On Time, Within Budget Software Project Management Practices and Techniques

On Time, Within Budget Software Project Management Practices and Techniques
E. M. Bennatan | 1995-01-01 00:00:00 | John Wiley & Sons Inc | 256 | Management
A survival guide packed with project management methods and techniques, this text provides a systematic approach to software development, from initial planning to the final product. Includes detailed information on avoiding many common software development problems and managing large software projects, as well as newly updated IEEE standards, an overview of ISO standards, and more.
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Presentation Skills For Managers

Presentation Skills For Managers
Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo Jr. | 2001-01-01 00:00:00 | McGraw-Hill | 180 | Management
Jennifer Rotondo, Mike Rotondo Jr., "Presentation Skills For Managers"
McGraw-Hill | 2001 | ISBN: 0071379304 | 180 pages | PDF | 4 MB

This reader-friendly series is must read for all levels of managers
ll managers, whether brand-new to their positions or well established in the corporate hierarchy, can use a little brushing-up now and then. The skills-based Briefcase Books Series is filled with ideas and strategies to help managers become more capable, efficient, effective, and valuable to their corporations.
The ability to give a great presentation can be a tremendous career booster, while the opposite can keep a manager on a dead-end path. Presentation Skills for Managers is a practical, advice-filled book on how to create and make compelling and persuasive presentations. Besides reviewing material on preparing and delivering effective presentations, it includes new special coverage of the development and use of Powerpoint slides, something not found in most books on presentations.
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Operations Management

Operations Management
Albert Porter | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | bookboon.com, 1 edition | 64 | Management
Whether it is tangible or intangible production items the free "Operations Management" book will guide you through concepts such as Supply Chain Management to LEAN, and much more. Surely all organizations will have to deal with these concepts sooner or later.
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Sell and Sell Short

Sell and Sell Short
Wiley | 2008-01-01 00:00:00 | Wiley | 250 | Management
The latest book from best-selling author Alexander Elder, Sell and Sell Short, provides important insights into the often-neglected topic of exiting a long position and shorting a weak market. Most traders spend the bulk of their time figuring out what to buy and spend hardly any time at all on when to sell. The truth is mismanaging the back end of trades can be the difference between winning and losing. Based on his long experience as a trader and trading educator, Dr. Elder provides a variety of selling techniques to preserve capital and take reasonable profits in both trending and non-trending markets and for both short-term and long-term positions. Moreover, Dr. Elder explains why traders and investors who limit themselves to long positions are conceding a big advantage to market professionals who are just as likely to go short as go long. Stocks tend to fall much faster than they rise, which means that big profits can be made quickly – if the right strategies are employed. Dr. Elder shows traders how to identify a market top, how to jump on a downtrend, and how to monitor short selling activity in order to better manage a short position. Ultimately, Dr. Elder says active traders should run their trading account much like a hedge fund, holding a changing mix of long and short positions as their view of the market changes. By embracing the advice in this important book, traders will be empowered to capitalize on the markets ups and downs and to move decisively in and out of positions so as to preserve capital and generate superior returns.

As with his other bestselling books, Dr. Elder has also created a valuable companion study guide, the Study Guide for Sell Short Study Guide, to help readers master and apply the material.
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Exercise and Solutions Manual to Accompany Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics

Exercise and Solutions Manual to Accompany Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics
Ben J. Heijdra, Laurie S.V. Reijnders, Ward E.Romp | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Oxford University Press | 624 | Management
This exercise and solutions manual accompanies Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics, Second Edition.
Foundations of Modern Macroeconomics deals with all the major topics, summarizes the important approaches, and gives students a coherent angle on all aspects of macroeconomic thought. Each chapter of the manual contains short answer questions followed by longer intermediate and advanced exercises. Hints and tips as well as full solutions are provided making this an invaluable aid to the main text.
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Outstanding!: 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional

Outstanding!: 47 Ways to Make Your Organization Exceptional
John G. Miller | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Putnam Adult | 224 | Management
"Outstanding! hits the nail on the head in every way: Practical content, terrific stories, and an easy read. Miller has provided a road map for organizations to become exceptional--just follow the path laid out. Definitely a must read!"
--Dave Ramsey, author of Total Money Makeover and host of The Dave Ramsey Show

Every day outstanding organizations do things and promote values that ensure they will retain customers, grow revenues, increase market share, and build their reputations. People in these organizations hold values and take actions-- individually and collectively--that are not always easy or obvious but are fundamentally powerful.

