John Wiley Sons

A five-step strategy for turning a commodity into a necessity When products and services become interchangeable, price becomes the ultimate determinant for consumers. Indispensable shows businesses how to break out of that cycle by using The Five Drivers-a strategy that takes companies to the next level of performance. Renowned business consultant...

This 2006 Cumulative Supplement contains the following new chapters: Leading Practices in Testing Highly-Configurable Software Packages (Chapter 39A) Leveraging Business Process Management Technologies for Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 Compliance (Chapter 51A) The Missing Piece of the Merger and Acquisition Puzzle (Chapter 52A) Walking the Merger and...

Canon is one of the world's top companies. From a small optical workshop set up by several Japanese entrepreneurs, Canon has grown into one of the world's largest high-tech companies. How Canon Got Its Flash Back: The Innovative Turnaround Tactics of Fujio Mitarai tells the remarkable story of Canon's success, from marketing its first cameras up to...

Acclaimed investment experts Peter Treadway and Michael Wong explain how to protect your investments--and even profit--from the coming sovereign default crises A major sovereign default crisis is looming for the so-called developed economies of the world. The result will be a major redistribution of economic wealth and an overhaul of the...

Whilst always welcoming the system delivered with the required functionality, if it has been built with little or no consideration for the non-functional characteristics of the system, the welcome would be short-lived. Without an acceptable level of performance, reliability, stability and security users would soon - and rightly - distrust it. Just...

This 208#8211;page, coat#8211;pocket#8211;size book also comments on why people often muff planning their financial futures. "We take eight weeks to buy a new necktie or dress but then make investment decisions that affect our entire life and net worth after an eight#8211;minute phone conversation," the author writes. To help his readers avoid such...