Understanding the opportunities and dangers of innovation through intercompany collaboration The Jericho Principle identifies key trends and patterns in the increasing use of collaboration by corporations and creates a strategic and operational framework for answering key questions about the why and how of using collaboration to rapidly...
Modern computing is no longer about devices but is all about providing services, a natural progression that both consumers and enterprises are eager to embrace. As it can deliver those services, efficiently and with quality, at compelling price levels, cloud computing is with us to stay. Ubiquitously and quite definitively, cloud...
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Paradoxes emerge everywhere in organizational theory and management practice. This book is a theoretically grounded presentation of the strategic and historical context of organizational paradoxes, exploring the paradoxes in organizational management and the available tactics to manage them. Based on 700 academic sources in the...
Here's a book for leaders and aspiring leaders who must develop many skills but don't have much reading time to find the particular help they need. The Leader's Tool Kit gives them hundreds of proven techniques presented in bite-sized chunks and arranged in an easy-to-digest format. Readers will find handy checklists and practical advice...
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of...
Updated and expanded for the new Apple iOS8, The Business of iOS App Development, Third Edition shows you how to incorporate marketing and business savvy into every aspect of the design and development process, giving your app the best possible chance of succeeding in the App Store.
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How to Cheat at Managing Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 is written for system administrators and systems engineers who are responsible for the upkeep and administration of IT environments, from a two server environment to a large enterprise.This book will is a must-read for anyone looking at implementing an enterprise...
Broadband Optical Access and Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) will provide the ultimate broadband service capabilities.
Compared with the currently well-deployed broadband access technologies of ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) and Cable Modems, optical broadband access with Fiber-to-the-User’s home will cater for...
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As the number of resources for networked learning continues to grow steadily, it becomes increasingly pressing that knowledge of those resources should be made widely available and the reuse of those resources by other groups should be facilitated.
This volume addresses these questions. It provides essential reading for all those...