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← All guides- The Bicycle Guide toInternet Marketing Essentials A Comprehensive Digital Marketing TextbookA practical, up-to-date primer that teaches how the core disciplines of internet marketing—SEO, paid search, display advertising, landing pages, analytics, email, social media, reputation management, and mobile—work together to drive traffic, conversions, and revenue for any kind of website.
- The Bicycle Guide toInternet Marketing Integrating Online and Offline StrategiesA comprehensive guide to integrating online and offline marketing strategies across the customer lifecycle of acquisition, conversion, retention, and value growth.
- The Bicycle Guide toIntroduction to Statistical and Machine Learning Methods for Data ScienceA practitioner-oriented overview of the statistical and machine learning methods used across the data science lifecycle, emphasizing business applicability over math and code.
- The Bicycle Guide toInventory and Production Management in Supply Chains, Fourth EditionA comprehensive guide to operational models and decision systems that bridge the gap between theory and practice for effective inventory management and production planning in modern supply chains.
- The Bicycle Guide toInventory Optimization Models and SimulationsA practical, code-driven guide to optimizing inventory policies through mathematical models and simulations, covering everything from the classic EOQ to multi-echelon networks and simulation optimization.
- The Bicycle Guide toIT Governance Metrics Measurement and Benchmarking Best Practice Workbook Roadmap, Implementation and Management - Ready to…A practical workbook that shows IT organizations how to measure, benchmark, and continually improve service performance using ITIL, ISO/IEC 20000, Six Sigma, and ROI techniques.
- The Bicycle Guide toLeading TeamsEffective work teams come not from leaders managing behavior in real time but from leaders creating and sustaining five enabling conditions that set the stage for great team performance.
- The Bicycle Guide toLean but agile rethink workforce planning and gain a true competitive edgeA strategic playbook for rethinking work and staffing by clarifying measurable customer-driven outcomes first, then designing lean-but-agile work processes and a flexible talent pool to achieve them at optimal cost and speed.
- The Bicycle Guide toLean ThinkingA foundational guide that introduces five core principles—Value, Value Stream, Flow, Pull, and Perfection—to help organizations systematically eliminate waste, create more value for customers with fewer resources, and achieve dramatic improvements in performance.
- The Bicycle Guide toLeveraging HR metrics leading HR executives on adding value, evaluating productivity, and demonstrating tangible resultsA collection of essays from leading HR executives on how to use metrics to link human resources initiatives directly to business outcomes, demonstrating HR's strategic value and driving organizational success.
- The Bicycle Guide toMachine Learning EngineeringA practical, end-to-end guide to the engineering principles and best practices required to successfully build, deploy, and maintain machine learning systems in production.
- The Bicycle Guide toMaintenance management systems in evolutionThis collection of papers explores the evolution of road and street maintenance management systems, detailing trends in budgeting, computerization, priority assessment, risk management, and the increasing use of contract maintenance to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- The Bicycle Guide toMaintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, 2nd Edition (McGraw-Hill Handbooks)A practical handbook detailing a system of maintenance planning and scheduling principles that dramatically boosts labor productivity, increases plant reliability, and transforms maintenance from a reactive cost center into a proactive competitive advantage.
- The Bicycle Guide toMaintenance Work Management Processes Maintenance Strategy SeriesA practical guide to transforming a maintenance department into a proactive, profit-generating business function by implementing disciplined work management processes centered on the full utilization of the work order system.
- The Bicycle Guide toManaging Factory MaintenanceA practical field guide to transforming a reactive maintenance department into a proactive, world-class function that boosts plant output, reduces costs, and eventually shrinks the need for maintenance itself.
- The Bicycle Guide toMarketing Analytics 7 Easy Steps to Master Marketing Metrics, Data Analysis, Consumer Insights: Forecasting ModelingA practical three-part guide that teaches marketers and brand owners to build a marketing strategy, brand a business, and use marketing analytics to make data-driven decisions in seven easy steps each.
- The Bicycle Guide toMARKETING ANALYTICS A PRACTITIONERS GUIDE TO MARKETING ANALYTICS AND RESEARCH METHODSA comprehensive practitioner's guide to using modern marketing analytics and research methods to craft effective market strategies and drive brand performance in the digital age.
- The Bicycle Guide toMarketing analytics: a practical guide to real marketing scienceA practitioner's conversational guide to applying statistical and econometric techniques to real marketing problems in order to quantify the causality of consumer behavior and drive strategic decisions.
- The Bicycle Guide toMarketing analytics: data-driven techniques with Microsoft ExcelA practical guide that teaches marketing professionals and students how to use Microsoft Excel to apply a wide range of data-driven analytical techniques to solve common marketing problems.
- The Bicycle Guide toMarketing by the dashboard light: how to get more insight, foresight, and accountability from your marketing investmentsA practical guide for marketers on how to design, build, and implement a marketing dashboard to gain insight, foresight, and accountability from their investments, ultimately proving marketing's value and increasing its credibility within the organization.
