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`The book is a useful introductory reader for any initial post-compulsory teacher training programme, or the early stages of a degree in post-compulsory education and training. It would also be valuable additional reading for basic skills tutors embarking on the new adult literacy and numeracy qualifications' - Escalate

`It is a useful and practical resource which, even if not used for the purposes of staff development, contains helpful insights into something we often talk about but rarely stop to examine' - Adult Learners

Self-esteem is a major factor in learning outcomes, with research consistently showing a positive relationship between how a person values themselves and their level of academic attainment.

This book shows tutors how to build self-esteem in adult learners, especially those engaged on courses to improve literacy skills. The author presents a structured programme designed to raise self-esteem and also presents a theoretical basis for the development of self-esteem. Practical activities and strategies are presented for building self-esteem in both tutor and student.

The book is organized in two parts. Part I provides tutors with an understanding of a student's psychological needs and also provides guidance on developing the necessary teaching skills conducive to the building of self-esteem. Part II comprises of the self-esteem enhancement programme.

The book will be useful to tutors working with adult learners in both further and higher education, as well as to tutors on basic adult literacy skills courses.

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Why do we need to plan? What is the best way to plan? As schools become increasingly responsible for their own affairs, these are just two of the critical questions which school leaders must address. Values Based Strategic Planning is an exciting new approach which is delightfully simple to operate and which involves everyone in the school and accounts for people's fundamental beliefs about education and schooling. The whole process can be completed in one day, and the result is a strategic plan that reflects the school's priorities and has the wholehearted commitment of those who have to put it into operation. The first section of the book, on strategic planning, leadership, organisational design and how to rethink the school's purpose, is particularly valuable to leaders who need a thorough understanding of strategic planning and to students of education management. The second section provides a step-by-step guide to Values Based Strategic Planning along with all the materials needed to run the process in your school. Values Based Strategic Planning has been used with great success in many organisations and promises to transform the planning process in schools into one that really works and that wins the hearts and minds of those involved.

Values Based Strategic Planning - A Dynamic Approach for Schools

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Values Based Strategic Planning - A Dynamic Approach for Schools
Terry, Quong
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall PTR
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OISCQM

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DOE step by step with examples.......2006-10-28

DOE is the set of process improvement tools for studying more than one factor in a single experiment. The 92 page book is straight forward with many examples to show the methodology for setting up 2, 3 and up to 31 factor experiments which according to the author will cover >90% of the DOE requirements.
The workbook is filled with case studies and examples from manufacturing problems which guide you through the process and help evaluate your understanding before moving to the next section. The mathematical/statistical equations are a bit intimidating but these can be set-up in a spreadsheet. The author says that these DOE tools can be used on office or sales processes but never gives an example of one.
The value in this book is if you are doing a quality or six sigma project. Also, it will be of value if you are working in industries like chemical or mining, where yields are the key to success. The book shows the equations to use, the eight steps for analysis and the logical steps to creating an experiment. Additionally, it includes an appendix with T (95% confidence level) and F (degree of freedom) values which are necessary references if you attempt to do this without a statistical software package.

This book is headed in the right direction..........1999-09-09

This is the second least complicated book I have ever read on DOE. Thanks Larry for writing the book! I wish that it had MANY more examples showing each DOE type he covers...Also, there is a need to FURTHER elaborate in simpler terms all of the concepts. I am still not understanding why a DOE book can't come out that isn't easy to read!

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I can't do english well, so can I understand APQP?

Advanced Quality Planning: A Commonsense Guide to Aqp and Apqp (Productivity's Shopfloor)
D. H. Stamatis
Manufacturer: Productivity Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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This is the first book dedicated to explaining the total advanced quality planning process with clarity and detail, especially as it pertains to the "Big Three's" standardized approach.

Advanced Quality Planning: A Commonsense Guide to AQP and APQP clarifies and itemizes the requirements of Chrysler, GM, and Ford, as well as the majority of the Tier I suppliers. It provides a list of exactly what they would like to see implemented in their supplier's processes, enhancing the ability to develop and produce products and systems that will satisfy their customers. The book also provides a detailed look at the basic and higher advanced quality planning concepts in a practical and easy-to-understand format so that both the novice and experienced user will be able to apply AQP appropriately and effectively.

