Authors: Michael Erbschloe. John Vacca .
Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Course Technology
Publication Date: 2003-03-10
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Guide to Disaster Recovery presents methods to identify vulnerabilities and take appropriate countermeasures to prevent and mitigate failure risks for an organization. This book provides the networking professional with a foundation in disaster recovery principles, including preparation of a disaster recovery plan, assessment of risks in the enterprise, development of policies and procedures, an understanding of the roles and relationships of various members of an organization, implementation of the plan, testing and rehearsal of the plan, and actually recovering from a disaster. The book takes an enterprise-wide approach to developing a disaster recovery plan. Students will learn how to create a secure network by putting policies and procedures in place, and how to restore a network in the event of a disaster....

Authors: The Art of Service.
Paperback, 132 pages
Publisher: The Art of Service
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    New ITIL V3! Real-life use, insights and applications for all ITIL V3 processes * 100% re-researched edition includes 5 Lifecycle phases, 19 Processes, 4 Functions, 51 Mindmaps and 29 other diagrams * 150 hours of work poured into 132 pages of real life data for this Guide. Known as the "ITIL V3 Encyclopedia", The Guide brings you exclusive data for all ITIL V3's 19 processes, plus implementation advice, supporting info and related processes help into one handy Guide for you. Use the 51 MindMaps and 19 tables of ITIL data to: * Compare your ITIL approach to your competitors' and best practice * (Re)design your ITIL processes and activities to improve results -- based on The new extensive MindMaps * Get more insight in the processes activities * Convince your boss (or client) to OK your implementation ideas and budget * Discover if the new ITIL processes and activities or other advanced tactics are worth applying for your organization * Find out how relations between processes differ by process (lots of data.)...

Authors: Cynthia D. Scott.
Paperback, 120 pages
Publisher: Crisp Publications
Publication Date: 1995-02-02
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    The leader of today has a vision for tomorrow: a vision that is clear, achievable, motivating, and exciting. Managing by vision allows an organization to create its future. This book shows managers how to develop organizational vision, values, and mission to build team spirit and productivity.

Learning Objectives: To explain the process of visioning
To explain how to define an organizational mission. To present the psychology of visioning. To give reasons why successful organizations have vision, values and mission. To provide a case study related to visioning....

Authors: Jon M. Conrad.
Paperback, 223 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 1999-10-28
Edition: 0

Reviews :

    Resource Economics is a text for students with a background in calculus, intermediate microeconomics, and a familiarity with the spreadsheet software Excel. The book covers basic concepts, shows how to set up spreadsheets to solve dynamic allocation problems, and presents economic models for fisheries, forestry, nonrenewable resources, stock pollutants, option value, and sustainable development. Within the text, numerical examples are posed and solved using Excel's Solver. Through these examples and additional exercises at the end of each chapter, students can make dynamic models operational, develop their economic intuition, and learn how to set up spreadsheets for the simulation of optimization of resource and environmental systems....

Authors: Technology and Telecommunications: Issues and Impacts Committee. National Research Council.
Paperback, 84 pages
Publisher: National Academies Press
Publication Date: 1994-01-01


Reviews :

    Discusses topics from a study on telecommuting and distributed work. Paper. ...

Authors: Paul C. Brown.
Paperback, 736 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Publication Date: 2008-04-04
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Putting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) into Practice

“This book is a must-have for enterprise architects implementing SOA. Through practical examples, it explains the relationship between business requirements, business process design, and service architecture. By tying the SOA implementation directly to business value, it reveals the key to ongoing success and funding.”
        —Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect, Con-way, Inc.

“While there are other books on architecture and the implementation of ESB, SOA, and related technologies, this new book uniquely captures the knowledge and experience of the real world. It shows how you can transform requirements and vision into solid, repeatable, and value-added architectures. I heartily recommend it.”
        —Mark Wencek, SVP, Consulting Services & Alliances, Ultimo Software Solutions, Inc.

In his first book, Succeeding with SOA, Paul Brown explained that if enterprise goals are to be met, business processes and information systems must be designed together as parts of a total architecture. In this second book, Implementing SOA, he guides you through the entire process of designing and developing a successful total architecture at both project and enterprise levels. Drawing on his own extensive experience, he provides best practices for creating services and leveraging them to create robust and flexible SOA solutions.

