The Best Industrial Management Books 2025

1. Hewlett-Packard Professional Books: Mysap Tool Bag for Performance Tuning and Stress Testing (Paperback)

In this book, a leading expert on SAP performance walks through every facet of tuning and optimizing mySAP Solutions, and the technology layers underpinning these solutions, to maximize performance and value. Anderson covers the entire testing and tuning process: planning, staffing, developing, testing, execution, validation, and evaluation. All enterprise applications must be tuned for maximum performance prior to deploying a new or updated solution into a productive environment. There are more than 60,000 in-place mySAP systems being continually upgraded to incorporate new hardware/software platforms as well as to integrate new mySAP components. According to a 2001 study, the average SAP implementation endured a major upgrade or addition to their SAP enterprise solution every other year. Further, a thousand more systems are being implemented each year. With competition a mouse-click away, or entire organizations depending upon the excellent performance and availability of their internal systems, tuning and the load testing that underpins this tuning is a necessity, not a luxury. However, there is no single book dedicated to mySAP performance tuning and stress testing. This book walks readers through understanding the role of each component within their SAP technology stack. It helps readers assemble a detailed project plan for stress-testing and subsequently tuning an organization's unique technology stack, guiding them through successfully performing an end-to-end stress test. Readers will understand component-level stress testing as well, and how this supports larger solution-level stress testing. This book also compares stress testing to functional and integration testing, and explains how they differ and why different toolsets and mindsets are required to successfully stress test an enterprise system.

• Author: George Anderson • ISBN:9780131448520 • Format:Paperback • Publication Date:2004-06-25

2. Environmental Effects of Mining, Used [Hardcover]

Research funded by the Centre for Resource Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canad

Environmental Effects of Mining, Used [Hardcover]

3. Quick Hits: 10 Key Surgical Strike Actions to Improve Business Process Performance [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. "Improving business processes, whatever or wherever they are in the enterprise, is an acknowledged way of improving the bottom line. Whether it's re-engineering, Six Sigma, TQM, or any number of other techniques, the problem is that it's usually such a huge undertaking that it's more work than it's worth. Kelvin F. Cross proposes that results can be achieved much more easily by going in and performing ""surgical strikes"" on specific areas that need improvement, without turning the entire thing into a ""science project."" And now his method is available for anyone seeking to streamline process structures. Using case studies from companies including AT&T, GE, and Weight Watchers International to illustrate the remarkable results that can be achieved, "Quick Hits" sums up the ten key areas that are perfect targets for surgical strikes, demonstrating exactly how to handle each type of problem. By showing how to determine which approach to use for any given situation, the book gives readers an arsenal of tactical and judicious methods designed to be low risk, low cost, and very effective."

Quick Hits : 10 Key Surgical Strike Actions to Improve Business Process Performance, Used [Hardcover]

4. Managerial Economics: Markets and the Firm, Used [Hardcover]

Boyes introduces readers to the power of economics in business decision making. The text's intuitive approach clearly highlights how economics influences marketing, management, and other business-related decisions. In addition to traditional principles of price theory, MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS examines organizational behavior, strategic management, human resource management, and emerging issues such as game theory, TQM, and information economics. MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS departs from convention to illustrate the role of economic intuition in making sound business decisions. While other texts focus on quantitative analysis, this book enphasizes logic and conceptual modeling -- reinforced by real-life examples -- to highlight the pivotal link between economics and key business concerns such as costs, prices, markets, and personnel. Readers learn to weigh the strategic costs and benefits of each business choice, instead of relying on popular quick-fix solutions. Ideal for MBA programs and less quantitative courses, MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS demonstrates the power of economic insight on business decision making.

Managerial Economics : Markets and the Firm, Used [Hardcover]

5. Industrial Control Handbook Vol. 3 : Theory and Applications, Used [Hardcover]

This series of books has been written as an introduction to process control for the undergraduate and newly qualified or practicing engineer. It aims to be readable as well as instructive, and mathematics have been kept to a minimum.

Industrial Control Handbook Vol. 3 : Theory and Applications, Used [Hardcover]

6. The search for government efficiency: From hubris to helplessness, Used [Paperback]

Book by Downs, George W., Larkey, Patrick D.

