The World Economic Factbook '99

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Inviting readers on an unprecedented journey into the minds of twenty-four of the most creative, trailblazing minds of this or any era, journalist Erika Brown demonstrates how the world of high technology--more than any other industry--has taken a commanding lead in revolutionizing the way companies think about management, business strategies, markets, and customers. This debut volume in The Leader's Edge Series delivers the inside scoop on exactly how titans like Bill Gates, William Hewlett, and Steve Jobs discovered and mastered new markets in record time, how they managed growth and setbacks, how they exploited competitors' flaws, and much more. Best of all, Brown provides practical instructions on how readers can incorporate these strategies in their own business situations.

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This debut volume in The Leader's Edge Series delivers the inside scoop on exactly how titans like Bill Gates, William Hewlett, and Steve Jobs discovered and mastered new markets in record time.

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Highly Recommended!.......2001-03-24

Erika Brown profiles 16 computer and Internet industry leaders in this informative and entertaining book. A senior reporter for Forbes, Brown brings a journalist's insight to each profile and seeks to extract the ideas and strategies that made each of these over-achievers successful. She packs plenty of information into chunks that seem a bit short for a book, but are at least longer than today's standard magazine profiles. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of her profiles is the way many of them reveal the dynamics between two powerful leaders at companies like Microsoft and Intel. We [...] recommend this book as a brief introduction to the men and women whom history will record as the titans of turn-of-the-century technology.

How to Think Like the Worlds Greatest High Tech Titans.......2000-09-26

My husband and I own a small business and I am always trying to find out how the big,successful guys do it. This book has given us inspiration and practical ideas how to improve our approach to improving our bottom line. The chapter entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Be an Agent of Change" would be helpful to families and even to politicians. People who run failing school systems could definitely learn something from reading this book; maybe they would not be so afraid of school vouchers!

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How To Think Like The World*s Greatest High-tech Titans
Brown
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Companies
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGIN1I

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Good writing and broad overview, but lacks some depth

Awesome! Another indispensable opportunity management guide!

From Idea to Launch at Internet Speed: How to Identify and Develop Profitable Opportunities
Catherine Kitcho
Manufacturer: Pele Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1929936001

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The latest new product management strategies and techniques, to reach your market faster, and to reap greater profit. This comprehensive guide contains practical and realistic information for managing new products from original concept to market launch - with an eye on profit throughout the whole cycle. The book's eighteen chapters and 100 illustrations address the most critical new product management issues, including screening of product ideas, business models, market strategies, speeding up product development, partnering, lessons from the dot-com boom and bust, simple but effective business and marketing plans, and launching products in the Internet Era. The content includes examples from 20 companies. CEOs, product managers, entrepreneurs, investors, marketing professionals and business development executives will find this book valuable for making decisions and managing new products every step of the way. The CD included with the book contains customizable tools and templates that will help the reader put these principles into action.

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Good writing and broad overview, but lacks some depth.......2004-12-19

In general, both the writing style and areas covered are fairly comprehensive. Unlike many business planning / startup books, this gives a much more complete coverage of marketing and sales strategy. The most valuable content, in my mind, was around when to re-evaluate your strategies based on the results you're seeing.

The biggest thing I had an issue with was the narrow example space being drawn from. Where there was a need for justification or further explanation, it seemed to always either come from the limited TRW-ESL space or a quote from one of the twenty or so folks she interviewed. Where were the industry case studies? Or examples tracking several projects over time, both successes and failures? It was difficult for me to buy into all the details of the book because it was hard to see what was based on economics and math, what was based on experience, and what was just her opinion.

A minor nit is that the book talked about business planning a lot and making investment decisions, but never even mentioned cost of capital -- even in the financial section of the business plan. Maybe her company didn't do that, but I'd assume many companies are making decisions on investments with limited capital to pursue them.

Awesome! Another indispensable opportunity management guide!.......2002-02-26

Following my personal review of the latest opportunity management book, Harnessing the Unicorn, by Pat O'Reilly, I came across this wonderful book, actually by accident, while surfing through the www.amazon.com website for other books in the same genre. Again, I was very happy to have obtained - and perused - the book.

