Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 8 edition

Author, “Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, 8 edition”
2015 | ISBN-10: 1292094869 | 720 pages | PDF | 22 MB

For courses in Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship, New Venture Creation, and New Venture Management.

The Foundation to Building a Successful Small Business

Taking a practical, hands-on approach to entrepreneurship, this text equips students with the tools and critical thinking skills they need to position themselves for enduring small business success.

Now in its Eighth Edition, Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management teaches students how to successfully launch and manage a small business with staying power. By dissecting case studies, examining successes and failures in the context of the market, and observing the tactics used by today’s most successful small business ventures, a diverse set of students can develop potent business acumen in the classroom. These skills give them a unique advantage in a hotly competitive environment, transforming their passion, creativity, and ambition into the force that drives the world’s economy.

Essentials of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management contains a multitude of student- and instructor-friendly features, almost all of which have been updated in this new edition.

Management of Gastric Cancer

Management of Gastric Cancer by Paul H. Sugarbaker
English | 4 Oct. 2013 | ISBN: 146136731X | 404 Pages | PDF | 11 MB

Gastric cancer has been one of the great malignant scourges affecting man­ kind for as long as medical records have been kept. Until operative resection pioneered by Bilroth and others became available, no effective treatment was feasible and death from cancer was virtually inevitable.

Rethinking Risk in National Security: Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Risk Management

Rethinking Risk in National Security: Lessons of the Financial Crisis for Risk Management
Palgrave Macmillan US | Risk Management | April 28 2016 | ISBN-10: 1349918415 | 246 pages | pdf | 791 kb

Authors: Mazarr, Michael J.

Presents innovative analysis applying lessons from the 2007-2008 financial crisis to risk management issues in national security
Offers incisive suggestions for improving national security risk strategy
Casts new light on how skewed incentives, cognitive biases, groupthink, and other human factors have led to excessive risk-taking and should be understood with caution

This book examines the role of risk management in the recent financial crisis and applies lessons from there to the national security realm. It rethinks the way risk contributes to strategy, with insights relevant to practitioners and scholars in national security as well as business. Over the past few years, the concept of risk has become one of the most commonly discussed issues in national security planning. And yet the experiences of the 2007-2008 financial crisis demonstrated critical limitations in institutional efforts to control risk. The most elaborate and complex risk procedures could not cure skewed incentives, cognitive biases, groupthink, and a dozen other human factors that led companies to take excessive risk. By embracing risk management, the national security enterprise may be turning to a discipline just as it has been discredited.

Topics

Military and Defence Studies

Risk Management

Political Theory

Comparative Politics

Statistics for Business, Economics, Mathematical Finance, Insurance

Behavioral/Experimental Economics

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The Fundamental Rules of Risk Management (repost)

Nigel Da Costa Lewis, “The Fundamental Rules of Risk Management”
English | ISBN: 1439816182 | 2012 | 240 pages | PDF | 2 MB

The consequences of taking on risk can be ruinous to personal finances, professional careers, corporate survivability, and even nation states. Yet many risk managers do not have a clear understanding of the basics. Requiring no statistical or mathematical background, The Fundamental Rules of Risk Management gives you the knowledge to successfully handle risk in your organization.

The book begins with a deep investigation into the behavioral roots of risk. Using both historical and contemporary contexts, author Nigel Da Costa Lewis carefully details the indisputable truths surrounding many of the behavioral biases that induce risk. He exposes the fallacy of the wisdom of experts, explains why you cannot rely on regulators, outlines the characteristics of the “glad game,” and demonstrates how high intelligence or lack thereof can lead to loss of hard-earned wealth. He also discusses the weaknesses and failures of modern risk management.

Moving on to elements often overlooked by risk managers, Dr. Lewis traces the link between corporate governance and risk management. He then covers core lessons surrounding the role of risk managers as well as the difficult subject of integrated, single lens analysis of risk. The book also explores aspects of spreadsheet risk and draws on lessons learned in the information systems and software engineering communities to provide guidance on selecting the right risk management system. It concludes with a discussion on the most dominant of risk measures—value at risk.

