Guide To Business & Engineering Contracts Formati... more

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

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

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

Operations research consistently delivers signifi... more

Operations research consistently delivers significant value to organizations and executives who use it. Complex modeling and developing a decision support system to generate optimal solutions for responding to emergencies calls for expertise in operations research. This book features the latest developments in operations research, such as linear programming, simulation, CPM and PERT, etc. It tackles the broad range of allocation problems that confront engineers, programmers and analysts in todays business and industrial worlds. The text includes clear and comprehensive coverage of fundamentals. Students studying the subject at the graduate/postgraduate level or other courses at Indian universities and institutes of management and commerce will find the contents of this book suitable for their requirements. In addition, the book will help the time-starved executive to make bolder decisions with less risk and better outcomes.... less

Leadership matters. It makes a difference to the ... more

Leadership matters. It makes a difference to the way your organisation performs and the way it is perceived by employees and outsiders alike. John Adair is the UKs leading leadership guru and is regularly listed as one of the most influential management thinkers of all time. His work on Action Centred Leadership, with its simple but powerful three circles model of task, team and individual, has shaped leadership training for more than a generation. In this book he has distilled a lifetimes work to help you develop leadership within your organisation from board level right through to team leaders.For the first time he tackles the issue of whether his ideas, which began life in a military environment in the 1960s, can be transferred to the modern workplace. With case studies from Mitsubishi, The University of Surrey Engineering Department and a not-for-profit foreign development programme operating in Armenia, Adair comprehensively shows that his methods are being applied successfully in all types of organisations, in all types of cultures and at all levels of leadership.... less

The book is designed to provide chief executive o... more

The book is designed to provide chief executive officers, manufacturing vice presidents, chief engineers and engineers a checklist of things to do in analyzing a potential plant site. It is also designed to provide state and local industrial development staffs guidance in their efforts to obtain industry. New entrepreneurs will find this book to be useful in making presentations to financial agencies.The book shows how to choose the best location in a country through arraying the basic economic and social facts in an orderly manner. Both tangible and intangible cost analysis and factor weighting are covered. Included are the impact of customs, legal systems, ways of doing business upon costs, management style and plant efficiency. Current legislations potential impact upon plant location is evaluated. This review includes GATT, NAFT A, CBI and other international direct and indirect influences on markets and costs. Also the potential impact of OSHA, ADA, EPA and other national mandates is covered.... less