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|  | Process Innovation by Thomas H. Davenport
Process innovation - a revolutionary new approach that fuses information technology and human resource management - can dramatically improve business performance. In the demanding environment of the 1990s, simply formulating strategy is no longer sufficient; it is also essential to design the processes to implement strategy effectively. Built around new technologies and motivated workers, process innovation begins with a commitment to a strategic vision from senior management. Its scope is vast and crosses multiple business functions. Its goals are ambitious - companies embarking on process innovation often seek tenfold improvements in cost, time, or quality. For example, IBM reduced the preparation time for quotes on buying or leasing a computer from seven days to one, while preparing 10 times as many quotes. The Internal Revenue Service collected 33 more from delinquent taxpayers, with only half the staff and one-third the branch offices. One analysis of the New York Stock Exchange suggests that a redesign of trading processes could save buyers and sellers hundreds of millions of dollars each year. The cornerstone to process innovation's dramatic results is information technology - a largely untapped resource, but a crucial enabler of process innovation. In turn, only a challenge like process innovation affords maximum use of information technology's potential. Thomas Davenport provides numerous examples of firms that have succeeded or failed in combining business change and technology initiatives. He also highlights the role of new organizational structures and human resource programs in facilitating this process. Process innovation is quickly becoming the byword for managersready to lead their companies out of modest growth patterns and into highly effective competition in the global marketplace. This book should be read by general and functional managers, quality and information technology professionals, and industrial engineers - in short, by anyone who see AUTHOR: Thomas H. Davenport
PUBLISHER: Harvard Business School Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Computers & Internet 
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 | How Networks Work by Frank J. Derfler, Les Freed
Description not available.An introduction to the basic structure and operation of computer networks explains and illustrates the underlying technology of networks and covers such topics as e-mail, the Internet, and security. AUTHOR: Frank J. Derfler, Les Freed
PUBLISHER: Que
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Computers & Internet
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 | Linked
In LINKED, Barabasi, a physicist whose work has revolutionized the study of networks, traces the development of this rapidly unfolding science and introduces us to the scientist carrying out this pioneering work.
PUBLISHER: Perseus Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Computers & Internet
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 | Macromedia E Learning by Jeffrey Bardzell
Description not available.Explains how to use Dreamweaver MX, Flash MX, and ColdFusion MX to create multimedia learning applications, covering such topics as video simulations, flexible architectures, custom functions, and interactivity. AUTHOR: Jeffrey Bardzell
PUBLISHER: Macromedia Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Computers & Internet
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 | Software Optimization Cookbook by Richard Gerber
Description not available.Explains how to create high-performance applications on Intel Pentium 3 or Pentium 4 processors, covering topics such as memory access, branching, SIMD instructions, multiple threads, and floating-point calculations. AUTHOR: Richard Gerber
PUBLISHER: Intel Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Computers & Internet
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 | Nitty Gritty Windows Programming with C++
Description not available.Reviews Windows programming fundamentals.
PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Computers & Internet
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