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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The essential onboard guide to staying afloat and alive at sea-when you run into trouble Written by a respected marine journalist with over thirty years of boating experience, this practical guide offers immediate solutions to any number of problems encountered while at sea. Addressing such dangers as fire; taking on water; running aground; losing power, mast, or rudder; man overboard; becoming lost; and extreme weather, the book offers clear guidance on gaining control of the situation, along with easily understandable photos and illustrations. Other key safety measures, such as having a good understanding of first aid, the Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS), flares and signals, are also described in detail. This handy, waterproof guide would complete any boat's equipment list. Detailed advice for most emergency situationsA must-have reference for all sailors, power boaters, and motor boatersThe author of numerous books in Norwegian, John Winge has cruised all over world As important as a first-aid kit, Emergency Companion is any boater's first line of defense against managing any mishap or potential disaster at sea.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Don't let 'white blindness' drive you into debt! Make your wedding everything you want it to be on the budget you determine. Are you planning a wedding, but worried about how much money you'll have to spend In today's tough economic times, planning a budget wedding is more important than ever. This fun, money-saving guide is packed with tips for planning the wedding of your dreams without breaking your bank account! Inside you'll find tons of tips and advice for planning a budget-friendly celebration while still remaining true to your personality, values, and tastes. You'll see how to make and keep your wedding budget; select the most economical time to get married; scope out wedding locations that fit the bill; and incorporate everything from economical to green ideas that emphasize style and elegance. Plus, you get tips and pointers for negotiating with vendors and avoiding hidden expenses and add-ons. - Hands-on information for planning a stylish wedding while sticking to your budget - How to get deals on gowns, tuxes, cakes, invitations, photography, food, and more - Use your creativity (and friends and family) to save money on decorations, food, favors, and wedding attire - Cut corners where no one will notice - Set your own priorities for your big day - Make your celebration unique You don't have to settle for less on your wedding day. Author, Meg Schneider is an award-winning journalist who planned her own wedding for less than $5,000Budget Weddings For Dummies is the only guide you need to save yourself money, time, and stress while you plan a beautiful, memorable ceremony.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A resource of fun games for parents or teachers to help young children learn social and motor skills Barbara Sher, an expert occupational therapist and teacher, has written a handy resource filled with games to play with young children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) or other sensory processing disorders (SPD). The games are designed to help children feel comfortable in social situations and teach other basic lessons including beginning and end, spatial relationships, hand-eye coordination, and more. Games can also be used in regular classrooms to encourage inclusion. - A collection of fun, simple games that can improve the lives of children with ASD or other SPDs. - Games can be played by parents or teachers and with individual children or groups. - Games are designed to make children more comfortable in social situations and to develop motor and language skills - Also included are a variety of interactive games to play in water, whether in a backyard kiddie pool, community swimming pool, or lake - All the games are easy-to-do, utilizing common, inexpensive materials, and include several variations and modifications.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An all-in-one guide to online marketing from the New York Times bestselling author of Never Cold Call Again In Never Cold Call Again, Frank Rumbauskas shows salespeople how to achieve sales greatness without using those dreaded old tactics like cold calling. Now, in The Never Cold Call Again Online Playbook, he gives small business owners, independent professionals, and entrepreneurs a complete, all-in-one guide to the best practices of effective online marketing. The best marketers know all the secrets of using the Internet to fuel business growth. With The Never Cold Call Again Online Playbook, you'll have access to all the best proven Internet marketing wisdom, tactics, strategies, and tools. You'll learn how to develop a complete online marketing system that boosts sales and brings in customers galore. - A comprehensive toolkit for creating a complete, powerful, and effective online marketing program for your business - Written by online marketing guru Frank Rumbauskas, bestselling author of Never Cold Call Again and Selling Sucks - A revolutionary system for increasing sales without tired old selling tactics that no longer work anyway - How to explode your business with social media sites like Twitter and Facebook For anyone who owns or operates a business and wants to increase their sales, profits, and visibility online, The Never Cold Call Again Online Playbook is the ultimate practical resource. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An intriguing look at how past market wisdom can help you survive and thrive during uncertain times In Wealth, War & Wisdom, legendary Wall Street investor Barton Biggs reveals how the turning points of World War II intersected with market performance, and shows how these lessons can help the twenty-first-century investor comprehend our own perilous times as well as choose the best strategies for the modern market economy. Through these pages, Biggs skillfully discusses the performance of equities in both victorious and defeated countries, examines how individuals preserved their wealth despite the ongoing battles, and explores whether or not public equities were able to increase in value and serve as a wealth preserver. Biggs also looks at how other assets, including real estate and gold, fared during this dynamic and devastating period, and offers valuable insights on preserving one's wealth for future generations. With clear, concise prose, Biggs Reveals how the investment insights of truly trying times can be profitably applied to modern day investment endeavors Follows the performance of global markets against the backdrop of World War II Offers many relevant lessons-about life, politics, financial markets, wealth, and survival-that can help you thrive in the face of adversity Wealth, War & Wisdom contains essential insights that will help you navigate modern financial markets during the uncertain times that will increasingly define this new century.; Der zweite Weltkrieg war verheerender Höhepunkt in der Geschichte, der aus Sicht des Autors fast die westliche Zivilisation gekostet hat. Biggs beschäftigt sich in seinem Buch daher mit der Frage, wie es Menschen in solchen Extremzeiten gelingen kann ihr Kapital zu sicher. Er analysiert dazu das Investitionsverhalten der Anleger von 1930-1945, und zwar sowohl auf Seiten der Sieger als auch auf Seiten der Besiegten. So stellt er beispielweise fest dass Grundeigentümer ihren Reichtum stärker schützten, als die Menschen die ihr Geld in Aktien angelegt hatten. Interessant ist vor allem, dass sich die Lehren aus dem Krieg direkt auf die heutigen turbulenten Märkte anwenden lässt.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A design-thinking book for planting or redesigning churches and incubating a new generation of leaders. Written by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr, two experienced church planters and mentors, the book is full of wisdom, practical advice, and creative counsel. Instead of a business-model-as-usual approach, the authors challenge readers to begin with the raw materials of beliefs, values, individuals, teams, and culture, and to then move outwards to draw from a rich palette of real and potential church paradigms. This book is meant to provoke church leaders to think outside of the box and to imagine how their churches might better reflect the image and the mission of God in the world. - Contains a wealth of illustrative examples, charts, and other visual aides - Offers a creative practical perspective and a multi-disciplinary approach to establishing a new church or leading an existing one - Shows how to honor a church's purpose while embracing its unique culture - Includes important lessons for nurturing church leadership skills.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are you a student who's fed up with making do with greasy food and monotonous ingredients A parent who worries about your son or daughter's mounting tendency to nip to the fast-food van at all times of the day Then look no further! Taking into account thepressures and stresses of university life - the work, the exams, the parties - this entertaining guide takes students through the essential skills, techniques and ingredients they need to make over 160 delicious, healthy meals on a budget and on the go. Packed with top tips on frugal shopping, diet maintenance and healthy-microwave cooking, as well as the low-down on hosting dinner parties, choosing wines and mixing cocktails, baked-bean-living will become a thing of the past! Student Cookbook For Dummies includes: Part 1: Getting Started - Chapter 1: Saying 'Hello' To Your Kitchen - Chapter 2: Going Shopping - Chapter 3: Knowing What You're Eating Part 2: Breakfast, Lunch & Snacks - Chapter 4: Bigging up Breakfast - Chapter 5: Making great Lunches - Chapter 6: Snacks Part 3: Bring On The Main Course - Chapter 7: Cooking For One - Chapter 8: Eating the Right Food To Get You Going - Chapter 9: Mastering Microwave Cooking - Chapter 10: Making the Most of Time and Money - Chapter 11: Decadent Desserts and Treats Part 4: Entertaining - Chapter 12: Lads and Girls Nights' In - Chapter 13: Pulling Together a Sunday Roast - Chapter 14: Food To Impress: Cooking for a Date - Chapter 15: Getting into the Party Spirit Part 5: The Part Of Tens - Chapter 16: Ten Tips For Cooking At Uni - Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Eat On The Cheap - Chapter 18: Ten Replacements for Expensive Ingredients.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical program for developing a deeper, more authentic relationship with God Written for anyone who wants to develop a deeper more meaningful relationship with God, Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide through a spiritual formation road map based on Teresa of Avila's Seven Mansions. The book includes a Mapping Tool that will help you discern your place on your spiritual journey and offers church leaders a process for helping church members to grow into spiritual maturity. - Contains a spiritual program based on the writings of Teresa of Avila, one of Christianity's most profound and beloved mystical teachers - Offers a complete, step-by-step program for spiritual growth - Includes information for leading others in their spiritual journeys - Appropriate for all kinds of Christians.