Research and development management Books
American Society for Training & Development Career Development Basics
Book SynopsisHere's the basic primer on how to grow the 'right people who are already on the bus' in your organization. This new book intends to empower training and development leaders with the necessary tools and understanding to become catalysts for brining a career development focus to their organizations by implementing three success factors: making career development part of the strategic planning process and extend it across organizational boundaries, sustain the career development focus regardless of budget, economic, and short-term profit goals, and finally, rewarding managers and leaders who help others reach their goals.Table of ContentsCh. 1: Career Development - Whose Responsibility is It?; Ch. 2: The Right Person for Every Job and the Right Job for Every Person; Ch. 3: Key Career Development Strategies for Every Organization; Ch. 4: Mentors: The Key to a Career Development Culture; Ch. 5: Taking Responsibility; Ch. 6: Does Age Matter?; Ch. 7: The 1-2 Punch: Using Performance Review and Recognition to Enhance Career Development.; Ch. 8: Connecting with ""Why?""; References/Index.
£28.14
Management Concepts, Inc Past Performance Handbook: Applying Commercial
Book SynopsisThe Best Guide to Past Performance Evaluation in Government Contracting Just Got Better! The Past Performance Handbook has long been the resource contracting professionals have turned to for guidance on evaluating contractor performance and making award decisions in competitive acquisitions based on the evaluation results. Now this essential resource has been completely updated and revised to bring readers the most up-to-date information they need to conduct past performance evaluations. Past Performance Handbook: Applying Commercial Practices to Federal Procurement, Second Edition, not only includes a detailed explanation of the process of past performance evaluation, but also presents new approaches to standardizing assessment areas and rating scales, streamlining the source selection process, and ensuring that awards are made to the most qualified offerors. This thoroughly revised second edition offers: • Additional focus on the collaboration between the government and contractors in providing past performance information • Enhanced definitions of numerical scoring, adjectival ratings, color coding schema, and risk assessments — all consistent with the current guidelines issued by the Department of Defense and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) • Updated citations from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, OFPP, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) • Abridged GAO decisions that provide details for citations included in the text. Contracting officers and contractors working with the government will find value in every chapter of this updated edition.
£82.50
Management Concepts, Inc The Government Manager's Guide to Contract
Book SynopsisThe Government Manager’s Guide to Contract Negotiation Federal managers often find themselves at the negotiating table, charged with reaching a solid, fair deal for their agency. Now, you can gain a competitive edge in even the most difficult negotiations with time-tested, effective tactics from a noted authority on federal negotiations. This guide will help you understand the negotiation process, plan for it, develop strategies and tactics, anticipate and counter the other side’s strategies and tactics, and conclude and document the negotiation. Concise, accessible, and authoritative, this book offers a veritable arsenal of winning strategies that you and your team can use in your next negotiation.
£31.50
Management Concepts, Inc Breakthrough Business Analysis: Implementing and Sustaining a Value-Based Practice
Book SynopsisTraditional business analysis jobs are going away and are not coming back. BA tools are growing up, and typical BA tasks are being automated and commoditized. Instead of being regarded as documenters, BAs are being sought out to focus on strategy, innovation, and leadership. Breakthrough Business Analysis: Implementing and Sustaining a Value-Based Practice provides a framework for implementing a BA practice that is strategically positioned and value-based. Realizing the positive impacts of a value-based BA practice could very well mean the difference between success and failure for businesses negotiating 21st century challenges. Value-based business analysis centers on strategy execution, world-class enterprise capabilities, and delivery of innovative products and services. The framework for implementing and sustaining a value-based BA practice involves three phases: 1. Readiness: “Is our organization ready?” 2. Implementation: “How do we build the BA practice?” 3. Sustainability: “How do we institutionalize and continue to improve BA practices?” Take the lead and be your organization’s champion of a value-based, breakthrough BA practice that is focused on value to the customer and wealth to the bottom line.
£42.75
Management Concepts, Inc Winning with Past Performance: Strategies for Industry and Government
Book SynopsisUse past performance to win contracts and deliver results at the lowest risk and cost! The federal government has focused on past performance to rank bidders for almost two decades, yet both the collection and use of past performance information remain disjointed, siloed, and not fully understood in government or industry. Nonetheless, contractors’ livelihoods depend on how the government collects and uses their past performance information. Winning with Past Performance: Strategies for Industry and Government aims to enhance awareness and understanding of past performance processes as well as to promote smart business practices on both the buyer and seller sides of the equation. The authors examine all aspects of past performance, including using feedback to improve performance, the government’s evolving use of past performance, and the future of past performance as an evaluation tool. Winning with Past Performance brings it all together on the subject of past performance and is a ready reference for buyers, sellers, policymakers, contracting professionals, and service providers.
