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What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? "Like a doughnut," says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening talk, she explains how we can move countries out of the hole -- where people are falling short on life's essentials -- and create regenerative, distributive economies that work within the planet's ecological limits.
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- Economics
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- Economic development Sustainable development
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Small businesses in the US are failing at an alarming rate. Nearly half close their doors by year 5, and 70% fail by year 10. The main reason? They run out of money. Compare that to small businesses in Ecuador and Guatemala that have a nearly 100% loan repayment rate with 85% of borrowers going on to expand their business. What's the secret to their success? Business strategist Ruchi Shah shares a community-based solution that every small business can learn from.
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- Management
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- Small business Industrial management
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"This book is organized around the fifteen lessons of a Technical Project Management course, with an emphasis on the connections between the various stages and practices of technical project management. After all, in practice, a project manager must continually draw on a wide base of knowledge, connecting, for instance, effective negotiating techniques with best practices for scheduling and resource allocation. No phase of a project unfolds in complete isolation from other phases of the project. Everything is connected. Our goal in this book is to create doors and windows in the normally self-contained silos of activities involved in technical project management, drawing connections between planning and risk management, between risk management and ethics, between ethics and supply chain management, just to name a few of the many connections you will read about in this book"--BCcampus website.
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- Management
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- Project management Leadership
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"Financial Empowerment is designed for a single-semester introduction to financial planning and decision-making, in order to provide first and second-year business students with the necessary financial literacy and skills needed to make sound financial decisions, assess financial risk, and achieve financial success. This textbook attempts to speak to the varied backgrounds, knowledge systems, and experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians by providing Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives on personal finance and financial planning using examples and information from the Canadian financial system, economy, and Elders."--BC Campus website.
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- Finance
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- Finance Personal Textbooks
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"This books provides a comprehensive, integrated approach to the study and application of written and oral business communication to serve both student and professor. The text includes a number of features such as learning objectives, exercises, real world examples, key terms, and post-chapter assessments.This text is adapted from Business Communication for Success. This 2018 adaptation has significantly reduced the size and scope of the original publication and added Canadian examples. This open textbook is designed in 12 chapters featuring a spectrum of current and relevant Canadian business communication topics."--BC Campus website.
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- Communication and English Language
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- Business communication Textbooks
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"An introductory textbook in business that covers a variety of topics: The Foundations of Business, Economics and Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Forms of Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Management and Leadership, Structuring Organizations, Operations Management, Motivating Employees, Managing Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances."--BC Campus website.
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Law 101: Fundamentals of Law, New York and Federal Law is an attempt to provide basic legal concepts of the law to undergraduates in easily understood plain English. Each chapter covers a different area of the law. Areas of law were selected based on what legal matters undergraduates may typically encounter in their daily lives. The textbook is introductory by nature and not meant as a legal treatise.Facebook
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- Law and Legislation
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- United States Law Textbooks
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Principles of Microeconomics 2e covers the scope and sequence of most introductory microeconomics courses. The text includes many current examples, which are handled in a politically equitable way. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of economics concepts. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to increase clarity, update data and current event impacts, and incorporate the feedback from many reviewers and adopters. Changes made in Principles of Microeconomics 2e are described in the preface and the transition guide to help instructors transition to the second edition. The first edition of Principles of Microeconomics by OpenStax is available in the ancillaries
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- Economics
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- Microeconomics Textbooks
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The forest industry is increasingly global and every marketer of forest products should have a global perspective. As a natural resource-based industry, the forest industry has an especially high profile role in environmental protection and is increasingly involved in climate change mitigation and management. Global forests are not only important because they provide a source of industrial raw material, but also because of the various other human needs they satisfy. A forest products marketer should have a basic understanding of the role that global forests play in society. Major societal trends are impacting the external environment within which the forest industry operates. We provide an overview of global forests and a brief description of the markets for the main categories of the forest industry.
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- Marketing
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- Forest products -- Marketing Industrial management Textbooks
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Most business leaders would agree that reaching the broadest audience is good for a business’s bottom line. A good portion of that audience will be people with disabilities. How, though, would an organization go about ensuring it is as accessible as it can be to all its potential clients or customers, including people with disabilities? This book has been created to answer this question, and to demystify “digital accessibility” as a business practice. It brings together all the pieces of the digital accessibility picture, and provides strategies and resources that will help make digital accessibility a part of an organization’s business culture.
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- Barrier-free design Industrial management Textbooks Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities
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An introductory textbook in business that covers a variety of topics: The Foundations of Business, Economics and Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility, Business in a Global Environment, Forms of Business Ownership, Entrepreneurship: Starting a Business, Management and Leadership, Structuring Organizations, Operations Management, Motivating Employees, Managing Human Resources, Union/Management Issues, Marketing: Providing Value, Accounting and Financial Information, and Personal Finances.
