Operations Management provides a framework for addressing operational process and supply chain issues, in an easy-to-understand format. Using a systemized approach, the text focuses on real-life practices and issues of current interest. It also lets you experience the role of a manager through hands-on problems, cases and exercises.

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Understand the food supply chain with this essential guide to the its innovations, challenges and future technologies.

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Changing how we work can feel overwhelming. Like trying to budge an enormous boulder. We’re stifled by the gravity of the way we’ve always done things. And we spend so much time fighting fires—and fighting ...

Are you a tech founder ready to move beyond the start-up phase and scale up?

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Drawing on his experience as a senior partner at McKinsey specializing in innovation and growth, and as the co-founder of THNK (school for impact- oriented entrepreneurs) and ScaleUpNation (research-based scale-up accelerator), Menno van Dijk shares a proven scale-up method based on real data and hands-on experience.

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Managers today seem to have to be jacks of all trades. Delegating, co-operating,

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Coen Dirkx and Anton van den Dungen show us which skills you need to be a

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In a turbulent environment, companies face disruptive events and must build organisational resilience in order to thrive. This unique book offers new, cutting-edge research on how trust can build and develop resilience.

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