Coverage includes

• Evolving the enterprise architecture towards an SOA while continuing to deliver business value on a project-by-project basis
• Understanding the fundamentals of SOA and distributed systems, the dominant architectural issues, and the design patterns for addressing them
• Understanding the distinct roles of project and enterprise architects and how they must collaborate to create an SOA
• Understanding the need for a comprehensive total architecture approach that encompasses business processes, people, systems, data, and infrastructure
• Understanding the strategies and tradeoffs for implementing robust, secure, high-performance, and high-availability solutions
• Understanding how to incorporate business process management (BPM) and business process monitoring into the enterprise architecture

Whether you’re defining an enterprise architecture or delivering individual SOA projects, this book will give you the practical advice you need to get the job done.

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Authors: Laurie Kolt.
Paperback, 258 pages
Publisher: Academic Press
Publication Date: 1999-08
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Twenty years ago, a therapist could hang up a shingle, make some networking calls, and begin to create a steady stream of referrals. Since then, private practice has changed dramatically. Now therapists everywhere are struggling just to keep their practices going. The need has never been greater for sound business tools for building and marketing a therapy practice. How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice is essential reading for newly licensed therapists, seasoned professionals, and others wanting to prepare practitioners for success.
How to Build a Thriving Fee-for-Service Practice guides you from your ideal practice vision through the "how-to" steps to succeed. You will learn that a private practice is, in effect, a small business. Chapters contain solid training to help you not only to survive, but also to thrive in a highly competitive market place. Examples, worksheets, business forms, flow charts, paper and pen exercises, and even assignments in the "real world," expose you to essential materials and ideas.
Coverage includes surveying the needs of one's community, capitalizing on unusual market niches, marketing ideas to build one's practice, creating brochures, widening one's scope and expertise through public speaking, seminars, workshops, and writing, analyzing financial data and projections, tracking client information, and more.
* Contains foreword by American Psychological Association President Dr. Patrick DeLeon
* Provides a crash course in business management for therapists
* Includes examples, worksheets, business forms, and exercises
* Supplies tools for bypassing restrictions of managed care
* Suitable for newly licensed therapists and seasoned professionals
Written by a licensed therapist with over 19 years of experience in private practice, this book is a much-needed reference for mental health practitioners pursuing fee-for-service practice.

Key Features
* Learn solid training to not only survive, but thrive, in private practice today
* Go from your ideal practice vision through the "how-to" steps to succeed.
* Mobilize yourself into action!
* Market your clinical specialty to attract more cash clients
* Learn how to set realistic practice goals, and track your progress
* Regain your autonomy, income and career satisfaction
* Lean how to communicate the value of your services to the public
* Learn how to give powerful workshops and speaking engagements and write effective community articles
* Turn your specialty into a market niche
* Use the media as a vehicle to give psychology away and gain visibility
* Learn the skills that have never been taught in graduate school--until now
* Lay the foundation for your practice that builds momentum
* Attract new clients through seminars, speaking engagements and published articles
* Build a dynamic referral base
* Re-ignite the passion for your career and love what you do for a living
* Make your practice adaptive, challenging and enjoyable for the rest of your career...

Authors: Lorenz Books.
Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Crisp Publications
Publication Date: 1996-08-27
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Succession planning saves the cost and time of external personnel searches. It improves employee morale, lessens the effects of reengineering and downsizing, but most important, it creates a diverse talent pool within your organization. This book was written to guide you through the evaluation process of succession planning. It describes the guidelines for setting up a program, along with benchmarking procedures for ensuring the ongoing success of your plan.

Learning Objectives: To explain the benefits of a systematic succession plan. To help you develop a succession program to meet your organization's needs. To show how to identify leaders and leadership positions. To explain the operation and evaluation of a systematic succession plan...

Authors: S. Christian Albright.
Paperback, 704 pages
Publisher: South-Western College Pub
Publication Date: 2006-01-03
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    Learn more effective modeling techniques than ever before! VBA FOR MODELERS: DEVELOPING DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS USING MICROSOFT ® EXCEL shows you the easy way to automate methods and models and create special applications. You'll learn sophisticated techniques through a simple and clean interface, so there's no more long nights of trying to make it work. And because it works with Microsoft ® Excel, you'll be saving time while the program crunches all the numbers....

Authors: Anne M. Bogardus.
Paperback, 576 pages
Publisher: Sybex
Publication Date: 2003-10-01


Reviews :

    The Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) are the foremost nationally recognized certifications in the HR field, sponsored by the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI) and endorsed by the Society for the Human Resource Management (SHRM). The PHR exam generally covers technical and operational matters, while the SPHR exam focuses on strategic and policy issues. A new addition to Sybex's line of "Best Study Guides", PHR/SPHR: Professional in Human Resources Certification Study Guide is more complete than any other PHR or SPHR exam preparation package available. To support the primary courseware, the companion CD includes an advanced test engine with four bonus exams (two for PHR and two for SPHR), electronic flash cards, and the entire book in PDF....