- The Bicycle Guide toMarketing metrics: the managers guide to measuring marketing performanceA definitive and practical guide for managers on how to choose, calculate, and interpret the most valuable marketing metrics to measure performance, justify investments, and make data-driven decisions.
- The Bicycle Guide toMarketing Research (Chris West (auth.))A practical, applications-focused guide that teaches marketing managers how to define information needs, choose research methods, commission and control research projects, and turn market data into decision-ready knowledge.
- The Bicycle Guide toMeasuring and managing performance in organizations (Austin, Robert D. (Robert Daniel), 1962-)An analysis of why performance measurement systems in organizations often backfire, creating dysfunction and destroying value, and how a trust-based, delegatory management style can be a more effective alternative.
- The Bicycle Guide toMethods of Operations Research (Dover Books on Computer Science)A foundational text that codifies operations research as a scientific method for giving executives a quantitative basis for decisions about the operations under their control, drawn largely from World War II military analysis.
- The Bicycle Guide toOperations Research and Management Science Handbook (The Operations Research Series)A comprehensive, single-volume handbook providing a complete overview of Operations Research and Management Science models, methods, and their practical applications across various industries.
- The Bicycle Guide toOperations Research for Social Good A Practitioners Introduction Using SAS® and PythonA practical guide that teaches data scientists and operations research practitioners how to model and solve real-world social good problems using mathematical optimization with SAS and Python.
- The Bicycle Guide toOperations Research Using Excel A Case Study ApproachThis book teaches students and practitioners how to solve complex business decision-making problems by applying quantitative Operations Research techniques using a case study approach with Excel.
- The Bicycle Guide toPeople Analytics & Text Mining with RA practical, beginner-friendly guide to using free R software to run People Analytics, predictive HR modeling, social media mining, and text/sentiment analysis to link HR levers to business outcomes.
- The Bicycle Guide toPeople Analytics Data to DecisionsA practitioner's guide showing how HR can transform from a gut-feel, transactional function into a data-driven strategic partner by deploying People Analytics across the entire employee lifecycle to drive measurable business outcomes.
- The Bicycle Guide toPeople Analytics For DummiesA practical guide for HR professionals and business leaders on using data analysis to make smarter, evidence-based decisions about people, connecting human resources to tangible business outcomes and creating a competitive advantage.
- The Bicycle Guide toPeople analytics in the era of big data changing the way you attract, acquire, develop, and retain talentThis book provides a practical framework, the "Seven Pillars of People Analytics Success," for business and HR leaders to leverage data analytics across the entire talent lifecycle—from workforce planning to retention—to improve business outcomes and gain a competitive advantage.
- The Bicycle Guide toPeople Analytics Theory, Tools and TechniquesA practical, hands-on guide that demystifies people analytics for managers and students by teaching the metrics, visualization tools, and statistical techniques needed to turn workforce data into evidence-based HR decisions.
- The Bicycle Guide toPerformance Dashboards Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your BusinessA comprehensive guide to designing, building, and deploying performance dashboards as layered information systems that enable organizations to effectively measure, monitor, and manage business performance to achieve strategic objectives.
- The Bicycle Guide toPerformance measurement systems in the health and care sector: Are targets and monitoring additional demands or resources for employees?An empirical study of how core performance measurement practices—targets and monitoring—shape health and care employees' perceptions of their work conditions, and in turn their wellbeing and organisational commitment.
- The Bicycle Guide toPractical Monitoring Effective Strategies for the Real WorldA practical, tool-agnostic guide to building effective, trustworthy monitoring across business, frontend, application, server, network, and security layers by focusing on principles rather than tools.
- The Bicycle Guide toPractical Statistics for Data ScientistsA practitioner's guide to the 50+ core statistical concepts data scientists actually need, explaining which classical methods matter for modern data work and why.
- The Bicycle Guide toPredictive Analytics for Human ResourcesA practical, step-by-step guide to applying descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics to human capital so HR can uncover the causal drivers of workforce outcomes and connect talent decisions to business value.
- The Bicycle Guide toPredictive Analytics in Human Resource Management A Hands-on ApproachA hands-on, step-by-step guide showing HR managers how to apply predictive analytics tools like artificial neural networks and K-nearest neighbour in R to predict HR outcomes such as turnover and applicant success, thereby transforming HR from an intuition-driven function into a data-driven strategic partner.
- The Bicycle Guide toPredictive HR Analytics, Text Mining: Organizational Network Analysis with ExcelA practical, do-it-yourself guide showing HR professionals how to run predictive analytics, text mining, sentiment analysis, and organizational network analysis entirely in Microsoft Excel to drive better business decisions.
- The Bicycle Guide toPredictive Marketing: Easy Ways Every Marketer Can Use Customer Analytics and Big DataA practical guide showing how every marketer—not just data scientists at giant companies—can use big data, customer analytics, and machine learning to deliver personalized experiences that maximize customer lifetime value.