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Talk Less, Say More is a revolutionary guide to 21st century communication skills to help you be more influential and make things happen in our distracted, attention-deficit world. It's loaded with specific tips and takeaways to ensure that you're fully heard, clearly understood, and trigger positive responses in any business or social situation.It's the first book to deliver a proven method to master the core leadership skill of influence. Talk Less, Say More lays out a powerful 3-step method called Connect, Convey, Convince (R) and guides you in how to use these habits to be more influential. This succinct book solves your modern communication issues in today's demanding, distracted world at a time when interaction skills are plummeting.Communication is the single greatest challenge in business today. It takes just 3 habits to conquer it. Talk Less, Say More will help you achieve more with less. Less wordiness. Less tune-out. Less frustration. You'll gain more time. More positive outcomes. More rewarding relationships.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An unauthorized look behind one of the greatest video game franchises of all time, Final FantasyThe Final Fantasy universe is packed with compelling characters and incredible storylines. In this book, you'll take a fascinating look at the deeper issues that Final Fantasy forces players to think about while trying to battle their way to the next level, such as: Does Cloud really exist (or should we really care) Is Kefka really insane Are Moogles part of a socialist conspiracy Does the end of the game justify the means As Mages, Moogles, fiends, and Kefka are mashed together with the likes of Machiavelli, Marx, Foucault, and Kafka, you'll delve into crucial topics such as madness, nihilism, environmental ethics, Shintoism, the purpose of life, and much more.\* Examines the philosophical issues behind one of the world's oldest and most popular video-game series\* Offers new perspectives on Final Fantasy characters and themes\* Gives you a psychological advantage--or at least a philosophical one--against your Final Fantasy enemies\* Allows you to apply the wisdom of centuries of philosophy to any game in the series, including Final Fantasy XIIIGuaranteed to add a new dimension to your understanding of the Final Fantasy universe, this book is the ultimate companion to the ultimate video-game series.…

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wisdom on Value Investing offers author Gabriel Wisdom's insights on succeeding in difficult markets. One of his favorite approaches-which is part classic value investing and part behavioral finance-is called 'The Fallen Angels Investment Strategy,' and it prepares investors to look past short-term value assumptions in order to capture profits. Throughout this book, Wisdom will show you how to capitalize on value plays where the fundamentals are actually strong, but the 'general wisdom' surrounding the security has turned negative. He discusses how stocks with the most promise are ones that Wall Street has marked down without regard to their underlying value, and reveals how this type of intrinsic value discount provides a margin of safety during difficult times, and substantial upside rewards for those who find them early enough.\* Takes value investing one step further by mixing significant amounts of behavioral finance into the analysis\* Prepares investors to take advantage of other's mistakes\* A time-tested strategy for any type of market-up or downA classic look at value investing with a twist, this book will put you in a better position to succeed in both bull and bear markets.Includes a Foreword by Mary Buffett and David Clark, authors of Buffettology.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The small or mid-sized business' guide to outselling the big boysOften, small or mid-sized businesses don't think they have the resources or the talent to compete with the larger competitors in their industry. But just because they don't have the advertising budgets or purchasing power of their bigger counterparts doesn't mean they can't play ball. For sales organizations, service matters much more than size.If your sales business is competing with much bigger fish, the odds are stacked against you. Pressured and powerless, frustrated and overwhelmed, you might be tempted to give up. But smaller businesses often find advantages over their bigger competitors.\* Includes proven tactics to help small businesses tackle bigger competitors\* Author William T. Brooks is also the author of The New Science of Selling and Persuasion and How to Sell at Higher Margins Than Your Competitors\* Shows you how to steal market share from bigger vendors with bigger resourcesJust because your business can't flood the market with salespeople or contend on economy of scale and purchasing power, that doesn't mean you can't compete. The secret is Playing Bigger Than You Are.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive guide for using social media to build more effective organizationsToday's networking technologies-wikis, blogs, and social networking sites-are changing how we build professional relationships and work collaboratively. In this insightful book, three organizational development experts from Oracle Corporation offer executives down-to-earth strategies for leveraging the power of social media to build more effective and agile organizations, engage employees, and sustain competitiveness.\* Offers practical advice for using social media (wikis, blogs, and social networking sites) to increase organizational effectiveness\* Presents proven recommendations for building teams, accelerating learning, and fostering innovation by adopting social networking tools\* Shows how to tap into the power of social networks to improve organizational performance\* Demonstrates how social media will help organizations thrive for years to come by drawing on case studies from companies like Intel, Cisco, Nokia, and others.