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Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business

• 1st Edition
• September 4, 2014
• J. David Quilter
• English
• eBook 978-0-12-800922-2

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Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business is a video presentation. Length: 68 minutes.In Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business, presenter J. David Quilter demonstrates the benefits of how a fully integrated security program increases business profits and delivers smart security practices at the same time. The presentation does away with the misconception that security is only an expense. In fact, a well-integrated security program can protect business interests, thereby enhancing productivity and net income. Quilter covers cost analysis and security measures and metrics, along with how to demonstrate return on investment and leverage executive leadership. The practices and tools discussed in this presentation will reduce business losses and help improve security and operations.Smart Security: Understanding and Contributing to the Business is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

Discovering the Total Cost of Security to the Enterprise

• 1st Edition
• September 2, 2014
• Richard Lefler
• English
• eBook 978-0-12-800921-5

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Discovering the Total Cost of Security to the Enterprise is a video presentation. Length: 29 minutes.In Discovering the Total Cost of Security to the Enterprise, presenter Richard Lefler discusses what security actually costs an organization in terms of operating, variable, and mandatory costs. Each of the three types of security costs are defined and expanded upon in this presentation. Lefler also explains how certain industry sectors have increasing variable and operating costs, along with the reasons behind these trends. The presentation also covers mandatory spend versus discretionary spend, chief security officer management (CSO) trends, and the critical next steps for CSOs.Discovering the Total Cost of Security to the Enterprise is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

Preventing Workplace Violence: A Training Guide for Managers and Supervisors

• 1st Edition
• September 2, 2014
• Rosalind Jackson
• English
• eBook 978-0-12-800924-6

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Preventing Workplace Violence: A Training Guide for Managers and Supervisors is a video presentation. Length: 25 minutes.In Preventing Workplace Violence: A Training Guide for Managers and Supervisors, presenter Rosalind W. Jackson provides the fundamentals of workplace violence prevention, including initial program development. This presentation explains the components needed to develop a good baseline program, and focuses on recognizing patterns of unacceptable behavior. It addresses policy development and expert consultation considerations, along with the use of education and team coordination. The presentation also includes a sample workplace violence policy statement, and discusses the impact of workplace violence on the business.Preventing Workplace Violence: A Training Guide for Managers and Supervisors is a part of Elsevier’s Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs.

Modern Enterprise Business Intelligence and Data Management

• 1st Edition
• August 28, 2014
• Alan Simon
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-801539-1

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• eBook 978-0-12-801745-6

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Nearly every large corporation and governmental agency is taking a fresh look at their current enterprise-scale business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing implementations at the dawn of the "Big Data Era"…and most see a critical need to revitalize their current capabilities. Whether they find the frustrating and business-impeding continuation of a long-standing "silos of data" problem, or an over-reliance on static production reports at the expense of predictive analytics and other true business intelligence capabilities, or a lack of progress in achieving the long-sought-after enterprise-wide "single version of the truth" – or all of the above – IT Directors, strategists, and architects find that they need to go back to the drawing board and produce a brand new BI/data warehousing roadmap to help move their enterprises from their current state to one where the promises of emerging technologies and a generation’s worth of best practices can finally deliver high-impact, architecturally evolvable enterprise-scale business intelligence and data warehousing. Author Alan Simon, whose BI and data warehousing experience dates back to the late 1970s and who has personally delivered or led more than thirty enterprise-wide BI/data warehousing roadmap engagements since the mid-1990s, details a comprehensive step-by-step approach to building a best practices-driven, multi-year roadmap in the quest for architecturally evolvable BI and data warehousing at the enterprise scale. Simon addresses the triad of technology, work processes, and organizational/human factors considerations in a manner that blends the visionary and the pragmatic.

Proactive Marketing for the New and Experienced Library Director

• 1st Edition
• August 25, 2014
• Melissa U.D. Goldsmith + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-787-3

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• eBook 978-1-78063-468-5

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Academic libraries have continually looked for technological solutions to low circulation statistics, under-usage by students and faculty, and what is perceived as a crisis in relevance, seeing themselves in competition with Google and Wikipedia. Academic libraries, however, are as relevant as they have been historically, as their primary functions within their university missions have not changed, but merely evolved. Going beyond the Gate Count argues that the problem is not relevance, but marketing and articulation. This book offers theoretical reasoning and practical advice to directors on how to better market the function of the library within and beyond the home institution. The aim of this text is to help directors, and ultimately, their librarians and staff get students and faculty back into the library, as a result of better articulation of the library’s importance. The first chapter explores the promotion of academic libraries and their function as educational systems. The next two chapters focus on the importance of the role social media and virtual presence in the academic library, and engaging and encouraging students to use the library through a variety of methods, such as visually oriented special collections. Remaining chapters discuss collaboration and collegiality, formalized reporting and marketing.

