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This guide gives you the tools you need to get your point across and keep the attention of your listeners when making a business presentation. It gives tips on producing well-targeted presentations, establishing your objectives, designing effective story boards and grids, using color graphics to help illustrate your points, and arranging the sequence of your presentation so that you don't lose the interest of your audience. It also suggests techniques for overcoming fear of public speaking and for handling unusual circumstances, like presenting via teleconferencing or conference calls.

10 Minute Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 2002

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10 Minute Guide to Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
Joe Habraken
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Because most people don't have the luxury of sitting down uninterrupted for hours at a time to learn PowerPoint, this 10-Minute Guide focuses on the most often used features, covering them in lessons designed to take 10 minutes or less to complete. In addition, this guide teaches you how to use PowerPoint without relying on technical jargon. Instead, it provides straightforward, easy-to-follow explanations and lists of numbered steps that tell you which keys to press and which options to select.

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"Unskilled communication" in the workplace can lead to missed deadlines, unfilled orders, misdirected bills and, ultimately, lost business. The cure, according to communications consultant Raymond M. Olderman, is focus, determination, practice--and the tips he outlines in the 10 Minute Guide to Business Communication. Among his how-tos are suggestions for defining goals and approaches; using e-mail; writing persuasive letters; developing better listening skills; dealing with peers, subordinates and superiors; conducting productive meetings; communicating across cultures; and solving disagreements. The final chapter in this series of easily digestible nuggets explains how to measure your performance.

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Communication for Your Career.......2002-09-06

Olderman has insight into the world of Business Communication, and it shows in his writing! This is a must-have book for people in business.

10 Minute Guide To Powerpoint 97 (10 Minute Guides (Computer Books))

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Powerpoint for the Geek on the go!

10 Minute Guide To Powerpoint 97 (10 Minute Guides (Computer Books))
WEMPEN
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ASIN: 0789710218

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The 10 Minute Guide to PowerPoint 97 offers simple, practical help for busy people who need fast results. Through goal-oriented, 10-minute lessons, you'll learn all the essential tasks for creating your own powerful presentations. Ten minutes is all you need to learn how to create new presentations automatically with AutoContent Wizard; print your presentations in a variety of useful formats; organize your information into columns and multi-level lists; enhance your text with unique fonts and special effects; enliven presentations with pictures, sound, and video clips; add graphs and organizational charts; master transitions, timing, and animation; and save your presentation in HTML format for use on the Internet.

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Powerpoint for the Geek on the go!.......2000-05-03

I'm not part of the Powerpoint generation. I grew up making presentations by hand, drawing on sheets of clear plastic with grease pencils. But I got tired of having to rely on someone else to help me express my ideas. So I took the plunge to learn Powerpoint. This book got me, a programmer, up to speed fast. No foolishness, no trite explanations that I didn't need. Just the facts, in a great tutorial style. I was making my slides, speaker notes and handouts in 10 minutes! (Well maybe not 10 minutes but definitely within a couple of hours :) I highly recommend this book for those of you out there who don't have the time to devote to learning Powerpoint, but need to get their job done.

10 Minute Guide to Business Presentations

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10 Minute Guide to Business Presentations
George Kops
Manufacturer: Alpha
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O91XG2

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How is it that certain sites become the superstars of the World Wide Web? What makes Internet-based stores and services, such as America Online, burst into public consciousness? The process is the same, Farrell explains, as that which took Hootie and the Blowfish from bar band to supergroup at record speed or made Beanie Babies the national craze.

Farrell shows how social interactions create hits, both online and off. Better yet, he demonstrates how computer models are using the mathematics of complexity theory to help predict the hit or flop potential of new ideas, products, and services. What makes the models so fascinating is that they behave as groups of individual consumers, running in simulated communities inside the computer, approximating the reactions of their flesh-and-blood counterparts.