£54.75
Management Concepts, Inc Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance
Book SynopsisTransform Your Workplace with Anytime Coaching The Practical Leader series offers a roadmap for individuals striving to achieve leadership effectiveness within the context of today’s complex world. Each book explores a different essential element of successful leadership, providing readers with insightful, real-world perspectives, as well as practical tools and techniques, to help them maximize their potential—-personally and professionally. Real-life stories, practical tips and techniques, and the Anytime Coaching model equip managers with a set of coaching tools they can use immediately to transform the way they work with employees and colleagues. This second edition describes how recent findings in neuroscience support the effectiveness of Anytime Coaching practices. You will also discover how the practice of mindfulness can enhance your ability to observe yourself and others. Practical tools and exercises to help you be more present, aware, and focused in day-to-day interactions are included. Whether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, Anytime Coaching will help you improve performance and achieve results.
£28.00
Berrett-Koehler Built to Love: Creating Products That Captivate Customers
Book SynopsisBuilt to Love is a practical how-to guide for companies, detailing steps to create products that illicit emotions that provide value to customers, regardless of whether the products are physical products, services, technologies, software, systems, or brands.Using a combination of industry-based research and laboratory experiments, the authors demonstrate that customers will richly pay for products that authentically provide emotional fulfillment. They uncover the science behind successful products that create an avid and loyal following, and they present evidence that product emotions increase a productâs success in the marketplace as well as a firmâs success in the stock market (even when the economy is down!). Then, using analytical and practical tools, the authors show how to analyze customersâ emotional needs and translate those needs into features that galvanize those customers. Throughout, the book uses revealing case studies that show how to energize customers in both consumer and business-to-business worlds.
£22.10
Simple Truths 5 Stars: Building High Ratings and High Trust in
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£16.14
ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc New Appoaches in the Process Industries: The
Book SynopsisCompetition from emerging and developing countries, challenges related to energy and water, the continuing increase in the global population and the obligation to be sustainable are all impacting developed countries such as the United States, France, etc. Manufacturing has been almost totally neglected by these developed countries and thus there is a strong need to review R&D and the development and industrialization processes. This is a prerequisite for maintaining and improving welfare and quality of life. The industrialization process can be defined as the process of converting research or laboratory experiments into a physical tool capable of producing a product of value for customers of specified markets. Such a process implies knowledge of BAT (best available techniques) in chemical engineering, plant design, production competitiveness, the proper utilization of tools (toolbox concept) such as value assessment, value engineering, eco-design, LCA (lifecycle analysis), process simulation, modeling, innovation and appropriate metrics usage. These are mandatory to ensure commercial success and covered by the authors of this book.Trade Review“This book is intended for students, chemists, chemical engineers, production workers and all profssionals of the process industries such as supply chain managers, R&D and development engineers.“ (Heat Processing, 1 January 2015)Table of Contents1. Project Management – Systems Engineering – the Industrialization Process. 2. Metrics for Sustainability Assessment of Chemical Processes. 3. From Preliminary Projects to Projects. 4. Analysis of the Strategy of the Enterprise and the Enterprise Strategic Plan. 5. Excellence in Manufacturing and Operations Control. 6. Innovation and Change Management. 7. Water and Energy Challenges. 8. Engineers as Key Players for Sustainability: The Role of PSE Academia. 9. Plant of the Future.
