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Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects
by Johanna RothmanYou have too many projects, and firefighting and multitasking are keeping you from finishing any of them. You need to manage your project portfolio. This fully updated and expanded bestseller arms you with agile and lean ways to collect all your work and decide which projects you should do first, second, and never. See how to tie your work to your organization's mission and show your managers, your board, and your staff what you can accomplish and when. Picture the work you have, and make those difficult decisions, ensuring that all your strength is focused where it needs to be. All your projects and programs make up your portfolio. But how much time do you actually spend on your projects, and how much time do you spend on emergency fire drills or waste through multitasking? This book gives you insightful ways to rank all the projects you're working on and figure out the right staffing and schedule so projects get finished faster.The trick is adopting lean and agile approaches to projects, whether they're software projects, projects that include hardware, or projects that depend on chunks of functionality from other suppliers. Find out how to define the mission of your team, group, or department, with none of the buzzwords that normally accompany a mission statement. Armed with the work and the mission, you'll manage your portfolio better and make those decisions that define the true leaders in the organization. With this expanded second edition, discover how to scale project portfolio management from one team to the entire enterprise, and integrate Cost of Delay when ranking projects. Additional Kanban views provide even more ways to visualize your portfolio.
Manage Your Student Finances Now!: Balancing the Budget at University and College
by Keith HoughtonMoving out of the safety of home is hard enough without having to worry about tuition fees, student loans and existing on a tight budget. Recent studies show that it now costs up to -30,000 for a student to attend university and, as a result, many graduates begin their career in debt. Manage Your Student Finances Now! is a practical and realistic guide for students and their parents, providing intelligent and objective advice covering all aspects of student finance. Whether you are choosing a bank account, paying for your accommodation or concerned about your student loan, Keith Houghton has the money-saving answers. Including:--Information for English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish and overseas students--The latest information on grants, fees and loans--How to increase your income while at university and college--How to deal with debt problems --Post-university advice
The Managed Care Contracting Handbook: Planning & Negotiating the Managed Care Relationship
by Maria K. ToddManaged care contracting is a process that frustrates even the best administrators. However, to ignore this complexity is to do so at your own expense. You don‘t necessarily need to bear the cost of overpriced legal advice, but you do need to know what questions to ask, what clauses to avoid, what contingencies to cover ... and when to ask a lawyer
Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide
by A. F. Al-Assaf R. Robyn AssafManaged care organizations are paving the way to the future of health care delivery in the United States and countries around the world. As managed care systems evolve, a major concern is quality. Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide is a collection of applications and experiences gathered from practicing health professionals in the field of managed care. This first "how to" guide was written to help managed care organizations meet the common objective of ensuring the best quality of services and care. Managed Care Quality: A Practical Guide presents successive steps in implementing quality in health care organizations. It introduces the methods, skills, and practices involved in quality health care programs and offers solutions to problems typically encountered in managed care.
Managed Chaos: The Fragility of the Chinese Miracle
by Prem Shankar JhaManaged Chaos: The Fragility of the Chinese Miracle reads into the Chinese politics and economy and the disparate status and position of the two domains. On one hand, its economy has sustained a near 10 per cent growth rate for 30 years, while, on the other, trapped in an incomplete transition from a totalitarian to a democratic market economy, politically the country is still considered a fragile state. This book helps the reader resolve this incongruity through its inference. The defining features of this book are: - Armed with an original application of Michal Kalecki’s theory of intermediate regimes, it provides an explanation of China’s explosive growth. - It indicates the formation of a new stratum, through winding up of centralised planning, the stratum of ‘proto-bourgeoisie’, consisting of the local cadres of the communist party, who can counter the central cadres for capturing investible resources of the state. - It creates a single politic-economic model that explains China’s economic and political development. The causal connections in the model make it possible to predict China’s future, and the challenges it faces. This book makes a significant contribution to the literature on Chinese political economy over the past three decades. It is a must read for all discerning and informed readers. It will also be valuable for policy makers and students and researchers working in the areas of international relations, Chinese studies and political economy.
