2003 Harris Directory of Rhode Island Businesses

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2003 Harris Directory of Rhode Island Businesses
Fran Carlsen
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In the past few years, Instructional Consultation has emerged as a major new model of service delivery in the schools. This model of teacher/specialist collaboration has been shown to be particularly effective in helping the increasing numbers of children identified with reading problems. Designed to both help both school psychologists and reading specialists effectively assume the consultation role, this volume provides an overview of reading problems while serving as a guide to effective practice.
The book opens with an introduction to the basic principles of consultation. A brief history of reading instruction and reading disability is presented with a focus on bridging the gap between the perspectives of psychologists and teachers. In subsequent chapters, the psychology of the reading process, reading instruction, and the nature of reading disabilities are discussed, and diagnostic procedures are presented. A variety of intervention strategies that are in use for improving word recognition skills, vocabulary, comprehension, and metacognition are described in detail. A section on improving writing and study skills at the college level is also included. Finally, the use of mini-computers as instructional aids is discussed, and a brief survey of software programs designed to assist reading instruction is presented. A special feature of the book are the appendices, which contain informal assessment tools, an evaluation of basal reader series, and reviews of standardized reading tests. Also included are typical questions asked by parents and teachers with suggested answers.
With its unique focus on the psychological practice of consultation and remedial reading instruction, and its integration of theory, research, and practice, READING PROBLEMS is an ideal resource for both school psychologists and reading specialists. It also serves as a text for advanced courses on reading disability, reading remediation, and learning disabilities.

Netherlands Business Legislation - CD-ROM

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Netherlands Business Legislation - CD-ROM
Peter P. C., Ed. Haanappel
Manufacturer: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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ASIN: 9041117458

Measurement and Calibration Requirements for Quality Assurance to ISO 9000

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Measurement and Calibration Requirements for Quality Assurance to ISO 9000
Alan S. Morris
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The departure from my current position of Database Custodian to Sr. Data Coordinator is a direct result from some of the information utilized from this book in the preparation for our departmental standards and guidelines.

I have requested from my new Dept. Manager that we purchase this book for reference due to the fact that the original copy will be utilized by my replacement.

Creating Capitalism: Transitions and Growth in Post-Soviet Europe

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Creating Capitalism: Transitions and Growth in Post-Soviet Europe
Patricia Dillon , and Frank C. Wykoff
Manufacturer: Edward Elgar Pub
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Patient ants will eventually enjoy higher standards of living than impatient crickets. Optimum levels of consumption are below the maximum - must save for the future. Topics: why private markets work, growth models.

Decline and Growth in English Towns, 1400-1640 (Studies in Economic and Social History)

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Decline and Growth in English Towns, 1400-1640 (Studies in Economic and Social History)
Alan Dyer
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Mongols From Country To City: Floating Boundaries, Pastorialism And City Life In The Mongol Lands (Nias Studies in Asian Topics)

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Mongols From Country To City: Floating Boundaries, Pastorialism And City Life In The Mongol Lands (Nias Studies in Asian Topics)

Manufacturer: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
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Multicultural Marketing: Selling to a Diverse America

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One nation, many niches

Multicultural Marketing: Selling to a Diverse America
Marlene L. Rossman
Manufacturer: Amer Management Assn
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In particular, the deliverables-based work breakdown structure approach that forms the foundation of the estimating process is one that I've been using for over a decade, and is the only sane basis, in my opinion, for establishing estimating relationships between what the project is supposed to produce, and what it takes to produce it.

I'm continually surprised by the large number of project managers, including PMPs, who don't use deliverables-based WBS. I'm not surprised, however, by the wide disparity between estimates and actuals when this method is not used. For this reason alone the book is invaluable, but there is even more that makes this book essential to any project manager. For example, the resource breakdown structure approach (also known as the organizational breakdown structure), and how it relates to the WBS is not only essential to accurate project planning and estimating, but is also an integral part of earned value project management (now a part of the PMI PMBOK). I especially liked the chapter on estimating models, which will provide project managers with proven tools and techniques, and the chapter on external projects.

Essentials of Project Control contains 13 articles published between 1985 and 1998 in the Project Management Journal® and PM Network®. Chosen and organized by Pinto and Trailer, the two-to-ten page selections are best read consecutively. There is a thoughtful integration of ideas, and the articles flow and build nicely upon each other. This is the second book in Project Management Institute's (PMI®) Editors' Choice Series, a reprint series designed to supplement the Project Management Body of Knowledge.

