The Expert, Practical Guide to Succeeding with SOA in the Enterprise
In Executing SOA, four experienced SOA implementers share realistic, proven, “from-the-trenches” guidance for successfully delivering on even the largest and most complex SOA...
Lean Sigma delivers resultsif you use the right tools and techniques. In Lean Sigma: A Practitioner's Guide, Dr. Ian Wedgwood captures best-practice Lean Sigma experience from multiple projects and industries, helping any professional identify the solution that...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of basic theoretical approaches of today’s leadership research. These approaches conceive leadership as an interactive and complex process. They stress the significance of the individual perception for developing and forming leadership relations. Leadership is understood as...
The Information Management Systems group at the University of Padua, led by Maristella Agosti, has been a major contributor to information retrieval (IR) and digital libraries for nearly twenty years. This group has gained an excellent reputation in the IR community and has produced some of the best-known IR researchers, whose work spans a broad...
This book is a comprehensive beginner's guide that teaches you to use GnuCash from scratch with jargon-free step-by-step tutorials packed with tips. There are multiple choice questions to make learning more interesting and additional challenges thrown at the more adventurous user for a deep grasp of the topic. This book is written for you...
Information security has become an extremely important topic for everyone over the past few years. In today’s environment the number of touch points between an organization’s information assets and the outside world has drastically increased: millions of customers can interact via a Web site, thousands of employees and partners may...
If you’re looking for a serious infusion of life-blood into your company, transformational outsourcing could be the answer. This new, bold approach is not just about handing off non-core functions in order to cut costs. It’s about transforming the entire operating model—to boost a company’s stock price, increase its...
Patrick is a focused transport logistics company specialised in the loading and unloading of ships and the efficient land based collection, distribution and storage of cargo for import, export and within Australia.
Patrick began as a one-time small stevedore and now leader in port related transport and logistics. We’ve evolved into...
Trainers and other workplace learning and performance professionals have long sought a seat at the executive table. But getting this powerful seat has always been an illusive goal.
Quick! Show Me Your Value is the first book designed specifically to help these professionals confidently communicate their true value at the most...
Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "[T]hose who are designing, building, or managing the development of...
