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An Intelligent Guide to Australian Property Development
Do you have what it takes to be the next Frank Lowy or Donald Trump? In An Intelligent Guide to Australian Property Development, architect and successful international property developer Ron Forlee shares his many secrets to success in this high-risk, high-reward industry. With this practical 'how to' guide, you too may be able to capitalise on the next property boom, or even the next burst of the property bubble. The book is the perfect introduction to the industry for novice developers (although there's plenty of information for seasoned practitioners, too), or those considering investing in property development. It covers the whole gamut of residential and commercial development, including: * the attributes of successful developers * how to reduce the risks in the development industry * choosing a team of appropriate development consultants * conducting a feasibility study, and calculating your profit * selecting finance and managing your way to success Property development is a risky business, but if it is planned and managed correctly, the rewards for developers and investors alike can be immense. This is the guide to help you succeed!
Author:
Ron Forlee
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780731401314
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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Crash-proof
The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world's largest creditor to its greatest debtor the value of the dollar is sinking domestic manufacturing is winding down - and these trends don't seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear-sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook.What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too-little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing. Crash-Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even - as happened recently in Argentina - the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.
Author:
Peter D. Schiff & John Downes
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780470043608
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $42.95
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Against the Gods
A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller Ambitious and readable ...an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism. -The New York Times An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book. -The Wall Street Journal A lively panoramic book ...Against the Gods sets up an ambitious premise and then delivers on it. -Business Week Deserves to be, and surely will be, widely read. -The Economist [A] challenging book, one that may change forever the way people think about the world. -Worth No one else could have written a book of such central importance with so much charm and excitement. -Robert Heilbroner author, The Worldly Philosophers With his wonderful knowledge of the history and current manifestations of risk, Peter Bernstein brings us Against the Gods. Nothing like it will come out of the financial world this year or ever. I speak carefully: no one should miss it.
-John Kenneth Galbraith Professor of Economics Emeritus, Harvard University In this unique exploration of the role of risk in our society, Peter Bernstein argues that the notion of bringing risk under control is one of the central ideas that distinguishes modern times from the distant past. Against the Gods chronicles the remarkable intellectual adventure that liberated humanity from oracles and soothsayers by means of the powerful tools of risk management that are available to us today. An extremely readable history of risk. -Barron's Fascinating ...this challenging volume will help you understand the uncertainties that every investor must face. -Money A singular achievement. -Times Literary Supplement There's a growing market for savants who can render the recondite intelligibly-witness Stephen Jay Gould (natural history), Oliver Sacks (disease), Richard Dawkins (heredity), James Gleick (physics), Paul Krugman (economics)-and Bernstein would ming
Author:
Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471295631
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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Jesse Livermore
An excellent read.-Ace Greenberg, Chairman. Bear Stearns Richard Smitten's Jesse Livermore is the first full biography of the legendary trader profiled in the bestselling Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Wiley: 0--471--05970--6). Although he died more than half a century ago, Livermore is considered by today's top traders as the greatest trader who ever lived. An enigmatic loner, misanthrope, and notorious miser, Livermore revolutionized the profession with his innovative timing techniques, money management strategies, and high momentum approach to trading stocks. Smitten provides a vivid portrait of Livermore and the times in which he lived and operated. He deftly combines eyewitness accounts of those who knew Livermore with fascinating stories of sensational love affairs, shootings, and suicides, and a detailed exploration of the trading strategies that made Livermore several fortunes in his lifetime. Richard Smitten (Key West, FL) is the author of several books, including The Godmother, the critically acclaimed story of a famous woman criminal.
Author:
Richard Smitten
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471023265
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $44.95
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Strengthsfinder 2.0
DO YOU DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don't. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced StrengthsFinder in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions discover their top five talents.
