Essential Managers: Project Management (Essential Managers Series)

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Classify this itsy-bitsy book as a project management guide that isn't a project to read but that distills all the basics for you into a quick thumbnail guide on everything from establishing objectives and keeping to schedules and budgets to providing effective leadership and tackling problems efficiently. Along the way, simple checklists enable you to be fully prepared at every stage, from starting up to closing down, and accessible diagrams and flow charts explore different options for action and provide useful examples. Granted, if you're looking for very specific or in-depth guidance, you may find this book too cursory and general in its approach. But if you're looking for a thumbnail guide to the basics, it'll do you just fine.

It's worth mentioning that the book is also part of reference publisher Dorling Kindersley's Essential Managers series--20 itty-bitty li'l books on business and career topics ranging from communication, leadership, and decision making to the management of time, budgets, change, meetings, people, projects, and teams. Combining the For Dummies book series's talent for breaking down a lot of information into bite-size bits and sidebars with Dorling Kindersley's signature design style of crisp, classy graphics on a gleaming white backdrop, they don't represent the cutting edge of business thinking and they don't necessarily reflect any unique individual perspective. Instead, it's as though someone collated the best general thinking on these 20 topics and rolled them out into 72 brightly designed and easy-to-read pages, studded along the way with boxed tips, color shots of a multiracial cast of "coworkers" animatedly hashing through the workplace issues of the day, and a self-test of one's skills in the topic at hand on the last few pages of each volume. Again, they're not for anyone looking for more in-depth or focused help on any of the subjects they cover, but they're perfect as a quickie general-interest reference... and let's face it, they're so cute and look so smart in a neat little stack or row that you'll probably want to buy a whole bunch to give to your entire staff or department. --Timothy Murphy

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Learn about quality control, communication, deadlines, budgeting, and planning risks. From setting out objectives to compiling the close--down report, from choosing priorities to selecting the right team, Project Management shows you how to plan, run, and monitor a project, and explains what to do if things go wrong. It contains a wealth of straightforward, expert advice on scheduling and budgeting, managing and communicating information, planning activities, and developing leadership skills to ensure successful completion of all your projects. The Essential Manager have sold more than 1.9 million copies worldwide! Experienced and novice managers alike can benefit from these compact guides that slip easily into a briefcase or a portfolio. The topics are relevant to every work environment, from large corporations to small businesses. Concise treatments of dozens of business techniques, skills, methods, and problems are presented with hundreds of photos, charts, and diagrams. It is the most exciting and accessible approach to business and self--improvement available.

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Guiding Light!.......2004-02-04

The Book is a great 'Guiding Light' - I mention this because Project Management is a wide topic. Any good business needs to begin with a plan to blueprint for operating and building company eg. Establishing, Budget, Targetting market, Competition etc. This book provides check lists with diagrams, graphs and examples that focus on SWOT (Strength, weakness, Opportunities and Threat) analysis of business. There's expert advice on team work, communication and developing Leadership and the authors' co-experience brings to limelight the basics of understanding the Project with topics like:

1. Defining Project
2. Planning Projects
3. Implementing Plans
4. Monitoring Performance

Quickie tips and perfect gem picks, this book from Defining leads to non stop information through monitoring and tracking progress tips, overcoming probs, dealing with change and summarizing assessment on management skills too. Dorling Kindersley's reference books has been a classy pick and gem on book shelf, this book also stands a 'Sure Pick' for lovers of Management field.

Essential Managers: Project Management.......2000-12-20

An excellent, very portable, reference crammed cover-to-cover with easy to read information, including a multitude of diagrams and clear instructions that will allow managers and team players alike, to plan, monitor and control business projects to successful completion.

Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations (2nd Edition)

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Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations (2nd Edition)
Steven A. Finkler , and David M. Ward
Manufacturer: Aspen Publishers
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ASIN: 0834210118

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Essentials of Cost Accounting for Health Care Organizations, Second Edition is a comprehensive text that applies the tool and techniques of cost accounting to the health services field. It is an essential tools for all professionals who need to deal with the challenges of managing health facilities in a difficult economic environment. The new edition has an increased emphasis on managed care as well as a new computer-based component.

Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications: Essentials of Practical Management Science (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac®)

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Spreadsheet Modeling and Applications: Essentials of Practical Management Science (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac®)
S. Christian Albright , and Wayne Winston
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Knowing spreadsheets can save your job? Absolutely. SPREADSHEET MODELING AND APPLICATIONS: ESSENTIALS OF PRACTICAL MANAGEMENT SCIENCE shows you how with just a little spreadsheet magic you can solve real life business problems. It's relevant, it's simple and it comes with DecisionTools® Suite. With DecisionTools® Suite you'll get the spreadsheet add-ins to make homework a snap.

The Twi Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors (with CD)

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TWI workbook
Detailed, hands-on description of TWI training.

The Twi Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors (with CD)
Patrick Graupp , and Robert J. Wrona
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Striving to answer that question more than 60 years ago sparked the development of the most powerful training methodology that has impacted U.S. industry -- Training Within Industry (TWI). During World War II, major production increases were demanded by the U.S. military - TWI, which trains supervisors, was developed comprising three separate programs:

Job Instruction -- how to instruct employees so they can quickly remember to do a job, correctly, safely, and conscientiously. Job Methods -- how to improve methods for producing greater quantities of quality products in less time by effectively using available workforce, machines, and materials. Job relations -- how to lead employees so that problems are prevented and analytical methods are used to effectively resolve problems. Toyota was the earliest company to adopt TWI after World War II, and this methodology planted the seeds for the development of the Toyota Production System -- the gold standard of manufacturing excellence.

In The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors, Patrick Graupp and Robert Wrona teach supervisors how to apply a four-step method for each of the three respective programs with numerous examples and exercises. In these exercises, supervisors will participate in hands-on application of the four-step method to actual jobs and employee problems from their own worksites. In addition, a CD companion includes blank forms needed to complete the exercises and implementation case studies.

The TWI Workbook will teach readers:

A method, which works every time, for teaching people to quickly learn to do jobs correctly, safely and conscientiously. How to break down jobs for instruction so that learners get just the right amount and the right kind of information to master jobs fully in a short amount of time. A method of analyzing jobs for the purpose of improving them which focuses on making the best use of resources currently available. How to discover, develop, and implement improvement ideas through a series of questions and a new-method development and application process. A method for handling "people problems" which ensures that supervisors take decisive and proper actions that achieve their objectives. How to develop sound relations with people that create good performance and prevent problems from arising in the first place.

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TWI workbook.......2006-07-25

I am a Training & Developement coordinator and this book was extremely helpful to myself and I am hoping it will be of help to the people that will be doing the actual training. I had heard the authors speak and decided to purchase the book I was not disappointed.

Detailed, hands-on description of TWI training........2006-07-24

The TWI Workbook: Essential Skills for Supervisors provides a detailed, hands-on description of TWI training. It shows the step by step process in great detail and can be used as a training supplement or refresher. It emphasizes the importance of adhering to the detailed training regimen established over 50 years ago. I stongly recommend it to anyone interested in the details.

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Every MOM 2005 admin needs to read this first
Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Give the essentials book a break
Where's the beef?

Essential Microsoft Operations Manager
Chris Fox
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Monad (AKA PowerShell): Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language

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For system administrators, ensuring that all Windows servers are performing optimally is a tall order. The larger the enterprise, the greater the chance for irritating, time-consuming configuration problems. Sometimes, you can determine the root cause of the problem yourself-but that's only if you're lucky.

With Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), the diagnosis is done for you. MOM monitors server operations and automatically notifies you of problems by sending an immediate alert to your console, email address, or pager. To help you better understand how MOM works, O'Reilly presents Essential Microsoft Operations Manager.

The goal of this comprehensive tutorial is to give first-time MOM administrators a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005. Author Chris Fox, a renowned MOM expert, offers the type of practical, real-world advice that you need to improve the performance of your IT infrastructure.

