Description: A practical, managerial-oriented approach that shows how IT is used in organizations to improve quality and productivity
Case studies highlight new technology and applications, including fuzzy logic, neural computing, and hypermedia
Contains a variety of cases that emphasize problems many corporations encounter
Features international cases, illustrating how IT can be adapted to other cultures

Description: The book emphasizes research in economics and management of networks as an interdisciplinary field by offering new theoretical perspectives and presenting new empirical results on strategic and governance structure issues in cooperatives, franchising networks, alliances, joint ventures and venture capital relations. The authors apply different theoretical views on networks, such as transaction cost theory, property rights theory, resource- and knowledge-based theory, evolutionary theory, information richness theory and social exchange theory.

Description: 'Operations Management: policy, practices, performance improvement' is the latest state-of-the-art approach to operations management. It provides new cutting edge input into operations management theory and practice that cannot be found in any other text.

Discussing both strategic and tactical inputs it combines and balances service and manufacturing operations.

Description: Several studies have been made to determine the effectiveness of information and communication technologies within small business enterprises, but the focus on e-readiness assessments have been very limited.

Digital Economies: SMEs and E-Readiness provides valuable insights into the current state of the digital economy and the ability of SMEs to leverage information and communication technologies in overcoming their position in the global business market. This innovative collection provides vital information for developing strategic objectives and frameworks that promote economic growth, infrastructure development, capacity building, and educational training.

Description: The Practical, Example-Rich Guide to Building Better Systems, Software, and Hardware with DFSS

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) offers engineers powerful opportunities to develop more successful systems, software, hardware, and processes. In Applying Design for Six Sigma to Software and Hardware Systems, two leading experts offer a realistic, step-by-step process for succeeding with DFSS. Their clear, start-to-finish roadmap is designed for successfully developing complex high-technology products and systems that require both software and hardware development.

Description: Carol Harris presents great ideas, practical help and straightforward guidance for anyone planning their own publication. The text covers newspapers, magazines, journals, newsletters, reports, information sheets, e-zines and electronic newsletters.

Description: What do companies need to do today to ensure that they will be around to thrive tomorrow? How can executives be anything but bewildered about where to start when change is so vast and rapid? How is it possible to plan for the unknown? These authors argue that companies can turn even momentous changes to their advantage. Like Marco Polo, Columbus, and Lewis and Clark, todays executives are venturing into unfamiliar lands. But unlike explorers in the past, state the authors of Into the Networked Age, executives cannot choose whether to face the unknown. Change, driven by technological innovation, is inescapable. For the sake of company survival, executives in all industries must understand it and learn how to work with, not against, it.

Description: Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days is a collection of interviews with founders of famous technology companies about what happened in the very earliest days. These people are celebrities now. What was it like when they were just a couple friends with an idea? Founders like Steve Wozniak (Apple), Caterina Fake (Flickr), Mitch Kapor (Lotus), Max Levchin (PayPal), and Sabeer Bhatia (Hotmail) tell you in their own words about their surprising and often very funny discoveries as they learned how to build a company.

Where did they get the ideas that made them rich? How did they convince investors to back them? What went wrong, and how did they recover?

Description: An IT expert reveals a key secret to entrepreneurial success: How to avoid wasting money while obtaining the greatest value from computers and networks.

Description: Go beyond the basics and learn the trade secrets that have propelled the savviest entrepreneurs into eBay PowerSellers--those earning $1,000 to $150,000 per month or more through eBay auctions. Sharpen your skills with this healthy blend of time-tested business principles and the advice of real PowerSellers who share with you how they have achieved success. Get valuable advice on finding little-known sources for products, advertising your wares, managing inventory, collecting payments, keeping records, shipping, running an eBay Store, and much more. Plus, learn the keys to keeping your customers so happy they’ll shop with you again and again. eBay PowerSeller Secrets: Insider Tips from eBay’s Most Successful Sellers will help you effectively run a store that never closes, sells globally, and offers virtually unlimited income potential.