While the principles here apply to the entire world of business, they are particularly essential for those who wish to create an audience or customer base on the Internet, where the hit-creating (and preventing) forces seem to be particularly volatile. And while Farrell makes it clear that hits cannot be manufactured on demand, he is able to provide good advice on tactics, which can swing the odds more in your favor. --Elizabeth Lewis

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What makes a hit a hit? How does a movie like Titanic captivate the publics eye--and break box office records worldwide? What set Hootie & the Blowfish apart from countless other bands struggling to make it big--enabling them to sell more than 13 million copies of their debut album? What forces thrust Tickle Me Elmo to the top of every child's Christmas list last year, creating a feeding frenzy and waiting lists several months long?

Just how do hits happen?

Managers and marketing gurus alike have struggled to find the answers for years. Using outdated strategies and theories, they make foggy predictions based on past performance. Yet no matter how much research and marketing money you pour into a product, the biggest hits always seem to come out of the blue.

But do they really? In How Hits Happen, Winslow Farrell, partner in the Emergent Solutions Group at Cooper & Lybrand, offers a breakthrough approach to uncovering the hidden patterns behind hits. Applying complexity theory--the science that examines the interactions of various factors in complex systems--to modern business problems. How Hits Happen reveals how the actions of synthetic customers shed light on consumer behavior in the natural world. These computer-generated "consumers" embody quirks and contradictions, motivations and behaviors that uncannily resemble our own. They shop, go to movies, listen to music, and form cliques--in turn making or breaking the virtual products they're confronted with. Motivated by popularity, product placement, advertising, and simple preferences, their purchases are a powerful predictor of the next giant hit...or the next huge flop.

How Hits Happen turns the findings of this technology into a practical, accessible guide to consumer behavior for businesspeople everywhere, from marketing managers to management consultants, strategic planners to small-business owners. Fascinating, compelling, and truly revolutionary, it reveals invaluable lessons for managers in any real-life industry.

Advanced Praise for How Hits Happen

"A mind-bending exploration of the nonlinear dynamics of fads, fashions, and high-tech markets. If you are contemplating creating new markets in this world of increasing return economics, read this provocative book."
--John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation, and Director, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

"How Hits Happen is a lively and eminently practical condensation of the complexity sciences and their implications for product and marketing innovation. Farrell dispels old myths and delivers a wealth of new ideas that will forever change the way you think about how hits happen."
--Paul Saffo, Director, Institute for the Future

"Since everyone wants a hit, this knowledgeable primer on applying the new sciences of complexity could become pretty popular. I hope so--not because the world needs more subtly engineered hits, but because complex adaptive systems are where and how we live, and understanding helps."
--Stewart Brand, Director, Global Business Network

"[How Hits Happen] is clear and readable. It is entertaining. And it is the best book I have seen yet on what the new ideas of complexity theory have to do with the concerns of business."
--W. Brain Arthur, Santa Fe Institute

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Excellent ideas on creating your own hits.......2004-04-23

One truism we have often heard in strategy seminars is that you can't plan your way into a fad. Thus, the success of Ty's Beanie Babies or Tamagotchi cannot be the result of good strategy - they are merely accidents that we would all like to have. In How Hits Happen, the author postulates that hits of any sort actually have some common elements that we can seek when attempting to emulate Furbies and pet rocks.

Most of this book details the history of large-scale artificial life simulations used by Coopers and Lybrand, and the text leans to the poetic rather than the practical, but there are still several nuggets of usable information:

-Target people who "lead" your market. These are the equivalent of the "cool kids" of our Junior High School years - they tend to adopt new buying patterns before everyone else does, and others in the marketplace follow their lead.

-Generate excitement about your products or services. Just another product is NOT noteworthy. To get people talking about you, you have to do something a little off the wall.

-Understand the patterns customers use to distinguish a "good product" from a "bad product". This enables you to find the cues that will give the customer instantly good feelings about your product.

-Remember that you are targeting customers who are human beings. They don't think of themselves as, say, young professionals. Most customers tend to think of themselves in terms of what they consume.

-Create and nurture communities of evangelists who will preach the joys of doing business with your company. Involve them in your product design. Play golf with them. Give them special
treatment for being your ambassadors to the market. Software companies, for example, often send pre-release beta versions of their products to their most ardent supporters.

