Authors: Gerard Tel.
Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2001-02-15
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    The second edition of this successful textbook provides an up-to-date introduction both to distributed algorithms and to the theory behind them. The clear presentation makes the book suitable for advanced undergraduate or graduate courses, while the coverage is sufficiently deep to make it useful for practicing engineers and researchers. The author concentrates on algorithms for the point-to-point message passing model and includes algorithms for the implementation of computer communication networks. Two new chapters on sense of direction and failure detectors are state of the art and will provide an entry to research in these still-developing topics....

Authors: Ross Malaga.
Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Publication Date: 2003-12-31


Reviews :

    This book introduces information systems and their underlying technologies to readers, laying a solid foundation of knowledge before discussing their use and management. Chapter topics cover hardware, software, database, and networking technologies; Internet and World Wide Web technologies; using information systems for electronic business, decision making, and business integration; managing information systems for strategic advantage; managing the development and purchase of information systems; and managing security, disaster recovery, and data retention. For individuals interested in a career in business, with an interest—but little or no knowledge of—information systems and the field of IT....

Authors: Reinder Koop. Ester Muris.
Hardcover, 225 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2007-06-12
Edition: 1

Reviews :

   

Does the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics™ contribute to the goals of your company? Does your company itself have the capacity to build a bridge between the Business and IT? Can your employees adopt a flexible attitude on all the related changes ? And, probably even more important, is that what they are also willing to do? If you are striving for a full-hearted yes to these questions, this is the book for you.

Regatta Dynamics, our methodology for the structured implementation of Microsoft Dynamics™, is based on our firm belief that when you implement Microsoft Dynamics™ there must be a balance between the Business and IT. The consistency and cohesion between the different underlying work streams are hereby of overriding importance for the ultimate result.

In this book, we answer the questions mentioned above and describe pragmatically the full implementation process from A to Z. Emphasis is placed on the organizational component of the implementation process and the cohesion with functional and technical processes. In our opinion, by involving the organization properly during the change process, your company can benefit much more and much faster from Microsoft Dynamics™. Next to being a blueprint for the implementation complexity, this book can also be used as a guideline for daily practice.

This book is therefore interesting for project - and line managers, key-users, IT-managers and implementation consultants.

The authors are both working in the field of implementation. While writing this book they have drawn from their many years of experience in this field within Sogeti Netherlands. Wherever possible the authors have tried to change every challenge from unmanageable to comprehensive and, based on clearly separated sequences, the pluriform reality of implementation has been reduced to acceptable proportions that can be planned and managed. Main goal to achieve is to continuously create a tangible and remarkably better result for organizations who are considering implementing Microsoft Dynamics™.

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Authors: Wayne L. Winston.
Hardcover, 1440 pages
Publisher: Duxbury Press
Publication Date: 2003-07-25
Edition: 4

Reviews :

    The market-leading textbook for the course, Winston's OPERATIONS RESEARCH owes much of its success to its practical orientation and consistent emphasis on model formulation and model building. It moves beyond a mere study of algorithms without sacrificing the rigor that faculty desire. As in every edition, Winston reinforces the book's successful features and coverage with the most recent developments in the field. The Student Suite CD-ROM, which now accompanies every new copy of the text, contains the latest versions of commercial software for optimization, simulation, and decision analysis....

Authors: Suzanne Sabroski.
Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Publication Date: 2002-06-01


Reviews :

    Offering the advice, insights, experiences, and encouragement would-be Internet entrepreneurs need to establish a successful independent research business, this book provides an insider's view of Internet businesses and their unique services. Eleven entrepreneurial super searchers representing a broad range of topic specialties and business focuses are interviewed. Also discussed are the details for getting started, developing a niche, finding clients, doing the research, networking with peers, and staying well informed about Web resources and technologies....

Authors: Henry Kressel.
Hardcover, 422 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2007-04-16


Reviews :

    Everybody knows that digital technology has revolutionized our economy and our lifestyles. But how many of us really understand the drivers behind the technology - the significance of going digital; the miniaturization of circuit boards; the role of venture capital in financing the revolution; the importance of research and development? How many of us understand what it takes to make money from innovative technologies? Should we worry about manufacturing going offshore? What is the role of India and China in the digital economy? Drawing on a lifetime's experience in the industry, as an engineer, a senior manager and as a partner in a venture capital firm, Henry Kressel offers an expert personalized answer to all these questions. He explains how the technology works, why it matters, how it is financed and what the key lessons are for public policy....

