Author: American Productivity & Quality Center
Publisher: Amer Productivity Center
Keywords: practices, passport, success, management, knowledge, practice, guide, journey, communities
Number of Pages: 75
Published: 2002-04
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1928593488
ISBN-13: 9781928593485

As one of the titles in the American Productivity & Quality Center’s Passport to Success series, Communities of Practice: A Guide For Your Journey to Knowledge Management Best Practices guides readers in their efforts to build, support, and sustain communities of practice (CoPs). Learn how to create communities that provide value to their members and to the organization, using insights from APQC’s KM specialists. Supported by examples of best practices and tips from actual practitioners, this book details CoP cultivation, strategy, distinctions, support structures, f

Author: Committee on Assessment and Teacher QualityCenter
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: teacher, improving, quality, tests, role, candidates, testing, licensure
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-10-19
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309074207
ISBN-13: 9780309074209

Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels for all students. Gaps remain, however, between the nation’s educational aspirations and student achievement. To address these gaps, policy makers have recently focused on the qualifications of teachers and the preparation of teacher candidates. This book examines the appropriateness and technical quality of teacher licensure tests currently in use, evaluates the merits of using licensure test

Author: American Productivity and Quality CenterAm Prod Q
Publisher: Productivity Press
Keywords: guide, management, benchmarking
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 1993-06-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 1563270455
ISBN-13: 9781563270451

If you’re planning, organizing, or actually undertaking a benchmarking program, you need the most authoritative source of information to help you get started and to manage the process all the way through. Written expressly for managers of benchmarking projects by the APQC’s renowned International Benchmarking Clearinghouse, this guide provides exclusive information from members who have already paved the way. It includes information on training courses and ways to apply Baldrige, Deming, and ISO 9000 criteria for internal assessment, and has a complete bibliography

Authors:Jeffrey Liker, Michael Hoseus, Center for Quality Pe
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Keywords: toyota, way, soul, heart, culture
Number of Pages: 562
Published: 2008
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0071492178
ISBN-13: 9780071492171

Winner of the Shingo Prize for Research and Professional Publication, 2009 The international bestseller The Toyota Way explained the company’s success by introducing a revolutionary 4P model for organizational excellence-Philosophy, People, Process, and Problem Solving. Now, in Toyota Culture, preeminent Toyota authorities Jeffrey Liker and Michael Hoseus reveal how Toyota selects, develops, and motivates its people to become committed to building high-quality products-and how you can do the same for your company. Toyota Culture examines the “human systems” that Toyota has

Author: American Society for QualityQuality Management Di
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Keywords: section, asq, supplemental, handbook, quality, manager, certified
Number of Pages: 522
Published: 1999-10
List price: $81.25
ISBN-10: 0873893875
ISBN-13: 9780873893879

The Quality Management Division of the American Society for Quality has put together the ultimate preparatory guide for the Certified Quality Manager Exam. The Certified Quality Manager Handbook thoroughly describes each portion of the exam, providing insights, definitions, and sample exam questions. Each part also includes a bibliography for further reference. In addition to helping them pass the exam, quality managers will find the book very helpful as a desk reference. Written in a collaborative effort by the Quality Management Division of ASQ, the Certified Quality Manager Handbook is

Author: Center of Excellence Defence Against TerrorCenter
Publisher: IOS Press
Keywords: peace, security, science, nato, cyber, terrorism, responses
Number of Pages: 145
Published: 2008-05-15
List price: $161.00
ISBN-10: 1586038362
ISBN-13: 9781586038366

The one issue touched on repeatedly by the contributors of this publication is the difficulty of arriving at a definition of cyber terrorism. A NATO Office of Security document cautiously defines it as ’a cyber attack using or exploiting computer or communication networks to cause sufficient destruction or disruption to generate fear or to intimidate a society into an ideological goal.’ But the cyber world is surely remote from what is recognized as terrorism: the bloody attacks and ethnic conflicts, or, more precisely, the politically-motivated ’intention to cause death or s

Author: Solid Quality Learning
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Keywords: microsoft, essentials, database, server, sql
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2006-09-13
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0735622078
ISBN-13: 9780735622074

SQL Server 2005 is Microsoft s next-generation data management and analysis solution that delivers enhanced scalability, availability, and security features to enterprise data and analytical applications while making them easier to create, deploy, and manage. Now you can teach yourself how to design, build, test, deploy, and maintain SQL Server databases one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Instead of merely focusing on describing new features, this book shows new database programmers and administrators how to use specific