£132.00
General Hall Inc.,U.S. Food and Society: A Sociological Approach
Book SynopsisThe importance of food is undeniable. Yet, because it is so close and obvious, we often fail to pay attention to it. In Food and Society: A Sociological Approach, author William C. Whitt attempts to develop a multi-level, multidisciplinary approach to the relationship between food and the larger world. Organized from the experiences of food consumption through its preparation, distribution, storage and production, this book discusses the role of food in past societies, the basics of nutrition, contemporary issues, including body size, food and culture, food production, world hunger and food innovation.Trade ReviewA major accomplishment which not only makes a major contribution to the literature of this emering field, but also serves as the first undergraduate text for sociology of food courses written by a sociologist. * Association For The Study Of Food and Nutrition *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Encountering Food Chapter 3 Food and Nutrition in Preindustrial Societies Chapter 4 Scientific Nutrition and Food from the Industrial Revolution Chapter 5 Food, Profit, and Nutrition—and a Remedy Chapter 6 Fat and Thin: Obesity and Anorexia Chapter 7 Culture and Food Chapter 8 Food and the Social Order Chapter 9 Agricultural Technology: High/Low, Profits, and People Chapter 10 World Hunger Chapter 11 Food Success Stories
£48.04
NEWTYPE Publishing Be Board Ready: The Secrets to Landing a Board
Book SynopsisBetsy Atkins is often asked “How can I get on a board?” So after 20+ years in the boardroom and multiple roles in public and private companies she is ready to share her secrets. In this book, she teaches you how to build your own personal brand as well as how to keep yourself relevant and growing. She shares tips on how to make your personal network the most effective (and the most enjoyable.) Betsy covers the best ways to present your skills and credentials in order to get that board interview as well as detailed information on how to prepare for it. But getting that board seat won’t be the end of your journey. Once you are on the board, you’ll want to be the best board member you can, helping your companies grow and prosper so you’ll be able to get that next, even better board seat. For new CEOs and entrepreneurs she covers how to make your board work for you and be a true accelerant for your company; the role of the board, choosing new board members (and getting rid of the bad ones), maximizing your board meetings and building board relationships to ensure success for you as a CEO and for your company. Also included is a collection of articles and learnings from Betsy’s experiences as an operator, board member and advisor to some of America’s largest and most notable public companies. After reading this book, prospective board members will be energized and motivated to create their own personal brand, cultivate it to gain a board seat, be a better board member and CEO and continue to educate on the issues boards are looking at today.Trade Review"Fulfilling director responsibilities during a company's best times can be challenging. Betsy Atkins had the courage to join our board as an Independent Director during a time of company crisis. Betsy provided not only a steady hand but also the focused, strategic thinking and experience in corporate governance necessary to navigate a clear path forward. Betsy's understanding of best-in-class compensation philosophies has been invaluable in her role as Compensation Committee Chair, and her diverse experiences in board leadership offer a singular guide for anyone who wants to 'Be Board Ready'." --Matt Maddox, CEO, WYNN RESORTS
£15.15
Success DNA Writing Winning Business Plans
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£21.96
Vakmedianet Management bv Management in Singularity: How to Manage
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£22.49
Vakmedianet Management bv The Future-Proof Organization: Building Companies
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£26.99
Vakmedianet Management bv Strategy = Execution: Faster Improvement,
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£26.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Technological Progress and the Transformation of China’s Economic Development Mode
Book SynopsisThis book explores how technological progress accelerates the transformation of economic development by adopting a fundamental logical approach to technological progress, intensive inputs, and promotion of productive efficiency to transformation of economic development. It investigates the internal mechanisms and the choice of corresponding modes that initiate technological progress to accelerate the transformation of economic development at three basic research levels: micro-enterprise level, mid-industry level and macro-economy level. Based on the above research, the book summarizes four dimensions facilitating the transformation: agricultural intensification, new industrialization, modernization of the service industry and the advanced manufacturing industry, and linkage of the modern service industry. This book is especially valuable in its hierarchical categorization covering theoretical, empirical, industrial and strategic exploration. On one hand, it analyzes the mechanisms and approaches influencing the transformation of economic development driven by technological progress from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. On the other hand, based on the introduction of advanced international experiences, it probes into the guarantee basis for the strategic implementation and the corresponding mode choices of the transformations. Furthermore, it offers specific policy proposals from both the macro level of how technological progress promotes the transformation of economic development and the micro level covering the agricultural, industrial and service industries.Table of ContentsChapter1 Literature Review of Technological Improvement and Transformation of Economic Development Model.- Chapter2 Theoretical Research: Endogenous Growth Model Embedded with Innovation Heterogeneity.- Chapter3 Mechanical Analysis: Technological Improvement and the Transformation of Industry Development.- Chapter4 An International Comparison: Technological Improvement and the Transformation of Economic Development Model.- Chapter5 Measurement and Analysis of China’s Technological Improvement Comprehensive Capability and its Evolvement.- Chapter6 An Empirical Study of Economic Development Mode Transformation Promoted by Technological Improvement.- Chapter7 Technological Improvement and Agricultural Development Mode Transformation: Agricultural Intensification.- Chapter8 Technological Improvement and Industrial Development Mode Transfor mations: New Industrialization.- Chapter9Technological Improvement and Service Development Mode Transformation: Modernized Service Industry.- Chapter10 A Linkage between Advanced Manufacturing Industry and Modern Service Industry Promoted by Technological Improvement.- Chapter11 Basic Guarantee Foundation for the Implementation of China’s Technological Advance Strategies.- Chapter12 Mode Selections for the Transformation of Economic Development Mode Promoted by Technological Improvement.- Chapter13 Policy Proposals for Economic Development Mode Transformation Promoted by Technological Improvement.
£85.49
