Six Sigma Financial
Tracking and Reporting
Publisher:McGraw-Hill
Professional(2005-12-15) | ISBN-10:
0071458913 | PDF | 7.3 Mb | 460 pages
As Six Sigma and Lean
Enterprise techniques continue to evolve and
become more and more engrained in the
business, it is harder and harder to track
the impact of savings on a project by
project basis. Especially when you have more
than one project concentrating on different
functional areas, through the use of case
studies, worked out examples, and bench
marking techniques, Michael Bremer, a Senior
Instructor at Motorola University, helps you
to put the right infrastructure in place for
project identification, project scoping, and
financial reporting.
Real Options Analysis: Tools and
Techniques for Valuing Strategic Investments
and Decisions
Real Options
Analysis: Tools and Techniques for Valuing
Strategic Investments and Decisions
Publisher:Wiley(2002-09-20) | ISBN-10:
047125696X | PDF | 7.3 Mb | 416 pages
Cutting-edge information on the valuation
and application of real options
Most investors and risk managers are
familiar with financial options. But the
real option structure is embedded in
billions of dollars of stocks traded every
day, and in billions of dollars of strategic
or investment decisions made by many
companies. Real options are a useful tool to
guide a firm’s strategic planning, and can
create or enhance a firm’s value.
The Manager's
Step-by-Step Guide to Outsourcing
Publisher:McGraw-Hill(2005-12-05) | ISBN-10:
0071458247 | PDF | 7.3 Mb | 288 pages
Outsource is one of the most complex and
controversial issues in business today.
In an effort to remain competitive, many
leading companies--from Microsoft to
Nike to Pfizer--are incorporating
outsourcing as a strategic part of their
management decision-making. Yet, for
managers responsible for outsourcing,
domestically or internationally, this
field often seems complex, if not
impossible.
Just how does advertising work? This text
takes the reader into the mind of the
consumer, explaining how and why advertising
messages do or do not work. The authors aim
to unravel the mysteries that surround the
art of advertising by sharing their own
commercial insights.
Robert Wright,
«Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny»
Pantheon | ISBN:
0679442529 | January 4, 2000 | 448 pages |
HTML | 1 Mb
“ Nonzero, from New Republic writer
Robert Wright, is a difficult and important
book--well worth reading--addressing the
controversial question of purpose in
evolution. Using language suggesting that
natural selection is a designer's tool,
Wright inevitably draws the conclusion that
evolution is goal-oriented (or at least
moves toward inevitable ends independently
of environmental or contingent variables).
The Servant Leader:
Unleashing the Power of Your People
(Kellogg)
The Servant Leader:
Unleashing the Power of Your People
(Kellogg)
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
(2005-11-07) | ISBN-10: 0810123398 | PDF |
5.3 Mb | 160 pages
The Boston Consulting Group on
Strategy: Classic Concepts and New
Perspectives
The Boston Consulting Group on
Strategy: Classic Concepts and New
Perspectives
Publisher:Wiley (2006-04-28) | ISBN-10:
0471757225 | PDF | 6.3 Mb | 413 pages
Contemporary Reflections on Business
Ethics (Issues in Business Ethics)
Contemporary Reflections on
Business Ethics (Issues in Business
Ethics)
Publisher:Springer (2006-11-28) |
ISBN-10: 1402049838 | PDF | 6.3 Mb |
268 pages
“Provides the hands-on, practical
information that principals need to create,
maintain, and use a professional development
portfolio—a tool that can improve their own
performance and help significantly increase
students’ achievement levels.”
Testing SAP R/3: A Manager’s
Step-by-Step Guide Jose Fajardo /
Elfriede Dustin
Jose Fajardo /
Elfriede Dustin, «Testing SAP R/3: A
Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide»
Wiley | ISBN: 0470055731 | 2007-04-20 | 400
pages | PDF | 2.3 Mb
Testing SAP R/3: A
Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide shows how to
implement a disciplined, efficient, and
proven approach for testing SAP R/3
correctly from the beginning of the SAP
implementation through post-production
support. The book also shows SAP
professionals how to efficiently provide
testing coverage for all SAP objects before
they are moved into a production
environment.
