One of the best “classic” operations management books is Operations Management by Jay Heizer and Barry Render. It’s widely utilised in MBA programs worldwide, and it’s one of the most commonly mentioned OM books. This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in applying operations management tools and approaches.
The Goal: A Process Of Ongoing Improvement
The Goal, a captivating novel written in a fast-paced thriller format, is changing management thought worldwide. It’s a book you should suggest to your colleagues - even your bosses - but not to your competition. Alex Rogo is a frazzled plant manager who is working harder than ever to enhance productivity. His factory is on the verge of collapse. His marriage is also in trouble. He has ninety days to preserve his plant, or corporate headquarters will close it, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs. It takes a fortuitous meeting with a professor from his student days, Jonah, to help him break free from traditional thinking and recognise what needs to be done.
Execution: The Discipline Of Getting Things Done
When it was first published in 2002, Execution revolutionized how we did our work. It assisted thousands of business professionals in making the final jump to success by analyzing the discipline of getting things done. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan have reframed their inspiring message for a world where the old norms have been shattered, and dramatic change has become the norm. In the not-too-distant future: - The rate of growth will be slower. The company that performs successfully, on the other hand, will have the confidence, speed, and resources to act quickly when new possibilities arise. - Competition will be fiercer, with businesses looking for every potential advantage. - Governments will play new roles in their respective economies.
Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make The Leap…, And Others Don’t
Collins and his research team found a group of exceptional organisations that made the leap to great outcomes and maintained that performance for at least fifteen years, using strict benchmarks. How fantastic is that? Following the transformation, the good-to-great companies generated cumulative stock returns that outperformed the general stock market by an average of seven times in fifteen years, outperforming a composite index of the world’s most significant companies, such as Coca-Cola, Intel, General Electric, and Merck, by more than twice.
Reengineering The Corporation: A Manifesto For Business Revolution
Reengineering the Corporation, the most popular business book of the previous decade is a groundbreaking study on the essential topic in business today: obtaining substantial performance gains. This book walks readers through the process of completely overhauling a company’s operations, organisation, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.
Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and altered their seminal book for the New Economy they helped to birth, vowing to help businesses save hundreds of millions of dollars more, improve customer satisfaction even more, and become even more flexible in the years ahead.
Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition Is Reshaping Global Markets
Today, time is the most valuable commodity. Time, in fact, is the strategic equal of money, productivity, quality, and even creativity, argue George Stalk, Jr. and Thomas M. Hout. The authors claim that the ways successful firms manage time—in production, new product development, and sales and distribution—represent the most significant new sources of competitive advantage in this groundbreaking book based on 10 years of study.