The New Age of Innovation: Driving Cocreated Value Through Global Networks
by C.K. Prahalad
from McGraw-Hill
From the greatest minds in business today comes a groundbreaking new blueprint for executing the next stage of customer-created value. C.K. Prahalad, the world's premier business thinker, and IT scholar M.S. Krishnan unveil the critical missing link in connecting strategy to execution--building organizational capabilities that allow companies to achieve and sustain continuous change and innovation.
The New Age of Innovation reveals that the key to creating value and the future growth of every business depends on accessing a global network of resources to co-create unique experiences with customers, one at a time. To achieve this, CEOs, executives, and managers at every level must transform their business processes, technical systems, and supply chain management, implementing key social and technological infrastructure requirements to create an ongoing innovation advantage.
In this landmark work, Prahalad and Krishnan explain how to accomplish this shift--one where IT and the management architecture form the corporation's fundamental foundation. This book provides strategies for
- Redesigning systems to co-create value with customers and connect all parts of a firm to this process
- Measuring individual behavior through smart analytics
- Ceaselessly improving the flexibility and efficiency in all customer-facing and back-end processes
- Treating all involved individuals--customers, employees, investors, suppliers--as unique
- Working across cultures and time-zones in a seamless global network
- Building teams that are capable of providing high-quality, low-cost solutions rapidly
To successfully compete on the battlefields of 21st-century business, companies must reinvent their processes and culture in order to sustain innovative solutions. The New Age of Innovation is a complete program for achieving this transformation to meet the needs of the end consumer of the future.
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
by Ian Ayres
from Bantam
Why would a casino try and stop you from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if a statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?
Today, number crunching affects your life in ways you might never imagine. In this lively and groundbreaking new book, economist Ian Ayres shows how today's best and brightest organizations are analyzing massive databases at lightening speed to provide greater insights into human behavior. They are the Super Crunchers. From internet sites like Google and Amazon that know your tastes better than you do, to a physician's diagnosis and your child's education, to boardrooms and government agencies, this new breed of decision makers are calling the shots. And they are delivering staggeringly accurate results. How can a football coach evaluate a player without ever seeing him play? Want to know whether the price of an airline ticket will go up or down before you buy? How can a formula outpredict wine experts in determining the best vintages? Super crunchers have the answers. In this brave new world of equation versus expertise, Ayres shows us the benefits and risks, who loses and who wins, and how super crunching can be used to help, not manipulate us.
Gone are the days of solely relying on intuition to make decisions. No businessperson, consumer, or student who wants to stay ahead of the curve should make another keystroke without reading Super Crunchers.
Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution
by Jeanne W. Ross
from Harvard Business School Press
Enterprise architecture defines a firm’s needs for standardized tasks, job roles, systems, infrastructure, and data in core business processes. Thus, it helps a company to articulate how it will compete in a digital economy and it guides managers’ daily decisions to realize their vision of success. This book clearly explains enterprise architecture’s vital role in enabling—or constraining—the execution of business strategy. The book provides clear frameworks, thoughtful case examples, and a proven-effective structured process for designing and implementing effective enterprise architectures.
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed
by Kerrie Meyler
from Sams
This book is your most complete source for in-depth information about Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007!
System Center Operations Manager 2007 Unleashed is a comprehensive guide to System Center Operations Manager (OpsMgr) 2007. Like its MOM 2005 predecessor, OpsMgr 2007 helps you implement operations management, but with a far different and more holistic approach from MOM 2005’s focus on individual servers.
This book guides you through designing, deploying, and configuring OpsMgr 2007. You will find detailed information and hands-on experience on topics such as estimating database sizes and designing redundant OpsMgr configurations. You learn how to tackle challenges such as setting up ACS, establishing client monitoring, using and creating synthetic transactions and distributed applications, and developing management packs and reports.