Managed Funds For Dummies (For Dummies Ser.)
by Colin DavidsonCreated especially for the Australian customer! Find your way through the managed fund maze and make the most of your investments! Multi-sector equities? Concentrated funds? How about index funds? If you're being deafened by the volume of investment options, this accessible and informative guide shows you the way! Find the best fund for your needs with lots of insider tips. Make smart investment decisions that will pave your way to financial success! Understand what makes a managed fund tick — how managed funds differ from other investments Work out your investor profile — weighing up the level of risk you're willing to take to reap your rewards Appreciate class and style — how a mix of asset class and management style can produce the results you're after Identify the key players — what makes some funds stand out and what keeps them on top of the pile Calculate the costs — deciphering fees and commissions and making sure you're not paying too much Make sense of ratings — what the ratings agencies do and how you can get your head around their research Learn the tricks of the trade — easy tips and strategies for buying, selling and monitoring your fund Analyse fund performance — how to assess returns to enhance your investment success Open the book and find: Charts and tables to illustrate how managed funds work Checklists for understanding reports and filling in the forms Concise descriptions of the different fund types Useful websites for funds and regulators Tips for managing your own investment portfolio A comprehensive glossary to cut through the jargon Learn to: Understand the pros and cons of investing in Australian managed funds Find the best types of managed funds to meet your financial goals Implement investment strategies to maximise your money Identify risks and returns
Managed Futures
by Yasin Sebastian Qureshi Maria Katharina HeidenDie Anlageklasse der Managed Futures ist trotz ihrer fast 50-jährigen Geschichte bei Deutschlands Anlegern nahezu unbekannt. Dabei bieten sie attraktive Renditen bei akzeptablen Risiken. Das Buch bietet interessierten Anlegern alle wichtigen Hintergrundinformationen, um eine qualifizierte Entscheidung über Investitionen in Managed Futures treffen zu können. Die Autoren stellen dar, wie Renditen erwirtschaftet werden, welche Kosten entstehen, welche Risiken bestehen und wie sich Managed Futures im Vergleich zu anderen Investitionen entwickelt haben.
Managed Futures for Institutional Investors
by Galen Burghardt Brian WallsA practical guide to institutional investing success Managed Futures for Institutional Investors is an essential guide that walks you through the important questions that need to be addressed before investing in this asset class and contains helpful direction for investors during the investing process. Backed by years of institutional experience, the authors reveal the opportunities offered by managed futures. They also include information on practices in the managed futures area and present the various analytical tools and building blocks required to use managed futures effectively. The book also contains insight on the issues that must be addressed when building and evaluating portfolios. Shows where to find data to evaluate managed futures and explains how managed futures are regulated Offers guidance on how to apply classic portfolio construction tools to managed futures Reveals how managed futures investments can help investors evaluate and meet risk, return, and liquidity objectives Managed Futures for Institutional Investors provides all the practical information to manage this type of investment well.
Managed Service Restructuring in Health Care: A Strategic Approach in a Competitive Environment
by William Winston Robert L Goldman Sanjib K MukherjeeSurvival in the growing managed care environment requires the integration of financial analysis, market appraisal, and administrative management. The authors of Managed Service Restructuring in Health Care provide a unique tool for readers to enable them to make these successful management decisions in restructuring services. The unique approach in this book assists health care managers and prospective managers as they seek to solve the problem of how to deal with health care services that appear to be no longer productive. In Managed Service Restructuring in Health Care, the authors provide a solid theoretical base for what they have developed in MSR (Managed Service Restructuring)--a conscious--not crisis--management tool. They prepare readers for implementing MSR techniques by describing them in detail for their application to readers’situations. MSR approaches to planned health care management, as introduced in this book, help administrators channel scarce resources to the services the community wants and needs most. Facts and cases are offered as examples of when and how MSR techniques have been applied successfully. The authors also include failure cases where, if MSR techniques had been followed, health care providers would have survived in several communities.Incorporate the information in this book to enhance long-range planning and prevent closure of health care services needed by the community. Along with financial and marketing tools necessary for long-range planning, Goldman and Mukherjee list warning signals that alert professionals to the need to review the services and products offered. They also fully explore these areas: Product Life Cycle Boston Consulting Group’s Portfolio of Business (Growth Share Matrix) Product Development Product Planning Public Service of Health Care Providers Centers of Excellence Service Diversification/Consolidation Investment/Disinvestment Criteria Marketing in Competitive Environment for Health ServicesHealth care managers, hospital administrators, and students in health services management programs can benefit from the focus on conscious planning in Managed Service Restructuring in Health Care. While many of the examples take place within acute care hospitals, the MSR approach and this book are designed to assist any health care administrator or manager. With knowledge of when and how services can be prolonged, professionals can more effectively lead their health care provider into a more competitive environment. The analyses used in the book should enhance many readers’knowledge of basic marketing and financial principles and theories important to restructuring and providing health services today.