The author, D.H. Stamatis, takes you step-by-step through the advanced quality planning methodology providing you with an overview and discussion of the role of teams in AQP, including such key components as scheduling, creating a product definition, prototype development, manufacturing preparedness, analytical techniques, documentation, reliability, and maintainability, and their implementation.

It is a perfect guide for the program manager who is responsible for selecting the proper quality tools and management techniques necessary to fulfill the quality planning strategy. It also provides checklists to help plan the actions which will be appropriate for their respective projects.

Special Features:

Appendixes containing a sample business plan and a case study of Chrysler's Process Sign-Off (PSO) methodology showing how clean and straightforward sign-off can be when AQP has been implemented effectively.

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I can't do english well, so can I understand APQP?.......1999-06-18

I work for consulting firm.

My firm begin QS9000 consulting.

So I'd like to know APQP. But I can't English well.

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Advanced Quality Planning A Commonsense Guide to Aqp and Apqp
Ph.D Stamatis D.H.
Manufacturer: NY
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N7EU2O

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The first great wave of European migration to the United States before the Civil War transformed both the migrants themselves and the country they entered. The extent of this transformation has been difficult to gauge without information on migrants before and after their departure from Europe. Yankeys Now: Immigrants in the Antebellum US 1840-1860 provides the first detailed look at how these immigrants were changed by their relocation and how the American economy responded to their arrival. The book employs unique data on more than 2,400 British, Irish, and German migrants who appeared on both passenger ship rosters and US census records to document the geographic, occupational, and financial movements of Europeans who traveled to this nation in the 1840s. Contrary to other studies of antebellum immigrants, Joseph P. Ferrie's work finds substantial mobility in all three of these contexts. The ability to follow immigrants from their arrival through several censuses makes it possible to compare the experiences of immigrants who remained in one location to those of immigrants who sought opportunity in new places throughout the 1850s. The latter group's achievements, as carefully traced in this volume, account for most of the contrast with previously published work on this topic. Using information on more than 4,000 native-born Americans followed through the 1850 and 1860 US censuses, Ferrie finds little evidence that immigrants' arrival negatively affected this country's labor force, excluding craft workers in the urban northeast. Taken as a whole, his findings demonstrate the American economy's ability to absorb additions to its workforce while also illustrating the range of opportunities available to nineteenth-century migrants drawn to the United States.

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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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'Tales from the Marketplace: Stories of Revolution, Reinvention and Renewal' is a highly innovative approach to building an understanding of the realities of market-led strategic change in companies. It provides an engaging, honest, and effective understanding of real market strategy in major organizations by focussing on the forces behind value-driven strategy.

Nigel Piercy provides new and incisive insights into strategy and marketing through business "stories" that are contemporary and provocative. These new "stories" depict how major organizations have experienced revolution in their traditional markets - created by new types of competitors with new business models. The search for superior value is overtaking traditional brand and relationship strategies. The challenge to companies is reinvention and renewal and the alternative is obsolescence and decline. After all, did the major banks really expect to be competing with supermarkets, car companies, Virgin and internet-based companies to provide retail bank services?

The book is based on the author's view that:

· Business is exciting, turbulent and unpredictable - the "stories" we read and study should be too!
· From Dell Computers and easyJet to Amazon.com and Skoda Cars, it is the most innovative companies that have most to teach us about reinvention and new business models
· The inflexible analytical frameworks of the past no longer apply - "stories" of reinvention and renewal show the creative strategies developed by companies to cope with threats and exploit opportunities around them.

'Tales from the Marketplace' is essential, timely and designed to be highly readable for managers. It also provides an innovative approach for undergraduate and MBA level teachers and students, and for participants on executive programmes in marketing and strategic management.

Highly accessible and topical cases
Will support any text in this field including Piercy's own: 'Market Led Strategic Change'
Designed to create interest in the business issues examined.

