Tabla de Contenidos: “…Create a nationwide narrative for streets and roads -- Develop a new framework for road classification and planning -- Create indicators to measure progress, set targets and track benefits -- Embed the new narrative and tools in planning practice…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Deciding between Outsourcing and In-house Production -- Weighing opportunity costs -- Contemplating the carrying cost of inventory -- Maximizing Profit When Capacity Is Limited -- Managing capacity and product mix -- Analyzing customer profit and capacity -- Chapter 12 Making Smart Pricing Decisions: Figuring Total Costs -- Understanding Influences on Prices -- Customers -- Competitors -- Suppliers -- Special orders -- Pricing for Profits Down the Road -- Reviewing market-based and cost-based pricing -- Aiming at the target: Target costing -- Arriving at a Reasonable Profit -- Using cost-plus pricing -- Using product life-cycle budgeting -- Managing IT product costs and pricing -- Part 4 Allocating Costs and Resources -- Chapter 13 Analysis Methods to Improve Profitability -- Processing Cost Allocation -- Why bother? …”

“…What You'll Learn Understand how personal beliefs about the innate creativity are influenced by past experiences See how the creator's personality can be shaped through new habits of curiosity, emotional risk-taking and insight Establish a creative communication style that enables others to navigate smoothly through the challenging moments in a feedback conversation Become an ambitious person with a sense of meaning in the work you do Identify all the familiar and less familiar in-house creative experts Who This Book Is For The primary reader is a knowledgeable expert, in a creative or less creative role, who is curious to bring a better fit between their inner experiences and the external environment. …”

“…Pedagogical support- Each chapter includes a real-life mini case study, examples, a summary, selected bibliography, review questions, and topics for discussion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Evaluating value stream networks -- Value stream mapping reveals hidden constraints -- Streamlining product and platform value streams -- Cultivating a customer-centric approach -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Part 3: Achieving Lean-Agile and VSM Mastery: For Product-Oriented Business Transformations -- Chapter 8: Implementing the Basic Lean-Agile Solution Team (BLAST) -- Technical requirements -- Harnessing BLAST -- Implementing Basic Lean-Agile Solutions Teams (BLAST) -- Categorizing BLAST work activities -- Defining BLAST increments -- Solution discovery (steps 1 and 2) -- MVI planning (steps 3 and 4) -- Workflow coordination (steps 5 to 11) -- Customer feedback (steps 12 to 17) -- Integrating Lean-Agile development concepts -- Aligning teams for collaborative excellence -- Combining Lean and Agile practices -- Defining BLAST roles -- Facilitating inter-team collaboration -- Balancing decision-making approaches -- Embracing Lean leadership -- Conducting Gemba walks for Lean leadership -- Managing multi-tiered reviews and communications -- Prioritizing value delivery in BLAST artifacts -- Optimizing Development Cadences and Value Deliveries -- Emphasizing customer centricity in Lean-Agile cadences -- Embracing Lean flows in modern software development -- Pursuing a new model for value delivery -- Mastering Lean-Agile Planning and Delivery Cadences -- Exploring planning horizons -- Facilitating collaboration at scale - the team-of-teams approach -- Understanding increments in life cycle management -- Embracing Lean-Agile management practices -- Championing Lean-Agile management -- Harnessing middle management for organizational agility -- Tracing BLAST's history -- Summary -- Questions -- Answers -- Further reading -- Chapter 9: Defining a Business Agility System for the Enterprise (BASE) -- Technical requirements…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 3 "A Virtuous Woman Knows How to Sew": Labour, Craft, and Domesticity in Buenos Aires During the 1850s and 1860s -- 1 Buenos Aires in the Mid-nineteenth Century -- 2 Needlework in Buenos Aires in the 