Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Types of value -- Service quality -- Defining a service scope -- Service quality metrics -- Planning for service quality -- Identifying opportunities in the current state -- Aligning the implementation scope with the opportunity -- Cost optimization -- Process efficiency -- Process efficiency metrics -- Asset optimization -- Customer experience -- Tools for customer experience -- Scoping customer experience value - portals -- Scoping customer experience value - Virtual Agent -- Measuring customer experience -- Innovation enablement -- Ideation -- Project management -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Recognizing and Avoiding Value Traps -- Replicating the current state -- The tool replacement approach -- Arguments in favor of replicating the current state -- Issues with replicating the current state -- Strategy 1 - Adopting the out-of-the-box process -- Strategy 2 - Developing an MVP process -- Ignoring the current state -- Focusing on the future -- Failing to learn from the past -- Strategy 1 - Process shadowing -- Tips for conducting process shadowing -- The time investment of process shadowing -- The expected benefits of process shadowing -- Strategy 2 - Data analysis -- Targeting data analysis -- Conducting exploratory analysis -- Integrating value and analysis -- The importance of intentional time allocation -- Chasing the long tail -- The appeal of aiming for 100% coverage -- The distribution of value -- Risks of completeness -- Strategy 1 - Top N selection -- The recommended approach for ranking…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…CDM and Resource Allocation and Exchange -- CDM Resource Allocation -- Slot Trading Models -- Modeling Equity and Equity Efficiency Tradeoffs -- Resource Allocation Based on User Supplied Priorities -- Large-Scale Deterministic Optimization Models -- Stochastic Models -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Airline Industry Operations Research -- Introduction -- Flight Scheduling Planning -- Fleet Assignment -- Yield Management -- Crew Scheduling -- Aircraft Maintenance Routing -- Schedule Recovery -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Algebraic Modeling Languages for Optimization -- Introduction -- Background and Motivation -- Advantages -- Alternatives -- Extensions -- See -- References -- Algorithm -- See -- Algorithmic Complexity -- Alternate Optima -- See -- Alternate Paths -- See -- AMPL -- References -- Analytic Combat Model -- See -- Analytic Hierarchy Process -- Introduction -- The Fundamental Scale -- Absolute and Relative Measurement and Structural Information -- Comments on Cost-Benefit Analysis -- The Eigenvector Solution for Weights and Consistency -- How to Structure a Hierarchy -- Hierarchic Synthesis and Rank -- Examples -- Relative Measurement: Choosing the Best House -- Absolute Measurement: Evaluating Employees for Raises -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Analytic Network Process -- Introduction -- Feedback Networks -- The Supermatrix of a Feedback System -- The Control Hierarchy -- Drug-Marketing Decision -- See -- References -- Analytics -- Animation -- ANP -- Ant Colony Optimization -- See -- References -- Anticycling Rules -- See -- Antithetic Random Variates -- Applied Probability -- See -- Approximate Dynamic Programming -- Introduction -- Problem Setting -- Value Function and the Optimality Equation -- Two Approaches -- Successful Applications -- Concluding Remarks -- See -- References -- Arc…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…1: ETHICS/SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Rank and Yank: Legitimate Performance Improvement Tool or Ruthless and Unethical Management? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Definitions and Concepts -- Independent Variables -- Test Units -- Dependent Variables -- Extraneous Variables -- Random Assignment to Experimental and Control Groups -- Experiment -- Experimental Design -- Definition of Symbols -- Validity in Experimentation -- Internal Validity -- External Validity -- Controlling Extraneous Variables -- A Classification of Experimental Designs -- Pre-experimental Designs -- One-Shot Case Study -- One-Group Pretest-Posttest Design -- Static Group Design -- True Experimental Designs -- Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design -- Posttest-Only Control Group Design -- Statistical Designs -- Factorial Design -- Selecting an Experimental Design -- Experimentation on the Web -- Experimental Versus Nonexperimental Designs -- Limitations of Experimentation -- Cost -- Administration -- Application: Test Marketing -- International Marketing Research -- Marketing Research and Social Media -- Ethics in Marketing Research -- Summary -- Companion Website -- Key Terms and Concepts -- Suggested Cases and Video Cases -- Live Research: Conducting a Marketing Research Project -- Acronyms -- Review Questions -- Applied Problems -- Internet Exercises -- Online Video Case 6.1: AFLAC: Marketing Research Quacks a Duck -- Chapter 7: Measurement and Scaling -- Overview -- Learning Objectives -- Measurement and Scaling -- Primary Scales of Measurement -- Nominal Scale -- Ordinal Scale -- Interval Scale -- Ratio Scale -- Comparative and Noncomparative Scaling Techniques -- Comparative Scaling Techniques -- Paired Comparison Scaling -- Rank-Order Scaling -- Constant Sum Scaling -- Noncomparative Scaling Techniques -- Continuous Rating Scale -- Itemized Rating Scales -- Multi-Item Scales -- Scale Evaluation -- Reliability -- Validity -- Relationship Between Reliability and Validity -- Choosing a Scaling Technique…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- How it works... -- The Spearman's rank correlation test -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- LOESS regression -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Finding the best transformations via the acepack package -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There is more... -- Nonparametric multivariate tests using the npmv package -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- Semiparametric regression with the SemiPar package -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Über die Autoren -- Teil I: Suchmaschinenoptimierung in der Praxis - Schritt für Schritt -- Kapitel 1: Grundlagen der Suchmaschinenoptimierung -- 1.1 Einordnung in das Suchmaschinenmarketing -- 1.2 Die Funktionsweise einer Suchmaschine -- 1.3 Wichtige Google-Updates‌ -- 1.4 Google-Richtlinien -- 1.5 Checkliste‌ -- Kapitel 2: Keyword- und Potenzialanalyse‌ -- 2.1 Identifikation relevanter Suchbegriffe -- 2.2 Klassifizierung von Keywords -- 2.2.1 Keyword-Klassifizierung‌ nach der Suchintention -- 2.2.2 Keyword-Klassifizierung‌ nach der Termlänge -- 2.2.3 Keyword-Klassifizierung‌ nach ihrem Auftreten entlang der Customer Journey‌ -- 2.3 Prozess der Keyword-Recherche‌ -- 2.3.1 Recherche -- 2.3.2 Bewertung und Auswahl -- 2.3.3 Keyword-Strategie‌ und -Mapping‌ -- 2.4 Potenzialbewertung und Zieldefinition -- 2.5 Checkliste‌ -- Kapitel 3: Content-Optimierung (Onpage-Optimierung) -- 3.1 Themendefinition‌ -- 3.2 SERP-Analyse‌ -- 3.2.1 Identifikation der Suchintention -- 3.2.2 Content-Analyse‌ der Wettbewerber -- 3.2.3 Eigene Themenrecherche‌ -- 3.3 Semantische Analyse‌ -- 3.3.1 WDF*IDF-Analyse‌ -- 3.3.2 Entitäten‌-Analyse -- 3.3.3 KI-basierte SEO-Tools‌ -- 3.3.4 Resultierende semantische SEO-Strategien‌ -- 3.4 Content-Strategie‌ -- 3.5 Contenterstellung -- 3.5.1 Inhaltliche Gliederung‌ -- 3.5.2 Texterstellung‌ -- 3.5.3 Keyword-Verwendung‌ -- 3.5.4 Snippet-Optimierung (Title-Tag‌ und Meta Description‌) -- 3.5.5 Überschriften -- 3.5.6 Bildauszeichnung‌ -- 3.6 Checkliste‌ -- Kapitel 4: Technisches SEO -- 4.1 Crawling‌ und Indexierbarkeit‌ -- 4.2 Ranking-Faktor‌ Ladezeit -- 4.3 Analyse der Ladezeit…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- There's more... -- Creating ranking metrics -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Exercise 19 -- Grouping at a different level (level metrics) -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Exercise 20 -- Embedding filters inside metrics -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Exercise 21 -- Using Metric Join Type in reports -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- More Info -- Creating a previous month metric (transformation) -- Getting ready -- How to do it... -- How it works... -- There's more... -- Exercise 22 -- See also -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Bit-string mutation for binary encoding -- Flip-bit mutation for binary encoding -- Populating the