In 2011, TIME Magazine assembled a list of what may be considered to be the 25 Most Influential Business Management Books of the modern era. Great books are timeless. They outlive their creators. They live on in the thoughts of their readers. They endure for generations and even centuries, in print or in digital format. [...]
What kind of a person is your boss? Because most of us work in such close proximity to our supervisor, we cannot help but ask ourselves that question on a regular basis. After all, they exert enormous influence on our lives both within and outside of our place of work. . Is your boss an [...]
“What would you create if you had a machine that could make (almost) anything?” A book about an incredible subject will soon hit the shelves of bookstores around the world. Hod Lipson’s “Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing” is scheduled for release on February 11, 2013. It is creating a tremendous buzz, and pre-orders [...]
The Supply Chain Almanac Book Club regularly reviews Best Selling Books in various categories, both in Canada and the USA. Here are Canada’s Best Sellers in Books – Industry and Operations Management, according to Amazon.ca. Some new and exciting publications have erupted to the top of Canada’s Best Sellers list, in the Industry category. New [...]
The name of Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt will be familiar to many practitioners in the fields of Operations and Supply Chain Management. Author of the brilliant treatise The Goal, Goldratt articulated the famous Theory of Constraints philosophy of management. In this informative little 10-minute video, Dr. Goldratt explains the dangers of failing to think “globally” – [...]
The Supply Chain Almanac Book Club regularly reviews Best Selling Books in various categories, both in Canada and the USA. Here are Canada’s Best Sellers in Books – Industry and Operations Management, according to Amazon.ca. We have presented here detailed descriptions of each of the Top 10 Best Sellers. A list of the Top 25 Best Sellers, [...]
For thousands of years, story-telling has been a wonderful way to reinforce life lessons. Stories help drive home the teacher’s message. They may be fables or history, fact or fantasy, and often tales from real contemporary life can be most memorable for the student. They demonstrate that the lesson has practical application, and can show [...]
Module 9 of the excellent “What is Supply Chain Management” series, produced by ASU and the W. P. Carey School of Business, stresses the importance of good business process design in achieving commercial and entrepreneurial success. I was personally drawn to one assertion in particular that was made in the video: that good business processes [...]
The Supply Chain Almanac Book Club regularly reviews Best Selling Books in various categories, both in Canada and the USA. Here are the USA’s Best Sellers in Business – Industrial Relations, as at July 7, 2012, according to Amazon.com. We have presented here detailed descriptions of each of the Top 10 Best Sellers. A list [...]
Rarely does a person see a 5-star rating appear opposite a book that is sold on Amazon – especially a technical one. Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning 3rd edition, by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith (2011) is just one such nugget of gold. For manufacturing, operations, and inventory management professionals, this work promises to be a [...]
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