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The International Dictionary of Data Communications
Robert A. Saigh
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THE INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF DATA COMMUNICATIONS
Here is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference on data communications available, covering both on-line and off-line systems. It includes nearly 3,500 entries and is fully cross-referenced for ease of understanding. Special features include: ** icons to highlight IBM or MacIntosh usage ** specially formatted text to differentiate terms for various connection types ** screen captures to explain text windows and/or instructions ** examples and graphical shortcuts to further clarify definitions In addition, The International Dictionary of Data Communications lists relevant company addresses, telephone numbers, and Internet sites along with important meetings and conventions worldwide and sources of additional information. The extensive bibliography and index makes this a highly useful reference.
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Dictionary of Data Communications (International Dictionary Series)
John Clark
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You're no idiot, of course. You handle last minute crises at home and the office, come up with one-of-a-kind ideas, and even find time to catch up on your favorite novel. But when it comes to writing a persuasive report or press release, you feel like taking English 101 again. Don't cut class yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Terrific Business Writing takes the fear out and puts the excitement back inot writing effective and winning sales letters, proposals, press releases, and articles. Feel confident about successfully communicating your ideas. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get:
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Quand il est minuit moins cinq.......2004-01-30
Ecrire c'est plus agreable lorsque l'ecrivain se sert du style parle. Les lecteurs comprennent plus facilement ce que vous dites. Ils sont en cas de faire ce que vous voulez d'eux. Ce qui leur plait aussi, c'est d'avoir, a leur portee, tous les faits et les statistiques. Mais au beau milieu du temps de la technologie, ils aiment surtout entendre la voix de l'ecrivain. Alors c'est toujours utile de laisser entendre votre avis.
Gave me the guidance I needed.......2002-05-19
I am always writing on my job and sometimes I just didn't know who to start on certain types of documents. However, this book helped me a lot. Now at least I have the steps and guidance of this book to help me.
A Hard Day's Write.......2001-07-17
Write the way you talk so your writing sounds natural. Think of the reader's background and level of responsibility: make it easy for the reader to figure out why you are writing and what you want. Be concise and to the point: back up ideas and recommendations with facts and opinions. Fight writer's block by working on orderly flow and by making sure that you know all you need to write. Marcia Layton's humorously written, logically organized and well-indexed COMPLETE IDIOT'S GUIDE TO TERRIFIC BUSINESS WRITING jumpstarts just about every kind of writing around. Her book puts into practice Edward P. Bailey's THE PLAIN ENGLISH APPROACH TO BUSINESS WRITING, Robert W. Bly and Gary Blake's THE ELEMENTS OF BUSINESS WRITING, Richard B. Loth's HOW TO PROFIT FROM READING ANNUAL REPORTS, and Maryann V. Piotrowski's EFFECTIVE BUSINESS WRITING.
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- Idealizing the Ideal System
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Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective
William Roth
Manufacturer: CRC
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Quality improvement: it's an attractive concept on paper. So why do the vast majority of quality improvement efforts fail? William Roth knows from experience: as a Ph.D in systems theory, an ex-corporate manager, a professor-and the designer (with the AQP) of a national program to deliver training for quality credentials in the systems approach. His belief: enduring quality improvement is an "all or nothing" situation-requiring a systemic approach, with all the key components and integrations in place and fully integrated right from the start. Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective explains the sometimes surprising historic roots of the quality improvement movement, and outlines the systems theory on which successful models must be built. Readers then gain access to the hands-on, nuts-and-bolts, how-to-get-it-done details of the five critical phases. Three case studies (two in industry, one in health care) support this traditional but currently shunned model. Along with his unique unified view of quality improvement, Roth explains why it is shunned, and why alternative approaches usually do not produce the desired results. Key obstacles to success are directly identified-top-level management, local union leaders, management education. The ultimate culprit, though, is culture-to which Roth suggests how to move organizations in the right direction, from a systems perspective. With one of the most comprehensive overviews of quality management essentials in one volume, Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective balances theory and modeling with the details of real-life implementation and success.
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Idealizing the Ideal System.......2004-01-21
Quality Improvement: A Systems Perspective by William F. Roth is a concise and informative book for those considering incorporating quality in business. The author begins by explaining quality improvement and how it can be achieved by modifying areas within an organizational system. Central to the ideas for success of quality improvement involve the full participation of all employees, the continuous interactive planning, and the holistic approach that is crucial to accomplishing a well integrated quality system. The author provides examples of companies where the quality process was initiated through the use of steps and guidelines involving the collective efforts of all employees, from the top to the bottom of an organization. The practical points and issues raised by the author provides the reader with the critical perspectives on achieving successful quality improvement. The text also discusses reasons for the failure and success of quality efforts.
