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Home BOOK IN PROCESS: THREE NEW BOOKS - Tearing Down Walls: A Woman's Powered by Honda, Developing Supply Chain Cost Management, *** 1. PROMINENT FEMINIST PUBLISHES BIOGRAPHY Tearing Down Walls: A Woman's Triumph, "Mary Gardiner Jones not only tore down walls that kept women out of positions of power and influence - she smashed them to smithereens. And in so doing, she created opportunities for future generations who never knew how high and thick the walls once were. Hers is an exemplary life, offering men as well as women a lesson in what one person's indomitable spirit can accomplish. Read this and be inspired." Robert B. Reich, Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley; former U. S. Secretary of Labor; author of Supercapitalism. Ms. Jones' book is an honest look back at the breakthroughs from the author's forceful and domineering mother who saw only marriage in her daughter's future. Coupled with the stigma and virtual absence of her hearing-mpaired alcoholic father, and confronting workplace gender barriers that appeared at every step of her legal and governmental careers, the book examines the psychological impact that her elitist background and work experience had on her personal development and describes her psychoanalysis and the role that it played throughout her life to help heal her emotional scars. These memoirs bring a practitioner's approach to scholarly issues. The book celebrates a brilliant and determined woman's successes and a careful in-depth review of her major career milestones. About the Author To order: Tearing Down Walls is available through Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, and Hamilton Books, 1 800 462-6420 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "For those who think of Toyota as the leader in lean thinking, here's a colorful explanation of how Honda's "racing spirit" is creating a truly lean enterprise in North America. Nelson, Mayo, and Moody provide a step-by-step plan for building a smoothly-flowing value stream from raw materials into the arms of the customer. Anyone who can't follow their simple instructions (and who doesn't get on the case immediately after putting this book down) has little chance of staying in the race." 3. A practical process for identifying and eliminating costs from the supply chain expert who perfected it. Supply Chain Cost Management For most supply chains, cost reduction is imperative to long-term survival. Yet identifying the costs that can be eliminated and then doing so effectively can prove impossible without the right method. This book introduces the same process the author has used to save companies like IBM, Kodak, and DuPont billions of dollars, simply by harnessing the knowledge of suppliers. Using real-life case studies and examples, the book takes readers step-by-step through the process, showing them how to move beyond negotiation and: identify critical costs in the supply chain measure secondary and tertiary costs The book gives readers everything they need to implement this powerful system, and bring genuine and permanent savings to their company. Jimmy Anklesaria (Del Mar, CA) is one of the world's most sought-after speakers on cost management. He conducts seminars and workshops in cost management for various companies including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Motorola, Nokia, Chevron, BP, T-Mobile, Texas Instruments, Philips, Anglo American Mining, and many more. *** Mike Kennedy, Product Development for the Lean Enterprise, Oaklea Press *** *** *** *** Consulting clients: =======================================================
BORED WITH TRADITIONAL APPROACHES? WELL, HAVE WE GOT SAVINGS IDEAS FOR YOU - 10, 20, 30% SAVINGS FROM 'THE REAL EXPERTS' - GUYS IN MRO, INDIRECT, TRANSPORTATION/LOGISTICS/DISTRIBUTION, IT, BENEFITS, HEALTH CARE, EVERYPLACE YOU SPEND MONEY... LET US HELP YOU FIND GOOD SAVINGS FAST SO YOU CAN SPEND THAT MONEY ON NEW PRODUCTS, NEW PLANTS, THE STOCKHOLDERS, EVEN PAYCHECKS! HERE IT IS, THE KEY TO FINDING FAST SAVINGS HIDDEN "IN THE MOST OBVIOUS PLACES" --- 'THE BIG SQUEEZE, TEN WAYS TO CUT YOUR COMPANY'S EXPENSES 10% RIGHT NOW' - BUSINESS NOVEL FILLED WITH  REVIEWS: A business book that's entertaining, offbeat, plus need to know. That's an unbeatable combination. The Big Squeeze: Ten Ways to Cut Your Spend 10% Right Now! is for anybody who wants to be a corporate hero. Author Patricia Moody provides everything but a moneyback guarantee. And she'd be safe in doing that. The big Squeeze is a big winner. Patricia Moody presents a memorable story filled with powerful and proven approaches for companies to leverage their spend and generate cash to drive profits and growth. At Waste Management, our procurement team proved that supply management can turnaround a company and return it to profitability and growth. A must read for every C level executive, and a must do for every Supply Management practitioner. Moody has hit the proverbial nail on the head with this steamy business novel. The Big Squeeze delivers practical supply management concepts in a storybook fashion, and it’s loaded with the stuff business people deal with - corporate pressures, politics, inappropriate relationships, and even blackmail - all intertwined with the important what to do and how to do it of strategic cost management. This book will get distributed up, down, and across my organization. If there were a recipe book for cost management, this would be it. Ka-Ching! You'll chuckle at the send up of corporate life in the opening chapters; you'll get your money's worth many times over in the second half: Several year's worth of supply management ideas to implement, and from the leading practitioners in the field. Even seasoned experts will come away with at least one new idea. A Lean Purchasing Tutorial , wrapped in a novel reflecting today’s workplace,that provides the reader with a practical understanding of Supply Chain Management. As usual with P. Moody's titles, The Big Squeeze adds IQ points to any manufacturing reader in purchasing/supply chain management. And no one else writing for the industry today comes close to her ability to recreate what it's like working in the 21st century in America (Yes, Paris Hilton is in there!) with humor ---her definition of "heijunka box" is to die for. And "the earth moves" for a particular set of lovers, twice, I believe I counted. Yes, follow her rules for taking cost out of the SCM process instantly, and enjoy her breakthrough in business writing that, in addition to the novella with colorful characters sorting out how to adapt to global competition, includes blogs from leading corporate SCM masters tipping their hands. The real world doesn't unfold like bullet points in a consultant's Powerpoint slide. Patricia Moody's fictional portrayal of United Manufacturing lampoons many of the organizational, conceptual and human Drawing on the collective brainpower of hundreds of executives via an internet blog, Tricia Moody has written a highly-entertaining book any business leader who wants to cut waste and drop money to the bottom line right now will find invaluable. Bravo!" Tricia Moody set up a blog for executives across the globe to share ideas, and from their input has assembled ten ways to immediately improve bottom line performance. In The Big Squeeze, she has created a combination of entertainment and reference that talks with us, not at us. This book provides 10 great innovative solutions of which at least 3 - 4 would behelpful in solving almost any procurement issue facing a company today. This is a great read for people looking for 10 proven ways that can lower the third party spend in your organization. Trish Moody shows how individual people - with their own needs and wants - affect how a company tries to compete with traditional andglobal rivals. "Follow the Money" was the advice of Deep Throat, the Watergate informant; it would be Moody's as well. Read this book if you want to separate facts from fads to survive in the new global community. copyright Patricia E. Moody 2005, All Rights Reserved |
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