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Info-line : Level 5 Evaluation: Mastering ROI
Patricia F. Pulliam , and Jack Phillips
Manufacturer: American Society for Training & Development
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The ROI Fieldbook: Strategies for Implementing ROI in HR and Training (Improving Human Performance)

Return on Investment in Training and Performance Improvement Programs, Second Edition (Improving Human Performance) (Improving Human Performance)

ASIN: 1562862278

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Outlines the ways HR practitioners (1) can demonstrate how training affects the organization's bottom line, (2) can explain the linkage between HR and business strategies, and (3) can illustrate a level of accountability for the HR department. Describes methods of collecting data, isolating the effects of training, and the barriers and benefits to ROI. Job aid includes a data collection plan and an ROI analysis plan.

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Misbehavior in organizations can be difficult for management to detect and correct, and as a consequence, the cost to organizations can be high. This book presents useful theories and empirical evidence that help to describe, explain, predict, and control both attitudinal and behavioral problems in an organizational setting. The book analyzes the current research, examines the causes of different types of misbehavior, and makes suggestions for remedies and managerial practices that can help to reduce its occurrence and impact.

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Demings Road to Continual Improvement
William W. Scherkenbach
Manufacturer: SPC Press, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

Management | Management & Leadership | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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Demings Road to Continual Improvement
Bill Scherkenback
Manufacturer: Spc Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000K3V5VU

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As the pace of business competition accelerates, seat-of-the-pants management becomes ever more dangerous. In order to survive, entrepreneurs operating their ventures in uncertain environments need a focused "path to profitability." Roadmap to Entrepreneurial Success provides the necessary tools for both the new and experienced entrepreneur to stay on course and succeed. This essential business resource debunks dated concepts and offers a step-by-step program for:

* identifying value drivers in your business, and communicating those drivers to your venture team and potential investors * understanding the business planning and business modeling process * leveraging the six competitive advantages and five market entry strategies that successful entrepreneurs use most often * gaining immediate "sales traction" in a fast-changing marketplace * growing around the "growth wall" that stops many companies cold * getting on the radar of potential acquirers if you choose to sell your business

Filled with key steps and strategies, it's a start-to-finish guide to maximizing growth.

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Author goes wide but not deep.......2005-01-31

The author's lack of business experience shows in this effort. He needs to actually try starting a business rather than just writing about it.

Great start for entrepreneurs.......2005-01-26

The title of this book, "Roadmap," does a nice job in capturing what the reader interested in entrepreneurial ventures can expect to get by reading it. Like a city map, Roadmap describes the significant landmarks that are encountered in the entrepreneurial process and how to deal with them from a practical standpoint. I found the chapters on putting the right team together and the venture capital process to be most informative. For those interested in more detail or additional reading on one or more of the various topics covered, the book provdes ample references. I highly recommend Roadmap to anyone serious about starting a business, especially someone going out for the first time.

The best check-up list to raise money from VCs.......2005-01-16

This book was given to me by a VC, as a check list of what to do to raise money succesfully for our startup. He strongly advised me to keep it on my desk as a reference. He was right. I rewrote totally my "fast pitch", executive summary, business plan, and powerpoint presentation after reading the book. I have raised $175,000 so far (in four weeks) from six investors and I am getting ready to meet the VC who gave me the book. Wish me luck!

Very dissapointing.......2005-01-03

If you are looking to buy an introductory business book for someone withgout any business knowledge, such as a high school student, this book is not a bad choice. However, for anyone with more than one month's experience out in the business world, this book will dissapoint.

The author lacks experience as an entrepreneur and business person and it really shows in his writing.

A Treasure of Entrepreneurial Strategies.......2004-12-30

As a Corporate Entrepreneur/Intrapreneur, I found the information discussed in this book to be extremely valuable for strengthening my career success. I also appreciated the insights into the VC world that were discussed. Further, I appreciated the additional references cited so that I can conduct more in-depth research on particular areas discussed throughout the book. This book is highly recommended, no matter what your "Entrepreneurial Type".

