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    A Practical Guide to Training and Development

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    To stay ahead of the competition, today?s organizations must invest in ongoing training that continuously improves their employees? knowledge and skills. A Practical Guide to Training and Development is a comprehensive resource that offers a theoretical, strategic, and practical foundation of the entire training process. The book outlines a step-by-step approach for assessing, designing, delivering and evaluating training.

    Thiagi's 100 Favorite Games

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    Thiagi's 100 Favorite Gamesis an exciting new resource from Sivasailam «Thiagi» Thiagarajan, who is acknowledged as the world’s foremost authority on interactive learning. This is a first-of-its-kind collection that represents game play at its very best. Thiagi offers the «how-to» and the «lowdown» on his all-time favorite games. With this resource, you’ll never be stuck for a fun, innovative, and effective activity. Thiagi’s 100 Favorite Games can be used to: Illustrate concepts Aid learning transfer Improve team work Build critical skills in any training event Energize meetings Or us as icebreakers, or openers and closers to a formal training session

    Achieving Business Value from Technology

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    PRAISE FOR ACHIEVING BUSINESS VALUE FROM TECHNOLOGY «Clearly, IT investments have never before played such a critical part in business growth. The book addresses the weakness existing in most management systems involving the lack of a systematic process to realize the economic benefits of the IT investment and provides a clear A-Z methodology for business to bridge this gap. This book is clearly written for all levels and backgrounds in business management and is a must-do for those whose business involves IT, is considering IT, or would like to significantly tailor IT investments for their economic advantage.» —Professor Richard P. Wool, University of Delaware, President and CEO, Cara Plastics Inc. «Tony Murphy addresses the difficult question of the value of IT investments head on. He translates an elegant theory into effective practice. The case studies in the book effectively reinforce his key messages.» —Dr. Dermot Moynihan, Senior Vice President, World Wide Chemical Development, GlaxoSmithKline «This book is the answer to most CIOs' need for a well-structured, pragmatic, and easily implemented set of tools and practices designed to answer the universal problem of managing and measuring IT's contribution to the business. Tony Murphy's unique blend of practical experience, industry best practice, and excellent communication skills provides the reader with a valuable-and highly readable-guide on how best to achieve that elusive objective of reliably realizing the business benefits of IT investments.» —Michael Rice, oup Director of IT, Kerry Group plc «At Oxfam we are one year into a three-year IT strategy based on the principles Tony Murphy lays out in this book, and there is a real, positive difference in how IT is perceived, and in its real strategic position within the organization. If you have ever wondered just how you can gain strategic alignment for your IT function, and then how to make the practical link to IT investment for the organization, Tony has provided a framework that joins them both.» —Simon Jennings, Head of Information Systems, Oxfam GB

    The Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management

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    This timely handbook represents the latest thinking in the field of technology and innovation management, with an up-to-date overview of the key developments in the field. Under the separate but related headings of market environment; business models; innovation processes; and organizational design; leading scholars contribute essays that chart the important debates and emergent issues in the field of technology and innovation management.

    Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook

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    Providing a comprehensive framework for a sustainable governance model, and how to leverage it in competing global markets, Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook presents a readable overview to the political, regulatory, technical, process, and people considerations in complying with an ever more demanding regulatory environment and achievement of good corporate governance. Offering an international overview, this book features contributions from sixty-four industry experts from fifteen countries.

    Handbook of Information Security, Information Warfare, Social, Legal, and International Issues and Security Foundations

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    The Handbook of Information Security is a definitive 3-volume handbook that offers coverage of both established and cutting-edge theories and developments on information and computer security. The text contains 180 articles from over 200 leading experts, providing the benchmark resource for information security, network security, information privacy, and information warfare.

    Handbook of Information Security, Key Concepts, Infrastructure, Standards, and Protocols

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    The Handbook of Information Security is a definitive 3-volume handbook that offers coverage of both established and cutting-edge theories and developments on information and computer security. The text contains 180 articles from over 200 leading experts, providing the benchmark resource for information security, network security, information privacy, and information warfare.

    Business the Richard Branson Way

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    In many ways, Richard Branson and his company the Virgin Group are unique. In an era dominated by strategists, Branson is an opportunist with an uncanny knack of sniffing out great deals where others hesitate or fear to tread. Never before has a single brand been so successfully deployed across such a diverse range of goods and services. Branson is the ultimate brand builder. So how does he do it? Now bought completely up to date for this new edition, Business the Richard Branson Way, not only reveals the secrets of Branson's remarkable success but also draws out the universal lessons and identifies strategies that can be applied to any business or career. From picking on someone bigger than you to moving faster than a speeding bullet, and from making work fun to keeping the common touch, you have in your hands the secrets of phenomenal success. Contents Richard Branson Revisited The Life and Times of Richard Branson One Pick on Someone Bigger Than You Two Do the Hippy, Hippy Shake Three Haggle – Everything's Negotiable Four Make Work Fun Five Do Right By Your Brand Six Smile for the Cameras Seven Don't Lead Sheep, Herd Cats Eight Faster than a Speeding Bullet Nine Size Does Matter Ten Never Lose the Common Touch How to Build a Brand the Branson Way Last Word

    The Yale Management Guide for Physicians

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    A real-world education for the twenty-first-century physician Being a good doctor is no longer enough. The twenty-first-century physician who wants to deliver quality medical care to patients and operate a successful practice must develop expertise in a variety of business and management skills. The Yale Management Guide for Physicians identifies these critical skills and provides both the theoretical understanding and the practical training physicians need to become competent, confident managers as well as accomplished healers. From healthcare policy and health economics to healthcare marketing and negotiating, this comprehensive guide addresses all of the major issues affecting the delivery of healthcare services in the twenty-first century. This remarkably effective manual helps doctors acquire the skills they need to expand their practices; develop, articulate, and advocate ideas; discuss and manage financial issues; manage the decision-making process; and assume a leadership role in the healthcare industry. Meticulously cross-referenced and organized, The Yale Management Guide for Physicians is destined to become the most important nonmedical volume in any physician's library, providing easy access to management principles and practical solutions to management problems faced by physicians every day.

    Apples, Insights and Mad Inventors

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    Apples, Insights and Mad Inventors is a collection of timeless, thought-provoking observations on a range of marketing issues from one of the industry’s best-known names – Jeremy Bullmore. Most of the pieces originally appeared in the annual reports of WPP, while others were the basis for conference keynote addresses. With topics ranging from client management and brand management to strategy and product development, and sources of inspiration as diverse as Posh Spice and Benjamin Franklin, this entertaining and enlightening book is essential reading for any communications professional.