Authors:Jimme Keizer, Piet M Kempen,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: oriented, approach, solution, projects, research, business
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0750665734
ISBN-13: 9780750665735

Almost all higher educational institutions have built some kind of fieldwork project into the advanced stages of their programmes and the research project should integrate theory, practice, knowledge and skills.Students should be able to apply their acquired knowledge and understanding in a manner that indicates a professional approach to their work or vocation, and have the ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and formulate judgements with incomplete or limited information. It is important that they can communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and rationale underpinnin

Author: Ross Dawson
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: relationships, second, client, based, knowledge, developing
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2005-06-03
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0750678712
ISBN-13: 9780750678711

Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, Second Edition, shows organizations how to lead their key clients into lasting, profitable, high-value relationships. Building on the powerful, tested principles of knowledge-based client relationships, Ross Dawson provides clear and extremely practical approaches for all professional and knowledge-based firms on how to create unique value for both clients and themselves.Detailed case studies across a wide variety of professional services industries offer valuable insights into world leading practice in the field.He examines key client programs,

Author: Peter A. Nayler
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: business, effects, international, place, market, law, global
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-11-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0750660058
ISBN-13: 9780750660051

The study of Law forms a component of many undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Its inclusion does not aim to equip business practitioners with skill and expertise to render professional legal advice unnecessary, but more to provide a legal framework of reference in which both strategic and more immediate business issues can be placed. Equipping managers with a basic understanding of how law impacts upon business activity can help them avoid legal pitfalls in the first place or at least identify potential problems at an early stage, to avoid inconvenience and cost.International business

Author: Peter F. Drucker
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd
Keywords: getting, right, things, motivation, insight, drucker, days, daily
Number of Pages: 500
Published: 2004-10-20
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0750665998
ISBN-13: 9780750665995

A powerful new learning tool for the ambitious, self-directed manager, entrepreneur, or business person today, "The Daily Drucker" distils the essence of management guru Peter F. Drucker’s teachings in an easy-to-access, daily calendar format. It presents in organized form: a key statement of Druckers, followed by a few lines of comment and explanation, with topics ranging across a great many fields of his work: management, business and the world economy; a changing society; innovation and entrepreneurship; decision-making; and, the changing workforce and the non-profit and their managem

Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: second, design, mechanical
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2004-01-13
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0750657715
ISBN-13: 9780750657716

This book introduces the subject of total design, and introduces the design and selection of various common mechanical engineering components and machine elements. These provide "building blocks", with which the engineer can practice his or her art.The approach adopted for defining design follows that developed by the SEED (Sharing Experience in Engineering Design) programme where design is viewed as "the total activity necessary to provide a product or process to meet a market need." Within this framework the book concentrates on developing detailed mechanical design skills in the areas of be

Authors:Michael Ashby, Kara Johnson,
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: design, selection, product, material, science, art, materials
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-12-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0750655542
ISBN-13: 9780750655545

The history of man is recorded, recovered and remembered through the designs he created and the materials he used. Materials are the stuff of design, and today is not the age of just one material, but of an immense range.Best selling author M. F. Ashby guides the reader through the process of selecting materials on the basis of their design suitability. He and co-author Kara Johnson begin with the assumption that products in a given market sector have little to distinguish between them in either performance or cost. When many technically near-equivalent products compete, market share is won

Author: Vance J. Van Doren
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: control, adaptive, techniques
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 2002-06-18
List price: $73.95
ISBN-10: 0750674954
ISBN-13: 9780750674959

Techniques for Adaptive Control compiles chapters from a team of expert contributors that allow readers to gain a perspective into a number of different approaches to adaptive control. In order to do this, each contributor provides an overview of a particular product, how it works, and reasons why a user would want it as well as an in depth explanation of their particular method. This is one of the latest technologies to emerge in the instrumentation and control field. These latest control methodologies offer a means to revolutionize plant and process efficiency, response time and profitabili