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July 31, 2021

Sales and Operations Planning

 

Chapter 3 in Manufacturing Planning and Control by Vollman


It coordinates sales and operations effort at the top level.

It is generally done over a horizon period of one month.


But with digitization companies are doing it for a week also.


Some are going to do on a day's horizon (Simchi Levi)

July 30, 2021

Supply Chain Digitization and Digitalization for Increase in Effectiveness and Efficiency

Increase in Effectiveness increases Revenue, the Top Line 

Increase in Efficiency reduces unit cost and comparative total cost.

Supply Chain Digitization and Digitalization have applications that increase effectiveness.

Supply Chain Digitization and Digitalization have applications that increase efficiency


Global Online Certification Course on Supply Chain Digitization and Management

NITIE Online  https://www.nitie.ac.in/digital-scm-2021/#1001

End-to-End Supply Chain Transformation

Registrations Open! Last Date for Domestic Participants' Registrations - Jan 10th, 2021

Dates: 16th Jan ’21 – 21st March ’21 (5:30 PM – 7:00 PM IST | Saturday & Sunday)

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Digitalization

Digitalization is the use and adoption of external digital technologies (i.e. resources (such as machine learning, IoT, big data and blockchain)) by organizations, to improve their supply chain and operational performance.


EDITORIAL

Rethinking supply chains in the age of digitalization

PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL

2020, VOL. 31, NOS. 2–3, 93–95

https://doi.org/10.1080/09537287.2019.1631469

31 Dec 2020 (Last One Week Articles)

https://www.mhlnews.com/global-supply-chain/article/22054328/how-to-approach-the-digital-supply-chain-future

https://retail.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/digitalization-and-disintermediation-in-supply-chain-going-hand-in-glove/75402775

https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/supply-chain-technology/article/22024455/supply-chains-need-to-turn-to-the-digital-frontside

https://www.sme10x.com/industry/how-digitization-is-transforming-global-logistics

https://www.quantzig.com/services/supply-chain-analytics

https://www.pax-intl.com/passenger-services/partnerships-collaborations-and-acquisitions/2020/12/30/airasia-picks-partner-for-supply-chain-digitization/#.X-1MflVLiM8

https://www.supplychain247.com/company/capgemini

https://www.globaltrademag.com/digitization-helps-shippers-address-challenges-capture-opportunities/

https://www.supplychainbrief.com/2020/procurement/

https://newsopener.com/entrepreneurs/council-post-bringing-supply-chains-into-the-digital-world/

https://www.livemint.com/brand-stories/digital-is-the-way-forward-in-a-post-covid-world-11609135294441.html

http://bwautoworld.businessworld.in/article/VE-Commercial-Vehicles-Digitalises-All-Business-Critical-Functions/28-12-2020-359003/


Supply Chain Digitization and Digitalization - 2020 Full Year Articles

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/data-not-digitalization-transforms-the-post-pandemic-supply-chain/

https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/digital-supply-chain-transformation-with-a-human-face

Servitization, digitization and supply chain interdependency

Industrial Marketing Management

Volume 60, January 2017, Pages 69-81

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019850116301213

http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/accelerating-end-to-end-supply-chain-digitization/article/573403

https://chiefexecutive.net/digital-supply-chain-how-to-drive-value/

Enablers to supply chain performance on the basis of digitization technologies

Himanshu Gupta, Sarangdhar Kumar, Simonov Kusi-Sarpong, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Martin Agyemang 

Industrial Management & Data Systems

ISSN: 0263-5577

Publication date: 11 November 2020

https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IMDS-07-2020-0421/full/html

https://www.mmh.com/article/supply_chain_startup_digitizing_the_paper_trail


https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/supply-chains-resilient-covid-19/

https://www.manufacturingglobal.com/company/henkel-journey-digitalisation-supply-chain

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09537287.2020.1810756

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9105913

https://www.supplychainquarterly.com/articles/3194-now-is-the-time-to-digitize-your-supply-chain

https://www.dhl.com/gb-en/home/our-divisions/supply-chain/thought-leadership/white-papers/digitalization-and-the-supply-chain.html

https://www.cxooutlook.com/why-the-digitization-of-supply-chain-is-mission-critical-in-current-times/



https://novapublishers.com/shop/digitalisation-of-supply-chain-management-and-firm-performance-structural-equation-modelling-and-empirical-findings/


Supply chain digitisation trends: An integration of knowledge management
Dara G.SchniederjansaCarlaCuradobMehrnazKhalajhedayatia
International Journal of Production Economics
Volume 220, February 2020, 107439
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092552731930249X

https://www.cioreview.com/news/how-digitization-is-benefitting-the-supply-chain-management--nid-32590-cid-78.html

https://www.scmr.com/article/capgemini_urges_supply_chain_managers_to_focus_on_digitization

https://www.bcg.com/capabilities/operations/digital-supply-chain

https://www.supplychain247.com/article/the_current_state_of_digital_supply_chain_transformation

https://www.imd.org/research-knowledge/articles/Digitize-supply-chains-but-dont-expect-a-universal-approach/


https://www.supplychainbrain.com/blogs/1-think-tank/post/30975-how-do-we-hasten-supply-chain-digitization

https://www.supplychaindigital.com/supply-chain/what-digitisation-supply-chain

Webinar on Digitizing The Supply Chain

15 Jun 2019

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The Digitalization of the 21st Century Supply Chain

Stuart M. Rosenberg

Routledge, 09-Nov-2020 - Business & Economics - 252 pages

The goal of this book is to gain a clear picture of the current status and future challenges with regard to the digitalization of the supply chain.  

Digitization has touched upon all aspects of businesses, including supply chains. Technologies such as RFID, GPS, and sensors have enabled organizations to transform their existing hybrid (combination of paper-based and IT-supported processes) supply chain structures into more flexible, open, agile, and collaborative digital models. Digital supply chains further improve and enable business process automation, organizational flexibility, and digital management of corporate assets.

The technologies discussed in this text – artificial intelligence, 3D printing, Internet of things, etc. – are beginning to come together to help digitize, automate, integrate, and improve the global supply chains.  Both new supply chain professionals and long-time supply chain professionals have to learn the applications of new technologies in supply chain activities.