-Watch for signals that your market is about to change precipitously. The "explosions" that create hits can often be created with just a little push in the right place at the right time.

-The internet is a powerful medium for generating hits. "Buzz" in an internet discussion group or on a web page can translate into powerful word-of-mouth advertising outside of the internet. This is true because many of the risk-seeking early adopters who help to "create" hits are spending a lot of time on the internet these days.

-Manage availability to enhance your hit status. Sometimes, being ubiquitous helps build network externalities which make your product more valuable to the buyer as more and more customers get on the band wagon. In other instances, scarcity enhances perceived value by making your product something the customer has to work to obtain.

In all, we'd like to see a book like this that is a bit more prescriptive than descriptive, but How Hits Happen is still engaging and thought-provoking. I would definitely suggest this book as a source of ideas for anyone involved in product development.

glib and insubstantial.......2001-10-09

I agree with the reviewer who said this should have been condensed into a magazine article. In a nutshell, Farrell says that hits are non-linear events in which crowd psychology and feedback play a key role, in other words it can't be modelled by summing the buying behaviors and preferences of each individual. Of course this is obvious, so Farrell's contribution is to say that complexity theory and software agents can be useful for modelling these situations, and have been used by his consulting firm and others. This is interesting, but Farrell never provides any real details of how the modelling is done, what the problems are, etc. Instead, much of the book is filled with fluffy business anecdotes and observations, such as how the movie Titanic succeeded in dominating entertainment culture in 1997. I get the impression he is the glib "Mr. Outside" of the projects he's involved with, and perhaps doesn't have a really good grasp of the technical substance. Either that, or this book is essentially a brochure for his firm's services.

glib and insubstantial.......2001-10-09

Rubbish.......2001-09-16

Author takes cliched case studies - such as Cabbage Patch Dolls - and translates that into his chaos theory. His theory incidentlly can only be fully explained should you hire his consulting company. Very little substance and purely annecdotal evidence were used to write this book. Avoid.

A 500 word article stretched into a paperback..........2000-11-28

I wish I had read some of the Amazon reviews before buying this book. A very unorganised account of complexity theory - and very wordy. One could tell this was written by a consultant (and I say this as a consultant).

The sections relating to synthetic agent simulations were interesting, however they were interspersed with so many references to Titanic and 'Tickle Me Elmo' I almost fell asleep.

More detailed analysis on the tools and 'levers' to manage the complex world of 'hits' may have made this book worth the money.

Refund please...

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Troubleshooting tool for manufacturing processes.

A hands-on, solutions-oriented guide, Process Quality Control, Third Edition, by Ellis R, Ott, Edward G. Schilling, and Dean V. Neubauer, gives you a systematic approach to gathering and analyzing data for troubleshooting manufacturing processes. This classic emphasizes short term and long term variability, particularly with regard to process capability and performance. The third edition gives you many new analytical methods, insights into their application, and case studies. These techniques include tolerance intervals, a test for the comparison of long term and short term variation, simplified attribute sample size determination, and an updated discussion of sampling. You'll also find an expanded discussion of control charts, including trend charts, manual adjustment charts, and short run charts. While the emphasis is on process control, you'll also find significant material on analysis of means.

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An Updated Classic.......2001-07-23

One of my prize possessions is this book, a copy of the original 1975 edition, signed by Professor Ott himself.

When I first got a job in Quality Assusrance, this was one of the books I consulted in my local college library. I soon found it was the best of the lot for its clear explanations, practical examples and sheer readability. When I came back into QA after working in another field, one of the first things I did was procure a copy of the book from a bookfinder - the 2nd hand copy I was delighted to discover also had Ott's signature!

It is great to see an updated edition is now on sale and that Ellis Ott's name is not forgotten, for he (as far as I can find out about him) is one of the unsung pioneers of Statistical Process Control. Ott is not longer with us, but the co-authors have sensibly decided to update a classic, rather than starting from scratch. The examples in the older book are as relevant today as they are then.