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of
Long-Term Capital Management
When Genius Failed: The Rise and
Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Publisher:Random House Trade
Paperbacks (2001-10-09) | ISBN-10:
0375758259 | PDF | 10.3 Mb | 288
pages
John Meriwether, a famously successful
Wall Street trader, spent the 1980s as a
partner at Salomon Brothers,
establishing the best--and the
brainiest--bond arbitrage group in the
world. A mysterious and shy midwesterner,
he knitted together a group of
Ph.D.-certified arbitrageurs who
rewarded him with filial
Twenty years ago separate account
management programs (SAMs) were reserved for
the sophisticated advisor who only served
the very wealthy. Today, SAM programs have
become available to most advisors and
several layers of the affluent. If you
intend to work with affluent clients that
demand personal and flexible service, you
must have a complete understanding of this
approach to money management–and J.K. Lasser
Pro Separate Account Management is the
perfect guide.
Leading
Out Loud Inspiring Change Through Authentic
Communications, New and Revised
Leading Out Loud
Inspiring Change Through Authentic
Communications, New and Revised.pdf
English | PDF Format | 183
pages | ISBN-10: 0787956228 | Jossey-Bass;
1st edition (July 25, 2003) | 700 KB
Corrosive work relationships are like
black holes that swallow up energy that
people need to do their jobs. In contrast,
high-quality relationships generate and
sustain energy, equipping people to do work
and do it well.
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The Brave
New World of eHR
The Brave New
World of eHR
edited by Hal G.
Gueutal, Dianna L. Stone
Pfeiffer |
ISBN 0-7879-7338-6 | 2005 | PDF | 343 pages
| 1.3 MB
The Brave New World of eHR is an
important resource, filled with the most
current information and practical advice on
eHR for human resource professionals and
industrial and organizational psychologists.
Written by an expert group of scholars,
practitioners, and subject matter experts,
this book offers an overview of the major
technological trends in eHR, and shows how
to use technology to enhance organizational
effectiveness. Comprehensive in scope, the
book includes information on a wide variety
of topics and
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PMP:
Project Management Professional Workbook
PMP: Project
Management Professional Workbook
English | PDF Format | 320
pages | ISBN-13: 978-0782142402 | Sybex;
Workbook edition (June 25, 2003) | 3.90 MB
Book Description
Here’s the one-of-a-kind book that will give
you hands-on experience as you prepare for
the PMP exam sponsored by the Project
Management Institute. This Sybex Workbook
provides:
101
Activities for Teaching Creativity and
Problem Solving
101 Activities for
Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving
Pfeiffer | English | ISBN:
0787974021 | 416 pages | November 16, 2004 |
PDF
Employees who possess problem-solving
skills are highly valued in todays
competitive business environment. The
question is how can employees learn to deal
in innovative ways with new data, methods,
people, and technologies? In this
groundbreaking book, Arthur VanGundy — a
pioneer in the field of idea generation and
problem solving — has compiled 101 group
activities that combine to make a unique
resource for trainers, facilitators, and
human resource professionals. The book is
filled with idea-generation activities that
simultaneously teach the underlying
problem-solving and creativity techniques
involved. Each of the books 101 engaging and
thought-provoking activities includes
facilitator notes and advice on when and how
to use the activity. Using 101 Activities
for Teaching Creativity and Problem Solving
will give you the information and tools you
need to:
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How to Manage Training: A Guide
to Design and Delivery for High
Performance
«How to Manage Training: A Guide
to Design and Delivery for High
Performance»
Carolyn D. Nilson | AMACOM | ISBN
081440779X | 3 edition (April 2003)
| 426 pages| PDF | 2.4 Mb
Already a classic in its field, this
thoroughly-updated edition of the
training manager's ultimate answer book
gives readers clear guidance and
techniques for accomplishing successful,
cost-effective training.
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Managing
Projects in Human Resource
Managing Projects
in Human Resource
Kogan Page | ISBN
0749444797 | PDF | Vivien Martin | 225 Pages
| 1,04 Mb | 2006 Year
This book will help you
to manage your first project and will be a
useful handbook for use in any future
projects you find yourself invited to
manage. It focuses on projects that might be
carried out by staff at an operational level
but will also be attractive to more senior
people who are managing projects for the
first time. Each chapter discusses an aspect
of project management and includes examples
drawn from HR, training and development
settings. Techniques are introduced and
applied to examples, and there are ‘pauses
for thought’ to encourage you to think ideas
through. Further references are provided for
those who want to learn more about Project
management
Operations
Management: Policy, Practice and Performance
Improvement
Steve Brown / Kate
Blackmon / Paul Cousins / Harvey Maylor, «Operations Management: Policy,
Practice and Performance Improvement»
Butterworth-Heinemann |
ISBN 075064995X | 2001-06-18 | 448 pages |
PDF | 5.5 Mb
‘Operations Management: policy,
practices, performance improvement’ is the
latest state-of-the-art approach to
operations management. It provides new
cutting edge input into operations
management theory and practice that cannot
be found in any other text.
