In an era when whimsy is often disparaged, this entertaining book uses an unconventional approach to discuss an integral function of everyday life: solving problems and making decisions.

Life Lessons from the Jungle: Naming the Elephant is an amusing tale, in which co-workers sent to a seminar suddenly find themselves in an unexpected setting. With a set of rules entirely different from those in their day-to-day lives, they quickly discover they must complete a simple task that can be accomplished only by pooling talents and sharing experiences.

The interesting personalities of the participants, along with the circumstances in which they find themselves, create an entertaining backdrop against which important lessons are taught - and learned.

Follow Loki, Leo, Petra, and the others as they learn truths about themselves, and those with whom they associate on a daily basis, while helping one another name the elephant.

How to make manufacturing and supply chain software work is no longer much of a mystery. But many companies still have significant delays in getting started, in selecting software, and in solving common software problems. You can make a difference in whether your company experiences software problems or successfully sidesteps its potholes.

The Right Choice shows you how. It gives you the big picture of application software for manufacturing and supply chain management, showing you the entire software scene.

The Right Choice helps you in selecting software. It gives you the tools you need to make a selection quickly and with confidence, refuting the conventional wisdom that taking longer in software selection means implementing faster. It gives detailed information on how to determine your software requirements and how to do an effective job of negotiating with software suppliers.

The Right Choice provides a comprehensive discussion of the issues involved in determining which software programs will best meet your company's needs. Explains how to avoid common pitfalls that can lead to costly delays and determine which functions in the software are missing, need to be modified or should be eliminated, including:

• How to recognize the myths about enterprise application software.
• The elements of a successful system.
• How to define systems requirements.
• How to evaluate software quickly and objectively.
• How to negotiate a software contract.
• Making the system work from a technical perspective.

The Right Choice is for doers, not talkers. It helps you make the right choices and assures you of success with software the first time.

In an era when whimsy is often disparaged, this entertaining book uses an unconventional approach to discuss an integral function of everyday life: solving problems and making decisions.

Life Lessons from the Jungle: Naming the Elephant is an amusing tale, in which co-workers sent to a seminar suddenly find themselves in an unexpected setting. With a set of rules entirely different from those in their day-to-day lives, they quickly discover they must complete a simple task that can be accomplished only by pooling talents and sharing experiences.

The interesting personalities of the participants, along with the circumstances in which they find themselves, create an entertaining backdrop against which important lessons are taught - and learned.

Follow Loki, Leo, Petra, and the others as they learn truths about themselves, and those with whom they associate on a daily basis, while helping one another name the elephant.