"The Business of Projects breaks new ground by showing how leading businesses create and implement projects to drive strategy and innovation. Projects are used to coordinate activities with customers and suppliers and ensure that organisations become more dynamic and adaptable. This book extends the resource-based view of the firm to focus on the business lessons learned from the design and pro…
Focuses on how project management is integral to the organization as a whole. This title shows the changes found in the practice.
The bursting of the 'dotcom bubble' and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have brought into question received wisdom about strategy. This volume reviews the lessons to be learnt from these events, and proposes that, as a result, strategy in the twenty-first century will have to develop along new lines. Comprising a series of outstanding contributions by experts in the field, the coll…
Supports data driven security that is measurable, quantifiable and practical. This book provides a perspective on the risk assessment process. It explores the process of security analysis for decision making. It covers metric-based security resource allocation of countermeasures, including security procedures, personnel, and electronic measures.
Tips, techniques, and trends on harnessing dashboard technology to optimize business performanceIn Performance Dashboards, Second Edition, author Wayne Eckerson explains what dashboards are, where they can be used, and why they are important to measuring and managing performance. As Director of Research for The Data Warehousing Institute, a worldwide association of business intelligence profess…
Sunil Chopra, Peter Meindl.
In this book, leading experts in international negotiations present formal models of conflict resolution and international negotiations. It examines how the abstract concept of formal models can be made more understandable to those not trained to work with them, what can be done to encourage the use of formal methods in the real world, and ways in which politicians and diplomats can apply forma…