Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- TOP-DOWN FRAGMENTATION AND PARTITIONING -- BOTTOM-UP INTEGRATION -- THE MANAGEMENT OF REPLICATION -- SUMMARY -- 14 BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE -- DATA WAREHOUSING -- THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF DATA -- STANDARD REPORTING TOOLS -- ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (OLAP) -- DATA MINING -- A RELATIONAL SCHEMA FOR A DATA WAREHOUSE -- SUMMARY -- 15 OBJECT ORIENTATION -- WHAT IS OBJECT ORIENTATION? …”

“…To find out whether your participants are applying what they’ve learned on the job, you need a good evaluation strategy—one that connects evaluation to performance, program design, and bottom-line value. Each chapter of Evaluation Basics focuses on a critical aspect of developing and implementing an evaluation plan for a face-to-face or virtual training program. …”

“…Instead of ideologically driven 'top-down' calls to revitalize the social contract, it advocates for 'bottom-up' initiatives focused on the demands of the working poor in the informal economy. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface Acknowledgments About the Authors Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Fighting Poverty 1.2 Investing in Financial Infrastructure 1.3 Content Overview Chapter 2: Microfinance - the Concept 2.1 History 2.2 Definition and Goals 2.3 Double Bottom Line 2.4 Financial Inclusion 2.5 Market Participants 2.6 Impact Investing 2.7 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 3: The Microfinance Value Chain 3.1 The Protagonists and their Tasks 3.2 Regulatory Environment 3.3 Development Finance Institutions 3.4 Market Overview 3.5 Geneva: Birthplace of Modern Microfinance 3.6 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 4: Micro Entrepreneurs 4.1 Definition 4.2 Needs and Requirements 4.3 Micro Entrepreneurs 4.4 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 5: Microfinance Institutions 5.1 Definition and Goals 5.2 Types of MFIs 5.3 MFI Funding 5.4 Services 5.5 Regulation 5.6 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 6: Lending Methodologies 6.1 Traditional Credit Theory and Microfinance 6.2 Lending Methodologies 6.3 Socio-Economic Factors 6.4 Late Payments and Over-Indebtedness of Clients 6.5 Default Prevention and Restructuring 6.6 Occupation: Loan Officer 6.7 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 7: Loan Pricing 7.1 Interest Rate Components 7.2 Setting Sustainable Interest Rates 7.3 Regional Differences 7.4 Loan Recipients' Willingness to Repay 7.5 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 8: Social Performance Management 8.1 Social Performance 8.2 Measuring Social Performance 8.3 Measuring the Outcome of Microfinance 8.4 Social Rating Agencies 8.5 Technical Assistance 8.6 Linking Social Performance with Profitability 8.7 Preliminary Conclusions Chapter 9: Beyond the Reach of Microfinance? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- How Franchisors Make Money -- Finding a Responsible Franchisor Who Gets It -- Chapter 2 Special Advice for the First-Time Entrepreneur -- The Path of the 99% -- The Way of the 1% -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3 Setting Your North Star -- Goal-Setting and Benchmarks -- Identifying Your Skills and Aptitudes -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Matching Your Skills and Aptitudes to Opportunities -- Understanding the Franchisor's Motives -- The KASH Model of Success -- Chapter 5 The Learning Curve and Lifecycle of a Franchisee -- Moving Through the Stages -- Three Modes of Franchisor KASH Distribution -- Stages of the Franchisee Learning Curve and Lifecycle Explained -- Summary -- Chapter 6 What Insiders Want You to Know About Franchising Before You Invest -- Franchising 1.0 -- Franchising 2.0 (Current Era) -- Franchising 3.0: The Era of Responsible Franchising (Evolving Now) -- Success Begins and Ends with Corporate Culture -- Chapter 7 Assessing the Skills and Viability of a Franchisor -- The Common Consumer Value Propositions of a Franchise Brand -- Summary -- Chapter 8 The Franchisor Landscape in the United States -- Dynamics Affecting the US Franchise Market -- Strong Franchise Brands Will Become Stronger -- Why Candidates Should Consider Avoiding Smaller Brands -- Opportunities and Risk Factors -- Chapter 9 Understanding Where Franchisors Are in Their Lifecycle and Learning Curve -- The FPG Franchise Brand Growth Curve -- Key Inflection Points…”

“…It offers users an abundance of new and upgraded features that were more than five years in the making: a gorgeous, glass-like visual overhaul; superior searching and organization tools; a multimedia and collaboration suite; and above all, a massive, top-to-bottom security-shield overhaul. There's scarcely a single feature of the older versions of Windows that hasn't been tweaked, overhauled, or replaced entirely. …”

“…Women's impact on the bottom line is becoming undeniable but the grey areas around gender hold us back. …”

