Web Analytics: An Hour a Day: Avinash Kaushik, Jim Sterne

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Written by an in-the-trenches practitioner, this step-by-step guide shows you how to implement a successful Web analytics strategy. Web analytics expert Avinash Kaushik, in his thought-provoking style, debunks leading myths and leads you on a path to gaining actionable insights from your analytics efforts. Discover how to move beyond clickstream analysis, [...]

Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win: George Stalk, Rob Lachenauer, John Butman

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“…an intelligent and textured primer…” — The Wall Street Journal, 15 October, 2004
“Hardball is already causing a stir.” — The Economist, August 26, 2004
“Overall, it’s an unusually deep, fine-grained, and useful piece of business analysis.” — Entrepreneur, January 2005
“[T]he authors’ message, eminently worth the read, is that [...]

Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook: William J. O’Brien, Carlos T. Formoso, Ruben Vrijhoef, Kerry A. London

Mounting emphasis on construction supply chain management (CSCM) is due to both global sourcing of materials and a shortage of labor. These factors force increasing amounts of value-added work to be conducted off-site deep in the supply chain. Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook compiles in one comprehensive source an overview of the diverse [...]

Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook: William J. O’Brien, Carlos T. Formoso, Ruben Vrijhoef, Kerry A. London

Mounting emphasis on construction supply chain management (CSCM) is due to both global sourcing of materials and a shortage of labor. These factors force increasing amounts of value-added work to be conducted off-site deep in the supply chain. Construction Supply Chain Management Handbook compiles in one comprehensive source an overview of the diverse [...]

Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win: George Stalk, Rob Lachenauer, John Butman

Editorial Reviews
Review
“…an intelligent and textured primer…” — The Wall Street Journal, 15 October, 2004
“Hardball is already causing a stir.” — The Economist, August 26, 2004
“Overall, it’s an unusually deep, fine-grained, and useful piece of business analysis.” — Entrepreneur, January 2005
“[T]he authors’ message, eminently worth the read, is [...]

Show Me the Money: How to Determine ROI in People, Projects, and Programs: Jack J Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips

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From IT to HR, from boardroom to shop floor, increased accountability for achieving high-value results for new initiatives is the norm in every organization. The Phillips’, the world’s leading experts on ROI strategy, distill their years of experience and research into proven tools for determining the value of any project before, during, [...]

Essentials of Software Project Management, second edition: Richard Bechtold

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Essentials of Software Project Management, second edition was named PM Boulevard’s featured book of the week! Leading-edge Project Management Strategies for Software Projects! Traditional project management rules do not apply in the software world. Software projects tend to operate in a state of crisis more so than other project types. [...]

Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know: Thomas H. Davenport, Laurence Prusak

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When new-car developers at Ford Motor Company wanted to learn why the original Taurus design team was so successful, no one could tell them. No one remembered or had recorded what made that effort so special; the knowledge gained in the Taurus project was lost forever. [...]

Show Me the Money: How to Determine ROI in People, Projects, and Programs: Jack J Phillips, Patricia Pulliam Phillips

Editorial Reviews
From IT to HR, from boardroom to shop floor, increased accountability for achieving high-value results for new initiatives is the norm in every organization. The Phillips’, the world’s leading experts on ROI strategy, distill their years of experience and research into proven tools for determining the value of any project before, during, [...]

Keeping the People Who Keep You in Business: 24 Ways to Hang on to Your Most Valuable Talent: F. Leigh Branham

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Today’s worker shortage is painful enough, but compounded by other employment realities–resignations on short notice, sudden disappearances by new hires, through-the-roof recruitment costs, associated customer and staff disruptions–it’s enough to make anyone handling personnel feel as if they’re in a war. That’s exactly the premise advanced by employee-retention [...]