Having a clear understanding about risk separates successful professionals, companies, and economies from history’s forgotten failures. Through examples and case studies, this thought-provoking book shows how the rules of risk can work to protect and enhance investor value.

Microeconometrics in Business Management

Microeconometrics in Business Management by Jerzy Witold Wisniewski
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1119096804 | 216 pages | PDF (converted) | 13,7 MB

This book introduces the application of microeconometric methods for modelling various aspects of economic activity for small to large size enterprises, using methods that are based on both time-series and cross-section approaches. The information obtained from using these estimated models can then be used to inform business decisions that improve the efficiency of operations and planning.

Basic models used in the modelling of the business (single-equation and multiple-equation systems) are introduced whilst a wide range of economic activity including major aspects of financial management, demand for labour, administrative staff and labour productivity are also explored.

Microeconometrics in Business Management:

Introduces econometric methods which can be used in the modelling of economic activity and forecasting, to help improve the efficiency of business operations and planning.

Describes econometric entities through multiple-equation and single-equation microeconometric models.

Explores the process of building and adapting basic microeconometric tools.

Presents numerous micromodels based on time-series data and statistical cross-sectional sequences, which can be used in any enterprise.

Features numerous real –world applications along with examples drawn from the authors own experience.

Is supported by a companion website featuring practice problems and statistical data to aid students to construct and estimate micro models.

Features end of chapter exercises with examples present in free software GRETL.

This book serves as a valuable resource for students, business management practitioners and researchers in econometric micro-model construction and various decision-making processes.

The Management Shift: How to Harness the Power of People and Transform Your Organization For Sustainable Success (Repost)

The Management Shift: How to Harness the Power of People and Transform Your Organization For Sustainable Success By V. Hlupic
2014 | 284 Pages | ISBN: 1137352949 | PDF | 4 MB

Research shows that corporate life expectancy and performance have declined 75% in the last 50 years – organizations need a different approach if they are to survive, let alone thrive.

While people are often stated as a company’s greatest asset, few businesses have a clear model of leadership that improves engagement, removes barriers to innovation, and uncovers hidden strengths in people and the organization. This book addresses that need and, more importantly, demonstrates HOW organizations can make The Management Shift to a new way of thinking and working. Professor Hlupic argues that organizations now need to adopt a leadership style that focuses on people, purpose and knowledge sharing, creating new types of value and ultimately improving innovation and engagement – leading to improved business.

Based on leading-edge research supported by numerous case studies, which demonstrate the power and impact of change, The Management Shift offers managers a practical and systemic approach to diagnose leadership issues in their organization. It then provides an implementation process to shift their mindset and organizational culture to the new level of thinking, performance, and ultimately business success.

Disorders of the Shoulder: Diagnosis and Management (2 Volume Set), 2nd edition

Joseph P. Iannotti, Gerald R. Williams Jr., “Disorders of the Shoulder: Diagnosis and Management (2 Volume Set), 2nd edition”
2007 | ISBN-10: 0781756782 | 1480 pages | PDF | 60 MB

Now includes a brand-new companion Website, The Iannotti & Williams Solution!

Expanded to two volumes, Disorders of the Shoulder, Second Edition is a comprehensive, current, and authoritative clinical reference for residents, fellows, shoulder specialists, and general orthopaedic surgeons. This edition features greatly expanded coverage of arthroscopic treatment and hundreds of new full-color arthroscopic images. Arthroscopic and open techniques are integrated into all relevant disorder-specific chapters, so that readers can compare open to arthroscopic procedures and select the most effective treatment option. New chapters cover diagnosis of glenohumeral instability; management of bone and soft tissue loss in revision arthroplasty; minimally invasive techniques for proximal humeral fractures; hemiarthroplasty for proximal humeral fractures; and suprascapular and axillary nerve injuries.

All clinical chapters include treatment algorithms and the authors’ preferred treatment. More than 2,400 illustrations—743 in full color—complement the text.

The new companion Website, The Iannotti & Williams Solution, gives you instant access to the fully searchable text, an Image Bank, featured clinical cases, and the Gaining Speed and Tricks of the Trade chapter of Burkhart’s View of the Shoulder: A Cowboy’s Guide to Advanced Shoulder Arthroscopy.