Gerald
Lewis, «Organizational Crisis Management:
The Human Factor»
Gerald Lewis, «Organizational Crisis
Management: The Human Factor»
AUERBACH | ISBN: 0849339626 | 1 edition
(March 28, 2006) | 208 pages | PDF | 2 Mb
Organizational Crisis
Management: The Human Factor offers
theoretical background and practical
strategies for responding to workplace
crises. Responding to a paradigm that
focuses on the operational aspects of
continuity to the detriment of human
factors, this volume provides a
comprehensive understanding of the
unavoidable yet often complex reactions of
workforces to a wide array of organizational
disruptions. Based upon the author’s vast
experience in the field, this book is a
“nuts and bolts” resource that you can
immediately apply to a wide range of
organizational environments. The book also
looks at legal and security aspects of
workplace disruption.
Time
Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make
You A Stronger, More Effective Leader
«Time Mastery: How
Temporal Intelligence Will Make You A
Stronger, More Effective Leader»
John K. Clemens / Scott
Dalrymple | AMACOM | ISBN 0814408494 |
2005-06-30 | 210 pages | PDF | 1 Mb
To be most effective, leaders must move
beyond time management to time mastery. Time
managers are reliant on clocks and
calendars; time masters develop an intuitive
sense of timing. Time managers see time as a
fixed, rigid constant; time masters view it
as relative and malleable. Time masters have
what John Clemens and Scott Dalrymple call
the critical skill of “temporal
intelligence.”
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Market
Segmentation: How to do it, how to profit
from it
Malcolm McDonald /
Ian Dunbar, «Market Segmentation: How to do
it, how to profit from it»
Butterworth-Heinemann |
ISBN 0750659815 | October 1, 2004 | 512
pages| PDF | 2.7 Mb
* McDonald and Dunbar are the leading author
team in this area
* Segmentation and marketing mapping are
core areas of the marketing syllabus, and
there is much that is new as a result of the
new segmentation possibilities from
e-marketing and e-business
* The book has a textbook feel, which
highlights the diagrams and market maps (key
elements of the book)
Leslie de
Chernatony / Malcolm McDonald, «Creating
Powerful Brands, Third Edition»
Butterworth-Heinemann |
ISBN 0750659807 | 3 edition (October 22,
2003) | 496 pages | PDF | 7 Mb
This is the third edition of one of
world’s most respected and successful books
on branding. Written by an internationally
acclaimed branding expert and author of From
Brand Vision to Brand Evaluation, it has
been comprehensively revised and updated
with a raft of new cases and examples.
DRAMATIC Success at Work: Using
Theatre Skills to Improve Your
Performance and Transform Your Business
Life
«DRAMATIC Success at Work: Using
Theatre Skills to Improve Your
Performance and Transform Your
Business Life»
Andrew Leigh | Nicholas Brealey
Publishing | ISBN 1857883403 |
2004-04 | 256 pages| PDF | 1.7 Mb
Now anyone in business can become a star
performer with this practical and
entertaining guide to the tools and
techniques of the performing arts that
can dramatically improve workplace
performance.
Improving Employee Performance
Through Workplace Coaching
Improving Employee Performance
Through Workplace Coaching: A
Practical Guide to Performance
Management by Earl Carter (Author),
Francis McMahon (Author)
Publisher: Kogan Page (December 1,
2005) | ISBN-10: 0749444649 | PDF |
2,1 Mb | 192 pages
Accessible guidance for supervisors and
team leaders on performance management
Earl Carter runs his own consultancy
business. His numerous clients include
Esso Australia, Exxon Mobil, and
Tetrapak. He is the co-author of The
Return of the Mentor: Strategies for
Workplace Learning, The Great Training
Robbery: A Guide to the Purchase of
Quality Training, Work Based Learning
and From Cop to Coach - The Role of the
Supervisor in the 90s, which he wrote
with Frank McMahon. Francis McMahon is a
mamagement consultant
specializing in performance improvement
processes. Clients include Esso, Federal
Hotels, National
Foods, Mobil Refinery and Terminal and
Phillip Morris. Publications include
Towards Best Practice in Labor Relations
and Approaches to Measuring Performance.
