• Succession Planning That Works: The Critical Path of Leadership Development

    Many attempts to establish a succession plan fail. Why? They run up against insurmountable implementation challenges, or weak executive commitment and follow-through. Succession Planning That Works: The Critical Path of Leadership Development is a step-by-step guide to help HR professionals and senior leaders develop a succession plan that delivers a measurable return on investment. Based on in-depth interviews with senior executives from nearly 50 organizations, Succession Planning That Works reveals not only the most important components of effective succession planning, but also the most ef... [Read More]

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    • Manufacturer: FriesenPress

  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

    The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems?In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engi... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 149192912X
    • ISBN: 149192912X
    • Brand: O'Reilly Media
    • Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media

  • ABUS 83CS/55-300 S2 Schlage 55mm Rekeyable Padlock Solid Steel Chrome Plated Body, 1.4375-Inch Closed Shackle, Zero-Bitted

    Are your rekeyable padlocks usually time-consuming to service and do they take up a lot of stock space? Then the ABUS 83 Series & reg; is exactly what you need! Our famous rekeyable lock series offers many features that save you a great amount of time by making the rekeying process as easy as never before and that also enable you to save stock space by eliminating unnecessary variants for other shackle lengths or key-retaining. Precision and quality, fast rekeying, easy shackle changing, function convertibility and the development of the NANO PROTECT & trade; plating for extreme corrosion resi... [Read More]

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  • The Toyota Way to Service Excellence: Lean Transformation in Service Organizations

    The world’s bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results—The Toyota Way. A must-read for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the bestselling Toyota Way series and applies them directly to the industries where quality of service is crucial for success. Jeff Liker and Karyn Ross show you how to develop Lean practices throughout your organization using the famous 4P model. Whether you are an executive, manager, consultant, or frontline worker who deals with customers every day, y... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: B01H640KF2
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

  • Corporate Social Irresponsibility

    Corporate Social Irresponsibility focuses on ethical failures in order to relate corporate responsibility to business ethics, corporate governance, and organization effectiveness. The book advocates a strategic approach to CSR – ethical management cannot, and should not, be divorced from effective management. Corporate social responsibility has transitioned from oxymoron into a defining challenge of the twenty first century. Taking the recent financial crisis as a starting point, Alexander examines the underlying ethical and legal crises these events expose in the business world. The problem... [Read More]

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    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • Winning the Outsourcing Game Making the Best Deals and Making Them Work (Best Practices Book 13)


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  • Summary: The Outsourcing Revolution: Review and Analysis of Corbett's Book

    The must-read summary of Michael Corbett's book: "The Outsourcing Revolution: Why It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right".This complete summary of the ideas from Michael Corbett's book "The Outsourcing Revolution" deals with a highly controversial topic. Outsourcing tends to get blamed whenever jobs move from one country to another. However, outsourcing is currently a $6 trillion global industry, and within the next decade will grow appreciably as more and more organisations transform their operations to take advantage of everything outsourcing offers. In his book, the author explains how outso... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: B00PBK5M9I
    • Manufacturer: Business Book Summaries

  • Managing the Change: Software Configuration and Change Management: Software Best Practice 2 (Software Best Practice, 2)

    C. Amting Directorate General Information Society, European Commission, Brussels th Under the 4 Framework of European Research, the European Systems and Soft­ ware Initiative (ESSI) was part of the ESPRIT Programme. This initiative funded more than 470 projects in the area of software and system process improvements. The majority of these projects were process improvement experiments carrying out and taking up new development processes, methods and technology within the software development process of a company. In addition, nodes (centres of exper­ tise), European networks (organisations ma... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: B000PY3X5K
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • The Power of People: Learn How Successful Organizations Use Workforce Analytics To Improve Business Performance (FT Press Analytics)

    Learn from Today’s Most Successful Workforce Analytics Leaders Transforming the immense potential of workforce analytics into reality isn’t easy. Pioneering practitioners have learned crucial lessons that can help you succeed. The Power of People shares their journeys—and their indispensable insights. Drawing on incisive case studies and vignettes, three experts help you bring purpose and clarity to any workforce analytics project, with robust research design and analysis to get reliable insights. They reveal where to start, where to find stakeholder support, and how to earn “quick wi... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 0134546008
    • ISBN: 0134546008
    • Manufacturer: Pearson FT Press

  • Align Client and Provider Perspectives: Best Practices in IT Outsourcing

    This book develops a common understanding between the client and the provider in each of the four stages of strategic outsourcing. These stages range from discovery, where the parties envision their future collaboration; planning, where they lay the ground work for the contract and the project; building, where they effectively carry out the work; and lastly to running, where they orchestrate the relationship on a daily basis to ensure that the new, enlarged company achieves the results sought. In a simple yet direct style, it highlights the dos and don’ts the parties should bear in mind at e... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 3319920634
    • ISBN: 3319920634
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • Thoughtfully Ruthless: The Key to Exponential Growth

    Unlock explosive growth potential with the true model of modern leadership Thoughtfully Ruthless lays out the secret to rapid business growth by showing you how to magically invent more time, catapult your energy, and boost the productivity of your resources. Author Val Wright has worked with leaders of all stripes—from doctors to musicians to Fortune 50 C-suite executives—to help them unlock their potential and achieve the next level of success. Her experiences have shown time and time again that it's not the economy, or the market conditions, or the competition that's holding your busine... [Read More]