next generation -- Exploration vs. exploitation -- Stopping conditions -- Configuring the parameters of a genetic algorithm -- Use cases for evolutionary algorithms -- Summary of evolutionary algorithms -- 5 Advanced evolutionary approaches -- Evolutionary algorithm life cycle -- Alternative selection strategies -- Rank selection: Even the playing field -- Tournament selection: Let them fight -- Elitism selection: Choose only the best -- Real-value encoding: Working with real numbers -- Real-value encoding at its core…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Review Questions -- Chapter 6 Developing the Project Budget and Engaging Stakeholders -- Creating the Cost Management Plan -- Performing Plan Cost Management -- Creating the Cost Management Plan -- Estimating Costs -- Estimating Techniques -- Estimating Costs for an Agile Project -- Creating the Cost Estimates -- Establishing the Cost Baseline -- Techniques for Developing the Project Budget -- Developing the Cost Baseline -- Understanding Stakeholders -- Exam Spotlight -- Analyzing Stakeholders -- Stakeholder Engagement Plan -- Mentoring Stakeholders -- Engaging Stakeholders in an Adaptive Methodology -- Communicating the Plan -- Planning Communications -- Determining Communication Needs -- Documenting the Communications Management Plan -- Communicating on an Agile Team -- A Closer Look at Adaptive Methodologies -- Exam Spotlight -- Other Methodologies -- Combining Methodologies -- Understanding How This Applies to Your Next Project -- Summary -- Exam Essentials -- Review Questions -- Chapter 7 Identifying Project Risks -- Understanding Risk -- Creating the Risk Management Plan -- Exam Spotlight -- Risk Attitude -- Conducting Risk Meetings -- Documenting the Risk Management Plan -- Identifying Potential Risks -- Data Gathering and Data Analysis Techniques for Identifying Risks -- Documenting the Risk Register -- Identifying Risks Using an Agile Approach -- Analyzing Risks Using Qualitative Techniques -- Performing Qualitative Risk Analysis -- Ranking Risks in the Risk Register -- Quantifying Risk -- Performing Quantitative Risk Analysis -- Updating the Risk Report -- Developing a Risk Response Plan -- Exam Spotlight -- Strategies for Creating Risk Responses -- Documenting the Risk Responses Plan -- Assessing Risks Using an Agile Approach -- Planning for Project Compliance -- Project Case Study: New Kitchen Heaven Retail Store…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mobile View -- Desktop View -- Add a Card -- Web Link Card -- Assigned Tasks Card -- Teams App Card -- Shifts Card -- Approvals Card -- Top News Card -- Card Designer Card -- Section 1: Size and Layout -- Section 2: Card Content -- Section 3: Actions -- Section 4: Quick View Layout and Data -- Section 5: Audience Targeting -- Preview and Publish Dashboard -- Partner Solutions -- Access and Install the Partner Solutions -- Custom Development -- Employee Dashboard Example with Cards -- Employee Engagement -- Facilities -- IT Support -- Pay and Benefits -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Define Your Content Feeds -- Basics of Feeds -- User Experience for Feeds -- Mobile Experience -- Desktop Experience -- Sources of Content Feeds -- SharePoint -- Yammer -- Stream -- User Experience for a Content Refresh -- Content Ranking -- Chronology -- Content Promotion -- User Actions on Feed -- Role of Content Creator -- Feeds from SharePoint -- Organizational News Site -- Designate a SharePoint Site as an Organizational News Site -- Bring the News Experience to Users -- News Boost Feature -- Insights and Analysis -- Yammer -- Feature a Conversation -- Deploy the Communities App -- Insights and Analysis -- Active People -- Active Members and Nonmembers -- Content Insights -- Microsoft Stream (Built on SharePoint) -- Microsoft Stream (Classic) -- Microsoft Stream (Built on SharePoint) -- Migrating to Microsoft Stream (Built on SharePoint) -- Video News Links -- Step 1: Create a Sharing Link -- Step 2: Publish the Video as a News Item -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Enable Viva Connections in Microsoft Teams -- Understanding the Process -- Permissions -- Enable the Viva Connections App in the Teams Admin Center -- PowerShell for Desktop-Only Experience -- Prepare the Package with the CLI for