Authors: Kevin Maney.
Paperback, 485 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2004-08-03


Reviews :

    The first complete look at one of America's legendary business leaders

This groundbreaking biography by Kevin Maney, acclaimed technology columnist for USA Today, offers fresh insight and new information on one of the twentieth century's greatest business figures. Over the course of forty-two years, Thomas J. Watson took a failing business called The Computer-Tabulating-Recording Company and transformed it into IBM, the world's first and most famous high-tech company. The Maverick and His Machine is the first modern biography of this business titan. Maney secured exclusive access to hundreds of boxes of Watson's long-forgotten papers, and he has produced the only complete picture of Watson the man and Watson the legendary business leader. These uncovered documents reveal new information about how Watson bet the company in the 1920s on tabulating machines-the forerunners to computers-and how he daringly beat the Great Depression of the 1930s. The documents also lead to new insights concerning the controversy that has followed Watson: his suppos ed coll usion with Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.

Maney paints a vivid portrait of Watson, uncovers his motivations, and offers needed context on his mammoth role in the course of modern business history. Jim Collins, author of the bestsellers Good to Great and Built to Last, writes in the Foreword to Maney's book: "Leaders like Watson are like forces of nature-almost terrifying in their release of energy and unpredictable volatility, but underneath they still adhere to certain patterns and principles. The patterns and principles might be hard to see amidst the melee, but they are there nonetheless. It takes a gifted person of insight to highlight those patterns, and that is exactly what Kevin Maney does in this book."

The Maverick and His Machine also includes never-before-published photos of Watson from IBM's archives, showing Watson in greater detail than any book ever has before. Essential reading for every businessperson, tech junkie, and IBM follower, the book is also full of the kind of personal detail and reconstructed events that make it a page-turning story for general readers. The Maverick and the Machine is poised to be one of the most important business biographies in years.

Kevin Maney is a nationally syndicated, award-winning technology columnist at USA Today, where he has been since 1985. He is a cover story writer whose story about IBM's bet-the-company move gained him national recognition. He was voted best technology columnist by the business journalism publication TJFR. Marketing Computers magazine has four times named him one of the most influential technology columnists. He is the author of Wiley's MEGAMEDIA SHAKEOUT: The Inside Story of the Leaders and the Losers in the Exploding Communications Industry, which was a Business Week Bestseller.
Residence: Clifton, VA.

"Watson was clearly a genius with a thousand helpers, yet he managed to build an institution that could transcend the genius."
-from the Foreword by Jim Collins

"Like all great biographers, Kevin Maney gives us an engaging story. . .his fascinating and definitive book about IBM's founder is replete with amazing revelations and character lessons that resonate today."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, bestselling author of Evolve! and When Giants Learn to Dance...

Authors: Joel Demski.
Hardcover, 494 pages
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 2008-07-07
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

   

The second edition reflects Dr. Demski s experience teaching to undergraduates, masters and doctoral students. He emphasizes economic fundamentals as the guiding foundation coupled with an artful application of those fundamentals. This applies to product costing, decision making and evaluation art. Dr. Demski also removed a great deal of traditional minutiae, in order to keep this theme in constant focus. This thematic approach, in his experience, works in dramatic fashion, and stands in sharp contrast to more traditional presentations of this material.

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Authors: Stephen G. Powell. Kenneth R. Baker.
Hardcover, 432 pages
Publisher: Wiley
Publication Date: 2003-08-21


Reviews :

    Successful business modeling is much more than a technical discipline; it's an art. And as in most professional disciplines, you can tell the experts apart from the novices by the creativity they bring to the craft. That's why Steve Powell and Ken Baker's THE ART OF MODELING WITH SPREADSHEETS covers spreadsheet engineering, management science techniques, and those essential craft skills needed to develop real expertise in business modeling. Features: * Balanced and streamlined coverage of spreadsheet engineering, management science techniques, and modeling craft. * The CD-ROM packaged with this text features all of the spreadsheets referred to in the text, as well as three software tools of special importance to business analysts: Premium Solver, Crystal Ball, and Sensitivity Toolkit (featuring four sensitivity tools)...

Authors: Van Haren Publishing.
Paperback, 500 pages
Publisher: Van Haren Publishing
Publication Date: 2007-05-23


Reviews :

    In recent years, IT Service Management has developed into a field in its own right. Organizations are now so dependent on the automation of large parts of their business processes that the quality of IT services and the synchronization of these services with the needs of the organization are now essential to their survival. This Introduction to IT Service Management, published by itSMF-I, is based on the latest edition of the ITIL books Version 3 and is intended to serve as: A thorough and convenient introduction to the field of IT Service Management and a selection of the V3 core books in the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). A guide to the specific processes relating to ITIL V3 and Service Management practices in general. A guide to all the major frameworks found within this specific industry...