Authors: Jack E. Miller. David V. Pavesic.
Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 1996-07-14
Edition: 4

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    Now in its fourth edition, this popular guide to designing and pricing menus has even more information that will help turn your ordinary menu into a merchandising and cost control tool. Two of the industry's top hospitality educators, Jack Miller and Dave Pavesic, have teamed up to make this new edition the best book available on menu pricing and design. This revised edition includes New sections on the history of the restaurant industry The psychology of menu pricing and design How to write menu copy Use of coupons and discounts Demand and market driven pricing Menu sales mix analysis Expanded glossary of menu terms...

Authors: Al Kaltman.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall Press
Publication Date: 1998-10-01


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    250 valuable lessons for today's managers from one of America's finest leaders--a seamless blend of biography, history, and management wisdom.

Long before management became a science--complete with an endless parade of multi-step, jargon-laden programs for business success--the Civil War's winning general was battle-testing his own ways of getting things done, and becoming a consummate leader in the process. By war's end, Ulysses S. Grant was managing the world's largest organization, with over one million men and $1.5 billion in annual expenditures--and all without computers.

How did a man of only average talents lead a group of ordinary men to victory after victory over highly motivated, well trained and often brilliantly led opponents? In this masterful retelling of Grant's story, Al Kaltman draws on Grant's writings and life experiences to present a series of practical lessons in management that are more relevant than ever today.

Going beyond mere "how-to's", Cigars, Whiskey and Winning deals with character traits, core beliefs and fundamental values to reveal secrets to becoming a winning manager that are as much about "who to be" as "what to do". And there isn't a chart, table, or checklist in sight--just a handy index of lessons for ready inspiration on demand. In short, a refreshing and truly enjoyable alternative to management book overload.

Includes 16 page photo insert....

    "Ulysses S. Grant was a perceptive and surprisingly modern manager," writes Al Kaltman. "A pragmatist who learned from his own and others' successes and failures, he brought new dimensions to strategic planning. He was adept at seizing and exploiting opportunities as they presented themselves, and he boldly shattered paradigms long before the term paradigm had made its way into the management jargon."

Kaltman uses Grant's military career, beginning with his enrollment at West Point through his early successes in the Civil War to his eventual command of the entire Union Army, to illustrate 250 basic principles of business success, from "Bureaucrats do the dumbest things" to "You can't stop the clock." In an afterword, Kaltman considers how President Grant failed to live up to the principles of teamwork and planning that led General Grant to victory, with a resultant career as chief executive whose legacy has been less than stellar. ...

Authors: Mark D. Minevich.
Paperback, 504 pages
Publisher: Aspatore Books
Publication Date: 2004-02-27


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    Why spend countless hours searching for relevant thought leadership articles, specific pieces of statistical data, and navigable reference information, when one resource provides it all? In The CTO Handbook, former CTO of IBM Next Generation Group Mark Minevich, guides readers through what need not be a daunting world of IT management – addressing such critical issues as:

Summary of Key Leaders - Roles and Responsibilities (CTO, CIO, Chief Scientist) Fundamentals of the CIO/CTO role

Importance of the CTO/CIO Profession Background of CTO/CIO Profession Risk Management; What does it mean for US IT market? New Paradigm; New Economy- Creating Value for Customers CTO/CIO- Change and Transformation CTO Priorities Top Industry Players Emerging Technology Direction and Vision Future Growth Opportunities and Technologies Strategic and Influential Relationships empowering CTO - a Complex Ecosystem CTO Strategic Roles and Responsibilities Skills and Competencies of an Effective CTO Technology Summary CTO – Leadership and Coaching Natural Maturation of Markets and Efficiency Competitiveness Issues Current Economic Climate and Changes New Generation and Digital Revolution Women as CIO/CTO’s Are CIOs in Decline? Outsourcing and Offshoring Changes leading up to Mainstream Outsourcing- Offshoring model Challenges in Offshoring - Russia; India Monitoring and Assessing New Technologies The CTO Role in Strategic Planning and Direction; Innovation and Commercialization; Globalization; Mergers & Acquisitions; Marketing and Media; Government, Academia, Professional & Much More......

Authors: Douglas Rushkoff.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Collins Business
Publication Date: 2005-12-01


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On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus altogether. All in the name of innovation.

But this endless worrying, wriggling, and trend watching only alienates companies from whatever it is they really do best. In the midst of the headlong rush to think "outside the box," the full engagement responsible for true innovation is lost. New consultants, new packaging, new marketing schemes, or even new CEOs are no substitute for the evolution of our own expertise as individuals and as businesses.

Indeed, for all their talk about innovation, most companies today are still scared to death of it.

To Douglas Rushkoff, this disconnect is not only predictable but welcome. It marks the happy end of a business cycle that began as long ago as the Renaissance, and ended with the renaissance in creativity and collaboration we're going through today.

The age of mass production, mass media, and mass marketing may be over, but so, too, is the alienation it engendered between producers and consumers, managers and employees, executives and shareholders, and, worst of all, businesses and their own core values and competencies.

American enterprise, in particular, is at a crossroads. Having for too long replaced innovation with acquisitions, tactics, efficiencies, and ad campaigns, many businesses have dangerously lost touch with the process -- and fun -- of discovery.

"American companies are obsessed with window dressing," Rushkoff writes, "because they're reluctant, no, afraid to look at whatever it is they really do and evaluate it from the inside out. When things are down, CEOs look to consultants and marketers to rethink, rebrand, or repackage whatever it is they are selling, when they should be getting back on the factory floor, into the stores, or out to the research labs where their product is actually made, sold, or conceived."