Microsoft 365 -- Upload the Viva Connections Desktop Package in the Teams Admin Center…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- MDM design patterns -- MDM architecture for a data mesh -- Build versus buy -- Popular MDM tools -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Monitoring and Data Observability -- Piecing it all together - the importance of data mesh monitoring and data observability -- How data mesh monitoring differs -- Baking diagnostic logging into the landing zone templates -- Azure Platform Metrics -- Azure platform logs -- Enabling diagnostic settings in an ARM template -- Designing a data mesh operations center -- Step 1 - collection -- Step 2 - rank the critical metrics and events -- Step 3 - build a threshold logic for each service in a data product -- Step 4 - build a monitoring view for each resource -- Step 5 - build a threshold logic for each data product -- Step 6 - build a threshold logic for each data landing zone -- Step 7 - set up alerts for critical metrics -- Step 8 - host the dashboards in one location -- Tooling for the DMOC -- Azure Monitor -- Log Analytics -- Azure Data Explorer -- Grafana -- Power BI -- Data observability -- Setting up alerts -- Piecing it all together -- Summary…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Communication and collaboration -- Crisis preparedness -- Risk assessment -- Risk identification methods -- Qualitative risk assessment -- Quantitative risk assessment -- Risk heat maps -- Risk tolerance and assessment -- Risk scenarios and sensitivity analysis -- Risk ranking and prioritization -- Risk mitigation strategies -- Risk and trust management roadmap -- Risk management frameworks for identity networks -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Informed Consent and Why It Matters -- What is informed consent? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Final high-level solution architecture -- Requirements verification -- Summary -- Chapter 11: Designing a Service Like Twitter -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Data model -- Scale calculations -- Exploring high-level design -- Microservices architecture -- Designing Tweet Service -- Data storage -- Tweet creation flow -- Tweet retrieval flow -- Caching -- Designing User Service -- Data storage -- User registration flow -- User authentication flow -- Follow/unfollow flow -- Retrieving followers/followees -- Low-level design - Timeline Service -- Data flow -- Timeline retrieval flow -- Push-based updates -- Designing Search Service -- Data flow and indexing -- Search query processing -- Relevance scoring and ranking -- Additional considerations -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Designing a Service Like Instagram -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Designing the data model -- Scale calculations -- High-level design -- Components and modules in the high-level architecture -- Low-level design -- Designing the Photo Upload Service -- News Feed Service -- User Service -- Additional considerations -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Designing a Service Like Google Docs -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Data model -- Relationships -- Scale calculations -- Assumptions -- Storage requirements -- Bandwidth considerations -- Processing requirements -- High-level design -- Software components and modules of high-level design -- Low-level design -- Designing the document service -- Designing the Collaboration Service -- Designing the Access Control Service -- Additional considerations and best practices -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Designing a Service Like Netflix -- Functional requirements -- Non-functional requirements -- Designing the data model -- Relationships -- Scale calculations -- Assumptions…”

