WINNER: Les Plumes des Achats 2016 - Prix des Associations (1st edition) Over the last two decades Tesco has emerged as a dominant player in the UK market and a leading global retailer. The Lean Supply Chain explores how Tesco, over the last 20 years or so, has built its business around supply chain excellence. As a mega-retailer, Tesco has learnt to create a balanced supply chain system, supporting suppliers' needs as well as customers' requirements. This perspective, and an ambition to act sustainably, has underpinned a rebuilding of trust in the Tesco brand and a resurgence in commercial fortunes. This fully updated edition of The Lean Supply Chain contains new chapters on Tesco's current strategy, rebuilding brand trust and its CSR agenda. It charts the principles of lean thinking, customer loyalty and simplicity which were used by Tesco to frame its supply chain strategy and draws upon the authors' deep knowledge of how the retailer has dealt with challenges and market changes to provide lessons for other businesses, large or small, who wish to place how they manage their supply chains at the heart of their competitive strategy.

WINNER: Les Plumes des Achats 2016 - Prix des Associations (1st edition) Over the last two decades Tesco has emerged as a dominant player in the UK market and a leading global retailer. The Lean Supply Chain explores how Tesco, over the last 20 years or so, has built its business around supply chain excellence. As a mega-retailer, Tesco has learnt to create a balanced supply chain system, supporting suppliers' needs as well as customers' requirements. This perspective, and an ambition to act sustainably, has underpinned a rebuilding of trust in the Tesco brand and a resurgence in commercial fortunes. This fully updated edition of The Lean Supply Chain contains new chapters on Tesco's current strategy, rebuilding brand trust and its CSR agenda. It charts the principles of lean thinking, customer loyalty and simplicity which were used by Tesco to frame its supply chain strategy and draws upon the authors' deep knowledge of how the retailer has dealt with challenges and market changes to provide lessons for other businesses, large or small, who wish to place how they manage their supply chains at the heart of their competitive strategy.

Thriller starring Susan George. After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. Following the death of her mother, Marianne (George) stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. As knowledge of her new found wealth circulates, would-be kidnappers conspire to kill her and claim the substantial sum of money. While her father wants the documents, her sister wants the money and they will each stop at nothing to get what they want.

A technical rationale of how and why natural fibres reinforce cement/concrete, with chapters on the strength properties, durability, manufacture and installation of natural fibre concrete products, fibre-cement, cement, and concrete.

Is free will deterministic, can you motivate an old dog to learn new tricks and where does creativity flow from? The Ingenious Engine of Reality is a voyage of discovery into the meaning and application of consciousness. It starts by exploring recent advances in neuroscience to ask why and how we do things. It provides a cornucopia of useful links to management theory, philosophy, science and more. We are living through a pivotal point in human social evolution at which many stubborn and counter-productive dogmas are being successfully challenged. These include erroneous assumptions and beliefs about the brain and consciousness. The Ingenious Engine of Reality highlights the work and courage of amazing scientists and thinkers who have used the tools of deep mathematics, rigorous science, tireless research and often startlingly obvious psychology to defy the limitations of these beliefs. They are discovering how we interpret reality to learn and adapt. They explain how we sometimes avoid reality altogether, making things harder for ourselves with our habits and beliefs. You do not have to be a scientist, mathematician or medical professional to understand the knowledge that is being unlocked. It is knowledge that can transform daily life, work and learning. Everything that every person does will benefit from implementing its lessons. The Ingenious Engine of Reality explores neuroscience, epigenetics, brain plasticity, creativity and human nature. It presents philosophical and practical implications in an accessible and entertaining way. It suggests how NLP, Agile and similar approaches can make use of this knowledge - even in something as practical as project management.

Agile is becoming a dirty word because of the way it is being marketed, implemented, over-simplified and misrepresented. Step by step guides and quick fix recipes are of limited use. It is better to free yourself and your projects by learning how to connect the underlying principles to what you want to achieve. Knowing what projects need and why Agile works will help you understand where and how to apply these principles and what to expect. This book explains why Agile was introduced and how the underlying principles and ideas are still relevant. It reviews Agile methods and advises how to take a pragmatic approach to them as a programmer, a project manager and a business stakeholder. If you want to know what Agile really is and how to understand its capabilities - from someone who has implemented and used Agile successfully as a programmer, manager and coach in both small and very large companies - then read this book.

How to find balance and satisfaction in life, work and play. Why things like Agile, Lean, NLP, Systems Thinking and Theory of Constraints are essential for effective project management.

A book of photographs and verse by Barry Evans, author of The Trousers of Reality, celebrating Nuneaton town centre with a foreword by the Nuneaton and Bedworth town centres manager, Alan Ottey.

The Lean Supply Chain: Managing the Challenge at Tesco explores how UK multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer Tesco addresses the challenge of managing its supply chains. The book examines how Tesco has used lean thinking, loyalty and simplicity to achieve its dominant position. It shows how Tesco's senior leadership made a simple but game-changing decision to focus the business on its customers rather than the conventional approach of 'competing with our competitors' and asks whether the approach to managing the supply chain needs to be adapted to deal with current challenges that Tesco faces. The authors look at how the retailer developed and maintains one of the most effective supply chains in the world. The Lean Supply Chain demonstrates Tesco's most successful strategies through real life examples, drawing upon the authors' deep knowledge of how Tesco has developed and succeeded from both an academic and practitioner perspective. It includes an assessment of how Tesco is dealing with current challenges and market changes, including its successful rollout of online shopping and convenience stores as well as how it is attempting to maintain its position as the UK's largest retailer.

The author follows a mythical traveller who arrives in Nuneaton and is captivated by the life and joy of the market town. The stories of the traveller and the market intertwine for a day where Winter turns into Spring at the crossroads of the world. Using the form of a narrative poem supported by images of the market taken over six months this is a breathtaking journey into the meaning of community.

This second thought provoking selection of photographs and poems from the author of "The Trousers of Reality" makes an inspirational gift for friends, family or even yourself. Whether you need cheering up or not you will feel better each time you read it. This stylish little book, along with the first volume, Light Surfaces, will look classy on any coffee table and you will want to keep picking it up to enjoy again and again.

A book of photographs and poetry by the author of "The Trousers of Reality"