No book about project controls would be complete without a chapter on controlling scope creep, which is the topic of Chapter 1. However, this article has a unique perspective that shows how it's "Not Necessarily a Bad Thing". The next two chapters provide broad views of project controls, with a collection of best practices for technology projects in Chapter 2, and a bottom-up approach in Chapter 3. Rework cycles are covered in chapters 4 and 5. The inclusion of these chapters adds much to this book because rework is not a mainstream topic, yet it has everything to do with controlling cost, quality and schedule. I like the succinct treatment of critical success factors across the life cycle that is provided in Chapter 6.

The remainder of the book addresses earned value project management and related controls. The articles that cover earned value project management are thorough and complete. Each should be carefully read. I was delighted to see Stephen Devaux's "When the DIPP* Dips: A P&L Index for Project Decisions" in this collection. DIPP is [Devaux's] Index of Project Performance. This index is aimed at project selection and prioritization techniques, and is particularly useful in product-based projects because it computes the cost of lost opportunity and the impact of being late to market. For internal projects it provides a clear link to business imperatives, which can bridge the gap between IT and the business. As an aside not related to this book, Devaux has found flaws in the way earned value's schedule performance index can mislead.

Chapters 10-13 wrap up the book with articles on planning for crises, avoiding large-scale IS project failures, an analysis of cost overruns on defense acquisition contracts and project monitoring for early termination.

This carefully selected collection of articles covers all of the major issues, challenges and techniques associated with project control. If you want to master the complexities of earned value project management I recommend "Earned Value Project Management (2nd edition) by Quentin W. Fleming and Joel M. Koppelman. I also strongly recommend reading "Total Project Control: A Manager's Guide to Integrated Project Planning, Measuring, and Tracking" by Stephen A. Devaux, which will provide a complete and comprehensive approach to controlling projects, including portfolios of projects at the program management office level.

Essentials of Production and Operations Management

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Essentials of Production and Operations Management
Ray Wild
Manufacturer: Thomson Learning
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Project monitoring: An essential tool in quality control of development assistance, Ghana, West Africa

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Project monitoring: An essential tool in quality control of development assistance, Ghana, West Africa
Peter A Reiling
Manufacturer: TechnoServe Teaching Case Program
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Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: B0006PFUJ0

Too many people will miss the core message of this book, which is about paying attention to truth and seeking out truth in the context of networks of trust, rather than about managing the process of internal knowledge.

When the author says "It's time to gather the grain and torch the chaff," his book over-all tells me he is talking about brain-power and a culture of thinking (the grain) and counterproductive information technology and irrelevant financial audits (the chaff).

This is one of those rare books that is not easily summarized and really needs to be read in its entirely. A few items that jumped out at me:

1) Training is a priority and has both return on investment and retention of employee benefits that have been under-estimated.

2) All major organizations (he focused on business, I would certainly add government bureaucracies) have "legal underpinnings, ..systems of governance, ..management disciplines, ..accounting (that) are based on a model of the corporation that has become irrelevant."

3) Although one reviewer objected to his comments on taxation, the author has a deeper point--the government is failing to steer the knowledge economy because it is still taxing as if we had an industrial economy--this has very severe negative effects.

4) As I read the author's discussion of four trends he credits to John Hagel of I2, it was clear that "intelligence" needs to be applied not only to single organizations, but to entire industries. In my view, this author is quite brilliant and needs to be carefully cultivated by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, all of the industry associations, and by governments. There are some extremely powerful "macro" opportunities here that his ideas could make very profitable for a group acting in the aggregate.

5) This is one book that should have had footnotes instead of end-notes, for while the author is careful to credit all ideas borrowed from others, it is difficult in the text to follow his thinking in isolation. One idea that is very pertinent to national intelligence and counterintelligence as well as corporate knowledge management is that of the reversal of the value chain--"first sell, then make," i.e. stop pushing pre-conceived products out the door and get into the business of just enough, just in time knowledge or product creation that is precisely tailored to the real time needs of the client.

6) The author excells at blasting those corporations (and implicitly, major government bureaucracies such as the spy agencies that spend over $30 billion a year of taxpayer funds) that assume that if they only apply more dollars to the problem, they can solve any challenge. "Too often 'dumb power' produces a higher-level stalemate." One could add: and at greater cost!

7) The bottom line of this truly inspired and original book comes in the concluding chapters when the author very ably discusses how it is not knowledge per se that creates the value, but rather the leadership, the culture, and infrastructure (one infers a networked infrastructure, not a hard-wired bunker). These are the essential ingredients for fostering both knowledge creation and knowledge sharing, something neither the CIA nor the FBI understood at the management level in the years prior to 9-11.