Management: Leading & Collaborating in a Competitive World (9th Edition)
by Thomas S. Bateman Scott A. SnellThis 9th edition contains revised learning objectives for each chapter. Learning objectives are called out within the chapter where the content begins. The summary for each chapter ties the learning objectives back together as well. The Test bank provides tagging for the learning objective that the question covers, so instructors will be able to test material covering all learning objectives, thus assuring that students have mastered the important topics.
Management: Leading And Collaborating In A Competitive World
by Thomas S. Bateman Scott Snell Robert KonopaskeManagement: Leading And Collaborating In A Competitive World
Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World
by Thomas S. Bateman Scott Snell Robert KonopaskeThe 15th edition of Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World is written from the perspective of a current or future manager and emphasizes six essential performance dimensions: cost, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability. This bottom-line, results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this text. Leadership is also a vital theme and includes working collaboratively toward outstanding results.
Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World
by Thomas S. Bateman Scott Snell Robert KonopaskeThe 14th edition of Management: Leading and Collaborating in a Competitive World is written from the perspective of a current or future manager and emphasizes six essential performance dimensions: cost, quality, speed, innovation, service, and sustainability. <p><p>Throughout the text, the authors remind students that these performance dimensions offer value to customers and competitive advantage to you and your organization. This bottom-line, results-oriented approach is a unique hallmark of this text. Leadership is also a vital theme and includes working collaboratively toward outstanding results. Their mission is to inform, instruct and inspire you to be both a thinker and a doer.
Management
by Richard L. DaftMANAGEMENT, 13E helps you gain the confidence to manage and develop the ability to lead with innovative solutions in today's rapidly changing business environment. Daft explores the emerging themes and management issues most important for managers in businesses today. Current and future managers learn to look beyond traditional techniques and ideas to tap into a full breadth of management skills. D.A. F.T. defines Management with the best in new and proven management competencies.
Management: Principles And Practices For Tomorrow's Leaders
by Gary DesslerThis "how-to" book enables learners to master management principles and practices- rather than simply read about them. Its unique applied skills theme not only teaches the basic management terminology, but helps hone new management skills. Every chapter contains practical applications, principles, checklists and forms that all managers can use in their daily activities. KEY TOPICS A five-part organization covers a multitude of topics such as environment and foundations of modern management, managing in a cultural and ethical environment, decision making, strategic management, the fundamentals of organizing, managing organizational change, staffing and human resource management, being a leader, influencing individual behavior and motivation, improving communication skills, managing groups and teams, controlling and building commitment, managing world-class operations, managing entrepreneurial organizations, and managing in a global environment. For future and practicing managers.
