This book provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges at hand, tools for transition, and methods to ensure lasting significant changes. Many corporations involved in the fossil fuel industry hold the belief that sustainability is beyond their grasp. However, this book provides an insightful approach toward achieving sustainability in these industries, alongside various examples of successful implementation. The timing couldn’t be more ideal as the momentum towards sustainable busin...

Turnaround Management for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries: A Project Management Approach helps readers understand the phases of development in preparation for a turnaround, with each relevant phase easily identified. Specific to the process industry, especially oil and gas, petrochemical and power plants, this reference simplifies the entire lifecycle of a turnaround and provides specific examples of both successful and unsuccessful turnaround projects. By identifying the most signifi...

Performance Management for the Oil, Gas, and Process Industries: A Systems Approach is a practical guide on the business cycle and techniques to undertake step, episodic, and breakthrough improvement in performance to optimize operating costs. Like many industries, the oil, gas, and process industries are coming under increasing pressure to cut costs due to ongoing construction of larger, more integrated units, as well as the application of increasingly stringent environmental policies. Fo...

From any perspective, the ideal construction project is one in which the contractor shows up on your doorstep with the right price and all of his tools, people, and equipment ready to start, and builds exactly what you want for the price you want and finish on schedule. Everyone then goes away, happy as clams. This is the ideal, but it never occurs.The world is a competitive place; to survive, contractors must think competitively in order to win work. They must find a way to comple...

Find the right words for the best job!It's not enough to have the talent and experience to land the right job-you have to be able to put that talent and experience into words. With just the right phrase, you can highlight your achievements in your resume, make the cover letter pitch that sets you apart from the crowd, and underscore your unique skill set in the interview that lands you the job.In 1,001 Phrases You Need to Get a Job, employment guru...

In many organizations, procurement has evolved from a tactical, transaction-oriented department into a strategic function responsible for establishing spend management objectives for the entire organization. While the tools they use and the skills they possess have increased overall effectiveness and efficiency, procurement’s internal reputation has not evolved at the same rate. The transformation of the reputation of the procurement function must be directly associated with its ability to...

The latest best practice guidance on all aspects of global strategic sourcing-including environmental and international issuesStrategic Global Sourcing Best Practices covers the latest trends and leading edge processes in global strategic sourcing, including supply management, t, sustainability, financial decisions, risk management, and international strategies.Offers the latest trends and guidance for sourcing and supply managersFe...

PROVEN CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGEMENT METHODSFully revised to cover the most current contract information and green building guidelines, Project Management in Construction, Sixth Edition provides project managers and general contractors with the skills necessary to run every phase of a construction job. This practical guide discusses estimating, purchasing, contract administration, team management, quality control and quality assurance, safety, and other topics essentia...

The latest and most important information for best practices in the inventory functionInventory Best Practices, Second Edition offers the latest and most important information on advanced techniques and strategies to improve on the accuracy of all ongoing inventories, configure a warehouse for optimum counting efficiencies, and more.Explains the difference between different types of distressed merchandise for disposal purposesShows ...

A look at business model innovation's crucial role in today's global business environment.Showing organizations how business model innovation should be a key focus area in today's global economy, this book features cases from businesses around the globe that have developed customized business models and achieved spectacular levels of performance.Case examples from well-known innovation leaders IKEA, Apple, Tata, SHARP, Saudi Aramco, De Beers, Telefoni...

Six Sigma is a set of practices used to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects, which is any nonconformity of a product or service to its specification. To be Six Sigma compliant, a company must produce no more than 3.4 defects per one million products. If this can be achieved, a company has the potential to save billions of dollars, just as Motorola did.

How the best companies prepare for and manage modern vulnerabilities—from cybersecurity risks to climate change: new tools, processes and organizations for developing corporate resilience.A catastrophic earthquake is followed by a tsunami that inundates the coastline, and around the globe manufacturing comes to a standstill. State-of-the-art passenger jets are grounded because of a malfunctioning part. A strike halts shipments through a major port. A new digital de...