Business Systems Managements

A guide to navigating the messiness of software development process change, dealing with all the legacy organizational elements, and focusing on increasing business agility.

The financial health of your organization depends on it! Bernie Haffey’s Cutting Through is a comprehensive exploration into the nuances of the key high-performance management systems that turn good companies into great ones!

Small businesses often fail because owners are unaware of the many elements that can prevent the business from growing and being successful. Often, small businesses are organized around the manager's specific area of expertise, such as marketing, accounting or production. This specialized expertise often prevents the busi¬ness owner from recognizing problems that may arise in other parts of the business. This guide will provide you, the small busi¬ness entrepreneur, with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems in your production system. This...

This book discusses autonomous employees and their contributions to organizations. These individuals are flexible and change-oriented, innovative and modern, logical in their thought processes, committed to their jobs and organizations, aware of their surroundings, and adorned with many different skills and abilities. They take ownership of their jobs and function as leaders for the work they perform. In this role, they make decisions that impact their work and the work of others, and they accept responsibility for those decisions.

Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. This breakthrough book demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible and intangible values, and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits, and identify new business opportunities.

In traditional companies, managers make decisions and workers execute the plan. But Holacracy is a revolutionary and tried-and-tested new system which turns everyone into a leader. The organisation looks like a nest of circles, not a pyramid—but it's not anarchy. It's finally clear who should make each decision—the person on the frontline has that authority—and the organisation succeeds by adapting swiftly to pursue its purpose.

This book is an excellent reference for beginners or those seeking general knowledge about the subject matter. It is divided into six parts including (1) understanding soft skills, (2) leadership and soft skills, (3) emotional intelligence, (4) understanding social responsibility, (5) leadership and social responsibility, and (6) the future leader. Each section is written for easy reader comprehension and examples are provided throughout for explanation and clarification purposes.

Inspired Manufacturing Leadership answers the question of how to systematically incorporate Kaizen, metric management, problem solving, people development, culture change, and many more improvement efforts into one cohesive system of implementation. It reveals to leaders how to effectively and systematically challenge all processes having them to become predictable and repeatable. Once implemented, it facilitates the achievement of breakthrough results.

Elevate your problem-solving skills with the Mastering Systems Thinking Bundle, featuring two transformative audiobooks: Learn To Think in Systems and Systems Thinking Made Simple. Together, the Mastering Systems Thinking Bundle provides a comprehensive exploration of systems thinking, enabling you to develop a holistic perspective that enhances your analytical capabilities.

As a small business owner, you know your team is the most important asset to your company, but you are burdened with overcomplicated and unproductive recruitment. You need a strategy that will streamline the process and a set of tools to provide consistency and clarity for informed hiring decisions.

This book describes leadership skills in business and is an excellent choice for new or aspiring leaders or managers. Readers are introduced to topics including autonomy, change, culture, open-door policies, artificial intelligence, technology, innovation, diversity, soft-skills, and hierarchical elimination. There is also a bonus section on investigative reporting. The text is informational and educational, and it is written for easy understanding at all levels.

Would you like to become a master at ‘execution excellence’? Would you like to flawlessly execute your ideas? Start your journey to building execution excellence with ease with Becoming A Pioneer book 10. Would you like to have a system for the consistent successful execution of ideas, double your business in a year, and become the only one at what you do with a proven step-by-step system? In this step-by-step uniquely written well-structured workbook, combined with detailed illustrations and video training, and filled with the right systems and tools, Bimal helps you build a customized...

Discover the secrets to harnessing modern computing environments and revolutionize the way you navigate the digital world with the phenomenal new eBook, Mastering Modern Computing Environments! This comprehensive guide offers a deep dive into the ever-evolving world of Management Information Systems (MIS) and how they can be harnessed for maximum impact on your business or personal endeavors. From the exploration of business intelligence to the role of artificial intelligence in MIS, this book packs a punch with potent insights that will keep you on the cutting edge. Coupled with chapters ...

Succeed the Sandler Way features 14 compelling success stories from real people who have used the Sandler Selling System to create major personal and professional breakthroughs. Each chapter is an in-depth profile of an actual Sandler client. As each case study proves, the guiding principle for creating a breakthrough is deceptively simple-sounding: Be candid with yourself. Taking a good, hard look at yourself is a prerequisite of any breakthrough.

We all face the same problem: we’re constantly busy, but we never seem to get anything done. We know we should focus on the task in hand, but it feels impossible with so many distractions and demands on our time. We all need The Pomodoro Technique. This deceptively simple tool, now being used by more than two million people around the world, helps us regain control and achieve our goals. It transforms both work and home life by splitting days into 25-minute ‘pomodoros’ which focus our minds and make us far more productive.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on legal teams in organizations, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. This book focuses on legal teams in organizations. It describes how these teams are assembled, examines their objectives, discusses their value, shows how to manage them, and suggests methods for their improvement. The text is informative and educational, and it is written for easy reader understanding at all levels. If you are interested in learning about legal teams in organizations, then this book is for you.

In Too Big to Ignore, recognized technology expert and award-winning author Phil Simon explores an unassailably important trend: Big Data, the massive amounts, new types, and multifaceted sources of information streaming at us faster than ever. Never before have we seen data with the volume, velocity, and variety of today. Big Data is no temporary blip of fad. In fact, it is only going to intensify in the coming years, and its ramifications for the future of business are impossible to overstate.

Tristan White's story started like many others. He had a dream to work in a job that inspired him. He didn't find that job, so he created it. In 2004, The Physio Co (TPC) was born with one team member: Tristan White. In the 13 years since, TPC has become a remarkable health care success story based upon fast growth and a thriving, systemised company culture. Tristan's obsession with creating an inspiring place to work for himself and others has resulted in more than a decade of learning, testing and refining.

ATTENTION STUDENTS: If you need to write a paper on bureaucracies, then this is the perfect reference. It's simple, easy to understand, and right to the point. Bureaucracies are formal organizations with structured hierarchies. They have strict protocols in place to maintain control at all levels. Public and private businesses operate under bureaucracies, but the term is commonly used when referring to government organizations and universities. This eBook discusses the advantages and disadvantages of bureaucracies. It also analyzes the effects bureaucracies have on organizations and the ...

Innovation Casino is a new playbook on how executives at large firms can grow digital revenue in the 2020s. Challenged with COVID-19 at the outset, the 2020s are also poised for higher taxes and higher borrowing costs. In this new decade, large corporates will need to change course from betting on big acquisitions (a strategy used by “players” in the innovation casino) to growing organically by creating new reasons for customers to pay a premium and stay loyal.