Capital Project Management Best Practices - April 2024

Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education

Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "talent and human capital." Grounded in extensive research and examples of leading edge districts, this book shows how the entire human resource system in schools―from recruitment, to selection/placement, induction, professional development, performance management and evaluation, compensation, and career progression―can be reformed and restructured to boost teacher and principal effectiveness in ways that dramatically improve instructional practice and stud... [Read More]

• ASIN: 041588666X
• ASIN: 041588666X
• ISBN: 041588666X
• Brand: Routledge
• Manufacturer: Routledge

Principles: Life and Work

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made mor... [Read More]

• ASIN: B071CTK28D
• ASIN: B071CTK28D
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Mining Capital: Methods, Best-Practices and Case Studies for Financing Mining Projects

Mining is a capital-intensive industry, and involves long lead times to develop projects that demand a structured approach, from mine exploration to exit. This book provides mine developers, investors, owners, shareholders, and mineral policymakers a comprehensive game plan to raise capital for the development of new mining projects or to bolster operational mines.   The author, an experienced mining capital consultant, shows how mine developers and mine owners can secure capital in any phase of the commodity price cycle, at any site, and at any project stage. The book follows a proven and ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 3030312240
• ASIN: 3030312240
• ISBN: 3030312240
• Manufacturer: Springer

The Handbook of Program Management: How to Facilitate Project Success with Optimal Program Management, Second Edition

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PROGRAM MANAGEMENT--FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED Program managers must strike a balance between operations and project implementations in order to develop and maintain a culture in which the components of success are repeatable. The Handbook of Program Management is designed to help you do exactly that. This go-to guide supplies you with the insight and tools you need to establish processes that ensure the success of your project managers--and increase the profitability of your products and services. Fully updated and heavily revised, this new edition helps you incorporate... [Read More]

• ASIN: 007183785X
• ASIN: 007183785X
• ISBN: 007183785X
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine

Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability.Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit po... [Read More]

• ASIN: 073521414X
• ASIN: 073521414X
• ISBN: 9780735214149
• Brand: PORTFOLIO
• Manufacturer: Portfolio

The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life

Our most commonly held formula for success is broken. Conventional wisdom holds that if we work hard we will be more successful, and if we are more successful, then we’ll be happy. If we can just find that great job, win that next promotion, lose those five pounds, happiness will follow. But recent discoveries in the field of positive psychology have shown that this formula is actually backward: Happiness fuels success, not the other way around. When we are positive, our brains become more engaged, creative, motivated, energetic, resilient, and productive at work. This isn’t just an empty... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307591557
• ASIN: 0307591557
• ISBN: 0307591557
• Manufacturer: Currency

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

Increase profitability, elevate work culture, and exceed productivity goals through DevOps practices.More than ever, the effective management of technology is critical for business competitiveness. For decades, technology leaders have struggled to balance agility, reliability, and security. The consequences of failure have never been greater―whether it's the healthcare.gov debacle, cardholder data breaches, or missing the boat with Big Data in the cloud.And yet, high performers using DevOps principles, such as Google, Amazon, Facebook, Etsy, and Netflix, are routinely and reliably deploying ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1942788002
• ASIN: 1942788002
• ISBN: 1942788002
• Brand: IT REVOLUTION
• Manufacturer: IT Revolution Press

The Insider's View on Corporate Governance: The Role of the Company Secretary (Finance and Capital Markets Series)

An up-to-date look at the latest thinking on Corporate Governance, capturing the wealth of experience of some 60 company secretaries in the world's top companies, whose job it is to make corporate governance work. A must for anyone who has ever had to make tough decisions on their board and wondered how their peers might have done it.

• ASIN: 0230515975
• ASIN: 0230515975
• ISBN: 0230515975
• Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

• ASIN: B004J4XGN6
• ASIN: B004J4XGN6
• Manufacturer: Currency

Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal

• ASIN: 0071752854
• ASIN: 0071752854
• ISBN: 0071752854
• Brand: McGraw-Hill
• Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill

Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The Globe and Mail Top Leadership and Management BookForbes Top Creative Leadership BookFrom the visionary head of Google's innovative People Operations comes a groundbreaking inquiry into the philosophy of work-and a blueprint for attracting the most spectacular talent to your business and ensuring that they succeed. "We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, former head of People Operations at the company that ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1455554790
• ASIN: 1455554790
• ISBN: 1455554790
• Brand: Twelve
• Manufacturer: Twelve

