RESUMEN - Don’t Make Me Think / No me hagas pensar: Un enfoque de sentido común para la usabilidad de la web por Steve Krug

RESUMEN - Don’t Make Me Think / No me hagas pensar: Un enfoque de sentido común para la usabilidad de la web por Steve Krug

Al leer este resumen, descubrirá los principios de "usabilidad" que permiten diseñar sitios web y aplicaciones adaptados a los usos. También descubrirá : cómo navegan los usuarios en su sitio web ; cómo respetar ciertas convenciones y hacerse las preguntas adecuadas para mejorar la usabilidad de su sitio web; un método sencillo para probar eficazmente la usabilidad de su sitio web; algunos consejos para convencer a los directivos y accionistas de su empresa de que la usabilidad es una prioridad. Puede que piense que la usabilidad depende principalmente de las nuevas tecnologías disponibles. En realidad, depende sobre todo de la usabilidad. Por eso sus principios cambian poco con el tiempo: mientras que las tecnologías evolucionan muy rápidamente, el comportamiento humano lo hace muy lentamente. "No me hagas pensar" es un libro que no propone reglas intangibles ni predicciones sobre los avances tecnológicos que hay que anticipar. Simplemente le ayudará a plantearse las preguntas adecuadas para diseñar sitios web y aplicaciones adaptadas a los usos. ¿A qué espera para convertirse en un experto en usabilidad?

Brilux: The FOT-320 Decision

Brilux: The FOT-320 Decision

BriLux develops early-stage high-speed data networking equipment. In recent month, BriLux customers have hinted that combining ARTRAN, the company's flagship optical data service platform, with a new fiber optic transportation product (tentatively referred to as FOT-320) would increase the market appeal of the company's portfolio. The research and development director must decide whether to support the development of this new product. Excel files are available upon request, products 7B04E018A, 7B04E018B and 7B04E018C.

Edge Computing Applications in Supply Chain Management

Edge Computing Applications in Supply Chain Management

In an era where efficiency and real-time data are paramount, “Edge Computing Applications in Supply Chain Management” delves into the transformative power of edge computing across the supply chain. This comprehensive guide explores how edge computing enhances procurement, production, warehousing, logistics, and last-mile delivery by bringing computational power closer to data sources. Through detailed analysis and real-world case studies, this book illustrates how edge computing reduces latency, improves data processing speeds, and enhances decision-making capabilities. It highlights the integration of IoT devices, real-time inventory tracking, predictive maintenance, and advanced robotics, showcasing their impact on supply chain efficiency and resilience. Whether you’re a supply chain professional, an academic, or a technology enthusiast, this book provides valuable insights into the future of supply chain management. Discover how edge computing is revolutionizing the industry, enabling faster, smarter, and more reliable operations.

Les grands défis économiques

Les grands défis économiques

En 2020, Emmanuel Macron proposait à Jean Tirole et Olivier Blanchard de constituer une commission indépendante pour plancher sur les défis du futur. Cette commission internationale de vingt-quatre éminents économistes produisit un rapport portant sur trois défis structurels pour l'économie mondiale : le changement climatique, les inégalités et l'évolution démographique. Ces défis sont existentiels mais leur horizon temporel – leurs effets immédiats sont beaucoup plus faibles que leurs effets à long terme – invite à la procrastination. Pourtant, des solutions existent, même si elles sont parfois coûteuses ou difficles à mettre en place. Cet ouvrage, destiné à un très large public, est un résumé des conclusions de cette commission. Elles nous concernent tous. Au-delà de la stricte rationalité économique, la commission s’est attachée à prendre en compte les perceptions de la population car sans acceptabilité politique, une réforme, même souhaitable, est promise à l'échec. Pour chacun de ces trois défis, la commission recommande donc non pas une réforme isolée, mais un ensemble de réformes, complémentaires et multidimensionnelles. Il est urgence de penser le long terme.

Money and Power

Money and Power

The bestselling author of the acclaimed House of Cards and The Last Tycoons turns his spotlight on to Goldman Sachs and the controversy behind its success. From the outside, Goldman Sachs is a perfect company. The Goldman PR machine loudly declares it to be smarter, more ethical, and more profitable than all of its competitors. Behind closed doors, however, the firm constantly straddles the line between conflict of interest and legitimate deal making, wields significant influence over all levels of government, and upholds a culture of power struggles and toxic paranoia. And its clever bet against the mortgage market in 2007—unknown to its clients—may have made the financial ruin of the Great Recession worse. Money and Power reveals the internal schemes that have guided the bank from its founding through its remarkable windfall during the 2008 financial crisis. Through extensive research and interviews with the inside players, including current CEO Lloyd Blankfein, William Cohan constructs a nuanced, timely portrait of Goldman Sachs, the company that was too big—and too ruthless—to fail.