Informed by his own commitment to the concept of personal accountability and enlivened by compelling true stories from exceptional organizations, in this insightful and accessible book John Miller identifies the principles and behaviors that distinguish such organizations from the pack and provides readers with ways to integrate them into their own work.

With its pithy entries that carry significant impact, Outstanding is by turns a playbook, a guide, and an inspiration. It is filled with practical ideas that can--and should--be used every single day by individuals and teams from the boardroom to the stockroom for creating a distinguished organization with which customers and stakeholders will want to work.
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Organisational Learning and Management Accounting Systems: A Study of Local Government (Strategic Resource Management Series)

Organisational Learning and Management Accounting Systems: A Study of Local Government (Strategic Resource Management Series)
Maria Italia,Judy Oliver,Albie Brooks,Louise Kloot | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | UNSW Press | 54 | Management

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Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age

Who Cares?: Public Ambivalence and Government Activism from the New Deal to the Second Gilded Age
Katherine S. Newman, Elisabeth S. Jacobs | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Princeton University Press | 248 | Management
Americans like to think that they look after their own, especially in times of hardship. Particularly for the Great Depression and the Great Society eras, the collective memory is one of solidarity and compassion for the less fortunate. Who Cares? challenges this story by examining opinion polls and letters to presidents from average citizens. This evidence, some of it little known, reveals a much darker, more impatient attitude toward the poor, the unemployed, and the dispossessed during the 1930s and 1960s. Katherine Newman and Elisabeth Jacobs show that some of the social policies that Americans take for granted today suffered from declining public support just a few years after their inception. Yet Americans have been equally unenthusiastic about efforts to dismantle social programs once they are well established. Again contrary to popular belief, conservative Republicans had little public support in the 1980s and 1990s for their efforts to unravel the progressive heritage of the New Deal and the Great Society. Whether creating or rolling back such programs, leaders like Roosevelt, Johnson, Nixon, and Reagan often found themselves working against public opposition, and they left lasting legacies only by persevering despite it.

Timely and surprising, Who Cares? demonstrates not that Americans are callous but that they are frequently ambivalent about public support for the poor. It also suggests that presidential leadership requires bold action, regardless of opinion polls.
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Improving Employee Performance Through Workplace Coaching: A Practical Guide to Performance Management

Improving Employee Performance Through Workplace Coaching: A Practical Guide to Performance Management
Earl Carter | 2005-01-01 00:00:00 | Kogan Page | 192 | Management
"the authors adopt a tough-minded approach to improving performance management systems in the workplace. the result is a system that is simple and will fit any workplace." learning and development "presents a performance management system, built around a coaching model, and provides the tools needed to implement it." advance magazine "provides detailed advice for managers wanting to use coaching in workplace to manage employee's performance." training briefing "employee under-performance is expensive, time-consuming and bad for workplace morale. this book provides essential reading for managers who want to improve employee performance and prevent costly employee dismissals and disputes through early intervention." abstracts of public administration, development and the environment
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The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate

The Inspiring Leader: Unlocking the Secrets of How Extraordinary Leaders Motivate
John H. Zenger, Joseph Folkman, Scott Edinger | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | McGraw-Hill | 272 | Management
In their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performance thought leaders John Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separate the top 10 percent of leaders from the rest. Since that book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott Edinger discovered, through an extensive study conducted over four years, that leaders who possessed the ability to inspire and motivate outperformed all others.

The authors found that the impact of inspiring and motivating others is consistent across different kinds of organizations and within different cultures. The Inspiring Leader reveals the authors’ newest proprietary research on how top leaders inspire teams to greatness. It discusses the behaviors exhibited by the most successful leaders and includes advice on how to implement them. Drawing from statistically significant data and objective empirical evidence, the book shows how to:

* Establish a clear vision and direction
* Use the power of emotions
* Create stretch goals for your team
* Foster innovation and risk taking
* Encourage teamwork and collaboration
* Champion change, and much more

Zenger, Folkman, and Edinger lay out the strategies and concepts used by the world’s greatest leaders to motivate their teams. With The Inspiring Leader as your guide, you will learn how to put those strategies to work in your own business.
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Practical Business Skills for Driving Instructors: How to Set Up and Run Your Own Driving School

