Industrial Management

Created for risk professionals and non-risk professionals alike, this easy-to-understand guide helps you meet the increasingly insistent demand to make sophisticated assessments of companies' risk exposure. It provides the latest methods for measuring and transferring credit risk, increasing risk-management transparency, and implementing an organization-wide Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) approach.

Industrial DevOps: Build Better Systems Faster shows listeners how applying Agile and DevOps ways of working into cyber-physical systems presents the opportunity to reap huge rewards, including increased adaptability, shorter delivery schedules, reduced development cost, increased quality, and higher transparency into delivery.

Industrial/organizational psychologists are employed in organizations all over the world. They use principles and practices from their field to conduct the research required to improve workforces in terms of attitude and productivity. Their goal is to help employees find motivation and job satisfaction as their organizations grow, change, and evolve. This book focuses on the basic skills, knowledge, methodology, responsibilities, and benefits of I/O psychologists. It also examines their future potential as the field continues to grow and expand. The text is informational and educational, ...

Now nearing its 60th printing in English and translated into 19 languages, Michael E. Porter's Competitive Strategy has transformed the theory, practice, and teaching of business strategy throughout the world.

W. Edwards Deming details the system of transformation that underlies the "14 Points for Management" presented in Out of the Crisis. The "Deming System of Profound Knowledge", as it is called, consists of four parts: appreciation for a system, knowledge about variation, theory of knowledge, and psychology. Describing the prevailing management style as a prison, Deming describes how applying the System of Profound Knowledge increases productivity, quality, and people's joy in work and joy in learning.

ISO 45001 Occupational Health and Safety Management System (OHSMS) - Audit and Certification for Compliance Transform the power of a safer, healthier workplace with this comprehensive guide to ISO 45001—the international standard for Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems (OHSMS). Written by Dr. Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, this book provides a step-by-step roadmap for organizations to implement ISO 45001, ensuring a robust safety culture, legal compliance, and the protection of your most valuable asset—your employees. Whether you're just starting your journey toward ISO 45001 ...

The key to growth as a church, youth ministry, or a business is getting first-time guests to come back. It's about hospitality. The Come Back Effect reveals to church, ministry, and even business leaders the secret to helping a first-time guest return again and again. Through an engaging, story-driven approach, they explain how service and hospitality are two different things, describe how Jesus practiced hospitality, and invite leaders to develop and implement changes that lead to repeat visits and, eventually, to sustained growth. 

A 'textbook with passion', Hardwiring Excellence offers a road map and practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of service and operational excellence. In this book, author Quint Studer, founder of Studer Group, draws on his personal experience as a former hospital executive who led two organizations to the top 1% in patient satisfaction and his experience coaching hundreds of healthcare organizations since.

Unsliced is the resource for elevating your pizzeria - from managing staff to mindset, marketing, and everything in between. Industry leader Mike Bausch explains how to make your restaurant unique and in demand based on his 20 years of experience. You’ll learn how to build systems that will help you boost your sales and keep your sanity. And you’ll discover time-tested protocols that will protect you and your restaurant. It’s hard not to get discouraged in this business. But with the right perspective, smart systems, and hard work, your restaurant can thrive.

Salon Business: How to Manage a Salon in Good Times and Bad is the only book in the beauty industry today that guides you through highs and lows with one goal in mind: making money and lots of it! Cut costs, improve marketing and social media, control inventory, hire and fire the right employees and move your salon into the perfect location. No matter what your challenge is—a leaky roof, a lousy landlord, credit cards piling up, salon walk-outs—this book covers it all. • Managing staff and salon more effectively • Maximizing profits • Knowing when it’s time to make operational ...

