Strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the longrun performance of a corporation. It includes environmental scanning (both external and internal), strategy formulation (strategic or long-range planning), strategy implementation, and evaluation and control. The study of strategic management, therefore, emphasizes the monitoring and evaluating of exte…
Strategic management is a set of managerial decisions and actions that determines the longrun performance of a corporation. It includes environmental scanning (both external and internal), strategy formulation (strategic or long-range planning), strategy implementation, and evaluation and control. The study of strategic management, therefore, emphasizes the monitoring and evaluating of exte…
Efforts by the international community to promote development and reduce poverty have traditionally concentrated on rural regions, thereby overlooking the urban factor. It was not until the turn of the third millennium that this imbalance was recognized, and then addressed through conferences, reports, and forums on urbanization and the state of the planet’s cities. In the meantime, the …
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Pennsylvania were acts of war against the United States of America and its allies, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our basic freedoms and our way of life. Freedom and fear are at…
This book has been written to help business managers, and the IT teams supporting them, understand why effective enterprise-wide search is essential in any organization, and how to go about the process of meeting user requirements. This could be by improving the existing search application(s) or by specifying and implementing a new search application. Search technology is not easy to understand…
It is becoming evident that a “digital divide” is developing between those who are in a position to take advantage of information technology (IT) enabled opportunities and those who are not. This disadvantage can be caused by the lack of access to information and communication technologies (ICT) or by the lack of skills, experience, motivation, support and awareness that are necessary for m…
The Legislative Guide on Insolvency Law was prepared by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The project arose from a proposal made to the Commission in 1999 that UNCITRAL should undertake further work on insol- vency law, specifically corporate insolvency, to foster and encourage the adoption of effec- tive national corporate insolvency regimes. An exploratory m…
MOST of the chapters in this book are studies of economic develop- ment and policies in -various fields in the years 1945-50. The chapters which now constitute Part II were, however, designed as a background, describing the structure and principal characteris- tics of the British economy. There were obvious disadvantages in splitting up the …
Are you curious to know what makes your iPod tick? How about your mobile phone, laptop, stereo system, digital camera, plasma TV – or, well, just about every piece of electronics you use for work or play, in the office, at home or on the move? Perhaps you’ve even thought that you could design and build your own little electronic circuit or gadget to do something you want it to do? If you…
In the Swedish language there is no name for the word management. Instead of using the word management the Swedes use a word that would translate to nursing or caretaking. Rather than trying to control nature the Swedes would like to think of themselves as taking care of nature and what it does best. The Swedes would like to work with nature and not control or change it. This sort of outlook pu…
This is for product managers who need a risk-reducing roadmap, for technologists and designers who need guidance and advocacy, and for business- people who need to understand and manage UX-focused initiatives. O’Reilly is perhaps the best known and most respected provider of knowledge resources created by and made for technology innovators. We’ve been presenting at their Web 2.0 conferenc…
We have designed this book to be a supplement to Robert J. Barro’s Macroeconomics, which is the textbook that is used in introductory macroeconomics courses at the University of Chicago. In teaching these courses, we have found that Barro’s treatment of the subject does not make use of the mathematical skills of our students. In particular, Barro relies almost exclusively on economic in…