This book is for any business professional who is involved in conceptualising, developing and/or launching new product ideas. The entire new product development cycle is well-captured. It is based on the author's personal/professional experiences and also her interviews with 20 other professionals.

This book contains a potent, streamlined, idea screening process, with six most important criteria: strategic fit, customer, competition, market, resources and profit. Each criterum is illustrated extensively, with examples, guidelines and discrete steps, by a separate chapter of the book. These chapters are worth the cover price of the book. To me, these areas are the most critical part of the new product development cycle.

The author also shares her many business models, which give you a refreshing look at strategy and planning for new products.

In the remaining chapters, the author touches on launching your new products and maintaining the momentum in the marketplace.

The accompanying CD contains many customisable templates, checklists and other tools. The author also has a website.

Throughout the book, the author emphasises two strategic parameters: agility (in the decision-making processes) and profitability, without which new product ideas are simply useless! All her evaluation frameworks and screening tools in the book are designed for this purpose in mind.

My only complaint about this book: it has a very scanty bibliography. To others, this may seem trivial but to me, it is important as I often like to know more about what or who has influenced the author's thinking processes.

Nevertheless, I like this book very much, particularly for all the realistic process frameworks. The author's writing style is crisp and succinct. I will rank this book in the same genre with all my other books on opportunity management.

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An affordable, easily scannable one-day training guide designed for use in instructor-led training courses.

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With the end of the Cold War, the search for a new international and economic order has begun. In this comprehensive account, Sylvia Ostry provides a critical analysis of an international trade system in the throes of rapid and far-reaching change.

With keen historical awareness, Ostry examines the role of key economic power brokers, particularly the United States, in the reconstruction and reconfiguration of an international economy after World War II. She argues that U.S. policy efforts were so successful that they led to an unprecedented renewal of economic growth, living standards, and education levels in postwar Europe and Japan. Ironically, those same policy successes unintentionally fostered the relative decline of U.S. dominance on the world trade scene as the reduction of trade and investment barriers prompted friction and conflict between different kinds of capitalist systems.

Identifying the historical and legal issues key to postwar trade policy, Ostry has commandingly charted our economic course through the last half of this century and, perhaps, into the next.

"Sylvia Ostry knows this subject as few others do, both as a scholar of international trade issues and a major player in the ongoing negotiations that have created the rules of the trade game. The Post-Cold War Trading System is a fine summary of where we've been and where we ought to be going."—Peter Passell, economic scene columnist for The New York Times

The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who's on First?

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The Post-Cold War Trading System: Who's on First?
Sylvia Ostry
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPTC0A

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Year after Year, the Annuals provide thousands of trainers, consultant's, facilitators, and managers with up-to-date information about making organizations more effective. Face the challenge of today's workplace with today's resource.

The 2000 Annuals contain all-new material from some of the best minds in the field of human resource development. For more than 25 years, the Annuals have been the leading resource for practitioners seeking to improve organizations.

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Volume 1 focuses on training. Volume 2 focuses on consulting. Both volumes are indispensable!

This year editor Elaine Biech, a seasoned trainer and consultant and noted author of The Business of Consulting and coauthor of The Consultant's Legal Guide, has added select cutting edge topics to the mix, including learning technologies and performance improvement.

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Market-Oriented Product Innovation differs from most other titles, written either from a marketing or technical perspective, by giving a holistic view of the product innovation process. It has a product perspective, written from a managerial point of view, recognizing that product innovation, or new product development, is a discipline of its own. It is concerned with managing the products (goods and services) through their life cycle, integrating marketing knowledge and technological expertise, with the aim of getting satisfied customers. The book also gives a thorough treatment of the human and cultural aspects of product innovation by focusing on the change processes needed for the development of a market-oriented culture. The book has practical focus and relevance, due to the professional background of the author, Knut Holt, who has established the field of Technology Management at the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology and is the founder of ISPIM, the International Society for Professional Innovation Management. By linking deep theoretical knowledge with extensive practical experience, the book provides an excellent foundation, whether used as support to courses or for self-studies. The learning is facilitated by about 200 cases and examples from leading companies throughout the world. A unique feature of the book is its dual capacity to serve both as an introductory text, supported by teacher and student manuals, and as a base for advanced studies with more than four hundred references, mainly based on selected key management books and publications from recognized researchers. Each research publication comprises extensive literature reviews and summaries of the latest advances.

