Authors:Thomas H. Davenport, Jeanne G. Harris, Robert Moriso
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: results, decisions, smarter, work, analytics
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-02-08
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1422177696
ISBN-13: 9781422177693

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. But a powerful new business tool - analytics - is enabling many firms to aggressively leverage their data in key business decisions and processes, with impressive results. In their previous book, Competing on Analytics, Thomas Davenport and Jeanne Harris showed how pioneering firms were building their entire strategies around their analytical capabilities. Rather than "going with the gut" when pricing products, maintaining inventory, or hiring talent, managers in these firms use data, a

Authors:Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Marti
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: computation, engineering, scientific, handbook, fortran
Number of Pages: 723
Published: 1997-09-25
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0262510960
ISBN-13: 9780262510967

The Fortran 95 Handbook, a comprehensive reference work for the Fortran programmer and implementor, contains a complete description of the Fortran 95 programming language. The chapters follow the same sequence of topics as the Fortran 95 standard, but contain a more thorough and informal explanation of the language’s features and many more examples. Appendices describe all the intrinsic features, the deprecated features, and the complete syntax of the language. The Handbook also includs a feature not found in the standard: a cross reference of all the syntax terms, giving the rul

Authors:Michael H. Harris, Pamela C. Harris, Stan A. Hanna
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Keywords: services, information, contemporary, studies, policy, second, management, industrial, foundations, library, post, future, era
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 1998-03-09
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1567503551
ISBN-13: 9781567503555

This work is a general and synthetic study of the post-industrial era and its implications for library and information services in the United States. Since Daniel Bell promulgated his "post-industrial" metaphor in the early 1970s, it has become one of the most dominant metaphors in contemporary America. His ideas on the nature of the era, especially his articulation of what he refers to as the "information society" have influenced the ways in which government officials, corporate leaders, and citizens think about the future of political, social and economic life in America. This text examines

Authors:Michael H. Harris, Pamela C. Harris, Stan A. Hannah,
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: services, information, contemporary, studies, policies, second, management, industrial, foundations, library, post, future, era
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 1998-03-09
List price: $131.95
ISBN-10: 1567503543
ISBN-13: 9781567503548

This work is a general and synthetic study of the post-industrial era and its implications for library and information services in the United States. Since Daniel Bell promulgated his "post-industrial" metaphor in the early 1970s, it has become one of the most dominant metaphors in contemporary America. His ideas on the nature of the era, especially his articulation of what he refers to as the "information society" have influenced the ways in which government officials, corporate leaders, and citizens think about the future of political, social and economic life in America. This text examines

Authors:Rick Harris, Chris Harris, Earl Wilson,
Publisher: Lean Enterprise Institute
Keywords: production, operations, control, engineering, professionals, guide, handling, materials, flow, lean, material, making
Number of Pages: 93
Published: 2003-09
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0974182494
ISBN-13: 9780974182490

Making Materials Flow describes in plain language another step in implementing a complete lean business system. LEI’s first workbook, Learning to See, focused on where to start — at the value stream for each product family within your facilities. Seeing the Whole then expanded the value stream map beyond facility walls, all the way from raw materials to customer. After mapping has identified waste and potential applications of flow and pull, you can use the techniques in Creating Continuous Flow to implement truly continuous flow in cellularized operations. Making Materia

Authors:Jeanne Fahnestock, Marie Secor, Jeanne Fahnestock, Ma
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: reader, text, argument, rhetoric
Number of Pages: 584
Published: 2003-08-06
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0072938234
ISBN-13: 9780072938234

When it was first published in 1982, A Rhetoric of Argument developed a ground-breaking new approach to teaching argument. The stasis approach pioneered by Fahnestock and Secor distinguished among the four basic questions that arguments are written to answer: What is it? (Definition arguments) How did it get that way? (Causal arguments) Is it good or bad? (Evaluation arguments) What should we do about it? (Proposal arguments) These four questions, now standard in many argument texts, give students a constructive, engaging way to analyze arguments by other writers and to construc

Authors:Jeanne Fuchs, Jeanne Fuchs; Ruth Prigozy,
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: legend, music, man, sinatra, frank
Number of Pages: 165
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1580462510
ISBN-13: 9781580462518

For nearly sixty years, Frank Sinatra (1915-98) triumphed in concert, in the recording studio, on television, and on the big screen, refashioning his image to suit the temper of the times. Sinatra did it "his way," remaining both elusive and alluring, and appealing to men and women alike. This collection analyzes the qualities that ensured Sinatra’s staying power: his impeccable musicality, his charisma, his tough-mindedness, and even his peccadilloes. The contributors to this volume evaluate Sinatra’s impact on all areas of entertainment, and examine many of the cultural forces h