Focused Operations Management or Real Estate

Focused Operations Management: Achieving More with Existing Resources

Author: Boaz Ronen

Focused Operations Management shows how to do much more with existing resources in terms of throughput, response time and quality. It provides a system view and will touch upon performance measures, operations management, quality, cost-accounting, pricing, and above all, value creation and value enhancement.

Table of Contents:

Preface     vii
Acknowledgments     xi
About the Authors     xiii
The Dynamic Management Environment
The Modern Business Environment     3
Principles of Management in the Dynamic Environment     11
The Pareto Rule, the Focusing Table, and the Focusing Matrix     27
New Approaches in Management
Managing the System by Its Constraints     43
Management by Constraints in a Bottleneck Environment     71
Managing by Constraints When the Market Is the Constraint     95
Focused Current Reality Tree     115
Resolving Managerial Conflicts     127
The Efficiencies Syndrome     137
Evils of Long Response Times     143
Reducing Response Times     157
The Complete Kit Concept     187
Performance Measures and Managerial Control     201
The Effects of Fluctuations, Variability, and Uncertainty on the System     215
Evils of Traditional Cost Accounting     233
Marketing, Costing, and Pricing Considerations in Decision-Making Processes     241
Quality Management and Process Control     261
Strategy and Value Creation
Strategy, Positioning, and Focusing     281
Value Creation     307
Applyingthe Focused Management Approach
Value-Focused Project Management     345
Managing Research and Development     369
The Focused Management Approach in Logistics     395
Perspective and Implementation
Our Managerial Credo     421
References     435
Recommended Readings     439
Index     441

Book about: Accounting Information Systems or Old South

Real Estate: Principles and Practices

Author: James E Larsen

This book provides a clear understanding of the theories and practices used in real estate. By balancing practical information with academic rigor, it provides a comprehensive introduction to real estate. It can be used as a first course in real estate career preparation or as an elective course for those seeking practical real estate knowledge. Although it is not a prelicensing text, it could be used for licensing oriented courses with additional state specific material.