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Improving Healthcare Quality and Cost with Six Sigma
Author Praveen Gupta , Dr. H. James Harrington , Carolyn Pexton , Dr. Brett E. Trusko
The Definitive Six Sigma Guide for Healthcare: Methodologies, Tools, and MetricsRising costs are making healthcare unaffordable for millions, and 100,000 people die every year due to medical error. Healthcare must change—dramatically. Many leading healthcare institu....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Author Steve Johnson - Perspection , Inc.
Microsoft® Expression®Web On DemandFOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER BE SHOWN HOW THAN TOLD HOWSEE HOW TO• Create Web sites using drag and drop controls• Employ Cascading Style Sheets formatting and management• Create Cascading Style Sheet layouts• Create a page design usi....
Release Date 2007/04 -
Author Michael Peacock
A practical guide to getting your TYPO3 website up and running fastA practical step-by-step tutorial to creating your TYPO3 website Install and configure TYPO3Master all the important aspects of TYPO3, including the backend, the frontend, content management, and te....
Release Date 2007/03 -
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership
Author David Gergen , Peter Sims , Bill George
True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today's top leaders—with some surprising results. In this important book, accla....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Bijay K. Jayaswal , Peter C. Patton
This short cut is a reproduction of Chapter 21 of the book Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS) and is a sequel to Chapters 2, 5, and 20. The Plan, Implement, Control, and Secure (PICS) implementation framework is revisited and its four phases are examined in turn....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Ernest H. Forman , Peter C. Patton , Bijay K. Jayaswal
The Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is an advanced technique that supports decision makers in structuring complex decisions, quantifying intangible factors, and evaluating choices in multiobjective decision situations. It is a comprehensive and rational decision-ma....
Release Date 2007/03 -
Author Richard E. Zultner , Peter C. Patton , Bijay K. Jayaswal
Leading companies around the world, including Toyota and General Electric, have practiced Quality Function Deployment (QFD) for decades. Developed in Japan by Dr. Yoji Akao and Dr. Shigeru Mizuno, QFD has two aims: to ensure that true customer needs are properly dep....
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Author Bloomy Controls Peter A. Blume - President Inc.
Drawing on the experiences of a world-class LabVIEW development organization, The LabVIEW Style Book is the definitive guide to best practices in LabVIEW development.Leading LabVIEW development manager Peter A. Blume presents practical guidelines or “rules” for opti....
Release Date 2007/02 -
The Change Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author Steven Cady , Tom Devane , Peggy Holman
The Change Handbook features chapters by the originators and foremost practitioners of such high-leverage change methods as Future Search, Real Time Strategic Change, Gemba Kaizen, and Open Space Technology. The authors outline distinctive aspects of their app....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Strategic Corporate Finance: Applications in Valuation and Capital Structure
Author Justin Pettit
Essential guidance for the corporate finance professional — advisor, Board Director, CFO, Treasurer, business development executive, or M&A expert—to ask the right questions and make the critical decisions. Strategic Corporate Finance is a practical guide to the....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Microsoft Windows Vista On Demand
Author Steve Johnson - Perspection , Inc.
A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0789737868 ISBN-13: 9780789737861• Master the Windows Vista user experience, including Windows Aero• Manage files and information using Windows Vista programs and Sidebar gadgets• Create your own movies, sl....
Release Date 2007/01 -
Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Windows® Vista™ All in One
Author Greg Perry
Vista is the brave new world of Microsoft Windows computing, and with it, what once was old, is new again. In just a short time, Sams Teach Yourself Windows Vista All in One will have you up and running with this new, must-have Windows operating system.Using a strai....
Release Date 2006/12 -
Deploying Zone-Based Firewalls
Author Ivan Pepelnjak
Deploying Zone-Based Firewalls (Digital Short Cut)Ivan PepelnjakISBN: 1-58705-310-1Improved firewall policy configuration means network administrators can more easily understand the effect of firewall policies on network traffic. This functionality allows the groupi....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 3rd Edition
Author Louis Rosenfeld , Peter Morville
The post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and mashups makes well-planned information architecture even more essential. How do you present large volumes of information to people who need to find what they're looking for quickly? This classic primer sho....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Author Sergio Pereira , Scott Raymond
This short cut provides a complete quick reference to thePrototype JavaScript framework. Prototype is an open-source librarythat is particularly useful to developers of dynamic Ajaxapplications, and to other web developers who need to work with DOMelements.If you'r....