From what I can see, this book sticks to the philosophy of the earlier editions but has modernized its approach in some respects, especially in the notation of Experimental Design and in the use of Excel, which I also remommend as an easy-to-use PC tool. Highly recommended for practitioners of Statistical Process Control.

Great Statistical/Process Engineering Reference.......2000-10-18

This is a wonderful textbook for the practicing statistician, process engineer, or anyone who works with data on a regular basis. This book finds the right mix of statistical theory and practical applications of the statistical concepts to process troubleshooting. "Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data" will be appropriate for a course taught to statistics majors as well as anyone in an engineering field, and it will also be a very valuable reference to anyone working in industry who is tasked with using data to make decisions about their processes.

The book is very thorough, covering everything from the basics of visualizing data (histograms, box plots, etc.) through basic DOE and SPC all the way to more sophisticated SPC concepts such as narrow-limit gauging, acceptance control charts, and cumulative sum charts. I cannot think of a topic in basic SPC that is not covered in this text. A great bonus is the CD that comes with the text that includes answers to all of the exercises and an add-in for Excel that performs Analysis of Means, making this great graphical tool for summarizing results of statistical analyses even more practical to use.

All in all, a very thorough text with many examples/case studies that would be useful to anyone in industry in charge of controlling and improving processes.

A Valuable Reference for Process Quality Control.......2000-08-26

I recommend that this very well written text belong to every statistician who works in industry. Others such as mechanical, electrical, chemical, etc., engineers and scientists will also find this book to be a valuable reference. The book covers the breadth of useful statistical methods that industrial practitioners would likely encounter. Some topics such as implementing statistical process control, design of experiments with two or three factors, and troubleshooting with attributes and variables data are discussed extensively. Many real life examples from various industries are used throughout to illustrate the statistical concepts. All topics are well referenced enabling the reader to explore more thoroughly their areas of interest. The book also features a CD-ROM for the PC which contains datasets and solutions to practice exercises. An Excel add-in program is included for Analysis of Means [ANOM] of attributes and variables data the results of which are presented graphically.

The book is divided into three sections: Basics of Interpretation of Data, Statistical Process Control, and Troubleshooting and Process Improvement. The first section reviews many basic statistical concepts familiar to most statisticians. The second describes many facets of SPC some of which, such as Precontrol or Narrow-Limit Gauging in Process Control, the reader including myself may not be conversant, but will find useful in their own line of work. The last section describes what are probably underutilized but often very useful troubleshooting techniques. ANOM, for example, is a powerful way of analyzing data from industrial experiments with two or three factors resulting in graphics that can be used to clearly communicate conclusions to managers, to other engineers and scientists, and/or to operators on the shop floor.

I really enjoyed reading this book and am finding it to be a valuable reference to which I refer again and again.

Hank W. Altland Senior Project Engineer, Statistics Corning, Inc.

August 26, 2000

Great book........2000-08-11

You want SPC, you got it.

Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data

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Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data
Edward G. Schilling Ellis Raymond Ott
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx)
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This book will teach you how benchmarking is used to improve performance, set quality objectives, and identify and adapt to best processes. Most of us routinely use benchmarking--to measure, match, compare, evaluate--all to establish a standard of what we believe is best. However, the critical elements of our customers' expectations and requirements are often missing. This book adds those elements into the process, and demonstrates six other types of benchmarking, while helping you decide which method will suit your needs.

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Low is low.......2007-04-11

I was attracted by the low price of this book which I thought could include descriptions on how to conduct a benchmarking study. However, I found out that 'low is always low' i.e. you get what you pay for... The book has no ingridient for conducting a study just simple definitions. If you want definitions go to any web site linked to benchmarking rather than paying for such a book.

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A Good Basic Book
Hardly more than a set of lecture slides

The Basics of Benchmarking
Robert Damelio
Manufacturer: Quality Resources.
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Anyone beginning a benchmarking project will appreciate the quick and easy-to-understand explanation provided in this new book.

