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What vendors make products that address the Service networking needs? Can you add value to the current Service networking decision-making process (largely qualitative) by incorporating uncertainty modeling (more quantitative)? What potential environmental factors impact the Service networking effort? What types of data do your Service networking indicators require? Do you have a flow diagram of what happens? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Explains what happened to music—for both artists and fans—when music went online. [b][/b]Playing to the Crowd explores and explains how the rise of digital communication platforms has transformed artist-fan relationships into something closer to friendship or family. Through in-depth interviews with musicians such as Billy Bragg and Richie Hawtin, as well as members of the Cure, UB40, and Throwing Muses, Baym reveals how new media has facilitated these connections through...
| Автор | Nancy K. Baym |
Does your organization participate in the collaborative projects with local companies? Do industry collaborative projects enhance employees learning? Who has power to make decisions, and about what, in the context of a collaborative project? Are there collaborative projects among the surveyed companies and 3PLs to greening transport and logistics services, and if so, to what extent? Do you have examples of collaborative projects with stakeholders or see opportunities for collaboration? This...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
During the last twenty years, voices from the First Nations have become louder, expressing their own solutions to problems that have plagued their communities since contact with the Europeans. Their traditional ways of thinking and living have become more visible to those from outside First Nations. Recent directions of First Nations in Northern Ontario have focused on strengthening political, economic, and social systems to promote community healing. This was an important subject for the third...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
What metadata needs to be available in real time? What existing data sources could be leveraged? Have innovations been implemented that have improved the facilitys operations? What funding model is most compatible with the primary use cases? Are downstream processes using that data, and if so, how? This powerful Senior Software Engineer self-assessment will make you the reliable Senior Software Engineer domain expert by revealing just what you need to know to be fluent and ready for any Senior...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Who will manage the integration of tools? Consider your own Human learning project, what types of organizational problems do you think might be causing or affecting your problem, based on the work done so far? Does a Human learning quantification method exist? What role does communication play in the success or failure of a Human learning project? What is the problem and/or vulnerability? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Although Patricia M. Boyer won a scholarship to McMaster University with the highest mathematics marks in Ontario and graduated at age 19, literature and languages were her specialty. She first worked as a public librarian, next as a secondary school teacher, then as a newspaper editor. A community leader in arts and theatre, Patricia was devoted to human rights action in her local community and around the world, church work, drama, the education of children with disabilities, and music. Each...
| Автор | Patricia M. Boyer |
How do you measure security risk and carry out risk assessments? What assets or information does your organization have that unauthorized individuals would want? Are the risk assessments structured in accordance with the guidance so as to identify hazard events, assess the probability of occurrence, and determine the potential consequences of the event? Is the monitoring plan linked to risk assessments to make sure highest risk areas are covered? Does your organization have an Information...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
"An excellent introduction to issues surrounding the postwar French welfare state."— Archives «An important and groundbreaking book.» —Martin A. Schain, New York University Little noticed by much of the world, France, during the 1960s and 1970s, developed into one of the most generous welfare states in the world. This book describes and explains this spectacular growth, and examines some of the problems that have emerged in its wake. The distinguished contributors to...
| Автор | John Ambler |
Renowned author and journalist Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos uses her talent for investigative reporting to take us deep into the poorest villages in India. Yet, far from being passive victims of their circumstances, the women who live there have joined forces and are making astute use of microcredit to break the cycle of poverty. Microcredit was made famous by Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and consists of very small loans made primarily to women for the production of essential commodities or...
| Автор | Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos |
What would have to be true for the option on the table to be the best possible choice? Does the problem have ethical dimensions? Is it needed? What are the tasks and definitions? What Decentralization of power improvements can be made? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
For anyone contemplating starting a small business with potential sales of a few thousand dollars up to the two million level, and for those who currently run their own businesses, this is the most comprehensive, up-to-date guide available. The Canadian Small Business Survival Guide will not only instruct beginners whose business knowledge is limited, but also provide a wealth of interesting information for experienced entrepreneurs. The author has covered every imaginable facet of running a...
| Автор | Benj Gallander |
Which information does the Games as service business case need to include? Is there a clear Games as service case definition? How will you know that a change is an improvement? In the past few months, what is the smallest change you have made that has had the biggest positive result? What was it about that small change that produced the large return? Political -is anyone trying to undermine this project? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
What identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but...
| Автор | John Cheney-Lippold |
Who qualifies to gain access to data? Who is the main stakeholder, with ultimate responsibility for driving Functional Database Model forward? An organizationally feasible system request is one that considers the mission, goals and objectives of the organization, key questions are: is the Functional Database Model solution request practical and will it solve a problem or take advantage of an opportunity to achieve company goals? Is special Functional Database Model user knowledge required? Do...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
In 2006, prominent businessman John Darch met with a man named Wicha Promyong. That meeting led to the establishment of an equal partnership business venture—a partnership that goes beyond fair trade and shows that capitalism can have a human side. Today the Doi Chaang Coffee Company’s coffee can be found across the world.Mark Pendergrast takes the reader on a journey through time and place as he leads us through the history of the ancient, persecuted hill tribe, the Akha,...
| Автор | Mark Pendergrast |
Will Adaptive learning deliverables need to be tested and, if so, by whom? How do you cross-sell and up-sell your Adaptive learning success? What Adaptive learning data should be managed? Does the Adaptive learning task fit the client's priorities? What are your best practices for minimizing Adaptive learning project risk, while demonstrating incremental value and quick wins throughout the Adaptive learning project lifecycle? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Based on fieldwork in Kinshasa and Paris, Breaking Rocks examines patronage payments within Congolese popular music, where a love song dedication can cost 6,000 dollars and a simple name check can trade for 500 or 600 dollars. Tracing this system of prestige through networks of musicians and patrons – who include gangsters based in Europe, kleptocratic politicians in Congo, and lawless diamond dealers in northern Angola – this book offers insights into ideologies of power and value in central...
| Автор | Joe Trapido |
Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the “crisis” era as the context for changing attitudes and...
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What is the Standard data model problem definition? What do you need to resolve? How do you manage Standard data model Knowledge Management (KM)? How are the Standard data model's objectives aligned to the group’s overall stakeholder strategy? How do you proactively clarify deliverables and Standard data model quality expectations? What are your current levels and trends in key Standard data model measures or indicators of product and process performance that are important to and directly...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California’s passage of...
| Автор | Katherine S. Newman |
Rebecca M. Blank offers the first comprehensive analysis of an economic trend that has been reshaping the United States over the past three decades: rapidly rising income inequality. In clear language, she provides an overview of how and why the level and distribution of income and wealth has changed since 1979, sets this situation within its historical context, and investigates the forces that are driving it. Among other factors, Blank looks closely at changes within families, including women’s...
| Автор | Rebecca M. Blank |
How are you doing compared to your industry? Are you changing as fast as the world around you? What adjustments to the strategies are needed? Do you have/need 24-hour access to key personnel? Who defines the rules in relation to any given issue? Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department. Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should...
| Автор | Gerardus Blokdyk |
Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a «new slavery,» one intricately linked to the global economy. The...
| Автор | Kevin Bales |