Inside the Minds: Leading CEOs -
CEOs from Duke Energy, Office Depot,
Corning & More on Management,
Building a Company, and Profiting in
Any Type of Economy (Inside the
Minds) by Inside the Minds (Editor)
Publisher: Aspatore Books (May 2002)
| ISBN-10: 1587620553 | PDF | 1 Mb |
180 pages
The John Adair Handbook of
Management and Leadership by John Adair
The John Adair Handbook of
Management and Leadership by John
Adair (Author)
Publisher: Thorogood (March 16,
1998) | ISBN-10: 1854180045 | PDF |
1,5 Mb | 240 pages
Seven Steps to a Successful
Business Plan
American
Management
Association | 2001 | 428 pages |
ISBN-10: 0814406483 | 3.79 MB | PDF
As the saying goes, "People don't plan
to fail--they fail to plan." In
business, this failing is fatal--because
planning is essential to the well-being
and success of any company. Seven Steps
to a Successful Business Plan cuts past
the traditional planning problems, and
provides readers with a documented
method of building a simplified business
plan that works!
Goals!: How to Get Everything
You Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought
Possible
Goals!: How to Get Everything You
Want -- Faster Than You Ever Thought
Possible [AUDIOBOOK] by Brian Tracy
(Narrator)
Publisher: The Audio Partners;
Abridged edition (December 19, 2003)
| ISBN-10: 157270358X | MP3 | 156 Mb
Though goal-setting is often
overintellectualized, achievement expert
Brian Tracy makes the process come to
life as an essential ingredient for any
type of personal development. He's been
refining these ideas for 20 years, and
no important insight is overlooked.
Tracy's extraordinary thinking is always
expressed in practical action steps.
Listeners don't get bogged down with
anything not immediately useful to the
quest. The focus is on clarity,
definition, and doing whatever it takes
to move toward your important desires.
In every word listeners will hear
Tracy's urgency and his heartfelt wish
that none of us give up on the path to
worthwhile goals, whatever they may be.
T.Lloyd, K.E.Sveiby, "Managing
Knowhow"
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | ISBN /
ASIN:0747500738 | 1987 | 208 | PDF |
1.7MB
Managing KnowHow is widely regarded as a
seminal work in the area of managing
knowledge and knowledge organisations,
since it was the first time authors
suggested the existence of knowledge
organisations, not just knowledge
workers. The book also became known for
its forecast of the demise of Saatchi &
Saatchi at a time when the brothers
still were the favourites of The City
Lean Six Sigma for Service : How
to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma Quality
to Improve Services and Transactions
Lean Six Sigma for Service : How
to Use Lean Speed and Six Sigma
Quality to Improve Services and
Transactions
McGraw-Hill; 1 edition | ISBN:
0071418210 | 300 pages | June 27,
2003 | CHM
Bring the miracle of Lean Six Sigma
improvement out of manufacturing and
into services
Much of the U.S. economy is now based on
services rather than manufacturing. Yet
the majority of books on Six Sigma and
Lean--today's major quality improvement
initiatives--explain only how to
implement these techniques in a
manufacturing environment.
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Going Global Country Career
Guides
Going Global Country Career
Guides
English | Going Global | RAR&PDF
Practical, proven techniques for
managing today's smaller, more
mission-critical projects
Managers who can bring projects in on
time, under budget, and within specs are
among the most valuable and marketable
in today's project-driven environment.
Just Enough Project Management-- written
by globally renowned project management
authority Curtis R. Cook--is a
quick-hitting, no-nonsense pocket guide
on how to successfully handle projects
of any size, in any environment.
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Peter Drucker - Innovation and Entrepreneurship AUDIO
BOOK
Peter Drucker «Innovation and Entrepreneurship
AUDIO BOOK»
Collins | ISBN: 0060851139, 978-0060851132 | mp3
| 224 Kbps | (50 x 4 + 5) MB | English
Book Description
Peter Drucker's classic book on innovation and entrepreneurship
Current Security Management &
Ethical Issues of Information Technology
Current Security Management &
Ethical Issues of Information
Technology
Irm Press | ISBN: 1931777438 | 322
pages | 2.5 MB | CHM
This scholarly examination of the
ethical issues in
information technolgy management covers
basic details such as improving user
education and developing security
requirements as well as more complicated
and far-reaching problems such as
protecting
jnfrastructure against
information warfare. Social
responsibility is analyzed with global
examples and applications, including
knowledge-based society in Latin
America, socioeconomics factors of
technology in the United States, and
system ethics in the Arab world.