1850s-1860s -- 3 Sewing in Your Own House or Someone Else's -- 4 Own Account Workers Sewing by the Piece -- 5 Productive Leisure: Middle-class Wives and Daughters -- 6 Between Craft and Industry: Sewing in Shops and Atéliers -- 7 Looking for a Maid Who Can Sew -- 8 Institutions -- 9 Schools -- 10 Convalecencia -- 11 Conclusion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Management of SOC tools -- SOC toolset design -- Using already implemented toolsets -- SOC roles -- Log/information aggregation -- Log/information analysis -- Processes and procedures -- Identification - detection and analysis -- Remediation - containment/eradication/recovery -- SOC tools -- Benefits of a SOC - in-house and MSSP -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Developing an Information Security Architecture Program -- What is information security architecture? …”

“…Emotional insights are paired with the life of his family backed by the hope for a better future. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…2.3 Information Uncertainty and Trading Heterogeneity -- 2.4 Switching of Agents, Fund Flows, and Leverage -- 3 HAMs of Single Asset Market in Continuous-Time -- 3.1 A Continuous-Time HAM with Time Delay -- 3.2 Pro tability of Momentum and Contrarian Strategies -- 3.3 Optimal Trading with Time Series Momentum and Reversal -- 4 HAMs of Multi-Asset Markets and Financial Market Interlinkages -- 4.1 Stock Market Comovement and Policy Implications -- 4.2 Heterogeneous Beliefs and Evolutionary CAPM -- 4.2.1 A Dynamic Multi-Asset Model -- 4.2.2 Price Dynamics Under Consensus Belief -- 4.2.3 Fitness and Strategy Switching -- 4.2.4 Fundamentalists and Trend Followers -- 4.2.5 Dynamic Model and Stability Properties -- 4.2.6 Nonlinear Risk-Return Patterns -- 4.3 Interacting Stock Market and Foreign Exchange Market -- 5 HAMs and House Price Dynamics -- 5.1 An Equilibrium Framework with Heterogeneous Investors -- 5.1.1 Heterogeneous Expectations, Fundamentals, and Temporary Bubbles -- 5.1.2 Heterogeneous Beliefs, Boom-Bust Cycles, and Supply Conditions -- 5.2 Disequilibrium Price Adjustments -- 6 HAMs and Market Microstructure -- 6.1 Stylized Facts in Limit Order Markets -- 6.2 Information and Learning in Limit Order Market -- 6.3 High Frequency Trading -- 6.4 HAMs and Microstructure Regulation -- 7 Conclusion and Future Research -- References -- 6 Models of Financial Stability and Their Application in Stress Tests -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Two Approaches to Modeling Systemic Risk -- 3 A View of the Financial System -- 3.1 Balance Sheet Composition -- 3.2 Balance Sheet Dynamics -- 4 Leverage and Endogenous Dynamics in a Financial System -- 4.1 Leverage and Balance Sheet Mechanics -- 4.2 Leverage Constraints and Margin Calls -- 4.3 Procyclical Leverage and Leverage Cycles -- 5 Contagion in Financial Networks -- 5.1 Financial Linkages and Channels of Contagion…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Maybe We Should Look at the Numbers -- Bottom Line: Estimating (Using Numbers) the Total Cost of Ownership -- Chapter 5 Researching Your EV Options -- An Overview of the EV Market -- HEVs -- PHEVs -- BEVs -- Separating the Wheat from the Chaff -- Hatchbacks -- Midsize sedans -- Luxury/performance sedans -- Crossovers -- SUVs -- Pickups -- Others -- Deciding When (or Whether) to Buy a Used Electric Car -- Verifying battery life -- Start practicing Zen meditation -- Living with no (or very few) incentives for used vehicles -- Chapter 6 Buying Your New Electric Car -- Exploring the Differences between Buying an ICE and an EV -- Navigating (or Avoiding) the Dealership…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FINANCIAL MODELS -- About the Editor -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Guide to the Encyclopedia of Financial Models -- Mortgage-Backed Securities Analysis and Valuation -- Valuing Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities -- CASH-FLOW YIELD ANALYSIS -- ZERO-VOLATILITY SPREAD -- VALUATION USING MONTE CARLO SIMULATION AND OAS ANALYSIS -- Simulating Interest Rate Paths and Cash Flows -- Calculating the Present Value of a Bond Class for a Scenario Interest Rate Path -- Option-Adjusted Spread -- Option Cost -- Simulated Average Life -- MEASURING INTEREST RISK -- Duration -- Convexity -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- The Active-Passive Decomposition Model for MBS -- PATH-DEPENDENCE AND PRICING PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION -- EXTENDED ACTIVE-PASSIVE DECOMPOSITION MODEL -- The Details -- How the Model Works Forward -- How the Model Works in Backward Induction -- Initializing the Burnout Factor -- EXTENSIONS AND NUANCES -- Computing Interest Rate Sensitivities Directly Off a Pricing Tree -- More Components, More Prepay Sources -- Residual Sources of Path-Dependence -- Modeling Prepayments Universally: Refinancing Speed as a Function of Price -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Analysis of Nonagency Mortgage-Backed Securities -- FACTORS IMPACTING RETURNS FROM NONAGENCY MBS -- The Amount and Timing of Principal Return -- Deal-Specific Factors -- UNDERSTANDING THE EVOLUTION OF CREDIT PERFORMANCE WITHIN A TRANSACTION -- THE PROCESS OF ESTIMATING PRIVATE-LABEL MBS RETURNS -- Differentiating between Collateral and Tranche Losses -- The Interaction of Credit Inputs -- Evaluating Available Credit Support -- Yield and Loss Matrix Analysis -- Model-Generated Analysis -- Interpreting the Outputs -- KEY POINTS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- Measurement of Prepayments for Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities…”

“…What You Will Learn Apply advanced QlikView techniques such as set analysis and nested aggregation in order to deliver common business requirements Understand real business requirements for sales, finance, marketing, and human resources departments Discover when to apply more advanced data visualization such as frequency polygons, bullet graphs, and XmR charts Go beyond native QlikView and include geographical analysis, planning, and sentiment analysis in your QlikView application Troubleshoot common errors we discover at the moment we visualize data in QlikView Develop a plan to master Qlik Sense data visualization In Detail Just because you know how to swing a hammer doesn't mean you know how to build a house. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- 4.2 Building an E-commerce Presence: A Systematic Approach -- The Systems Development Life Cycle -- Systems Analysis/Planning: Identify Business Objectives, System Functionality, and Information Requirements -- System Design: Hardware and Software Platforms -- Building the System: In-house Versus Outsourcing -- Insight on Business: OVH Takes E-commerce to the Clouds -- Testing the System -- Implementation, Maintenance, and Optimization -- Alternative Web Development Methodologies -- 4.3 Choosing Software -- Simple versus Multi-tiered Website Architecture -- Web Server Software -- Site Management Tools -- Dynamic Page Generation Tools -- Application Servers -- E-commerce Merchant Server Software Functionality -- Online Catalog -- Shopping Cart -- Credit Card Processing -- Merchant Server Software Packages (E-commerce Software Platforms) -- Choosing an E-commerce Software Platform -- 4.4 Choosing Hardware -- Right-Sizing Your Hardware Platform: The Demand Side -- Right-Sizing Your Hardware Platform: The Supply Side -- 4.5 Other E-commerce Site Tools -- Website Design: Basic Business Considerations -- Tools for Search Engine Optimization…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Communication Process: An Overview -- Rural Marketing Insight: Rural and Urban Responses to Television Advertisements -- Developing Effective Rural Communication -- Identifying and Profiling the Target Audience -- Determining Communication Objectives -- Designing the Message -- Selecting the Communication Channels -- Budgeting for Rural Communication -- Designing the Communication Mix Strategy Companies Face the Task of Distributing the Total Communication -- Measuring the Impact of Communication -- Rural Marketing Insight: Religion: A Key Profiling Factor for Designing Communication -- Rural Marketing Memo: Developing an Effective Rural Communication Message -- Creating Advertisements for Rural Audiences -- Rural Marketing Insight: Hitting the Bull's Eye -- Rural