The first part of the book provides a guide to the language of benchmarking and answers some commonly asked questions including:

How does a practice relate to a metric?
What are best practices?
What is the difference between a benchmarking process and a benchmarking system?
What is the benchmarking code of conduct?

The second part of the book walks through the three phases of the benchmarking process-Analysis, Discovery, and Implementation-and provides charts and checklists on what questions should be answered at each phase, and what outputs should be produced. The book closes with a complete process map that outlines the entire site visit process.

The Basics of Benchmarking will help you:

Gain a fast and thorough overview of benchmarking concepts.
Put together a benchmarking team and quickly get everyone up-to-speed. Prepare a site visit plan.

Customer Reviews:

A Good Basic Book.......2006-08-06

This book presents the basics of benchmarking. This is a good read for those new to the subject who needs to be introduced to the basic concepts. The book is written in a simple and easy to follow format with understandable explanations which allow the beginner to grasp the concepts and see how to apply them to their organisations. The book teaches, among other things, how a practice relates to a metric, what best practices are, the difference between benchmarking process and system, and the three phases of the process. The book reinforces its message with charts and checklists which is very helpful.

The beginner should be able to obtain a good overview of the benchmarking concepts. However, for the veteran, the book would be too basic (Why would a veteran want to buy a basics book anyway).

Hardly more than a set of lecture slides.......2002-01-10

Wenn I received this book, I was thoroughly disappointed. Although I could have known that this wasn't exactly an encyclopedia from the indicated size (do YOU ever check?), I wasn't prepared for the size of the print or the large amounts of white space on the pages.

Being fair, the contents of the booklet are interesting and correct, there's just so little of it. I've seen FAQ-pages of websites that had more content than this booklet (or should I say "brochure"?). On the whole, there seems to be little more here than a high-level mentioning of topics in the field than a true introduction into the topic for would-be doers.

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Basic statistics for clinical pathway evaluation.: An article from: Nursing Economics
Ronald J. Lagoe
Manufacturer: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00098823K
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Nursing Economics, published by Jannetti Publications, Inc. on May 1, 1998. The length of the article is 4141 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.

From the author: Clinical pathways (using accepted benchmark goals) are among the most widespread tools used to enhance outcomes and contain costs within a constrained length of stay (LOS). The author describes the need for selection and use of designated basic statistics in the "definition and evaluation of the impact of clinical pathways in hospitals." The use of both the mean and median data on resource use and LOS information (to evaluate the effectiveness of various clinical pathways) is advised, as the influence of outlier data will thus be revealed. The ultimate goal of such evaluation is the identification of statistics that can be readily "understood by and communicated among providers and consumers of health care services." The correlation of statistical variables such as resource utilization (including ICU stays) and LOS, can reveal patterns not easily seen otherwise.

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Title: Basic statistics for clinical pathway evaluation.
Author: Ronald J. Lagoe
Publication: Nursing Economics (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 1998
Publisher: Jannetti Publications, Inc.
Volume: v16 Issue: n3 Page: p125(7)

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Benchmarking Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers

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Cynthia Barnard
Manufacturer: HCPro
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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More hospital performance data is readily available than ever before, and benchmarking is implicitly required by some Joint Commission standards and CMS measures. Gathering meaningful data is vital in the era of pay for performance, and payers and agencies are calling for more transparency in quality improvement data. The need for benchmarking is clearly growing, and many hospital staff are being asked to run benchmarking projects for the first time. Help is here with HCPro s new book, Benchmarking Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers. This resource takes healthcare managers through the benchmarking process, step-by-step. It explains how to implement benchmarking programs that use valid data to answer a variety of questions, make accurate comparisons, and measure a hospital s overall performance, both internally and against facilities nationwide. Readers will also learn when not to benchmark, and how to avoid commonly made mistakes that can affect results. In every chapter of the book, you'll find a concise summary of topics, as well as tips on potential trouble spots and what pitfalls to avoid.