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The Technical Project Management class is designed to help students build on their past experiences and develop effective strategies for managing complex technical projects, with an emphasis on applying project management concepts to real-world problems. In the weekly web conferences, the class comes together in community to discuss the lesson topics, considering the practical applications of the concepts in each subject area.
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- Management
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- Management Textbooks
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Business Ethics is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of the single-semester business ethics course. This title includes innovative features designed to enhance student learning, including case studies, application scenarios, and links to video interviews with executives, all of which help instill in students a sense of ethical awareness and responsibility.
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- Business Ethics
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- Business ethics Textbooks
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- e-book
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Introduction to Business covers the scope and sequence of most introductory business courses. The book provides detailed explanations in the context of core themes such as customer satisfaction, ethics, entrepreneurship, global business, and managing change. Introduction to Business includes hundreds of current business examples from a range of industries and geographic locations, which feature a variety of individuals. The outcome is a balanced approach to the theory and application of business concepts, with attention to the knowledge and skills necessary for student success in this course and beyond.
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- Management
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- Business Small business -- Management Industrial management Textbooks
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- e-book
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Fundamentals of Business, Second Edition (2018) is an 372-page open education resource intended to serve as a no-cost, faculty customizable primary text for one-semester undergraduate introductory business courses. It covers the following topics in business: Teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances. The textbook was designed for use in Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business introductory level business course, MGT1104 Foundations of Business and is shared under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial ShareAlike 4.0 license. What’s new? This version of the book, the Second Edition, improves upon the 2016 edition. Improvements include: - Correction of errata identified in the 2016 compilation and many minor improvements. - Renumbering of chapters and added front matter. - Addition of new content: the PESTEL model in Chapter 2, Qualtrax case study in Chapter 7, and substantive revision of Chapter 16 Hospitality and Tourism. - Addition of desktop and mobile friendly navigation features and interactive self-quizzing (Pressbooks version only). - Addition of links to related external videos. - Addition of a low-resolution version. - Addition of accessibility features. Accessible PDFs: Figures now include alternative text (AltText) which enables access by users of screen reader software. - Broader format availability: PDF, epub, mobi, html, PressbooksXML, and OpenDocument (ODF) which is unformatted text editable with MSWord. - Addition of a feedback form for reporting errata - Addition of a faculty listserv and sharing portal. - Errata and corrections made to the Pressbooks version. No changes made to other formats. Features of the book. Each chapter lists learning objectives at the beginning of the chapter and key takeaways at the end of the chapter. The Pressbooks version of this book also includes interactive self-quizzing. Editable files are available in HTML, Open Document, PressBooks XML, ePub, MOBI, and PDF. Selected graphics produced by Brian Craig are available CC BY 4.0 via WikimediaCommons. A testbank is now available by request for this book. The testbank is available to any instructor who has adopted Fundamentals of Business in their course.
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- Management
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- Business Industrial management Textbooks
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Many fresh graduates are unaware that the jobs postings in newspapers or employment websites are only the tip of the iceberg when compared to all the actual career opportunities available on the market. Oftentimes, the advertised jobs attract dozens or even hundreds of interested candidates. Tracking down a position that is unadvertised or doesn’t yet exist is therefore worthwhile because one will face a lot less competition. In this video, a team of students are discovering the golden opportunity of their lives. Does their story inspire you to find your own future dream job?
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- College graduates -- Employment New business enterprises
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In this video, a student, Jacob comes up with a brilliant idea to compile over hundreds of highly relevant citations for his reference list in just under an hour. Without this shortcut, Jacob might have spent a week tidying up his references before submitting his paper. Do you want to learn how Jacob so painlessly created the reference list? Watch the video below and see what Jacob ends up doing after he meets with Prof. Ian, his co-supervisor of the research project.
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- Bibliographical citations Report writing
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Most successful people are able to perceive the world around them differently, looking creatively at organisations and systems. They uncover hidden patterns and possibilities that allow them to discover new insights and new ways of doing things. In this video, most of the teammates regard its completion as the end of a journey, there is one student who spots an opportunity to do more.
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- Business planning Business -- Research -- Methodology Proposal writing in business
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In this video, Dr Robert Wright, a multi-award winning teacher and researcher at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, shares his views on the various aspects of information seeking: Inspiration -- Where does he get inspiration for research? Selecting info -- How does he select appropriate information for his research projects? Evaluating info -- What criteria help him evaluate the quality of a research article? Top tips -- What tips does he have for his students to help them read and understand an academic journal article?
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- Business -- Research -- Methodology Management -- Research -- Methodology
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In this video, Dr Charles Lam shares his views on how to deals with information at various stages of the investment deal. In his sharing, he covers 4 stages of the investment deal. In completing a deal -- What are the major steps involved in completing a real estate investment deal? In making decisions about real estate -- Which business information will inform his decision-making? In validating information -- What mechanism does he use to validate the information sources and data? In spotting bad information -- How does he spot out biased or even fraudulent information?
