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Random House USA Inc Brick by Brick
Book SynopsisSometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO--which experienced one of the most remarkable business transformations in recent history--as a business model. As LEGO failed to keep pace with the revolutionary changes in kids' lives and began sliding into irrelevance, the company's leaders implemented some of the business world's most widely espoused prescriptions for boosting innovation. Ironically, these changes pushed the iconic toymaker to the brink of bankruptcy, showing that what works in theory can fail spectacularly in the brutally competitive global economy. It took a new LEGO management team--faced with the growing rage for electronic toys, few barriers to entry, and ultra-demanding consumers (ten-year old boys)--to reinvent the innovation rule book and transform LEGO into one of the world's most profitable, fastest-growing companies. Along the way, Brick by Brick reveals how LEGO:- Became truly customer-driven by co-creating with kids as well as its passionate adult fans- Looked beyond products and learned to leverage a full-spectrum approach to innovation- Opened its innovation process by using both the wisdom of crowds and the expertise of elite cliques- Discovered uncontested, blue ocean markets, even as it thrived in brutally competitive red oceans- Gave its world-class design teams enough space to create and direction to deliver built a culture where profitable innovation flourishes Whether you're a senior executive looking to make your company grow, an entrepreneur building a startup from scratch, or a fan who wants to instill some of that LEGO magic in your career, you'll learn how to build your own innovation advantage, brick by brick.
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Random House USA Inc Everything Is Obvious
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Not Stated Blink
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ReadHowYouWant Why Decisions Fail
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ReadHowYouWant Impact Networks
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Random House USA Inc The Great Game of Business The Only Sensible Way
Book SynopsisThe Great Game of Business started a business revolution by introducing the world to open-book management, a new way of running a business that created unprecedented profit and employee engagement. The revised and updated edition of The Great Game of Business lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn’t dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International Harvester, went down the tubes. What these workers created was a revolutionary approach to management that has proven itself in every industry around the world for the past thirty years—an approach that is perhaps the last, best hope for reviving the American Dream.
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Random House USA Inc The Power of Intuition
Book SynopsisAt times in our careers, we've all been aware of a 'gut feeling' guiding our decisions. Too often, we dismiss these feelings as 'hunches' and therefore untrustworthy. But renowned researcher Gary Klein reveals that, in fact, 90 percent of the critical decisions we make is based on our intuition. In his new book, THE POWER OF INTUITION, Klein shows that intuition, far from being an innate 'sixth sense,' is a learnable--and essential--skill.Based on interviews with senior executives who make important judgments swiftly, as well as firefighters, emergency medical staff, soldiers, and others who often face decisions with immediate life-and-death implications, Klein demonstrates that the expertise to recognize patterns and other cues that enable us--intuitively--to make the right decisions--is a natural extension of experience.Through a three-tiered process called the 'Exceleration Program,' Klein provides readers with the tools they need to build the intuitive skills
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Crown In Pursuit of Elegance
Book SynopsisWhat made the Sopranos finale one of the most-talked-about events in television history?Why is sudoku so addictive and the iPhone so darn irresistible?What do Jackson Pollock and Lance Armstrong have in common with theoretical physicists and Buddhist monks?Elegance.In this thought-provoking exploration of why certain events, products, and people capture our attention and imaginations, Matthew E. May examines the elusive element behind so many innovative breakthroughs in fields ranging from physics and marketing to design and popular culture. Combining unusual simplicity and surprising power, elegance is characterized by four key elements—seduction, subtraction, symmetry, and sustainability. In a compelling, story-driven narrative that sheds light on the need for elegance in design, engineering, art, urban planning, sports, and work, May offers surprising evidence that what’s “not there” often trumps what is.In the b
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Springer New York Production Planning by Mixed Integer Programming
Book SynopsisThis book provides an introduction to MIP modeling and to planning systems, a unique collection of reformulation results, and an easy to use problem-solving library. This approach is demonstrated through a series of real life case studies, exercises and detailed illustrations.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews: "The book provides a complete overview of different models existing in the literature as well as in practice. … The authors also analyze MIP (mixed integer programming) based algorithms … . Practitioners who are interested in using MIP … can use the book to identify the most efficient way to formulate the problems and to choose the most efficient solution method. … it also can serve as a good reference for students and researchers. Overall, this is an excellent book." (Panos M. Pardalos, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2006 k) "Recently published Production Planning by Mixed Integer Programming by Yves Pochet and Laurence Wolsey has raised considerable expectations. Firstly, problems of production planning are among the most interesting in Operations Research. … Secondly, both authors are renowned experts in the field. … There is no doubt that this volume offers the present best introduction to integer programming formulations of lot-sizing problems, encountered in production planning." (Jakub Marecek, The Computer Journal, September, 2007)Table of ContentsProduction Planning and MIP.- The Modeling and Optimization Approach.- Production Planning Models and Systems.- Mixed Integer Programming Algorithms.- Classification and Reformulation.- Reformulations in Practice.- Basic Polyhedral Combinatorics for Production Planning and MIP.- Mixed Integer Programming Algorithms and Decomposition Approaches.- Single-Item Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing.- Basic MIP and Fixed Cost Flow Models.- Single-Item Lot-Sizing.- Lot-Sizing with Capacities.- Backlogging and Start-Ups.- Single-Item Variants.- Multi-Item Lot-Sizing.- Multi-Item Single-Level Problems.- Multi-Level Lot-Sizing Problems.- Problem Solving.- Test Problems.