Agile Project Management using Team Foundation Server 2015

Agile Project Management using Team Foundation Server 2015
Apress | Software Engineering | May 7 2016 | ISBN-10: 1484218698 | 189 pages | pdf | 12.67 mb

Authors: Rossberg, Joachim

This book will help you get started with agile project management using Microsoft’s latest releases of its marketing leading Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015, and Visual Studio Online (VSO)
Demonstrates agile concepts and how these can be implemented using TFS/VSO
Covers how to set up an agile project from scratch and manage it over its lifecycle

This book will help you get started with agile project management using Microsoft’s latest releases of its market-leading Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015, and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). The book demonstrates agile concepts and how to implement them using TFS/VSTS.

Many organizations are using agile practices today. Agility has become a key enabler for running better projects with more successful end results and high quality output. At the same time, adoption of TFS/VSTS has increased dramatically, from being just a new version control system in the very beginning to becoming the fully-featured market leader it is today.

In order to benefit the most from agile practices you need an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset that supports your way of working. With TFS/VSTS, Microsoft has provided a powerful tool that is very customizable. This book shows you how you can use TFS/VSTS to implement many agile practices and how they fit into a well-thought-out ALM implementation.

The book also shows how an agile product owner can work with TFS/VSTS to setup an agile project from scratch and how to continue using TFS/VSTS throughout the whole project to track progress, create and refine the backlog, and work with Kanban and Scrum Task boards.

Keeping track of progress is important in any project. TFS/VSO includes many tools which will help you to track key metrics in an agile project. Many useful reports are available out of the box, and the TFS extensibility offers several ways to further customize reporting to fit your needs.

What You Will Learn:

Agile Concepts and Processes

How TFS/VSO supports agile processes end to end

How you can customize TFS/VSO to better support your processes

How to set up an agile project from scratch and manage it over its lifecycle

Number of Illustrations and Tables

11 b/w illustrations, 131 illustrations in colour

Topics

Software Engineering / Programming and Operating Systems

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The Changing Face of Japanese Management

The Changing Face of Japanese Management by Keith Jackson
English | Nov. 6, 2003 | ISBN: 0415287448, 0415287456 | 272 Pages | PDF | 1 MB

For many western managers the approach taken by successful Japanese organisations and their managers has tended to inspire awe, envy and incomprehension in equal measure. But what is so special about ‘Japanese’ management? And how ‘special’ is the response of Japanese managers to global business pressures ?

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society Core Curriculum: Ostomy Management

Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society Core Curriculum: Ostomy Management By Janice C. Colwell, Jane E. Carmel, Margaret T. Goldberg
2016 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1451194390 | EPUB | 16 MB

This volume in the new Core Curriculum series from the WOCN(R) Society covers Ostomy Management, and is the crucial text for nurses practicing or studying ostomy patient care. It offers pathology and physiology basics in easy-to-grasp terms, while providing expert guidance on patient management. The perfect study guide for the wound, ostomy and continence (WOC) certification exams, it also provides step-by-step direction on essential nursing procedures. The evidence-based, easy-to-follow format of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society(TM) Core Curriculum: Wound Management facilitates your comprehension of: o Anatomy and physiology of the GI and urinary tracts o The disease states that lead to a fecal/urinary stoma o Fecal or urinary stoma construction o Fecal or urinary diversion. Step-by-step instruction leads you through care planning and delivery, including management of stoma and peristomal complications. And, end-of-chapter Q&A helps you remember all vital points. Practical directions cover: o Preoperative care for patients undergoing fecal or urinary diversion o Postoperative nursing assessment and management o New surgical procedures and pouching techniques o Patient education o Rehabilitation issues o Ostomy patient needs, including assessment and management of pediatric patients. Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nurses Society(TM) Core Curriculum: Ostomy Management is essential for nursing students in ostomy care programs; nurses caring for patients with an ostomy; nurses in gastroenterology, urology, and surgical nursing; graduate nursing students; those seeking WOC certification or recertification; and nursing faculty. Also available as an e-book at other major retailers

Aviation Investment: Economic Appraisal for Airports, Air Traffic Management, Airlines and Aeronautics