The search for government efficiency: From hubris to helplessness, Used [Paperback]

7. Fundamentals of Managerial Economics [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The economic concepts presented in FUNDAMENTAL OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS, 9e, show students how to use common sense to understand business and solve managerial problems without calculus. This innovative text helps students develop and sharpen their economic intuition--an invaluable skill that helps students, as future managers, decide which products to produce, costs to consider, and prices to charge, as well as the best hiring policy and the most effective style of organization. With its unique integrative approach, the text presents the firm as a cohesive, unified organization and demonstrates that important business decisions are interdisciplinary. A basic valuation model is constructed and used as the underlying economic model of the firm; each topic is then related to an element of the value maximization model--a process that shows how management integrates accounting, finance, marketing, personnel, and production functions. The text also provides an intuitive guide to marginal analysis and basic economic relations. Once students grasp the importance of marginal revenue and marginal costs, the process of economic optimization becomes intuitively obvious. In addition, a wide variety of examples and simple numerical problems vividly illustrate the application of managerial economics to a vast assortment of practical situations. By studying the material in FUNDAMENTALS OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS, 9e, those seeking to further their business careers learn how to more effectively collect, organize, and analyze information. They gain powerful tools that can help them become more successful--and satisfied--in their careers.

Fundamentals of Managerial Economics, Used [Paperback]

8. Introduction to Materials Management [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. -- Defines materials management to include all activities in the flow of materials from the supplier through to the consumer.-- Emphasizes operations planning and control, unlike other books which focus totally on transportation and distribution systems, with little concern for what goes on in the factoryWritten in a simple and user-friendly style, it covers all the basics of supply chain management and production and inventory control.Provides a basic understanding of the factors influencing materials flow. Follows APICS concepts and vocabulary, thus providing consistency with industrial practice.

Introduction to Materials Management, Used [Hardcover]

9. The Momentum Effect : How to Ignite Exceptional Growth, Used [Paperback]

A few rare companies have discovered the secret to sustained high growth: momentum. They've learned how to create the conditions that lead to exceptional organic growth--which feeds on itself, continually accelerating the business forward. In The Momentum Effect , J.C. Larreche introduces a complete framework for gaining momentum, keeping it, and harnessing its power. Drawing on new research and powerful case studies, Larreche demonstrates the stunning role of momentum in value creation. He sets out the process for developing the "power offers" that lie at the heart of this powerful force. This book offers a systematic process for creating momentum that will work in any business, in any industry, and under any market conditions. You'll learn how to create new value through a momentum strategy and build the leadership competencies to deliver highly profitable growth over the next six months...five years...even decades. -Pioneer or die: drive momentum and harness its stunning power How momentum-powered firms create 80% more shareholder value -Understand the drivers of momentum strategy Craft power offers, mobilize for growth, and more -Master the Momentum Process: design and execution Eight specific steps to implement a long-term winning momentum strategy -Climb the five-step Momentum Leadership Ladder How leaders can systematically generate and direct momentum "This book shows you how to build momentum for growth and leave your competitors trailing far in your wake " -Sir Richard Branson "J.C. Larreche's book, The Momentum Effect , is a must-read. It highlights why more marketing spend and further value extraction are not the key determinants for future growth. To create powerful momentum for exceptional growth, it is essential to offer innovative value to the marketplace. The Momentum Effect outlines just how to achieve this. The results are illuminating. --W. Chan Kim & Ren e Mauborgne, Authors of Blue Ocean Strategy "How can companies achieve exceptional and sustained growth? The Momentum Effect explores this challenge and reveals successful strategies for originating new sources of growth and value from customers with the power to unlock great potential." --Dr. Daniel Vasella, Chairman & CEO, Novartis AG, Basel/Switzerland

The Momentum Effect : How to Ignite Exceptional Growth, Used [Paperback]

10. Thiagi's Interactive Lectures: Power Up Your Training with Interactive Games and Exercises [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A resource for using lectures in the workplace setting for training and learning. This work offers readers seven interactive lecture methods. It aims to encourage readers to photocopy or modify these useful tools to meet the specific needs of most audiences and lecture topics.

Thiagi's Interactive Lectures : Power up Your Training with Interactive Games and Exercises, Used [Paperback]