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Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World
Author Michael H. Hugos
The relentless pursuit of industrial efficiency no longer yields the profits it once did because it requires a level of business predictability that no longer exists. Instead, the Internet and global video and telecom systems provide a massive and continuous flow of....
Release Date 2009/03 -
Beyond Dealmaking: Five Steps to Negotiating Profitable Relationships
Author Melanie Billings-Yun
Praise for Beyond Dealmaking"Every potential rainmaker and savvy competitor needs Melanie Billings-Yun's GRASP method for negotiation. You'll never have to search for leads again. I highly recommend this book."—Jeffrey J. Fox, author, How to Be a Rainmaker, Rain, ....
Release Date 2010/01 -
The Remedy: Bringing Lean Thinking Out of the Factory to Transform the Entire Organization
Author Pascal Dennis
A powerful business fable that shows you how to spread Lean business practices to every function of your businessPascal Dennis is a Lean business learner and practitioner who has written four books on the subject of Lean business practices. In The Remedy, he shows h....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Flip the Funnel: How to Use Existing Customers to Gain New Ones
Author Joseph Jaffe
Why customer retention is the new acquisitionIf there's anything the recession of 2009 taught us, it was the importance of investing in our customers, but when was this any different? So says Joseph Jaffe, bestselling author of Life After the 30-Second Spot and Joi....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Win at Work!: The Everybody Wins Approach to Conflict Resolution
Author Diane Katz PhD
Proven techniques for resolving workplace conflictsAfter years of seeing clients struggling and their businesses suffering with destructive conflicts, Diane Katz developed The Working Circle, a step-by-step process that helps everyone in business resolve conflict in....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Manager Redefined: The Competitive Advantage in the Middle of Your Organization
Author Stephen D. Harding , Thomas O. Davenport
In this book the author explains that managers must build human capital and engender employee engagement by managing them almost not at all, by attending instead to the factors and circumstances that make them successful. In other words, managers must play their rol....
Release Date 2010/11 -
Top Hedge Fund Investors: Stories, Strategies, and Advice
Author LAWRENCE E. KOCHARD , PHD , CFA , CATHLEEN M. RITTEREISER
A professional's guide to the world of hedge fund investingThroughout the financial crisis of 2008, many hedge funds suffered massive losses and were often blamed for the extreme market upheavals. In the wake of the crisis, hedge funds remain a source of fascinatio....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author David Shiers , Miles Keeping
An inside view of how one of the world's leading architecture and engineering practice does businessSustainable Built Environments: Principles and Practice offers detailed, environmentally sound design solutions to a wide range of building engineering challenges. ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Nick Graham
Whatever your project - no matter how big or small - PRINCE2 For Dummies, 2009 Edition is the perfect guide to using this project management method to help ensure its success.Fully updated with the 2009 practice guidelines, this book will take you through every step....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Professional Team Foundation Server
Author Mickey Gousset , Erik Gunvaldson , Jean-Luc David
As the most important component of Microsoft's Visual Studio(r) 2005 Team System, Team Foundation Server is the central integration point that provides a collaborative environment for every member of a team, regardless of role. Since Team Foundation Server is so ti....
Release Date 2006/11 -
The Art of Lean Software Development
Author Curt Hibbs , Mike Sullivan , Steve Jewett
This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product desi....
Release Date 2009/01 -
Author Jerry Z. Muller
How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens business, medicine, education, government—and the quality of our livesToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Sean Richardson , Alison Hill , Darren Hill
A practical toolkit for handling workplace conflict and difficult conversationsDealing with the Tough Stuff is the business leader's critical guide to handling difficult conversations in the workplace. Based on the science of human behaviour — both verbal and nonv....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Janine Garner
Meet the twelve people that can accelerate your success – in business and in lifeIt's Who You Know is the long-awaited handbook to effective, productive and influential networking. Having the right relationships is more important than ever before, but digital conn....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Author Isabella Villani
Your customers are your future.Smartphones, social media and the internet have given customers access to more information than ever before. If your business fails them, they will switch to your competitor and never return. So how do you keep them? By mapping their ....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Stop Listening to the Customer
Author Adam Ferrier , Jen Flemming
Don't let the customer get between you and building a strong valued brandIf you want to stand out from the crowd, develop a clear and consistent brand voice, and ultimately build a fruitful business – listen to your brand. Stop Listening to the Customer offers insights i....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Agile Project Management with Scrum
Author Ken Schwaber
The rules and practices for Scrum—a simple process for managing complex projects—are few, straightforward, and easy to learn. But Scrum’s simplicity itself—its lack of prescription—can be disarming, and new practitioners often find themselves reverting to old projec....