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Recipe for Success.......2002-10-27

This is one of the most impressive, information filled books I've ever read. It manages to distill all of the important issues and factors for e-business project success into less than 250 pages.

While it looks like common sense advice, everything in this book is anything but common sense because I recognized one pitfall after another as the author described them, and know from experience that most are underestimated during project planning, but inevitably come back to haunt you later in the project. If you pay close attention to Chapters 4 (Main causes of e-project failure), 6 (Integration issues) and 10 (Avoid pitfalls in your e-business) in particular you'll save yourself a lot of grief.

Managing e-business projects cannot be done from an ivory tower. Get this book and benefit from the author's obvious experience. A perfect companion to this book is Managing E-Business Projects by Wes Balakian, Keith Young and Rajesh Veerapaneni because it goes into the nuts and bolts of project management using PMI's PMBOK as a framework.

On spot advice from experts.......2002-10-27

My advice is to read this book cover to cover before starting your next e-business project because you'll learn about the many ways for that project to fail if you don't take the risks and pitfalls into account.

In spite of the title the book is all about project risk management, and it delivers a wealth of information in a highly readable fashion. Every project manager will benefit from the advice in this book, as will business users and technical team members. It's also easy to read and is beautifully illustrated with graphs and charts that give meaning to points that they author makes.

While some may criticize this book using unsupported opinion remember that those who can do and those who can't teach. Buy this book and learn from it.

On the contrary ..........2002-10-06

Designed as a textbook for college-level courses, this book exposes students (and working practitioners) to what it realistically takes to manage an e-business project. Given the deplorable failure rate of such projects (and IT projects in general) the information and approach provided in this book, if followed, will go a long way towards reversing that trend.

What I especially like is the seamless blend of business and technical issues, and the way the author presents the realities of managing e-business projects. In particular, the first five chapters (nearly half of the book) cover the pitfalls to avoid, gives insights into critical success factors, and uncovers the technical and business aspects of e-business project management. The final six chapters tie together this material with case studies and other material that reinforce the first half.

Specific project management techniques are not covered in detail - if that is the type of book you're seeking I recommend "Managing e-business Projects: 99 Key Success Factors" by Stoehr (ISBN 3540421653). That book goes into project planning, estimating and control techniques as they specifically relate to e-business projects and complements this book nicely.

If you are a working professional and want insights into the pitfalls of e-business projects this book is an excellent resource. If you are teaching a course you'll prepare your students for the realities of e-business projects and make them more valuable to the workforce they will be joining if you include this book as a text. Either way it is, in my opinion, a book that delivers valuable knowledge and insights.

So Useless, It's Sad..........2002-06-13

Why can't someone write a practical book on e-commerce?
This book is so puerile, I can't believe the Financial Times had anything to do with it. The contents will numb your mind as it's all common sense you already know. Take for example the "six critical factors for success" cited in the book.

1) "Why e-business?" Duh... common sense, nobody would have bought this book if they hadn't already asked themselves this question. Answer is self-evident.
2) "Need good staff" Duh... no kidding...
3) "Time" Duh, no kidding... everything in life takes time...
4) "Need correct IT components" Duh, no kidding...
5) "Need money" Duh, no kidding...
6) "Legal approval" Duh, no kidding...

The whole book is like the above, it's all stuff that makes you smack your head and say, "No kidding, Sherlock!"
It is filled with charts, graphs and diagrams to point out the painfully obvious or the superfluous. Even the utterly clueless would learn practically nothing from this book.

Luckily, I teach an e-commerce course so I received this book for free as a promotion. Woe and sympathy to the person who pays any money for this useless tome!

Before I taught e-commerce, I was the project manager of an e-commerce site in NYC for three years. I currently consult, and I'd be laughed at if I suggested anyone read this book for guidance. It would be akin to assigning adults a book on how to tie shoelaces. Yes, it's really that insultingly insipid.