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In recent years the study of the history of education has flourished and expanded. It has moved from being a specialist interest to one that concerns economic and social historians, who see that education has played a central part in the discussion of industrial development and the formation of the social structure. In this study, revised and updated throughout, Dr. Sanderson reviews the history of education in the nineteenth century and the academic debates surrounding it. He examines the discussion surrounding literacy, its trends and significance in the creation of an industrial labor force, and considers the successful development of a middle-class scientific culture in the eighteenth-century and the relative failure to develop technical education in the nineteenth.

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A classic study of the development and changing fortunes of commerce in seventeenth-century England. Barry Supple explores the causes and consequences of the economic crises in the forty years prior to the Civil War through the lenses of economic thought and policy as well as monetary, industrial and commercial questions. He examines England's place in the international economy and the inter-relationship between internal instability and long-term economic development. He argues that England's relationships with economies of other lands had a crucial role to play in her own internal prosperity. By looking to external factors - political and economic events abroad, currency instabilities, harvest fluctuations – the author explains the more important dislocations in England's economic structure. The book significantly enhances our understanding of the structure and stability of the economy by focusing on, and comparing, periods of economic crisis, and reveals the role of commerce in the daily well-being of an economy highly vulnerable to dislocation.

Instability and Change in the World Economy

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Instability and Change in the World Economy

Manufacturer: Monthly Review Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

Economic History | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books

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ASIN: 0853457832

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Insightful!

Important Book - Slightly Dated

Good but not up to date

Market Driven Strategy: Processes for Creating Value
George S Day
Manufacturer: Free Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 068486536X

Book Description

Now in its 21st printing, George S. Day's Market Driven Strategy first defined what it means to be "market- driven." Providing a foundation for Day's new companion volume The Market Driven Organization, this seminal work remains a vital resource for a generation of managers struggling to align their organizations to volatile markets. Contending that the rate of change in the market has clearly outstripped the speed at which a conventionally managed company can respond, Day makes a compelling case for first creating superior customer value, without which there can be no share-holder value. He presents a proven market-driven approach to formulating and implementing competitive strategy at the business-unit level -- "in the trenches" -- based upon materials that have been empirically tested and critiqued in more than 200 internal executive programs and strategic planning sessions at such companies as U.S. West, General Motors, Marriott, Kodak, and General Electric.

Day introduces the five critical, interdependent choices that managers must make to create a market-driven strategy. With dozens of examples from companies such as Otis Elevator, GE, H.J. Heinz, Ikea, Nestlé, Acuson, and 3M, he shows how forward-thinking companies select their markets, differentiate their products, choose their communication and distribution channels, decide on the scale and scope of their support activities, and select future areas for growth. Finally, Day persuasively documents the commitment to thinking and planning processes at these winning companies that harnesses the power of bottom-up understanding of customers and competitive realities with top-down vision and leadership.

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Insightful!.......2001-10-18

It's funny how little things really change. George S. Day's book originally appeared a decade ago, but it reappears now with a theme that has since become a management mantra - let the market drive your business. While many newer books enumerate the basics of business strategy, the examples that Day culled from the likes of Otis Elevator, GE, Ikea, Acuson and 3M still illustrate the fundamental themes as well as any. The book's one shortcoming is its academic tone, which might be expected from an author who is also a professor, but nevertheless might try the patience of some business professionals. Despite this one flaw, we [...] recommend this book as a straightforward exposition on business strategy that has truly stood the test of time.

Important Book - Slightly Dated.......2000-08-27

Without a doubt, this in an landmark book in business strategy and provides a good balance between a practical handbook and a certain level of theory. The book is well researched and well referenced and has clearly stood the test of time based on it still current wide acceptance. I found the product positioning and channel evaluation related strategy thinking of the book to be it's strongest points.

As another reviewer noted, it would have been great is the newest edition of this book was more throughly updated. Clearly it was not, and was probably renewed more to extend it's viable lifecycle in sales. The dated aspects of the book mostly come through in the case study examples. For example, positive references to Eastman Kodak, oops! Not exactly steller examples by today's standard. In any case, this does not dimish the value of the book, only makes you wonder how much better it would have been to be fully updated.

In any case, I would certainly rate this book in the top 5 of most important business strategy books...perhaps only bested by the likes of "Competing for the Future" by Gary Hamel & CK Prahalad.