Media -- Conventional Media -- Rural-centric Non-conventional Media -- Rural Marketing Insight: Increasing Role of DTH in Rural India -- Rural Marketing Snapshot: Changing Means of Rural Communication -- Rural Marketing Insight: Clutter-free Communication at the Mela -- Sales Promotion and Events and Experiences -- Sales Promotion -- Events and Experiences -- Review of Objectives -- Discussion and Application -- Rural Marketing Case: Tata Shaktee GC Sheets -- Chapter 10: Rural Services Marketing -- Telecommunications in Rural India -- Reuters Market Light -- IFFCO Kisaan Sanchar Limited -- Nokia Life Tools -- Rural Marketing Snapshot: The Telecom Revolution in Rural india -- Rural Marketing Insight: M-VAS Initiatives in Rural India -- Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Rural Areas -- ITC's e-choupal -- Common Service Centres -- n-Logue Village Internet Kiosks -- Drishtee -- The Relevance of ICT Services in Rural India -- Financial Services in Rural India -- Banking Services -- Microfinance and Credit Services -- Insurance -- Life Insurance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sostak / An Algorithm for Modelling the Impact of the Judicial Conflict-Resolution Process on Construction Investment, Reprinted from: Sustainability 2018, 10, 182, doi: 10.3390/su10010182 -- Agnieszka Le ́sniak and Krzysztof Zima / Cost Calculation of Construction Projects Including Sustainability Factors Using the Case Based Reasoning (CBR) Method, Reprinted from: Sustainability 2018, 10, 1608, doi: 10.3390/su10051608 -- Murat Gunduz and Ayman Fahmi Naser / Cost Based Value Stream Mapping as a Sustainable Construction Tool for Underground Pipeline Construction Projects, Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9, 2184, doi: 10.3390/su9122184 -- Radoslaw Trojanek, Justyna Tanas, Saulius Raslanas and Audrius Banaitis / The Impact of Aircraft Noise on Housing Prices in Poznan, Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9, 2088, doi: 10.3390/su9112088 -- Hassan Hashemi, Seyed Meysam Mousavi, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Alireza Chalekaee and Zenonas Turskis / A New Group Decision Model Based on Grey-Intuitionistic Fuzzy-ELECTRE and VIKOR for Contractor Assessment Problem, Reprinted from: Sustainability 2018, 10, 1635, doi: 10.3390/su10051635 -- Patrick Dallasega and Erwin Rauch / Sustainable Construction Supply Chains through Synchronized Production Planning and Control in Engineer-to-Order Enterprises, Reprinted from: Sustainability 2017, 9, 1888, doi: 10.3390/su9101888 -- Audrius Vaitkus, Viktoras Vorobjovas, Faustina Tuminien?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Unleashing private sector productivity -- Labour productivity has suffered a broad-based deceleration -- Figure 1.1. Productivity has slowed in the USA and in the OECD as a whole -- Figure 1.2. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Una vivienda dedicada a la producción de vino: Isaac Sastre de Diego, Irene Mañas Romero The Houses of Conimbriga (Prov. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Box 2.2 The opportunity costs of studying economics -- Box 2.3 Looking at macroeconomic data -- Summary -- Review questions -- 3 Business organisations -- 3.1 The nature of firms -- 3.2 The firm as a legal entity -- 3.3 The internal organisation of the firm -- Box 3.1 Exploiting asymmetric information -- Box 3.2 Managers, pay and performance -- Box 3.3 The changing nature of business -- Summary -- Review questions -- Additional Part A case studies on the Economics for Business student website -- Websites relevant to Part A -- Part B BUSINESS AND MARKETS -- 4 The working of competitive markets -- 4.1 Business in a competitive market -- 4.2 Demand -- 4.3 Supply -- 4.4 Price and output determination -- Box 4.1 UK house prices -- Box 4.2 Stock market prices -- Box 4.3 Controlling prices -- Summary -- Review questions -- 5 Business in a market environment -- 5.1 Price elasticity of demand -- 5.2 The importance of price elasticity of demand to business decision making -- 5.3 Other elasticities -- 5.4 The time dimension of market adjustment -- 5.5 Dealing with uncertainty -- Box 5.1 The measurement of elasticity…”