Practical Business Skills for Driving Instructors: How to Set Up and Run Your Own Driving School
John Miller | 2010-01-01 00:00:00 | Kogan Page Ltd | 248 | Management
Over 20,000 people apply to become an Approved Driving Instructor each year, but whether you are a sole trader or franchisee, you will need more than just the instructional skills that are tested in the official DSA qualifying exams. "Practical Business Skills for Driving Instructors", by the author of the definitive "Driving Instructor's Handbook", provides solid, practical advice to help you set up your own business. Each business topic is dealt with in the author's down-to-earth style including: preparing a business plan, financing the business, choosing and maintaining a car, book-keeping, sales and marketing, and presenting a professional image. Whether you are just considering becoming a driving instructor, or have just passed your ADI exams, "Practical Business Skills for Driving Instructors" will help you ensure your new career is a huge success.
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Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products

Agile Project Management: Creating Innovative Products
Jim Highsmith | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | Addison-Wesley Professional | 312 | Management
This book is not only good for project managers but also an excellent read for developers. In the real world it is not uncommon that developers would confront a manager who likes to micromanage and everything the developers do have to be conform to something really bureaucracy and with little or no business sense or tech sense. In this book, the value of APM is well articulated in concise sentences. These sentences can be powerful tool when it is necessary for R&D people to discuss/argue with a manager about things like project plan/report, etc. There is also practical method of APM.
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Entrepreneurship and Its Economic Significance, Behavior and Effects

Entrepreneurship and Its Economic Significance, Behavior and Effects
Maria V. Bradshaw, Patricia T. Carrington | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Nova Science Publishers | 247 | Management
Entrepreneurship is the practice of starting new organisations or revitalising mature organisations, particularly new businesses generally in response to identified opportunities. Entrepreneurship is often a difficult undertaking, as a vast majority of new businesses fail. Entrepreneurial activities are substantially different depending on the type of organisation that is being started. Entrepreneurship ranges in scale from solo projects (even involving the entrepreneur only part-time) to major undertakings creating many job opportunities. Many 'high-profile' entrepreneurial ventures seek venture capital or angel funding in order to raise capital to build the business. Angel investors generally seek returns of 20-30 per cent and more extensive involvement in the business. Many kinds of organisations now exist to support would-be entrepreneurs, including specialised government agencies, business incubators, science parks, and some NGOs. This book presents the latest thinking in this vibrant and essential area.
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Research Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility (Elgar Original Reference)

Research Handbook on Corporate Legal Responsibility (Elgar Original Reference)
Stephen Tully | 1900-01-01 00:00:00 | Edward Elgar Publishing | 430 | Management
The ever-important topic of corporate legal responsibility is deconstructed into many multifaceted components in this fascinating Handbook, which systematically examines each in turn and describes the contemporary legal position.

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Planning Training and Development Super Series, Fourth Edition (ILM Super Series)

Planning Training and Development Super Series, Fourth Edition (ILM Super Series)
Institute of Leadership & Mana | 2002-12-14 00:00:00 | Pergamon Flexible Learning | 112 | Management
With forty well structured and easy to follow topics to choose from, each workbook has a wide range of case studies, questions and activities to meet both an individual or organization's training needs. Whether studying for an ILM qualification or looking to enhance the skills of your employees, Super Series provides essential solutions, frameworks and techniques to support management and leadership development.

* Developed by the ILM to support their Level 3 Introductory Certificate and Certificate in First Line Management
* Well-structured and easy to follow
* Fully revised and updated

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Value-Focused Business Process Engineering

Value-Focused Business Process Engineering
Dina Neiger, Leonid Churilov, and Andrew Flitman | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Springer | 284 | Management
One of the keys to successful business process engineering is tight alignment of processes with organisational goals and values. Historically, however, it has always been difficult to relate different levels of organizational processes to the strategic and operational objectives of a complex organization with many interrelated and interdependent processes and goals. This lack of integration is especially well recognized within the Human Resource Management (HRM) discipline, where there is a clearly defined need for greater alignment of HRM processes with the overall organizational objectives.



Value-Focused Business Process Engineering is a monograph that combines and extends the best on offer in Information Systems and Operations Research/Decision Sciences modelling paradigms to facilitate gains in both business efficiency and business effectiveness.



The first part of the book examines a wide range of research issues in modelling business processes and objectives by expanding the focus of business process engineering from creating more efficient business processes to also making them more effective. The second part of the book presents methodology and tools for a holistic approach to business process engineering within the HRM context. The original contribution of the value-focused process engineering methodology lies in the integration of the best aspects of event-process driven chains and the value-focused thinking within a single model, in a way that preserves the strengths of the respective models while facilitating the emergence of new properties that satisfy goal-oriented business process modelling requirements.