After taking you through the entire process of setting up MOM on the network, the book moves on to more advanced administration issues. It carefully instructs you how to program and automate MOM and the agents that reside on the servers themselves. You'll also learn how to manage the scripts that determine which server agents are relevant to report.

By capturing system data, intelligently analyzing it, and then notifying you with a suggested course of action, MOM makes extinguishing fires a breeze. And now, thanks to Essential Microsoft Operations Manager, learning how to use MOM is a breeze, too.

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Every MOM 2005 admin needs to read this first.......2007-09-16

This is a great book to get up and running with MOM 2005. After reading this, I suggest reading Microsoft(R) Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed (MOM): With A Preview of Operations Manager 2007 (Unleashed) to really solidify these concepts and fill in the gaps.

Essential Microsoft Operations Manager.......2007-07-30

Well written, supply the technical information needed. Little long prolog but in the end well written and easy readable.

VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!.......2006-10-28

Are you a first-time MOM administrator? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Chris Fox, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that gives you what you must know in order to have a solid foundation for planning, implementing, and administering MOM 2005.

Fox, begins by bringing you up to speed on the basic concepts of operations management and how to get MOM 2005 up and running in your environment. Then, the author takes you through the components and tasks that you'll be working with most often as an administrator. Finally, he discusses the specific issues you'll encounter when using MOM in a larger environment, with a variety of platforms.

This most excellent book will help you get your job done. More importantly, this book helps you deploy MOM 2005 in large enterprises with heterogeneous platforms.

Give the essentials book a break.......2006-07-10

I just don't understand how can anyone rate an "essentials" book not good enough for not having enough details or "beef" in it. I have to give it 5 stars to make it fair. This book is great if you are absolutely new to MOM, it will get you there to install it and customize it at a basic level. I believe that the author gives you enough detail to let you drive on your own after this test drive. It really made my implementation easier, I gave the book to a coworker and he had about my same views. Just remember, if you are not new to MOM look somewhere else.

Where's the beef?.......2006-06-25

I had now purchased both of the available MOM books, both seem to cover roughly the same material, but neither really has any meat to it! I would have given this 3 stars, but unfortunately, the author makes a boring topic even more boring.

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Essentials of Capacity Management
Reginald Tomas Yu-Lee
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ESSENTIALS OF CAPACITY MANAGEMENT

Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in capacity management.

"Proper capacity management is the driving force behind outstanding corporate performance. Essentials of Capacity Management clearly describes its impact on operations, as well as how to use measurement systems and process analysis to enhance capacity usage. This is a solid foundation in capacity management for the business professional!"
—Steve Bragg, Author

"Although capacity management is a fundamental concern, it-like many other fundamentals-is often scanted. In fact, there's little that's more important to most companies than their ability to manage their capacity, which is simply the ability to do work. Essentials of Capacity Management does a great job of giving a quick, yet thorough, overview of the many considerations involved."
—Barry J. Brinker, Editor, Guide to Cost Management (John Wiley & Sons)

"This book does an excellent job of relating processes to capacity. Managers and executives will better understand that managing the effectiveness and efficiency of processes reduces the amount of capacity required, thus providing an opportunity to reduce costs while improving process quality and reducing process time. It shows the relationship of capacity to demand on downstream processes. It shows that process flexibility reduces required capacity."
—John Antos, President, Value Creation Group, Inc.

The Wiley Essentials Series-because the business world is always changing...and so should you.

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Bob Simmons.......2002-04-10

The author does a great job in showing how capacity management has an impact on operations, as well as how to use measurement systems and process analysis to
enhance capacity usage. This is a solid foundation in capacity management for any business professional!

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Just an introduction to the supply chain concept
Good Overview
Buen libro para principiantes
Good "Executive Summary"
Just as advertised

Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Michael Hugos , Michael H. Hugos , and Michael H. Hugos
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Streamlining supply chain efficiency to maximize profitability
This practical guide describes how the supply chain operates and discusses the issues and techniques that are relevant for companies seeking to improve the management of their supply chains. Organized using the features of the Essentials series, this easy-to-use guide contains tips and techniques for maximizing supply chain innovation strategies, as well as real-world examples developed from working with companies such as Johnson Wax, Starbucks, Borg-Warner, and Premier Health Care. Supply chain expert Michael Hugos analyzes the components of a well designed and managed supply chain, explains the metrics involved in measuring performance, and presents a pragmatic approach to designing and building supply chain systems.

