Production, Operations & Information Management Books

New and Published Books

1. Collaborative Design Management

   By Stephen Emmitt, Kirti Ruikar

   The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role ...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Information Security Policy Development for Compliance

   ISO/IEC 27001, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA Standard, PCI DSS V2.0, and AUP V5.0

   By Barry L. Williams

   Although compliance standards can be helpful guides to writing comprehensive security policies, many of the standards state the same requirements in slightly different ways. Information Security Policy Development for Compliance: ISO/IEC 27001, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA Standard, PCI DSS V2.0, and AUP...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Auerbach Publications
3. Performance Acceleration Management (PAM)

   Rapid Improvement to Your Key Performance Drivers

   By H. James Harrington

   Series: The Little Big Book Series

   Organizations around the world are rating their improvement efforts as not producing the desired long-term results. Dr. Harrington’s research indicates that this occurs because organizations are using the latest improvement tools and approaches without first defining how they want to change their...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Productivity Press
4. The Performance Mapping and Measurement Handbook

   By Jerry L. Harbour

   To better understand and improve your systems, you must measure and map their essential characteristics. Yet, because your systems and their associated processes occur over varying spatial and temporal scales, you will need various types of maps and metrics—depending on the level of detail and...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Productivity Press
5. Quality Engineering

   Off-Line Methods and Applications

   By Chao-Ton Su

   As quality becomes an increasingly essential factor for achieving business success, building quality improvement into all stages—product planning, product design, and process design—instead of just manufacturing has also become essential. Quality Engineering: Off-Line Methods and Applications...

   Published February 25th 2013 by CRC Press
6. Eco-Innovation and Sustainability Management

   By Bart Bossink

   Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

   Sustainability is a phenomenon that must be pursued in a complex system of interrelated elements of business, society, and ecology. It is important to gain an understanding of these elements, the interplay between them, and the behavior of the system. This book explores the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
7. Appraising and Exploring Organisations (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Shaun Tyson, K. F. Ackermann, Michel Domsch, Patrick Joynt

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1988, this book offers a comprehensive description of the functions and performance of organisational surveys from a wide range of European experts in the field. The book examines the utility of organisational surveys as a method of research for the social sciences and as a...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Frontiers in Nature-based Tourism

   Lessons from Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden

   Edited by Peter Fredman, Liisa Tyrväinen

   Nature has been a key attraction factor for tourism in the Nordic countries for decades. The demand for nature-based tourism has steadily grown and is one of the most rapidly expanding sectors within tourism across Europe and elsewhere. This demand has created opportunities for nature-based tourism...

   Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge
9. Strategic Operations Management

   3rd Edition

   By Steve Brown, John Bessant, Richard Lamming

   This revitalized new edition of Strategic Operations Management focuses on the four core themes of operations strategy, a vital topic for any company's objectives: strategy, innovation, services, and supply. Expertly authored by a team of Europe's top scholars in the field, the text is enhanced by...

   Published December 3rd 2012 by Routledge
10. Introductory Regression Analysis

    with Computer Application for Business and Economics

    By Allen Webster

    Regression analysis is arguably the single most powerful and widely applicable tool in any effective examination of common business issues. Every day, decision-makers face problems that require constructive actions with significant consequences, and regression procedures can prove a meaningful and...

    Published December 2nd 2012 by Routledge