In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular online assessment. With hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, StrengthsFinder 2.0 will change the way you look at yourself--and the world--forever.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0 (using the access code included with each book)
- The StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, fine-tuned to be faster and more accurate
- A Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide featuring: A customized version of your top five theme report 50 Ideas for Action for building on your top five themes A strengths-based action plan for setting goals
- And much more on the StrengthsFinder 2.0 website: A strengths community area Resources, activities, and discussion guides A strengths screensaver and program for creating display cards of your top five themes
Author:
Tom Rath
Publisher: Gallup Press
ISBN: 9781595620156
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $45.00
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How to Craft Successful Business Presentations and Effective Public Speaking
Good presentation skills are increasingly essential to career progress. They are useful not only in business, but committees, sports clubs or anywhere persuasion has a role to play. One to one, one to many, one to multi-nationals on the net - it's the communicators that top the heap. Very accessible, successful expertise, this is a career-changing book. It includes checklists that lead from first ideas to final successful delivery. Too many managers don't have what it takes to carry a good presentation. And, they know it. Equally they know that to acquire the skill is to join an admired few, upwardly mobile managers. So motivation to learn is strong and rewarding. On browsing the book, readers will see the checklist approach and the carefully crafted structure that immediately conveys these skills. They will understand that this is a book of unique accessibility. Here, they will learn techniques and methods of planning research and structuring information that will create inescapable conclusions by their recipients. They will be successful.
Author:
Patrick Forsyth
Publisher: FOULSHAM
ISBN: 9780572032180
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $27.95
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The Truth About Positive Cash Flow Property Revealed
Since Margaret Lomas wrote the very ?rst book about investing in positive cash ?ow property, self proclaimed experts from around the country have jumped on the ?ositive cash ?ow property?bandwagon with theories and strategies designed to create instant millionaires and exploit this truly viable method of property investing. The rush toward this kind of investing has been such that investors now think that in order to invest successfully you have to employ risky and complicated approaches which involve the acquisition of large numbers of properties. This new book gets back to the basics and uncovers the truth behind effective positive cash ?ow property investing. It expels the myths which have resulted from frenzied buying and shows every day investors how simple an effective property strategy can really be. It shows that people have been making money from property in Australia for more than 100 years without ever having to know the secrets of the rich, know the latest technique or set up complicated trust or company structures, and that the same can be said for today.This common sense guide to buying property easily and safely recovers common sense and shows all investors how to create a sound retirement income tomorrow, without the risks and complications of impossible and often illegal get rich quick schemes.
Author:
Margaret Lomas
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9780731404568
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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Activity-based Cost Management
Proven strategy for reducing production and operating costs while increasing profits As the growth of the Internet shifts power to consumers, the pressure on companies to keep prices low will continue to mount. Increasingly corporations are relying on margin management and supply chain management as a means of keeping prices low while raising profits. Activity-based costing and management (ABC/M) data is key to succeeding in both these critical management strategies. This book explains how executives can effectively use the information furnished by cutting-edge ABC/M systems. The author, an acknowledged expert in the field, clearly defines the ABC/M system and explains how to use the information it provides for best results. He provides a rational framework for understanding the fifteen key defining characteristics of ABC/M and arms readers with an ABC/M Readiness Assessment test along with extremely user-friendly exhibits. Gary Cokins (Far Bingham Farms, MI) is Director of Industry Relations at ABC Technologies, the world's leading supplier of activity-based information software. He is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author.
Author:
G. Cockins
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471443285
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $59.95
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Amphibian Sounds
Intended for introductory students, both accounting and non-accounting majors. This manual accounting practice set deals with the recording process, and is also meant for use as a supplementary exercise to aid student comprehension or completed as an assessable component of students' final grades. The practice set includes introductory material.
Author:
Hema Wijewardena
Publisher: McGraw Hill Publishers
ISBN: 9780074711095
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $39.95
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Bloomberg by Bloomberg
This is the remarkable story of how Michael Bloomberg created a media empire. Lots of entrepreneurs make money. Lots of entrepreneurs who make money write books. Few of those books make you glad they did. This one does. - The New York Times Book Review. A classic tale of a nimble, customer-focused, entrepreneurial David outsmarting bureaucratic, ossified, corporate Goliaths. - Business Week. Entertaining, engaging, and informative, Bloomberg by Bloomberg is packed with great advice about how to start a lean, hungry company - and how to keep it that way. - Bryan Burrough, coauthor, Barbarians at the Gate Brash, aggressive, and supremely self-confident, Michael Bloomberg, the visionary leader of the world's fastest-growing media empire, has been hailed as the new standard for what it takes to win in the Information Age. Dismissed from Salomon Brothers in 1981, Bloomberg immediately took his money and acerbic personality and started Bloomberg L.P. Bolstered by a $30 million investment from Merrill Lynch, the company and the man have been sprinting ahead of the pack ever since. Only twenty years after founding, he's at the top of his industry.
