Authors: Eric Uyttewaal.
Paperback, 755 pages
Publisher: J. Ross Publishing
Publication Date: 2004-12-31
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Microsoft Office Project 2003 is a powerful software tool, and like all tools, it requires knowledge and skill to be used to its maximum potential. This fully revised new edition of Eric Uyttewaal’s best-selling book on Microsoft Project provides users with everything they will need to more easily and effectively manage projects to a successful conclusion. Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book By and For Professionals is not only written by a certified PMP and project management practitioner with over 17 years of experience using and teaching MS Project, but is also based on the cumulative experience of the author’s clients, other instructors, and includes insights from numerous other professionals who have used MS Office Project successfully.

This unique guide, based on research from over 1,000 real-life schedules, gives a complete picture of how to use this software to achieve the best results. "A must read, reread, and use daily for all project managers" is what PMI’s Project Management Journal had to say about the previous edition. This updated version is even better.

Key Features:
Fully aligned with the PMBOK 2004 edition
Teaches how to build easy-to-maintain dynamic schedules that will meet your continual needs to forecast until project completion
Provides many helpful screen illustrations, diagrams, stories, cartoons, review questions, case studies, and hands-on exercises to help make the learning process easy for all user levels
Also available in a 2002 MS Project version that is fully aligned with the PMBOK 2000 edition - Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Project 2002
Web Added Value offers downloadable quick reference tables with toolbar and keyboard shortcuts, answers to sample exam questions, one hundred examples of certified schedules, filters to check the quality of your own schedule, solution files for the Project 2003 exercises and a solutions manual for college professors — available from the J. Ross Publishing Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center...

Authors: Henry W Abts.
Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 1999-04-11
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Praise for Henry W. Abts III's Previous Book: "Unquestionably the layman's most nearly complete source on living trusts. . . . Recommended reading for anyone who wants to maximize his net estate left to heirs, speed asset distribution after death, avoid will challenges, minimize estate costs, and maintain privacy." -- Robert Bruss, Esq. Nationally Syndicated Real Estate Columnist Chicago Tribune "Presents in clear, concise, and readable language what every person needs to know. I heartily recommend it as required reading for every caring husband, wife, parent-all those with an estate to pass along to heirs." -- Byron Countryman, Esq. Countryman and McDaniel Attorneys at Law, Los Angeles From bestselling author Henry W. Abts III comes this comprehensive guide to protecting your estate for your heirs. How to Settle Your Living Trust provides you with everything you need to know to distribute Trust assets, understand the legal and financial aspects of Trusts, properly handle asset valuation, get protection in special circumstances, avoid unnecessary taxes and legal fees, and more. Samples and explanations of all the necessary documents--durable power of attorney for health care or general asset competency clause, living will, etc.--are included, as are the "key" rules and methods for organizing all financial information. Sample (filled-in) IRS tax forms are included to show the reader how to satisfy the IRS Trust settlement requirements. A must-have guide and reference, this book brings you peace of mind if you are interested in ensuring that your estate is passed on promptly and correctly. How to Settle Your Living Trust offers pertinent advice for surviving family members, as well as attorneys and accountants. It includes:

• Up-to-date information on recent tax changes affecting estate settlement
• In-depth discussion of the Roth IRA as an estate planning tool
• Estate settlement techniques for all estates, whether small, average, or large
• Estate settlement differences in separate property states and community property states
• Sound advice for surviving spouse and family members
• Special section on advanced settlement options for highly valued estates

How to Settle Your Living Trust provides guidance in avoiding tax traps and other estate settlement pitfalls. Did you know that:

• Up to 75 percent of your traditional IRA can be consumed by taxes if you die before all the funds are depleted?
• Distributions from a traditional IRA must begin at age 701/2?
• Estate settlement differs in separate property states and community property states?
• Allocation of Trust assets to the A, B, and/or C sub-trusts is critical when the first spouse dies?
• Most attorneys and accountants do not know how to properly settle an estate in a Living Trust?
• Special techniques are available that allow full stepped-up valuation on all Trust assets, even in separate property states?

A nationally recognized authority on Living Trusts, Henry W. Abts III is chairman and founder of The Estate Plan, the nation's oldest and largest Living Trust production corporation, responsible for creating more than 25,000 Living Trusts. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Abts holds a master's degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business....

