Geoff: 832 books
No More Consultants
We Know More Than We Think
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2010
This book provides you with the tools to tap into the capabilities that already exist in your organization, but are as yet inaccessible. The book shows you how to make maximum use and accessibility of existing knowledge by implementing a successful tool, The River Diagram. This tool will help reveal...
Learning Contracts
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Learning contracts have been a successful feature of many university/continuing education programmes over the last 20 years but many staff are still unfamiliar with them or have difficulty using them. This guide introduces the learning contract to those considering using them on their courses.
Detonate
Why - And How - Corporations Must Blow Up Best Practices (and bring a beginner's mind) To Survive
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Reinvent best practices that have become bad habits
Without meaning to, and often with the best of intentions, most organizations continually waste precious time and money on processes and activities that don't create value and no longer make sense in today's business environment. Until now,...
by Geoff B. Barker
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
The Engineer’s Guide to Plant Layout and Piping Design for the Oil and Gas Industries gives pipeline engineers and plant managers a critical real-world reference to design, manage, and implement safe and effective plants and piping systems for today’s operations. This book fills a training void...
Schedule for Sale
Workface Planning for Construction Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
Schedule for Sale is a guidebook on how to apply WorkFace Planning, an industry best practice first identified by The Construction Owners Association of Alberta in 2005. The process organizes the elements necessary for productive construction, which then leads to improved quality and reduced schedule...
by Geoff Tansey, Anthony Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Food is a massive industry and the many key players involved have very different interests. In wealthy nations those interests can range from corporate survival and maintaining profitability in a market with limited demand, to promoting a healthy diet and ensuring food safety. For the poor, the emphasis...
Solar Farms
The Earthscan Expert Guide to Design and Construction of Utility-scale Photovoltaic Systems
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The market and policy impetus to install increasingly utility-scale solar systems, or solar farms (sometimes known as solar parks or ranches), has seen products and applications develop ahead of the collective industry knowledge and experience. Recently however, the market has matured and investment...
by Dr K.B. Everard, Mr Geoff Morris, Mr Ian Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
`This edition is more focussed on the leadership demands of managers both within the school and its community. This book can be used as a source of reference for anyone on a school manager position, written by people who practice management on educational organizations themselves, it deals with the...
Mobile Learning Communities
Creating New Educational Futures
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Mobile Learning Communities explores the diverse ways in which traveling groups experience learning ‘on the run’. This book provides empirical evidence that draws on the authors’ 17 years of continuing research with international occupational Travelers. It engages with themes such as workplace...
What's Fair?
The Problem of Equity in Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
What's fair? It is an old question in journalism. In 1999, it seems more difficult to answer than ever. The cycle of story, spin, and counterspin that surrounds the White House is only the most obvious part of the problem. In the past 25 years, the practice of journalism has changed enormously--particularly...
Machine Learning for Data Streams
with Practical Examples in MOA
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
A hands-on approach to tasks and techniques in data stream mining and real-time analytics, with examples in MOA, a popular freely available open-source software framework.
Today many information sources—including sensor networks, financial markets, social networks, and healthcare monitoring—are...
by Geoff MacAngus-Gerrard
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Offshore Electrical Engineering Manual, Second Edition, is for electrical engineers working on offshore projects who require detailed knowledge of an array of equipment and power distribution systems. The book begins with coverage of different types of insulation, hot-spot temperatures, temperature...
Making Telecoms Work
From Technical Innovation to Commercial Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2011
Bridging the industry divide between the technical expertise of engineers and the aims of market and business planners, Making Telecoms Work provides a basis for more effective interdisciplinary analysis of technology, engineering, market and business investment risk and opportunity. Since fixed and...
The New Spatial Planning
Territorial Management with Soft Spaces and Fuzzy Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Spatial planning, strongly advocated by government and the profession, is intended to be more holistic, more strategic, more inclusive, more integrative and more attuned to sustainable development than previous approaches. In what the authors refer to as the New Spatial Planning, there is a fairly...