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The authoritative resource for the organization, preparation, use, and interpretation of construction documents encompassing the entire life cycle of a facility. This new edition considers the need for interdependent processes of design, construction and facility use.

The Fifth Edition expands the scope of the manual to meet the requirements of all participants involved in a construction project in a stage-by-stage progression, including owners, A/Es, design-builders, contractors, construction managers, product representatives, financial institutions, regulatory authorities, attorneys, and facility managers. It promotes a team model for successful implementation.

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This is a reference book, not an adventure novel.......2007-01-18

I purchased this to study for the CDT exam. It is very complete, but reads (as you'd expect) more like a specification than a textbook. Five stars for completeness, and five stars for cure for insomnia.

Excellent counterpart to the AIA Handbook........2007-01-07

First off, I'm an architect, so my review is written from that perspective.

This is a great companion to the AIA Handbook. If the AIA Handbook is about running a firm, the CSI PRM is about running a project. An oversimplification, yes, but both books are so dense and full of critical information, no 100 word review could do either justice.

The CD includes many useful references including an overview of MasterFormat and a list of divisions / sections, but does not include the entire MasterFormat "product" (the full MF product includes 95-04 conversion tools and additional documentation).

My only complaint is that the text is so dense it takes a lot of time and energy to absorb all of the information within. :) It's as if they took a 1000 page tome and compressed it into 300 pages. (The product description says 1200 pages, but it's only an inch thick, so I'm guessing 300 pp.)

A must-have for architects who strive to deliver projects in a more expert and professional manner, and wish to more effectively interface with contractors during the construction phase. If you're a pure "designer" or only involved with the front end of projects this will probably stay on the shelf, but if you're responsible for the rest of the process (DD through construction and occupancy) this book is essential.

I can't believe I made it through 6 years of architectural education without being required to own this book.

The Principles of Project Management (Collected Handbooks from the Project Management Institute) (Collected Handbooks from the Project Management Institute)

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Required reading for the PMP? NOT! A must buy though ...
UNREADABLE
Getting ready for the PMP?

The Principles of Project Management (Collected Handbooks from the Project Management Institute) (Collected Handbooks from the Project Management Institute)

Manufacturer: Project Management Institute
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1880410303

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Features eight handbooks, published previously by the Project Management Institute (PMI®), that have had significant impact on the project management profession and continue to have enduring value for today's project manager. These handbooks are collected in this one economical volume that belongs on every project manager's bookshelf.

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Required reading for the PMP? NOT! A must buy though ..........2003-04-08

This book used to be on PMI's recommended reading list for PMP preparation (I am not sure if it still is). The book does not use any complicated terminology and is written using an easy to read writing style. But the concepts will be easier to understand when you become an experienced project manager. If you read it at the beginning of your career, I recommend that you keep this in mind and not be disappointed. Just hold on to the copy and you will appreciate it later when you have more overall knowledge of project management.

The book is literally a compilation of 8 of the best papers on project management ever published. Hence the papers can be read independently. If you are a student at some University, you should be able to trace the individual papers to their source in your University library and print them at a much lower cost than the price of this book. The price was the only disappointment for me and since I am not a student, I couldn't do what I suggested above.

The eight different topics addressed by these papers in the book are -

1. Conflict Management
2. Contract Administration
3. Negotiating
4. Time and Stress Management
5. Team Building
6. PM Roles and Responsibilities
7. Organizational Development Approach
8. Organizing for Project Management

Based on my own personal background, I found the first five topics noted above the most interesting and the topic on Time and Stress Management the most useful. A lot of people I have talked to have not really found the time to read this book before taking the PMP but I would recommend reading it thoroughly once you have passed the PMP. I am finding that this book provides a very useful way to consolidate one's PM knowledge. PMI publishes 'Project Management Journal' and 'PM Network' on a regular basis that are also absolutely essential for any project manager. I have actually kept these publications from years back and they are one of the most prized possessions of my PM library. Enjoy reading these papers and the above mentioned publications!

UNREADABLE.......2003-04-02

IF YOU ENJOY READING DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS THEN BUY THIS BOOK.

The book is unreadable and there is no INDEX!