Table of Contents

Introduction


Part 1. Digitalization of 21st Century Supply Chain with LEAN Methodology

1. Introduction Supply Chain Terminology

2. Just-in-Time

3. Value Stream Mapping

4. Kaizen

5. The Five S’s

6. The Five Why’s


Part 2. Digitalization of Supply Chain Procurement

1. The Reinvention of Procurement

2. The Transformation of Procurement into a Global Force

3. Procurement and Digitalization – Automation

4. Saving Procurement from Itself

5. Procurement and Supply Chain Sustainability

6. Procurement Solutions in the Digital Age


Part 3. Supply Chain Logistics/Transportation

1. What is Logistics

2. Logistics in the 21st Century

3. The Merger of the Physical and Digital Supply Chains

4. 21st Century Digital Logistical Solutions


Part 4. Inventory Management in the Age of Digital Automation

1. How Artificial Intelligence solves the riddles of Inventory Management

2. How Big Data is changing Inventory Management

3. Misconceptions on Managing Inventory in A Digital Driven World

4. Best Practices in Inventory Management in The Digital Age


Part 5. Supply Chain Warehousing in the 21st Century

1. 20th Century Warehouses are Passe

2. How to Keep Up With Distribution Center Automation & Digitalization

3. The Five Steps to A 21st Century Warehouse

Part 6. Supply Chain Demand Planning

1. The Ten Critical differences between 20th Century and the 21st Century Demand Planning

2. Demand Planning Needs to Incorporate More Than……

3. 20th Century Leadership versus 21st Century Leadership


Part 7. Supply Chain Customer Service

1. Contemplating On The History Of Customer Service

2. Customer Service Re-invented for the 21st Century

3. How Will Customer Service be Reinvented for the Digital Age

4. Improving Customer Service in the Age of E-Commerce

5. Customer Focus Innovation

6. Customer First Culture & Alignment

7. Navigating the Internal Politics of Change


Part 8. Supply Chain Predictive Analytics


1. Looking into the Future: Predictive Analytics & Supply Chain

2. Predictive Analytics and Manufacturing

3. Predictive Analytics and Transportation Management Systems

4. Transportation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

5. The Final Mile Delivery

6. Predictive Analytics and Mainstream Business Tools

7. Using Predictive Analytics to Drive Sales and Customer Service


Part 9. The Role of the Human Factor in the Digitalized Supply Chain


1. Are Human Jobs at Risk with Automation

2. Human Factor Engineering in the Supply Chain

3. Automation Grows, But Will We Still Need People

4.: What Impact will Automation Have On Warehouse Workers

5. The Role of Human Factors on Future of Manufacturing

https://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Digitalization_of_the_21st_Century_S.html?id=jVYAEAAAQBAJ

Digital Supply Chains: A Practitioner’s Guide to Successful Digitalization

Thomas Mrozek, Daniel Seitz, Kai-Uwe Gundermann, Matthias Dicke

Campus Verlag, 20-May-2020 - Business & Economics - 240 pages


 Supply Chain Management is without question deeply affected by the disruptive forces of a modern organization, positively as well as negatively. Between advanced analytics and AI, agile role models and autonomous warehouses a senior executive is often in danger of losing track in the digital jungle. In these exciting times, with their many turning points, digital experts aim to share insights around digital supply chains, their application in business and the so vital transformation to successfully prepare organizations for this challenge. This book provides insights into best practices current supply chain and how CSOs apply technologies and advancements. It also makes daring forecasts about how processes and leadership must be designed so that the digital transformation does not fail in its infancy, but leads to a truly agile organization.


Digital Supply Chains: Key Facilitator to Industry 4. 0 and New Business Models, Leveraging S/4 HANA and Beyond


Götz G. Wehberg
Taylor & Francis Group, 29-Jul-2020 - Business & Economics - 206 pages

"This book provides a practical guide to digital supply chain modelling, demonstrating an agile approach to how they can be applied to any manufacturing company to build competitive advantage, facilitate new business models and drive towards Industry 4.0. The agile approach of the book provides an attractive alternative to the conventional country-by-country deployment of S/4 Hana and other relevant technologies. This book contains the expertise Gèotz Wehberg has amassed over 20 years as a senior partner in a leading consulting company, working across industries and with globally recognized clients, advising on digitization. In it, he explains the scientific roots of digital supply chain management such as Holism, Cybernetics, Self-Organisation and Evolutionary Theory to inform a deep understanding that can drive a supremely innovative strategy for Industry 4.0. Beyond strategy, Wehberg introduces the practical tools and technologies used in supply chain modelling, for example Sensors, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, as well as a reference framework that categorizes the technologies together with the latest concepts and tools like DDMPR, predictive S&OP, Pattern Recognition, Autonomous Logistics, and Lean. This framework supports decision making for developing supply chains in an end-to-end and cross-functional fashion, providing clear guidance for executives and managers on how to design supply chains for the future"--
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Digital_Supply_Chains.html?id=EDxhzQEACAAJ

Handbook - Technology and Digitization in Supply-Chain Finance

https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/industry_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/financial+institutions/priorities/digital+finance/digitization-scf-handbook

Supply chain digitalization: past, present and future

Zahra Seyedghorban, Hossein Tahernejad, Royston Meriton & Gary Graham

(2020)

Production Planning & Control, 31:2-3,

96-114, DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2019.1631461

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09537287.2019.1631461


Special Issue: Rethinking Supply Chains in the Age of Digitalization

Production Planning & Control

Volume 31, 2020 - Issue 2-3.

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tppc20/31/2-3


https://www.coursera.org/lecture/process-improvement/lecture-4-1-digitization-of-the-supply-chain-EFofn

The Future of Supply chain: A digitized Supply Chain

Shereen Mosallam, March 12, 2018

In digital supply chain the whole system is interconnected like an orchestra to convert from traditional linear model to a digitalized dynamic grid and  customers are placed in heart of the supply chain.


Digital supply chain typically consists of:

Digital/ Intelligent planning

Digital sourcing

SMART manufacturing

Digital Logistics/ e-logistics

 

A digital supply chain steeply leverages intelligence embedded in devices, analytics, external big data sources, and intelligent supply chain software to realize improved customer experience, increased value of products in the markets, generate new revenue streams and new markets and increase high profits.

https://opexsociety.org/body-of-knowledge/the-future-of-supply-chain-a-digitized-supply-chain/



A Classic Taste of Supply Chain Digitization: Coca-Cola

https://thebossmagazine.com/supply-chain-digitization-coca-cola/

https://www.tcs.com/transforming-supply-chain-digitization


https://www.capgemini.com/in-en/2019/05/supply-chain-digitization-vs-digitalization-why-understanding-the-difference-between-the-two-is-still-important/


PWC Services - Digital Transformation of Supply Chain

https://www.pwc.in/consulting/digital-transformation/supply-chain-transformation.html


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July 26, 2021

Supply Chain Management - Ethics

 

Ethics - Supply Chain


Code of ethics - SCMA
https://scma.com/en/about-scma/join-scma/code-of-ethics

The ethical supply chain
New research from APICS, Supply Chain Management Review and Loyola University Chicago finds that operating a responsible supply chain is an increasing priority. But gaps remain between practice and the goal.
By Judd Aschendbrand, Jennifer Proctor and Bob Trebilcock · November 14, 2018
https://www.scmr.com/article/the_ethical_supply_chain

July 25, 2021

Moral Standards and Moral Judgments – Approaches

Velasquez discussed four approaches in his chapter “Ethical Principles in Business.”

Approach of Utilitarianism

The action that has highest net social benefit is to be undertaken when we do not have the resources for attaining everyone’s objectives. Jeremy Bentham is its proponent.

Principle of Rights

Any behavior by an individual or a group should respect the basic rights of the individual affected by the action. Special agreements also create rights.

Principle of Justice

Standards of justice indicate how benefits and burdens should be distributed among the members of a group. These standards are to be utilized when activities and benefits different substantially among members in important ways. Capitalism and Socialism differ in the principle of justice regarding duties and rewards of members of a society.

Principle of Care

Every person has some special concrete relationships with others.  He has to take care of them in preference to others or some of his own objectives. A parent has a responsibility to take care of his children even at the expense of his future or career.


References



Manuel G. Velasquez, Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall Inc., Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1998, Business Ethis by Manuel G. Velasquez - Book Information and Review

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July 20, 2021

Leadership of Business Schools


https://bized.aacsb.edu/articles/2020/september/deans-diary-first-60-days

https://bized.aacsb.edu/articles/2020/december/deans-diary-first-semester-down


What Makes a College Administrator an Effective Leader?: An Exploratory Study

Valentini Kalargyrou  &Robert (Bob) Woods

Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism 

Volume 9, 2009 - Issue 1-2

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15313220903041980



THOMAS, Howard and THOMAS, Lynne. Perspectives on Leadership in Business Schools. (2011). Journal of Management Development. 30, (5), 526-540.


