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| Gene Bryan Books on Profit Optimization |
| Bryan, Eugene
L. BestPossible Profits: Seven Concepts for Making
Your Company the Best It Can Be. |
| Through almost four decades of pioneering
in profit optimization, Dr. Bryan has developed seven universally applicable concepts that can help
companies within all industries achieve their full potentials. His Part 1 describes and integrates these
concepts into coherent big picture of what is required. Part 2 shows how these concepts can be used by
any organization that chooses to go for BestPossible. |
| Books for Forest Products Companies and Similar Industries |
| Bryan, Eugene
L. BestPossible Profits: Guidebook for Forest
Products Companies. Madison, Wisconsin: Forest
Products Society, 2003 |
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 Publisher's
Review
The author of this guidebook, Dr. Eugene L. Bryan, has nearly
40 years of experience in computer-based systems and management services that help company managers coordinate
the use of raw materials, production capabilities, and market opportunities to achieve optimum (BestPossible)
profits. Part One presents insights and concepts, management tools, and the guidance systems companies need
to understand and use in order to meet challenges and capture opportunities on the way to achieving BestPossible
profits. Part Two outlines opportunity-based management principles and describes how companies can use
optimization technology to produce departmental "roadmaps" to ensure that management efforts
culminate in BestPossible profits. Part Three looks to the future and describes what a company must do to
continually improve its BestPossible profit picture and thus have uninterrupted access to fresh opportunities.
Included is a discussion on how to use internal benchmarking to track progress, minimize slippage, and document
accomplishments. The entire forest products industry is on a high-tech journey into the future. Managers who
are learning to use high-tech management tools to identify and manage complexity are leading this journey. This
guidebook was written for such managers and others who wish to follow their lead. |
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| Bryan, Eugene
L. The BestPossible Sawmill: Guidebook for the
High-Tech Journey Ahead. San Francisco: Miller
Freeman Books, 1996 |
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 Publisher's
Review
This fast-selling book uses management of wood products
operations as a metaphor to address complexities common to most manufacturing and process industries.
Dr. Bryan is a pioneer in the development and application of optimization technologies. As a frequent
speaker and a widely-experienced consultant, Bryan traces a path to a destination he calls BestPossible
in a conversational style, helping professionals manage any mill or plant through systematic enterprise
optimization - the key to maximizing profitability.
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BestPossible Sawmill is a value-packed guide to profit optimization that
includes easy-to-use checklists to help managers make and measure progress. It is both an authoritative
reference and a working handbook for business owners, leaders, and managers. As companies look for new
ways to improve productivity, customer service, competitive position and bottom-line profits, Gene Bryan's
book shows how to plan and manager operations as integrated systems. |
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