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    • ISBN: 1119222575
    • Manufacturer: Wiley

  • Software Engineering Approaches for Offshore and Outsourced Development: Third International Conference, SEAFOOD 2009, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2-3, ... Notes in Business Information Processing)

    SEAFOOD 2009: Enabling Global Partnerships to Deliver on Business Needs Companies have been outsourcing areas of software development work for many years, either because of the engineering challenges or because the outsourced aspect is not central to their core business. A profound transformation has been a?ecting this model over recent years: a massive transfer of development - tivities from the USA and Europe to a skilled labor force in service-providing countries. This transformation has been driven by the demands of a global bu- ness climate seeking to increase the value delivery of IT inv... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 3642029868
    • ISBN: 3642029868
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • IT-Projektrecht: Vertragliche Gestaltung und Steuerung von IT-Projekten, Best Practices, Haftung der Geschäftsleitung (Xpert.press) (German Edition)

    IT-Projekte können erfolgreich sein, wenn sie durch Projektverträge auf allen Stufen gezielt gesteuert und kontrolliert werden. Der Autor geht auf die Verantwortlichkeit des Managements für die Projektführung ein und erläutert die aktuellen Normvorgaben für IT-Projekte aus ISO 20.000 und ITIL. Er behandelt Outsourcing, ASP und IT-Security (Dauerprojekte) ebenso wie die Sanierung von Projekten und die Anwenderrechte bzw. Anbieterinsolvenz. Ausführliche Checklisten für CIOs und Geschäftsleitungen erleichtern die Projektkontrolle aus deren Blickwinkel. In dieser Themenkombination gibt es... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 3540732233
    • ISBN: 3540732233
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • Smart Sourcing: International Best Practice

    With a growing market currently in excess of $150 billion, outsourcing has become a critical boardroom agenda. Meeting this challenge, Andrew and Nada Kakabadse answers key boardroom questions: Q What will be the key areas of outsourcing in the future? A IT and HR! Q What supplier relationships work best: partnerships, joint ventures? A No, the preferred single supplier still provides best service! Q Does well-managed outsourcing make a difference? A Substantially, both strategic and operational! As one of the largest international surveys on outsourcing, Smart Sourcing highlights what it take... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 1349427616
    • ISBN: 1349427616
    • Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan

  • Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice

    Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice is the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems Development, held in Melbourne, Australia, August 29-31, 2003. The purpose of these proceedings is to provide a forum for research and practice addressing current issues associated with Information Systems Development (ISD). ISD is undergoing dramatic transformation; every day, new technologies, applications, and methods raise the standards for the quality of systems expected by organizations as well as end users. All a... [Read More]

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    • ASIN: 0306485540
    • ISBN: 0306485540
    • Manufacturer: Springer

  • Simulation : The Practice of Model Development and Use

    "Simulation modelling involves the development of models that imitate real-world operations, and statistical analysis of their performance with a view to improving efficiency and effectiveness. This non-technical textbook is focused towards the needs of business,

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  • Transforming the U.S. Workforce Development System : Lessons from Research and Practice

    This book brings together leading scholars and practitioners working in the job skills field to examine what research tells us about the current state of the U.S. skills system in comparative perspective and the changes

    • UPC: 14537239

  • Learning and Development Practice in the Workplace

    Understand the key theories, models and practice of learning and development in the workplace with this introductory

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  • 108 Best Practices to Build Sustainable Strategic Outsourcing Partnerships - eBook

    This book is the essence of author’s 30 years of business management experience with highly successful multinational companies, coupled with distilled knowledge of his close interactions with great industry leaders.The book comprehensively covers - developing

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  • Outsourcing Secrets: What You Need to Know About Software Development - eBook

    In this ebook, you'll find helpful tips on how to get into freelance software development work, tips for finding amazing freelance software developers, common problems to avoid when you outsource software development and much more.

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  • Do What You Do Best: Outsourcing As Capacity-Building In The Non-Profit Sector - eBook

    Jeff Russell shows how nonprofit organizations and their causes can benefit from outsourcing. You will learn how outsourcing has enabled more Africans to have clean water, helped refugees in Boise find gainful employment, and supported

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  • BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development - eBook

    This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier

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  • Outsourcing Procurement in the Public Sector - eBook

    This publication explores the option of outsourcing the procurement function to specialized agencies. Through selected case studies, it discusses the various benefits and issues surrounding two major approaches, namely a market-based system and a centralized

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  • 42 Rules for Creating We (2nd Edition) : A Hands-On, Practical Approach to Organizational Development, Change and Leadership Best Practices.

    For 200,000 years, human beings have moved back and forth between I-Centric and We-Centric societies. Glaser offers new insights from thought leaders in neuroscience, organizational development, and brand strategy, introducing groundbreaking practices for bringing the

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  • Globalization, Outsourcing and Labour Development in ASEAN - eBook

    Due to technical advances in production and communication technology, outsourcing – contracting out production of intermediate materials and services – has affected the economic growth of the ASEAN region. This new book fills an important

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  • Best Practices for Outsourcing Development

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