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Enterprise Interoperability

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International IFIP Working Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (IWEI 2011) , held in Stockholm, Sweden, March 23-24, 2011.The special theme chosen for IWEI 2011 was “Interoperability and Future Internet for Next-Generation Enterprises”. Thus special attention was given to how the interoperability needs of enterprises will be shaped and supported by the emerging Future Internet.The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully selected from 47 submissions, based on a thorough reviewing process in which each paper was scrutinized by at least three experts in the field. The papers cover a wide spectrum of enterprise interoperability issues, ranging from foundational theories, frameworks, architectures, methods and guidelines to applications and case studies. This volume also includes the abstracts of the two invited talks on challenges for future networked enterprise systems.

Ted Talks

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A must-read insider’s guide to creating unforgettable speeches and changing people's minds.Done right, a talk can electrify a room and transform an audience’s worldview; it can be more powerful than anything in written form. This “invaluable guide” (Publishers Weekly) explains how the miracle of powerful public speaking is achieved, and equips you to give it your best shot. There is no set formula, but there are tools that can empower any speaker. Since taking over TED in 2001, Chris Anderson has worked with all the TED speakers who have inspired us the most, and here he shares insights from such favorites as Sir Ken Robinson, Salman Khan, Monica Lewinsky, and more— everything from how to craft your talk’s content to how you can be most effective on stage.

Enterprise Information Systems

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This books contains the best papers of the 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2007, held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, in June 2007.The 6 invited papers are presented together with 23 papers which were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 full papers accepted for presentation at the conference itself (out of 644 submissions). The topics covered are: databases and information systems integration; artificial intelligence and decision support systems; information systems analysis and specification; software agents and internet computing; and human-computer interaction.

Cloud Computing and Services Science

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The Cloud Computing and Services Science book comprises a collection of the best papers presented at the International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), which was held in The Netherlands in May 2011. In netting papers from the conference researchers and experts from all over the world explore a wide-ranging variety of the emerging Cloud Computing platforms, models, applications and enabling technologies. Further, in several papers the authors exemplify essential links to Services Science as service development abstraction, service innovation, and service engineering, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven structures in the Cloud. The Cloud Computing and Services Science book is organized around important dimensions of technology trends in the domain of cloud computing in relation to a broad scientific understanding of modern services emerging from services science. The papers of this book are inspired by scholarly and practical work on the latest advances related to cloud infrastructure, operations, security, services, and management through the global network. This book includes several features that will be helpful, interesting, and inspirational to students, researchers as well as practitioners. Professionals and decision makers working in this field will also benefit from this book

Conversational Intelligence

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3 Manuscripts in 1 Book, Including: How to Start a Conversation, How to Talk to People and How to Influence People!Book 1)How to Start a Conversation: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master First Impressions, Talking to Strangers and Small Talk TodayBook 2)How to Talk to People: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Conversation Skills, Effective Communication and Conversation Tactics TodayBook 3)How to Influence People: The Right Way - The Only 7 Steps You Need to Master Persuasion, Manipulation and Impacting People TodayYou have made an excellent decision by choosing to learn more about conversational intelligence. So, don't delay it any longer.Order "Conversational Intelligence" Now!

TED Talks

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Desde que assumiu o comando do TED em 2001, Chris Anderson tem mostrado o poder que as palestras curtas, francas e cuidadosamente elaboradas do programa têm de compartilhar conhecimento, despertar empatia, gerar empolgação e promover sonhos. Feita da maneira certa, uma apresentação é capaz de eletrizar um auditório e transformar a visão de mundo da plateia — seu impacto pode ser mais poderoso que o de qualquer informação escrita.Esse livro explica como alcançar o feito de produzir uma fala marcante. Não há uma fórmula, já que nenhum discurso deve ser igual a outro. Contudo, existem ferramentas que podem garantir o desempenho de qualquer orador.Nos bastidores do TED, Chris Anderson acompanhou de perto palestras individuais que, in loco e on-line, chegam a alcançar milhões de pessoas. Discursos únicos, sobre os mais variados temas, de personagens que vão de Bill Gates a Bono Vox, Stephen Hawking a Michelle Obama, Elon Musk a Jamie Oliver, entre muitos outros. Nesse livro ele compartilha seus insights mais relevantes, que cobrem desde a formulação do conteúdo da conferência até como tirar melhor proveito do palco. TED Talks é o manual definitivo do século XXI para uma comunicação de fato efetiva, além de leitura obrigatória para todos que querem mudar o mundo com suas ideias.Fenômeno da internet, o TED Talks é conhecido no mundo inteiro por promover palestras de temas variados ministradas por grandes nomes da atualidade, o que atrairá todos os interessados em conhecer melhor seus bastidores.Como seu principal objetivo é ajudar os leitores a melhorar sua comunicação com o público, a obra chamará a atenção daqueles que pretendem promover novas ideias e empreendimentos, dão aulas ou simplesmente precisam fazer uma apresentação na faculdade ou numa reunião profissional.Best seller VEJA

Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 8.9 Working Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, CONFENIS 2017, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2017. The 17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: EIS concepts, theory and methods; IoT and emerging paradigm; EIS for industry 4.0; big data analytics; and intelligent electronics and systems for industrial IoT.

Design Thinking Research

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Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works. Researchers have identified metrics, developed models, and conducted studies, which are featured in this book, and in the previous volumes of this series.Offering readers a closer look at design thinking, and its innovation processes and methods, this volume covers topics ranging from understanding success factors of design thinking to exploring the potential that lies in the use of digital technologies. Furthermore, readers learn how special-purpose design thinking can be used to solve thorny problems in complex fields, such as the health sector or software development. Thinking and devising innovations are inherently human activities – so is design thinking. Accordingly, design thinking is not merely the result of special courses or of being gifted or trained: it is a way of dealing with our environment and improving techniques, technologies and life. As such, the research outcomes compiled in this book should increase knowledge and provide inspiration to all seeking to drive innovation – be they experienced design thinkers or newcomers.

Getting Work Done (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

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Overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work you need to accomplish? Being pulled in different directions by competing priorities? Getting Work Done runs you through the basics of being more productive at work. You’ll learn to:Align your schedule with your prioritiesFocus your attention and avoid distractionsCreate effective daily routinesSet boundaries and learn to say noDon't have much time? Get up to speed fast on the most essential business skills with HBR's 20-Minute Manager series. Whether you need a crash course or a brief refresher, each book in the series is a concise, practical primer that will help you brush up on a key management topic. Advice you can quickly read and apply, for ambitious professionals and aspiring executives--from the most trusted source in business. Also available as an ebook.

Fierce Conversations (Revised and Updated)

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Fully revised and updated—the national bestselling communication skills guide that will help you achieve personal and professional success one conversation at a time.The master teacher of positive change through powerful communication, Susan Scott wants you to succeed. To do that, she explains, you must transform everyday conversations at work and at home with effective ways to get your message across—and get what you want. In this guide, which includes a workbook and The Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches you how to:• Overcome barriers to meaningful communication• Expand and enrich relationships with colleagues, friends, and family• Increase clarity and improve understanding• Handle strong emotions—on both sides of the table• Connect with colleagues, customers and family at a deep levelIncludes a Foreword by Ken Blanchard, the bestselling co-author of The One Minute Manager

TVOntario

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TVOntario is a non-profit television station owned by the Ontario government that provides educational programming commercial-free. TVOntario is recognized as a world leader in quality educational programming for all ages as well as providing programming on important issues within the province. However, the television broadcasting industry is very competitive, and larger networks have greater cash flows to produce programs that encourage advertising and increase revenues. TVOntario's Sales and Licensing Department revenues continue to decline, and the managing director of revenue and development is faced with determining the future of the department. The station's board of directors has put pressure on him to make a decision and he needs to come up with a plan before they decide to shut the department down.

Чому нації занепадають

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Дарону Аджемоґлу і Джеймсу Робінсону вдалося, здавалося б, неможливе — відповісти на питання, яке до них безрезультатно вивчали століттями: чому одні країни багаті, а інші — бідні?  Ґрунтуючись на п’ятнадцятирічних дослідженнях у галузях історії, політології та економіки, автори легко і доступно пояснюють, чому економічний успіх держав не залежить від культури, клімату чи географічного положення.  Аджемоґлу та Робінсон переконані: країни стали найуспішнішими через те, що їхні громадяни повалили владну еліту і створили суспільства, де головною цінністю стали рівні економічні та політичні права кожного. На їхню думку, саме свобода робить світ багатшим.  Книга «Чому нації занепадають» — своєрідний посібник, який допоможе краще зрозуміти причини, що сприяють процвітанню держав та їхньому занепаду.