Aviation Investment: Economic Appraisal for Airports, Air Traffic Management, Airlines and Aeronautics by Doramas Jorge-Calderaon
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1472421302 | 237 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB

Aviation Investment uniquely addresses investment appraisal methods across the key industries that make up the aviation sector, including the airports, air traffic management, airline and aircraft manufacturing – or aeronautic – industries. It is a practice-oriented book where methods are presented through realistic case studies. The emphasis is on economic appraisal, or cost-benefit analysis, in order to determine the viability of projects not only for private investors but for society as a whole. Financial (cash flow) appraisal is illustrated alongside economic appraisal, as the latter builds on the former, but also to show how economic appraisal enhances standard financial appraisal to determine the long-term sustainability of any investment. Aviation is a capital-intensive sector that is growing rapidly, with world traffic expected to double over the next 15 years or so. A great deal of economic appraisal of investment projects takes place already, as aviation is subject to government intervention through economic regulation and financial support, and as both investors and policy makers seek to understand issues such as how environmental legislation may impact the viability of investments. Both economic growth and welfare go hand in hand with sound investment decisions, particularly regarding sectors such as aviation where investments are large and almost invariably debt-financed. Aviation Investment offers all aviation sub-sectors a single-source reference, bringing together the theoretical background of the economic appraisal literature and aviation investment in practice. It is written in a style that is accessible to non-academic professionals, using formulae only where strictly necessary to enable practical applications, and benefits from the substantial practical experience of the author.

Integrated Water Resources Management

Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation
Springer | Ecology | May 21, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319250698 | 781 pages | pdf | 21.3 mb

Editors: Borchardt, Dietrich, Bogardi, Janos J., Ibisch, Ralf B. (Eds.)

Will present results of a series of research and implementation projects funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Will be the first compendium of German research findings in the field of IWRM
Will offer practical approaches to solving problems associated with the topic of water management

This book reviews the concept, contemporary research efforts and the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The IWRM concept was established as an international guiding water management paradigm in the early 1990ies and has become a vital approach to solving the problems associated with the topic of water. The book summarizes fourteen comprehensive IWRM research projects with worldwide coverage and analyses their motivations, settings, approaches and implementation of results. Aiming to be an up-to-date interdisciplinary scientific reference, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary IWRM research, examples of science based implementations and a synthesis of the lessons learnt. It concludes with some major future challenges, the solving of which will further strengthen the IWRM concept.

Number of Illustrations and Tables

28 b/w illustrations, 199 illustrations in colour

Topics

Freshwater & Marine Ecology

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Vascular Lesions of the Orbit and Face: Imaging and Management

Vascular Lesions of the Orbit and Face: Imaging and Management
Springer | Ophthalmology | May 24, 2016 | ISBN-10: 3319297023 | 132 pages | pdf | 7.42 mb

Editors: Yen, Michael T. (Ed.)​

Provides up-to-date information on classification, evaluation, diagnosis, and management
Serves as both an in-depth exploration of progress in the field and a quick reference guide
Written by experts in ophthalmology, dermatology, diagnostic and interventional radiology, and oculoplastic surgery

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive source of information on the classification, evaluation, diagnosis, and management of vascular lesions of the orbit and face. It highlights recent technological innovations and new treatments that have significantly improved the ability to accurately evaluate and successfully treat these lesions with reduced complications. Some of these advances include new imaging modalities, intravascular and intralesional treatment approaches, photodynamic therapy, and additional medical therapies. Many of these advances have led to paradigm shifts in the understanding and management of vascular lesions of the orbit and face. This book, written by experts in the fields of ophthalmology, dermatology, diagnostic and interventional radiology, and oculoplastic surgery, features structured, in‐depth chapters that can also be quickly consulted as a reference guide. It is an excellent resource for those in training as well as seasoned practitioners wishing to acquaint themselves with the newest diagnostic and treatment techniques for orbital vascular lesions

Number of Illustrations and Tables

50 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour

Topics

Ophthalmology

Dermatology

Imaging / Radiology

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IT Management - April 2016

IT Management – April 2016
True PDF | German | 52 pages | 11,4 MB