracy Cote provide listeners with a playbook for creating a massive competitive advantage by eliminating antiquated approaches to HR. The book takes a look at how work has changed and what companies need to do about it, and the new approach they must take to processes, systems, and best practices.

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In Strong Supply Chains Through Resilient Operations: Five Principles for Leaders to Win in a Volatile World, a team of dedicated veteran operations strategists delivers a practical and hands-on discussion of how to future-proof your company's supply chains through a relentless focus on resilience. In the book, you'll discover how to shift your firm's emphasis from "low-cost" to "low volatility" as you protect your company against the supply and demand shocks associated pandemics, wars, labor disputes, and trade conflicts.

VET S.O.S. – Veteran Entrepreneurial Spotlight highlights the journeys of veteran and veteran spouse entrepreneurs. Through candid conversations, we explore lessons learned, best practices, and resources that have shaped their paths to success. From overcoming challenges to leveraging military-honed skills, each episode delivers actionable insights and inspiration. Our mission is to educate and empower the next generation of veteran entrepreneurs, building a community driven by resilience, innovation, and service.

Order of Operations is the podcast for founders who are tired of fixing the same problems over and over. You've tried everything. You've hired people, documented processes, raised prices and every fix creates a new problem. Every solution breaks something else. You're treating symptoms in isolation. This show teaches you to think in systems, diagnose where friction actually lives, and resolve operational problems in the sequence that creates freedom. Each episode breaks down a real operational problem through the lens of systems thinking, the three frictions (Bleedout, Burnout, Boreout), and ...

Too many small and mid-sized businesses offer gold-medal quality and service yet struggle to pay their bills and stay in business. Their only missing component is guerrilla marketing, a method that puts energy where the dreams are. The 100 targeted weapons detailed in this audiobook add potency to a marketing attack and substantially increase profits. Most important, they work for all types of small and medium businesses, and even for nonprofit organizations.

World-renowned marketing guru and bestselling author Philip Kotler delivers a groundbreaking book unveiling the transformative marketing strategies that have propelled Asia to the forefront of the global business arena. In this insightful work, Kotler explores the dynamic competition between Asia and the global West, revealing how it has catalyzed Asia's adoption of incisive and effective marketing practices.

The Art of Marketing Operations is your go-to resource for all things marketing ops. We interview passionate marketing professionals from all industries and backgrounds, digging into their unique insights and experiences to glean universal lessons for businesses and marketers everywhere. Join us to learn how the best marketers are solving difficult problems, innovating solutions, and creating the future of marketing ops.

How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations? In this eye-opening book, Anne Currie, Sarah Hsu, and Sara Bergman provide a unique overview of this topic—discussing everything from the likely evolution of national grids to the effect those changes will have on the day-to-day lives of developers.

Welcome to Operations Unpacked – the podcast that explores operational challenges and opportunities shaping the global financial services industry today. Produced by the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI), this series shines a spotlight on the people, systems, and processes that keep business in business. Presented by Victoria Sena, Colin Anderson and other members of the CISI's Operations Forum, each episode unpacks complex operational topics and makes them clear, relevant, and interesting – no matter your role or experience. With insights from across the CISI...

🎙 Simple Systems for Service Providers Workflows that free your headspace, save you time, and fuel sustainable growth. You’re brilliant at what you do for clients, but behind the scenes, your business still runs on sticky notes, half-used planners, and mental checklists. Sound familiar? Welcome to Simple Systems for Service Providers, the podcast designed to help you simplify your backend, delegate with confidence, and build a business that works with you — not against you. I’m Christy, a systems strategist and founder of Virtually Structured. Each week, I’ll help you turn what’s ...

Delight your customers, reduce errors, and increase repeat business. Take your operations from ordinary to extraordinary. The McClaskey Excellence Institute bring you the Operations Experts, a podcast with hosts David McClaskey, Founder and President of the McClaskey Excellence Institute and Billy Schaefer, Vice-President of the McClaskey Excellence Institute. Combined, they have over 80 years of operations excellence experience to help companies deliver their products and services 100% right, every time.

The Operations First Playbook challenges conventional wisdom: great companies are built on operational excellence before customer obsession. Paul reveals how high-performance operations create lasting value, build assets, and make work actually enjoyable - without burning people out. It's about building companies that are profitable, sustainable, and places people want to work. Each episode delivers actionable playbooks from operators, founders, and leaders who've proven that when you get operations right first, everything else follows. Operations isn't the back office - it's the foundation.

The Operations Science Podcast: Authentic Leadership Stories from Operations and Project LeadersWelcome to The Operations Science Podcast, the premier destination for authentic, in-depth conversations with operations and project leaders who share real-life stories of their career triumphs, setbacks, and the invaluable insights gained along the way. Hosted with a passion for uncovering the strategies and mental frameworks that drive success, this podcast is a must-listen for executives, managers, and aspiring leaders in industries such as general manufacturing, medical devices, aerospace, ...