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DELIVERING ON YOUR E-PROMISE MANAGING E-BUSINESS PROJECTS
YEN YEE CHONG
Manufacturer: Financial Times/Prentice Hall
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ORDRWC

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In The Strategy Machine, Larry Downes, the bestsellingcoauthor of Unleashing the Killer App, charts a proven course through the uncertain future of business. With both winning and losing case studies, The Strategy Machine shows how to develop and nurture a "strategy portfolio" that can withstand the pressure of potent internal and external obstacles. Much like your personal financial portfolio, a strategy machine hedges your bets across a wide range of dramatically different challenges your business will face. Downes's approach generates new profits from new information products and services, regardless of the industry or the size of your company.

In the book, Downes introduces important new tools every manager can use, including:

The Information Supply Chain -- An emerging, parallel supply chain of data that describes transactions in the physical world, with independent value in the form of new products and services.

Invisible Capital -- Information assets, like brand, expertise, and customer and supplier relationships, lost in today's balance sheet, whose true value is understood by only a few companies.

The Strategy Machine -- A perpetual motion machine for strategy, fused with business operations, the heart of which is an invisible capital engine that uses data as both input and output.

Nothing short of revolutionary, The Strategy Machine shows managers how to reinvent business and integrate new technology for a revolution in progress. Regardless of the kind of business or the size of your company, whether you work in operations, sales, or finance, or whether you are the CEO or a manager in training, the tools in this book will teach you how to innovate on a daily basis and how to profit from the transformation going on right now in your industry. This is an essential guidebook for the information revolution -- one that will help companies succeed in the long run, with a winning portfolio, in today's economy.

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Super tools for applying the Killer App!.......2004-04-21

Are you prepared to adapt your strategies to the constantly changing future? Are you ready for the rate of change to speed up? The Strategy Machine by Larry Downes (author of Unleashing the Killer App), contains great conceptual tools for thinking about ways to re-invent your business in the face of the technological and globalization revolutions.

It is clear that Downes wrote The Strategy Machine after getting a great deal more exposure to the strategic management process than he had when he wrote the classic Unleashing the Killer App. Where Killer App revolves around the central idea of organizations evolving towards success by destroying their own markets, fully a third of The Strategy Machine focuses on the greatest challenges of strategic change: overcoming cultural inertia and execution. This very likely comes from a close look at companies that, in the late 1990's, at least gave lip service to the revolutionary concepts in Killer App - companies that ultimately fell on hard times as the US economy bogged down on the twin disasters of the dot com bust and 9/11. In a sense, the book attempts to answer a question we will be hearing for years to come: Why did the 1990s juggernaut of self-destructive revolutionary companies slow down?

The core of Downe's strategic thinking revolves around three stages that an industry can go through - each of which amounts to a separate "industrial revolution", despite the fact that elements of each may be occurring simultaneously within a given industry:

1. Efficiency - Value is created through cost reduction with a full-bore attack on transaction costs.

2. Exchange - Value is created through information assets which arise from "virtual markets" which expose hidden transaction costs and other inefficiencies.

3. Emergence - Increased integration of the industry leads to an efficient "information supply chain"

One of the core concepts of the Killer App - the technological innovation that disrupts an industry by restructuring the supply chain - is a clear target for companies that are seeking to ride the emergence wave. Strategically, we see this concept somewhat differently based on your perspective: if you are a young company, you are probably seeking success by driving this kind of disruption, but if your company is more mature, your strategy may revolve around how you can profit from disruption that may extinguish your current business model.

The Strategy Machine does an excellent job of helping you to understand the concept of emergence so that you can be a part of the information supply chain - and therefore, one of the survivors in your industry. It then drives into some interesting prescriptions - always a tricky thing in strategy - which can help you think about executing on these concepts. First, Downes suggests that you design three concurrent plans for your strategy - one for each stage of industry transformation. The aim of these concurrent plans is to have a balanced portfolio of strategic projects going all the time - some delivering the mature process improvements required at the efficiency stage, some the blend of old and new technologies that characterize the exchange stage, and a few, very risky projects on the experimental end of the emergence stage. The Strategy Machine even goes so far as to suggest a ratio (3:2:1) of resource allocation to the projects as well as some good tools for populating your strategy portfolio and thinking about funding of projects at different stages. This is the meat of the practical tools offered by this book, and they are good tools.

