Benchmarking is all about willingness to learn fr... more

Benchmarking is all about willingness to learn from others. It means comparing yourself with the major players, determining best practice and setting targets for performance. While it can focus on corporate strategies and lead to re-engineering, similar techniques are equally applicable to shift rotas and absence rates. In this powerful new book, the acclaimed author of Practical Manpower Planning and Human Resource Planning offers people managers concrete practical help with: setting up teams and gaining management support highlighting your organisations essential processes and performance drivers deciding what to benchmark and how deep you need to go using simple ratios to pinpoint your position and track progress starting with pilot projects and bringing in consultants finding the best sources of information, networking and gathering data overcoming common benchmarking problems adopting these methods within HR departments.... less

Guide To Business & Engineering Contracts Formati... more

Guide To Business & Engineering Contracts Formation & Management... less

Control Systems Theory with Engineering Applicati... more

Control Systems Theory with Engineering Applications is an exceptionally complete and accessible text and reference for students, professional engineers, and scientists in automatic and nonlinear control. It is an ideal resource to bridge the gap between theory and practice for students and engineers.... less

Project Management for Software Development descr... more

Project Management for Software Development describes mainly how to initiate-plan-execute, as well as how to manage people, time, budget, communications, risks and issues to successfully deliver projects from end-to-end. It covers in detail the entire suite of project management formats needed, and describes in depth how to undertake every activity within the project life cycle. It also includes IT project management techniques that will help you learn to work with users, define the scope, gather business requirements, make good team assignments and incorporate software quality control into your project.With a clear and user-friendly approach, the book discusses the benefits of a converging project management-process management connection. The described tight coupling of the process world to the SPM world provides a high degree of completeness and accuracy necessary for effective project management. Through examples and detailed explanations, process-based software project management illustrates how this novel SPM approach is more profitable and time-efficient when compared to traditional SPM methods. This book will be of immense value to software managers/project managers who strive to achieve SPM/software engineering success. It will also be of great help to PMI students or students pursuing studies in SPM in management courses or doing their MBA.... less

Turn to this multipurpose reference for a practic... more

Turn to this multipurpose reference for a practical understanding of electronics in the factory or laboratory. Its perfect for people who are not electrical engineers but who need to use electronic equipment every day at work. Avoid or solve common problems in the use of electronics in the factory or lab and optimize the use of measurement and control equipment with this helpful resource!The guide is easy to understand by anyone who has taken a high school physics courseyet it provides quick, specific solutions for such electronics issues as feedback, oscillation, ground loops, impedance mismatch, noise pickup, and optimization of PID controllers.Use Industrial Electronics as a hands-on resource to handle typical electronics questions as they arise, as a self-study text to provide a broad background for understanding general electronics issues and design, or even for an instructor-led, on-the-job training course in shop or lab electronics. Because of the highly detailed explanations in the book, instructors themselves do not need to be experts. Of course, the volume is perfect for use as a textbook in college and vocational school courses.... less

Manufacturing technology provides the tools that ... more

Manufacturing technology provides the tools that enable production of all manufactured goods. These master tools of industry magnify the effort of individual workers and give an industrial nation the power to turn raw materials into the affordable, quality goods essential to humanity. Introduction to Manufacturing Technologies offers comprehensive treatment of conventional, as well as recent advances of technologies in the field of Casting, Forming, Welding, Powder Metallurgy and Plastics. Intended primarily as a text for the undergraduate and graduate students of diverse engineering disciplines like Mechanical Engineering, Production Engineering and Metallurgy, the book should also prove useful for professionals in this field.... less

Business Information Systems introduces students ... more

Business Information Systems introduces students and business managers to the key elements of software systems engineering in a manner that is radically different from that found in any contemporary textbook. Structured as a dialogue between an expert and a novice in the Upanishadic traditions of India it leads the reader through the technology issues and management processes that are crucial for the successful deployment of information systems. Cutting out abstract, theoretical topics, the book focuses on what is minimally sufficient for a practicing manager and yet provides enough details to take the reader up to the point where he or she can actually create and deploy web-based applications without the help of professional programmers.Key Features An unusual but unique and equally effective interaction structure between an expert and a novice has been maintained throughout the book. Readers should be well acquainted with the technology issues and management processes that are crucial for the successful deployment of information systems. Provides enough details so that the readers may themselves create and deploy web-based applications without the help of professional programmers... less

The best selling EDC/CM book has been updated and... more

The best selling EDC/CM book has been updated and expanded to be even more valuable to those concerned with technical communication in areas of product documentation and configuration management (CM). Drawing upon the success of the first editions coverage that stressed basics, rules and reasons, the revision now incorporates many new real-world examples from client consulting. In addition, the interchangeability and change cost sections have been expanded and given separate chapters in recognition of their critical importance. Since the initial publication, the author has surveyed hundreds of seminar attendees and completed a large project surveying auto suppliers. The result and analysis of those surveys allows readers to compare their enterprise with those surveyed.Document control and Configuration Management engineers, engineering managers and executives, quality assurance engineers, manufacturing engineers, production control, planner-buyers, and field service people will benefit from the clear presentation and examples that help bridge the communication gap between design engineering and the rest of the corporate world.... less

A How to Business Planning Guide with a practical... more

A How to Business Planning Guide with a practical step-by-step approach A Business Planning Guide is a one-of-a-kind book. It is designed as a how-to Survival Guide and step-by-step primer. It is utilized for Three-Year Business Plan development and implementation using the Science of Systems Thinking and our copyrighted Systems Thinking Approach.Three Target Audiences Progressive leaders at all levels around the globe, in all sectors public, private and not-for-profits. Senior management teams for an organizationss:Divisions, SBUs (Strategic Business Units), Regions, LOBs (Lines of Business), Units, MPA (Government Major Program Areas) Senior management teams of an organizations Major Functions Areas (MFAs):IT, Marketing/Sales, Legal/Regulatory, Manufacturing, Operations, PR/Communications, HR, Engineering, Planning, Financial, Administration... less

Transform Your Company & Enjoy It is the account ... more

Transform Your Company & Enjoy It is the account of how the Chief Executive of a British firm broke the traditional mould, and transformed a small engineering business into a model company that has won a stream of awards for outstanding business practices. It relates how Ken Lewis achieved this remarkable turnaround, and shows how the same principles can be adapted to any organisation seeking a radical change in its culture and performance. This book will challenge senior management everywhere offering a new and unusual approach which has brought unprecedented success to the company that pioneered it.... less