Rushkoff backs up his arguments with a myriad of intriguing historical examples as well as familiar gut checks -- from the dumbwaiter and open source to Volkswagen and The Gap -- in this accessible, thought-provoking, and immediately applicable set of insights. Here's all the help innovators of this era need to reconnect with their own core competencies as well as the passion fueling them.

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Authors: Thomas H. Davenport.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 1992-10


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    Today's business environment demands significant changes in the way we do business. Simply formulating strategy is no longer sufficient; we must also design the processes to implement it effectively. The key to change is process innovation, a revolutionary new approach that fuses information technology and human resource management to improve business performance. The cornerstone to process innovation's dramatic results is information technology - a largely untapped resource, but a crucial enabler of process innovation. In turn, only a challenge like process innovation affords maximum use of information technology's potential. Davenport provides numerous examples of firms that have succeeded or failed in combining business change and technology initiatives. He also highlights the roles of new organizational structures and human resource programs in developing process innovation. Process innovation is quickly becoming the byword for industries ready to pull their companies out of modest growth patterns and compete effectively in the world marketplace....

Authors: Thomas H. Davenport.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 2000-02


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    This is a no-nonsense guide to the benefits and pitfalls of enterprise - wide information systems. How many organizations would doubt the promise of an integrated enterprise system (ES)? Not many, judging by a $15 billion industry. The combination of an ES as a platform for organizational information and Internet technology for gaining access to it adds up to the ideal solution for company-wide data sharing in real time. Not surprisingly, small and large companies worldwide are either considering an ES, in the process of implementing one, or living with the results. Yet, says Tom Davenport, unless managers view ES adoption and implementation as a business decision rather than a technology decision, they may be risking disappointment "Mission Critical" presents an authoritative and no-nonsense view of the ES opportunities and challenges.Suggesting ESs are not the right choice for every company, the author provides a set of guidelines to help managers evaluate the benefits and risks for their organizations. To be successful, argues Davenport, an organization must make simultaneous changes in its information systems, its business processes, and its business strategy. Such changes are described in detail with extensive examples from real organizations. Bolstering his contention that ESs should be viewed as business vs. technology projects, Davenport spells out the specific business change objectives that should be formulated in advance of ES adoption and monitored throughout its implementation. The first strategic guide to the ES decision, "Mission Critical" will be indispensable to general managers and information technology specialists at all stages of the implementation process....

    As information-dependent companies of all types continually expand, acquire, merge, and globalize, the need to share critical data--between far-flung sites, independent divisions, and even neighboring departments--increases exponentially. Thomas Davenport, director of the Institute for Strategic Change at Andersen Consulting and a professor of information management at Boston University, advocates integrated enterprise systems (or ESs) to expedite the process. In Mission Critical, he explains how these inherently complicated, unfailingly expensive, and yet potentially vital programs can best be coordinated with existing operations. He explores specific benefits as well as possible drawbacks. And he shows why some of the biggest players in the business world have succeeded in their ES efforts, while others with equal resources and similar goals have not.

While a properly designed ES will facilitate rapid dissemination of electronic data to pertinent employees, partners, and customers through Internet or intranet access, Davenport repeatedly claims, the key is handling this "as a business project, not a technical one." This means clearly defining objectives from the outset, utilizing executives with power to execute the required organizational changes, and incorporating explicit across-the-board incentives and penalties that are tied to the project's ultimate conclusion. Top managers and information specialists will find helpful guidance here on all relevant aspects of the process, including pre-implementation procedures, software selection, organization-wide strategies, and tips on using an ES to its full advantage. --Howard Rothman...

Authors: James M. Citrin.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Rodale Books
Publication Date: 2007-09-04


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Authors: Charles W. Holland.
Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2005-04-06
Edition: 1

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    The first and only guide to using MVT as a breakthrough management tool

MVT(TM) (Multivariable Testing) has been heralded as a breakthrough business tool in major publications such as Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Business-Week. Although MVT could become one of the most widely used management tools and has been applied by leading companies in every industry to create billions of dollars of value-no book on it has been published, until now.

In Breakthrough Business Results with MVT, MVT creator and guru Charles Holland shows managers how multivariable testing-an advanced mathematical method that allows simultaneous testing of up to 40 variables-can dramatically improve efficiency and profits in any organization. MVT reveals to managers precisely which factors have a positive impact on any important business decision or process, which have a negative impact, and which have no impact at all. Very often the results are radically counterintuitive. MVT identifies quickly the best ways for a company to make major improvements, such as boosting sales, reducing waste, increasing production, enhancing advertising strategies, or optimizing service levels. Faster and cheaper than other quality improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma, MVT is a natural tool for any organization that wants to reduce the amount of guesswork and politics when making crucial business decisions. In Breakthrough Business Results with MVT, Holland reveals the dramatic benefits that have made true believers of top executives in such companies as Lowe's, Ameritech, Williams-Sonoma, DuPont, Pacific Bell, and Boise, among others.

Charles Holland, PhD (Knoxville, TN), is principal and founder of QualPro, Inc., the leading MVT consultancy in the world. QualPro's work has been celebrated in most major business publications, and they have consulted to senior executives at many Fortune 500 companies. QualPro regularly conducts seminars on MVT, and their work has been widely publicized. *MVT is a trademark of QualPro, Inc....

Authors: Mark Sherrington.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Date: 2003-07-04


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Authors: Dale Dauten.
Hardcover, 116 pages
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication Date: 1996-01-16
Edition: 1st

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    The Corporate Curmugeon"" offers a business parable filled with practical career insights about a young businessman whose mentor, Max Elmore, shows him that success and job satisfaction can be found in innovation and experimentation....