The final part of The Strategy Machine covers the challenge of execution. Downes covers the social inertia confronted by all real strategic change, and gives a detailed assessment of the different types of obstacles - both external and internal - that you will have to overcome to successfully implement a profound change in your strategic direction. This part of the book is rich in anecdotes and real-world examples of companies that did or did not succeed in overcoming these obstacles. Unfortunately, while the concepts and examples are good, this last third of the book lacks the practical tools that make the middle third so valuable. Even so, The Strategy Machine is to be commended for devoting so much of its content to the ugly underside of strategy - implementation. This area is absolutely critical to strategic success, yet most strategy books focus all of their attention on information gathering, analysis and strategy formulation, leaving readers holding the bag when it comes to actual execution of strategy.

If your company is either seeking to disrupt an industry with innovative strategy or looking to survive an anticipated disruption, The Strategy Machine will give you excellent food for thought as well as some practical tools for thinking about the composition of your company's strategy portfolio.

Some good stuff from a consultant.......2002-09-12

Have you ever had a consultant come in start off trying to explain what he's doing and you look at him funny. The consultant then goes in and does his thing. A few months later after the consultant's changes have had time to settle, get the edges off, etc. you go 'he had some pretty good ideas' I'm glad we hired him. That's sort of how this book is. In the beginning the author starts off explaining his theory and ideas and you kind of go "ummm yeah okay". Then he starts to put it into practice and you go "okay I see using part of that and some of this would work for my business" and at the end he brings it all together and half the stuff he said in the beginning was semi-useless, but you can see why he said it, and it comes together and you say "I can see how this would improve things". Overall I give the book a StuPage C.

Fascinating.......2002-07-15

A Must Read for the business executive. I found its advice to be enormously helpful in this particularly challenging time.

How many times can we hear the same message.......2002-06-27

This book has a few good nuggets, but the rest is filled with the same consultant-speak techno-hype that has been played before. This myth of a "new economy" should have been destroyed by the dot-bomb, or by the recent accounting scandals, or by the recession. We seem to forget that it is execution that counts. When will we realize that you can't build sustainable competitive advantages through technology. You can build more efficient operations, have better means of collecting, analyzing and using information, and respond in a much more rapid way to stakeholder needs; yet technology is only as good as the fundamental execution of your business. If you want a more enlightening, practical guide on technologies that will make an immediate difference, try "Going Wireless"; if you want to concentrate on strategic "blocking and tackling" pick up "Execution".

THE STRATEGY MACHINE: BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS ONE IDEA AT A TIME

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THE STRATEGY MACHINE: BUILDING YOUR BUSINESS ONE IDEA AT A TIME
Larry Downes
Manufacturer: HarperBusiness USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060098813

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Underneath the ever-roiling surface of public markets, information technology continues to remake the economy. Fifty years after the first commercial computer was sold, we stand on the brink of introducing intelligence into over a trillion items in commerce at a price too small to calculate. The age of disposable computing will transform every industry. Are you ready?In The Strategy Machine, Larry Downes, the bestselling coauthor of Unleashing the Killer App, charts a proven course through the uncertain future of business. With both winning and losing case studies, The Strategy Machine shows how to develop and nurture a "strategy portfolio" that can withstand the pressure of potent internal and external obstacles. Much like your personal financial portfolio, a strategy machine hedges your bets across a wide range of dramatically different challenges your business will face. Downes's approach generates new profits from new information products and services, regardless of the industry or the size of your company.In the book, Downes introduces important new tools every manager can use, including:The Information Supply Chain -- An emerging, parallel supply chain of data that describes transactions in the physical world, with independent value in the form of new products and services.

Invisible Capital -- Information assets, like brand, expertise, and customer and supplier relationships, lost in today's balance sheet, whose true value is understood by only a few companies.

The Strategy Machine -- A perpetual motion machine for strategy, fused with business operations, the heart of which is an invisible capital engine that uses data as both input and output.

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