This book deals with knowledge management with an emphasis on knowledge risk, i.e., a general trend of knowledge value getting shorter and becoming temporary. The shortening of knowledge value lifespan will have a profound impact on companies' employment policies, and employees' strategies for gaining knowledge. How to manage...
CMMI® for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ) describes best practices for the successful acquisition of products and services. Providing a practical framework for improving acquisition processes, CMMI-ACQ addresses the growing trend in business and government for organizations to purchase or outsource required products and...
“Anatomical potential spaces” is an attractive and no more abstract concept
that offers new perspectives to a surgical world that is rapidily changing and
becoming more complex.
Powerful new technologies demand our attention and testify that our clinical
work and research are deeply influenced by...
In the preface to the text that preceded this edition, we predicted that the pace of change in the clinical practice of pediatric surgery, and in our understanding of the scientific principles that are the basis for that practice, would soon render the text obsolete. That expectation was more predictable than prescient,...
Since I wrote The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), I have had the
opportunity to meet and speak with thousands of information technology (IT) professionals
around the world, both in person and virtually via different venues. Even as
that last book was being printed, the ideas to be found in this new book were coming...
Master the fundamentals of leadership-at every stage in your career
Often, when leaders experience trouble, they look to blame an outside source or expect a small tweak to right their ship. But many times they've actually lost their grip on the very basic foundation of leadership. The business environment may change, but...
Two meetings took place simultaneously in Nagoya in March 2005. Both the 6th International
Congress of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery (MIN) and the 3rd World Congress
of the Academy for Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology (AMN) were held at
the same venue and successfully brought together experts in different areas of clinical...
Puppet is a configuration management tool that has enjoyed phenomenal growth over
the last few years. Propelled by increasing demands on sysadmins, and the continuous
growth of infrastructure (both physical and virtual), Puppet has been one of the key
technology components of the DevOps movement. This cultural shift...
As a futurist, you can be fascinating at a cocktail party. Instead of dropping names, you drop facts and figures: We are expected to live well intoour 100s; the average age for young adults to marry in America is 30; the single male head of household is the fastest growing demographic group; and the...
WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF THE IPHONE, Apple revolutionized the mobile computing market. The
iPhone transformed the mobile phone from a device that you could use to make calls, check e-mail,
and look up movie times into a computer that could run almost any type of application. Since the
iPhone’s release in 2007, developers have...
A full-color beginner's guide to the core concepts and skills of virtualization
Virtualization is the IT world's hottest trend in recent years, and many colleges do not yet have curricula in place to prepare students for this important area. This guide fills the need, with a learn-by-doing approach to mastering the...
The financial industry's leading independent research firm's forward-looking assessment into high frequency trading
Once regarded as a United States-focused trend, today, high frequency trading is gaining momentum around the world. Yet, while high frequency trading continues to be one of the hottest trends in the markets,...