- Size your OpsMgr databases
- Architect for redundancy and performance
- Install or migrate to OpsMgr 2007
- Secure OpsMgr
- Back up OpsMgr components
- Understand how monitors and rules work
- Manage different aspects, including ACS, client monitoring, synthetic transactions, and distributed applications
- Extend OpsMgr
- Develop management packs and reports
CD-ROM includes:
- Database sizing spreadsheet
- Utilities, management packs, and reports
- Microsoft’s best practices for rule and monitor targeting and PowerShell Cheat Sheet
- Live Links--more than 200 hypertext links and references to materials, connectors, sites, and newsgroups related to OpsMgr
Contents
Introduction 1
Part I Operations Management Overview and Concepts
1 Operations Management Basics 11
2 What’s New 63
3 Looking Inside OpsMgr 97
Part II Planning and Installation
4 Planning Your Operations Manager Deployment 137
5 Planning Complex Configurations 203
6 Installing Operations Manager 2007 233
7 Migrating to Operations Manager 2007 277
Part III Moving Toward Application-Centered Management
8 Configuring and Using Operations Manager 2007 303
9 Installing and Configuring Agents 369
10 Complex Configurations 425
11 Securing Operations Manager 2007 471
Part IV Administering Operations Manager 2007
12 Backup and Recovery 539
13 Administering Management Packs 593
14 Monitoring with Operations Manager 647
Part V Service-Oriented Monitoring
15 Monitoring Audit Collection Services 739
16 Client Monitoring 797
17 Monitoring Network Devices 845
18 Using Synthetic Transactions 903
19 Managing a Distributed Environment 949
Part VI Beyond Operations Manager
20 Automatically Adapting Your Environment 1005
21 Reading for the Service Provider: Remote Operations Manager 1047
22 Interoperability 1095
23 Developing Management Packs and Reports 1141
Part VII Appendixes
A OpsMgr by Example: Configuring and Tuning Management Packs 1229
B Performance Counters 1261
C Registry Settings 1271
D Active Directory and Exchange 2003 Management Pack Parameters 1295
E Reference URLs 1305
F On the CD 1323
Index 1329
Organizational Behavior & SAL CDROM Pkg (12th Edition)
by Stephen P. Robbins
from Prentice Hall
With its conversational writing style, cutting-edge content, current examples, the three-level integrative model, dialogues, and technological learning tools, Organizational Behavior remains the global book, used by more readers interested in the topic than any other since 1979. The 12th edition retains all of the best features of the previous editions, yet adds much more: contemporary issues and research have been included into a seamless, whole, and comprehensive tome. Many topics are comprehensively covered, but on the whole, this book is written in a conversational, easy to read style. Topics include: management functions; the social sciences; helping employees balance work and other responsibilities; improving people skills; improving customer service; motivational concepts; communication; power and politics; conflict and negotiation; culture; and stress management. Globally accepted and written by one of the most foremost authors in the field, this is a necessary read for all managers, human resource workers, and anyone needing to understand and improve their people skills.
IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide
by Dan Volitich
from McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
The Only Authorized Guide to IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence
Develop, deploy, and maintain a complete BI solution across your enterprise. IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence: The Official Guide shows you how to take full advantage of the robust service-oriented architecture and simplified role-based user interfaces. Learn how to create, share, and analyze data-rich reports that lead to increased productivity and better business decisions. Featuring real-world insight and expert tips, this is a must-have guide for IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence users of all levels, from administrators to end users.
- Measure and monitor performance using dashboards and scorecards
- Assign user roles and privileges
- Provide complete and consistent access to a broad range of data sources via Cognos Connection
- Use Cognos 8 Go! to extend BI to Office applications, mobile devices, and search engines
- Enable business users to create reports with Query Studio
- Develop new insights by exploring data in multiple dimensions and perspectives with Analysis Studio
- Build Dimensional Reports with Report Studio
- Use Event Studio to identify and deliver mission-critical information
- Create, modify, organize, and publish a model from Cognos Framework Manager
- Implement sound security measures
- Take advantage of the management tools in Cognos Administration to ensure maximum reliability and availability
The Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing: Build a Million-Dollar Business in 12 Months
by Dan Kennedy
from Entrepreneur Press
Welcome to the information marketing industry - a little-known industry of entrepreneurs, most working only part-time hours and netting seven-figure profits.