Michael Hugos (Chicago, IL) is the Chief Information Officer of Network Services Company, a $6.8 Billion distribution organization serving customers throughout North America. He has extensive experience in distribution, logistics, and applying technology to meet the challenges of supply chain management. He holds an MBA from Northwestern Universitys Kellogg School of Management.

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Essentials of Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, shows busy executives and managers what a supply chain is and how skillful and imaginative supply chain management can transform a sometimes-sluggish process into a powerful, revenue-driving engine. This practical, accessible new edition features updated tips and techniques for maximizing supply-chain innovation strategies, as well as all-new ""From the Real World"" and ""Executive Insight"" examples, a new chapter on how to gain competitive advantage from the supply chain, and new sections covering the latest trends in supply-chain management. Michael Hugos (Chicago, IL) is the Chief Information Officer with Network Services Company, a $6.8-billion co-op that is wholly owned by 85 member companies. He has more than 20 years of experience in all aspects of information technology and has worked in supply-chain management for more than 10 years.

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Just an introduction to the supply chain concept.......2007-10-13

This book repeats many time same items and is too focused on distribution business e.g. Walmart, Paper utilities... and does not address the industrial worls such as in aeronautic, defense...
The information convied in this book is very general. for my point of view, it is unsufficient to start setting up a supply chain.

Good Overview.......2007-09-28

This book provides a good overview of the basic principles of supply Chain Managment. After reading the book, I was able to directly apply the principles to solve several problems in supply chains I am dealing with in my supplier development job.

The principles are logically presented and backed up with examples that illustrate their application. I would recommend this book especially for people in Manufacturing or engineering who are trying to understand how to improve performance across a supply chain or how to make their supply chain management process more efficient and effective.

Buen libro para principiantes.......2007-06-06

Se entienden rapidamente los conceptos principales, un buen libro de comienzo en el tema.

Good "Executive Summary".......2006-11-03

One of the best primers I have read so far on SCM. While not a blue-print on how to implment SCM, it really does provide an excellent overview of the benefits of SCM and the steps a company would take to introduce SCM. One of the best sections of the book introduces new trends within SCM. This section alone made the book a good investment. Recommend it for top management looking to get a good, but basic understanding of SCM

Just as advertised.......2006-03-12

This book is a good overview and primer for anyone who is interested in learning what "Supply Chain Management" entails. It starts with a very basic definition and goes into specifics as the chapters progress.

Project Management: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Working Smarter (Self-Development for Success)

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Project Management: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Working Smarter (Self-Development for Success)
Peter Hobbs
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In this age of project-driven business, everyone needs to be able to manage a project effectively. PROJECT MANAGEMENT offers advice on the key skills required by the successful project manager--effective planning, goal and objective setting, scheduling, time management, progress monitoring, the control of quality and output, and more. Specifically, it shows readers how to:

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From the best-selling quality management author, David Hoyle, Quality Management Essentials is the perfect brief, yet authoritative, introduction to the fundamentals of quality management.

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Project Risk Management: A Proactive Approach (Project Management Essential Library)

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Project Risk Management:A Proactive Approach
too generic - no insight

Project Risk Management: A Proactive Approach (Project Management Essential Library)
Paul S. Royer
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You don't need sophisticated statistical analysis or software to improve the probability of project success. This book offers a proactive project management process for managing project risk from project initiation through planning, execution, control and closure. In addition, you'll apply a new technique for program risk auditing that lets you explore risk in multiple related projects. You'll learn how to uncover hidden risk during the planning phase and how to track and manage it throughout the project. You'll also learn to enhance project value by building a risk management repository to support ongoing knowledge transfer.

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Project Risk Management:A Proactive Approach.......2007-01-27

The book order was in excellent condition and came on time.

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