If you are trying to LEARN about Project Management then avoid this book like the plague.

Getting ready for the PMP?.......2000-08-12

Excellent reference if you are getting ready for the PMP exam. Use it to study for the HR material, the Communications material and the Contract and procurement material.

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The Definitive Guide to the Field's Best Practices In recent years, project management has become a profession unto itself. And with a membership numbering in the tens of thousands, the Project Management Institute is the organization that's setting the profession's standards. In this authoritative handbook, more than twenty-five top experts from academia, consulting, and private industry define the current state of project management and detail for readers all of the practical elements that constitute a superior practice. In clear, accessible language, these experts provide a comprehensive overview of the technical, organizational, administrative, and interpersonal elements of successful project management. They detail the essentials of project planning--from risk management to resource allocation to scheduling. They describe the team-building, motivational, and conflict-management challenges that project leaders face. And they delineate critical success factors as well as major pitfalls to avoid. At last, project managers across all industries can readily reference the best practices of their profession and benchmark their skills against those of their most accomplished colleagues.

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huh?.......2004-06-15

don't you doctors make enough money? $88 US for one book? That must be some kind of joke, or you are taking some serious meds.

do us all a favour and look at the prices of similar books and don't be so greedy.

The book doesn't cover everything in the PMBOK Guide.......1999-06-16

The book is ok, though not great in terms of a study guide for the PMI Test, which is the primary reason for my purchase.

It does provide a good overview & discussion on the topics it covers, but it doesn't cover everything outlined in the PMBOK Guide.

Because it doesn't cover all topics, this book doesn't add significant value as a study guide for the PMI Exam. The book would be a good overview/discussion book on the topics covered as it gives various "expert" writings on the issues examined.

As an official PMI Publication, I assumed it would cover all topics in the PMBOK. I guess this is what happens when we shop virtually vs brick/mortar.

COMPREHENSIVE, REWARDINGLY DETAILED, HIGHLY READABLE!.......1999-04-06

Jointly published by Jossey-Bass and the Project Management Institute, the book's goal is to present a comprehensive guide that covers the central features in the field of project management, addressing: the key aspects of projects and their role in organization; scope management and project planning; human resource management; and integrative issues that explore the project management process from a holistic viewpoint. This is an extremely comprehensive work. All the contributions are thoughtful and in depth.

This work is both highly readable and rewardingly detailed, delving into lots of valuable technical nitty-gritty, leaving this reviewer very impressed. Recommended. Reviewed by Gerry Stern, founder, Stern & Associates, author of Stern's Sourcefinder: The Master Directory to HR and Business Management Information & Resources, Stern's CyberSpace SourceFinder, and Stern's Compensation and Benefits SourceFinder.

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The Implementation of Project Management: The Professional's Handbook

Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0201072602

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Managing Successful Projects: a Handbook for Managers: Wyvern Edition (Institute of Management)
Philip Baguley
Manufacturer: Pearson Professional Education
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 027361892X

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Civil Engineering. Thesis. 1975. M.S
James Edward Koningisor
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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ASIN: B0007AHYAW

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The book presents state of the art knowledge about Decision-Making Support Systems (DMSS). Its main goals are to help diffuse knowledge about effective methods and strategies for successfully designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating decision-making support systems, and to create an awareness among academicians and practitioners about the relevance of decision-making support systems in the current dynamic management environment. Decision-Making Support Systems: Achievements and Challenges for the New Decade is a comprehensive compilation of DMSS thought and vision, dealing with issues such as decision making concepts in organizations.

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Decision-Making Support Systems: Achievements and Challenges.......2003-08-04

Excellent resource spanning both background material and the future of decision support systems. Great book for the practitioner and the theorist. - Gloria Phillips-Wren, Ph.D., Loyola College in Maryland, USA

A formal vision of DSS.......2002-12-10

This books is really an interesting and coherent vision of Decision Support System. Professors Gupta, Forgionne and Mora have been an outstanding job where summarize different approaches and theories about how managers, IT Professional and organizations in general using IT/IS as Intelligent Platform to enhance his own projections and develop new business options in Complex business World.

Jeimy J. Cano, Ph.D
Editor of "Critical Reflections on Information Systems. A systemic approach"

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