And on June 5, 2001, he added mayoral candidate for New York City to his list of accomplishments and aspirations. If elected, powerhouse Michael Bloomberg will bring his own brand of leadership - and personal style - to the city that never sleeps.
Author:
Michael Bloomberg & Matthew Winkler
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471208884
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma
Optimize Every Stage of Your Product Development and Commercialization To remain competitive, companies must become more effective at identifying, developing, and commercializing new products and services. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is the most powerful approach available for achieving these goals reliably and efficiently. Now, for the first time, there's a comprehensive, hands-on guide to utilizing DFSS in real-world product development. Using a start-to-finish case study, a practical roadmap, and easy-to-use templates, Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma shows how to optimize every stage of product commercialization. Drawing on a combined sixty-five years of product experience, the authors show how to make better product and portfolio decisions develop better business cases and benefits assessments create better concepts and designs scale up manufacturing more effectively and execute better launches.
Learn how to *Establish infrastructure to support successful commercialization*Use Stage-Gate(R) processes to minimize risk and optimize the use of people and resources*Create better plans: Segment markets, define product value, estimate financial value, and position new products for success*Capture the Voice of the Customer, analyze it, and use it to drive development*Choose the right tools: Ideation, Pugh Concept Selection, QFD, TRIZ, and many more *Develop better products and processes: Process Maps, Cause and Effects Matrices, Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, Statistical Design and Data Analysis Tools, and more*Test and improve product performance and reliability*Perform Post Mortems and apply what you've learned to your next project Whether you're an executive, engineer, designer, marketer, or quality-control professional, Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma will help you identify more valuable product concepts and translate them into high-impact revenue sources.
Author:
Randy Perry & David Bacon
Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
ISBN: 9780132385992
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $99.95
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More Than a Numbers Game
The world certainly suffers no shortage of accounting texts. The many out there help readers prepare, audit, interpret and explain corporate financial statements. What has been missing is a book offering context and discussion for divisive issues such as taxes, debt, options, and earnings volatility. King addresses the why of accounting instead of the how, providing practitioners and students with a highly readable history of U.S. corporate accounting. More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting was inspired by Arthur Levitt's landmark 1998 speech delivered at New York University. The Securities and Exchange Commission chairman described the too little challenged custom of earnings management and presaged the breakdown in the US corporate accounting three years later. Somehow, over a one hundred year period, accounting morphed from a tool used by American railroad managers to communicate with absent British investors into an enabler of corporate fraud. How this happened makes for a good business story. This book is not another description of accounting scandals. Instead it offers a history of ideas.
Each chapter covers a controversial topic that emerged over the past century. Historical background and discussion of people involved give relevance to concepts discussed. The author shows how economics, finance, law and business customs contributed to accounting s development. Ideas presented come from a career spent working with accounting information.
Author:
Thomas A. King
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780470008737
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $44.95
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Fast Innovation
Surveys by the Economist and many others show that the top of mind issue for most CEO and managers has shifted from cost reduction to revenue growth. As the world economy shifts from one of contraction to expansion, companies know that revenue growth is strictly dependent on their innovation process. For the majority of companies, more than 25 per cent of this year's revenue are for products and services that did not exist 3 years ago. Moreover, the life-cycle of offerings is growing ever shorter. Sixty percent of companies report that their growth is hampered because the lead time of their innovation process takes too long and costs too much. Companies understand the causes of long lead time and high cost in manufacturing, and its remedy using the Lean methodology. However, the causes of long lead time and high cost in innovation are not understood, nor is their remedy.This book, for the first time, explains the causes of long lead time and ineffective innovation, and provides a proven solution.
"Conquering the Growth Challenge" explains why it takes so long for innovations to reach the market and why they so often fail; and provides solutions for how to reduce time - to market and increase the success rate. It provides the complete foundation for reducing time-to-market of successful innovative offerings, applicable to any business, and is the first to provide quantitative links such that a thoughtful CEO or manager who implements the Fast Innovation process featured in this book can launch a new innovation, confident that it will meet its required delivery date.The solutions discussed in this book have already been applied in varying degrees by firms such as GE, 3M, Toyota and Microsoft. In short, what you'll get in this book is an answer to the challenge every company faces: how can we increase differentiation and competitive advantage while shortening time-to-market? At first glance, that sounds like an impossible goal because increased differentiation was hist...