Achieve CAPM® Exam Success, 2nd Edition

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“Achieve CAPM® Exam Success covers the concepts in easy-to-understand language, the case studies are excellent, and the sample test questions provide readers with an accurate understanding of their grasp of the material. Anyone hoping to go to the exam fully prepared should get this book.” —Catherine Pinkas, MBA, PMP Used in conjunction with PMI’s PMBOK® Guide — Fifth Edition (2013), this concise study guide presents all the fundamental knowledge, concepts, exercises, practice questions, and simulated exams needed to prepare for and successfully pass the CAPM® exam on your first try. However, this book is much more than a study guide. It is a valuable desk reference that project team members can use to improve their effectiveness and contribution to the success of a project and is also a good resource for those considering a career in project management. Key Features --Provides online access to over 1000 questions enabling you to perform practice tests by each of the 10 knowledge areas and/or simulate actual 150 question exams, with incorrect answer feedback (purchasers of the e-book would need to buy this access separately at www.jrosspub.com) --Contains a pre-assessment test to help you develop a focused study plan and manage your time effectively and a post-assessment test to evaluate your readiness for the actual exam --Uses a sample project case study throughout to demonstrate how to apply tools and techniques covered in the PMBOK® Guide and exercises to further develop your knowledge and competency --Presents key definitions and tips to improve your understanding, and sample end-of-chapter CAPM® exam questions and answers --WAV offers a flashcard study aid of key terms and concepts, a self-study exercise on understanding the interdependencies of all 47 processes defined in the PMBOK® Guide, a case study answer key, and a training aide for better understanding process interdependencies — available from the Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center at www.jrosspub.com

Essentialism

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! Essentialism isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done.“A timely, essential read for anyone who feels overcommitted, overloaded, or overworked.”—Adam GrantHave you ever:• found yourself stretched too thin?• simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized?• felt busy but not productive?• felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist. Essentialism is more than a time-management strategy or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution toward the things that really matter. By forcing us to apply more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy—instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us. Essentialism is not one more thing—it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It’s about doing less, but better, in every area of our lives. Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.

El poder del otro

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El experto en psicología del liderazgo y autor best seller de Integridad, Necessary Endings, y Límites para líderes identifica el ingrediente crítico para el bienestar personal y profesional.La mayor parte de liderazgo se enfoca en ayudar a líderes a desarrollar sus capacidades y conocimientos y cerrar las brechas en el desempeño. Esto es necesario, pero no suficiente. Utilizando evidencia de neurociencia y su trabajo con líderes, el doctor Henry Cloud demuestra que los mejores líderes se basan en otro recurso vital: relaciones personales y profesionales que potencian el crecimiento y les ayuda a superar los límites actuales. La sabiduría popular sugiere que no debemos permitir que otras personas tengan poder sobre nosotros, pero la realidad es que lo hacen, para bien o para mal. Piensa en el jefe que te menosprecia mediante comentarios cortantes versus uno que te reta a superarte. O el colega que siempre busca el protagonismo versus el que te da la confianza para terminar un proyecto difícil. O el cónyuge que es honesto y te apoya versus el que se resiente con tu éxito. No importa cuán talentosos, inteligentes, o experimentados son los grandes líderes, todos comparten algo en común: el poder de otros en sus vidas.Combinando estudios de caso cautivadores, resultados convincentes de investigación cerebral vanguardista, y ejemplos de su práctica de consultoría, el doctor Cloud argumenta que no importa si eres miembro de la milicia o un ejecutivo corporativo, el rendimiento sobresaliente depende de tener el tipo correcto de conexiones para potenciar el crecimiento personal y minimizar las asociaciones tóxicas y sus efectos. Al presentar un modelo dinámico del impacto que estos distintos tipos de conexiones producen, el doctor Cloud muestra a los lectores cómo obtener más de sí mismos basándose en la fuerza y la pericia de otras personas.No puedes elejir si otros tienen o no poder en tu vida, pero puedes elegir qué tipo de relaciones deseas.