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- Investments Real estate investment Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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In this video, Ms Huang, industry analyst from Bloomberg Intelligence, shares her views on how to deals with information at various stages of research namely: At the start -- What information does Margaret seek to kick-start research into an industry theme? During the search -- How does she determine the reliability of her data sources? During the search -- What major challenges does she face when dealing with business information? At the end -- What makes her industry research valuable to investors?
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- Investments Business -- Research -- Methodology Investment analysis
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In this video, a member of the team discovers a piece of surprising investment advice that she shares with her teammates. Watch the video to see the competition results and learn about the investment advice. What goes wrong?
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- Investments Investment analysis Stocks -- Prices
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- Video
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In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) What are the top 20 journals in the subject discipline of business and international management, (2) How can I find the most highly cited articles on a specific strategy, and (3) How can I find the articles from practitioner magazines and newspapers.
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In this video, a team of students now planning a marketing strategy for their business, and require theoretical frameworks and concepts found in the academic literature, that is, academic journal articles. They have so many questions, such as which articles are most influential and should be read first, which are the top journals in the field, and who are the prolific authors on the topic?
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- Information retrieval Information resources -- Evaluation Bibliometrics
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With power searching, you can quickly identify the many freely available, top-quality reports produced by professional bodies such as top investment banks, accounting firms, and management consultancies. In this video, a student, Christina demonstrates three advanced search tips on Google.
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- Google (Firm) Web search engines Internet searching
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- Video
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Others
In this slide, it explains 3 questions: (1) How do I gather the forecast of key economic indicators in Hong Kong, (2) How can I find the market data and analytics for mobile phones in China, and (3) How can I create a customized table to compare P/F ratios of all constituent stocks in Hang Seng Index.
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- China -- Hong Kong Economic conditions -- Statistics Business -- Databases
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- Others
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For most of us, research starts with a search engine like Google. Is a search engine always the best tool for getting business information? Have you experienced the frustration of not being able to find what you need online? In this video, the students on the team are about to face some challenges as they begin their information search.
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- Business planning Corporations -- Finance Proposal writing in business
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In this video, a team of students are working together to create a business plan--a formal document that describes the business goals of a start-up company, and provides a strategic map to show how it will attain those goals. What kinds of information do they need to write a business plan? Which information sources will provide them with the critical evidence
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- Business planning Proposal writing in business
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In this video, Prof Klaus Tochtermann, the Director of Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (ZBW) and Professor of Media Informatics of University of Kiel in German shares his view on the importance of becoming information literate.
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- Information literacy
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How to use Bloomberg to search for business and industry reports
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- Finance
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- Business Corporations Corporations -- Finance
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How to use Bloomberg to find data related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG)
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- Finance
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- Corporations -- Investor relations Social responsibility of business Business enterprises -- Environmental aspects
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How to use Bloomberg to get information on mergers and acquisitions
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- Finance
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- Consolidation merger of corporations
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How to use Bloomberg to find data needed for corporate finance
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- Finance
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- Corporations -- Finance
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How to use Bloomberg to gather key macroeconomic indicators
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- Economics
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- Economics Economic indicators Social sciences -- Statistics
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How to use Bloomberg to search fixed income data
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- Finance
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- Investment analysis Bonds
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How to use Bloomberg to screen companies by specific criteria
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- Finance
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- Investments Stocks Corporations -- Finance Equity
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- Video
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How to use Bloomberg to collect foreign exchange data
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- Finance
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- Money market Foreign exchange Foreign exchange rates
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- Video
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How to use Bloomberg to collect equity and market data
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- Finance
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- Stocks Corporations -- Finance Capital market
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How to use Bloomberg to retrieve company financial data
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- Finance
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- Financial statements Corporations -- Finance Corporation reports
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Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D!
Learn BETTER. Learn FASTER. Learn MORE than you are used to.
To learn more about the idea of the “ecosystem” that we built around the FOCUSED philosophy and its accompanying 7 colourful dice framework, please visit the FOCUSED homepage.
Most problems, issues, and challenges remain unsolved because we end up resorting to our past habitual attempts without being mindful of new ways of thinking and new ways of doing. This video will showcase an innovative new strategic thinking framework that is designed to make you think more deeply and peripherally about your organization's unsolved problems, and in the process, open up alternatives not contemplated before.