Deans have to be aware of both the internal context and the external context of the business school.

Bryman's (2007) research on effective leadership in higher education stresses that in the context of school leadership, academics expect to find a range of supportive management features: the maintenance of autonomy, consultation over important decisions, the fostering of collegiality (both democratic decision making and mutual cooperation).

It is important for a dean to shape three critical and essential elements effectively in developing the business school's values, purposes and positioning. These are reflected in the academic model, the economic model and the strategic agenda.

Leaders have to balance the requirement for continuous improvement and regular day‐to‐day 
incremental changes with the occasional need to reshape the organization quickly, either when 
opportunities arise or competition and competitive forces threaten the status quo (Kets de Vries, 2006, 
McGee et al., 2010).

Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of 
the mind called imagination. And vision is needed as much as strategy to succeed.





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20 July 2021 Popular Posts of the Day - Management Theory Review Blog

Evaluating a Company’s External Environment - Summary and Key Points.

Crafting and Executing Strategy: Concepts and Readings

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com//2016/08/evaluating-companys-external.html

(12, 8, 13.12)


Understanding the Supply Chain - Review Notes.

Supply Chain Management: Review Notes Based on Chopra and Meindl's Book 

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July 19, 2021

MBA Simplified - Self Study Course - Free MBA Notes - Recommended Texts

 

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The 30 Day MBA in Marketing - Narayana Rao

1. Marketing Concept - Kotler

2. Planning in the Marketing Process

3. Marketing Strategy - Marketing Process - Kotler's Description

4. Scanning of Environment for Marketing Ideas and Decisions
Revised Article: Scanning the Marketing Macroenvironment - Philip Kotler's Book Chapter Summary

5. Marketing Strategy - Differentiating and Positioning the Market Offering

6. Management of Marketing Department and Function

7. Determinants of Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty

8. Marketing Research and Market Demand Forecasting

9. Consumer Behavior

10. Analysis of Consumer Markets

11. Organizational Buying Processes and Buying Behavior

12. Market Segmentation and Selection of Target Segments

13. Branding Strategy and Brand Equity

14. Brand Positioning

15. Analyzing Competitors

16. Strategy of Market Leader

17. Marketing Strategies for Challenger Firms

18. Competitive Strategies for Followers and Nichers

19. Managing Product Lines and Brands

20.Marketing Strategy for New Industry Products  - Marketing and New Product Development

21. Marketing Management for Service Firms

22. Pricing Strategy and Tactics

23. Marketing Channel Management – Important Issues

24. Managing Wholesaling and Retailing Network

25. Marketing Logistics

26. Integrated Marketing Communication - Kotler and Keller Chapter Summary

 Marketing Communication: Channels and Promotion Tools

 Advertising

 Sales Promotion

Marketing Public Relations

27. Sales Process and Sales Training - Sales Force Management

28. Direct Marketing

29. Online Marketing

30. Management of Marketing Department and Function






Developed by Professor K.V.S.S. Narayana Rao, Ph.D.
Professor, NITIE, India
Professor, SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, India
Senior Professor, ICFAI Business School, India

Developer of Graham - Rao Method of Analysis of Indian Stocks.

Developer of Markowitz Portfolio Analysis Method for Equity Stocks using Target Prices, Past Price Data, and Excel Software Developed by Associates of Markowitz

Provided Definition for Industrial Engineering: "Industrial Engineering is Human Effort Engineering and System Efficiency Engineering."

Organized First All India Student Equity Research Competition "Khoj" in India.

Organized First Student Presented Investor Conference in which Top 5 Indian equity share
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The plan: For each subject the core points of the chapter of a standard book are presented briefly in one page. For each chapter there is a one full page article. The textbooks used as the basis for notes are indicated. Hence the learner has multiple options. He can read one page summary, then the detailed articles on each chapter. Then buy the text indicated and read the full text. You can complete the initial reading in 30 days and get adequate understanding and appreciation of the core principles or theories, methods and tools of business management. Learning never stops in any occupation or profession. One keeps on learning as the occasion demands and also the value one gives to learning. A person who sees and experiences value in learning learns more.

1. Principles of Management

2. Marketing Management

3. Operations Management - Detailed Articles

4. Supply Chain Management - Detailed Articles

5. Financial Accounting, Cost Accounting and Management Accounting - Detailed Articles

6. Organizational Behavior - Detailed Articles

7. Innovation Management

8. Industrial Engineering - Detailed Articles

9. Economics - Detailed Articles

10. Engineering Economics - Economics of Capital Expenditures and Operating Expenditure - Detailed Articles

11, Business Ethics

12. Operations Research and Quantitative Analysis for Managerial Decisions

13. Business Research Methods

14. Human Resource Management - Detailed articles

15. Information Systems for Business Processes and Management Decisions

16. Strategic Management

17. Financial Management

18. Managerial Economics

19. Quality Management

20. Process Improvement

21. New Product - Service Development - Detailed articles


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         Human Resource Management
         Project Management
         Information Systems Management



Manufacturing Companies

         Manufacturing Management
         Industrial Engineering
         Material Handling
         Maintenance
         Warehousing and Transport
         Production Planning and Control, Supply Chain Planning, MRP and ERP
         Project Management
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Service Companies
         Service Industry Industrial Engineering
         Stock Broking
         Banking
         Insurance
         Hospital Services
         Hotel Services
         Retailing
         Educational Institution
         Political Party Management







30 Day MBA Books - Bibliography

The 30 Day MBA in Marketing
Colin Barrow
Kogan Page Publishers, 03-Jan-2016 - Business & Economics - 280 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=LfJQCwAAQBAJ






International and Global Marketing



Developing Enterprisewide or Company Wide Marketing Orientation



The 30 Day MBA: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success (Google eBook)

Colin Barrow
3rd Edition
Kogan Page Publishers, Aug 3, 2013 - 336 pages


Drawing on the twelve core disciplines of business, including business law, economics, marketing and finance, this third edition of the hugely successful The 30 Day MBA shows you to use key business concepts and tools to assess business decisions and implement strategy. Now with a new concept for each chapter - including crowdfunding, digital marketing, business incubators and the 80/20 principle - it also provides coverage of the key optional modules: Mergers and Acquisitions and International Business. New case studies include Volkswagen Group China, Google in China, IKEA, Meraki, Ocado, Ford, IBM and McDonalds among others.Including a range of free online resources that enable you to revise and test your knowledge, this bestselling classroom-free guide is brimming with models, international case studies and practical applications of key theories, placing MBA skills within reach of all professionals and students.

