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CIOs and IT managers will improve their organization's performance with this look at security management and the security-based COBIT. Informed by common ISO quality and security standards, ITIL, the Common Scoreboard, and COBIT, the accepted standard for good IT security and control practices, this reference provides a succinct framework for IT management.
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This IT Governance Management Guide is the result of a project that involved many experts from all over the world. It started out as a compact reference to one framework, but it grew into an original document on IT Governance.
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Asvab Success
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This book provides military candidates with the edge they need to pass the AFQT, the core of the ASVAB.
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ASVAB Success, 2nd Edition (Asvab Success)
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To enlist in the military, recruits must pass the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) core exam — a battery of math, reading, and vocabulary questions at the heart of the full ASVAB. ASVAB Success uses clear, concise language to teach everything an enlistee needs to know: vocabulary, math fundamentals, reading comprehension, how to solve the test’s math word problems, and how to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words. The book includes free access to online sample tests in which exercises are instantly scored and diagnosed to indicate where further study is needed.
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Everything You Need to Score High on the Asvab (Master the Asvab (Book Only))
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Revised and updated! The all-time bestseller that has prepared more than two million recruitsThe first choice of military recruits for more than fifty years, ARCO's ASVAB has helped more than two million young men and women prepare for rewarding careers in the Army, Navy, Air Force Marines, and Coast Guard. It's the best, most authoritative guide to the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, the armed forces' admission and placement test. Now updated, this outstanding reference is ARCO's all-time top bestseller.Solomon Wiener, Colonel, AUS--Ret., is a former military personnel officer and infantry division staff officer.
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1998 Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (Reliability and Maintainability Symposium//Proceedings)
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This book constitutes the refereeed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO '98, held in Houston, Texas, USA, in June 1998. The 32 revised papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 77 submissions. The book is divided into sections on O/1 matrices and matroids, edge connectivity, algorithms, integer Programming computation, network flows, scheduling, and quadratic assignment problems.
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The Fifth International Workshop on Model-Oriented Data Analysis (MODA5) focused on experimental design, particularly optimum design. A strength of this series of workshops is that they bring together leading scientists from "Eastern" and "Western" Europe. The proceedings therefore provides a valuable reference to the work of groups from many countries. In addition to 11 papers on optimum designs for linear and nonlinear models, there are groups of papers on designs for quality improvement, designs in agriculture and for model building. Non-design problems include robustness in linear models and estimation problems in nonlinear models. The volume concludes with a discussion on the teaching of experimental design.
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This proceedings volume contains a selection of papers presented at the OR 98 conference that was held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich from August 31-September 3, 1998.The selection of papers included in this volume reflects well the number of papers in the corresponding sections at the conference. Thus, we observe that the intellectual mainstream in Operations Reserch still is mathematical optimization and its application in logistics and transportation systems. In addition to these traditional areas the conference emphasized the potential contributions of Operations Research in the new, challenging area of system design and management in the liberalized energy and telecommunication markets.
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Everything you ever wanted to know about quality costs is presented in this edition, now updated with a focus on both the service and manufacturing industries. The third edition of Principles of Quality Costs includes information on the quality costs systems in small businesses, and activity-base costing. Additional information on team-based problem-solving, customer satisfaction, and the costs involved with the defense industry are also offered. Specific examples, including a new case on software quality costs, amplify the how-to-nature of this book. The Taguchi Quality Loss Function (QLF), supplier quality costs, and educating and presenting cost ideas to management make this an outstanding guide to the principles of quality costs. New examples focusing on both the profit and nonprofit sector and over 50 illustrations make this book ideal for anyone working on a quality cost system, regardless of the industry involved.
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Great Reference.......2005-08-02
This book has really helped me to implement a good strategy at my company for improving our cost of poor quality as well as information on providing relavent information to key people!
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This book is a great resume for a Quality cost improvement and an excellent guide for that.
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Principles of Quality Costs
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Principles Qa Hlth Care (Jossey Bass Higher and Adult Education Series)
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Principles of Quality Costs
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Small Change: The Economics of Child Support
Andrea H. Beller , and
John W. Graham
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In this book, Andrea H. Beller and John W. Graham discuss what went right and what went wrong with child support payments during the 1980s, investigating the socioeconomic and legal factors that determined child support awards and receipts, documenting why few gains were made in child support overall, and offering policy recommendations for the future.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on September 1, 1994. The length of the article is 1181 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: Small Change: The Economics of Child Support. (book reviews)
Author: Steven Pressman
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Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1994
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13 Proven Ways to Get Your Message Across: The Essential Reference for Teachers, Trainers, Presenters, and Speakers
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Here's just the help you need to make sure your presentation practices are sound and effective. Brewer presents thirteen different effective ways for you to present your information to small or large groups. The author defines, describes, and discusses each method. He gives you step-by-step procedures for using the methods and outlines appropriate uses for each one, as well as applicable cautions.
You'll soon:
- Recharge your teaching or presenting "batteries" by reviewing fundamental skills
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Whether you're a classroom teacher, staff developer, teacher educator, or workshop speaker, this practical guide has the information you need to make sure you're getting through to your audience. This workbook includes a checklist you can use to decide which method will work best for the presentation situation you face. The pros and cons of each method are highlighted to make it easier for you to find the best match.
The author also offers planning and evaluation worksheets to use with each method described. If you want to make sure that you're getting through to your audience—whether it's your students or any other group you're presenting to—this guide will help. It's filled with the hands-on instruction you need to get your message across.
