Going beyond the usual how-to guide, Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO supplies proven tips and valuble case studies to illustrate how to combine Six Sigma’s rigorous quality principles with Lean methods for uncovering and eliminating waste in your IT processes. Using these methods, the text explains how to take an...

There’s a hard fact that we all have to face: Buyers have evolved. They’ve become shopaholics. They almost never consider a single vendor when making a buying decision. Instead, they call you— and your competitors—and...

With this text as your guide, you can significantly enhance Microsoft Excel's® capabilities to execute the calculations needed to solve a variety of chemical, biochemical, physical, engineering, biological, and medicinal problems. The...

Increasing performance demands in integrated circuits, together with limited energy budgets, force IC designers to find new ways of saving power. One innovative way is the presented adaptive voltage scaling scheme, which tunes the supply voltage according to the present process, voltage and temperature variations as well as aging. The voltage...

Microsoft's server-oriented Windows operating systems have grown by leaps and bounds in their capabilities, complexities, and sheer number of features since the release of Windows NT Server in the early 1990's. With each release, system administrators have found themselves grappling with new concepts, from domains, directory...