Ken Edward Platt

Strategy and Performance: Competing through Competences

In a world where customers are fickle and markets change overnight, you need to be ready to move rapidly when opportunities or threats arise. This book helps you to understand your organization's potential, its capabilities and limitations, so when new challenges appear, you'll know how to manage yo...

Strategy and Performance: Creating a Winning Business Formula

The right manufacturing strategy is vital to maintaining profitability and running an efficient business. Manufacturing, however, is a complex business, and it is often difficult to know where to start when reviewing and developing long term strategic plans. This industry guide explains in clear, si...

Strategy and Performance: Getting the Measure of Your Business (v. 3)

Understanding how your manufacturing business performs is essential to remain competitive, but extremely difficult to do. The main purpose of this book is to provide directors, managers, change agents and consultants with simple but effective tools to help design and implement performance measuremen...

Make-or-buy: A Practical Guide to Industrial Sourcing Decisions

A step-by-step guide to addressing make-or-buy decisions in a consistent and structure manner. The workbook: explains how to review all the factors relevant to make-or-buy decisions - not just cost; reveals the "hidden" costs of buying in from a supplier; and provides examples and case studies.

Competitive Manufacturing: A Practical Approach to the Development of a Manufacturing Strategy

This workbook provides an introduction to manufacturing strategy and includes a manufacturing audit to reassess products in relation to emerging markets and world-class competition. It aims to help the reader to formulate a new strategy derived from the particular needs of his or her company.

Competitive Manufacturing: A Practical Approach to the Development of a Manufacturing Strategy

Winning Decisions: Translating Business Strategy into Action Plans

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Ken Platt

Ken Platt (born Kenneth Platt, 17 February 1921, Leigh, Lancashire 2 October 1998, Blackpool, Lancashire) was a British northern comedian.