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Excellent reference for successful teaching methods!.......2000-05-15
I am a first year teacher, teaching study skills to high school students with learning disabilities. These students desparately need these skills, but are not the least bit interested in learning how to study or studying for that matter. I have poured over many textbooks desparately seeking ideas that might get these kids motivated to learn and had found nothing until I read this book. It includes 13 very useful techniques to present information to a group, and it can be used whether you are a teacher, speaker or presenter. Each technique is presented with step-by-step easy to follow guidelines for instructional practice. The book also includes planning and evaluation sheets for each technique that I have found invaluable. I have finally been able to get my classes to participate in the learning process through the use of these techniques. I have been repeatedly checking it out of the University library, but I was so excited to have found it offered here on Amazon.com. I'm definitly going to buy it!
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Essential Skills for Management Research
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Essential Skills for Management Research provides an authoritative overview of research methodology for both students and professional researchers in management. Based on management research methods course needs, and written by expert academics in the field, this book is informed by the requirements of students, professionals and lecturers in management research.
Essential Skills for Management Research places emphasis on the more practical concerns of management researchers, focusing on the detail of developing and applying particular sets of research skills. In addition, the book gives straight-forward advice on how to:
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Essential Skills for Management Research arose from the growing need to address the practical concerns of students in undertaking research that is relevant to management practice. The book develops tangible skills and will be an invaluable guide for management researchers and students at postgraduate and MBA levels.
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College Study: The Essential Ingredients
Sally Lipsky
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Complete and balanced, with essential coverage of learning, study, and time-management techniques, this book exposes readers to “how” to learn. Content is presented in such a way as to guide readers to become self-regulating learners and problem-solvers. Topics covered include strategies, learning attitudes, and learning styles, as well as time management. This book is a useful reference for those readers needing to brush up on their learning and time-management skills, making it a perfect tool for those going back into the workforce, or those readers considering continuing education.
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This digital document is a journal article from Library and Information Science Research, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Social studies: mastering content and skills.(Research Corner: ESSENTIALS ON EDUCATION DATA and RESEARCH ANALYSIS): An article from: District Administration
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Title: Social studies: mastering content and skills.(Research Corner: ESSENTIALS ON EDUCATION DATA and RESEARCH ANALYSIS)
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Essential Data Skills for Business and Management
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Co-Op Advertising Programs Sourcebook
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Co-op Advertising Programs Sourcebook 2005
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Co-op Advertising Programs Sourcebook 2005
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Co-op Advertising Program Sourcebook
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Technological Change in the Modern Economy: Basic Topics and New Developments
P. R. Beije
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Technological Change in the Modern Economy presents an authoritative overview of the economics of technological change. Using an empirical foundation, it examines the economic causes and effects of technological innovation. It also analyzes the process of innovation itself.
The author first provides an introduction to innovation and technical change. He expands this to include issues such as innovation and economic growth, the organization of innovation, innovation and competition, and the role of government. He also discusses new topics such as technological cooperation, the spillover effects of research, the firm as a learning organization, and national systems of innovation. These issues are analyzed empirically, employing theoretical explanations to support case studies on Europe, The United States, and Japan. The book uses an institutional economics approach, discussing the role of various actors, such as individual inventors, research departments of private firms, and public research institutes.
The book will provide an introduction to the economics of innovation for advanced undergraduates and for managers and public administrators involved in innovation. It will also be of interest to those studying industrial organization and institutional economics, and will be accessible to those from business administration and management science.
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The Corporation of the 1990s: Information Technology and Organizational Transformation
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Since the invention of the telegraph, information technology (IT) has revolutionized the way we communicate, the way we do business, and the way we live. From the telephone to the fax machine, the Hollerith tabulating machine to the modern-day computer, IT has collapsed time and distance, becoming indispensable in today's world economy. And yet, though businesses and organizations have spent tremendous amounts of money on computer hardware and software, these investments in IT have not raised most organizations' productivity or profitability. How can organizations make better use of the available technology? The Corporation of the 1990s presents an expert view of how information technology will influence organizations and their ability to survive and prosper in this decade and beyond. Featuring a foreword by Lester C. Thurow, Dean of MIT's Sloan School of Management, and an introduction by Michael S. Scott Morton, it represents the fruit of an active collaboration between scholars from MIT's Sloan School and ten major corporations--including American Express, Digital Equipment Corporation, Eastman Kodak, General Motors, British Petroleum, and MCI Communications--and two U.S. governmental agencies. This highly readable, exhaustively researched volume describes how the rapidly changing global economy has placed new demands on corporations; at the same time, the contributors point to the exponential growth of IT in recent years--from electronic check-out counters at grocery stores to ATMs on street corners to the widespread use of electronic mail--discussing how this tremendous IT resource can be used to master the changing market. The authors also present a wealth of real-life examples of organizations that have used IT effectively and profitably. The IRS, for instance, now provides an electronic filing system for individual taxpayers. And airlines, realizing that they could solve overbooking problems by offering customers various package deals (such as free flights and cash) in exchange for their reserved seats, have developed sophisticated computer systems which allow them to play more boldly with the probabilities of flight capacity. The authors argue that corporations will not survive just by working harder and faster within existing organizational structures. Instead, organizations will have to restructure, invest heavily in human resources, and adopt totally new concepts of managing. Only then will they be able to create new strategies that will allow them to get closer to customers' real needs--and only then will their investments in IT pay off.
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Beyond the 90s.......2000-02-06
This book nicley discussed like what will be the management focus, tactics and techniques of progressive business in the 90s and beyond? How will these organisations adapt to their chaning environments and develop new directions and strategies? How will management develop these new techniques and skills to make their organisations progressive in an environment in which IT is changing rapidly.
It is a good book for executives with flair for IT.
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