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The 30 Day MBA in International Business: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success (Google eBook)

Colin Barrow
Kogan Page Publishers, Aug 3, 2011 - 312 pages


As business becomes increasingly reliant on succeeding in export markets, the need for specialist knowledge in international trade is at its highest. With thorough explanations to describe the current international business environment as well as international case studies which include IKEA, J.D. Wetherspoon, Dell, Amazon and Indian car brand Tata Nano, The 30 Day MBA in International Business will boost your knowledge and help you play a more rounded role in shaping the direction of your organization. It covers all the essential elements of international trade and business, including international marketing strategy, managing international organizations and selecting global strategic partners as well as finance, accounting and human resource management. The 30 Day MBA in International Business is packed with links to free resources from the top business schools as well an online list of sources to keep you informed on all the key business issues.
Preview the book
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=0S-Ok92WrcYC


The 30 Day MBA in Business Finance: Your Fast Track Guide to Business Success (Google eBook)

Colin Barrow
Kogan Page Publishers, 2011 - 248 pages


The 30 Day MBA in Business Finance provides a complete 'course' in business finance, covering 13 key topics which fall under three main headings - the Fundamentals of Business Finance, Corporate Capital Structures and Financial Strategies and Special Topics. Learn what they teach you at the world's top accountancy firms and Business Schools and why it matters to you. With guidance on understanding financial reports, assessing the credit worthiness of business partners, determining profitable strategies, raising finance and ensuring proper records, this book contains everything you need to eliminate gaps in your financial knowledge, think like a financial strategist, move out of your disciplinary straight jacket and become a top manager.
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Marketing - Analytics, AI, Data Science and Machine Learning

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Marketing the Future: How Data Analytics Is Changing
Nov 23, 2020
Data analytics helps marketers learn about their customers with target precision, from the movies they watch on Netflix to their favorite scoop of chocolate ice cream.

[Webinar] Marketing Analytics in the Data-driven World
28 Aug 2020

Top 8 Data Science Use Cases in Marketing
2019


ABCD of Machine Learning for Marketing


Are you interested in learning how organizations are increasing sales using machine learning in an intuitive and fun way? Then this ten-part case study is for you. Enjoy learning!

Part 1: Marketing analytics and customer behavior and  psychology for starters https://lnkd.in/bax6ZCf

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Association Analysis
There are a few association analysis metrics (i.e. support, confidence, and lift) that are really helpful in deciphering information hidden in the dataset of purchases of various products.


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Classification and Regression Tree (CART)

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Part 7: Choose the best model to optimize sales https://lnkd.in/f2AFPhg

Part 8: How machines decide? Artificial neural networks for starters https://lnkd.in/f2AFPhg

Part 9: But tell me how much money I will earn by sales? Regression for starters https://lnkd.in/fcGHQbH

Part 10: Aha! Time to grow sales. https://lnkd.in/b5AYrzR

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Marketing Analytics - E-Book - McKinsey

117 pages 2015 Book
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Marketing Analytics: What it is and why it matters

Marketing Analytics Solutions from SAS

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Using marketing analytics to drive superior growth

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Book: Marketing Analytics: Strategic Models and Metrics


Stephan Sorger
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 31-Jan-2013 - Business & Economics - 488 pages

Chapter 1. Introduction - Introduction to marketing analytics
Chapter 2. Market Insight - Market sizing and trend analysis
Chapter 3. Market Segmentation - Segment identification, analysis, and strategy
Chapter 4. Competitive Analysis - Competitor identification, analysis, and strategy
Chapter 5. Business Strategy - Analytics-based strategy selection
Chapter 6. Business Operations - Forecasting, predictive analytics, and data mining
Chapter 7. Product and Service Analytics - Conjoint analysis and product/service metrics
Chapter 8. Price Analytics - Pricing techniques and assessment
Chapter 9. Distribution Analytics - Analytics-based channel evaluation and selection
Chapter 10. Promotion Analytics - Promotion budget estimation and allocation
Chapter 11. Sales Analytics - Metrics for sales, profitability, and support
Chapter 12. Analytics in Action - Pivot tables and data-driven presentations

Interview with Stephan Sorger
https://www.regalix.com/insights/future-business-age-marketing-analytics/

http://www.stephansorger.com/blog.html

https://voices.berkeley.edu/business/unlocking-marketing-data-analytics

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Digital Marketing Analytics: Making Sense of Consumer Data
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Handbook of Marketing Analytics: Methods and Applications
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Predictive Analytics for Marketers: Using Data Mining
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A to Z of Management: Articles, Books, Concepts, Faculty, Research


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Business Conceptualization (Insights from Economics, Engineering Economics, Managerial Economics, Industrial Economics)
Business Ethics – Introduction






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ICFAI University - Operations Management - Syllabus and Notes


Browse  Online MBA Management Theory Handbook



Operations Management - ICFAI University 2020 Syllabus

 

Operations Management - An Overview: 

Operations Management Decisions - Historical Evolution of Operations Management: Scientific Management, Moving Assembly Line, Hawthorne Studies, Operations Research - Computers and Advanced Operations Technology.

 Introduction to the Field


Operations Strategy: Operations Strategy as a Competitive Weapon: 

Shorter Product life cycle, production flexibility, Low cost process, Convenience and location, product variety and facility size, quality. 

Elements of Operations Strategy: Designing the Production System, Product/service Design and Development, Technology Selection and Process Development, Allocation of Resources to Strategic Alternatives, Facility Planning.

Developing an Operations Strategy.

Operations Strategy and Competitiveness


Forecasting Demand: 

Forecasting in Operations - Forecasting Methods - Qualitative  Method, Delphi Method, Nominal Group Technique, Time-series Methods: Simple Moving Average, Weighted Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing, Causal Quantitative Methods - Linear Regression - Selecting a Forecasting system: Time span, Data availability, Cost and Accuracy - Measures of Forecasting Accuracy: Mean Absolute Deviation, Mean Square Error, Mean Forecast Error, Mean Absolute Percentage Error, Tracking signal - Monitoring and Controlling Forecasts.

Forecasting


Allocating Resources to Strategic Alternatives:  

Allocation Decisions in Operations Strategy: Components of Constrained Optimization Models, Merits and Demerits of Constrained Optimization Models - Linear Programming in Operations Management : Assumptions of Linear Programming, Characteristics of Linear Programming - Formulation of Linear Programming Problems: Identify the decision variables, Define the objective function, Identify and express relevant constraints- Solution of Linear Programming Problems: Graphical Method, Simplex Method – The Transportation problem in linear programming : North-west corner method, Least cost method, Vogel's approximation method, Stepping stone method.

Optimizing the Use of Resources with Linear Programming - Review Notes


Design of Production Processes: 

Process Planning and Design - Major Factors Affecting Process Design Decisions: Nature of Demand, Degree of Vertical Integration, Flexibility, Degree of Automation, Quality Level and Degree of Customer Contact - Types of Process Designs:  Product Focused, Process Focused, Group Technology - Process Planning Aids: Assembly Charts, Process Charts - Selecting the Type of Process Design -Variety and Volume, Investment, Economic analysis.

Job Design and Work Measurement
Product Design and Process Selection—Manufacturing
Facility Layout
Product Design and Process Selection—Services
Waiting Line Management

Process Analysis


Facility Location and Layout: 

Importance of Location – Factors affecting the location decision: market proximity, Integration with other Parts of the Organization, Availability of Labor and Skills, Site Cost, Availability of Amenities, Availability of Transportation Facilities, Availability of Inputs, Availability of Services, Suitability of Land and Climate, Regional Regulations, Room for Expansion, Safety Requirements, Political, Cultural and Economic Situation, Regional Taxes, Special Grants and Import / Export Barriers - General Steps in Location Selection and Location Decision Process: Define the Location Objectives and Associated Constraints, Identify the Relevant Decision Criteria, Relate the Objectives to the Criteria Using Appropriate Models, Do Field Research to Relevant Data and Use the Models to Evaluate the Alternative Locations, Select the Location that Best Satisfies the Criteria - Location Evaluation Methods: Cost-profit-volume or Break-even analysis, point rating method, The transportation method of linear programming -  Facility Layout: Criteria for good layout - Basic Layout Formats: Process layout, Product layout, Group technology layout, Fixed position layout, Hybrid layout - Developing a Process Layout: Graphic and Schematic analysis, Computer Models-CRAFT, Load distance model - Developing a Product Layout: Line balancing, Steps in assembly line balancing, Mixed-model line balancing - Developing A Cellular Manufacturing Layout - Japanese Approaches and Trends in Manufacturing Layouts - Service Facility Layouts.

