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Financing Information and Communication Infrastructure Needs in the Developing World: Public and Private Roles

World Bank Publications, 2005

Over the past ten years, private-sector-led growth has revolutionized access to telecommunications. Every region of the developing world benefitted in terms of investment and rollout. This revolution would have been impossible without government reform and oversight. Advanced information and communication infrastructure (ICI) are increasingly...

Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change, and Continuity in Science (Inside Technology)

MIT Press, 2008

The use of information and communication technology in scientific research has been hailed as the means to a new larger-scale, more efficient, and cost-effective science. But although scientists increasingly use computers in their work and institutions have made massive investments in technology, we still have little idea how computing affects the...

Design of Industrial Information Systems

Academic Press, 2006

Long term growth in productivity is critically important to improving the standard of living of our society. Over the past ten years (1996–2005), average annual productivity growth in the non-farm business sector has been twice as high as it was in the prior fi fteen years (1981–1995). In the manufacturing sector, it has been even more...

Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations

O'Reilly, 2008

Web 2.0 makes headlines, but how does it make money? This concise guide explains what's different about Web 2.0 and how those differences can improve your company's bottom line. Whether you're an executive plotting the next move, a small business owner looking to expand, or an entrepreneur planning a startup, Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide illustrates...

Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry

IGI Global, 2007

Tourism is one of the leading industries worldwide. The magnitude of growth in tourism will bring both opportunities and problems to source and destination markets in years to come, especially in the internal and external exchange of information in the industry. Information and Communication Technologies in Support of the Tourism Industry...

CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement (3rd Edition) (The SEI Series in Software Engineering)

Addison Wesley, 2008

CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) is an integrated, extensible framework for improving process capability and quality across an organization. It has become a cornerstone in the implementation of continuous improvement for both industry and governments around the world. Rich in both detail and guidance for a wide set of...

Programming Groovy: Dynamic Productivity for the Java Developer (Pragmatic Programmers)

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2008

The strength of Java is no longer in the language itself; it's in the Java Platform (the JVM, JDK, and rich frameworks and libraries). But recently, the industry has turned to dynamic languages for increased productivity and speed to market.

Groovy is one of a new breed of dynamic languages that run on the Java platform. You can use these new...

SOA Security

Manning Publications, 2008

SOA is one of the latest technologies enterprises are using to tame their software costs - in development, deployment, and management. SOA makes integration easy, helping enterprises not only better utilize their existing investments in applications and infrastructure, but also open up new business opportunities. However, one of the big stumbling...

Linear and Nonlinear Programming: Third Edition (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)

Springer, 2008

"Linear and Nonlinear Programming" is considered a classic textbook in Optimization. While it is a classic, it also reflects modern theoretical insights. These insights provide structure to what might otherwise be simply a collection of techniques and results, and this is valuable both as a means for learning existing material and for...

The Profit Impact of Business Intelligence

Morgan Kaufmann, 2006

Business Intelligence (BI): Its not just a technology. Its not just a methodology. Its a powerful new management approach that when done right can deliver knowledge, efficiency, better decisions, and profit to almost any organization that uses it.

When BI first came on the scene, it promised a lot but often failed to deliver. The...

Information Resources Management: Global Challenges

IGI Global, 2007

The recent surge of technology outsourcing has intensified the cross-cultural effects of information systems designs and constructions, as well as the potential shortage of suitable information specialists at strategic locations. Millions of dollars of investments in information systems are at risk of being underutilized or rejected by users for...

Fundamentals of Managerial Economics with InfoTrac College Edition

South-Western College, 2002

The seventh edition of this market-leading text continues its tradition of providing a solid foundation of economic understanding for use in managerial decision making. It offers a practical treatment of economic theory and analysis in an intutive, algebra-based format. Its focus is on presenting those aspects of economic theory and analysis that...

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