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  • Video 
    How Small Business Can Benefit from "Village Banking"

    How Small Business Can Benefit from "Village Banking"

    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.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Small business Industrial management
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
  • e-book 
    Technical project management in living and geometric order

    Technical project management in living and geometric order

    "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.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Project management Leadership
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • e-book 
    Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order

    Technical Project Management in Living and Geometric Order

    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.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Management Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • e-book 
    Introduction to Business

    Introduction to Business

    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.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Business Small business -- Management Industrial management Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • e-book 
    Fundamentals of Business - 2nd Edition

    Fundamentals of Business - 2nd Edition

    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.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Business Industrial management Textbooks
    Resource Type:
    e-book
     
  • Video 
    Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D. - The power of peripheral vision in strategic thinking

    Staying F.O.C.U.S.E.D. - The power of peripheral vision in strategic thinking

    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


    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Problem solving Dice games
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
  • Open (Access) Journal-Article 
    The Integration of Lean Management and Six Sigma Strategies to Improve the Performance of Production in Industrial Pharmaceutical, Vol. 13, No. 8 (2018) | International Journal of Business and Management | CCSE

    The Integration of Lean Management and Six Sigma Strategies to Improve the Performance of Production in Industrial Pharmaceutical, Vol. 13, No. 8 (2018) | International Journal of Business and Management | CCSE

    The aim of this paper is to identify the lean management and Six Sigma strategies to improve production performance in pharmaceutical companies through the ...

    Subjects:
    Management and Business Information Technology
    Keywords:
    Pharmaceutical industry -- Quality control Production management Six sigma (Quality control stard)
    Resource Type:
    Open (Access) Journal-Article
     
    OER
  • Open (Access) Journal-Article 
    A Lean Six Sigma framework to enhance the competitiveness in selected automotive component manufacturing organisations

    A Lean Six Sigma framework to enhance the competitiveness in selected automotive component manufacturing organisations

    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.

    Subjects:
    Management and Business Information Technology
    Keywords:
    Production management Automobile supplies industry Six sigma (Quality control stard)
    Resource Type:
    Open (Access) Journal-Article
     
    OER
  • Open (Access) Journal-Article 
    Using Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce Patient Discharge Time in King Hussein Cancer Center

    Using Six Sigma DMAIC Methodology and Discrete Event Simulation to Reduce Patient Discharge Time in King Hussein Cancer Center

    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.

    Subjects:
    Health Sciences and Management
    Keywords:
    Hospitals -- Administration Process control Six sigma (Quality control stard)
    Resource Type:
    Open (Access) Journal-Article
     
    OER
  • Video 
    Organisational Structure and Business Process Management

    Organisational Structure and Business Process Management

    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.

    Subjects:
    Management
    Keywords:
    Industrial management Workflow -- Management
    Resource Type:
    Video