Capital Budgeting Valuation: Financial Analysis for Today's Investment Projects

An essential guide to valuation techniques and financial analysis With the collapse of the economy and financial systems, many institutions are reevaluating what they are willing to spend money on. Project valuation is key to both cost effectiveness measures and shareholder value. The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive examination of critical capital budgeting topics. Coverage extends from discussing basic concepts, principles, and techniques to their application to increasingly complex, real-world situations. Throughout, the book emphasizes how financially sound capital budget... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470569506
• ASIN: 0470569506
• ISBN: 0470569506
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Venture Capital, Islamic Finance and SMEs: Valuation, Structuring and Monitoring Practices in India

This book explores how the venture capital sector supports growth and development of SMEs. The text draws from major international empirical studies in Indian and Islamic industries to analyse techniques used by venture capitalists to value, structure and monitor investments. This book is essential for students, policy makers and practitioners.

• ASIN: 1403936382
• ASIN: 1403936382
• ISBN: 1403936382
• Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan

The Global Macro Edge: Maximizing Return Per Unit-of-Risk

With a proven personal track record of trading experience, John Netto, The Protean Trader, has found great success and personal satisfaction in working the market. Now, in The Global Macro Edge, he pulls back the curtain to reveal the tools and techniques he's used (and created) to identify and solve the largest problems facing investors, traders, and financial advisors today at a level of transparency rarely seen in books on investing. The Global Macro Edge includes chapters from a talented team of market practitioners as it details how to maximize return per unit-of-risk. And, in the process... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1457534762
• ASIN: 1457534762
• ISBN: 1457534762
• Manufacturer: Dog Ear Publishing

The New Edge in Knowledge: How Knowledge Management Is Changing the Way We Do Business

The best thinking and actions in the fast-moving arena of collaboration and knowledge management The New Edge in Knowledge captures the most practical and innovative practices to ensure organizations have the knowledge they need in the future and, more importantly, the ability to connect the dots and use knowledge to succeed today. Build or retrofit your organization for new ways of working and collaboration by using knowledge management Adapt to today's most popular ways to collaborate such as social networking Overcome organization silos, knowledge hoarding and "not invented here" resistanc... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0470917393
• ASIN: 0470917393
• ISBN: 0470917393
• Manufacturer: Wiley

Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice : Thirty Case Studies from Around the World

9781498769242

• UPC: 51795913

Project Management Essentials : A Quick and Easy Guide to the Most Important Concepts and Best Practices for Managing Your Projects Right

If you're new to project management or need to refresh your knowledge, Project Management Essentials, Third Edition is the quickest and easiest way to learn how to manage projects successfully. The concepts presented are not

• UPC: 22897612

Agile Project Management with Kanban

Use Kanban to maximize efficiency, predictability, quality, and value With Kanban, every minute you spend on a software project can add value for customers. One book can help you achieve this goal: Agile Project Management

• UPC: 42416507

Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice - eBook

Contextualization of Project Management Practice and Best Practice contributes to a better understanding of project management practice by investigating the use and usefulness of project management practices, tools, and techniques. The study examines practice variations

• UPC: 914778894

Agile Project Management with Scrum - eBook

The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum’s simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to

• UPC: 948609054
• Rating: 4.0

Project Management Essentials, Fourth Edition : A Quick and Easy Guide to the Most Important Concepts and Best Practices for Managing Your Projects Right

9781938548970

• UPC: 240941957

Project Leadership and Team Building in Global Project Management : Best Practices

New

• UPC: 918099736

Best Practices for Managing BPI Projects - eBook

While there are numerous project management books on the market and a number on business processes and initiatives, there has been a lack of comprehensive guides to successfully manage business process improvement (BPI) projects, until

• UPC: 348077289

Project Management Best Practices: Achieving Global Excellence - eBook

The comprehensive guide to project management implementation, updated with the latest in the fieldProject management has spread beyond the IT world to become a critical part of business in every sphere; built on efficiency, analysis,

• UPC: 273774319

Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice - eBook

Every CEO in the world, if questioned, will always complain that there are a lot of ideas to implement, but, unfortunately, insufficient resources to accomplish them. This book provides a solution to this dilemma by

• UPC: 440154906