Strategic Management: Awareness and Change by John L. Thompson
Language: English | 2005 | ISBN: 1844800830 | 873 pages | PDF | 11,3 MB
Strategic management 5e is essential reading for all students of strategy at undergraduate, diploma and MBA level.

Small Business Management: Entrepreneurship and Beyond by Timothy S. Hatten
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0538453141 | 528 pages | PDF | 10,7 MB
Small Business Management provides a balanced introduction to both entrepreneurship and small business management with a focus on achieving and maintaining a sustainable competitive advantage as a small organization. Current issues including global opportunities, service, quality and technology are highlighted throughout the text. The streamlined format allows instructors to cover the entire text of 18 chapters within a standard semester timeline without sacrificing important topics. The Fifth Edition features a special focus on the impact of the financial crisis on small business management. The online Business Plan Guide and templates provide some of the most extensive information available on business planning.

Risk Management in Life-Critical Systems by Patrick Millot
Language: English | 2014 | ISBN: 1848214804 | 420 pages | PDF | 11,6 MB
Risk management deals with prevention, decision-making, action taking, crisis management and recovery, taking into account the consequences of unexpected events. The authors of this book are interested in ecological processes, human behavior, as well as the control and management of life-critical systems, which are potentially highly automated. Three main attributes define life-critical systems, i.e. safety, efficiency and comfort. They typically lead to complex and time-critical issues and can belong to domains such as transportation (trains, cars, aircraft), energy (nuclear, chemical engineering), health, telecommunications, manufacturing and services.

Reeds 21st Century Ship Management by John W Dickie
Language: English | 2014 | ISBN: 1472900685 | 272 pages | PDF | 3,4 MB
Ship management has constantly had to evolve to take into account the advancements in technology as well as the demands of the shipping industry. Having internet access and email on board ship has meant that the ship manager has to possess certain sets of skills to function effectively in the post, including computer literacy. The emergence of large multi-national ship management companies has also changed how business is conducted and this is turn means that the ship manager and tiers of management within the organization have had to evolve to cope with the demands of working with a multi-national workforce. Furthermore, since the mid-1980s there has been an ever expanding raft of legislation that is more restrictive for companies to meet, and a shrinking of profit margins has seen a shift in how companies are required to operate to survive.

Quality Management: Theory and Application by Peter D. Mauch
Language: English | 2009 | ISBN: 1439813809 | 171 pages | PDF | 3,1 MB
In the past, when goods and services were simpler, measurement of quality was self-evident. As business became more complicated, so too did the implementation of quality management and our ability to measure it. Ultimately, the practice of quality strayed from being a business practice to become much more of an engineering discipline producing plenty of data, but little actual improvement.

Project Management Metrics, KPIs, and Dashboards: A Guide to Measuring and Monitoring Project Performance by Harold Kerzner
Language: English | 2013 | ISBN: 1118524667 | 448 pages | PDF | 29,1 MB
The new edition of Harold Kerzner's bestselling book on measuring project management performance

Principles of Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach by Joel D. Wisner
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0538475463 | 572 pages | PDF | 8,85 MB
At the same time most every year my dad would be asking, "But where does the coal go?" We'd be on our family vacations on Lake Erie, and as a lover of ships, he'd closely observe the comings and goings of the big freighters that moved iron ore, coal, coke and other materials east and west across the Great Lakes.

Portfolio Construction, Management, and Protection by Robert A. Strong
Language: English | 2008 | ISBN: 0324665105 | 720 pages | PDF | 7,1 MB
Learn the details of traditional investment as well as portfolio theory with the straightforward, manageable approach found in Strong's successful PORTFOLIO CONSTRUCTION, MANAGEMENT, AND PROTECTION, 5E.

Operational Risk Management: A Complete Guide to a Successful Operational Risk Framework by Philippa X. Girling
Language: English | 2013 | ISBN: 1118532457 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB
A best practices guide to all of the elements of an effective operational risk framework

Mastering Trade Selection and Management: Advanced Strategies for Long-Term Profitability by Jay Norris, Al Gaskill
Language: English | 2011 | ISBN: 0071754989 | 240 pages | PDF | 5,25 MB
Proven Trading Techniques for Lowering Risk and Increasing Profits