The Career Coward's Guide to
Interviewing: Sensible Strategies for
Overcoming Job Search Fears
Katy Piotrowski, «The Career
Coward's Guide to Interviewing:
Sensible Strategies for Overcoming
Job Search Fears
(Career Coward's Guides)»
JIST Works | ISBN 1593573898 |
2007-02 | PDF | 3 Mb | 207 pages
Top 100 Careers for College
Graduates: Your Complete Guidebook to
Major Jobs in Many Fields
«Top 100 Careers for College
Graduates: Your Complete Guidebook
to Major Jobs in Many Fields»
Michael Farr | JIST Works | ISBN
1593573189 | 7 edition (January
2007) | PDF | 6.5 Mb | 424 pages
Editorial Reviews
Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D., author of The
Accelerated
Job search
"The author has done a great job in
pulling together the elements that spell
success in the quest for employment."
Book Description
Explore 100 top careers requiring
bachelor's and higher degrees, match
them to your skills, and get a
good job quickly. Download Page
Design for Six Sigma : A Roadmap for
Product Development
Design for Six Sigma : A Roadmap for
Product Development
McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition |
ISBN: 0071412085 | 624 pages | May 21,
2003 | PDF
The TRIZ Journal is pleased to announce the
publication of Design for Six Sigma: A
Roadmap for Product Development. Drs. Kai
Yang and Basem El-Haik have delivered a
tremendous research effort that will support
the successful implementation of DFSS for
years to come.
The book is organized into eighteen
chapters. A table indicating the chapter
content is included for your use.
Microsoft(R) Operations Manager 2005
Unleashed (MOM): With A Preview of
Operations Manager 2007
Microsoft(R) Operations Manager 2005
Unleashed (MOM): With A Preview of
Operations Manager 2007
Sams | ISBN-10: 067232928X | November
29, 2006 | 984 pages | PDF | 23.8MB
Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Unleashed
provides a comprehensive guide to Microsoft
Operations Manager (MOM) 2005. MOM is a tool
that helps implement
operations
management, but it is not
a piece of software that you can simply
install and instantly have working.
This book provides reference material that
will guide you through the steps to design,
deploy, and configure MOM within your
environment. You learn how to tune your MOM
environment and tackle common challenges,
such as managing your
Microsoft
operating
systems, directory
services, messaging platforms, and
databases. Inside you will find
comprehensive information on how to develop
your own reports and management packs for
your MOM environment as well as practical
real-world examples, based on hands-on MOM
experience.
Michael Watkins, «The First 90 Days
Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders
at All»
Michael Watkins, «The First 90 Days
Critical Success Strategies for New
Leaders at All»
ISBN: 1591391105 | Publisher: Harvard
Business School Press | Type: CHM |
Size: 1108 kb
Stefano Caselli (Editor), Stefano
Gatti (Editor), «Banking for Family
Business: A New Challenge for Wealth
Management»
Stefano Caselli (Editor), Stefano
Gatti (Editor), «Banking for Family
Business: A New Challenge for Wealth
Management»
ISBN: 3540227989 | Publisher:
Springer | Publication Date:
2005-03-14 | Number Of Pages: 224 |
pdf | 1,3 mb
The Performance Appraisal Question
and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for
Managers
The Performance Appraisal Question
and Answer Book: A Survival Guide for
Managers
English | PDF Format | 238 pages |
ISBN-10: 0814407471 | AMACOM/American
Management Association (June 2002) |
1.16 MB
Dayton, Ohio News, June 24, 2002
..shows how to make the process productive
rather than painful...targets
managers,provides valuable insight for
employees on the process, too.
The Globe & Mail Toronto
Superb guide establishing & implementing a
performance appraisal system in a small or
large company,steering you through all the
pitfalls
What Every New Manager Needs to
Know: Making a Successful Transition to
Management
What Every New Manager Needs to Know:
Making a Successful Transition to
Management
English | PDF Format | 256 pages |
ISBN-10: 081447179X | AMACOM/American
Management Association (September 2003)
| 650 KB
ERP and Data Warehousing in
Organizations: Issues and Challenges
ERP and Data Warehousing in
Organizations: Issues and Challenges
English | PDF Format | 316 pages |
978-1931777490 | Irm Press (April 1,
2003) | 2.82 MB
Book Description
Offering enterprise resource planning (ERP)
deployment strategies for information as
diverse as patient records, police and
community relations, and geospatial
services, this text addresses the complex
issues that information and communication
technologies pose for small, midsize, and
large organizations. Provided are recent
research findings as well as practical
assessments and suggestions for managers.