Good but not up to date.......2000-06-28

Overall the book does a good job of detailing the strategy process for a market driven economy. All relevant aspects are covered in adequate depth. However, I kept thinking that the book was dated especially with regard its examples of corporate behavior. I tried to push these thoughts to the back of my mind by reassuring myself of the 1999 copyright. In reality, the 1999 copyright comes from the addition of a new introduction to the 1990 text. I was very disappointed when I realized this. Although it is presents a good framework, it is dated. This is ironic given the fact that the author presents examples of dated thinkings of strategy and shows how to improve. He needs to take the time to improve his own thinkings. In a market driven economy, strategy changes QUICKLY over 10 years. You don't need this book to know that.

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What kinds of decisions do managers make in the face of ethical dilemmas? What is the logic they use? How does their personality affect these decisions? Does the environment or the context affect these decisions?

This book addresses these issues both conceptually and through an empirical enquiry. The basic concept of ethics is defined, followed by a presentation of the different approaches to studying ethics. The overall approach is descriptive, focusing on how ethics exist in practice.

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Apart from standard actuarial theory, Modern Actuarial Risk Theory contains methods that are relevant for actuarial practice, for instance the rating of automobile insurance policies, premium principles and IBNR models, as well as generalized linear models with an eye on actuarial applications. Furthermore extensive introductions are given to credibility theory and ordering of risks. The book reflects the state of the art in actuarial risk theory. In addition to some chapters which are compatible with official material of actuarial education in North-America, Europe and other parts of the world, the book contains important material on topics that are relevant for recent insurance and actuarial developments including determining solvency measures, fair-value computations, reserving, ranking of risks, modelling dependencies and the use of generalized linear models. Basic ideas on risk measures in the framework of insurance premiums are also considered. The numerous exercises contained in Modern Actuarial Risk Theory, together with the hints for solving the more difficult ones and the numerical answers to many others, make the book useful as a textbook. Some important practical paradigms in insurance are presented in a way that is appealing to actuaries in their daily business. The mathematical background assumed is on a level such as acquired in the first stage of a bachelors program in quantitative economics or mathematical statistics.

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Needs more detailed explanations!.......2006-03-16

If you, like me, will start hating the whole subject of non-life insurance while reading this book, don't blame yourself, it's not your fault. The book needs more structure and detailing to be recommended to master students, not to mention bachelor ones.

Modern Actuarial Risk Theory (Modern ART). .(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Modern Actuarial Risk Theory (Modern ART). .(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Patrick Brockett
Manufacturer: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008DOMMG
Release Date: 2005-07-31

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc. on June 1, 2003. The length of the article is 843 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Modern Actuarial Risk Theory (Modern ART). .(Book Review)
Author: Patrick Brockett
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2003
Publisher: American Risk and Insurance Association, Inc.
Volume: 70 Issue: 2 Page: 361(2)

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Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance

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Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice.(Book review): An article from: Journal of Risk and Insurance
Ping Wang
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000MQ5AZ2
Release Date: 2007-01-17

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Risk and Insurance, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1770 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice.(Book review)
Author: Ping Wang
Publication: Journal of Risk and Insurance (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 73 Issue: 4 Page: 746(4)

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MODERN ACTUARIAL RISK THEORY
Rob Kaas
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Republic Of China On Taiwan: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography Of English-language Legal Materials (1965-1986)

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0788185721

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The Republic of China on Taiwan : a selectively annotated bibliography of English-language legal materials (SuDoc LC 42.9:T 13)
Constance A. Johnson
Manufacturer: Law Library, Library of Congress
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Learn to control your own life by adapting 28 specific virtues into your daily life. Each virtue carefully chosen by psychotherapists with 30 years experience. Books come with informative Pro-Action Book with specific exercises for each virtue

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The coverage in SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: A BALANCED APPROACH is balanced and uses a broad brush to encompass OM, purchasing, and distribution with a supply chain management focus and covers a great deal of content that isn't currently available. The book guides the reader through how all aspects of supply chain activity are accomplished effectively and efficiently.

