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Publisher: Tata Energy Research Institute, TERI
Keywords: vol, cheaper, cleaner
Number of Pages: 162
Published: 2009-01-30
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8179931188
ISBN-13: 9788179931189
Author: Price Pritchett
Publisher: Pritchett Publishing Company
Keywords: cheaper, faster, approach, pathfinder, mars
Number of Pages: 84
Published: 1998-03-30
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0944002749
ISBN-13: 9780944002742
There’s a new market battle cry being sounded around the world: Faster-Better-Cheaper. Organizations everywhere are in a competitive war trying to pick up speed, improve output, and do it all for less money. Actually, "improvement" per se isn’t too hard to come by with all of today’s technological advancements. The tricky part comes in doing things faster, better, and cheaper all at the same time. That takes creativity. Ingenuity. Innovation. To help your employees grow in this regard, they need role models. Good examples. It helps greatly to see living proof of "faster-bette
Author: Mark A. Lorell
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: weapons, acquisiton, approaches, commerical, faster, cheaper
Number of Pages: 215
Published: 2000-01-25
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0833027964
ISBN-13: 9780833027962
Civil-military integration (CMI) lies at the core of current DoD efforts to reduce the costs of procuring and maintaining modern weapon systems. Based on an analysis of the commercial aerospace industry and on the experiences of various acquisition reform pilot programs, the authors conclude that a commercial-like acquisition approach could benefit major Air force acquisition programs. The Joint Strike Fighter would be an excellent candidate pilot program for application of acquisition reform measures during engineering and manufacturing development. The authors further recommend that future p
Authors:Rick Doble, Tom Philbin,
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: everything, saving, tips, insiders, cheaper
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-03-24
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0345512081
ISBN-13: 9780345512086
In today’s uncertain economy, if using a little buying savvy can get you small- or even big-ticket items at a cheaper price, can you afford not to do it? Now, with this handy, accessible guide, Rick Doble–a veritable king of haggling–and consumer expert Tom Philbin share the secrets to paying less on a variety of products and services, from cars, cellphones, and food to home improvement and banking. Through anecdotes and lively vignettes, Cheaper offers industry insider tips that will give you the edge before you even open your wallet.• Save up to 14 percent a year on gas by doing one
Author: T. R. Reid
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Keywords: fairer, health, care, cheaper, quest, america, global, healing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-08-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1594202346
ISBN-13: 9781594202346
Bestselling author T. R. Reid guides a whirlwind tour of successful health care systems worldwide, revealing possible paths toward U.S. reform. In The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost. In his global quest to find a possible prescription, Reid visits wealthy, free market, industrialized democracies like our own-including France, Germany, Japan, the U.K., and Canada-where he finds inspiration in
Authors:Michael Hammer, Lisa Hershman,
Publisher: Crown Business
Keywords: work, gets, transforming, levers, cheaper, faster
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2010-12-28
List price: $27.50
ISBN-10: 0307453790
ISBN-13: 9780307453792
A bold and revolutionary thinker’s legacy for how business can meet the greatest economic challenge in decades... It’s no secret: everyone knows that the way most companies do things is screwed up. Surprisingly, though, herein lays the biggest opportunity for improving growth and profitability in a world in which consumers are tapped out and competition is coming from the devastating combination of low-wage countries with high skills. For more than a decade, following his landmark Reengineering the Corporation, Michael Hammer did “deep dives” into the processes of companies in every
Author: Jane Lancaster
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: life, cheaper, dozen, gilbreth, moller, time, lillian, making
Number of Pages: 428
Published: 2004-04-13
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1555536123
ISBN-13: 9781555536121
Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878–1972) as the nurturing mom who endures the antics of not only twelve children but also an engineer husband eager to experiment with the principles of efficiency—especially on his own household. What readers today might not know is that Lillian Gilbreth was herself a high-profile engineer, and the only woman to win the coveted Hoover Medal for engineers. She traveled the world, served as an advisor on women’s issues to five U.S. presidents, and mingled with the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. Her husb
