Your strategic initiatives are constantly under fire due to the evolving nature of markets, technology, laws, and government. To ensure your strategy succeeds, it must remain flexible while confronting these shifting challenges. Agile Strategy Management: Techniques for Continuous Alignment and Improvement explains how to achieve this...
There’s a new buzz phrase in the air: Supplier Relationship Management (SRM). Corporate executives know it’s necessary, but there’s only one problem. Nobody yet knows how to do it. Or they think it’s all about bashing your vendors over the head until they reduce the price another 4%. Supplier Relationship...
The latest edition of the single most authoritative guide on dimensional modeling for data warehousing!
Dimensional modeling has become the most widely accepted approach for data warehouse design. Here is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques–– the most comprehensive collection ever written. Greatly expanded to...
Practical Project Management for Building and Construction covers the 14 knowledge areas of project management that are essential for successful projects in the construction industry. For each knowledge area, it explains the processes for scope, time, risk, cost, and resource management. Filled with work and process flow...
Here’s the one-of-a-kind book that will give you hands-on experience as you prepare for the PMP exam sponsored by the Project Management Institute. This Sybex Workbook provides:
Clear introductions that put the exercises in context and explain the importance of key project management skills
Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.
We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive...
Updated new edition of Ralph Kimball's groundbreaking book on dimensional modeling for data warehousing and business intelligence!
The first edition of Ralph Kimball's The Data Warehouse Toolkit introduced the industry to dimensional modeling, and now his books are considered the most authoritative...
Information technology has reformed and restructured the inner workings of companies, organizations and government agencies over the past several decades, and will continue to do so well into the future. Managers and administrators are constantly in search of new tools to be used in support of greater utilization and management of...
We are living in the era of "Big Data" and the computing power required to deal with "Big Data" both in terms of its energy consumption and technical complexity is one of the key areas of research and development. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that centralized computing infrastructures (data centres)...
David Jacoby's highly regarded book addresses the specific supply chain management characteristics and needs of oil, gas, and power companies, and contains a wealth of industry-specific examples.
Jacoby provides a toolbox for large-scale capital expenditure decision making and for transforming capital and operation...
When I started working on The Truth About Getting Your Point Across with Prentice Hall, I did some serious soul-searching about how to approach the book to best relate to you, the busy reader who wants to get some good, practical advice quickly and then move on to the next item on your to-do list....
How companies such as L. L. Bean and Sun Microsystems are using online auctions to help boost their bottom lines
From liquidating excess inventory to B2B materials procurement, corporate America has discovered online auctions as a catalyst for redefining old supply-chain relationships and business practices. Most analysts...