Management: A European Perspective
by Keuning DoedeManagement: A European Perspective adopts a step-by-step approach based on the key managerial skills – planning, organization, implementation, supervision and control – to provide a practical introduction to the field. Looking at some leading international companies, Keuning draws on various managerial and organizational concepts, including industrial democracy, corporate governance, ethics, culture and gender, ICT related changes in industries, e-business, risk management and network organization. Among the special features designed to enhance the learning process are: Detailed case studies demonstrating the practical implications of the concepts discussed References in the form of examples and brief studies (with a European or international focus) Numerous discussion questions relating to each chapter's theory Material from European newspapers and magazines to reinforce the book's practical orientation This book is an ideal introduction for students starting out their business program.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
by Peter DruckerThis book tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge, and the skills for today's and also tomorrow's job. In this book, there is equal stress on the manager's tasks and on his character. This book and its approach have been developed and tested in more than thirty years of teaching management to many different kinds of students in colleges, universities, and executive programmes and seminars. But the subject matter of the book itself has largely been developed out of nearly forty years of working closely with managers on all levels as a consultant, with managers in large and small businesses, and with managers in government agencies, in hospitals and in schools. Most of this experience has been in America, and with American businesses and public service institutions-although I have worked also with managements of businesses and nonbusinesses alike outside the United States, especially in Great Britain, Western Europe, Japan, and Latin America. The book therefore tries to include what every manager needs to know-but in a form in which it is also accessible to people who themselves have not yet worked as managers or even as employees in managed institutions. The user of this book can therefore be sure of two things: everything in the book has been developed in management practice and found both effective in it and central to it; and everything has been tested by students of management and found to be meaningful to them, as well as easily accessible.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices
by Peter DruckerIn this classic text, Peter Drucker studies how modern-day managers, whether in business or public service, can perform effectively. He takes an international view, exploring management problems in Great Britain, Western Europe, Japan, and LatinAmerica, and suggests how these problems can be tackled. The interactions between manager, the institution and the social and cultural environment are penetratingly examined, and the book is enhanced by telling examples from a wide spectrum of experience.The essence of management is performance. And it is the management and managers of our institutions - business and government, educational and multinational - that will determine our future. The purpose of this landmark study is to prepare today's and tomorrow's managers for their tasks and responsibilities and to enable them to meet the formidable challenge ahead.
Management
by Peter F. DruckerManagement is an organized body of knowledge. "This book," in Peter Drucker'swords, "tries to equip the manager with the understanding, the thinking, the knowledge and the skills for today'sand also tomorrow's jobs." This management classic has been developed and tested during more than thirty years of teaching management in universities, in executive programs and seminars and through the author's close work with managers as a consultant for large and small businesses, government agencies, hospitals and schools. Drucker discusses the tools and techniques of successful management practice that have been proven effective, and he makes them meaningful and easily accessible.
Management: A Real World Approach
by Andrew GhillyerMany principles of management textbooks make the assumption that students already have a stable understanding of the subject. Management: A Real World Approach combines the theory students need with examples within their grasp as well as providing reinforcing exercises and activities to help them retain and apply what they have learned. This text along with the ancillary materials help address the question that many students ask when taking a principles of management course: "What does management mean to me?"
Management
by Ricky W. GriffinMANAGEMENT, 12E, takes a functional, skills-based approach to the process of management with a focus on active planning, leading, organizing and controlling. Griffin carefully examines today's emerging management topics, including the impact of technology, importance of a green business environment, ethical challenges, and the need to adapt in changing times. This edition builds on proven success to help strengthen your management skills with a balance of classic theory and contemporary practice. Numerous new and popular cases and learning features highlight the challenges facing today's managers. Hundreds of well-researched contemporary examples, from Starbucks to The Hunger Games to professional baseball, vividly demonstrate the importance of strong management to any type of organization. MindTap has been completely revised and updated to incorporate a suite of new digital resources designed to facilitate and measure student success. Students can synchronously work together in the experiential exercises to create videos, write papers, deliver presentations and more. Interactive Self Assessments help students engage students by helping them make personal connections to the content presented in the chapter. Our adaptive learning solution provides customized questions, text, and video resources based on student proficiency.