Principles of Supply Chain Management: a Balanced Approach.(Book Review): An article from: Transportation Journal

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Principles of Supply Chain Management: a Balanced Approach.(Book Review): An article from: Transportation Journal
Scott B. Keller
Manufacturer: American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Transportation Journal, published by American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Inc. on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 811 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Principles of Supply Chain Management: a Balanced Approach.(Book Review)
Author: Scott B. Keller
Publication: Transportation Journal (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: American Society of Transportation and Logistics, Inc.
Volume: 43 Issue: 4 Page: 75(2)

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Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach

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Supply Chain Management: A Balanced Approach
Wisner
Manufacturer: South-Western Educational Publishing
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ASIN: B000OULXAW

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From Father to Son: A Private Life in the Public Eye
Evan Bayh
Manufacturer: Emmis Books, Guild Press of Indiana
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Binding: Hardcover

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As the son of a leading Democratic figure in the '60's and '70's, Senator Evan Bayh's youth included political discussions, canvassing votes, and dinner at the White House. Yet he has maintained a sense of balance that carries through to the raising of his twin sons and his commitment to shaping our nation's policy. From Father to Son is a testament to the bond of family, the values that shape character, and the virtues that come from loving support.

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Impressive historical biography

Tom Johnson: The Life and Times of Cleveland's Greatest Mayor
Kevin O'Connell
Manufacturer: Green Road Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0965987116

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Impressive historical biography .......2005-12-07

Tom Johnson: The Life and Times of Cleveland's Greatest Mayor provides a rare look at the life of Thomas Loftin Johnson, who served as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1901-1909.

Often referred to as Cleveland's Greatest Mayor, Johnson has rarely been the subject of biographers-- Two books on his life were published within a year of his 1911 death, another in the early 1990's that is now out of print-- and now O'Connell's work.

In this volume O'Connell does a good job of painting the picture of Johnson, and his evolution from successful capitalist businessman to unabashed socialist politician.

Johnson's success in turning the City of Cleveland from a backward industrial city with a poor quality of life into a modern turn of the century metropolis is covered, as well as his quixotic campaign for Ohio Governor; where his progressive views were soundly rejected by Ohio voters, are covered throughly.

It is clear from this work that O'Connell, the biographer, is a fan of Johnson. The book is clearly pro-Johnson, rather than a neutral work. However I found this to be a great read. It really painted a picture of 1900's Cleveland and has given me a great amount of respect for Mayor Johnson and his accomplishments.

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The revolution in social scientific theory and practice known as nonlinear dynamics, chaos, or complexity, derived from recent advances in the physical, biological, and cognitive sciences, is now culminating with the widespread use of tools and concepts such as praxis, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence, and parallel processing. By tracing a number of conceptual threads from mathematics, economics, cybernetics, and various other applied systems theoretics, this book offers a historical framework for how these ideas are transforming the social sciences. Daneke goes on to address a variety of persistent philosophical issues surrounding this paradigm shift, ranging from the nature of human rationality to free will. Finally, he describes this shift as a path for revitalizing the social sciences just when they will be most needed to address the human condition in the new millennium.

Systemic Choices describes how praxis and other complex systems tools can be applied to a number of pressing policy and management problems. For example, simulations can be used to grow a number of robust hybrid industrial and/or technological strategies between cooperation and competition. Likewise, elements of international agreements could be tested for sustainability under adaptively evolving institutional designs. Other concrete applications include strategic management, total quality management, and operational analyses.

This exploration of a wide range of technical tools and concepts will interest economists, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and those in the management disciplines such as strategy, organizational behavior, finance, and operations.

Gregory A. Daneke is Professor of Technology Management, Arizona State University, and of Human and Organization Development, The Fielding Institute.

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Must read for senior managers & organizational consultants!.......2000-05-25

It has been a long time since I read anything that truly inspired me on systems. Dr. Daneke's ability to translate complicated technical concepts into readable understandable material is an asset for scholars, managers, and consultants alike. He writes clearly and eloquently without diminshing the technical nature of the subject matter. He is right on target about the ineffectiveness of traditional linear methods we currently use to analyze and predict everything from operations research to macro economic theory. I love the idea of using phase planes as a nonlinear approach for modeling economic choices and strategic planning. The traditional measures we use are obsolete. I have already recommended this book to faculty colleagues and clients. It is a must read for senior managers and organizational consultants.

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