Corporate Reputation

Corporate Reputation

Increasing media scrutiny, global coverage and communication via the internet means corporate reputation can be damaged quickly, and failing to successfully address challenges to corporate reputation has consequences. Companies generally suffer almost ten times the financial loss from damaged reputations than from whatever fines may be imposed. According to Ernst & Young, the investment community believes up to 50 per cent of a company's value is intangible - based mostly on corporate reputation. So recognizing potential threats, or anticipating risks, emerges as a critical organizational competence. Organizations can regain lost reputations, but recovery takes a long time. Corporate Reputation contains both academic content along with practical contributions, developed by those serving as consultants or working in organizations in the area of corporate reputation and its management or recovery. It covers: why corporate reputation matters, the increase in reputation loss, threats to corporate reputation, monitoring reputation threats online and offline, the key role of leadership in reputation recovery, and making corporate reputation immune from threats. Any book that is going to do justice to a subject that is so complex and intangible needs imagination, depth and range, and this is exactly what the contributors bring with them.

The Effective Organization

The Effective Organization

Project Overview: What the Book’s About"It may not be possible to predict when an organization will confront an operation-challenging event but it is possible to predict the organization's capacity to manage the event when it emerges." (Introduction to Chapter Nine)Performance is the reason why organizations exist. Through performance organizations meet the needs of internal and external stakeholders as defined by their mission, goals and objectives. This is true for all organizations. If a retailer won't stock goods a customer wants, the customer will shop elsewhere. If a religious organization does not meet the needs of its followers, they leave. If a cult doesn't meet the needs of its memberships they seek their goal fulfillment elsewhere. If a manufacturing center can't produce goods that meet customer standards, the customer will reject it. Complexity theory, a tool used to examine the nature of dynamic systems like organizations, can contribute to our understanding of organizations and ways to improve their performance. The models and material outlined in the book illustrate ways competency and organizational programs, processes and procedures are used to manage emerging risks, threats and vulnerabilities that challenge today's organizations. Collectively this information enables the identification of individual organization profiles as a way to advance our understanding of an important theory, complexity, in an applied setting -- organizations. Unique typologies describing organizations (four types), events that effect organizations (six types) and the fundamental structure for organizations are presented to enable the forecasting of an organization's capacity to manage different events as they emerge and how behavior organizes around these events. Academicians studying organizations and practitioners interested in improving them can use this information to facilitate baseline, descriptive thinking and analysis or more sophisticated examinations aimed at understanding the dynamic nature of organizations as fully functioning systems. At the heart of the effort is the examination of what it takes to get the performance needed to achieve a vision or mission and why, despite planning, training and evaluation, few organizations can guarantee or maintain desired levels of performance when faced with events, routine to extreme, that shape their existence. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding how knowledge, evaluation, information and, communication management practices need to be tailored to fit particular organizations rather than treated as a "one size fits all" approach. These are not limited, theoretical discussions but are presented as ways to efficiently talk about an individual organization's profile or competencies within a class of, or in contrast to, other organizations.

O Mentor-Minuto

O Mentor-Minuto

Novo livro do coautor do famoso best-seller O novo Gerente-Minuto®. Ken Blanchard e Claire Diaz-Ortiz, ex-executiva do Twitter, criaram este guia definitivo para construir relacionamentos de mentoring altamente eficientes. Ter um mentor é uma ótima forma de crescer no trabalho. Quer esteja se sentindo perdido quanto à carreira que escolheu seguir ou apenas queira atingir um nível profissional mais alto, relacionar-se com um mentor pode ser um bom caminho para ajudá-lo a alcançar seus objetivos. Neste livro, os autores demonstram como estabelecer um relacionamento de mentoring e, para mais fácil compreensão do leitor, o fazem por meio de uma parábola. O Mentor-Minuto oferece ferramentas práticas para desenvolver relacionamentos de mentoring duradouros e de sucesso. Profissionais de todas as áreas se sentirão motivados a procurar um mentor ou um mentee. 

Fuzzy Data Warehousing for Performance Measurement

Fuzzy Data Warehousing for Performance Measurement

The numeric values retrieved from a data warehouse may be difficult for business users to interpret, and may even be interpreted incorrectly. Therefore, in order to better ​understand numeric values, business users may require an interpretation in meaningful, non-numeric terms. However, if the transition between non-numeric terms is crisp, true values cannot be measured and a smooth transition between classes may no longer be possible.This book addresses this problem by presenting a fuzzy classification-based approach for a data warehouses. Moreover, it introduces a modeling approach for fuzzy data warehouses that makes it possible to integrate fuzzy linguistic variables in a meta-table structure. The essence of this structure is that fuzzy concepts can be integrated into the dimensions and facts of an existing classical data warehouse without affecting its core. This allows a simultaneous analysis, both fuzzy and crisp. A case study of a movie rental company underlines and exemplifies the proposed approach.

