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Presents an overview of how businesses monitor their financial health and the profitablity of their projects. Module one of this program presents balance sheet analysis as it is used by the world-class soccer team Ajax Amsterdam; module two introduces the concept of cash flow analysis with PricewaterhouseCoopers and their client Swisscom; and module three explains financial analysis of investments through the strategic partnership of the Tunisian...
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"The United States has publicly funded its human spaceflight program on a continuous basis for more than a half-century, through three wars and a half-dozen recessions, from the early Mercury and Gemini suborbital and Earth orbital missions, to the lunar landings, and thence to the first reusable winged crewed spaceplane that the United States operated for three decades. Today the United States is the major partner in a massive orbital facility -...
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"Space exploration has always been one of the country's most expensive undertakings. The first moon landing cost $21 billion in 1969 dollars. The International Space Station currently under construction will cost at least $65 billion by the time it is finished. A single flight of the reusable space shuttle costs $400 million. In Faster, Better, Cheaper: Low-Cost Innovation in the U.S. Space Program, Howard E. McCurdy examines NASA's recent efforts...
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As part of the Project Management Essential Library, this book provides project managers with new skills and innovative approaches to the fundamentals of effectively managing projects. It covers the principles of estimating projects in a discipline-independent context. Written by Dr. Parviz F. Rad, Editor of the Project Management Journal(R), this book will help you gain insights into best practices for progress monitoring and cost management, as...
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"Lays bare the ways in which the sophisticated and self-conscious 'class coercion' designed by and for business leaders passed beyond meticulous management of the workplace to 'manipulating people's off-the-job peceptions and actions. Exposes the mythology of 'consumer sovereignty' and 'free markets' and sketches a humane alternaive to domination by 'corporate overlords' and the state power to which they are closely linked." [Noam Chomsky. Back cover]....
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Chances are, your organization is experimenting with many ways to get work done without adding to its full-time payroll. But are you still managing to fulfill the high standards your customers and shareholders expect? Is your company systematically planning for the quantity and quality of people needed to achieve superior work results? Does it have a system in place to predict your future needs, keep your workforce lean, and move quickly enough to...
10) The bottomline on ROI: basics, benefits, & barriers to measuring training & performance improvement
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This book explains *who exactly is a candidate for ROI? *what exactly is training ROI? *where do ROI calculations begin and end? *when should training ROI be measured? *why should your organization even consider it?. It also includes practical advice on the widely overlooked subject of communicating ROI results to stakeholders.
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"The exploding cost of health care in the United States is a source of widespread alarm. Similarly, the upward spiral of college tuition fees is cause for serious concern. In this concise and illuminating book, the well-known economist William J. Baumol explores the causes of these seemingly intractable problems and offers a surprisingly simple explanation. Baumol identifies the "cost disease" as a major source of rapidly rising costs in service sectors...
14) Value stream mapping: how to visualize work and align leadership for organizational transformation
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"The first of its kind--a Value Stream Mapping book written for those in service and office environments who need to streamline operationsValue Stream Mapping is a practical, how-to guide that helps decision-makers improve value stream efficiency in virtually any setting, including construction, energy, financial service, government, healthcare, R & D, retail, and technology. It gives you the tools to address a wider range of important VSM issues...
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While trillions of dollars came and went in the stock market boom of the 1990s, the image of ""every man and woman a CEO"" may turn out to be the era's lasting legacy. Business news, once reserved to specialized papers or sections of the larger news of the day, came to the forefront in cable television and in cultural images of how ordinary people, through the internet and other avenues could not only master their financial life, but move money and...
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No CEO or CFO wants to hear that a marketing investment was a gamble, and greater accountability for marketing expenditure is one of the biggest issues facing the marketing community today. Malcolm McDonald and Peter Mouncey's Marketing Accountability is a major breakthrough for marketing professional. Based on seven years' research into global best practice in marketing, it introduces a marketing metrics model that will help marketing directors align...
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"Imagine a world without inflation: prices in the shops rising in some years but falling in others; pay rising by 2 or 3% in the good years, but static or falling in the bad ones; house prices as likely to fall as to rise; interest rates in the range 2-4%."--BOOK JACKET. "In the post-war period of producer power companies could push up prices and groups of workers could push up pay. Now, by contrast, both businesses and workers are tightly constrained....
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