The author includes an analysis of important learning concepts that must be taught in business schools to provide the critical building blocks for effective organizational leadership. Quantitative analysis is extremely useful but for true quality derived from improvement of systems to be achieved, business students must be instructed in the analysis of skills in workers that are nonquantifiable. This book was brilliantly written and exposed the quality process at work at International Paper mills and at the Good Shepherd Rehab Center. These two examples have been provided to illustrate the different way in which a quality improvement process empowered employees.
This text is as brilliant and practical today as when it was written years ago. The ideal corporate American system is embodied in the writing of this book. If one can sit back and idealize the perfect situation in work as in life, as the author discusses, one becomes that much closer to fulfilling his individual potential and the realization of his dreams.
Book Description
Quality management techniques can be used to lead project teams to success. An invaluable resource, as well as an entertaining read, The World's Greatest Project!, an updated and expanded version of Darnall's best-selling Achieving TQM on Projects, tells the fictional story of the successful application of quality techniques in three major projects.
Darnall's easygoing style allows him to present various points of view, to examine resistance and barriers to change, and also to remind you that fun is a viable project management tool.
Customer Reviews:
A must for anyone studying Project Management.......1998-11-14
Darnall's book covers was bought as a requirement my Master's Degree Program. It not only made sense but helped me understand how really good project managers made a difference.
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- Possibly the best book on TQM
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Total Quality Management: A Cross Functional Perspective
Ashok Rao ,
Lawrence P. Carr ,
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Robert J. Kopp ,
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Phyllis Fineman Schlesinger
Manufacturer: Wiley
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The emphasis of Quality is pervading every facet of business, and managers are required to know and apply TQM principles. This book explores the strategic role of quality global competition, the roles of management in attaining quality excellence, the structures and systems needed to support a total quality strategy, and the main statistical and analytical tools for achieving quality improvement and control.
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Possibly the best book on TQM.......2000-06-24
The book is succinct and doesn't mince words.
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Achieving Tqm on Projects: The Journey of Continuous Improvement (The Perspective)
Russell W. Darnall
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Best Practice Benchmarking: An International Perspective
Sylvia Codling
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The Customer-Driven Company: Managerial Perspectives on Quality Function Deployment
William E. Eureka , and
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The Effectiveness of Cqi in Health Care: Stories from a Global Perspective (Asqc Health Care Series)
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Small Business Management, published by International Council of Small Business on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 4904 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: Gearing total quality into small- and medium-sized hotels in North Cyprus. (Global Perspective).
Author: Huseyin Arasli
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Journal of Small Business Management (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: International Council of Small Business
Volume: 40
Issue: 4
Page: 350(10)
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Global Perspectives on Quality in Higher Education
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Global Perspectives on Total Quality (The Conference Board report)
A. Tank
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Creative Planning of Special Library Facilities (Haworth Series on Special Librarianship, Vol 1) (Haworth Series on Special Librarianship, Vol 1)
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Web Business Boot Camp: Hands-on Internet Lessons for Managers, Entrepreneurs, and Professionals
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A crash course in getting significant business results from a Web site-at low cost
Web Business Bootcamp focuses on activities that anyone can do to improve their online business, even with little cash and without technical sophistication. Richard Seltzer outlines the tasks that entrepreneurs and e-commerce managers typically delegate to experts without knowing enough to properly set goals, coordinate activities, or monitor progress-and then provides low-tech, low-cost techniques for making informed decisions and getting the hands-on experience needed to do smart business on the Internet. Businesses both large and small can apply his innovative ideas such as "flypaper" and "content-based Internet marketing"-effective strategies he has learned and used with his own Web site-to attract targeted traffic to their Web sites.
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Conflicting Accounts: The Creation and Crash of the Saatchi and Saatchi Advertising Empire
Kevin Goldman
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Conflicting Accounts is the story of the rise, crash, and rebirth of the largest and arguably most significant advertising agency in the world -- Saatchi and Saatchi. Author Kevin Goldman, former daily advertising columnist for the Wall Street Journal, guides us through a lushly detailed account of the feats and foibles of two of the most colorful characters in the ad business: the reclusive Charles Saatchi, a renowned art collector and the creative force behind Saatchi & Saatchi; and his younger brother Maurice, the ever-so-charming rainmaker whose tony lifestyle and questionable management skills eventually led to his downfall.
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Readable, but unmemorable.......1998-09-27
From this type of book (business history), I want to come away with more than just history and facts, I want insight and revelation. With Conflicting Accounts, I got little of the latter.
