Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Strategy Pyramid -- Business vs corporate strategy -- Essential case study: Extramural Ltd -- Part 1: Strategy development -- Chapter 1: Knowing your business -- Identifying key segments -- Essential example: Apple's saviour segments -- Segmentation in a start-up -- Essential case study: Extramural Ltd - the business -- Chapter 2: Setting goals and objectives -- Setting long-term goals -- Essential example: Life at Mars -- Setting SMART objectives -- Essential case study: Extramural Ltd - goals and objectives -- Chapter 3: Forecasting market demand -- Sizing the market -- Forecasting market demand -- Essential tool: Moving averages -- Essential example: No wrap for the cinema -- Forecasting demand for a start-up -- Market demand risks and opportunities -- Essential case study: Extramural Ltd - market demand -- Chapter 4: Gauging industry competition -- Assessing competitive intensity -- Assigning customer purchasing criteria -- Deriving key success factors -- Essential tool: Economies of scale -- Essential example: Jessops is shuttered -- Gauging competition in a start-up -- Industry competition risks and opportunities -- Essential case study: Extramural Ltd - competition -- Chapter 5: Tracking competitive advantage -- Rating competitive position -- Essential tool: Product/market risk -- Reviewing resources and capabilities -- Essential tool: The value chain -- Essential example: The everlasting Monsoon -- Creating competitive advantage in a start-up -- Essential example: Of diet, dance and detectives -- Essential case study: Extramural Ltd - advantage -- Chapter 6: Targeting the strategic gap -- Targeting the portfolio gap…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Defining parameters and passing argumentsReturn a value; The Benefits of Using Functions; Writing Functions; Returning Values; Passing and Using Arguments; Passing arguments by value; Passing arguments by reference; Calling a function without all the arguments; Setting default parameter values; Calling a function with more argument than parameters; Getting into arguments with the arguments object; Function Scope; Anonymous Function; Knowing the differences between anonymous and named functions; Self-executing anonymous functions; Do it Again with Recursion; Functions within Functions…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; Foreword; About the Author; Acknowledgement; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1:Knowing Talend Open Studio; What Talend Open Studio is; Use cases; History of Talend Open Studio; Benefits of Talend Open Studio; Installing Talend Open Studio; Prerequisites; Installation guide; Other useful software; Text editor; MySQL; Sample jobs and data; Summary; Chapter 2: Working with Talend Open Studio; Studio definitions; Starting the Studio; Tour of the Studio; The Repository; The design workspace; The Palette; Configuration tabs…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Copyright; Credits; Disclaimer; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Flow Control Patterns; Sequence flow pattern; Working with the sequence flow pattern; Elucidating the sequence flow pattern; Getting ready for executing use cases; Exclusive choice and simple merge pattern; Working with exclusive choice and simple merge pattern; Knowing about the exclusive choice pattern; Elucidating the simple merge pattern; Multichoice and synchronizing merge pattern…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Planning the Letter; Researching the Facts; Analyzing the Subject and Reader; Knowing Your Objectives and How to Accomplish Them; Chapter 2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Setting goals for your business and website and getting inspirationAnalyzing your audience; Determining the goal of your website; Following the leaders; Gauging competition in the search market; Knowing what WordPress already does for your SEO; Understanding WordPress' economical architecture; Building large sites quickly with WordPress; Earning respect with search engines; Leveraging WordPress' blogging capabilities; Displaying RSS feeds; Finding your RSS feed; Promoting your RSS feed; Automatically creating descriptive URLs with WordPress permalinks; Creating reliable, text-based navigation…”

“…Quantiative narrative analysis (QDA) is one more way to colonize and marginalize indigenous ways of knowing (IWOK) Without an ontological turn, its the death of storytelling predicted by Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein predicted. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Crisis Training -- What Good Is a Plan Nobody Knows About? -- Types of Training -- Media Training -- What You Learn from Media Training -- What Makes a Good Spokesperson? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Part II: How to start a productive conversation with a strangerChapter 6: Making a positive first impression; Drop those inhibitions; Open your eyes and smile; Chapter 7: Networking freestyle - make the first move; Decide who you want to talk to; Internal networking; Your family has networks too; Chapter 8: Networking at events; Choosing appropriate events; High-end events; Before you go; When you get there; Starting a conversation; Knowing what to say; Moving on to someone else; Following up; Socialising with CEOs; When in Rome . . .; In a nutshell…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Conceptions of Curriculum: Subject Matter, Skills, and Social Purposes of SchoolingUnderstanding Teaching: Designing Classrooms That Enable Diverse Students to Learn Challenging Content; Overall Organization; 2: Theories of Learning and Their Roles in Teaching; The How People Learn Framework as a Way to Organize Thinking; Knowledge-Centeredness; Understanding the Nature of Expertise; Expertise and Teaching; Adaptive Expertise; Learner-Centeredness; Understanding the Constructive Nature of Knowing; Learner-Centeredness, Metacognition, and Basic Cognitive Processes; Community-Centeredness…”

