Weiss Ratings' Guide to Banks and Thrifts: A Quarterly Compilation of Financial Institution Ratings and Analyses : Spring 2004 (Weiss Ratings' Guide to Bank and Thrifts)

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Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time, Third Edition: For the Part-Time Student with a Full-Time Life (Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time: For the Part-Time Student with a Full-Tim)
Robyn Frank-Pedersen
Manufacturer: Kaplan Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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For the Part-Time Student with a Full-Time Life

Kaplan's Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time, Third Edition is written exclusively for the professional interested in balancing work and school. This straightforward guide outlines the entire process -- from selecting the right program to graduation. In addition to a comprehensive list of business schools and part-time M.B.A. programs, this book covers:

Work...School...Career...Information on your options and what you can expect from a part-time program

Find It! Tips for making an honest assessment of your available time and finding the part-time program that best fits your needs

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Plus: You'll get expert advice from professionals who've done it all!

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Kaplan's Get Your M.B.A. Part-Time is written for the professional interested in balancing work and schoo. It outlines the entire process---from selecting the right program to graduation. This straightforward guide covers:

* NEW! A chapter on getting your MBA online

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Terry Savage's New Money Strategies for the '90s: Simple Steps to Creating Wealth and Building Financial Security
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A guideline for in-house facilitators.......2002-02-13

If you are already familiar with the theory of TQM, this book is helpful for you to implement TQM in your company. The author presented his methodology Five-Phase Approach(TM) in detail, so that the in-house facilitators can incorporate this approach into their own implementation plan. For those companies want to save consultation fees, this book is a good saving.

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Provides a practical approach to creating and implementing cost-effective business process, focusing on key elements of a robust business plan. Defines core business processes needed in a successful process-driven organization, and offers checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. Contains chapters on customer development, the production introduction process, and supply chain, project, and finance management. The author has worked with leading aerospace, automotive, and industrial component manufacturers.

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Focused on the essentials.......2002-11-28

This excellent book wastes no time getting to the essential elements of business process design and implementation. Where other books on the topic often start with a high-level view of a grand scheme and then get bogged down in irrelevant detail and tangential issues, this one clearly outlines what needs to be done and how to get there with no fluff.

What makes this book so special is that the author never loses sight of business imperatives - after a quick overview of integrated business processes, which is the high level view, he goes directly into business planning. There he dissects the key elements of a business plan, which adds both a focus to business processes and ensures that the key processes described in the rest of the book have a foundation to which each process is linked.

The key processes are - customer development, product introduction, supply-chain and industrial distribution management, customer satisfaction and quality, project management and finance management. These are the minimums for a coherent set of interlinked business processes that are required for a process-oriented organization. Moreover, the processes set forth are completely aligned to Michael Porter's value chain, which has proven itself in the decades since it was first presented in "Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance" (ISBN 0684841460).

In addition to the focus on the essentials, and the distillation of what it does take to win as a process-oriented organization, this book also is clearly written and makes excellent use of illustrations to reinforce key concepts. Be aware that this book is slanted towards product-based enterprises, but the principles can also be effectively applied to service-based organizations.

Great Re-engineering Overview Plan.......2000-03-31

"Plan to Win" presents an excellent proven framework for assessing, designing and implementing world-class operational systems across enterprises.

Topics covered include: integrated business processes, key elements of a business plan, customer development process, product introduction process, supply-chain management, industrial distribution management, customer satisfaction and quality, project management, and financial management.

This book is well presented with illustrations, checklists, and references and should prove useful supporting incremental operational change or full-enterprise re-engineering projects. This book excels when used with a fuller operations text (Wild, or Slack) to use the tools and methodologies required for change projects.

One stop shop business planning.......1999-09-24

I was impressed with the ease of use. Richard could lay off some of the by-lines as they are not necessarily relevant. Interesting, but notrelevant. I used the book to steer our efforts in redirecting our company. It will work.

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Change, Continuity and Class offers the reader the most up-to-date synthesis and critical evaluation of current and recent debates in modern British social and labor history. Issues of change and continuity, class, gender and difference, and the overall place and role of labor in modern British society constitute the central concerns of the book. The author takes issue with recent linguistic and liberal "turns," vigorously making the case for the centrality of class and change to modern history. A selection of documents usefully illustrates the main themes of the book.

Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain, 1850-1914 (Studies in Economic and Social History)

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Social Classes and Social Relations in Britain, 1850-1914 (Studies in Economic and Social History)
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Alastair Reid provides a clear guide to debates about the analysis of British social classes and social relations in the second half of the nineteenth century. He distinguishes among the wealth-holding, political power, and cultural influence of the ruling class; he summarizes the recent literature on changes in skills and incomes of different groups within the working classes; and he divides the debate on social relations into distinct emphases on coercion, control and consent.