Authors: C. K. Prahalad. Venkat Ramaswamy.
Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Publication Date: 2004-02-18


Reviews :

    "The Future of Competition" argues that in a world in which information is readily available to everyone, the role of the customer has changed dramatically. Once passive recipients of the products and services companies created for them - customers are now active participants who actually co-create the value they receive, from products and services they help develop, test, and distribute. Whereas in the 1990s, competitive advantage was derived from the authors' landmark notion of "core competencies" (those activities a company does better than anyone else), in the future it will come from how proficient companies are at providing opportunities for customers to co-create unique experiences. Prahalad and Ramaswamy present four key building blocks that will enable companies to co-create the future with customers - transparency, access, dialogues, and risk management - and illustrate them through rich examples from a wide range of companies. As bold and far-reaching as "Competing for the Future" a decade ago, this book will redefine strategy for the Information Age....

Authors: Russell L. Ackoff.
Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 1999-07-29


Reviews :

    Over the last three decades the average life expectancy of a corporation in North America has dipped well below 20 years. In fact, by 1983 a full third of the 1970 Fortune 500 companies had been acquired, merged, or broken apart. In this landmark book, one of the business world's foremost pioneers, Russell L. Ackoff, delivers this indispensable guide for those hoping to beat these odds--and to better navigate the corporate challenges of the next millennium.
While most business and management schools continue to teach the functions of a corporation separately--production, marketing, finance, personnel--the reality is that for a corporation to endure each division must work with the others to create an effective system. Re-Creating the Corporation is Ackoff's masterful blueprint for understanding and creating these model corporate systems. In four comprehensive sections--Background, Process, Designs, and Change--Ackoff lays out in clear concise prose the five organizational goals of successful corporate systems: plan effectively, learn and adapt rapidly, democratize, introduce internal market economies, and employ a flexible structure that will minimize the need for future restructuring. And through a deft mix of practical and theoretical examples drawn from a wide range of applications in a wide range of firms, this book ultimately guides executives to the system best suited to meet their organizational goals.
Re-Creating the Corporation, which is the culmination of a lifetime of innovative and insightful business thought from one of the business world's premier thinkers, is essential reading for those attempting to navigate the rapidly changing economic environment of the next millennium....

Authors: Kimiz Dalkir.
Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication Date: 2005-06-16
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    As knowledge management becomes embedded within organizations it becomes more important for students to understand its principles and applications. In this textbook, Dr. Kimiz Dalkir provides a comprehensive overview of the field on knowledge management with an emphasis on translating theory into practice. Working from a multidisciplinary perspective, Dr. Dalkir weaves key concepts, tools, and techniques from sociology, cognitive science, content management, knowledge engineering, cybernetics, organizational behaviour, change management, and information science into a three-level approach to understand Knowledge Management from the individual, community, and organization levels. Using everyday language and clear illustrations, Dr. Dalkir integrates theory and practice in a highly accessible manner to provide students with a comprehensive and practical knowledge management skill set.

Case Studies from:
IBM, Xerox, Siemans, Ericsson Canada, ICL, Thomas and Betts, Chevron/Texaco, British Petroleum, CIDA, Hughes Space and Communications, SUN, British Telecommunications, J.P. Morgan Chase, Buckman Labs
, Nokia, GE, Viant, Xerox, Sigma, Hill and Knowlton
, Teamware, U.A. Army, British Petroleum, Price Waterhous Coopers, Lybrand, KPMG, Mercedes-Benz
, Monsanto, Northrup Grumman, Ford Motor Company, Accenture, Dell, Siemans Medical Systems

*Highly practical treatment that links knowledge management, content management and information management seamlessly throughout the book
*Author has over ten years' experience in knowledge management/content management/information management in the corporate world
*First textbook by a knowledge management professor...

Authors: David Nadler. Michael Tushman.
Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 1997-07-10
Edition: 2

Reviews :