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Offers best practices for implementing RTI at the school-wide level-to ensure success for all learners Response-to-Intervention is now mandated at schools across the country. While there are a handful of books offering tips on implementation, schools are still struggling to find the best approaches. This book, from a prominent RTI researcher, explains how the most successful schools using RTI manage the process. Sailor offers best practices for implementing RTI not only at the classroom level, but also at the school-wide and district-wide levels, to ensure no student falls through the cracks and schools fulfill the promise of RTI. - Offers clear guidance on implementing Response-to-Intervention effectively - Reveals the framework used by the most successful schools using RTI - Includes information on applying RTI for behavioral problems as well as academic challenges - Contains illustrative examples of how the approach is applied at all levels, from individual student to school-wide and district-wide - Written by a top researcher in the field of Response-to Intervention.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An honest assessment for how to determine your individual relationship with charitable giving in today's worldFrom world-renowned philanthropists Charles Bronfman and Jeffrey Solomon of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies comes a comprehensive guide on how to be a canny, street-smart, effective philanthropist, regardless of your income level. It is also a perfect companion for nonprofit program and development executives who would like to introduce donors to their work and their organizations.Despite their critical importance to philanthropy, donors have few resources for solid information about making their gifts-deciding what type of gift to give, how to structure it, the tax implications, what level of follow-up and transparency they should ask for and expect, and countless other complexities. This book fills that vacuum and helps you gain a special understanding of philanthropy as a business undertaking as well as a deeply personal, reflective process.Drawing on decades of experience, the authors offer a fresh, enlivening approach to the nonprofit enterprise that, too often, is undervalued and thought of as the province of the burnt-out and the overwhelmed. Along with its many candid insights and memorable anecdotes, The Art of Giving also offers instruction on how to create a business plan for giving that works for you.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide to personal accountability-the fundamental key to leadership success With the toughest economic downturn in recent history, the issue of accountability has taken center stage. However accountability is often confused with punishment, fault, blame and guilt. In this book, the author argues that the only true accountability is 'personal accountability' and the only way to achieve it is to take responsibility for the outcomes of your choices, behaviors and actions. The 85% Solution reveals that to be truly accountable, leaders must accept no less than 85% of the responsibility for the outcomes of your actions; Empower themselves to take the risks and actions you must in order to get what they want; and Show they are willing to answer for the outcomes that result from their choices and actions. - Offers a practical guide to personal accountability and reveals how this leads to personal and business success - Guides readers to take the risks and actions to reach their goals - Contains self-assessments for determining personal accountability index The author is an experienced consultant who works with organizations, teams, and individuals to improve their personal and work lives.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How to create a profitable, sustainable business developing and marketing iPhone appsiPhone apps are hot; the average app is downloaded more than 30,000 times. If you have some great apps in mind, Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies will show you how to produce and market them effectively.Starting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies provides clear, reliable business information to help developers and entrepreneurs create a profitable, sustainable business in this new and exciting market.\* Identifies what goes into a successful iPhone application business\* Helps you find the market niche your applications can fill, market and promote your business, and build your brand\* Explains how to develop a pricing strategy, build your applications efficiently, and get them into the App Store\* Explores finding a sustainable revenue model, including free trials, social media models, ad-based revenue models, and subscription models\* Demonstrates effective ways to provide service and support to customers\* Written by a team that combines knowledge of iPhone app development with sound business experienceStarting an iPhone Application Business For Dummies can help you turn your ideas into income.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The consumer guide to small-scale wind electricity production! Maybe you're not T. Boone Pickens, but you can build your own home-sized wind-power empire right in your back yard. Wind Power For Dummies supplies all the guidance you need to install and maintain a sustainable, cost-effective wind generator to power your home for decades to come. This authoritative, plain-English guide walks you through every step of the process, from assessing your site and available wind sources to deciding whether wind power is the solution for you, from understanding the mechanics of wind power and locating a contractor to install your system to producing your own affordable and sustainable electricity. - Guides you step by step through process of selecting, installing, and operating a small-scale wind generator to power your home - Demystifies system configurations, terminology, and wind energy principles to help you speak the language of the pros - Helps assess and reduce your energy needs and decide whether wind