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Winner of the 2011 Axiom Business Book Award bronze medal for Operations Management/Productivity/TQM books.In today's challenging economic climate, organizations faced with limited budgets and frozen staffing levels need proven, common-sense approaches to maximize their productivity. Agile approaches are business practices with a proven track record for helping organizations achieve greater efficiency, higher-quality outputs and increased customer satisfaction. They enable organizations to avoid the trappings of extensive up-front planning and up-front budget commitments by encouraging staff to regularly produce high-value business outputs; and by basing ongoing financial and resource commitments on the delivered outcomes. This focus on responsive pl...

The popularity of object-oriented concepts, design, and programming has stimulated the need for a database system that enables a straightforward process to store and retrieve object instances. Object-Oriented Oracle explores object-oriented features and techniques in Oracle DBMS....

Business Processes: Operational Solutions for SAP Implementation deals with enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation, and also business operations/processes and information systems to support business operations/processes. There are a large number of books treating ERP implementation, operations management and information systems separately, but books dedicated to all three topics applied to practical issues of ERP implementation are scarce. However, teaching ERP merely as software does not work. Uniting these three topics in one book allows the reader to avoid the problems of teaching separate fields and then connecting them in one complex solution, providing the opportunity to better educate students....

This updated edition of Excel 2007 Miracles Made Easy features the amazing new upgrades offered in Excel 2010 and prepares users to transition to it. Covering only the revised components in Excel 2010, this manual shows how to navigate the ribbon interface and leverage the new business-intelligence tools within. With information on everything from using pivot tables tocalculating Texas Hold Em probabilities, this indispensable reference features instructions for utilizing all of thenew capabilities of Excel 2010....

Tailored specifically for the the small business owner or manager, this is a guide to help thosethose who manage what they do not understand!Written with humor and sound practicality, this guide is intended for the business owners and managers who need to understand the implications of technology in their business and to know how to utilize the information it provides to their maximum advantage and profit. It lessens the risk of your having the wool pulled overone's eyes and reduces the fear of technology. Just asbusiness ownersneed to understand balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, and other financial metrics,they need to understand the language of IT. This book, organized so that each chapter can be easily completed in a day,and full of tips o...