The result is an up-to-date expository monograph that provides industry practitioners and researchers in OR/MS and IS domains, as well as those concerned with the practice of HRM, with a framework and implementation guidelines for ensuring that day-to-day business activities are congruent with organizational values and strategic objectives.
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Konfliktmanagement: Konflikte erkennen, analysieren, losen

Konfliktmanagement: Konflikte erkennen, analysieren, losen
Gerhard Schwarz | 2009-01-01 00:00:00 | Gabler | 428 | Management
Konflikte zu analysieren und Konfliktprozesse zu steuern wird fur Fuhrungskrafte immer wichtiger, da das Konfliktpotenzial durch Veranderungen der Umwelt zunimmt. Gerhard Schwarz, ausgewiesener Experte in Sachen Konfliktmanagement, vermittelt vielfaltige Anregungen fur den sinnvollen Umgang mit Konflikten und deren Losung. Er unterscheidet sechs Modelle: Flucht, Vernichtung, Unterordnung, Delegation, Kompromiss und Konsens.
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Project Leadership

Project Leadership
Wendy Briner,Michael Geddes,Colin Hastings | 1990-09-15 00:00:00 | Springer | 188 | Management
In the changing world of project management, there seems to be less concern with planning and control and more with the management of people and a growing tendency to use projects as a mechanism for creating change. The net result has been the emergence of a new role, that of project leader. Over a number of years the authors of this book have worked with the new breed of project leaders, both as consultants and on their training course "Leading Projects Efficiently". They have also studied the many ways in which projects are being used in activities as diverse as manufacturing, financial services, retailing, entertaining and politics. Their book concentrates on the personal skills required for project leadership, including an awareness of the organizational context and the political dimensions. The book ends with an "action summary" and a guide to further sources of development.

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Mobilizing Invisible Assets

Mobilizing Invisible Assets
Hiroyuki Itami, Thomas Roehl | 1991-01-01 00:00:00 | Harvard | 200 | Management
Mobilizing Invisible Assets
By Hiroyuki Itami, Thomas Roehl


* Publisher: Harvard University Press
* Number Of Pages: 200
* Publication Date: 1991-10-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 067457771X
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780674577718



Product Description:

The author suggests that successful corporate strategies depend upon the marshalling of a firm's "invisible assets" - resources such as technical know-how, the visibility of a brand name, or knowledge of a customer base - as well as its tangible assets, such as people, goods and money. He emphasizes the ways strategy must fit the firm's external environment and also stresses the importance of internal fit within the organization.



Summary: Very valuable book on intangible assets
Rating: 5

This fine book gives a good introduction to why you need to consider the "invisible" resources in an organisation, and how to focus on building them. The text is very readable, and far away from typical american "verboseness" in mega-sized textbooks.

I think this is a textbook that should be read by all business students, to understand more about the issues of resources and assets that go into the Internet economy and brand management.
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The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job

The Chinese Century: The Rising Chinese Economy and Its Impact on the Global Economy, the Balance of Power, and Your Job
Oded Shenkar | 2004-01-01 00:00:00 | | 208 | Management
Within 20 years -- possibly far sooner -- China will have the world’s largest economy. That will powerfully impact you: your job, your company, your economic future, and your country. In The Chinese Century, Oded Shenkar shows how China is restoring its imperial glory by infusing modern technology and market economics into a non-democratic system controlled by the Communist party and bureaucracy.

Shenkar shows why China’s accelerating growth differs radically from predecessors such as Japan, India, and Mexico -- and how it will lead to a radical restructuring of the global business system. Discover why the U.S. is most vulnerable to China’s ascent... how China’s disregard for intellectual property creates sustainable competitive advantage... and how China’s growth impacts every global business and consumer.

Above all, Shenkar shows what you must do to survive and prosper in "the Chinese Century."

· Cheap labor + millions of high-skilled professionals

· How China will sustain dominance in low-tech industries as it enters high-tech realms

· Building tomorrow’s Toyotas and Sonys... faster and cheaper

· Chinese multinationals: learning from joint ventures, preparing to lead

· Leveraging Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and the "Chinese diaspora"

· Bringing together the world’s most powerful pool of human resources

· $2 Rolexes, and beyond

· Piracy, counterfeiting, bootlegging, and stolen intellectual property

· From economics to geopolitics: counterbalancing America

· Previewing China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy
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