Facility Layout


Aggregate Planning: 

Overview of Planning Activities: business planning, operational planning- The aggregate planning process: Concept of Aggregation, Aggregate Planning Goals, Forecasts of Aggregate Demand, Inter Relationships Among Decisions - Strategies for Aggregate Planning: Pure Planning Strategies-Aggregate planning Techniques: Graphical Method for Aggregate Output Planning, Optimal Models for Aggregate Planning, Heuristic models, Computer search models, computer simulation in capacity evaluation - Master production Schedule: master production scheduling, Master schedule formation - Implementing aggregate plans and master schedules: Unplanned events, Behavioral considerations-Capacity planning.

 Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning


Fundamentals of Inventory Control: 

Purpose of Inventories: Smooth production, better service to customers, protection against business uncertainties, Take advantage of quantity discount - Inventory Costs – Purchase costs, Carrying Costs, Ordering Costs, Stock-Out Costs - Inventory Systems - Fixed Order Quantity System, Fixed Order Period System - Economic Order Quantity Model – Reorder Point, Optimal Order Quantity


Purchase Management: 

Importance of Purchasing: Impact of Costs on Profits, Increasing Prominence of Automated manufacturing, Increased Global Competition - Organizing Purchasing – Responsibilities of Purchase Manager - Vendor Development, Selection of Suppliers, Contract Negotiation and Communication Interface, Value analysis- Purchasing Process - Duties of Buyers - Make-or-Buy Analysis - Ethics in Buying


Job Design: 

Design fundamentals: Objectives of Job Design, Technical Feasibility, Economic Feasibility, Behavioral Feasibility - Considerations in Job Design: Job Content, Specialization -Work Environment: Tools and Equipment, Atmosphere, Worker Motivation - Uses of Job Design -Job Analysis, Job Description

Job Design and Work Measurement

Work Measurement: 

Uses of Setting Work Standards - Work Measurement Techniques:  Time Study, Standard Data, Predetermined Motion Time study, Work Sampling, Historical Analysis, Employee Self Timing - Compensation


Recent Trends in Operations – Technology: 

Automation: Advantages and disadvantages of automation - Overview of Manufacturing Activities - Automation in Engineering Design and Support, Computer Aided Design-Automation in Controlling Processing Equipment: Computer Aided Manufacturing, Flexible Manufacturing System, Computer Integrated Manufacturing - Artificial Intelligence: Expert Systems, Robotics - Electronic Data Interchange


Materials Management: 

Necessity of Materials Management - Functions of Materials Management: Production Control, Inventory Control, Materials Handling - Materials Management Technology – Robots, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems, Automated guided vehicles - Materials Management Techniques: JIT Purchasing, Kanban Systems, ABC Classification Systems.


Inventory Management: 

Dependent Demand: Fundamentals of Materials Requirement Planning: Objectives of MRP: Improved customer service, reduced investment in inventory, Improved operating efficiency, faster response to market change - Components of an MRP system: MRP system inputs, MRP system information processing, MRP system outputs- Advantages and disadvantages of MRP system - Problems in implementing MRP systems: Inadequate employee training and involvement, Use of inaccurate and obsolete data, inappropriate product environment - Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II)

Inventory management


Enterprise Resource Planning: 

Evolution of ERP – Business Process Reengineering: BPR and IT – Business Modeling for ERP: Integrated data model - ERP Implementation: ERP implementation methodology - Guidelines for ERP implementation: Define corporate needs and culture, complete business process change, communication across the organization, provide strong leadership, select a balanced team, select a good method of implementation, organization wide training – ERP and competitive advantages: price, delivery reliability and speed, quality, product range

Resource Planning


Supply Chain Management: 

Business Drivers in Supply Chain Management: Inventory, Transportation, facilities, information - Principles of Supply Chain: segment customers based on service needs, Customize the logistic network, Plan based on market demand, Enhance ability to meet customer requirements, Improve relationships with the suppliers, have a supply chain wide technology strategy, devise a complete supply chain performance measure- Forces shaping supply chain management: consumer demand, globalization, Competition, Information and communication, Government regulation, Environment- Supply Chain Management Framework: The seven SCM components, The six SCM enablers – Customer Focus in Supply Chain Management: Demand Chains A focus on end users, Broad trends and misconceptions, creating the demand chains of the future - Electronic Supply Chain Management: ESCM advantages, ESCM Implementation

 MANAGING SUPPLY CHAINS

 Supply Chain Design

Supply Chain Logistic Networks

 Supply Chain Integration

 Supply Chain Sustainability


Operations Scheduling: 

Purpose of Scheduling - Scheduling methods: Forward scheduling, Backward scheduling - Scheduling Activities: Routing, Loading, Dispatching - Scheduling by Type of Operations: Job operations, Repetitive operations, Labor intensive operations, Service operations- - Scheduling techniques: Gantt charts, Johnson’s job sequencing rules, Queuing analysis, Critical ratio method.

Operations Scheduling

Just-In-Time Manufacturing: 

The Concept of the JIT:  People Involvement, Teamwork,  Discipline, Supplier Involvement, Total Quality Control, Concept of immediate customer - Advantages of JIT systems – Characteristics of JIT systems: uniform workstation loads, small lot sizes, closer supplier ties, maintaining high quality, Quick and economic setups, Flexible facilities and Multi-skilled Workforce,  preventive maintenance, Continuous improvement.

 Just-in-Time and Lean Systems


Quality Management: 

Strategic Role of Quality: Performance, features, Reliability, Conformance, Durability, Serviceability, Aesthetics, Perceived quality-Role of Inspection in Quality Control - The Cost of Quality: Cost of prevention, Cost of detection/appraisal, Cost of failure – Statistical Concepts in Quality Control: Control charts, Essential steps in starting a control chart, Control charts for variables, Control charts for attributes, Acceptance plans – Computers in Quality Control - Concept of TQM.