Author:
James Works, Kimberly Watson-Hemphill & Others Michael L. George
Publisher: McGraw Hill Publishers
ISBN: 9780071457897
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $55.00
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Blue Blood and Mutiny
The inside story of the power struggle that rocked Wall Street's most prestigious financial institution. What began with a shot over the bow ended in a shocking coup d'etat. In less than four months a group of eight retired executives orchestrated a stunning revolt within Morgan Stanley, the venerable and - until recently - most successful financial services firm on Wall Street. Now acclaimed journalist and historian Patricia Beard brings together the entire behind-the-scenes story in Blue Blood and Mutiny, a real-life business thriller exposing the tale that shook high finance. In March 2005 the business world woke up to an unprecedented full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for the removal of Morgan Stanley's CEO. It was paid for by a cohort of eight former Morgan Stanley executives, including an ex-chairman and an ex-president, who soon would be dubbed the Eight Grumpy Old Men. Their target was CEO Philip Purcell, a midwesterner who had come to power following Morgan Stanley's 1997 merger with Dean Witter Discover, where Purcell had been chief executive.
In his eight years as CEO, Purcell had presided over a 50 percent decline in stock price since its peak in 2000 and a series of high-profile government and civil lawsuits that had tarnished the company's once-sterling reputation. Just a few months after the Journal ad, Purcell would retire under pressure, and former president John Mack, who had been pushed out by Purcell, was appointed CEO. The Eight Grumpy Old Men won the battle. The revolt of the Eight is about more than the stock price, or any bottom-line metrics - it signals a clash of cultures and a battle for the soul of American business. Since its founding, Morgan Stanley has been an elite enterprise guided by J. P. Morgan Jr.'s motto A First Class Business in a First Class Way. The House of Morgan stood for something larger than success with honor its ethos was unique - some would say sacred - and the eight retired executives believed th
Author:
Patricia Beard
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780060881917
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $49.99
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Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got
Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got is a revolutionary new strategic business and marketing handbook. The author is Jay Abraham, the young Californian whose meteoric rise to the ranks of the super-rich has led business leaders around the world to wonder, what's his secret? The book is a collection of today's most successful business growth ideas that will enable everyone to identify the hidden assets, overlooked opportunities and untapped resources that will guarantee phenomenal growth for their business. Packed with case histories, examples and groundbreaking ideas, Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got will revolutionise your business - whatever its size. Includes today's top strategies for growth Shows you how to adapt profit-orientated practices to suit your own business Includes personal and career advice to help you get everything you can out of life Brings together the most powerful, effective, timely and state of the art ideas Written by Jay Abraham, the world-famous direct marketing phenomenon.
Author:
Jay Abraham
Publisher: Piatkus Books
ISBN: 9780749921699
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $49.99
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Short-term Trading, Long-term Profits
This title presents strategies to take advantage of today's fast-moving markets and short-term trading opportunities. Time horizons of a week, an hour, or even a few seconds have become the standard for today's aggressive breed of trader. Short-Term Trading, Long Term Profits reveals how the short-term trading systems and tools of these cutting-edge traders can be harnessed, tamed, and integrated into virtually any trading program. Rather than concentrating on one particular strategy, this wide-ranging book discusses pluses and minuses of several of the most popular, to help you determine which will work best for you. It gives you information on: Strategies - from day trading to position trading, how to determine which short-term strategy is best for you Technical analysis - how chartists use price, volume, and volatility numbers to accurately forecast price movements and Psychology - methods to understand traders' psychology, and make it work for you instead of against you.Short-term trading has become a central component of many of today's most successful trading programs.
Let Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits introduce you to the numerous alternative trading systems available to you, and help you determine which can most easily be integrated into your own long-term trading program. Short-term trading is one of today's fastest growing strategies, with quick-trigger traders regularly taking advantage of fast-changing markets and whipsaw price reversals. Sitting on the opposite end of the spectrum from traditional buy-and-hold investors, these short-term 'buy-and-sell' traders recognize and exploit the profit potential hidden within each day's market volatility, understanding and seeing trading opportunities as they occur.Short-Term Trading, Long-Term Profits explains how you can take advantage of the current trend toward shorter-term trading. Realizing that successful trading is more than just entering buys and sells, experienced trader and trainer Jon ...