Enterprise Information Systems

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This book contains substantially extended and revised versions of the best papers from the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2010), held in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 8-12, 2010.Two invited papers are presented together with 39 contributions, which were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 full papers presented at the conference (out of 448 submissions). They reflect state-of-the-art research work that is often driven by real-world applications, thus successfully relating the academic with the industrial community. The topics covered are: databases and information systems integration, artificial intelligence and decision support systems, information systems analysis and specification, software agents and internet computing, and human-computer interaction.

Amazon Kindle & Google Play ebooks Pricing System: Maximize Your ebooks Sales

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Pricing an ebook is sensitive to both readers and writers. The wrong pricing system can hit the platform, writers, and readers. How much better the book is, if a writer doesn't provide a reasonable price, the readers will go other ebooks.'Amazon Kindle & Google Play ebooks Pricing System' can teach writers to choose and set the right strategic prices for their ebooks. This book serves the knowledge of Pricing System of Amazon KDP and Google Play Books to fit it in any case of ebooks publishing. The ebook will teach you the following:1. The Miracle of Amazon KDP and Google Play Books2. Amazon KDP ebooks Pricing System3. Google Play Books: Pricing Rules & Strategies4. Price Matching5. The Real Link Between Amazon KDP & Google Play Books6. Maximizing ebooks sales

Crowdfunding Your Fiction: A Best Practices Guide

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"Loren Coleman has the experience to understand what it means to kickstart a project." ~Thomas Gofton, Lynnvander Studios, 25 Campaigns (>$10M in total funding)There is nothing in this Best Practices guide you can't learn for yourself with enough research time and a little trial and error. I want to be clear on that right up front. There is no secret template. No cheat code to game the algorithms. Crowdfunding rewards ingenuity and hard work. Writers should be familiar with both. The purpose of this guide is to help you trim time you'd have wasted getting started, focus your early research, and offer some specific knowledge I (and others) have field-tested and continue to use when building and running our own campaigns. To remove those early fears, and help prevent you for making the worst of the early mistakes."A book that every fiction writer should get. Especially if they want to make money with their writing." ~Dean Wesley Smith. WMG Publishing, 18 Campaigns"As a first-time fiction Kickstarter, I found the Best Practices guide invaluable not only in helping to set up my campaign at a nuts-and-bolts level, but also in establishing the right mindset to run a successful campaign." ~Jon Auerbach, Guild of Tokens, First Campaign

Understanding, Managing and Implementing Quality

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This book considers strategic aspects of quality management and self-assessment frameworks, and provides an in-depth examination of a number of the main quality improvement tools and techniques. Incorporating a critical orientation and drawing upon original case-studies, it also reviews the implementation of a variety of quality management programmes in a range of organisational contexts, including manufacturing, higher education, health care, policing and retailing.

The Wealth Choice

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Bestselling personal finance author Dennis Kimbro interviews prominent black millionaires to learn how they got where they are and offers key insights for those struggling to reach the next level.It's no secret that these hard times have been even harder for the Black community. Approximately 35 percent of African Americans had no measurable assets in 2009, and 24 percent of these same households had only a motor vehicle. Dennis Kimbro, observing how the weight of the continuing housing and credit crises disproportionately impacts the African-American community, takes a sharp look at a carefully cultivated group of individuals who've scaled the heights of success and how others can emulate them. Based on a seven year study of 1,000 of the wealthiest African Americans, The Wealth Choice offers a trove of sound and surprising advice about climbing the economic ladder, even when the odds seem stacked against you. Readers will learn about how business leaders, entrepreneurs, and celebrities like Bob Johnson, Spike Lee, L. A. Reid, Herman Cain, T. D. Jakes and Tyrese Gibson found their paths to wealth; what they did or didn't learn about money early on; what they had to sacrifice to get to the top; and the role of discipline in managing their success. Through these stories, which include men and women at every stage of life and in every industry, Dennis Kimbro shows readers how to:· Develop a wealth-generating mindset and habits· Commit to lifelong learning· Craft goals that match your passion· Make short-term sacrifices for long-term gain· Take calculated risks when opportunity presents itself

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