 Quality and Performance

Total Quality Management: Focus on Six Sigma
Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control

Maintenance Management: 

Necessity of Maintenance Management: Impact of poor maintenance, Area of maintenance - Types of maintenance - Preventive maintenance, Predictive maintenance, Remedial maintenance- Economies of maintenance - Modern approaches to preventive maintenance – Evaluation of preventive maintenance - Recent trends in maintenance


Project Management: 

Necessity of Project Management - Network based scheduling techniques: Advantages of network scheduling - Networking conventions: Activity-On-Node, Activity- On-Arrow - Networking terminology - Project management methods: Program evaluation and Review Technique, Cautions regarding PERT, Advantages and disadvantages of PERT - Phased PERT/CPM: Project planning and sequencing, Time estimating and critical path, project scheduling, Reporting and updating – Project crashing

Project Management


Operations in Global Business Strategy: 

Significance of Globalization - Sources of global competitive advantage: Comparative advantages, Economies of scale, Proprietary product technology - Difficulties in managing globalization: Economic impediments, Managerial impediments, Institutional impediments, Trade-offs in globalization – Operations strategy changes necessary for globalization: Selection of markets, Product development and technology choice, Allocation of resources- Managing Globalization: Changing the organization's structure, Changing manager's attitude, Developing core competencies for global learning – Operations in Global Business Strategy: Management and Organization, Facilities, Capacity, Technology, Innovation, Integration, Workforce, Procedures Planning




Operations Management - Krajewski  et al. Book- 12th Edition - Chapter Summaries


Important Points - Summary


Chapters



1. Using Operations to Create Value

Supplement A: Decision Making



PART I: MANAGING PROCESSES

2. Process Strategy and Analysis

3. Quality and Performance

4. Capacity Planning

Supplement B: Waiting Lines

5. Constraint Management

6. Lean Systems

7. Project Management



PART II: MANAGING CUSTOMER DEMAND

8. Forecasting

9. Inventory management

Supplement C: Special Inventory Models

10. Operations Planning and Scheduling

Supplement D: Linear Programming

11. Resource Planning



PART III: MANAGING SUPPLY CHAINS

12. Supply Chain Design

13. Supply Chain Logistic Networks

14. Supply Chain Integration

15. Supply Chain Sustainability



Operations Management for Competitive Advantage

Richard B. Chase, University of Southern California
F. Robert Jacobs, Indiana University–Bloomington
Nicholas J. Aquilano, University of Arizona
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0072506369
Copyright year: 2004


Review Notes for Quick Revision of the chapters in the Operations Management Text. 





SECTION ONE: OPERATIONS STRATEGY AND MANAGING CHANGE

1. Introduction to the Field
2. Operations Strategy and Competitiveness
Technical note 2 Learning Curves
3. Project Management

SECTION TWO: PRODUCT DESIGN AND PROCESS SELECTION

4. Process Analysis
Technical note 4 Job Design and Work Measurement
5. Product Design and Process Selection—Manufacturing
Technical note 5 Facility Layout
6. Product Design and Process Selection—Services
Technical note 6 Waiting Line Management
7. Total Quality Management: Focus on Six Sigma
Technical note 7 Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control
8. Operations Consulting and Reengineering

SECTION THREE: SUPPLY CHAIN DESIGN
(Managerial Briefing Electronic Commerce and E-Ops©)

9. Supply Chain Strategy
10. Strategic Capacity Management
Technical note 10 Facility Location
11. Just-in-Time and Lean Systems

SECTION FOUR: PLANNING AND CONTROLLING THE SUPPLY CHAIN
(Managerial Briefing Enterprise Resource Planning Systems)

12. Forecasting
13. Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
14. Inventory Control
15. Material Requirements Planning
16. Operations Scheduling
Technical note 16 Simulation
17. Synchronous Manufacturing and Theory of Constraints

SUPPLEMENTS


B. Financial Analysis
C. Operations Technology

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Online MBA Management Theory Handbook - Narayana Rao


Managerial Excellence - Customer Acceptance of the Product. Payment. Expected Profit Realization by the Company. Effectiveness and Efficiency Synthesis. - Narayana Rao


Online MBA Management Theory Handbook - Narayana Rao


The online handbook is composed of  articles which are summaries of leading textbooks on management theory. Click on each link to read the article.


Principles of Management



Development of Management Subject. Theory of Management developed over a long a period of time with periodic quantum jumps in thinking.
Scientific Management/Shop Management - F.W. Taylor Introduction
Taylor - Narayana Rao Principles of Industrial Engineering


Industrial Management and General Management - Henri Fayol
Importance of Human Relations in Management - Elton Mayo and Rothelisberger (Insights from Psychology)

Organization as a Social Group (Insights of Sociologists)
Mathematical Models and Their Optimization

Control of Variation in Inputs and Outputs (Insights from Statistics)
Systems Approach in Management

Business Conceptualization (Insights from Economics, Engineering Economics, Managerial Economics, Industrial Economics)
Peter Drucker - Business Organization - Economic Function - Social Responsibility

Global and Comparative Management
Management: Definition and Process

Process and Functions of Management -

The Nature and Purpose of Planning - Review Notes
Objectives and Goals - Review Notes

Strategies, Policies, and Planning Premises - Review Notes
Business Firm and Society - The External Environment, Social Responsibility and Ethics - Review Notes

Decision Making - Review Notes  -
Summary - Principles of Planning

The Nature of Organizing - Review Notes
Departmentation in Organizations - Review Notes

Line-Staff Authority and Decentralization - Review Notes
Effective Organizing and Organizational Culture - Review Notes

Summary - Principles - Organizing
Human Resource Management and Selection

Performance Appraisal and Career Strategy
Manager and Organization Development

Summary - Principles - Staffing
Resourcing; A Function of Management

Human Factors and Motivation
Leadership - Koontz and O'Donnell - Review Notes

Supervision - Introduction - Public Administration Point of View
Committees and Group Decision Making - Review Notes

Communication - Koontz and O'Donnell - Review Notes
Summary of Principles - Directing - Leading

The System and Process of Controlling - Review Notes
Control Techniques and Information Technology

Productivity Control
Overall Control and Preventive Control - Review Notes

Summary - Principles of Controlling
Global and Comparative Management

Organizing - Global Management Issues - Review Notes
Staffing - Global Management Issues

Leading - Global Management Challenges
Controlling - Global Management Challenges - Review Notes

Management and Entrepreneurship: Science, Theory and Practice
Managerial Skills

Principles of Management - List
Principles of Management - Subject Update Articles Recent Years




Marketing Management 


The Marketing Concept Kotler
Marketing Strategy - Marketing Process - Kotler's Description

Scanning of Environment for Marketing Ideas and Decisions
Marketing Strategy - Differentiating and Positioning the Market Offering

Management of Marketing Department and Function
Marketing Research and Market Demand Forecasting

Consumer Behavior
Analysis of Consumer Markets

Organizational Buying Processes and Buying Behavior
Market Segmentation and Selection of Target Segments

Analyzing Competitors
Strategy of Market Leader

Marketing Strategies for Challenger Firms 
Competitive Strategies for Followers and Nichers

Managing Product Lines and Brands
Marketing Strategy for New Industry Products

Marketing Management for Service Firms
Pricing Strategy and Tactics 

Marketing Channel Management – Important Issues
Managing Wholesaling and Retailing Network

Marketing Communication: Channels and Promotion Tools
Advertising

Sales Promotion 
Marketing Public Relations

Sales Process and Sales Training
Direct Marketing

Online Marketing
Marketing and New Product Development

International and Global Marketing
Sales Force Management

Developing Enterprisewide or Company Wide Marketing Orientation
Management of Marketing Department and Function

Operations Management  


Introduction to the Field of Operations Management
Operations Strategy and Competitiveness - Review Notes

Optimizing the Use of Resources with Linear Programming
Learning Curves - Review Notes

Operations Project Management
Product Design - Review Notes

Process Analysis - Operations Management
Manufacturing Process Selection and Design

Facility Layout - Review Notes
Product Design and Process Selection—Services

Total Quality Management: and Six Sigma - Process Capability and Statistical Quality Control
Operations Consulting and Reengineering