Libraries and Public Perception

• 1st Edition
• August 18, 2014
• Anna Galluzzi
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-744-6

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• eBook 978-1-78063-425-8

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What is the future of libraries? This question is frequently posed, with widespread research into the social and economic impact of libraries. Newspapers play an important role in forming public perceptions, but how do newspapers present libraries, their past, present and future? Nobody has yet taken the press to task on the quantity and quality of articles on libraries, however Libraries and Public Perception does just this, through comparative textual analysis of newspapers in Europe. After a comprehensive and useful introductory chapter, the book consists of the following five chapters: Wondering about the future of libraries; Measuring the value of libraries; Libraries in the newspapers; Contemporary challenges and public perception; Which library model from the newspapers: a synthesis.

Six Key Communication Skills for Records and Information Managers

• 1st Edition
• August 18, 2014
• Kenneth Laurence Neal
• English
• Paperback 978-1-84334-782-8

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• eBook 978-1-78063-463-0

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Excellent business communication skills are especially important for information management professionals, particularly records managers, who have to communicate a complex idea: how an effective program can help the organization be better prepared for litigation, and do it in a way that is persuasive in order to win records program support and budget. <I>Six Key Communication Skills for Records and Information Managers</I> explores those skills that enable records and information to have a better chance of advancing their programs and their careers. Following an introduction from the author, this book will focus on six key communication skills: be brief, be clear, be receptive, be strategic, be credible and be persuasive. Honing these skills will enable readers to more effectively obtain support for strategic programs, communicate more effectively with senior management, IT personnel and staff, and master key forms of business communication including written, verbal and formal presentations. The final chapter will highlight one of the most practical applications of applying the skills for records and information managers: the business case. Based on real events, the business cases spotlighted involve executives who persuaded organizations to adopt new programs. These case histories bring to life many of the six keys to effective communication.

The Globalization of Chinese Business

• 1st Edition
• August 15, 2014
• Robert Taylor
• English
• Hardback 978-1-84334-768-2

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• eBook 978-1-78063-449-4

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The main theme of the book is the globalisation of China’s markets and Chinese business management in the context of ongoing reform at home and the country’s growing global economic role. The Globalisation of Chinese Business includes contributions relating to a wide range of manufacturing and service sectors, encompassing such areas as foreign investment, state and private enterprise, human resource management, consumer culture and advertising, financial markets and healthcare. Following an introduction by the editor there are four sections, the first focused on the globalisation of Chinese management and the second on the evolution of Chinese management. The remaining sections contain chapters on China’s growing service sector, growing markets and competition, and healthcare system reform. An epilogue by the editor in the remaining section concludes.

Technology Entrepreneurship

• 2nd Edition
• August 12, 2014
• Thomas N. Duening + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-420175-0

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• eBook 978-0-12-420234-4

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The focus of this book is on technology ventures — how they start, operate, and sometimes exit profitably. In short, it covers all the elements required to launch a successful technology company, including discussion of cutting-edge trends such as "entrepreneurial method" and "lean startup," emphasis on the ideation process and development of an effective business plan, coverage of product and market development, intellectual property, structuring your venture, raising capital, sales and marketing, people management, and even strategies for exiting your venture. This is not another armchair book about entrepreneurship. It’s a working guide for engineers and scientists who want to actually be entrepreneurs.

Service Orchestration as Organization

• 1st Edition
• August 12, 2014
• Malinda Kapuruge + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-800938-3

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• eBook 978-0-12-801097-6

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Service orchestration techniques combine the benefits of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Business Process Management (BPM) to compose and coordinate distributed software services. On the other hand, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is gaining popularity as a software delivery model through cloud platforms due to the many benefits to software vendors, as well as their customers. Multi-tenancy, which refers to the sharing of a single application instance across multiple customers or user groups (called tenants), is an essential characteristic of the SaaS model. Written in an easy to follow style with discussions supported by real-world examples, Service Orchestration as Organization introduces a novel approach with associated language, framework, and tool support to show how service orchestration techniques can be used to engineer and deploy SaaS applications.