In the wake of the recent global financial collapse the timely new edition of this successful text provides students and business professionals with a welcome update of the key issues facing managers, boards of directors, investors, and shareholders.
Required reading for anyone starting, running, or growing a business, Business Ratios and Formulas, Second Edition puts answers at the fingertips of business managers, with nearly 250 operational criteria and clear, easy-to-understand explanations that can be used right away. The Second Edition includes approximately fifty new ratios and formulas, as well as new chapters covering ratios and formulas for e-commerce and human resources.
As a development team, you want to be productive. You want to write flexible, maintainable web applications. You want to use Ruby and Rails. But can you justify the move away from established platforms such as J2EE? Bruce Tate’s From Java to Ruby has the answers, and it expresses them in a language that’ll help persuade managers and executives who’ve seen it all. See when and where the switch makes sense, and see how to make it.
his practical guide provides the concepts and tools any manager needs to recruit and hire the best person for the job. Covers legal requirements in hiring, the importance of structure in recruiting, the costs of a bad hire, and the value of a good hire.
John Crisp’s Introduction to Fiber Optics is well established as an introductory text for engineers, managers and students. It meets the needs of systems designers, installation engineers, electronic engineers and anyone else who wants to gain a working knowledge of fiber optics with a minimum of maths. Review questions are included within the text to enable the reader to check their understanding as they work through the book.
This book is the roadmap your conversion project team needs to prepare your SAP ERP Financials systems for conversion to IFRS. It includes detailed coverage of the transition process, an overview of the US GAAP/IFRS deltas and how they are mapped in ERP Financials, and real-world advice from an IFRS conversion project at a large petrochemical company. With this concise guide, youll give your finance professionals, executives, technical staff, project managers, and consultants a real jumpstart to IFRS projects in upgrade or non-upgrade scenarios.
This is an accessible text and lively introduction to the skills of creative problem solving. Using extensive case-studies from a wide range of business situations, it illustrates the techniques used to solve management problems.
Too many projects? Want to organize them and evaluate them without getting buried under a mountain of statistics? This book will help you collect all your work, decide which projects you should do first, second and never. You’ll see how to tie your work to your organization’s mission and show your board, your managers, and your staff what you can accomplish and when. You’ll get a better view of the work you have, and learn how to make those difficult decisions, ensuring that all your strength is focused where it needs to be.
Multimedia is the new digital frontier. Managers, , architects, administrators and developers need to fully comprehend this exciting new technology as its widespread use and acceptance cannot be ignored any longer.,
Managing Multimedia and Unstructured Data in the , , will give you a complete understanding of how to manage all data, especially multimedia. You will learn all the latest terminology, how to set up a database, load digital objects, search on them and even how to sell them. Whether you are a manager or database administrator, this book will give you the knowledge you need to take control of this rapidly growing and industry- changing technology. Technology which is transforming our lives.
If you want to understand and perhaps start using the new data storage and analysis technologies that go beyond the , , model, this book is for you. Written in plain language suitable for technical managers and developers, and using many examples, use cases, and illustrations, this book explains the concepts, features, benefits, potential, and limitations of NoSQL.,
Making Sense of , starts by comparing familiar database concepts to the new NoSQL patterns that augment or replace them. Then, you’ll explore case studies on big data, search, reliability, and business agility that apply these new patterns to today’s business problems. You’ll see how NoSQL systems can leverage the resources of modern cloud computing and multiple-CPU data centers. The final chapters show you how to choose the right NoSQL technologies for your own needs.
Many successful project managers are beginning to utilize , , to drive their projects and operational initiatives. SharePoint , provides teams with a centralized location for project information and facilitates collaboration between project team members. The intention of this book is to provide a hands-on case study that you can follow to create a complete project management information system (PMIS) using SharePoint Server 2010.,
Each chapter is focused on a typical project management activity and demonstrates techniques that can be used to facilitate that activity.
Take control of the complex requirements for delivering a , 2013 solution to your organization. Led by a SharePoint MVP specializing in SharePoint service delivery, you’ll learn proven methods to help you prepare for a smooth adoption and governance process throughout the enterprise. This guide is ideal for IT professionals, including service delivery managers, , and program managers, and , analysts.
Great management is difficult to see as it occurs. Great management happens in one-on-one meetings and with other managers all in private. It’s hard to learn management by example when you can’t see it.,
Find out what goes on Behind Closed Doors and see how a skilled manager turns around a tricky management situation in seven weeks. You’ll learn how to provide and use feedback effectively, and become a better coach and mentor peers and team members. As you begin to build a cohesive, ‘jelled’ team you’ll learn how to use your influence across the organization and make better choices daily to survive and thrive.