What Got You Here Won't Get You There in Sales

What Got You Here Won't Get You There in Sales

Kick your bad habits—and CLOSE MORE SALES!“I love this book, especially the importance of empathy—care enough about what you are selling to personalize its value to your customer!”—Jim Farley, VP Global Marketing, Ford Motor Company“In over 20 years of sales leadership, I had yet to see someone describe self-improvement through the elimination of existing behaviors rather than the creation of new ones—what a simple, concise, and personally applicable developmental tool. This is a must-read for everyone in sales!”—Chris Richardson, VP Global Sales, Abbott Vascular“Don Brown and Bill Hawkins, collaborating with Marshall Goldsmith’s incredible insight, have created strategy and ideas that will help you grow, sell more, and prosper!”—Jeffrey Gitomer, author of The Little Red Book of Selling“What Got You Here Won’t Get You There in Sales! is a practical guide for anyone in sales—they hit the nail on the head! Read this book to learn how to build your relationships with customers while shedding the habits that are holding you back!”—Tom Reilly, author of Value-Added Selling“Deep and meaningful connections with people in business can change the trajectory of your career. This is a brilliant playbook for professionals who want to step up their game and truly own their success. I have seen the power of this approach in action—and IT WORKS!”—Rich Daly, Executive Vice President, Takeda PharmaceuticalsAbout the Book:One of the most influential business coaches of our time, Marshall Goldsmith helps businesspeople pinpoint career-harming behaviors, understand why they engage in them and, most importantly—stop. His book What Got You Here Won’t Get You There wasn’t just a runaway bestseller, it has helped untold numbers dramatically improve their careers and personal lives.Now, Goldsmith teams up with leading sales thought leaders Don Brown and Bill Hawkins to help you break the habits that specifically damage sales relationships. This dream team’s combined clients have increased their sales from 5 to 30 percent—and their gross profit up to 50 percent! In short, their approach works.What Got You Here Won’t Get You There in Sales! provides simple-to-use tools for maintaining and leveraging quality personal connections by doing something much easier than learning new behaviors: simply stopping old ones. When dealing with your customers, do you:Needlessly verbalize and execute every possible step in the sales process?Repeatedly initiate communication for no apparent purpose?Attempt to verbally “one up” your customer in conversation?The authors name 16 bad habits in all, and they provide proven techniques for reversing their negative effects by putting them to rest for good. There is no profession that depends more on good relationships than sales. And there’s no one more qualified to coach you to create and nurture productive sales relationships than these three authors.You do have the power to change. Let Goldsmith, Brown, and Hawkins help you kick your bad habits to improve relationships, increase sales, and enjoy a more fulfilling, enriching career.

Digital Entrepreneurship

Digital Entrepreneurship

Technology has enabled a new age of entrepreneurship as entrepreneurs find digital tools that enable new ventures to exploit commercial opportunities around the world. This textbook provides students with expert guidance on using technology platforms to start new ventures.With an award-winning approach, the author guides readers through the process of a lean startup, taking a "digital first" approach to entrepreneurship. Students using the book will emerge with enhanced understanding of different digital business models, analytical skills for digital ventures, and the confidence to move from prototype to product.Online resources such as slides, a sample syllabus, and exercises encourage the classroom to become an interactive and dynamic space. To access these resources, please visit https://www.learndigitalentrepreneurship.com/

The Hacker Ethic

The Hacker Ethic

You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the rhythms of your creative work with the rhythms of the rest of your life so that they amplify each other. It is a fundamentally new work ethic that is revolutionizing the way business is being done around the world.Without hackers there would be no universal access to e-mail, no Internet, no World Wide Web, but the hacker ethic has spread far beyond the world of computers. It is a mind-set, a philosophy, based on the values of play, passion, sharing, and creativity, that has the potential to enhance every individual’s and company’s productivity and competitiveness. Now there is a greater need than ever for entrepreneurial versatility of the sort that has made hackers the most important innovators of our day. Pekka Himanen shows how we all can make use of this ongoing transformation in the way we approach our working lives.

An Essay on the Principle of Population: Vol. 1, Sixth Ed.

An Essay on the Principle of Population: Vol. 1, Sixth Ed.

First published anonymously in 1798, the essay was one of the most influential works on population in its era. One of the work's central theses held that a growing population would inevitably cause a rising supply of labor, which would cause wages to fall. Unchecked population growth would therefore lead to widespread poverty. Much debate about the work's conclusions and identity of its author followed its initial publication. By 1803, Malthus—now firmly established as the author—published a second edition. He continued to revise the work through a total of six editions. One of the lasting contributions of the work was the establishment of a national census in England, Wales and Scotland, held every 10 years beginning in 1801.

