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What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career
Author Pedro Oliveira , Harold DeMonaco , Daniel Kahneman , Dan Lovallo , Andrew Torrance
Volatility in an industry should concern not only the companies within it but also the people who work for them. To stay ahead of developments that may disrupt your professional life, you must make two evidence-based diagnoses: How volatile is your industry? And wh....
Release Date 2019/04 -
What the U.S. Can Learn from China
Author Ann Lee
While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China's economy is the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States' by 2020. President Obama called Ch....
Release Date 2012/01 -
What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain?
Author Karim R. Lakhani , Teppo Felin
Organizations need to focus on how blockchain can be used to support their unique strategies. Without this focus, they risk investing in initiatives that don’t provide meaningful value. Show and hide more
Release Date 2018/10 -
What Millennials Want from Work: How to Maximize Engagement in Today’s Workforce
Author Alec Levenson , Jennifer J. Deal
The most comprehensive, in-depth look at Millennials to date—essential for managers, HR professionals, and global business leaders seeking to align long-term organizational goals with the realities of the new workforceMillennials have been burdened with a reputatio....
Release Date 2016/01 -
What Matters Most in Internet Retailing
Author David R. Bell , Jeonghye Choi , Leonard Lodish
Online retailing is far and away the fastest growing retail sector in the United States. The growth is being fed by two forces: (1) traditional retailers are getting their “Internet acts” together, and (2) “pure play” retailers are becom....
Release Date 2012/10 -
What Is the Internet of Things?
Author Jon Bruner , Mike Loukides
This report is a revision of Building a Solid World, by the same authors, released in February 2014.The Internet of Things (IoT) is more than just a category of electronics. It represents an approach to blending software and hardware, drawing on the strengths of ea....
Release Date 2015/01 -
Author Bill Laberis
Why are so many companies moving to the cloud? In a word, agility. Businesses need to act quickly to stay ahead of today’s global competition. The cloud provides all the services you need on demand—everything from data storage and applications to networking and gre....
Release Date 2019/02 -
Author Peter Pande , Lawrence Holpp
A brief introduction to Six Sigma for employeesSix Sigma is today's most talked-about system for improving the quality of organizational processes. Written by bestselling author Peter Pande,What Is Six Sigma? is a concise summary of the core themes and processes ....
Release Date 2001/11 -
Author Adam Lawrence
Companies and their customers today often don’t focus on the same things. While a restaurant may work hard to create an exciting new menu item, diners care more about courtesy. A bank will spend thousands promoting trust while customers struggle to access their web....
Release Date 2019/08 -
Author Matt LeMay
In a narrow sense, product managers work with designers and developers to build and maintain a company’s products. But product managers work best when they reach across organizational silos to connect internal stakeholders with your business goals—while ensuring th....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Michael Scott , Karim Walji , Samuel Smith , Parker Mathewson , Ryan Bouchard , Larry
DFSMSrmm is an IBM z/OS feature that is a fully functioning tape management system to manage your removable media. In the last decade, many enhancements were made to DFSMSrmm. This IBM Redbooks publication is intended to help you configure and use the newer functions and features that are now availa....
Release Date 2022/10 -
Author Mark Treveil , Lynn Heidmann
For years, organizations have struggled to move data science, machine learning, and AI projects from the realm of experimental to having real business impact. One reason is because pivoting operations around these technologies involves more than just technology--the orche....
Release Date 2020/11 -
Author Bill Kastle , David T. Rowlands , Michael L. George
A bestselling Six Sigma author tells employees everything they need to know about the Lean Six Sigma strategyLean Six Sigma combines the two most important and popular quality trends of our time: Six Sigma and Lean Production. What Is Lean Six Sigma? is a simple pri....
Release Date 2003/10 -
Author Mike Loukides
Have we entered the age of NoOps infrastructures? Hardly. Old-style system administrators may be disappearing in the face of automation and cloud computing, but operations have become more significant than ever. As this O’Reilly Radar Report explains, we’re moving i....
