Tabla de Contenidos: “…Validating the value of the solution -- Taking your audience into consideration -- Setting Your Solution Up For Success: Getting Clear Objectives -- Eliciting and articulating clear objectives -- Getting clear with SMART objectives -- Part 3 Selling the Plan and Keeping It on Track -- Chapter 9 Making the (Business) Case -- Before You Dive In: Breaking Down Business Case Basics -- Looking at the benefits of writing a business case -- Playing to the crowd: Knowing your audience -- Following basic business case structure -- Defining and Presenting the Opportunity -- Executive summary -- Mission statement -- Setting SMART objectives -- Using key performance indicators -- Description of the approach used -- Justifying the Recommendation -- Identifying and prioritizing alternative solutions -- Including a cost/benefit analysis -- Understanding financial terminology and metrics -- Estimating techniques -- Quantifying ongoing/operating costs and benefits -- Quantifying implementation costs -- The Devil Is in the Details: Providing Supporting Materials -- Addressing supporting documentation -- Noting your assumptions -- Documenting risk -- Presenting the Business Case -- Chapter 10 Creating and Maintaining Scope -- Making Sure You're Scoping the Right Solution -- Recognizing Relevant Stakeholders -- Uncovering stakeholders by asking project-specific questions -- Discovering key stakeholders in different parts of the organization -- Ensuring that the Scope Aligns with Key Business Drivers -- Identifying Interfaces that Are Part of the Project -- User interfaces -- System interfaces -- Hardware interfaces -- Defining Scope with a Data Flow Diagram -- Identifying parties and systems that will be impacted by the project -- Identifying information (data) flows among the parties or systems -- Gaining consensus on the scope for the project…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Concept of Nature in Whitehead and Merleau‐Ponty -- Rosi Braidotti's Celebratory Posthuman Philosophy -- A Fully Posthuman Situation -- Wendy Chun on Software Code -- Software Code as Expanded Narration -- The Software of the Future -- Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance -- Technoscience and Storytelling -- From Liberal Humanism to Posthumanism -- Cyborg Spock and NASA's Cyborg -- First Order Cybernetics -- How Information Lost Its Body -- Claus Pias on First‐Order Cybernetics -- Gene Roddenberry Designs His First Alien -- "The Devil in the Dark": Empathy for Radical Otherness -- Second Order Cybernetics -- Bernhard Dotzler on Second‐Order Cybernetics -- The Android Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation -- "The Offspring": Data's Daughter Lal -- Third Order Cybernetics -- "Becoming‐Borg" Seven of Nine -- Star Trek: Picard, "Remembrance" -- "Embodied Informatics" is a Science Fiction Idea -- Hayles on Writing and Software Code -- Hyper‐Modernist Science -- I, Robot and the Moral Dilemmas of the Three Laws of Robotics -- The Zeroth Law of Robotics and the Robot Unconscious -- Hayles on the Cognitive Nonconscious -- Marie‐Luise Angerer Critiques Hayles -- Judith Butler and Gender Theory -- Ex Machina and the Turing Test -- Ex Machina: The Performance of Female and Human -- Monique Wittig, The Straight Mind -- Software Code as Expanded Narration -- Software Code as Expressive Media -- Friedrich Kittler: The Numeric Kernel is Decisive -- Kittler's Media Archaeology -- Wolfgang Hagen on Programming Languages -- Ten Paradigms of Informatics and Programming -- The First Hyper‐Modern Computers -- Enter Software Studies -- Enter Creative Coding -- Alan Turing: The Imitation Game and Befriending the Evil Demon…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Medium of Magnetic Recording -- The Professional Analog ATR -- The Tape Transport -- The Magnetic Tape Head -- Equalization -- Bias Current -- Monitoring Modes -- Tape, Tape Speed and Head Configurations -- Print-Through -- Analog Tape Noise -- Cleanliness -- Degaussing -- Editing Magnetic Tape -- Backup and Archive Strategies -- Backing up Your Analog Project -- Tape Restoration -- Archive Strategies -- Tape Availability -- Tape Emulation Plug-Ins -- Chapter 6 Digital Audio Technology -- The Language of Digital -- Digital Basics -- Sampling -- Quantization -- The Devil's in the Details -- The Nyquist Theorem -- Oversampling -- Signal-to-Error Ratio -- Dither -- Fixed- versus Floating-Point Processing…”

“…When it comes to mergers and acquisitions, the devil is in the details. Now in a new edition, this is THE guide to getting M&A deals done right…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 5: Tabula Rasa - Approaching an Application with TDD in Mind -- Where to begin -- Yak shaving -- Big design up front -- A clean slate -- One bite at a time -- Minimum Viable Product -- Different mindset -- YAGNI - you aren't gonna need it -- Test small -- Devil's advocate -- Test negative cases first -- When testing is painful -- A spike -- Assert first -- Stay organized -- Breaking down Speaker Meet -- Speakers -- Communities -- Conferences -- Technical requirements -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Approaching the Problem -- Defining the problem -- Digesting the problem -- Epics, features, and stories -- oh my! …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Complementary Products and Services -- Chapter 31 Substitute Products and Services -- Chapter 32 Disrupt and Innovate -- Finding New Value -- Finding New Value: Part I -- Chapter 33 Finding New Value: Part Deux -- Broaden the Buyers -- Create Customer Experiences -- Tap into Trends -- Distinctive Delivery -- Imagine and Innovate -- Finding New Value: Part II -- Summary: -- Chapter 34 Pricing Strategy and Objectives -- Mapping Customer Value to Pricing Strategy -- Training Industry Example -- Chapter 35 Analyze Price and Profitability by Product and Service -- Revenue/Cost Analysis -- Worksheet -- Chapter 36 Distribution and Channel Sales Strategy -- Choose the Right Channels -- Channel Considerations -- Chapter 37 Formula for Success: Real-Time Channel Development -- Real-Time Channel Development -- Chapter 38 Analyzing and Selecting Channels -- Avoid Channel Conflict -- Channel Checklist: Devil's in the Details -- Chapter 39 Strategic Alliances and Partnerships -- Strategic Alliance and Partnership Success Factors -- Channel Mapping -- P R A I S E -- Marketing Process -- Summary: Section III -- Section IV: Strategize: Growth Opportunities -- Chapter 40 What Is Strategy? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- Allow your partner to come up with terrible ideas. Don't play devil's advocate. -- Let your subconscious mind do it. -- Low-hanging fruit, the barren wasteland, and eureka. -- A Few Words About Pictures. -- Can the solution be entirely visual? …”

“…From Nepal, where medicinal plants from the wild play an essential role in medicine to Namibia where the harvesting of the "Devil's claw" is already arried out in a sustainable way…”

“…While God looks directly into people's souls as inspector cordium, the relationship of observation between man and the devil appears as an immanent and indirect, lateral and potentially reciprocal one. …”

“…If it does, it would of course be the one thing the devil could not bestow. So from what or whom could Faust retrieve it? …”