This dictionary by P.M. Ryan, one of New Zealand's leading Maori-language scholars, is the most comprehensive and up-to-date available. Contains over 50,000 concise entries divided into Maori-English and English-Maori sections. Includes all the words most commonly used by fluent Maori speakers. Features a vocabulary list with words for new inventions, metric terms, modern concepts and scientific, computer, technological and legal terms. Incorporates an easy-to-use guide to...

The Raupo Pocket Dictionary of Modern Maori is a portable reference source for speakers of English and Maori at all levels. This new edition has been fully revised by the author. It features: More than 20,000 entries divided into Maori-English and English-Maori sections. The most frequently used words in both languages. A guide to Maori grammar and pronunciation. A list of common phrases in Maori. A map of tribal areas, helpful for understanding l...

Even More Schedule for Sale is the second guidebook by Geoff Ryan on the subject of construction productivity for industrial projects. It describes the step-by-step application of the industry’s best practice of advanced work packaging and ties it into the logic from the first book, Schedule for Sale, on workface planning. As the name suggests, there is even more schedule to be gained over just getting the construction team organized (workface planning) by aligning engineering and procurem...

Schedule for Sale is a guidebook on how to apply WorkFace Planning, an industry best practice first identified by The Construction Owners Association of Alberta in 2005. The process organizes the elements necessary for productive construction, which then leads to improved quality and reduced schedule & costs from the absence of chaos. The reduction of energy consumption from the shortened schedule is also the foundation for Green Construction.

This book is a short collection of business and life principles told in a humorous fashion. The perspectives and pictures are solely the authors and are based on over forty years of experience in business and information technology.

Most companies know that long-term success does not hinge on any single product but on a continuous stream of value-rich products that target growth markets. Yet many firms inexplicably develop one product at a time, and by doing so fail to embrace commonality, compatibility, standardization, or modularization among different products and product lines. At last, in this timely book, Marc H. Meyer and Alvin P. Lehnerd provide a formula for turning products into profits, ena...

Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.T. department.Big data--the enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitized--is revolutionizing business. Sharing best practices from companies that have implemented a big data strategy including ...

A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment.Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance.Case examples from well-known innovation leaders IKEA, Apple, Tata, SHARP, Saudi Aramco, De Beers, Telefoni...

This chapter comes from Lean Six Sigma for Supply Chain Management , written by a master black belt/educator. Neatly condensed into a 10 step process, this book teaches you how to apply the tenets of lean operations (from the Toyota Production System) and Six Sigma management principles to supply chain management. Author Jim Martin includes more than 200 tables and figures describing roadmaps, critical success characteristics as well as specific information necessary to fully integrate Lean S...

IoT Evolution, the leading media brand for the Internet of Things (IoT), is proud to publish this book, outlining more than 150 of the leading trends in the IoT industry, entitled "IoT Time: Evolving Trends in the Internet of Things." The book, written by IoT Evolution Editorial Director, Ken Briodagh, seeks to explore the factors that have shaped the recent past of the developing industry and use those to predict the trends that will drive the next period of growth. Each of the trends is ...

BIG-BIM 4.0: ECOSYSTEMS FOR A CONNECTED WORLD shows how to use your strengths to thrive in the revolutionary changes emerging in the built world. Written from the perspective of BIG BIM, this book expands the concepts in Finith Jernigan's, award-winning BIG-BIM-little-bim—The Practical Approach to Building Information Modeling to connect you to the power and opportunities of the ecosystems that are emerging. Filled with workflows, case studies, and anecdotes from the front lines, BIG BIM 4...

Master and apply both the technical and behavioral skills you need to succeed in manufacturing or service operations, anywhere in your supply chain! Now, there’s an authoritative and comprehensive guide to best-practice manufacturing and service operations in any organization. Co-authored by a leading expert alongside the the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP), this reference describes the planning, organizing, controlling, directing, motivating and coordinating funct...