As a business owner, you are probably faced with hundreds of decisions that must be made weekly. Diving headlong into a technical effort might be scary. Diving into a security and operations effort is something you likely don't know how to do.
That's where this book comes in. This book helps you fill in the blanks for...
Environmental reporting is still in its infancy, having emerged only in the latter part of
the 1980s. Companies are under increasing pressure to be transparent and accountable
in the whole spectrum of their business. In recent years, a number of companies
have seen the need to introduce environmental reporting, placing environmental...
This book describes the landscape of cloud computing from first principles, leading the reader step-by-step through the process of building and configuring a cloud environment. The book not only considers the technologies for designing and creating cloud computing platforms, but also the business models and frameworks in real-world...
Houses, gold, tulips . . . our idea of what constitutes a good ‘investment’
has changed dramatically over time but one precious, valuable idea
still holds true: that shares over the long term have been a great investment
and have without doubt made their intrepid ‘holders’ returns of between
5 and 7 per...
Recent advances in Web 2.0 technology enable new leadership processes and guidelines that can create great value for organizations. In this important new book—the first title in the new Brookings series on Innovations in Leadership—management expert Jackson Nickerson proposes a combination of processes and guidelines...
This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers,...
Microsoft's .NET initiative created drastic changes in the Visual Studio line of products, and as a result a lot of Visual Basic developers feel like they are beginners all over again. Special Edition Using Visual Basic.NET will offer in-depth explorations of new features so that both experienced programmers and novices will feel comfortable making...
Health care has become one of India's fastest growing sectors in the past decade. A multitude of private players have entered this market, combining to offer high-quality health care and service in world-class hospitals and nursing homes all over India. It has been recognised that a professional approach to hospital administration and...
The developed economy is shifting from being manufacturing based to services based. Different from the traditional manufacturing business, the services business is more complicated and dynamic, and end-user driven rather than product driven. To stay competitive, an enterprise thus has to rethink its business strategies and revamp its...
Janet Tavakoli takes you into the world of Warren Buffett by way of the recent mortgage meltdown. In correspondence and discussion with him over 2 years, they both saw the writing on the wall, made clear by the implosion of Bear Stearns. Tavakoli, in clear and engaging prose, explains how the credit mess happened beginning with the mortgage...
Many people are too apprehensive of the perceived risk to invest and too intimidated by the complicated jargon to consider finance. No Fear Finance is an accessible guide to the essentials of finance and investment for students approaching the subject for the first time or professionals looking to gain new skills.
Dementia: Alzheimer's and other Dementias at your fingertips is a practical guide giving comprehensive, medically accurate information on Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia in an easy to understand format. This new fully revised and updated edition outlines the different care options that are available and suggests a...