Release Date 2004/02 -
Managing Projects with Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System
Author Martin Danner , Joel Semeniuk
Get the practical reference for using Visual Studio Team System in your software development lifecycle—and maximize project success. Designed for software project managers, this book offers straightforward product information and expert insights for collaborating w....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012
Author Richard Hundhausen
Discover how to turn requirements into working software increments—faster and more efficiently—using Visual Studio 2012 in combination with Scrum and Agile engineering practices. Designed for software development teams, this guide delivers pragmatic, role-based guid....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Building Integrated Websites with IBM Digital Experience
Author Basem Zaben , JayaPrasad Thambuganipalle , Dineshbabu Ramakrishnan , Dmitri Nevedro
A digital experience is a personalized experience that provides employees, customers, business partners, and citizens with a single point of interaction with people, content, and applications anywhere, anytime, and from any device.The IBM® Digital Experience is a p....
Release Date 2016/01 -
Accelerating Modernization with Agile Integration
Author Vasfi Gucer , Ulas Cubuk , Tony Curcio , Timothy Quigly , Shishir Narain , Nick Glowa
The organization pursuing digital transformation must embrace new ways to use and deploy integration technologies, so they can move quickly in a manner appropriate to the goals of multicloud, decentralization, and microservices. The integration layer must transform....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Communication Skills for Managers, Fifth Edition
Author Janis Fisher Chan
The ability to communicate clearly is the critical core competency for successful managers at all levels and in all industries. This self-study course is your guide to business communication that delivers the message?whether written, spoken, in person or via e-mail....
Release Date 2002/08 -
CMMI Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement
Author Richard Turner , Suzanne Garcia
Praise for CMMI® Survival Guide"Traveling down the CMMI road can be difficult and time-consuming. Garcia and Turner have given us a practical roadmap that addresses the key points to learn as well as the many potholes to avoid. Their Survival Guide is a most valuabl....
Release Date 2006/10 -
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2008 Edition
Author Brian Fairrington , Daryl Cagle
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2008 EditionThe Best of the Year in Editorial CartoonsAll of the top political cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2007, from Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index website, ....
Release Date 2007/11 -
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2009 Edition
Author Brian Fairrington , Daryl Cagle
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2009 EditionThe Best of the Year in Editorial CartoonsAll of the top political cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2008, from Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index website, ....
Release Date 2008/12 -
The Best Political Cartoons of the Year, 2010 Edition
Author Brian Fairrington , Daryl Cagle
The Best of the Year in Editorial CartoonsThe best cartoonists in the world contributed to this collection of the best cartoons of 2009, from Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonists Index, the most popular cartoon site on the Web (www.cagle.com). More than 600 cartoons....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load
Author John Sweller , Frank Nguyen , Ruth C. Clark
Efficiency in Learning offers a road map of the most effective ways to use the three fundamental communication of training: visuals, written text, and audio. Regardless of how you are delivering your training materials—in the classroom, in print, by synchronous or a....
Release Date 2005/12 -
The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era
Author Marshall Goldsmith , Frances Hesselbein
The Leader of the Future 2 follows in the footsteps of the international bestseller The Leader of the Future, which has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and is one of the most widely distributed edited collections on leadership to date.In twenty-seven in....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Author Dantar P. OOSTERWAL
2017 Shingo Prize for Literature. Some things never change. Harley-Davidson is still the great, iconic American motorcycle. But like many storied companies, Harley has had to evolve to stay on top, even to stay in existence. From near-extinction in the early eightie....
Release Date 2010/01 -
Author Stephen A. RUFFA
In Going Lean, author Stephen A. Ruffa introduced the groundbreaking principles of Lean Dynamics, revealing how leading companies go beyond chasing the most visible outcomes of lean to address the disconnects that cause operational waste to accumulate. Illustrated b....
Release Date 2010/12