books by Meghan-Kiffer Press     books:     Meghan-Kiffer Press      Business Process Management (BPM): The Third Wave Howard Smith, Peter Fingar Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2003 History of business process management and beyond I run a business in Maine, USA, and while I have no knowledge of BPM or workflow in a business context, this book helped me a great deal. I don't know if BPM is an important as the authors state, but it did present the past, present and future of a simple idea, ...             Extreme Competition: Innovation And the Great 21st Century Business Reformation Peter Fingar Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2006 "All business is global" and the U. S. is quickly losing the lead If you are a citizen of India or China, this book will warm your heart and swell you with pride. If you are an American, it will scare you to the end of your toenails. Fingar describes the modern economic world and how it continues to change. I cannot describe him as a ...             Business Process Management: A Rigorous Approach Martyn A. Ould Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2005 Role Activiuty Diagrams ... trump BPMN Martyn Ould is the grandfather of the Role Activity Diagram (well not quite th inventor, certainly the guy who has pushed it furthest). Having taught this notation and BPMN for the last few years (and now written the authoritative guide on BPMN "BPMN Modeling an ...             IT Doesn't Matter-Business Processes Do: A Critical Analysis of Nicholas Carr's I.T. Article in the Harvard ... Howard Smith, Peter Fingar, ... Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2003 good information for business strategists As anyone who is responsible for strategic IT planning can tell you, it's a new dawn in IT these days - especially as IT spending relates to improved business efficiencies and the bottom line. While Carr's HBR article is a simplistic and flawed interpretation of where ...             The World Is Flat?: A Critical Analysis of New York Times Bestseller by Thomas Friedman Ronald Aronica, Mtetwa Ramdoo Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2006 A Perspective from India Thomas Friedman's book was triggered by the CEO of an Indian software company in Bangalore who said the playing field was being leveled. Then, as only a celebrity pundit can do, Friedman spun a sound bite, "The World is Flat," and garnished story after story from ...             More for Less: The Power of Process Management Andrew Spanyi Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2008 A welcome and instructive reference recommended to anyone who has a managerial responsibility To succeed in today's volatile and increasingly competitive global marketplace, a company must provide their customers with what Andrew Spanyi describes as "more for less". That is, more value, service, consistent delivery, accuracy, responsiveness, and quality for ...             Bioteams: High Performance Teams Based on Nature's Most Successful Designs Ken Thompson Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2008 THIS IS THE BOOK FOR THOSE LOOKING FOR PEDAGOGICAL MATERIAL REGARDING VIRTUAL AND REMOTE TEAMS! This is for sure THE BOOK to open your mind and start developping yourself on the subject in a fun and intuitive way. I did order another book previouos to this one and have been doing an extensive research in the web on reviews on the subject as my customers (I am an ...             Business Process Management: A Practical Guide Rashid N. Khan Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2004 A Very Practical Guide to BPM There is a lot of interest in Business Process Management (BPM) systems. There is growing literature on the topic. Unfortunately, most of the authors either assume you know what a BPM system is, or they offer a vague definition that doesn't help all that much. ...             Human Interactions: The Heart And Soul Of Business Process Management: How People Reallly Work And How They ... Keith Harrison-Broninski Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2005 Brilliant treatise for next generation BPM With the current business climate asking if IT really matters anymore (as a differentiator) and reduced spending on new systems while trying to get the most from existing ones, Harrison-Broninski steps into the breech with some truly original analysis. His book ...             The Networked Enterprise : Competing for the Future Through Virtual Enterprise Networks Ken Thompson Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2008 Well-evidenced and with practical advice for implementation Ken Thompson provides a compelling and well-evidenced case for managing collaboration between SMEs through an emerging organisational form - the Virtual Enterprise Network. However, unlike some more theoretical or academic books which touch on this area, Ken ...             The Greatest Innovation Since the Assembly Line: Powerful Strategies for Business Agility Michael Hugos Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2007 The relentless pursuit of efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability that no longer exists. In our high change, global economy responsiveness now trumps efficiency. The agile enterprise is an organization that uses responsiveness to make profits from a hundred small ...             Enterprise E-Commerce Peter Fingar, Harsha Kumar, ... Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2000 Well thought out issues, best approach to solutions. To maintain our standing in the top 10 ten technical MBA programs in the nation, we must prepare our graduates to be the innovative business leaders that will thrive in the Digital Economy. At the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business, we recognize ...             Customer Expectation Management: Success Without Exception Terry Schurter, Steve Towers Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2006 Customer Expectation Management (CEM) is a business approach that identifies and shapes customer expectations, and once set by the company, those expectations are met without exception. Seemingly simple ideas are often the most powerful, and the hardest to uncover. In the 20th century, it was Peter Drucker's Management by ...             In Search Of BPM Excellence: Straight From The Thought Leaders Business Process Management Group Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2005 Excellent choice to get a broad perspective on BPM This book covers a broad range of areas in BPM - some that I don't think most people have really considered. But I think that is the point, to present the broad ramifications of BPM as food for thought. Assuming that was the intent, it did a very good job. I think ...             The Death of "e" and the Birth of the Real New Economy : Business Models, Technologies and Strategies for the ... Peter Fingar, Bryan Maizlish, ... Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2001 WHERE WE'VE BEEN, but more importantly WHERE WE ARE GOING! This book covers what assumptions were wrong in the dot-com economy and refocuses on the realities of business in the technological, digital-savy economy. 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