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Alien Audiences
Remembering and Evaluating a Classic Movie
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Released in 1979, Ridley Scott's Alien has come to be regarded as a classic film, and has been widely written about. But how have audiences engaged with it? This book presents the – sometimes very surprising – results of a major audience research project, exploring how people remember and continue to engage with the film.
by Alton Ford
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2017
Are you desirous of developing project management skills that will ultimately enhance your managerial abilities and skills or you just want to have this knowledge to help you handle and manage your day to day managerial activities and inputs? The ability to manage projects effectively and successfully...
by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
This is the only book that makes all planning methods and tools available to project managers at all levels easy to understand ... and use. Instead of applying techniques piecemeal, you'll take a cohesive, step-by-step approach to improve strategic and operational planning and scheduling throughout...
A Comprehensive Guide to Project Management Schedule and Cost Control
Methods and Models for Managing the Project Lifecycle
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Master all the modern project scheduling and cost control techniques you need, in one focused tutorial! Randal Wilson's Project Schedule & Cost Control isn't your typical project management guide: it's 100% focused on the specific principles, techniques, and best-practice methodologies of scheduling...
The Rise and Fall of COMSAT
Technology, Business, and Government in Satellite Communications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT.
From Machinery to Mobility
Government and Democracy in a Participative Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The Westminster-stylized model of Parliamentary democratic governance is out of step with today’s digitally and socially networked world. The resulting context for public sector governance brings both promise and peril – with profound consequences for public servants, elected officials, and citizens...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Leadership Fast-Track
The Core Information and Advice You Need to Take Charge and Get Results
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
Written to quickly develop the reader's leadership skills, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Leadership, Fast Track is a short but rich introduction to leadership skills and how best to use them. After a brief examination of the required, but learnable, qualties, skills, and behaviors of leadership,...
Core Management Principles
No Flavors of the Month
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
Managers trying to do a better job have plenty flavors of the month to choose from: total quality management, continuous improvement, empowerment, teamworkthe list is endless.
Everyone is searching for a magic bullet to improve productivity; however, they would have greater success in relying...
Analytics in Healthcare and the Life Sciences
Strategies, Implementation Methods, and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Make healthcare analytics work: leverage its powerful opportunities for improving outcomes, cost, and efficiency.This book gives you thepractical frameworks, strategies, tactics, and case studies you need to go beyond talk to action. The contributing healthcare analytics innovators survey the field’s...
by Betty Kildow
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2011
A well-monitored supply chain is any business’s key to productivity and profit. But each link in that chain is its own entity, subject to its own ups, downs, and business realities. If one falters, every other link—and the entire chain—becomes vulnerable. Kildow’s book identifies the different...
Business and Competitive Analysis
Effective Application of New and Classic Methods
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Meet any business or competitive analysis challenge: deliver actionable business insights and on-point recommendations that enterprise decision makers can’t and won’t ignore! All you need is one book: Business and Competitive Analysis, Second Edition . This generation’s definitive guide to business...
by Thomas H. Davenport, Babette E. Bensoussan, Craig S. Fleisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2012
A brand new collection of business analytics insights and actionable techniques… 3 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price!
3 authoritative eBooks deliver comprehensive analytics knowledge and tools for optimizing every critical business decision!
Use business...
by Ade Asefeso MCIPS MBA
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Lean Procurement and supply chain management is for many companies. It is not just for manufacturers who practice lean management. It is also for non-manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers and others.
During the past few years, companies have focused on supply chain improvements...
Leading the Transformation
Applying Agile and DevOps Principles at Scale
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Software is becoming more and more important across a broad range of industries, yet most technology executives struggle to deliver software improvements their businesses require.
Leading-edge companies like Amazon and Google are applying DevOps and Agile principles to deliver large software...