Benchmarking U.S. science: What can it tell us? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Basic Research of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, ... Congress, second session, October 4, 2000

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Benchmarking U.S. science: What can it tell us? : hearing before the Subcommittee on Basic Research of the Committee on Science, House of Representatives, ... Congress, second session, October 4, 2000
United States
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In The Globalization of Japan, Mayumi Itoh examines the various aspects of Japan’s resistance to internationalization. She shows how the opening up of Japan involves not only the accessibility of Japanese markets to foreign goods, but also the liberalization of the Japanese psyche from the sakoku (secluded nation) mentality. Itoh unearths the roots of the sakoku mentality and reveals it as the fundamental impediment to Japan’s internationalization, examining various Japanese sakoku policies. She also analyzes the three open-door policies that Japan has undertaken in the past and demonstrates how the United States played a crucial role in each one. The conclusion is a thorough assessment of prospects for Japan’s internationalization in the 21st century.

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Learned and beautifully written........2005-01-04

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. This is the first book I read that concerns mainly Japan. I was able to learn about some traits and the character of the Japanese from the perspective of a Japanese author. The author argues her thesis lucidly; the book was never dull. This is a very good book for you if you like economics and globalization.

Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan. (Book Reviews).: An article from: Pacific Affairs
Theodore J. Gilman
Manufacturer: University of British Columbia
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B0008IOD0W
Release Date: 2005-07-28

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on December 22, 2001. The length of the article is 706 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: Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan. (Book Reviews).
Author: Theodore J. Gilman
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: December 22, 2001
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 74 Issue: 4 Page: 601(2)

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Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan.(Review): An article from: ASEAN Economic Bulletin
Akihiko Kawaura
Manufacturer: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
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This digital document is an article from ASEAN Economic Bulletin, published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) on August 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1000 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: Globalization of Japan: Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U.S. Efforts to Open Japan.(Review)
Author: Akihiko Kawaura
Publication: ASEAN Economic Bulletin (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2001
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Volume: 18 Issue: 2 Page: 239

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Globalization of Japan : Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U. S. Efforts to Open Japan from Commodore Matthew Perry to Defense Secretary William Perry

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Globalization of Japan : Japanese Sakoku Mentality and U. S. Efforts to Open Japan from Commodore Matthew Perry to Defense Secretary William Perry

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Globalization of Japan; Japanese Sakoku mentality and U.S. efforts to open Japan.
Mayumi. Itoh
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTB0BU

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Royalty Free - ReadySetPresent (Inspirational Quotes): Keep your audience focused and engaged by using our carefully selected collection of thoughtful, witty and humorous quotes. Use in a presentation with an LCD projector, make handouts, and create overheads. This topic includes 25 quotes, slide transitions, clipart and animation. It is a must-have supplement for anyone interested in presenting on these or related topics. Packaged on 3.5" floppy disk/s. PC compatible. You may use this product over and over again.

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What does a marketing-driven company stand for in the Internet age? As a nonmarketing executive, why should you give any attention to the subject? How would internalizing the fine points of the subject contribute to your effectiveness on the job? In the era of flat or e-business organizational structures, many executives and entrepreneurs suddenly discover they need to know more about marketing than they ever expected. If this sounds like you, Marketing for the Nonmarketing Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century is the ideal resource. This reference gives you comprehensive yet hands-on information about marketing management and competitive strategy in the Internet age. You will understand the various components of marketing, how they affect the entire organization, how to communicate and develop a better rapport with marketing professionals, and, more importantly, how to actively and effectively participate in marketing decisions. Marketing for the Nonmarketing Executive: An Integrated Resource Management Guide for the 21st Century teaches you how to think like a marketing strategist.

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The business of telephony. Best introduction........2004-06-15

Voice telephony remains the 900 pound gorilla of the networking business. The Internet
and other data services may exceed voice by volume but they are way back in the pack
when it comes to revenue. Voice telephony represents a $800 Billion business worldwide
while all of the Internet and other data communications represents only about $200 Billion.
This is the golden goose that cisco, Juniper and all of the proponents of Voice over IP have
their sights set on. It is also the cash cow that ATT, Lucent, Nortel and the Baby Bells
are entrenched to defend. This book gives a very readable introduction to the business and
policy issues involved in this network convergence.