“…Note that China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea were excluded from the ranking due to language barrier. Singapore is ranked last in terms of talent amongst the top 20 ecosystems."…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The Importance of Keyword Research -- Researching Keywords -- Implementing Keywords into On-Page Optimization -- Building Credibility with Links -- Links Replicate Human Judgement -- Gaining Links Is About Quality, not Quantity -- Link Structure -- Link Attributes -- Building Links -- Website Architecture and Technical SEO -- Architecture -- Duplicate Content -- Canonical URLs -- Redirects -- Robots.txt -- Sitemaps -- Speed (Load Time) -- Hreflang Attribute -- Search Engine Algorithms -- Major Algorithm Updates -- How to Handle Updates -- Measuring SEO Results -- The Problem with Measuring Rankings -- Analytics Is the Objective Measurement…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Using the P/E ratio to judge company market value (stock price) -- Understanding variation among ratios -- The Dividend Payout Ratio -- Determining dividend payout -- Digging into companies' profits with dividends -- Return on Sales -- Figuring out ROS -- Reaching the truth about profits with ROS -- Return on Assets -- Doing some dividing to get ROA -- Ranking companies with the help of ROA -- Return on Equity -- Calculating ROE -- Testing companies using ROE -- The Big Three: Margins -- Dissecting gross margin -- Investigating operating margin -- Catching the leftover money: Net profit margin -- Chapter 12 Looking at Liquidity -- Finding the Current Ratio -- Calculating the current ratio -- What do the numbers mean? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Carve‐outs -- Sub‐portfolios -- Cash sectors -- Individual security returns -- Multi‐period component returns -- Abnormal returns -- Short positions -- Contribution to Return -- Composite Returns -- 4 Benchmarks -- Benchmarks -- Benchmark attributes -- Best benchmark practice -- The Role of Benchmarks -- Types of Benchmarks -- Commercial Indexes -- Calculation methodologies -- Aggregate price index (price‐weighted index or Carli type) -- Geometric (or Jevons type) index -- Market capitalisation index -- Laspeyres index -- Paasche index -- Marshall-Edgeworth index -- Fisher index -- Equal‐weighted indexes -- Fundamental indexes -- Optimised indexes (efficient or minimum variance indexes) -- Style‐ and factor‐based indexes -- Fixed income indexes -- Index providers -- Choice of index provider -- Self‐indexing -- Benchmark regulation -- Choice of index -- Currency effects in benchmarks -- Hedged indexes -- Customised Indexes -- Capped indexes -- Peer Groups and Universes -- Percentile rank -- Random Portfolios -- Exchange‐traded Funds (ETFs) -- Target Returns -- Blended Benchmarks (or Balanced Benchmarks) -- Fixed‐weight and dynamised benchmarks -- Spliced Indexes -- Money‐weighted Benchmarks (or Public Market Equivalents) -- Normal Portfolio -- Benchmark Statistics…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Welfarism 82 -- 2.4.3. Sum-Ranking 84 -- 2.4.4. Konsequentialismus 85 -- 2.5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with Your New Business -- Chapter 1 Preparing for Business -- Understanding the Enduring Rules of Business Strategy -- Focusing on focus - and a bit more besides -- Appreciating the forces at work in your sector -- Recognising the first-to-market fallacy -- Getting in Shape to Start Up -- Assessing your abilities -- Discovering a real need -- Checking the fit of the business -- Confirming Viability -- Researching the market -- Doing the numbers -- Raising the money -- Writing up the business plan -- Going for Growth -- Gaining economies of scale -- Securing a competitive advantage -- Retaining key staff -- Gaining critical business mass -- Chapter 2 Doing the Groundwork -- Understanding the Small Business Environment -- Defining Small Business -- Looking at the Types of People Who Start Businesses -- Making your age an asset -- Considering location -- Winning with women -- Being educated about education -- Coming Up with a Winning Idea -- Ranking popular start-up ideas -- Going with fast growth -- Spotting a gap in the market -- Revamping an old idea -- Wising up to the internet -- Solving customer problems -- Creating inventions and innovations -- Marketing other people's ideas -- Being better or different -- Finding a contract in the public sector -- Banning Bad Reasons to Start a Business -- Steering clear of bad assumptions -- Avoiding obvious mistakes -- Recognising That the Economy Matters -- Spotting cycles -- Readying for the ups and downs -- Preparing to Recognise Success -- Measuring business success -- Exploring the myth and reality of business survival rates -- Chapter 3 Can You Do the Business?…”