Supply-Chain Strategy - Review Notes
Strategic Capacity Management

Just-in-Time and Lean Systems - Review Notes
Forecasting - Operations Management Review Notes

Aggregate Sales and Operations Planning
Inventory Control - Review Notes

Material Requirements Planning - Review Notes
Operations Scheduling - Review Notes

Financial Analysis - Review Notes
Operations Technology - Review Notes

Supply Chain Management


Understanding the Supply Chain
Supply Chain Performance: Achieving Strategic Fit

Supply Chain Drivers and Obstacles - Review Notes
Designing the Distribution Network in a Supply Chain

Facility Decisions: Network Design in the Supply Chain
Network Design in an Uncertain Environment

Demand Forecasting in a Supply Chain
Aggregate Planning in the Supply Chain - Review Notes

Planning Supply and Demand in the Supply Chain
Managing Economies of Scale in the Supply Chain

Managing Uncertainty in the Supply Chain: Safety Inventory
Determining Optimal Level of Product Availability

Sourcing Decisions in a Supply Chain
Transportation in the Supply Chain - Chopra and Meindl

Pricing and Revenue Management in the Supply Chain
Coordination in the Supply Chain - Review Notes

Information Technology and the Supply Chain
e-business and the Supply Chain


Financial Accounting


Accounting: The Language of Business
Recording Transactions - Review Notes

Accrual Accounting  - Revision
Measuring Income to Assess Performance and Balance Sheet - Review Notes

Accounting for Sales - Review Notes
Inventories and Cost of Goods Sold - Review Notes

Long-Lived Assets and Depreciation - Review Notes
Liabilities and Interest - Review Notes

Statement of Cash Flows - Review Notes
Financial Statement Analysis - Review Notes

Cost Accounting


Role of Costing and Cost Accounting in the Organizations
Introduction to Cost Terms - Review Notes

Traditional Cost Objectives and Their Utility
Job Costing - Review Notes

Activity-Based Costing and Activity-Based Budgeting
Process Costing - Review Notes


Cost Information for Pricing Decisions
Cost Behavior Analysis and Relevant Costs

Costing for Strategic Profitability Analysis
Cost Information for Customer Profitability Analysis

Costing for Spoilage, Rework and Scrap
Costing for Quality, Time and the Theory of Constraints

Costing for Inventory Management, JIT and Backflush
Cost Information and Analysis for Capital Budgeting

Cost Information for Management Control and Performance Control
Cost Information for Transfer Pricing

Managerial Accounting or Management Accounting - Review Notes
Relevant Information and Decision Making - Marketing Decisions

Relevant Information and Decision Making - Production
Relevant Information and Decision Making - HR

The Master Budget - Accounting Information
Flexible Budgets and Variance Analysis - Review Notes

Responsibility Accounting for Management Control
Accounting Information for Management Control in Divisionalized Companies

Capital Budgeting - Accounting and Cost Information


Organizational Behavior


Introduction to Organizational Behavior

Environmental context: Information Technology and Globalization
Environmental context: Diversity and Ethics

Organizational Context: Design and Culture
Organizational Context:: Reward Systems

Perception and Attribution
Personality and Attitudes

Motivational Needs and Processes
Positive Psychology Approach to OB

Communication
Decision Making

Stress and Conflict
Power and Politics

Groups and Teams
Managing Performance through Job Design and Goal Setting

Industrial Engineering, Productivity and Cost Management


Industrial Engineering assists managers in achieving the second important performance dimension of management - Efficiency. Effectiveness is the first dimension. Industrial engineering has its primary focus engineering activities, processes and organizations. The principles and practices developed in this subject have application in non-engineering areas. Managers have to be aware of basics of industrial engineering and recent developments. Even service sector organizations have engineering activities like construction and maintenance of buildings, operation and maintenance of transport facilities, information technology operations etc.

Industrial Engineering Introduction
Industrial engineering Principles, Methods Tools and Techniques

Functions and Focus Areas of Industrial Engineering
Pioneering Efforts of Taylor, Gilbreth and Emerson

Motion Study - Human Effort Engineering
Ergonomics - Introduction

Industrial Engineering Data and Measurements
Work Measurement

Methods Efficiency Engineering
Product Design Efficiency Engineering

Plant Layout - Efficiency
Value Engineering - Introduction

Statistical Quality Control – Industrial Engineering
Inspection Methods Efficiency Engineering

Operations Research - An Efficiency Improvement Tool for Industrial Engineers
Engineering Economics is an Efficiency Improvement Tool for Industrial Engineers

Industrial Engineering and Scientific Management in Japan
Shigeo Shingo - The Japanese Industrial Engineer

System Engineering Process and Its Management
Systems Improvement Process

Systems Installation - Installing Proposed Methods
Productivity, Safety, Comfort, and Operator Health Management

Organizing for Industrial Engineering: Historical Evolution of Thinking
Current Research in IE

Managing Change in Improvement Projects - Comfort Zone to Comfort Zone
Supply Chain Cost Reduction

Total Improvement Management
Total Industrial Engineering - H. Yamashina

Opportunities or Areas for Innovation
Market Development for New Products, Processes and System

Organizing for Innovation
Research and Development Management
http://www.wzl.rwth-aachen.de/en/080d8d8c949a1ac0c1256f190035d886/pm_i_eng_v2.pdf

All About Lean - Professor Christoph Roser


Standards Part 1: What Are Standards?

Standards Part 2: Why and Where to Do Standards

Economics for Managers - Managerial Economics


Introduction to Economics - Basic Economic Concepts and Theories
Elements of Supply and Demand - Review Notes

Theory of Aggregate Supply and Demand
Business Cycles

Macroeconomic Objectives
Money and Monetary Policy

Fiscal and Debt Policies of the Government
Theory Demand, Supply and Equilibrium in Market

Economic Theory of Production and Production Cost
Economic Analysis of Different Competitive Conditions.

Wages and the Labor Market - Samuelson and Nordhaus 

Capital, Interest and Profits - Review Notes
Theory of Economic Growth

International Trade Theory and Issues
Exchange Rates: Markets Regulation and International Financial System

Supply Behavior/Decisions of Firm in Competitive Markets
Introduction to Engineering Economics

Engineering Economy or Engineering Economics: Economic Decision Making by Engineers
Time Value of Money - Time Value of Money Calculations

Cash Flow Estimation for Expenditure Proposals
Required Rate of Return - Cost of Capital  - Required Rate of Return for Investment or Expenditure Proposal..