He used to liquidate companies. Now, he’s liquidating heroes. Arthur Penhaligon was the ultimate corporate shark—a middle manager with a heart of stone and a spreadsheet for a soul. But after a lifetime of downsizing others, he finds himself on the receiving end of a "terminal" performance review. Instead of the afterlife, Arthur is headhunted by Dungeon Inc., a multidimensional conglomerate that treats fantasy realms like underperforming branch offices. His new assignment? IronCrag Dungeon. It’s a logistical nightmare. The goblins are quiet-quitting, the skeletons are over-budget, ...

Running a restaurant doesn’t have to mean endless stress, sleepless nights, and working harder than everyone else. The Restaurateur’s Path gives you a proven system to organize your restaurant, increase profits, and reclaim your time—without losing control of your business. Drawing from over 20 years of experience coaching and consulting with restaurants across Latin America and beyond, Germán De Bonis reveals how to: Build strong leadership and motivated teams. Control costs and master the numbers that truly matter. Implement marketing strategies that actually bring customers back. ...

Unlock the Secret Factory Running Inside Your Business Beneath the surface of every organization lies a hidden world of inefficiency, delay, and missed opportunity—The Hidden Factory. In this groundbreaking book, engineer and productivity expert Mohammed Hamed Ahmed Soliman exposes the unseen forces that silently drain your company’s time, money, and resources. Whether you're in manufacturing, services, or tech, this book reveals how invisible waste sneaks into daily operations and how to detect and eliminate it with surgical precision. Using real-world examples and proven systems ...

Unlock the power of Lean thinking to transform your maintenance operations into a streamlined, value-driven system that delivers maximum uptime, reduced costs, and sustainable results. Lean Maintenance is your comprehensive guide to applying Lean principles in the maintenance environment. Whether you manage a manufacturing plant, utilities network, transport fleet, or healthcare facility, this book provides practical strategies, tools, and real-world examples to help you: Standardize and Simplify — Develop clear, repeatable maintenance procedures that eliminate waste and ensure ...

Ron Shaich is a business visionary who has been part of building three iconic restaurant brands: Au Bon Pain, Panera Bread, and now Cava. Along the way, he developed "fast casual," a $100 billion-plus segment of the industry. Now he reveals what he learned about entrepreneurship, running large enterprises, business transformation, and life itself. He illustrates these lessons with his experiences turning a small cookie store into 2,400 restaurants with $5 billion in revenue, delivering annual investor returns of 25% over two decades, and outperforming both Starbucks and Chipotle. 

Take control of your trucking business finances in just 21 days! Are you a truck owner-operator, small fleet manager, or aspiring logistics entrepreneur struggling to manage your business finances? 21 Days to Organizing Your Trucking Business Finances is your ultimate guide to mastering the financial side of your trucking business. In this step-by-step, day-by-day guide, you’ll learn how to: Set realistic financial goals for your business. Create a simple and effective budgeting system. Track your revenue and expenses to maximize profitability. Identify cost-saving opportunities and ...

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction while avoiding burnout. There...

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? With over 46 years of experience in the construction industry working on every type of project imaginable, Joel Anderson shares the nuts and bolts for building a successful business. From hiring and managing employees to operations, marketing, and keeping clients to financing projects, Joel shows you the secrets for running your business smoothly, avoiding costly mistakes, and growing at a sustainable rate. Step-by-step, he’ll also show you how to get and stay organized while you regain your sanity, so you can run your business and it...

Digital transformation has reshaped the industrial landscape. Control systems that operated in isolated environments for decades now coexist with IP networks, cloud services, remote access, and converged IT/OT architectures. This evolution has exponentially increased the attack surface and turned industrial infrastructures into strategic targets. Fundamentals of OT Cybersecurity provides a rigorous and structured perspective on the principles that must underpin the protection of industrial automation and control systems. Rather than simply transferring purely IT-based models into ...

From the award-winning biographer of Elvis Presley, a groundbreaking dual portrait of the relationship between the iconic artist and his legendary manager—drawing on a wealth of the Colonel's never-before-seen correspondence to reveal that this oft-reviled figure was in fact a confidant...