Project risk management

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Howard Eisner

Written by a leading expert in systems engineering, Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management uses a practical and integrative approach to enable readers to understand and implement the basics quickly in a host of key areas - including project planning, cost and sensitivity analyses, leadership and team building, requirements analysis and allocation, principles of systems architecting, and more. In the process, the book clarifies the often unclear relationship between project management and systems engineering by demonstrating how systems engineering actually fits into the overall structure of a project. Packed with real-life examples and up to date with the latest trends in software engineering and integrative management, Essentials of Project and Systems Engineering Management is the ideal guide for professional technical and engineering managers, and an important resource for students of engineering and business management.

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Tony Fu-Lai Yu

This is the first systematic economic study of the nature, operation and contribution of entrepreneurship to the growth of Hong Kong. From a new entrepreneurial perspective of economic development, the author argues that the success of Hong Kong is attributable principally to adaptive entrepreneurship: * product imitation, * small scale enterprise, * subcontracting, * spatial arbitrage. Using these entrepreneurial strategies, local manufacturers learned from foreign firms and imitated their products. By selling improved commodities at lower prices, they competed against the original suppliers from more advanced countries. Being alert to opportunities and responding rapidly to change, Hong Kong's entrepreneurs shifted their production activities from one product to another; from higher cost to lower cost regions; from traditional fishing and agriculture to manufacturing, and then to finance and other services. These entrepreneurial activities have brought about structural transformation in Hong Kong's economy, enabling the country to compete with advanced economies. This study concludes that any policy recommendation on economic development should be based on analysis that incorporates entrepreneurship and provides a reappraisal of the role of government in economic development.

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Dee Jacob, Suzan Bergland, and Jeff Cox

"Velocity" presents a business improvement method that combines Six SIGMA, Lean Thinking, and the Theory of Constraints.

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Tony Elger and Chris Smith

Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s.