Change is inevitable, but, poorly handled, can spell disaster. A bold new vision for imple­mentation of new strategies and processes call for an understanding of what is to be changed, based on The Diamond Principle. The Diamond Principle, briefly, is that the people who actually do the work in question need to be consulted before the work is changed, or a new pro­cess is implemented. There is a knowledge diamond in most organizations that will show you where to get the information you need for success in change management. This book will show where to look for the information, how to get it when you find it, and how to implement changes with a view toward success. Written in a conversational style that is easy to follow, examples both good and bad are analyzed to determine what did and did not work, and how implementation of the principles in this book were used to effectuate better performance (or not used, to ruin performance).

Explore the Five Simple Rules that have led over 50 companies to achieve their goals. The Diamond Principle gives you a specific roadmap on how to produce immediate and sustainable results for your company. Not just theory, this book is chock full of proven tools that will assist your executive team. The success stories within these pages show how CEO's have improved their company's competitive position, increased employees' and strengthened the customer relationship. satisfaction when decisions companies make do not produce the desired outcomes they violated one or more of five simple rules to achieving results. The rules are explained through the stories of where they were applied in over 50 large and small companies in a variety of industries. A sampling of the tools contained in the book are: - The "Chalk Talk" a powerful approach to getting started. - All-inclusive references to ensure no ideas fall through the cracks. - A "cookbook" of recipes to go along with the submitted management concepts. - How to create Action Plans that are practical and doable for any company. Not only will you see how the Diamond Principle works, but you can also read amazing stories of companies; who have competitively advanced with the Five Rules presented in this book. Take the first step with your company to explore the many facets of The Diamond Principle. Engage your management, employees and customers to achieve measurable results like so many others have done. The Diamond Principle rules gives you timely hands-on solutions to some of the greatest problems companies are facing today. Stories of success from the application of the Diamond Principle rules in aligning management decision-making teams, employees and customers to accelerate better communication and increase the bottom-line will give you action.

Through this book, practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. The critical role that supply chain planning contributes to a firm’s financial well-being has never been greater. All too often, however, considerable managerial resources are directed toward planning activities with minimal results. In this book, we present proven, practical management frameworks used by the authors to support supply chain operations management and planning in private industry. These frameworks provide methodologies for managing critical activities such as supply chain strategic planning and project selection, manufacturing and distribution planning, performance measurement, supply chain risk management, and customer logistics and inventory deployment. This book is intended for supply chain professionals, as well as for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Practitioners will obtain valuable new insights and examples of implementable frameworks and methods for managing their supply chain functions and organizations. Students will develop an understanding of real-world approaches for supply chain planning, decision support, and many other key activities.

This book discusses an emerging field of decision science that focuses on business processes and systems used to extract knowledge from large volumes of data to provide significant insights for crucial decisions in critical situations. It presents studies employing computing techniques like machine learning, which explore decision-making for cross-platforms that contain heterogeneous data associated with complex assets, leadership, and team coordination. It also reveals the advantages of using decision sciences with management-oriented problems. The book includes a selection of the best papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Decision Science and Management (ICDSM 2019), held at Hunan International Economics University, China, on 20–21 September 2019.

New edition of book which is a course text in woodland conservation and management. The text has been updated throughout and has a major new chapter dealing with developments in conservation and management policies over the last ten years in a European context, including developments in vegetation classification systems and outcomes of management policies.

The well-known teacher of Tibetan Buddhism shares his proven trategies for achieving success in business and personal life, drawing on the ancient texts of the Diamond Sutra and other commentaries to shed new light into the timeless traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Reprint.

This volume incorporates case studies that explore past and current land use decisions on both public and private lands, and includes practical approaches and tools for land use decision-making. The most important feature of the book is the linking of ecological theory and principle with applied land use decision-making. The theoretical and empirical are joined through concrete case studies of actual land use decision-making processes.