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Establish processes that ensure the success of your project managers - and increase the profitability of your products and services With The Handbook of Program Management, you'll obtain the skills to incorporate new technology and people into your processes while delivering improved products and services that continually outpace your competition.In light of the Project Management Institute's new certification program for program managers, (PgMPSM) it's crucial that you have the understanding and processes necessary to deliver projects on schedule, within target costs, and that meet customer expectations.Program and project management authority Dr. James Brown helps you create the necessary culture that will ensure the success of your project managers and teams by providing the must have insights you would only get from a trusted mentor, including:  The price of delayed decision-making How calculated failure can drive organizational change. Why your best people often make the biggest mistakes. What the customer really needs to know (and not know). The essence of successful execution .
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The formal education of an electrical engineer is primarily mathematics and theory, with little practical information taught. Every beginning engineer needs a mentor to teach them the things that aren't taught in engineering school, but often lacks such a guide. This book fills that gap between theory and practice. Written by an expert electronics engineer who enjoys teaching the practical side of engineering, it covers all the subjects that a beginning EE needs to know: intuitive circuit and signal analysis, physical equivalents of electrical components, proper use of an oscilloscope, troubleshooting both digital and analog circuits, and much more.

The accompanying CD-ROM contains a reference library of electronics information, with demo simulation software and engineering calculators.

*Covers the engineering basics that have been either left out of a typical engineer's education or forgotten over time

*No other book offers a wealth of "insider information" in one volume, specifically geared to help new engineers and provide a refresher for those with more experience

*The accompanying CD-ROM contains a reference library of electronics information, with demo simulation software and engineering calculators.
Price: $37.00 [Notify me when price goes down.]

"Unquestionably the most comprehensive treatment available on the subject I found this book unique in its capacity to benefit executives, planning staff, and students of strategy alike."
-- Robert L. Joss, Dean of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University


Create successful strategies for today's dynamic business environment
It isn't your Dad's (or Mom's) marketplace any more. Business environments once seemed quite stable and simple. Today, every market can be described as dynamic, and you need to adapt your strategies in order to counter the threats and maximize your opportunities.

The Eighth Edition of Strategic Market Management is designed to give you the strategic management tools you need to meet the challenges created by the dynamic nature of markets. Using a variety of concepts and methods such as strategic questions, portfolio models, and scenario analysis, the book outlines the five competencies that spark successful, ongoing strategizing:

Strategic analysis--With an emphasis on external market analysis, this new edition illustrates a structured approach to understanding the customer, the competitor, and important trends that you can apply to your strategic decision making

Stimulating and managing innovation--Understand different types of innovation and deal with the organizational challenges involved in bringing innovations to market

Managing multiple businesses--Know how to allocate resources towards businesses of the future and away from businesses that lack growth potential

Creating advantage--Take a long-term perspective to develop truly sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs)

Developing growth strategies--Gain the skills to energize, leverage, globalize the business, or create new businesses

Significantly revised, with a wealth of new and updated material, Strategic Market Management, 8th Edition remains the most authoritative guide to creating business strategies that will be relevant and compelling to customers, sustainable even in face of competitive attack, and maximize the assets and competencies of your organization..
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Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit Organizations, second edition is a revision of the bestselling text that shows readers how to integrate human resource practices with the mission of their organizations. It offers an integrated approach to the most current human resource concerns and provides an accessible tool for executive directors, managers and students. This book offers updated compensation and budgetary guidance and helps to navigate the newest legal and technological challenges and opportunities in human resource management..
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Gain a higher-level perspective on risk management This third edition contains 35 tool-packed chapters focusing on a systematic approach to risk management. It highlights specific techniques to enhance organizational rish identification, assessment and management..
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T1: A Survival Guide is a practical, applied reference for Internet data transport using T1, a 40-year-old technology originally designed for AT&T's voice network rather than for data transport. In spite of its limitations, T1 is proven, reliable, and likely to be around for a while. In the past, network administrators have mainly learned T1 by apprenticeship, stumbling on troubleshooting tidbits and filing them away until they were needed again. This book brings together in one reference the information you need to set up, test, and troubleshoot T1.T1: A Survival Guide covers the following broad topics:

• What components are needed to build a T1 line, and how those components interact to transmit data effectively
• How to use standardized link layer protocols to adapt the T1 physical layer to work with data networks
• Troubleshooting and working with vendors

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Ten years ago, groupware bundled with email and calendar applications helped track the flow of work from person to person within an organization. Workflow in today's enterprise means more monitoring and orchestrating massive systems. A new technology called Business Process Management, or BPM, helps software architects and developers design, code, run, administer, and monitor complex network-based business processes

BPM replaces those sketchy flowchart diagrams that business analysts draw on whiteboards with a precise model that uses standard graphical and XML representations, and an architecture that allows it converse with other services, systems, and users.

Sound complicated? It is. But it's downright frustrating when you have to search the Web for every little piece of information vital to the process. Essential Business Process Modeling gathers all the concepts, design, architecture, and standard specifications of BPM into one concise book, and offers hands-on examples that illustrate BPM's approach to process notation, execution, administration and monitoring.

Author Mike Havey demonstrates standard ways to code rigorous processes that are centerpieces of a service-oriented architecture (SOA), which defines how networks interact so that one can perform a service for the other. His book also shows how BPM complements enterprise application integration (EAI), a method for moving from older applications to new ones, and Enterprise Service BUS for integrating different web services, messaging, and XML technologies into a single network. BPM, he says, is to this collection of services what a conductor is to musicians in an orchestra: it coordinates their actions in the performance of a larger composition.

Essential Business Process Modeling teaches you how to develop examples of process-oriented applications using free tools that can be run on an average PC or laptop. You'll also learn about BPM design patterns and best practices, as well as some underlying theory. The best way to monitor processes within an enterprise is with BPM, and the best way to navigate BPM is with this valuable book.

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