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Embedded Politics: Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism
Gerald Andrew McDermott
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Embedded Politics offers a unique framework for analyzing the impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of their economies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of communist Czechoslovakia and contemporary Czech industries and banks, Gerald A. McDermott argues that restructuring is best advanced through the creation of deliberative or participatory forms of governance that encourages public and private actors to share information and take risks. Further, he contends that institutional and organizational changes are intertwined and that experimental processes are shaped by how governments delegate power to local public and private actors and monitor them.
Using comparative case analysis of several manufacturing sectors, Embedded Politics accounts for change and continuity in the formation of new economic governance institutions in the Czech Republic. It analytically links the macropolitics of state policy with the micropolitics of industrial restructuring. Thus the book advances an alternative approach for the comparative study of institutional change and industrial adjustment.
As a historical and contemporary analysis of Czech firms and public institutions, this book will command the attention of students of postcommunist reforms, privatization, and political-economic transitions in general. But also given its interdisciplinary approach and detailed empirical analysis of policy-making and firm behavior, Embedded Politics is a must read for scholars of politics, economics, sociology, political economy, business organization, and public policy.
Gerald A. McDermott is Assistant Professor of Management in The Wharton School of Management at The University of Pennsylvania. His research applies recent advances in comparative political economy and industrial organization, including theories of social networks, historical institutionalism, and incomplete markets to analyze issues of economic governance, firm creation, and industrial restructuring in advanced and newly industrialized countries. As evidenced by Embedded Politics, his current focus is on problems of institutional and organizational learning in the formation of meso-level governance institutions in emerging market and postsocialist economies.
McDermott also works as Senior Research Fellow at the IAE Escuela de Direccion y Negocios at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, and he has served as Project Coordinator at the Inter-American Development Bank. He has consulted for the Finance, Private Sector, and Infrastructure Division at the World Bank and advised the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic. In addition he has published many papers and book chapters on entrepreneurship, privatization, institutions, and networks in Central Europe and Latin America.
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Institutional Change and Industrial Development in Central and Eastern Europe
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- Excellent Insight into Business Intelligence via the Web
- "Must Have" For Your E-BI Library
- A good fundation
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Internet-Enabled Business Intelligence
William A. Giovinazzo
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Excellent Insight into Business Intelligence via the Web.......2002-10-11
There are a lot of books on business intelligence and the web, some of them are better than others. Typically the focus of these books is on click stream analysis and focus on the CRM aspects of business intelligence over the web. While these topics are discussed, there is more to this book.
This book is a bit different and is interesting for both the novice and the experienced system implementer. The book gives a history of Internet, both from a technical and economic perspective. It even deals with how the Internet works. Answering such questions as why an IP address is an unreliable way of identifying customers over the net. The book looks at both collecting data for business intelligence applications as well as how to deploy these applications over the net using Internet technology. It discusses some of the aspects of the Java language that makes it well suited for develop BI applications. It also presents various Java API's developed for business intelligence.
I really enjoyed reading this book. At times reading a heavy technology book can be a bit dry. This book is not like that. At times he will introduce topics with discussions that seem off the topic, but in the`end lead back to main point. In fact, these diversions actually helped my understanding of the subject. While this is certainly a serious book, there were times I laughed out loud. This is a good book for understanding business intelligence over the Internet. If you are interested in this subject, by all means you should read this book.
"Must Have" For Your E-BI Library.......2002-10-04
If you are involved in E-Business Intelligence, then this is a book worth reading. I enjoyed Kimball's "Building the Data Webhouse" and Mena's "Mining your web site", but this book takes a different perspective on the subject. Each of these books provide their own view on how the Internet had affected business intelligence.
There is a lot of detail in this book that would make it of interest to an implementer. It discusses many of the technologies used to build an Internet enabled application, such as XML, CWMI and Java. For example, in the section on Java, the author discusses the Java beans, the OLAP API and the data mining API. The book even provides some discussion on how you can use an application server in a business intelligence system.
I would definitely recommend this to any IT professional interested in the subject.
A good fundation.......2002-10-02
This book provides an excellent foundation in understanding the how to build a business intelligence system in an Internet enabled world. The author makes the point that the Internet has changed a lot about the business world, part of the change is how we do business intelligence.
The beginning of the book was very interesting. It describes the history of the Internet from the early 1960's through the 90's. It also goes into the economic forces formed to create the popularity of the Internet. That is just the beginning though.
Don't mistake this for some soft, "touchy-feely" book on IEBI though. The book digs deep into details. It describes the implementation of three tiered architectures, Java, Java Beans. There is an entire chapter on CWMI and another on XML and XSL. It is a very good read. The final section of the book is dedicated to applying IEBI to CRM. It deals with how and why you would want to use cookies to track customer behavior.
The author makes the point that there is no one book that will cover all aspects of IEBI, but anyone interested in doing business intelligence in an Internet enabled world should read this book.
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