    If the defining goal of modern-day business can be isolated to just one item, it would be the search for competitive advantage. And, as everyone in business knows, it's a lot harder than it used to be. On the one hand, competition is more intense than ever--technological innovation, consumer expectations, government deregulation, all combine to create more opportunities for new competitors to change the basic rules of the game. On the other hand, most of the old reliable sources of competitive advantage are drying up: the hallowed strategies employed by GM, IBM, and AT&T to maintain their seemingly unassailable positions of dominance in the 1960s and 70s are as obsolete as the calvary charge. So in this volatile, unstable environment, where can competitive advantage be found?
As David Nadler and Michael Tushman show, the last remaining source of truly sustainable competitive advantage lies in "organizational capabilities": the unique ways each organization structures its work and motivates its people to achieve clearly articulated strategic objectives. For too long, too many managers have thought about "organization" merely in terms of rearranging the boxes and lines on an organizational chart--but as Competing by Design clearly illustrates, organizational strength is found far beyond one-dimensional diagrams. Managers must, argue Nadler and Tushman, understand the concepts and learn the skills involved in designing their organization to exploit their inherent strengths. All the reengineering, restructuring, and downsizing in the world will merely destabilize a company if the change doesn't address the fundamental patterns of performance--and if the change doesn't recognize the unique core competencies of that company. In this landmark volume, the authors draw upon specific cases to illustrate the design process in practice as they provide a set of powerful, yet simple tools, for using strategic organization design to gain competitive advantage. They present a design process, explore key decisions managers face, and list the guiding principles for incorporating the design function as a continuing and integral process in organizations that are looking to the future.
In 1918, Henry Ford's Dearborn assembly plant was the model of the new assembly-line technology. Today, the assembly plant is an aging relic, but, incredibly, the organizational architecture it spawned lives on in steep hierarchies, centralized bureaucracies, and narrowly defined jobs. As companies are coming to realize they can't compete successfully in the 21st century with organizations based on 19th century ideas, Competing by Design shows clearly and persuasively why--and, most importantly how--to harness the power of organizational architecture to unleash the competitive strengths embedded in each organization....

    The search for competitive advantage, write management consultants and educators David Nadler and Michael Tushman, is "the defining goal of modern-day business." Competing by Design: The Power of Organizational Architecture, is their guide to reaching that goal through total integration of corporate structure, workplace culture, and employee motivation. Bringing all such processes together into one unified organization, they contend, is as important to a company's future as the architectural unity of the building that houses it....

Authors: Rod Napier. Clint Sidle. Patrick Sanaghan.
Ring-bound, 424 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 1997-12-01
Edition: 1

Reviews :

    Not just another book on the theory of strategic planning, here are dozens of recipes for creative group activities to facilitate strategic planning in any organization. Designed for use by consultants, facilitators, and management team leaders, step-by-step instructions guide you through exercises for gaining employee and management participation, gathering feedback from management about the current state of the organization, creating an organized mission, vison and values statement, and planning so that the vision becomes reality. Ready-to-use reproducible materials and handouts are also included....

Authors: Neville Lake.
Paperback, 242 pages
Publisher: Kogan Page
Publication Date: 2006-04-01
Edition: 2nd

Reviews :

    With new material on crafting mission, vision and value, The Strategic Planning Workbook enables the reader to do the thinking, gather the necessary information, make a decision and translate conclusions into action plans. It covers the strategic planning process step by step. In a clear, pragmatic style, Neville Lake draws on a mixture of his own diagnostic tools, analytical techniques and decision-making processes, along with many strategic planning standards and favorites. Whether you are a manager in a large organization with responsibility for revitalizing your division or an owner / manager of a small business looking to take your business to a new level, The Strategic Planning Workbook will become your indispensable guide and reference tool. Following it you will get the job done. The accompanying CD-ROM includes a 40-minute video presentation by the author that takes you through the eight decision-making techniques as they are used in a strategic planning session....

Authors: Dave Taylor.
Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Alpha
Publication Date: 2005-08-02


Reviews :

    The search engine for success.

Using the Internet to increase the visibility of a small business today is no easy task. It can take a lot of time, energy, and money—especially if you’re not a computer expert. Here, readers can get a valuable overview of how search engines, web sites, ad services, and web logs can all work together to build a business, as well as practical hands-on tips, tricks, and planning tools to help readers create and execute a plan that utilizes the Internet to its fullest.

• Google‚ is widely recognized as the world’s largest search engine—an easy-to- use free service that usually returns relevant results in a fraction of a second
• Author holds an MBA and has started and run several small businesses in addition to being a well-known technology book author
• Perfect for the entrepreneur and small business market
...

Authors: Dave Nelson. Patricia E. Moody. Jonathan R. Stegner.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: AMACOM
Publication Date: 2004-11-19
Edition: 1st

Reviews :

    Great companies save money every day, now every organization can realise "The Incredible Payback"! The authors of the acclaimed "The Purchasing Machine" deliver an eye-opening look at the power of supply management, presenting success stories from best-of-the-best procurement organizations like Honda, Delphi, John Deere, and others. This book presents an all-new supply chain best practice: Spend Management, and also demonstrates how procurement strategy is a key factor in bottom line results....