Management: An Integrated Approach
by Ranjay Gulati Anthony J. Mayo Nitin NohriaAs tomorrow's manager, you will be confronted with challenges and opportunities that are more dynamic and complex than ever before. MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, by award-winning instructors and prominent Harvard business experts, teaches you how to think like a successful manager and effective leader. This second edition clearly demonstrates the interconnectivity between three facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. You learn the importance of harnessing technological advances, managing and leading a dispersed and diverse workforce, anticipating and reacting to constant competitive and geopolitical change and uncertainty, competing on a global scale, and operating in a socially responsible and accountable manner. Clear concepts directly relate to how today's organizations operate, while self-reflection opportunities help you evaluate personal leadership abilities and skill-building practice equips you for leadership success. You master management principles from a tangible, integrated, and current perspective as you learn to visualize how strategy informs leadership and how leaders influence strategic positioning and, ultimately, manage performance. Let MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, 2E prepare you for leadership success as this unique book answers the key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive companies in the 21st Century?
Management: An Evidence-Based Approach, 3rd Edition
by Doede Keuning Bart Bossink Brian TjemkesManagement: An Evidence-Based Approach provides an introduction to the broad field of management and organization. Throughout the book the theory of management is related to everyday situations. Theory is selected on the basis of evidence in managerial practice in strategic, organizational and operational problem-solving. Contemporary issues covered include: business excellence, sustainability, alliances, off-shoring and in-shoring risk-management, integrity and corporate governance, network organization, diversity management, work engagement, crowd-sourcing and mass customization; whilst special features which enhance the learning process include: ‘management in action’ case studies at the beginning of every chapter discussion questions, research based exercises and case analyses at the end of every chapter demonstrating the practical implications of the concepts presented examples, illustrations and brief case studies with a world-wide focus throughout the chapters. This comprehensive introduction to management provides new students to the area with everything they need to know to progress to the next level.
Management: 30 défis pour tout changer
by Scott Jeffrey Miller30 challenges faciles à mettre en place pour développer vos compétences managériales et devenir un leader performantVos compétences managériales sont sur le point d’évoluer. Être un manager performant n’est pas toujours évident et Scott Jeffrey Miller en a fait les frais. Du chaos au succès, il nous partage ses clés pour devenir un leader inspirant et efficace.Vous pouvez devenir un grand Team leader. Ce guide changera définitivement votre façon de manager et vous permettra d’instaurer un management opérationnel et stratégique. Devenez le manager que vous auriez aimé avoir, inspirez vos collaborateurs, instaurez le bien-être au travail et développez une vraie culture d’entreprise grâce à ce guide au ton décontracté et à ses 30 challenges applicables au quotidien!Ces 30 défis vous permettront:De devenir un vrai leader inspirantD’améliorer la performance au travailDe créer une vision d’équipeDe développer la culture d’entrepriseEt d’obtenir des résultats concretsSi vous êtes à la recherche d’un livre sur le management ou le leadership tels que Dream Team ou Manager+ et si vous avez été séduit par l’ouvrage incontournable de Stephen Covey, Les 7 habitudes, alors laissez-vous inspirer par Management Mess!
Management
by Emma L. Murray Christopher P. Neck Jeffery D. HoughtonManagement, Third Edition introduces students to the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling functions of management with an emphasis on how managers can cultivate an entrepreneurial mindset. The text includes 34 cases profiling a wide range of companies including Lululemon, Nintendo, Netflix, Trader Joe’s, and the NBA. Authors Christopher P. Neck, Jeffrey D. Houghton, and Emma L. Murray use a variety of examples, applications, and insights from real-world managers to help students develop the knowledge, mindset, and skills they need to succeed in today’s fast-paced, dynamic workplace. This title is accompanied by a complete teaching and learning package. Contact your SAGE representative to request a demo. Digital Option / Courseware SAGE Vantage is an intuitive digital platform that delivers this text’s content and course materials in a learning experience that offers auto-graded assignments and interactive multimedia tools, all carefully designed to ignite student engagement and drive critical thinking. Built with you and your students in mind, it offers simple course set-up and enables students to better prepare for class. Assignable Video with Assessment Assignable video (available with SAGE Vantage) is tied to learning objectives and curated exclusively for this text to bring concepts to life. Watch a sample video now. Assignable Self-Assessments Assignable self-assessments (available with SAGE Vantage) allow students to engage with the material in a more meaningful way that supports learning. LMS Cartridge Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.