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The Lean Six Sigma Guide to Doing More With Less: Cut Costs, Reduce Waste, and Lower Your Overhead
by Mark George
January 21, 2010
This book informs readers about an approach to Lean Six Sigma that helps organizations quickly generate measurable, sustained results by helping them operate more cost-effectively and with greater flexibility, while incorporating the organization’s existing business strategy and organizational structure. The book, which addresses readers who have varying levels of familiarity with Six Sigma, emphasizes that speed and flexibility are the key components to enabling a company to achieve better results from a Lean Six Sigma program. This holistic approach addresses the interrelationships between customers, offerings and processes, and helps the reader understand how an integrated focus on all three fronts drives shareholder value creation in high-performing organizations.
Healthcare Informatics: Increasing Efficiency and Productivity
by Stephan P. Kudyba
January 21, 2010
Incorporating information technologies and information management, this work describes evolving areas of efficiency in the health care industry due to health care informatics enhancements. Beginning with an overview of how information management can enhance organizational efficiency the book delves into how informatics can impact productivity for health care providers and reduce costs. It stresses the incorporation of available information technologies along with appropriate management tactics to ensure the most effective informatics outcomes that can drive efficiencies.
Information Quality Applied: Best Practices for Improving Business Information, Processes and Systems
by Larry English
January 21, 2010
Author and information quality management expert Larry English returns with a sequel to his much-acclaimed book, Improving Data Warehouse and Business Information Quality. In this new book he takes a hands-on approach, showing how to apply the concepts outlined in the first book to specific business areas like marketing, sales, finance, and human resources.
Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change
by Howard Dresner
January 11, 2010
Too many organizations invest in performance management and business intelligence projects, without first establishing the needed conditions to ensure success. But the organizations that lay the groundwork for effective change first reap the benefits. In Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Road Map for Change, Howard Dresner (author of The Performance Management Revolution) worked with several extraordinary organizations to understand their thriving "performance-directed culture." In doing so, he developed a unique maturity model-which served as both a filter to select candidates and as a lens to examine accomplishments.
Beginning Oracle SQL
by Lex de Haan, Tim Gorman, Karen Morton, Daniel Fink, Inger Jorgensen
January 11, 2010
Beginning Oracle SQL is your introduction to the interactive query tools and specific dialect of SQL used with Oracle Database. The book is a revision of the classic Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus by Lex de Haan, and has been updated to cover the very latest developments in Oracle’s version of the SQL query language. Written in an easygoing and example-based style, Beginning Oracle SQL is the book that will get you started down the path to successfully writing SQL statements and getting results from Oracle Database.
90 Days to Success in Consulting
by William McKnight
January 1, 2010
Interested in entering the consulting business? Already have a consulting practice but want to take its profits to the next level? 90 Days to Success in Consulting provides an action plan for success in the ultra-competitive consulting industry. The book is designed to logically take you through the major consulting topics and provide action items to be done in the next 90 days for immediate business functions, as well as for planning the future phases of your consulting journey. The book covers the various opportunities available, including the traps and pitfalls to avoid, ensuring a successful career as a consultant.
Innovation Myths and Mythstakes
by Timothy Coffey, David Siegel, Mark Smith
December 7, 2009
Consumers and customers are embracing change and adopting new product offerings and services earlier and faster than ever. The need for your company to innovate is constant -- and if you don't your competitors will. Now you can learn the secrets to reducing the risks while still creating game-changing ideas. Uncover the facts that will help you understand the roadblocks, and how to avoid them while keeping your innovation efforts, and your business or career on track.
R in a Nutshell
by Joseph Adler
December 7, 2009
R is one of the best tools available for data visualization and statistical computing, and R in a Nutshell is simply the best way to learn this open source language and environment. Practical and easy to read, this book demonstrates why R is an increasingly popular for analyzing moderate-to-large data sets, and contains a reference for the most commonly used features.
Data Modeling for the Business: A Handbook for Aligning the Business with IT using High-Level Data Models
by Steve Hoberman, Donna Burbank and Chris Bradley
December 1, 2009
Did you ever try getting Businesspeople and IT to agree on the project scope for a new application? Or try getting Marketing and Sales to agree on the target audience? Or try bringing new team members up to speed on the hundreds of tables in your data warehouse - without them dozing off? Whether you are a businessperson or an IT professional, you can be the hero in each of these and hundreds of other scenarios by building a High-Level Data Model. The High-Level Data Model is a simplified view of our complex environment. It can be a powerful communication tool of the key concepts within our application development projects, business intelligence and master data management programs, and all enterprise and industry initiatives.
Guide to Supply Chain Management: How Getting it Right Boosts Corporate Performance
by David Jacoby
September 7, 2009
Getting the supply chain right can make the difference between a market leader and an also-ran. Globalization, technology, and an increasingly competitive business environment have wrought huge changes in supply chain management-the art of sourcing components and delivering finished goods to the customer as cost effectively and efficiently as possible. Manufacturers must make certain that components are where they are needed on the production line and no longer. Retailers need to hone their logistical skills to ensure that the supply and stock management of their stores is optimal.
Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics
by Gary Cokins
April 1, 2009
Beginning with a tongue-in-cheek description of how not to pursue a performance management culture, this big-picture book clarifies what performance management really is, what it does, how it enables better decisions and how to make it work. Revealing the relevant aspects of performance management, it discusses why integration of multiple management methodologies and behavioral change management are crucial to overcome managers and employees' natural resistance to change.
Enterprise Master Data Management: An SOA Approach to Managing Core Information
by Allen Dreibelbis; Eberhard Hechler; Ivan Milman; Martin Oberhofer; Paul van Run, Dan Wolfson.
June 27, 2008
The book is authored by IBM data management innovators who are pioneering MDM, and within its pages they systematically introduce its key concepts and technical themes, explain its business case, and illuminate how it interrelates with and enables SOA.
Oracle PL/SQL: Expert Techniques For Developers and Database Administrators
by Lakshman Bulusu
June 20, 2008
This book takes you beyond the existing solutions found in other professional and reference texts or in online documentation. Starting from PL/SQL internals that include PL/SQL program structure, internal representation, compilation, and execution, users are taught PL/SQL concepts and techniques that go way beyond SQL, such as data structure management, error management, data management, application management, and transaction management.
Information Modeling and Relational Databases
by Terry Halpin, Tony Morgan
April 30, 2008
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, second edition, provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling)and much more. In fact, it is the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform knowledge from domain experts into a sound database design.
Business Metadata
by William Inmon, Bonnie O'Neil, Lowell Fryman
April 30, 2008
This book is about all the groundwork necessary for IT to really support the business properly. By providing not just data, but the context behind the data. For the IT professional, it will be tactically practical--very 'how to' and a detailed approach to implementing best practices supporting knowledge management. And for the the IT or other manager who needs a guide for creating and justifying projects, it will help provide a strategic map.
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