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Written by a performance and training expert, this powerful, distance learning designerÕs toolkit shows you step-by-step how to create professional quality self-directed learning programs. New technology has expanded the possibilities for distance learningÑbut it hasn't affected the need for clear objectives, good planning, well-constructed programs, and measurable training gains. Whether your medium is workbooks or Web pages, Nigel Harrison's methods will show you how to achieve excellent results. Even if you're new to training, this book will help you deliver professional-level self-directed and distance trainingÑtraining that delivers the results that organizations need.

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Look Elsewhere, and Save Your Money.......1999-10-18

Here is the entire book, quickly summed up:

* Fill in these many, many "worksheet pages" * Work with experienced persons to get experience * Fill out some more checklist worksheets * Thanks for your money

PLEASE do yourself a favor, and get a WBT book in which the author acutally is a Subject Matter Expert, and not someone out to take your money and provide obvious advice.

Should be Titled "Evaluating the need for Training".......1999-09-30

This 300+ page book could easily have been 150 pages. Furthermore, he spends entirely too much time in the evaluation process. If you're looking to jump into web-based training design, this book's not for you. Too much preliminary analysis chocked full of theory from basic educational classes. The first 200 pages are a repeat of what I learned in educational classes for a degree in training and technological education. If you're a beginner, then this book could give you an overview of the complete thought process of deciding whether or not you need training. In fact, he almost tries to talk you out of training, but instead to try other alternatives first. If you've already made your mind up and need an expert book on the subject, this book is NOT for you. He readily admits that he has never done WBT!?! Designed more for academia and as a student workbook. I was looking more for a book that would detail the pro's and con's of WBT and distance learning from an expert doing it. It isn't until page 252 of 350+ that he begins talking about WBT (never mind he hasn't done it). He then spends less than 50 pages on it. Disregard all of the Web-based hype that you read on the back cover and in the book synthesis from the publisher.

A Big Disappointment.......1999-04-29

Too fluffy - Not enough meaningful conten

Useful as a supplemental workbook, but not on its' own.......1999-03-24

This book may be useful as a workbook for those who need to thoroughly outline a project they're doing(if they already know something about Web-Based Training). Better yet, teachers of WBT/CBT or Instructional Design might use it as a workbook for student projects. It is not, however, a good place to learn about WBT--not on its' own. A more comprehensive primary text is a necessity.

Less useful than most books on this subject.......1998-12-12

This book is a disappointment. The actual content is slim. The book has lots of white space, lots of self tests for readers, lots of blank charts for the reader to fill in as he or she plans a course, lots of bulleted "to do" lists. But it provides virtually no supporting information for any of its points or suggestions and offers no sense that Dl is actually a pretty complicated subject. In addition, it offers no references, bibliographical material, or any other support for the readers' continued learning.

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Rose uses excerpts from advertising campaigns and government documents obtained through access to information legislation and archival data, much of which has been recently declassified and never before published, in this first comprehensive book-length investigation of state advertising. While its focus is on Canada, the book will be of interest to researchers of communications, politics, or advertising in any nation whose government advertises.

Making "Pictures in Our Heads": Government Advertising in Canada

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Making "Pictures in Our Heads": Government Advertising in Canada
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American industry is renowned for its scientific and technical breakthroughs -- and equally famous for its visible failures in commercializing its own technology. Drawing on many examples of successful innovation management, an elite panel of the nation's most accomplished technical managers demonstrates how companies can transform new ideas into products efficiently and systematically by removing the barriers that surround innovative technology.

This book reveals how technical innovation occurs in distinct patterns, and explains how pure technological advance relates to the organizations and markets it affects. Early in the life of a new technology, value lies in the search for applications and means, and the benefits come from being early to market. Later, value comes from executing product, process, quality, or service improvements sooner than others do. Finally, value comes from correctly managing mature products. The authors emphasize that recognizing and understanding these patterns enable managers to structure and prosecute commercialization activities, and relate internal capabilities to external opportunities. Since goals and techniques must vary with the characteristics and maturity of the technology, the requirements of production, and the parameters of competition in each industry, management must be flexible in the methods and strategies it selects.

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on May 1, 1992. 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: Profiting from Innovation: The Report of the Three-Year Study from the National Academy of Engineering.
Author: Timothy Willard
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1992
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v26 Issue: n3 Page: p44(2)

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PROFITING FROM INNOVATION : THE REPORT OF THE THREE-YEAR STUDY FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING.

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PROFITING FROM INNOVATION : THE REPORT OF THE THREE-YEAR STUDY FROM THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING.
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At a time when many companies, particularly in the technological field, are continuously laying off workers, SAP, Inc. and organizations using the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and SAP concepts and software packages, on the other hand, are in need of more IT professionals familiar with their software applications. Although the popularity of ERP/SAP has reached an all time high, there are not many studies available in this field. This book provides both practitioners and academicians with a comprehensive review and an in-depth understanding of this interesting area, and at the same time, addresses important issues relating to the successful implementation of ERP/SAP systems. The scope expands from the history of SAP to the availability of a strategic implementation plan to ensure the successful and effective deploration of the implementation approach.

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