Advanced Project Portfolio Management
and the PMO Multiplying ROI at Warp
Speed
English | PDF Format | 978-1932159028 |
434 pages | J. Ross Publishing (April
2003) | 4 MB
This comprehensive book covers the strategy,
tactics, and processes needed for successful
project portfolio management. It outlines a
road map to unprecedented project management
improvement and includes a detailed
implementation plan for both strategic
planning and a PMO that gives you measurable
results in weeks. The authors delineate four
processes that get a PMO off the ground much
faster, driving bottom-line value almost
immediately. It includes real PMO case
studies, provides a way to evaluate your PMO,
illustrates how Six Sigma and the PMO can
support each other and be used to drive
bottom-line value and presents the new
Theory of Constraints 4x4 method of
strategic planning and the Critical Chain
Multi-Project Management approach. . This
book shows you how to turn a PMO into a
value machine.
Andrew J. Sherman, «Raising Capital»
ISBN: 0938721739 | Publisher: Kiplinger
Books | Publication Date: 2000-06 |
Number Of Pages: 300 | pdf | 2,3 mb
Book Description
Raising Capital helps readers navigate the
murky waters of
entrepreneurial
finance, from traditional sources such as
banks, "angels" and private placements to
venture capital, initial public offerings,
joint ventures, vendor financing and raising
capital via the Internet.
Harvard Business School Press - Blue
Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Strategy | Harvard
Business School Press | W. Chan Kim,
Renee Mauborgne | PDF | DOI:
10.1225/6190 | 1.4 Mb
Since the dawn of the industrial age,
companies have engaged in head-to-head
competition in search of sustained,
profitable growth. They have fought for
competitive advantage, battled over market
share, and struggled for differentiation.
Yet, these hallmarks of competitive strategy
are not the way to create profitable growth
in the future.
John Watson, «Pro Oracle
Collaboration Suite 10g»
Apress | ISBN: 159059679X | September
25, 2006 | 464 Pages | PDF | 11.3 MB
OCS is becoming the dominant product for
large-scale collaboration – blending core
functions of e-mail, file serving, and diary
management with the additional functionality
of web conferencing, instant messaging, and
wireless access. Pro Oracle Collaboration
Suite 10g provides all you need to know to
install and configure OCS for use, but this
book is much more than a to-do list.
It covers the architecture of the server
processes and the applications, giving you
the theoretical background to take OCS
beyond the basics. There's no need to worry
if you're new to the Oracle database, Oracle
Components for Java environment (OC4J), HTTP
web server, or LDAP Internet
directories--everything is explained
carefully. But if you are already familiar
with these topics, you'll learn how to fully
exploit them in order to optimize your OCS
installation.
Patrick Lenz, «Build Your Own Ruby on
Rails Web Applications»
SitePoint | ISBN: 0975841955 | February
1, 2007 | 425 Pages | PDF | 7.1 MB
Want to learn all about Ruby on Rails, the
web application framework that is inspiring
developers around the world? This practical
hands-on guide for first-time Ruby on Rails
programmers will walk you through installing
the required software on a Windows, Mac or
Linux computer. And before you get coding,
an entire chapter is devoted to object
oriented programming in Ruby, so you'll be
completely confident with the Ruby language
before you begin working with Rails.
Packt Publishing | ISBN-10:
1904811116 | January 9, 2007 | 356 pages
| PDF | 9.1MB
This well-crafted and easy-to-use
book is a complete guide to implementing
enterprise content management in your
business using Alfresco. It guides you
through creating smart, collaborative
content repositories, and shows how to
use Alfresco to create more elegant
document sharing, better collaborative
working, and reliable automated workflow
processes. Alfresco offers Enterprise
Content Management (ECM) aspires to be "Documentum
fast and free", and was founded by a
former Documentum executive. Alfresco
can store a wide range of digital
content in flexible, smart "spaces".
Content is accessible through a web
interface, shared network folders, FTP,
WebDav, and other methods. Users can set
up Alfresco to process content in
certain ways, according to business
rules and workflow requirements.