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Springer Flow Shop Lot Streaming
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Springer Us Linear and Nonlinear Programming International Series in Operations Research Management Science 116
Book SynopsisThis third edition of the classic textbook in Optimization has been fully revised and updated. The book connects the purely analytical character of an optimization problem, and the behavior of algorithms used to solve it. Now, the third edition has been completely updated with recent Optimization Methods.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the third edition:“The aim of this book is to present the central concepts of optimization techniques. … the material in this new edition is organized into three separate parts. … this very well-written book is a classic textbook in Optimization. It should be present in the bookcase of each student, researcher, and specialist from the host of disciplines from which practical optimization applications are drawn.” (Jean-Jacques Strodiot, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1207, 2011)Table of ContentsLinear Programming.- Basic Properties of Linear Programs.- The Simplex Method.- Duality.- Interior-Point Methods.- Transportation and Network Flow Problems.- Unconstrained Problems.- Basic Properties of Solutions and Algorithms.- Basic Descent Methods.- Conjugate Direction Methods.- Quasi-Newton Methods.- Constrained Minimization.- Constrained Minimization Conditions.- Primal Methods.- Penalty and Barrier Methods.- Dual and Cutting Plane Methods.- Primal-Dual Methods.
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Springer Advances in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
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Springer Designing Organizations
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Springer The Art of DecisionMaking
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Springer Strategic and Tactical Decisions
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Springer The Economic Value of Information
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Springer A Guide to Operational Research Science Paperbacks
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Springer Linear Programming Algorithms And Applications 167 Science Paperbacks
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Springer Total Quality Management The key to business improvement
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Springer Manufacturing Management Principles and Concepts
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Springer Queueing Theory in Manufacturing Systems Analysis and Design
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Springer Computer Integrated Manufacturing Revolution in Progress Revolution in Progress v 1 IIASA Computer Integrated Manufacturing Series Volume 1
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Springer Computer Integrated Manufacturing The past the present and the future IIASA Computer Integrated Manufacturing Series Volume 2
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Springer Computer Integrated Manufacturing Models case studies and forecasts of diffusion IIASA Computer Integrated Manufacturing Series Volume 3
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Springer Computer Integrated Manufacturing Economic and social impacts IIASA Computer Integrated Manufacturing Series Volume 4
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Springer Management of Technology Perception and opportunities
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Springer Total Quality Management Proceedings of the First World Congress
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Springer Inventivity The art and science of research management
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Basic Books In Defense of Troublemakers The Power of Dissent
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Hughes Consulting Limited Appraising Business Opportunities
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Centrestar, Inc. Building Leadership Competence A CompetencyBased Approach to Building Leadership Ability
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Score
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iUniverse Surviving The Workplace While Keeping Your Soul Intact
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iUniverse How To Fail In Business 150 Successful Methods
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iUniverse Its All About the Journey Finding Peace Success and Fulfillment in the Corporate World
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iUniverse SHORTTERM DECISIONS Equal LONGTERM DISASTERS
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iUniverse Decision Support Systems Frequently Asked Questions
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iUniverse A Bayesian Model Framework to Determine Patient Compliance in Glaucoma Cases
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iUniverse The Official Guide To Pizza Food Delivery The Official Guide to Pizza Delivery
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iUniverse The Director Had a Heart Attack and the President Resigned BoardStaff Relations for the 21st Century
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iUniverse ENERGIZING ORGANIZATIONS A NEW METHOD FOR MEASURING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT TO BOOST PROFITS AND CORPORATE SUCCESS
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iUniverse The Thirteen Great EconomicBusiness Myths That Dominate Our Lives
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iUniverse Management Without Reservations Leadership Principles for the Managers Life Journey 25 LifeShaping Principles for Successful Leaders Leadership Principles for Successful Leaders
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iUniverse Game Plan for a More Profitable and Productive Law Firm Thinking like a business creating daily guidelines becoming better at analyzing your business processes
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iUniverse Work With Me Resolving Everyday Conflict in Your Organization
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iUniverse What Ive learned Thoughts from a Fire Chief
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iUniverse Real Estate for Real People A Guide to Achieving Profitability in Residential Real Estate Investing
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