ISM-Pittsburgh Book Selections
Beat the Odds
"Beat the Odds is the playbook every manager should read to be sure of winning beyond the next few quarters." --- Lee Iacocca
Book Description: The evidence is clear: it is rare for any organization to survive for more than a few decades. Most of the companies revered in other books for their current success are unlikely to survive. This book clearly illustrates why great organizations slip from leader to follower to road kill and how organizations can Beat the Odds and avoid this fate.
Beat the Odds presents a comprehensive, nine-part integrated framework for understanding, building, and ensuring both short- and long-term organizational success. Each of the nine framework elements includes a clear description of the principle itself along with an "honor roll" of companies that use it effectively. Also included are examples of "dog house" companies that have neglected to work with the principle and experienced the consequences. Over 60 organizations are used as specific examples, including Alcoa, Amazon.com, Apple, Bright Horizons, Cisco Systems, Disney, Ford Motor, Kodak, HP, ITT, KFC, Merck, Novartis, Procter & Gamble, Respironics, Siemens, Starbucks, Tyco and Xerox.
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Straight to the Bottom Line®
"Straight to the Bottom Line is the definitive work on procurement/supply base management. Every CEO, CFO, CPO and their boards who are interested in increasing shareholder value need to read this and then make it required reading for their management and procurement teams."
-- Dick Conrad, Senior VP, Global Operations Supply Chain, Hewlett-Packard
Book Description:
During the past 20 years, the procurement and supply chain profession has radically evolved. Once a tactical and back-office function, it is now a strategic business opportunity that can be fundamental to the success of any organization. A few leading companies have achieved an enormous competitive advantage and outstanding bottom-line performance by incorporating a procurement and supply chain strategy into their core corporate strategy. Why haven more companies seized this same opportunity? The reason is very simple: a lack of understanding at the senior executive level. Virtually all books on procurement and supply chain have been written for the day-to-day practitioner. Now, there is a book to explain this opportunity to all corporate executives, and also illustrate the leadership role the senior executive needs to play.
Straight to the Bottom Line will enable organizations to turn the enormous top-line and bottom-line potential of supply chain and procurement into reality. This is a book not just for procurement leaders, but for senior management as well.Click here to purchase "Straight to the Bottom Line"
On Demand Supply Management
"Finally...
a great book on how to successfully
implement today's leading-edge procurement technology. On-Demand Supply
Management is full of rich information and fresh new industry examples.
It's a powerful guide that all procurement, IT and finance
professionals will
want to read."
--R. Gregg Brandyberry, VP Procurement, Global Systems and Operations,
GlaxoSmithKline
Book Description:
To outpace the competition, today's
firms must be able to
understand and implement the latest technology and processes for supply
management.
On-Demand Supply Management provides expert advice for procurement, IT,
finance, and manufacturing executives to enable faster adoption of the
right
strategies, processes and tools to achieve sustainable competitive
advantage,
and includes best practices for their management teams to use.
Supported by real case studies, this book explores both new and
existing
strategies and technology across the entire supplier interface in spend
analysis, market-making, supplier relationship management, sourcing,
product
life cycle management, should-cost, services procurement, risk
management/governance, req-to-check, and on-demand technology and
processes. It
addresses the cost, effort, and benefits of using IT tools to drive
improved
supply management results and illustrates how to prioritize, sequence
and match
tools to strategic needs and budget realities.
The authors also cover the practical issues of effective process and
technology
implementation such as business case development, master planning,
training,
and results tracking, and delineate which metrics must be in place to
achieve
success.