Release Date 2006/11 -
Mongrel: Serving, Deploying, and Extending Your Ruby Applications
Author Zed Shaw , Matt Pelletier
This short cut is an introduction and guide to Mongrel, a fast, versatile RubyWeb server. If you build or manage Web applications, this will be a usefulreference as you set up and use Mongrel in your development and productionenvironments, as well as a handbook for ....
Release Date 2006/10 -
BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting
Author Nola Hague , Alethea Hannemann , Diana Peh
A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0321580273 ISBN-13: 9780321580276The first in a two-book series about Business Intelligence and Reporting Technology, BIRT: A Field Guide to Reporting introduces reporting to a broad base of users. Built on the Ecli....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Commercializing Great Products with Design for Six Sigma
Author David W. Bacon , Randy C. Perry
Optimize Every Stage of Your Product Development and CommercializationTo remain competitive, companies must become more effective at identifying, developing, and commercializing new products and services. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) is the most powerful approach ava....
Release Date 2006/10 -
The Business Case for Design for Six Sigma
Author Randy C. Perry , David W. Bacon
Successful development and commercialization of new products are critical to the long term viability of any business. The primary goal of product development is to enable a company to meet its goals for profitability and growth by introducing new, improved and innov....
Release Date 2006/09 -
Enterprise Architecture As Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution
Author David Robertson , Peter Weill , Jeanne W. Ross
Does it seem you’ve formulated a rock-solid strategy, yet your firm still can’t get ahead? If so, construct a solid foundation for business execution—an IT infrastructure and digitized business processes to automate your company’s core capabilities. In Enterprise Ar....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Handbook of Constraint Programming
Author To Walsh , Peter van Beek , Francesca Rossi
Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science, databases, programming languages, and operations research. Constraint programming is cur....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Statistical Tolerancing in Design for Six Sigma
Author David W. Bacon , Randy C. Perry
Development of a new product requires the product development team to address many complex customer requirements during the commercialization process. Consider a situation in which a new product being developed must meet specified upper and lower specification limit....
Release Date 2006/08 -
Design for Trustworthy Software: Tools, Techniques, and Methodology of Developing Robust Software
Author Bijay K. Jayaswal , Peter C. Patton
ASQ 2007 CROSBY MEDAL WINNER!An Integrated Technology for Delivering Better Software—Cheaper and Faster!This book presents an integrated technology, Design for Trustworthy Software (DFTS), to address software quality issues upstream such that the goal of software qu....
Release Date 2006/08 -
The First 90 Days in Government: Critical Success Strategies for New Public Managers at All Levels
Author Cate Reavis , Michael Watkins , Peter H. Daly
More than 250,000 public sector managers in the United States take on new positions each year and many more aspire to leadership. Each will confront special challenges—from higher public profiles to a greater number of stakeholders to volatile political environments....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Voice over IP Fundamentals, Second Edition
Author Sudipto Mukherjee , Satish Kalidindi , Manoj Bhatia , James Peters , Jonathan Davids
A systematic approach to understanding the basics of voice over IPUnderstand the basics of enterprise and public telephony networking, IP networking, and how voice is transported over IP networksLearn the various caveats of converging voice and data networksExamine ....
Release Date 2006/07 -
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Author James Stanger , Jeff Dean , Nicolai Langfeldt , Bruno Gomes Pessanha , Steven Pritch
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition is an invaluable resource for determining what you need to practice to pass the Linux Professional Institute exams. This book will help you determine when you're ready to take the exams, which are technically ch....
Release Date 2006/07 -
Effective Methods for Software Testing, Third Edition
Author Perry , William E. , William E. Perry Enterprises , Inc.
Written by the founder and executive director of the Quality Assurance Institute, which sponsors the most widely accepted certification program for software testingSoftware testing is a weak spot for most developers, and many have no system in place to find and corr....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Head, Heart and Guts: How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete Leaders
Author Stephen Rhinesmith , Peter C. Cairo , David L. Dotlich
This book reveals the three most important capabilities leaders must demonstrate today: the ability to set strategy, empathize with others, and take risks—all at the same time. In Head, Heart, and Guts, leadership experts David Dotlich, Peter Cairo, and Stephen Rhin....
Release Date 2006/05 -
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
Author Juan J. Perez , Sam Guckenheimer
Software Engineering with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System is written for any software team that is considering running a software project using Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), or evaluating modern software development practices for its use.It is about the valu....
Release Date 2006/05 -
cPanel User Guide and Tutorial
Author Aric Pedersen
Get the most from cPanel with this easy to follow guideAbout This BookEverything you need to manage files, email, and databases using cPanelOrganise your web site… create subdomains, custom error messages, and password protected areasAnalyse site logs, ensure your....
Release Date 2006/03