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Mat Langley

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Procurement in Action

Are your sustainability commitments stuck in PowerPoint while your supply chain continues business as usual?Sustainable Procurement in Action shows procurement, sustainability and supply chain leaders how to close the gap between corporate ambition and day to day execution.Climate disruption, regulatory pressure, stakeholder scrutiny and supply volatility have redefined what procurement must deliver. Scope 3 emissions, circularity, nature risk, human rights due diligence an...

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Helene Carpentier, Mat Langley

Circular Procurement in Action is a practical guide for procurement, facilities, workplace, property and sustainability professionals who want to turn circular-economy principles into everyday commercial decisions.Offices contain far more value than most organisations realise. Furniture sits unused in storage while new items are ordered. Fit-outs are removed before materials have reached the end of their useful life. IT equipment is replaced rather than repaired or...

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Peter Lacy, Jakob Rutqvist

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Business and Management (R0)

Waste to Wealth proves that 'green' and 'growth' need not be binary alternatives. The book examines five new business models that provide circular growth from deploying sustainable resources to the sharing economy before setting out what business leaders need to do to implement the models successfully.

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Walter Wallace, Yusen Xia

This is the complete executive's guide to driving sustainable competitive advantage and mitigating risk in today's complex supply networks. Two of the field's leading consultants show senior managers how to apply advanced strategic sourcing to significantly improve your supply chain's efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability.Drawing on their cutting-edge research, Yusen Xia and Walter L. Wallace help you go beyond mere cost-cutting and contract management to redesign and o...

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Tom McCarty, Michael Jordan, Daniel Probst

PROVEN STRATEGIES FOR CREATING CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAMSCo-written by Six Sigma Black Belts and LEED Accredited Professionals, this pioneering guide reveals how to use the power of Six Sigma to develop and implement enterprise-wide green initiatives. Six Sigma Sustainability explains how typical Six Sigma DMAIC structures such as program governance, project charters, transfer functions, measurement systems, risk assessment, and process design support environmenta...

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Harvard Business Review

Most companies waste billions of dollars on technology. Don't be one of them.If you need the best practices and ideas for unleashing technology's strategic potential--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are eight inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place. This collection of HBR articles will help you:- Clarify corporate strategy with your IT department- Fund only IT projects that support your strategy- Transform IT investme...

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Douglas B. Laney

Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets, but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce, their financials, their customers, and their partnerships, but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting for their office furniture than their data.Infonomics is the theory, study, and discipline of asserting economic significance t...

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Dr. Ken K. Wong

This book provides students of marketing with everything they need to understand and prepare a comprehensive marketing plan. Written in Dr. Wongs vivid and interesting style, and furnished with examples for new products and services, this book helps students to demystify the ingredients of an approved marketing plan.Advance Praise for Approved Marketing Plans for New Products and ServicesDr. Ken Wongs latest work exemplifies the unassuming and straightforward style...

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David Simchi-Levi

An expert offers a set of rules that will help managers achieve dramatic improvements in operations performance.In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing, offshoring, and frequent deliveries to retail outlets. But today, these much-touted strategies may be risky. Global financial turmoil, rising labor costs in developing countries, and huge volatility in the price of oil and other commoditie...

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Mohan Subramaniam

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Management on the Cutting Edge

How legacy firms can combine their traditional strengths with the power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy for the digital era.How can legacy firms remain relevant in the digital era? In The Future of Competitive Strategy, strategic management expert Mohan Subramaniam explains how firms can leverage both their traditional strengths and the modern-day power of data and digital ecosystems to forge a new competitive strategy. D...

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Harvard Business Review, Willy C. Shih, Christian Shuh, Wolfgang Schnellbacher, Daniel Weise

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HBR Insights Series

Disruptions in the global supply chain bring companies to a standstill.Supply and demand shocks. Labor shortages. International trade wars. As businesses and customers struggle to get the products they need from across the globe, manufacturers must reassess how they operate, from rethinking offshore options to exploring new technologies.Supply Chain: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you better understand the dynamics at ...

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Charles Nesbitt

The book outlines the fundamental principles that are applied in fashion retailing during the creation of assortment plans and the determination of the ideal product mix in the right styles, colours and sizes together with the trading performance tracking and analysis with the corresponding consequential action required to build a successful and sustainable business. It will be particularly beneficial to students and those who are maybe considering a career in the industry. Individuals who...