The Transportation Experience:
Policy, Planning, and Deployment
The Transportation Experience:
Policy, Planning, and Deployment
ISBN: 0195172515 | 3.4 MB PDF | Author:
William L. Garrison David M. Levinson |
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
While much of the transportation systems in
Europe and the United States are mature (if
not senescent), the rest of the world is
still planning, developing, and deploying
new systems. The accomplishments and
mistakes of places like the United Kingdom
and the United States, then, can teach us
lessons that may be applied to places where
transportation remains nascent or
adolescent. The Transportation Experience
seeks to understand the genesis of
transportation policy in America and the UK,
along with the roles that this policy plays
as systems are innovated, deployed, and
reach maturity, and how policies might be
improved. The work presents case studies of
particular transport experiences in rail,
road, water and air (with a special emphasis
on railroads), and then finds commonalities
in all of these experiences with thematic
analyses that are often bold and
unconventional. The book is predicated on
the idea that the story of transportation
policy can tell us what transportation, is,
does, and might do in the future, and at an
even broader level, how society has learned
to create, deliver, and operate large,
complicated systems. It should appeal to
students and researchers in a broad array of
fields, including geography, civil and
environmental engineering, and public
policy.
Cooperative Stochastic Differential
Games
ISBN: 0387276203 | 2.3 MB PDF | Author:
David W.K. Yeung Leon A. Petrosyan |
Publisher: Springer
Stochastic differential games represent one
of the most complex forms of decision making
under uncertainty. In particular,
interactions between strategic behaviors,
dynamic evolution and stochastic elements
have to be considered simultaneously. The
complexity of stochastic differential games
generally leads to great difficulties in the
derivation of solutions. Cooperative games
hold out the promise of more socially
optimal and group efficient solutions to
problems involving strategic actions.
Despite urgent calls for national and
international cooperation, the absence of
formal solutions has precluded rigorous
analysis of this problem. The book supplies
effective tools for rigorous study of
cooperative stochastic differential games.
In particular, a generalized theorem for the
derivation of analytically tractable "payoff
distribution procedure" of subgame
consistent solution is presented. Being
capable of deriving analytical tractable
solutions, the work is not only
theoretically interesting but would enable
the hitherto intractable problems in
cooperative stochastic differential games to
be fruitfully explored. Currently, this book
is the first ever volume devoted to
cooperative stochastic differential games.
It aims to provide its readers an effective
tool to analyze cooperative arrangements of
conflict situations with uncertainty over
time. Cooperative game theory has succeeded
in offering many applications of game theory
in operations research, management,
economics, politics and other disciplines.
The extension of these applications to a
dynamic environment with stochastic elements
should be fruitful. The book will be of
interest to game theorists, mathematicians,
economists, policy-makers, corporate
planners and graduate students.
J. Davidson Frame,«Managing Projects in
Organizations: How to Make the Best Use of Time,
Techniques, and People»
John Wiley | ISBN 0787968315 | PDF | 1,05 Mb | 288
Pages | 2003 Year
"The New Project Management examines the new realities
of project management: managing risk, maintaining
quality of goods and services, outsourcing, satisfying
customers, and communicating effectively with managers,
customers, vendors, and staff."
The Forward MBA in Business Communication
Author: Lauren Vicker & Ron Hein
The Fast Forward MBA in Business Communication brings you
the information youneed when you need it most- now! This
practical, easy-to-use guide gives
you instant access to the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won
wisdom of two of today's leading experts on business
communication. In short, lively segments
using real-world examples, it delivers the information you
need to navigate complex communication issues. You'll find
brief descriptions of key concepts,
tips on real-world applications, compact case studies, tips
on finding your communication strategy, and warnings on how
to avoid pitfalls. Here are all
the tools you need to improve your business writing and
presentation skills-and become a more successful manager in
the process. You'll discover how to:
The Art of Project Management by Scott Berkun
Publisher: O'Reilly Media (April 22, 2005) |
ISBN-10: 0596007868 | CHM | 4,7 Mb | 488 pages
The Art of Project Management' covers it all--from
practical methods for making sure work gets done right and
on time, to the mindset that can make you a great leader
motivating your team to do their best. Reading this was like
reading the blueprint for how the best projects are managed
at Microsoft... I wish we always put these lessons into
action!" --Joe Belfiore, General Manager, E-home Division,
Microsoft Corporation "Berkun has written a fast paced,
jargon-free and witty guide to what he wisely refers to as
the 'art' of project management. It's a great introduction
to the discipline. Seasoned and new managers will benefit
from Berkun's perspectives." --Joe Mirza, Director, CNET
Networks (Cnet.com) "Most books with the words 'project
management' in the title are dry tomes. If that's what you
are expecting to hear from Berkun's book, you will be
pleasantly surprised. Sure, it's about project management.
