Business Agility, Nicholas D. Evans shows you exactly how to transform the promise of M-Business into profitable reality. Drawing on lesson learned by leading M-Business implementers in many industries, Evans walks through every stage of the successful M-Business initiative : design, process models, architecture, and above all, execution.
This book include a report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. This report, the work of an independent commission of global experts sponsored by Australia and Japan, seeks to guide global policymakers through this maze. It comprehensively maps both opportunities and obstacles, and shapes its many recommendations into a clearly defined set of short, medi…
This book helps you set performance goals-those statements that are used to aim and guide performance throughout the year. These same performance goals are also used to evaluate employee performance and, perhaps more importanly, help identify barriers to performance so they can be removed. Our purpose is to make the goal setting process as easy and painless as possible. When you get the goals i…
This book is a communications tool for managers and leaders everywhere - a fast, easy-to-reference, real-world field guide to making positive behavioral changes in the workplace through the identification of a wide variety of performance challenges and then getting to their concise and straighforward documentation. This done through a process sometimes refereed to as listing, or listmania-the b…
This book makes it easy by providing hundreds of "perfect phrases" managers can use on peformance appraisal forms, to describe the performance of any employee in 74 skill areas-from "accuracy" to initiative" to "productivity" to "time management skills." Managers can chiose phrases from five performance levels that are usde on many performance appraisal forms : Outstanding, Exceeds Expectations…
The objective of statistical techniques in business and economics is to provide students majoring in management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, and other fields of business administration with an introductory survey of the many applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. while we focus on business applications, we also use many problems and examples that are student orie…
This book aims to provide an understanding of how these dynamic enterprise clusters in Africa were formed and have evolved, and how knowledge, human capital, and technology have contributed to their success. These case studies from Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda will be of interest to a broad range of development professionals.
This book compiles the latest data and viewpoint on the state of Sub-Saharan Africa’s children. Topics covered include the rational for investing in young children, policy trends in early childhood development (ECD), historical perspectives of ECD in Sub-Saharan Afrika including indigenous approaches, new threats from HIV/AIDS, and the importance of fathers in children’s lives.
The Objective of Basic Statistics for Business and Economics is to provide students majoring in management, marketing, finance, accounting, economics, and other fields of business administration with an introductory survey of the many applications of descriptive and inferential statistics. While we focus on business applications, we also use many problems and examples that are student oriented …
This book takes a systematic approach to the audit process by first introducing the three basic concepts that underlie the audit process : materiality, audit risk, and evidence. These concepts are then applied to each major business process and related account balances using a risk-based approach. For example, each business process chapter starts with an overview of the information system follo…
Business managers of the twenty-first century have access to large amounts of information. So why is statistics required in so many majors? The first reason is that numerical information is everywhere. Look in the newspapers, news magazines, or sports magazines, and you will be bombarded with numerical information. A second reason for taking a statistics course is that statistical techniques ar…