power is right for you - Explains the mechanics of home-based wind power - Shows you how to tie into the grid and sell energy back to the power company - Offers advice on evaluating all of the costs of and financing for your project - Provides tips on working with contractors and complying with local zoning laws Yes, you can do it, with a little help from Wind PowerFor Dummies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An eye-opening look at how investors can take control of their financial lifeBuy and Hold Is Dead provides actionable strategies and disciplines, which can be used to earn positive results in any market environment. Money managers rarely outperform the stock market over time, and this has become a sticking point for many people as our uneven economic landscape continues to unfold. This timely guide is designed around a step-by-step educational process in which traders and investors lean how they can protect their wealth and make money regardless of market direction. The goal of Buy and Hold Is Dead is twofold: to dispel old-school investment techniques and to show you how to maximize your returns without sacrificing time or lifestyle and without the use of a money manager.\* Identifies the duration of the current economic down cycle and warns of a Greater Depression\* Encourages readers to use proactive trading strategies that can protect their wealth and make them money in any market environment\* Discusses why investors cannot afford to rely on the selfish guidelines imposed by big brokers and money managersLosing less is never a winning strategy, and this book skillfully addresses why it should not be considered a positive result despite relative market performance.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kids and teachers can build their own science projects based on exhibits from San Francisco's premiere science museum This revised and updated edition offers instructions for building junior versions, or 'snacks,' of the famed Exploratorium's exhibits. The snacks, designed by science teachers, can be used as demonstrations, labs, or as student science projects and all 100 projects are easy to build from common materials. The Exploratorium, a renowned hands-on science museum founded by physicist and educator Frank Oppenheimer, is noted for its interactive exhibits that richly illustrate scientific concepts and stimulate learning. - Offers a step-by-step guide for building dynamic science projects and exhibits - Includes tips for creating projects made from easy-to-assembly items - Thoroughly revised and updated, including new 'snacks,' images, and references.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Better Consciousness: Schopenhauer's Philosophy of Value reassesses Schopenhauer's aesthetics and ethics and their contemporary relevance. - Features a collection of new essays from leading Schopenhauer scholars - Explores a relatively neglected area of Schopenhauer's philosophy - Offers a new perspective on a great thinker who crystallized the pessimism of the nineteenth century and has many points of contact with twenty-first century thought.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Essays on Derek Parfit's On What Matters, seven leading moral philosophers offer critical evaluations of the central ideas presented in a greatly anticipated new work by world-renowned moral philosopher Derek Parfit. - Presents critical assessments of what promises to be one of the key moral philosophy texts of our time - Features essays by a team of leading philosophers including Princeton's Michael Smith, one of the world's leading meta-ethicists - Addresses Parfit's central thesis - that the main ethical theories can agree on what matters - as well as his defense of moral realism.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A practical introduction to the necessity of competitive intelligence for smarter business decisions-from a leading CI expert and speakerIn Competitive Intelligence Advantage, Seena Sharp, founder of one of the first Competitive Intelligence firms in the US, provides her expert analysis on the issues and benefits of CI for today's businesses. CI is critical for making smarter business decisions and reducing risks when formulating strategies, leading to more profits and fewer mistakes.This is a practical guide that explains what CI is, why data is not intelligence, why competitor intelligence is a weak sibling to competitive intelligence, when to use it, how to find the most useful information and turn it into actual intelligence, and how to present findings in the most convincing manner. Importantly, Sharp argues that businesses would benefit from shifting their perspective on CI from viewing it as a cost to viewing it as an investment that saves money and provides immediate value.\* Author Seena Sharp is a noted CI expert who established Sharp Market Intelligence in 1979\* Addresses all the most common myths and misconceptions about CI\* Includes more than sixty examples of when to use CI\* Completely explains the ins and outs of CI, and why your company will act faster and more aggressively with CICompetitive intelligence is a management tool that is misunderstood and underestimated, yet results in numerous benefits. If you are a senior level executive or operate a business-and you aren't tapping the power of CI to improve your decision making-you are missing a potent advantage.