Entrepreneurial Leap, Updated and Expanded Edition

Entrepreneurial Leap, Updated and Expanded Edition

You’ve thought about starting your own business . . . but how can you decide if you should really take the leap?An entrepreneur depends on far more than just a great idea and a generous helping of luck. There’s a lot on the line, and you have to ask yourself difficult questions: Do I have what it takes? Is it worth it? And how the heck do I do it?You need answers, not BS. This book has them.The updated edition of Entrepreneurial Leap will help you decide, once and for all, if entrepreneurship is right for you—and give you the tools you need to create a successful business.In this three-part book, Gino Wickman, bestselling author of Traction, reveals the 6 essential traits that every entrepreneur needs in order to succeed, based on real-life stories of entrepreneurs who have reached incredible heights. If these traits ring true for you, you’ll get a glimpse of what your life would look like as an entrepreneur, learn how to avoid 8 critical mistakes, and determine what type of business best suits your unique skill set. What’s more, Wickman provides a detailed road map to a better start-up, including 8 must do’s to increase your odds of success, 9 stages of building your business, and 10 disciplines for managing and maximizing your energy. Packed with tools, tips, and exercises that will accelerate your path to start-up success, Entrepreneurial Leap is a simple and practical how-to manual for BIG results.Should you take the leap toward entrepreneurship? Find out today and let tomorrow be the first step in your new journey, whatever shape it may take.

Effective Project Management in easy steps, 2nd Edition

Effective Project Management in easy steps, 2nd Edition

Effective Project Management in easy steps will show you how to make sure your project is successful. It focuses on the key skills a manager needs to develop for a smooth running project, and a timely arrival at the finishing line. It includes examples for most key documents such as the terms of reference, business case and project plan. It addresses team building and good communications. It covers the typical project stages with helpful lists of applicable tasks and deliverables, which effectively provides a blueprint for planning an entire project. This up-to-date primer covers all key trends in project management including a chapter on Agile Project Management. If you're a first time project manager, let this book take you through the essential project stages in easy steps, and take note of the applicable tasks and deliverables. If you're an experienced project manager, this book provides a valuable source of inspiration for making projects run smoothly and satisfactorily. Covering risk-management together with insights on how to plan, lead, organize and control a project - simply a fountain of knowledge!

A History of Indian Advertising in Ten-and-a-half Chapters

A History of Indian Advertising in Ten-and-a-half Chapters

In the last hundred-odd years, advertising in India has given us life-altering stuff. It has attempted to make men Fair and Handsome. It has battled to make women 18 Again. And to both men and women it has given Tinder loving care. It has made us realize that we like pizza as much as the next Italian - as long as Domino's puts keema do pyaza on it and tempts us with 'Hungry kya?' It has made us re-evaluate our life choices and ask thought-provoking questions like 'Kitna deti hai?' of our cars and 'Kya aap Close-Up karte hain?' of our countrymen. In short, it has enriched our lives with quirky quips, unforgettable characters, inter-brand scuffles, clever insights, virtual lures and jaw-dropping controversies. In A History of Indian Advertising in Ten-and-a-half Chapters previously published as Stark Raving Ad, you'll find the best of case studies and unbusiness-like stories from Indian advertising through the ages - the hits, the misses, the also-rans and the banned. An engrossing read, this book will inform as much as entertain all readers.

Économie du bien commun

Économie du bien commun

Avec ce premier livre en français visant un large public, le prix Nobel d’économie 2014 nous fait partager sa passion pour la discipline. Il défend une certaine vision de l’économie, science qui fait le pont entre la théorie et les faits au service du bien commun, et de l’économiste chercheur et homme de terrain. Ce faisant, le lecteur pénètre dans l’atelier d’un économiste, et voyage à travers les sujets affectant notre quotidien : économie numérique, innovation, chômage, changement climatique, Europe, État, finance, marché... En dressant un panorama des grandes problématiques de l’économie d’aujourd’hui, Jean Tirole nous fait entrer au cœur des théories dont il est le père.

The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 1

The US National Debt, 1787-1900 Vol 1

This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances in the late eighteenth century. It investigates the debates put forward, from which comparisons with today's debt can be drawn.

Alfonso's Department Store

Alfonso's Department Store

The newly appointed general manager of Alfonso's Department Store has initiated a review of Alfonso's newspaper marketing, in part to gain familiarity with the store's marketing practices, but also to look for ways to enhance both sales and market share. (A Microsoft Excel data file is available for use with this case, product 7A99E002.)