“…Managers see these opportunities and know that firms that innovate during times of crisis are more successful in the long term than those that do not. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Guindon; 2. What Do We Know About Self-Esteem Interventions?: Mary H. Guindon; Section II: Childhood; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Changing the World with Outcomes -- A Vehicle of Transformation -- Beach Holidays -- Selling the Dream of a Better Future -- Clarifying Your Value Proposition -- The Gaddie Pitch -- Transforming Curiosity into Sales -- Chapter 2 Knowing Your Most Valuable Clients -- Making Marketing Easier -- Identifying Your Most Valuable Clients -- Creating a Buyer Persona -- Financial Fred -- Chapter 3 Creating Your Offer -- Step 1: Identifying Your Most Valuable Clients (MVCs) -- Step 2: Defining the Desired Outcome -- Step 3: Developing the Process -- Step 4: Determining the Price -- Reducing the Risk in Your Offer -- Chapter 4 Building Your Message to the World -- The Big Promise -- What Is a Personal Brand? …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…: Media wants and needs; Tailoring to the audience without knowing it; Directly engaging the audience ; Specific design contexts : The reality of the newsroom; Visualization for television -- Ethics in data-drive visual storytelling / Nicholas Diakopoulos : Data acquisition : Provenance; Quantification ; Data transformation : Normalization; Aggregation; Algorithmic derivation; Filtering; Anonymization ; Conveying and connecting insights : Visual mapping and representation; Implied relationships; Context and annotation; Interactivity -- Evaluating data-driven stories and storytelling tools / Fereshteh Amini, Matthew Brehmer, Gordon Bolduan, Christina Elmer, and Benjamin Wiederkehr : Goals and perspectives : Author/storyteller goals; Publisher goals; Data-driven storytelling tool/technique developer goals; Audience goals ; Evaluation criteria : Criteria for evaluating data-driven stories; Criteria for evaluating data-driven storytelling tools ; Evaluation methods : Methods for evaluating data-driven stories; Methods for evaluating data-driven storytelling tools ; Evaluation metrics : Quantitative metrics for stories; Categorical metrics for stories; Qualitative metrics for stories ; Challenges and constraints : Human resources expertise; Time/deadlines; Budget; External validity…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Missing links between women entrepreneurs and venture capitalists -- Do you know the right people? -- Getting connected -- Do they know you? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Think of Visual Aids as Evidence to Be Commented On -- Rule 7. Know How (and When) to Use the Projector -- Rule 8. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Part I Find -- Chapter 1 Find yourpassion -- How not to buy a pub -- How to find your passion -- Chapter 2 Find your feet -- Don't let them in -- 'Don't let them in' extends to corporate customers too -- Don't just know the rules, set the rules -- How a faulty constitution nearly cost me my business -- Not everyone has your best interests at heart -- Choose your investors carefully -- Trust, but check -- What's your blind spot? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prioritize relationship building -- Get to know your boss -- Get to know your team -- Summary -- References and further reading -- 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 10.3.2 Pitfalls -- 10.3.2.1 Not knowing where the data will be stored -- 10.3.2.2 Not understanding the SLA with the cloud provider -- 10.3.2.3 Not understanding how to transfer data to cloud -- 10.3.2.4 Not knowing the processing pro le required as cloud can scale -- 10.3.3 Consideration -- 10.4 Big Data Implementation - Architecture De nition, Processing Framework and Migration Pattern From Data Warehouse to Big Data -- 10.4.1 Patterns for Transitioning From Data Warehouse to Big Data -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part 3 Technologies -- 11 A Taxonomy and Survey of Stream Processing Systems -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Stream Processing Platforms: A Brief Background -- 11.2.1 Requirements of Stream Processing Platforms/Engines -- 11.2.2 Generic Model of Modern Stream Processing Platforms/Engines -- 11.3 Taxonomy -- 11.3.1 Functional Aspects -- 11.3.1.1 Data streaming -- 11.3.1.2 Data execution -- 11.3.1.3 Data processing -- 11.3.1.4 Fault tolerance -- 11.3.2 Nonfunctional Aspects -- 11.3.2.1 Cost -- 11.3.2.2 Technical support -- 11.3.2.3 User community -- 11.4 A Survey of Stream Processing Platforms -- 11.4.1 Data Stream Management Systems -- 11.4.2 Complex Event Processing Systems -- 11.4.3 Stream Processing Platforms/Engines -- 11.4.3.1 Apache storm -- 11.4.3.2 Yahoo! …”