A simple and comprehensive guide to understanding productivity. This book will take you step-by-step through the fundamentals of the measurement and show you how to apply it in your organisation.... More >
Whether you are in a production or service-based environment, you will benefit from the author's 20 years of implementation experience, as he shows you how to deliver huge financial and operational benefits for your organisation.< Less
The motivational autobiography of Marcus Parker. The story is a poetic memoir teaching young and old alike to use the talents they were given to overcome obsticles in life.
From the author of -From Paper to Plastic- comes a treatise on why certain products succeed and others fail. Understand why adding more to a product can actually make it weaker, and why quality can... More > be worthless at one stage and critical at another. Understand the two crucial course corrections in the life of a product, when precisely they must be made, and why so few companies ever make them. Replete with poignant and current examples of consumer and business-to-business products, Scanlan explains how and why companies always make the same competitive mistake time and time again. And how you can avoid making it.< Less
From the author of -From Paper to Plastic- comes a treatise on why certain products succeed and others fail. Understand why adding more to a product can actually make it weaker, and why quality can... More > be worthless at one stage and critical at another. Understand the two crucial course corrections in the life of a product, when precisely they must be made, and why so few companies ever make them. Replete with poignant and current examples of consumer and business-to-business products, Scanlan explains how and why companies always make the same competitive mistake time and time again. And how you can avoid making it.< Less
This 2013 production schedule, or production calendar, can help keep writers, film-makers, and other productive people organized and on track! Make 2013 a more productive year!
Be more productive... More > with a production calendar!< Less
The book presents a fundamental principles of product-centered and user-oriented strategy. Based on analysis of innovation processes, it describes carefully, how companies create new products, how... More > they manage the associated information and knowledge, and what kind of tools and methods they use. It also presents cases, how Nokia and other successful companies could utilize the local resources, culture and environment, and make a breakthrough into global markets. At the same time, an industrial transformation took place, and created a modern, global information age economy. An important issue is, what is the future of the product- and technology-based approach? Can it survive current migration of activities into low-cost countries? What is the role of nationality, local resources, and local culture?< Less
The book presents a fundamental principles of product-centered and user-oriented strategy. Based on analysis of innovation processes, it describes carefully, how companies create new products, how... More > they manage the associated information and knowledge, and what kind of tools and methods they use. It also presents cases, how Nokia and other successful companies could utilize the local resources, culture and environment, and make a breakthrough into global markets. At the same time, an industrial transformation took place, and created a modern, global information age economy. An important issue is, what is the future of the product- and technology-based approach? Can it survive current migration of activities into low-cost countries? What is the role of nationality, local resources, and local culture?< Less