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A blueprint to successful value investingSuccessful value investors have an ingrained mental framework through which all investments decisions are made. This framework, which stems from the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham-who believed that investment is most intelligent when it is most businesslike-can put you in a better position to improve the overall performance of your portfolio.Written by Sham Gad-founder of the Gad Partners Funds, a value-focused investment partnership inspired by the 1950s Buffett Partnerships-The Business of Value Investing effectively examines the fundamental tenants of this approach and skillfully illustrates the six essential elements of the entire process. Opening with some informative discussions of how value investing focuses more on buying a piece of a business, and less on buying a company's stock, this reliable resource quickly moves on to detail exactly what it takes to become a successful value investor.\* Outlines the six essential elements required for a successful risk averse value investment approach\* Contains case studies that illustrate how to approach investing in an intelligent, businesslike fashion\* Walks you through the pitfalls that most investors initially fall intoWith The Business of Value Investing as your guide, you'll quickly become familiar with one of the most effective investment strategies ever created.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A hands-on guide for anyone who teaches writing to students with learning disabilities This valuable resource helps teachers who want to sharpen their skills in analyzing and teaching writing to students with learning disabilities. The classroom-tested, research-proven strategies offered in this book work with all struggling students who have difficulties with writing-even those who have not been classified as learning disabled. The book offers a review of basic skills-spelling, punctuation, and capitalization-and includes instructional strategies to help children who struggle with these basics. The authors provide numerous approaches for enhancing student performance in written expression. They explore the most common reasons students are reluctant to write and offer helpful suggestions for motivating them. Includes a much-needed guide for teaching and assessing writing skills with children with learning disabilities - Contains strategies for working with all students that struggle with writing - Offers classroom-tested strategies, helpful information, 100+ writing samples with guidelines for analysis, and handy progress-monitoring charts - Includes ideas for motivating reluctant writers - Mather is an expert in the field of learning disabilities and is the best-selling author of Essentials of Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Achievement Assessment. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn to measure and manage the real value of IT investment and spendingIT investments are becoming more than just business enablers or assets on the books; they provide capability that can drive the business. Thought leadership should migrate towards information investment, getting a bigger bang for the buck from the 'I' in IT and from the 'I' in CIO.Your organization needs a new kind of IT investment management system, built to optimize the IT value-creation of the company network. Just looking at financial or accounting measures of value is a short-term focus and a lag indicator, while focusing on productivity measures does nothing for the intangible value and intellectual capital generated.The IT Value Network: From IT Investment to Stakeholder Economic Value incorporates new emerging decision support methods, such as real options, which are considered to complement traditional financial measures. Organizational and informational economic based techniques are also incorporated to manage and assess IT investments, including the balanced scorecard (BSC), and investment and portfolio management; in addition to coverage of IT key performance indicators and competitive benchmarking.The IT Value Network:\* Provides a proven framework to unlock and realize IT value, which bridges the value gap between the CIO and business partners, especially the CFO and the Board\* Shows how value needs to be triangulated with other stakeholder/scorecard measures\* Provides a six degrees of IT value model and maturity model for managing IT investment\* Includes cases and implementation guidance making the methodology easy to applyIn the current economic climate, the tendency is to focus IT investments on short-term profitability. The IT Value Network offers a forward-looking perspective, challenging you to align IT spending more effectively to the company business strategy, value system, and the business network, for sustained competitive advantage or network advantage.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames.\* Presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming, situating videogames in the framework of analytic philosophy of the arts\* Explores how philosophical theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames\* Written for a broad audience of both philosophers and videogame enthusiasts by a philosopher who is also an avid gamer\* Discusses the relationship between games and earlier artistic and entertainment media, how videogames allow for interactive fiction, the role of game narrative, and the moral status of violent events depicted in videogame worlds\* Argues that videogames do indeed qualify as a new and exciting form of representational art.…

Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Adeptly address today's business challenges with this powerful new book from web analytics thought leader Avinash Kaushik. Web Analytics 2.0 presents a new framework that will permanently change how you think about analytics. It provides specific recommendations for creating an actionable strategy, applying analytical techniques correctly, solving challenges such as measuring social media and multichannel campaigns, achieving optimal success by leveraging experimentation, and employing tactics for truly listening to your customers. The book will help your organization become more data driven while you become a super analysis ninja!Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of Elektronisches Buch file.…