Production, Operations & Information Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Advances in Enterprise Information Systems II

   Edited by Charles Moller, Sohail Chaudhry

   For many years now Enterprise Information Systems have been critical in helping businesses successfully navigate the global market. The development that started with design and implementation of integrated systems has evolved to incorporate a multitude of perspectives and ideas. The...

   Published May 24th 2012 by CRC Press
2. Managerial Economics, 4th Edition

   By Ivan Png

   Now in its fourth edition, Ivan Png's Managerial Economics has been extensively revised with : a completely new introductory chapter emphasizing decision-making and behavioral biases intensive application to current issues including the sub-prime financial crisis and global competition...

   Published May 17th 2012 by Routledge
3. Knowledge Service Engineering Handbook

   Edited by Jussi Kantola, Waldemar Karwowski

   Series: Ergonomics Design & Mgmt. Theory & Applications

   Edited by Jussi Kantola, the founding faculty member of the world’s first university Knowledge Service Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Waldemar Karwowski from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at UCF, Knowledge Service...

   Published May 16th 2012 by CRC Press
4. Engineering Systems Integration

   Theory, Metrics, and Methods

   By Gary O. Langford

   Dreamers may envision our future, but it is the pragmatists who build it. Solve the right problem in the right way, mankind moves forward. Solve the right problem in the wrong way or the wrong problem in the right way, however clever or ingenious the solution, neither credits mankind. Instead, this...

   Published May 8th 2012 by CRC Press
5. Understanding Complexity in Organizations

   Behavioral Systems

   Edited by Timothy Ludwig, Ramona Houmanfar

   Organizations are complex entities that must adapt the practices of their employees and management to meet the demands of a dynamic environment. Organizations are behavioral systems that coordinate interactions among its members and environment. Changing practices in one area of an organization can...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Strategic Supply Chain Management

   By Carlos Cordón, Kim Sundtoft Hald, Ralf W. Seifert

   The supply chain is at the heart of every successful business organization's decision-making process. This textbook explains how to create a winning supply chain management strategy by spotlighting how senior executives in European and US companies have turned their supply chains into strategic...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma

   A Framework for Creating High Performance Organizations

   By Gerhard Plenert, Tom Cluley

   Series: Resource Management

   Many organizations develop strategic plans that gather dust on bookshelves. Many other organizations employ Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste and reduce process variation only to find they are not moving the big bars that measure success for the organization. Driving Strategy to...

   Published April 10th 2012 by CRC Press
8. Software and Organisations

   The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System or How SAP Conquered the World

   By Neil Pollock, Robin Williams

   Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

   This is the first book that addresses the genesis and career of the modern day enterprise system in a comprehensive and robust manner. It does so through setting out a new approach for the study of packaged solutions and presents novel empirical studies based on in-depth ethnographic and...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Project Management, Third Edition

   A Practical Approach

   By Roel Grit

   The primary aim of Project Management is to facilitate the successful completion of projects. For this reason it puts particular emphasis on the importance of careful preparation and strategic co-operation within the project team. The first part of this new textbook offers a description of the...

   Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
10. Electronic Health Record

    A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain

    By Alexander Scarlat, MD

    An accessible primer, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain introduces the tools and methodology of Structured Systems Analysis as well as the nuances of the Medications domain. The first part of the book provides a top-down decomposition along two main paths: data...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Productivity Press