Anyone who would like to understand the telephony business in both its classical TDM guise
and int eh new clothes of voice over IP would do well to read this timely book. There is just
enough technology background here to prepare non-engineers to understand the business
and policy issues surronding VoIP. Traditional telephony is presented along with the Internet
and it's associated protocols. The author then introduces the technologies of voice over IP
and releated technologies intended to enable the Internet to deliver a quality of service
adequate to carry voice. The complex puzzle of Diffserv and MPLS, RSVP, RTP and RTCP
are all laid out in their proper place and relation along with H.323, MEGACO and SIP.

After giving us a thorough introduction to the technology Walters gets down to the business
issues of building the new telephony including an exploration of six scenarios of possible
futures for the industry. The final chapter looks at the effects of the economic downturn that
has been plaguing the entire industry for the past two years as well as the repurcussions
of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington.

If you want to study the bits and bytes of VoIP protocols then this is not the book for you.
(For that read Carrier Grade Voice over IP) but if you want to understand the upheaval
convulsing the communications industry the there is no better or more timely book.

Fundamental Design Philosophy of Telephony and Computer Netw.......2003-07-04

Having read this book, I find myself much less mystified by the sometimes-nonsensical operation of computer-like networks over telephone-system infrastructure. Dr. Walters does a superb job of explaining the fundamental thinking behind the 100-year-old telephone-technology evolution and how it contoured itself to meet the required level of service in an optimum fashion. He further explains the quality and type of service required for computer networking and how it significantly differs from that of telephony.

Steve laces the book with sufficient simple examples, humor, and genuine technical detail to make the book an enjoyable learning experience for just about anyone with an interest either telephony or global computer networking. This book is valuable for engineers and a must-read for investors.

Insights in the state of the art in the telephony industry.......2003-02-22

Having read The New Telephony in great detail I conclude that this book is a useful, timely and comprehensive guide to the state of the art in the telephony industry. The author has a rare ability to translate complex problems and concepts into easy to understand descriptions that highlight the essence of the issues. He walks the reader through the key elements and developments of both traditional telephone networks and the Internet and builds on this to contrast the emerging "new" telephony with that of traditional "old" telephone networks and their operators. Refreshingly, this is not just a book about technical communication protocols and standards. The book also highlights the importance of operational issues, wiring, billing, regulatory, reliability, economics, inertia and competitive drivers. It provides the reader not only with an understanding of the key technologies but also with an appreciation of the drivers that motivate service providers to apply these technologies in their networks. The book then contrasts different views and scenarios on how the New Telephony may take shape in the market place. As the Foreword by Lucky concludes "It is rare that these [different] views come together in one book, but here they do, for all of us to ponder and appreciate".

Get to Know What Constitutes Current Telephony, and the Why.......2003-02-01

I am prompted by Pete's review of The New Telephony to respond. This is not a novel nor is it meant to be exciting. It is a thoughtful technical book. I am happy to hear the 6th grade students in NSW Australia might find the ideas presented in this book as fitting to their level of education. If this were truly so it would shame our graduate students for they might have to struggle with some of the ideas and concepts included in this book. Dr. Walters does take pains to try and make these complex transmission concepts, standards and methods clear and understandable. He blends both the science and the engineering showing not only the how but the why it must be so. To summarize the current state of telephony is a difficult task because of the broad range of topics entering into every consideration. Dr. Walters develops the ideas and thoughts so that the current state of telephony makes sense...at least as to its reasons for being so.

This book, in my estimation is a must read for anyone currently concerned with almost any aspect of telephony.

David L. Favin

Tell me more about yesterday.......2002-09-25

This book is not well enough written to make a popular book with everyday people, yet the author seems to think it will be; so he 'dumbs down' the issues to 6th grade level. The net result is that the book is so useless as to be embarrassing. Those who want information won't find it here, those who want the excitement from the narrative of a genuine technology struggle will find it dull.
Give it a miss - Pete

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