The Value Trail offers a comprehensive approach to competitive analysis and strategy, considering value as a central theme and from a customer based perspective.
Highly Effective Marketing Analytics infuses analytics into marketing to help improve marketing performance and raise analytics IQ for companies that have not yet had much success with marketing analytics.
Part of the series Exploring Effective Leadership Practices through Popular Culture, Urick examines mentorship and learning, transformational and servant leadership, culture, bases of power, leader emergence, teams, motivation, and more.
The authors focus on the following topics:Information Systems*Contribution of IS/IT to organisations*Systems concepts and attributes*Planning, reviewing and controlling with IS*Serving the end user - spreadsheets, databases, e-mail and DTP*Software application for HR and other areas*Legislation and SecurityFinance*Sources and application of funds*Accounting documentation - cash statements, profit and loss accounts, balance sheets*Interpretation of accounts - management ratios*Costing and budgetingStatistics*Sources and uses of statistics*Presentation of statistics*Interpretation - measures of average, measures of distribution, correlation, time series, index numbers, significance tests*Use of current software for computation of statistics
Preparing a proposal for a contract or a grant can be an overwhelming and extraordinarily complex process, but regardless of the proposal type or sector, certain truths always pertain.
Be the most effective CIO you can be by learning from the best in the business Today's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed of technology leader.
This text is designed to help managers who have to deal with a complex environment, and who are often presented with "e;ready-made"e; solutions as to how to best organize their firm, to best use information technology.
Providing clear guidance for anyone servicing internal or external customers, this book offers a framework for analyzing and managing quality using a comprehensive closed-loop approach.
The Practical, Authoritative, 360-Degree Technical Guide to Oracle Exadata: From Setup to Administration, Optimization, Tuning, and Troubleshooting The blazingly fast Oracle Exadata Database Machine is being embraced by thousands of large-scale users worldwide: by governments, the military, enterprise organizations, cloud service providers, and anyone who needs extreme performance.
This book is an easily accessible and comprehensive guide which helps make sound statistical decisions, perform analyses, and interpret the results quickly using Stata.
This book provides some new ideas on the conceptualization of a shift in technological paradigm, and it explores in depth the relevance of this concept for research on innovation systems.
This book captures a range of important developments that have occurred in Information Systems over the last forty years, with a particular focus on India and the developing world.
This book highlights the practical aspects of using Oracle Essbase and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) as a comprehensive BI solution.
Analytics can make government work better this book shows you how A Practical Guide to Analytics for Governments provides demonstrations of real-world analytics applications for legislators, policy-makers, and support staff at the federal, state, and local levels.
In Profit From Science , author George Danner presents solutions to the big problems that modern business face solutions that are grounded in logic and empiricism.
Today Learning Organizations are shaped by collective knowledge and the existence of teams and groups of people that are continuously developing their capacity and ability to create results.
The Intelligent Organisation proposes a radically different way of designing organisations to capitalise on the potential offered by contemporary information capability.
This book will examine the history of robotics and explicate what massive automation means for the present and future of labor in all its forms, from mills and factories to the white-collars offices of suburbia and more.
Information management is the collection and management of information from one or more sources and the distribution of that information to one or more audiences.
A trio of experts on high-tech business strategy and innovation reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the world and the first trillion-dollar companies.
The adoption of Information Technology (IT) and Information Systems (IS) represents significant financial investments, with alternative perspectives to the evaluation domain coming from both the public and private sectors.
With the widespread transformation of information into digital form throughout society - firms and organisations are embracing this development to adopt multiple types of IT to increase internal efficiency and to achieve external visibility and effectiveness - we have now reached a position where there is data in abundance and the challenge is to manage and make use of it fully.
CIO BEST PRACTICES Enabling Strategic Value with Information Technology SECOND EDITION For anyone who wants to achieve better returns on their IT investments, CIO Best Practices, Second Edition presents the leadership skills and competencies required of a CIO addressing comprehensive enterprise strategic frameworks to fully leverage IT resources.
Exploring the practices developed by remote teams to maintain trust across cultures, this book offers both theoretical and practical resources to enable better working in challenging contexts of project work.