Release Date 2012/06 -
Author Bill Laberis
Why are so many companies embracing cloud native development? Getting new features into the hands of demanding customers requires a faster and more efficient approach than traditional development methods. The most successful organizations today use cloud native to ....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Alice LaPlante
As your business tries to make sense of today’s staggering amount of structured and unstructured data, traditional analytics will take you only so far. The key to success over the next few years will depend on augmented analytics, a method that embeds machine learn....
Release Date 2019/10 -
What Is Artificial Intelligence?
Author Ben Lorica , Mike Loukides
From computer vision to game playing, artificial intelligence (AI) has made a lot of progress in the past few years. Companies such as Google and Facebook have already placed huge bets on this technology, and over the next decade, AI features will steadily creep in....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Ben Lorica , Mike Loukides
As this brief article explains, AI broadly defines many systems designed to answer questions and solve problems. Consider Amazon’s recommendation system. Or the GPS navigation system that talks to you. Like plumbing or electricity, we’ll soon take AI for granted as....
Release Date 2018/04 -
What Great Service Leaders Know and Do
Author Leonard A. Schlesinger , W. Earl Sasser , James L. Heskett
Entire service businesses have been built around the ideas of Heskett, Sasser, and Schlesinger, pioneers in the world of service. Now they test their ideas against the actual experiences of successful and unsuccessful practitioners, as well as against demands o....
Release Date 2015/09 -
What Great Brands Do: The Seven Brand-Building Principles that Separate the Best from the Rest
Author Denise Lee Yohn
Discover proven strategies for building powerful, world-class brandsIt's tempting to believe that brands like Apple, Nike, and Zappos achieved their iconic statuses because of serendipity, an unattainable magic formula, or even the genius of a single visionary lead....
Release Date 2014/01 -
What Are Enterprise Blockchains?
Author Mike Loukides
Interest in the blockchain ledger that supports Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is rising in the tech community, particularly among planners in the enterprise. How will enterprise companies use blockchains? Many possibilities exist, such as recent efforts by Mae....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Chuck Tompkins , Thad Lacinak , Ken Blanchard
“How is it they can get a killer whale to urinate on cue, and we can't get our son to pee into the toilet?” Amy Sheldrake, young mother and killer whale trainer-in-training, marvels at the complex behaviors her superiors at SeaWorld are able to coax out of the....
Release Date 2009/11 -
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume V, Economics of Wellbeing
Author Cary L. Cooper , David McDaid
Part of the six-volume Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this is a comprehensive look at the economics of wellbeing with coverage of history, research, policy, and practice.Examines the challenges inherent in studying and measuring wellbeing from an economic pe....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume IV, Wellbeing in Later Life
Author Cary L. Cooper , Thomas B. L. Kirkwood
Wellbeing in Later Life uses the latest research from a variety of disciplines to address and correct common myths and misconceptions about aging.Covers topics ranging from biological mechanisms that affect aging to lifestyle, attitudes, and social factorsExamines t....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume II, Wellbeing and the Environment
Author Elizabeth Burton , Rachel Cooper , Cary L. Cooper
Part of the six-volume Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, this volume examines the ways in which the built environment can affect and enhance the wellbeing of society.Explores the effects of environment on wellbeing and provides insight and guidance for designin....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume I, Wellbeing in Children and Families
Author Cary L. Cooper , Susan H. Landry
This is a wide-ranging look at the factors which positively and negatively affect the wellbeing of children and families.Discusses core developmental competencies for later life, the role of the family, the impact of different settings, and factors associated with l....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Author Andrew Lombardi
Until recently, creating desktop-like applications in the browser meant using inefficient Ajax or Comet technologies to communicate with the server. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how to use WebSocket, a protocol that enables the client and server to commun....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Website Scraping with Python: Using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy
Author Gábor László Hajba
Closely examine website scraping and data processing: the technique of extracting data from websites in a format suitable for further analysis. You'll review which tools to use, and compare their features and efficiency. Focusing on BeautifulSoup4 and Scrapy,....
Release Date 2018/09