Author:
Jon Leizman
Publisher: McGraw Hill Publishers
ISBN: 9780071375207
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $57.95
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Investors and Markets
In Investors and Markets, Nobel Prize-winning financial economist William Sharpe shows that investment professionals cannot make good portfolio choices unless they understand the determinants of asset prices. But until now asset-price analysis has largely been inaccessible to everyone except PhDs in financial economics. In this book, Sharpe changes that by setting out his state-of-the-art approach to asset pricing in a nonmathematical form that will be comprehensible to a broad range of investment professionals, including investment advisors, money managers, and financial analysts.Bridging the gap between the best financial theory and investment practice, Investors and Markets will help investment professionals make better portfolio choices by being smarter about asset prices. Based on Sharpe's Princeton Lectures in Finance, Investors and Markets presents a method of analyzing asset prices that accounts for the real behavior of investors. Sharpe makes this technique accessible through a new, one-of-a-kind computer program that enables users to create virtual markets, setting the starting conditions and then allowing trading until equilibrium is reached and trading stops.
Program users can then analyze the final portfolios and asset prices, see expected returns, and measure risk.In addition to popularizing the most sophisticated form of asset-price analysis, Investors and Markets summarizes much of Sharpe's most important previous work and reflects a lifetime of thinking about investing by one of the leading minds in financial economics. Any serious investment professional will benefit from Sharpe's unique insights.
Author:
William F. Sharpe
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 9780691128429
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $51.95
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IPOs for Everyone
Founders of Renaissance Capital and the IPO Aftermarket Fund get in on the cutting edge of today's economy The business press has declared IPOs-Initial Public Offerings-dead seven times in the past ten years. Every time they've been wrong. Far from being deterred by the IPO obituaries, the authors of IPOs for Everyone show that these times in the IPO market consistently present the best buys. Once reserved for a select group of Wall Street pros, there are now many opportunities for individual investors to take advantage of in the IPO groundswell. IPOs have become a must have for investors who wish to diversify their portfolio. IPOs for Everyone, reveals the twelve secrets used by the founders of Renaissance Capital, the leading IPO research and money management firm, to pick a winning IPO investment. This timely book provides the inside knowledge that investors must have to play the volatile IPO market successfully, including: finding the best companies on the block, getting favorable pricing and seeking out buying opportunities in the aftermarket.
Author:
Kathleen Smith & William Smith Linda Killian
Publisher: John Wiley and Son
ISBN: 9780471399155
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $64.95
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Ethical Eating
A timely and powerful investigation of the food choices we make every day. These days most people want to live as lightly as possible on our precious planet. What we choose to eat is a very basic decision, yet it has huge implications - for the sustainability of species, for the quality of the environment, for both human and animal rights and for the world's climate. And when we take the time to scrutinise what we put on our table and where it comes from, it becomes clear that all is not right in the world of 'conventional' food production. Ethical Eating explores the ethical and environmental implications of the food choices we make, looking at the issues from a uniquely Australian perspective. Angela Crocombe examines the pros and cons of modern-day farming methods, and of the highly processed 'pseudo-foods' now so prevalent in our society, and considers alternatives that use more natural and humane systems of production. Thoroughly researched and thoroughly convincing, Ethical Eating should be required reading for every household.
If each of us acts on just some of its recommendations, we will live better and also enjoy the peace of mind that comes with knowing our food choices haven't cost the earth.
Author:
Angela Crocombe
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780143008569
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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ISO 9000 and the Construction Industry
This book looks at the interpretation and implementation of ISO 9000 in the construction industry. Through the use of case studies, the book deals with the non-technical attributes of quality management systems in the construction industry and how these may influence the effectiveness of ISO 9000 requirements. The book explains and provides the solutions on how behavioural influence, environmental changes, legal implications and quality cost measurements can be managed within construction firms to achieve effective quality management systems. The book also provides practical examples of ISO 9000 and large building projects as well as the smaller construction firms. Chapters include: development and implementation of ISO 9000 ISO 9000 and behavioural change ISO 9000 and change management ISO 9000 and legal implications for the construction industry a case study of ISO 9000 in large scale projects ISO 9000 for small construction firms a system for quantifying construction quality costs total quality management in the construction industry conclusions.
Author:
Low Sui Pheng
Publisher: Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
ISBN: 9781902375014
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $202.95
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