Info-marketers gather information and sell it in convenient forms to people who need it. The topics include everything imaginable from better sex, to teaching parrots to talk, to gardening, to investing in real estate, to running businesses. In addition to an easy 9-step process for you to create your own info-business, this book profiles 29 info-marketers, reveals their businesses strategies, marketing materials and business documents so you can have the tools you need to duplicate their success.
How a Real Estate Millionaire Gets His Customers to Do the Selling for Him ….. Page 159
How One Ex-Salesman, Ex-Law Enforcement Officer, Ex-Company Owner Turned Surplus Junk Into a Million-Dollar Info-business ….. Page 28
A High School Kid Built a Business and Earned More Than His College Professors ….. Page 32
A Direct Sales Process That Turned Into an Info-Business ….. Page 35
The 40 Ways to Make Money With Information Products ….. Page 41
The Quick Way to Determine the Selling Price of Information Products …. Page 43
How Simple Changes Multiplied a Product's Sales Price 4Times …. Page 51
How a Professional Speaker Got Off the Road and Built a Million-Dollar Business She Could Run From Her Home Office …. Page 53
Blinded and Handicapped by Multiple Sclerosis, One Info-Marketer Used His Disability to Build a Successful Info-Business …. Page 59
What a Successful Veterinarian Did to Get Veterinarians From Around the World to Buy His Marketing Strategies …. Page 62
How an Info-Marketer From a Small Town in Kansas (population 565) Built an International Business …. Page 72
Someone Who Teaches Men How to Get Women to Approach Them for Dates …. Page 76
An Australian Built a Business Teaching Salons How to Book More Appointments, and He's Never Owned a Salon Before …. Page 81
How an Info-Marketer Used His Products to Create a Professional Speaking Business Earning Him $10,000.00 per Gig …. Page 89
How a Mom From New York Built a Business From Her Home That Kept Bill Collectors Away and Gave Her Family the Extra Money for a Great Lifestyle …. Page 101
What an Info-Marketer Did With No Knowledge and No Customers to Build a Million-Dollar Business Within a Year …. Page 149
What to Say to Get Customers to Believe That You Really Do Offer High Quality Products …. Page 121
Information Marketing is responsive to and fueled by the ever-increasing pressure on peoples' time. Businesspeople and consumers alike need information provided to them in convenient forms, and in some cases, need an extension of it; methods and strategies that might merely have been taught to them 10 years ago are now done for them. The Information Industry encompasses products like traditional books, audio programs, videos or DVD's that you might buy in a store, from a catalog, or online; magazines, newsletters, e-books, membership websites, teleseminars and webinars, telecoaching programs, and seminars and conferences; and combinations thereof. Much of this business is conducted by lone wolf, small, quiet operators, many with home-based businesses, most with zero to no more than a few employees, most working only part-time hours and most netting 7-figure profits.
Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
by Gregor Hohpe
from Addison-Wesley Professional
The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Complete Guide to Dimensional Modeling (Second Edition)
by Ralph Kimball
from Wiley
Single most authoritative guide from the inventor of the technique.
- Presents unique modeling techniques for e-commerce, and shows strategies for optimizing performance.
- Companion Web site provides updates on dimensional modeling techniques, links related to sites, and source code where appropriate.
"The latest edition of the single most authoritative guide on dimensional modeling for data warehousing! Dimensional modeling has become the most widely accepted approach for data warehouse design. Here is a complete library of dimensional modeling techniques--the most comprehensive collection ever written. Greatly expanded to cover both basic and advanced techniques for optimizing data warehouse design, this second edition to Ralph Kimball's classic guide is more than sixty percent updated."
Management Information Systems: Managing the Digital Firm & Multimedia Student CD Package (10th Edition)
by Jane P. Laudon
from Prentice Hall
For sophmore, junior, senior, and MBA-level MIS and Information Systems courses.
These authoritative authors continue to define the MIS course by integrating coverage of essential new technologies, their applications, and their impact on managerial decisions.
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