But it's also about creativity, situational problem-solving,
and leadership. If you're a team member, project manager, or
even a non-technical stakeholder, Scott offers dozens of
practical tools and techniques you can use, and questions
you can ask, to ensure your projects succeed." --Bill Bliss,
Senior VP of product and customer experience, expedia.com In
The Art of Project Management, you'll learn from a veteran
manager of software and web development how to plan, manage,
and lead projects. This personal account of hard lessons
learned over a decade of work in the industry distills
complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of
useful advice. Inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling,
this is the book you and your team need to have within arms
reach. It will serve you well with your current work, and on
future projects to come. Topics include:
Muska & Lipman/Premier-Trade; 3 edition | ISBN:
1931841357 | June 15, 2002 | 886 pages | PDF
With Project 2002, you've already purchased the most
comprehensive project management software available. Now
you've found the perfect resource to ensure that you get the
most out of your investment. Managing with Microsoft Project
2002 is a one-of-a-kind guide to successful project
planning. From setting up a new project and making
adjustments along the way to sharing and publishing your
project information, this book has the tips you need to most
effectively manage your project from start to finish.
Decision Analysis for Management Judgment by
Paul Goodwin, George Wright
Decision Analysis for Management Judgment by
Paul Goodwin, George Wright
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 3 edition (March 1,
2004) | ISBN-10: 0470861088 | PDF | 4,8 Mb | 492
pages
In an increasingly complex world, decision analysis
plays a key role in helping managers gain a greater
understanding of the situations they face. This updated
classic offers unrivalled coverage of the problems
associated with unaided managerial decision making and
themethods designed to overcome them, all presented and
explained in a clear, straightforward manner. The Third
Edition is extensively updated and reflects new
developments such as 'fast and frugal heuristics' and
"structured risk management". A new website will offer
links, additional exercises and case studies
Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy
Play to Win: The Nonprofit Guide to Competitive Strategy
by David La Piana, Michaela Hayes
2.0 MB | PDF
Play to Win offers nonprofit leaders the help they
need to develop their organization’s unique competitive
advantages and to use the power of competitive strategies to
build their organization’s capacity for advancing its
mission. This book offers a clear description of competition
and discusses its practical, ethical, and political
ramifications within the nonprofit sector. It demonstrates
how, by being a more effective competitor, a nonprofit can
enhance its chances for both programmatic and financial
success. Play to Win is filled with practical tools for
assessing a nonprofit’s position in the marketplace and
developing winning competitive strategies.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Starting a Business is a
comprehensive introductory guide to all of the
considerations required when starting a business.Perhaps you
wish to find out more about what working for yourself
involves. Maybe you have already decided you want to start
your own business, but are unsure whether your idea is
viable or if you really have what it takes. You may even
have started a business recently and are looking for advice
on moving things forward - wherever you are on your journey
the No-Nonsense Guide to Starting a Business will help you.
The guide is a 74-page publication, in an easy-to-follow
workbook format allowing you to dip in and out or work
through section by section
Dynamic Scheduling With
Microsoft Project 2002: The Book
by and for Professionals by Eric
Uyttewaal
Dynamic Scheduling
With Microsoft Project 2002:
The Book by and for
Professionals by Eric
Uyttewaal
Publisher: J. Ross
Publishing (April 2003) |
ISBN: 1932159134 | PDF |
12,8 Mb | 704 pages
Achieving Project
Management Success Using Virtual
Teams by Parviz F. Rad, Ginger
Levin
Achieving Project
Management Success Using
Virtual Teams by Parviz F.
Rad, Ginger Levin
Publisher: J. Ross
Publishing, Inc. (May 2003)
| ISBN: 1932159037 | CHM |
2,6 Mb | 240 pages
How to Negotiate Like a
Child: Unleash the Little
Monster Within to Get Everything
You Want
Bill Adler, «How to
Negotiate Like a Child:
Unleash the Little Monster
Within to Get Everything You
Want»
AMACOM | ISBN 081447294X |
2005-10-30 | PDF | 1 Mb |
161 Pages
Synopsis:
Look into the eyes of a
child and you will find
yourself face-to-face with
one of the world's greatest
negotiators. Children are
naturals at manipulating,
cajoling arguing,
sweet-talking and conning
their parents into pretty
much anything they want on a
regular basis. So why don't
we as adults borrow a page
or two from their playbook?
Managers Not MBAs: A Hard Look at the Soft Practice of Managing
and Management Development by Henry Mintzberg
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (August 9, 2005) | ISBN:
1576753514 | CHM | 2,4 Mb | 480 pages
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