Everyday Project Management: Simple Tools for Turning Plans into ResultsMost of us manage projects every day, even if we never call them projects. Planning a wedding, renovating a home, organizing a family event, completing a school assignment, moving an office, starting a small business, planning a vacation, or preparing for retirement all involve setting goals, making plans, managing resources, dealing with unexpected problems, and making decisions along the way.Everyday ...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming the way we live, work, learn, communicate, manage finances, access healthcare, and make decisions. While these technological advances create significant opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and progress, they also introduce new risks that affect individuals, families, organizations, and communities.Risk Management in a World of AI provides a practical and accessible guide to understanding and navigating the opportunities and cha...

This book provides a practical and structured guide to risk management in secondary road construction and maintenance, with particular attention to the everyday challenges faced in Jamaica and other developing countries.The book follows the full life cycle of a road project, from planning and design through construction and long-term maintenance. It explains how risks develop, how they can be identified at an early stage, and how they can be assessed, prioritized, and managed using...

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...

The book outlines the central principles and mechanisms that are applied in fashion retailing and illustrates as to how the major tasks and roles intertwine from the conceptualisation of the product through to the presentation of a finished garment to the customer and in doing so demonstrates how the key functions such as design, buying, merchandising, technology, production, logistics and selling each with their unique specialised operations manage to achieve this.The book is also ...

If you are a supply chain manager, an executive, an entrepreneur, or a stakeholder in a sustainable business, this book will help you develop the awareness and skills needed to support sustainable supply chain management in your firm. The authors introduce the many ways that social and environmental responsibility can be integrated into supply chain management, from sustainable product and process design to programs and techniques that support product end-of-life management. The book begin...

The book outlines the fundamental principles and mechanisms that are applied in fashion retailing and illustrates as to how the major tasks and roles intertwine from the conceptualisation of the product through to the presentation of a finished garment to the customer and in doing so demonstrates how the key functions such as design, buying, merchandising, technology, production, logistics and selling each with their unique specialised operations manage to achieve this.It will be pa...

Behavior change is central to the pursuit of sustainability. This book details how to use community-based social marketing to motivate environmental protection behaviors as diverse as water and energy efficiency, alternative transportation, and watershed protection. With case studies of innovative programs from around the world, including the United States, Canada Australia, Spain, and Jordan, the authors present a clear process for motivating social change for both residential and commerc...

As 21st-century companies realize they'll need to be green to compete, sustainable ideas are spreading like wildfire throughout all fields of modern business. In The Green Workplace, Leigh Stringer, an expert on sustainable workplace design and strategy, shows companies on the cusp of radically transforming their practices how to bring together diverse teams and establish new organizational governance for creative problem-solving in greening their workplace. Her hands-on green str...

The book outlines the fundamental principles and mechanisms that are applied in fashion retailing during the scenario analysis, strategy planning and implementation phases for all critical operational areas and how these are then integrated together with the supporting roles and processes required to build a successful and sustainable fashion retail business. It will be particularly beneficial to students and those who are maybe considering a career in the industry. Individuals who are alr...

The plan of offering goods to the potential customer is a complicated one and is a science that involves many players whose individual contributions slot seamlessly together and are so perfectly co-ordinated that it provides the perception that it is the result of one individual concerted effort.It will be illustrated as to how the relationships of the major functions that intertwine from the conceptualisation of a product through to the presentation of a finished garment with parti...

The book outlines the fundamental principles and mechanisms that are applied in fashion retailing from end to end with focus on the technological aspects that are relevant during the manufacture of product and covers both fabric and garment construction as well as the options available during the storage and movement of products from the source of origination to the customer's shopping basket. Also included is topics such as supplier sourcing, briefing, product specification, garment costi...