This video illustrates the F.O.C.U.S.E.D. Dice framework, to help open your thinking about complex issues. Each letter represents different key behaviors:
"F" - Bring Fresh Perspective
"O" - Think, feel and act like an Owner/ Manager
"C" - Show Connected-thinking
"U" - Have a Sense of Urgency
"S" - Show Team SPIRIT
"E" - Always Engage
"D" - Exercise Deliberate Practice
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- Management
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- Problem solving Dice games
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- Video
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Open (Access) Journal-Article
The aim of this paper is to identify the lean management and Six Sigma strategies to improve production performance in pharmaceutical companies through the ...
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- Management and Business Information Technology
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- Pharmaceutical industry -- Quality control Production management Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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- Open (Access) Journal-Article
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Open (Access) Journal-Article
This article investigates the integration of Lean and Six Sigma tools as a unified approach to continuous improvement and develops a Lean Six Sigma framework for selected automotive component manufacturing organisations in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), South Africa.
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- Management and Business Information Technology
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- Production management Automobile supplies industry Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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- Open (Access) Journal-Article
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Short discharge time from hospitals increases both bed availability and patients and families satisfaction. In this study, the Six Sigma process improvement methodology was applied to reduce patients discharge time in a cancer treatment hospital. Data on the duration of all activities, from the physician signing the discharge form to the patient leaving the treatment room, were collected through patient shadowing. These data were analyzed using detailed process maps and cause-and-effect diagrams. Fragmented and unstandardized processes and procedures and a lack of communication among the stakeholders were among the leading causes of long discharge times. Categorizing patients by their needs enabled better design of the discharge processes. Discrete event simulation was utilized as a decision support tool to test the effect of the improvements under different scenarios. Simplified and standardized processes, improved communications, and system-wide management are among the proposed improvements, which reduced patient discharge time by 54 from 216 minutes. Cultivating the necessary ownership through stakeholder analysis is an essential ingredient of sustainable improvement efforts.
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- Health Sciences and Management
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- Hospitals -- Administration Process control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
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- Open (Access) Journal-Article
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In this lecture, we further study business process management in particular about how organizational structure or different types of organizational structure can support business process management.
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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This lecture covers the topic of process-based organizations
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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To have a better understanding on the importance of BPM by watching a video about graduates of Industrial Systems Engineering at PolyU and the good work by Professor Devonport Tom Davenport.
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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It covers the diversity on BPM and its derivative
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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An animation which illustrates from a real story. 3 students went to a very large IT company in Shanghai for summer placement and they found how difficult it was to capture or rediscover the business process in reality.
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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A basic introduction to Business Process Management
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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A more indepth on conventional and theoretical treatment about Business Process Management
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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An interview with Mr. Ivan Chan, a global PBM director and his experience on rolling BPM in organizations
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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An interview with Dr. Josiah Chan, Senior Consultant of a large global IT organizations on process management
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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A video about the history, the evolution and statistics of MTR
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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Cover the adoptions of BPM in organizations, why they are being adopted, to what extent they're being adopted and what if organizations fail to adopt a BPM
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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From the animation of two process managers, who do you think is a better process manager for the organization?
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- Management
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- Industrial management Workflow -- Management
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- Video
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Courseware
Do you want to enhance your business model by creating a clear focus or implement your new business model innovation into your IT? In this business and management course, we will discuss business model agility and how specific business model metrics will help you focus on the overall goals of our business. You will also learn about advanced tools to help support the bridge between business model thinking and IT implementation.
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- Management
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- Business planning Information technology -- Management Strategic planning Industrial management
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Courseware
While big data infiltrates all walks of life, most firms have not changed sufficiently to meet the challenges that come with it. In this course, you will learn how to develop a big data strategy, transform your business model and your organization. This course will enable professionals to take their organization and their own career to the next level, regardless of their background and position. Professionals will learn how to be in charge of big data instead of being subject to it. In particular, they will become familiar with tools to: - assess their current situation regarding potential big data-induced changes of a disruptive nature, - identify their options for successfully integrating big data in their strategy, business model and organization, or if not possible, how to exit quickly with as little loss as possible, and - strengthen their own position and that of their organization in our digitalized knowledge economy The course will build on the concepts of product life cycles, the business model canvas, organizational theory and digitalized management jobs (such as Chief Digital Officer or Chief Informatics Officer) to help you find the best way to deal with and benefit from big data induced changes. During the course, your most pressing questions will be answered in our feedback videos with the lecturer. In the assignments of the course, you will choose a sector and a stakeholder. For this, you will develop your own strategy and business model. This will help you identify the appropriate organizational structure and potential contributions and positions for yourself.
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- Management and Computing
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- Business -- Data processing Big data
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- Courseware
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MOOC
An introduction to the fourth industrial revolution, it's major systems and technologies and how new products and services will impact business and society.
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MOOC
Learn about the integrative power of knowledge management, Big Data and Cloud Computing, and how they impact the new business era.
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- Business Information Technology, Management, Computing, and Industrial and Systems Engineering
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- Big data Knowledge management
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- MOOC