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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.

Presenting a clear, accessible guide to solving important leadership challenges through human resources-focused and other data analytics, this engaging audiobook tells you how to transform the HR function and overall organizational effectiveness by using data to make decisions grounded in facts vs opinions, identify root causes behind your company's thorniest problems, and move toward a winning, future-focused business strategy.

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.

Did you know that 233 soldiers of the Indian Army were cordoned off for almost three months without food in the jungles of Africa?How did a UN peacekeeping mission turn into a war for dignity, a war for the Indian tricolour?The year was 2000. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, had been ravaged by...

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.

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.

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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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.

This podcast is to give you a glimpse of operations management. You will learn essential insights about how operations in different companies or industries work.

Discover how investment organizations are run from the industry’s top operating partners. We dive into the business of investment management by exploring functional areas across operations, investor relations, legal, finance, and technology. Key stakeholders provide insight on the business today and look to what the future may hold for capital allocators and their investment partners. Longtime operator, Scott MacDonald, hosts in-depth interviews with key non-investment principals across public and private markets. Learn more and join our community from www.capitalallocators.com.

Supply Chain Management for Dummies, 2nd Edition guides you to an understanding of what a supply chain is and how to leverage this system effectively across your business, no matter its size or industry.

Management Tips 2: From Harvard Business Review puts the best management practices and insights, from top thinkers in the field, right at your fingertips. Listen to it any time you have a few minutes to spare, and you'll have a fresh, powerful idea you can immediately put into action. With this handy book as your guide, you'll stand the best chance of succeeding in your role as a manager.

Tested and effective leadership and teaching advice based on riveting combat stories from a Special Operations veteran. In Leadership and Training for the Fight, MSG Paul R. Howe, U.S. Army Retired, shares ideas on leadership that he has developed through extensive combat experience. Howe tells riveting stories of military operations and analyzes leadership concepts. He also gives advice on how to understand students and how to refine your teaching methods. Written with the unique insight of a Special Operations soldier, this book is the perfect guide for anyone interested in improving leadership skills.

Are you curious about the future of sales and hyper-growth companies? Join hosts Howard Brown (Founder & CEO, Revenue.io) and Alastair Woolcock (Chief Strategy Officer, Revenue.io and Gartner Alumni) and the world’s top revenue leaders to explore the critical insights, technologies, strategies and psychology behind RevOps and revenue science. You will get in-the-moment, thought-provoking discussions that today’s leading CRO’s, CSO’s and CEO’s need to stay ahead in this economic environment. From Revenue.io, the company that optimizes high-performing teams with real-time ...

We are the COO coaches to help you successfully scale in this new world where efficiency is as important as growth. Remember when valuations were 3-10x ARR and money wasn’t free? We do. Each week we share our experiences and bring in scale up experts and operational leaders to help you navigate both the burning operational issues and the larger existential challenges. Beth Ayers is the former COO of Peak AI, NewVoiceMedia and Codilty and has helped raise over $200m from top funds - Softbank, Bessemer, TCV, MCC, Notion and Oxx. Brandon Mensinga is the former COO of Signal AI and Trint. This ...

Micro Focus recently announced the release of OPTIC, the Operations Platform for Transformation, Intelligence, and Cloud. An integrated, proven platform that empowers IT operations with built-in, unlimited-use intelligence at the core and also offers the ability to optimize the cloud as a full partner. As businesses navigate the changing demands of the digital economy and seek to improve productivity for a dispersed workforce, Micro Focus OPTIC is designed to simplify the complexity of transforming IT to meet these ever shifting expectations. We know IT operations management (ITOM) is pretty ...

Whether you're a novice entrepreneur or a seasoned pro, The Small Business Bible is a comprehensive A-to-Z library of everything you might need to know. Not only does it teach new entrepreneurs what works and what doesn't, with scores of tips, hints, insider information, and secrets of success, but it's also a reliable, valuable, and insightful resource for established business owners who want to help their businesses to grow and succeed.

Intelligenza Organizzativa è il podcast di MM Operations sulla logistica che crea valore. In ogni episodio parliamo di supply chain, persone, dati e scelte strategiche. Raccontiamo cosa c'è davvero dietro un servizio logistico efficiente e perché oggi la logistica non è più solo operatività, ma un vero vantaggio competitivo.

The JOM Interview Series features cutting edge research published in the Journal of Operations Management (www.jom-hub.com). Each session pairs researchers with practitioner oriented discussants, in a moderated discussion of motivation, relevance to practice, impact and future work. Viewers should also follow the Journal of Operations Management on LinkedIn for associated news.