Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results

Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results

W,..ey-Bl..ell | 2009 | 1405177616 | 216 pages | PDF | 12,4 MB

Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that yield bottom line results.
Practical step by step guidance and examples
Realities associated with implementing best practices and avoiding common pitfalls
Jobs and circumstances where common practices will and will not work well

Robert Downie - How to Use an Airbrush

Robert Downie - How to Use an Airbrush

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company | 2001-06 | ISBN: 0890242879 | File type: PDF | 96 pages | 10.88 mb

This is a How To Use An Airbrush Book from Kalmbach Books. FEATURES: Glossy softcover 96 page book with 215 full-color photographs. This book presents 11 dynamic projects to help you achieve creative, colorful and ultra-realistic finishes for your plastic models. Techniques covered include a variety of camouflage, weathering, high- gloos, vinyl

Hacking and Securing iOS Applications: Stealing Data, Hijacking Software, and How to Prevent It

Hacking and Securing iOS Applications: Stealing Data, Hijacking Software, and How to Prevent It

O'Re.,.illy Medi..a 2012 | 356 Pages | 1449318746 | PDF | 10 MB

If you’re an app developer with a solid foundation in Objective-C, this book is an absolute must—chances are very high that your company’s iOS applications are vulnerable to attack. That’s because malicious attackers now use an arsenal of tools to reverse-engineer, trace, and manipulate applications in ways that most programmers aren’t aware of.
This guide illustrates several types of iOS attacks, as well as the tools and techniques that hackers use. You’ll learn best practices to help protect your applications, and discover how important it is to understand and strategize like your adversary.
Examine subtle vulnerabilities in real-world applications—and avoid the same problems in your apps
Learn how attackers infect apps with malware through code injection
Discover how attackers defeat iOS keychain and data-protection encryption
Use a debugger and custom code injection to manipulate the runtime Objective-C environment
Prevent attackers from hijacking SSL sessions and stealing traffic
Securely delete files and design your apps to prevent forensic data leakage
Avoid debugging abuse, validate the integrity of run-time classes, and make your code harder to trace

Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling: Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Control

Project Management with Dynamic Scheduling: Baseline Scheduling, Risk Analysis and Project Control

Sp ger | 2012 | 3642251749 | 328 pages | PDF | 5,2 MB

The topic of this book is known as dynamic scheduling, and is used to refer to three dimensions of project management and scheduling: the construction of a baseline schedule and the analysis of a project schedule’s risk as preparation of the project control phase during project progress. This dynamic scheduling point of view implicitly assumes that the usability of a project’s baseline schedule is rather limited and only acts as a point of reference in the project life cycle. Consequently, a project schedule should especially be considered as nothing more than a predictive model that can be used for resource efficiency calculations, time and cost risk analyses, project tracking and performance measurement, and so on. In this book, the three dimensions of dynamic scheduling are highlighted in detail and are based on and inspired by a combination of academic research studies at Ghent University (www.ugent.be), in-company trainings at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School (www.vlerick.com) and consultancy projects at OR-AS (www.or-as.be). First, the construction of a project baseline schedule is a central theme throughout the various chapters of the book, and is discussed from a complexity point of view with and without the presence of project resources. Second, the creation of an awareness of the weak parts in a baseline schedule is discussed at the end of the two baseline scheduling parts as schedule risk analysis techniques that can be applied on top of the baseline schedule. Third, the baseline schedule and its risk analyses can be used as guidelines during the project control step where actual deviations can be corrected within the margins of the project’s time and cost reserves.

Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2010: Basics, Model Building, and Cases

Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2010: Basics, Model Building, and Cases

---nger | 144199856X | 2012 | PDF | 485 pages | 33.7 MB

Exceptional managers know that they can create competitive advantages by basing decisions on performance response under alternative scenarios. To create these advantages, managers need to understand how to use statistics to provide information on performance response under alternative scenarios. This updated edition of the popular text helps business students develop competitive advantages for use in their future careers as decision makers. Students learn to build models using logic and experience, produce statistics using Excel 2010 with shortcuts, and translate results into implications for decision makers. The author emphasizes communicating results effectively in plain English and with compelling graphics in the form of memos and PowerPoints. Statistics, from basics to sophisticated models, are illustrated with examples using real data such as students will encounter in their roles as managers. A number of examples focus on business in emerging global markets with particular emphasis on China and India. Results are linked to implications for decision making with sensitivity analyses to illustrate how alternate scenarios can be compared. Chapters include screenshots to make it easy to conduct analyses in Excel 2010 with time-saving shortcuts expected in the business world. PivotTables and PivotCharts, used frequently in businesses, are introduced from the start. Monte Carlo simulation is introduced early, as a tool to illustrate the range of possible outcomes from decision makers’ assumptions and underlying uncertainties. Model building with regression is presented as a process, adding levels of sophistication, with chapters on multicollinearity and remedies, forecasting and model validation, autocorrelation and remedies, indicator variables to represent segment differences, and seasonality, structural shifts or shocks in time series models. Special applications in market segmentation and portfolio analysis are offered, and an introduction to conjoint analysis is included. Nonlinear models are motivated with arguments of diminishing or increasing marginal response, and a chapter on logit regression models introduces models of market share or proportions. The Second Edition includes more explanation of hypothesis tests and confidence intervals, how t, F, and chi square distributions behave. business statistics competitive advantage,