Depreciation and Other Related Issues
NPV - IRR and Other Summary Project Assessment Measures

Income Expansion Projects
Cost Reduction Projects

Replacement Decisons
Expected Values and Risk of Project Revenues and Costs

Present-Worth Comparisons
Rate-of-Return Calculations

Equivalent Annual-Worth Comparisons
Replacement Analysis



Business Ethics


Business Ethics – Introduction
Moral Standards and Moral Judgments – Approaches

Business System - Free Markets - Ethics
Ethics in the Market Place and Distribution System


Product Development & Design Management


1. Introduction - Product Design and Development
2. Product Development Process
3. Product Planning
4. Identifying Customer Needs for Product Development


Statistics


Basics of Statistics
http://bobhall.tamu.edu/FiniteMath/Module8/Introduction.html

Statistical Process Control
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section1/pmc12.htm
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section3/pmc3.htm

Statistical Quality Control
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmc/section2/pmc2.htm

Test of Hypothesis
http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/hypothesis/Introduction.html

HYPOTHESIS TESTING FOR THE PROCESS CAPABILITY RATIO - 2002 MS Thesis
https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file%3Faccession%3Dohiou1040054409%26disposition%3Dinline


Design of Experiments
http://asq.org/learn-about-quality/data-collection-analysis-tools/overview/design-of-experiments-tutorial.html

http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/pmd/section3/pmd31.htm

http://www.intechopen.com/books/quality-management-and-six-sigma/six-sigma

http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2014/05/six-sigma-introduction.html

Application of Six Sigma
http://www.intechopen.com/books/six-sigma-projects-and-personal-experiences/5-successful-projects-from-the-application-of-six-sigma-methodology


Operations Research


PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATIONS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Jayant Rajgopal
http://www.pitt.edu/~jrclass/or/or-intro.html


What is mathematical programming?
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted/files/ie316/lectures/Lecture1.pdf
Examples of Mathematical Programming.
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted/files/ie316/lectures/Lecture2.pdf

Simplex Method
http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/classes/QUANT/NOTES/chap7.pdf

Transportation Problem
http://orms.pef.czu.cz/text/transProblem.html

Queing Models
http://orms.pef.czu.cz/text/QueTeory/QueuingModels.html

Simulation
http://orms.pef.czu.cz/text/NolinearProgramming/simulation.html

Human Resource Management


Strategic Human Resource Management in a Changing Environment
The Role of Globalization in HR Policy and Practice - Review notes

The Legal Environment of HRM: Equal Employment Opportunity - Review Notes
Work Analysis and Design - Review Notes

Human Resource Planning and Recruitment - Review Notes
Personnel Selection - Review Notes

Performance Management and Appraisal - Review Notes
Training and Development - Review Notes

Career Development - Review Notes
Compensation: Base Pay and Fringe Benefits - Review Notes

Pay for Performance - Review Notes
Managing the Employment Relationship - Review Notes

Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining - Review Notes
Employee Health and Safety - Review Notes

Training and Development


Energy Management and Energy Industrial Engineering
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2019/09/energy-management.html

Energy‐efficiency policy opportunities for electric motor‐driven systems
OECD-IEA Paper 2011
http://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/ee_for_electricsystemssum.pdf

Environmental Protection : Challenges
http://www.devalt.org/newsletter/jun01/lead.htm

Corporate Environmental Management Practices - OECD Survey
https://www.oecd.org/industry/inv/corporateresponsibility/18269204.pdf

Sustainability Management - Bayer AG
http://www.bayer.com/en/sustainability-management.aspx

Information Systems Management


Principles of Information Systems - Ralph M. Stair and George W. Reynolds
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2015/10/principles-of-information-systems-ralph.html

An Introduction to Information Systems

Foundations of Information Sytems
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/introduction.pdf

E-Business
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/E_Business.pdf


Competitive advantage with information systems
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/CA.pdf

IT Infrastructure
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/ITI.pdf

Communication and Networking
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/CN.pdf

Improving decision making and managing knowledge
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/IDM.pdf

Enterprise Applications
http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csajaykr/EAP.pdf

Economics of Information Technology - Hal Varian
people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/mattioli/mattioli.pdf

Strategic Management


What is Strategy - Review Notes
The Strategic Management Process - Review Notes

Analysis of Firm's External Environment for Strategy Making



Corporate Culture and Leadership - Keys to Effective Strategy Execution - Review Notes

Value stream management for lean companies, Part I. 
Baggaley, B. and B. Maskell. 2003. ,Journal of Cost Management (March/April): 23-27.
https://maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumBaggaleyMaskell03(1).htm

Value stream management for lean companies, Part II.
Baggaley, B. and B. Maskell. 2003.,  Journal of Cost Management (May/June): 24-30.
https://maaw.info/ArticleSummaries/ArtSumBaggaleyMaskell03(2).htm


Financial Management


An Overview of Financial Management - Introduction to Financial Management of Companies
Financial Markets and Institutions

Financial Statements and Taxes
Financial Statement Analysis for Financial Decision Making

Time Value of Money
Determination of Interest Rates in Financial Markets

Bond Valuation
Risk and Rates of Return on Financial Assets


Valuation of Common Stock and Preferred Stock
Cost of Equity and Debt Capital

Capital Assets - Projects - Proposals Appraisal
Capital Budgeting and Risk Analysis of Projects

Capital Structure and Leverage
Dividend Policy

Working Capital Management
Financial Management of Inventory

Management of Investment in Accounts Receivable
Management of Cash and Marketable Securities

Long Term Finance for Companies - USA
Financial Management Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions

Role of Finance Managers in Enterprise Risk Management
International Finance and Financial Management in Multinational Company


Business Laws


Business Law - USA
https://www.sba.gov/category/navigation-structure/starting-managing-business/starting-business/business-law-regulations


Advertising and Marketing Law
https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/learn-about-business-laws/advertising-marketing-law

Employment and Labor Law
https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/learn-about-business-laws/employment-labor-law

Finance Law
https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/learn-about-business-laws/finance-law

Online Business Law
https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/learn-about-business-laws/online-business-law

Regulation of Financial Contracts
https://www.sba.gov/starting-business/learn-about-business-laws/regulation-financial-contracts


Business Taxes - USA
https://www.irs.gov/Businesses


Small Business Tax Center
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed

Large Business and International Tax Center
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/large-business-and-international-tax-center

Deducting Business Expenses
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/deducting-business-expenses

Excise Tax
https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/excise-tax



Negotiation Related Knowledge

Negotiations - Knowledge, Research and Skills
http://nraomtr.blogspot.com/2017/12/negotiations-knowledge-research-and.html


Six Surprising Negotiation Tactics That Get You The Best Deal
http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2013/12/05/six-surprising-negotiation-tactics-that-get-you-the-best-deal/
(Based on Wharton Professor Adam Grant's Book Give and Take

7 Negotiation Techniques Every Small Business Owner Should Know
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/30/negotiating-tips-small-business_n_4058588.html


10 Techniques for Better Negotiation
http://www.startupnation.com/articles/10-techniques-for-better-negotiation/

Archive - Program on Negotiation - Harvard Law School
http://www.pon.harvard.edu/tag/negotiation-techniques/


http://www.pon.harvard.edu/daily/dealmaking-daily/negotiation-skills-and-negotiation-techniques-predicting-negotiator-decisions-and-behavior/

Negotation Techniques - An Introduction
http://web.mit.edu/negotiation/www/NTintro.html


Ten Tips to Convince Buyer to Pay More
http://www.negotiationbootcamp.com/NegotiationArticles/TipsForPriceNegotiation.html

Principled versus Positional Negotiation for Purchasing Professionals
79th Annual International ISM Conference Proceedings - 1994 - Atlanta, GA
https://www.instituteforsupplymanagement.org/pubs/Proceedings/confproceedingsdetail.cfm?ItemNumber=5205&SSO=1

Subject Updates


Digital Transformation of Business and Industrial Organizations 

Marketing Management

Operations Management

2020 Articles and Papers


Are Our Management Theories Outdated? by Gianpiero Petriglieri
HBR, June 18, 2020
https://hbr.org/2020/06/are-our-management-theories-outdated

Cost management in the banking industry: Strategies for improving cost efficiency
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/financial-services/articles/cost-management-banking-industry.html


How Cost Management Needs to ‘Save to Transform’
Oct 08, 2019
https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-cost-management-is-changing/

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