“…"Why do corporations increasingly engage in good deeds that do not immediately help their bottom line, and what are the consequences of these activities? …”

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 -- Book 1 The Social Media Mix -- Chapter 1 Making the Business Case for Social Media -- Making Your Social Debut -- Defining Social Media Marketing -- Understanding the Benefits of Social Media -- Casting a wide net to catch your target market -- Branding -- Building relationships -- Improving business processes -- Improving search engine rankings -- Selling in the social media marketplace -- Finding alternative advertising opportunities -- Understanding the Cons of Social Media -- Integrating Social Media into Your Overall Marketing Effort -- Developing a Strategic Social Media Marketing Plan -- Establishing goals -- Setting quantifiable objectives -- Identifying your target markets -- Estimating costs -- Valuing social media ROI -- Chapter 2 Tallying the Bottom Line -- Preparing to Calculate Return on Investment -- Accounting for Customers Acquired Online -- Comparing the costs of customer acquisition -- One is silver and the other gold -- Establishing Key Performance Indicators for Sales -- Tracking Leads -- Understanding Other Common Business Metrics -- Break-even point -- Profit margin -- Revenue versus profit -- Determining Return on Investment -- Chapter 3 Plotting Your Social Media Marketing Strategy -- Locating Your Target Market Online -- Segmenting Your B2C Market -- Demographics -- Geographic location -- Purchasing behavior in different life stages -- Psychographics or lifestyle -- Affinity groups -- Researching B2B Markets -- Conducting Other Types of Market Research Online -- Identifying influencers -- Understanding why people use social media services -- Setting Up Your Social Media Marketing Plan -- Chapter 4 Managing Your Cybersocial Campaign…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Some of the real values of fundamental analysis -- Driving home an example -- Putting fundamental analysis to work -- Knowing what fundamentals to look for -- Knowing what you need -- Knowing the Tools of the Fundamental Analysis Trade -- Staying focused on the bottom line -- Sizing up what a company has to its name -- Burn baby burn: Cash burn -- Financial ratios: Your friend in making sense of a company -- Making Fundamental Analysis Work For You -- Using fundamentals as signals to buy or sell -- The perils of ignoring the fundamentals -- Using fundamental analysis as your guide -- Chapter 2 Getting Up to Speed with Fundamental Analysis -- What Is Fundamental Analysis? …”

“…The language of the shape, the sculpture, shows itself as an innate and necessary creative process for our nature; Sculpture can stay throughout time as witness and connection among people beyond time and space. This is the bottom line of this thesis that starts from a specific place: Avila, offering some conclusions with universal effects, as it proposes a journey to the feeling, emotion, and reason from the thoughtful meditation that arises with the necessity for the universal creative process. …”
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“…"Practices of Citizenship in East Africa uses insights from philosophical pragmatism to explore how to strengthen citizenship within developing countries. Using a bottom-up approach, the book investigates the various everyday practices in which citizenship habits are formed and reformulated. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 1 The territory of high performance -- It starts with purpose -- The importance of clarity -- The high-performance organisation -- Models of excellence -- High performance and the bottom line -- Chapter 2 Evidence-based leadership -- The rise of evidence-based management -- Leaders hold the space for high performance -- Chapter 3 Knowing is a double-edged sword -- Evidence cuts both ways -- Transparency, accountability, impotence -- Chapter 4 How to become an evidence-based leader -- The foundation of high performance is measurement -- The habits of evidence-based leadership -- The mindsets of evidence-based leadership -- Mindsets for Direction -- Mindsets for Evidence -- Mindsets for Execution -- Mindsets for Decision -- Mindsets for Action -- Mindsets for Learning -- Part I In summary -- Part II Habits of evidence-based leadership -- Chapter 5 Direction: Make it understood and it will be measurable -- Direction means strategy -- Results, not actions -- Aligning projects with results -- Marrying results-oriented and project-oriented thinking -- No weasel words -- There's no good reason to keep weasel words -- What to replace weasel words with -- Be ruthless -- Should, can, will -- Simplify by visualising -- Chapter 6 Evidence: Anything that matters can be measured -- Evidence means measuring -- Scorecards aren't measures -- PuMP -- Is measuring performance a keystone habit? …”

“…Superconductors or molecular conductors?Is bottom-up self-assembling the answer to the limitation of top-down lithography?…”

“…In this groundbreaking book, business guru David Apgar helps leaders pinpoint which information matters most for successful goal setting, strategy, and bottom-line performance. Based on simple and easy-to-implement practices, Relevance outlines a new discipline focused on the relevance of performance measures for assessing key strategy issues and accelerating learning. …”

“…Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Providing business continuity for the Agile developers -- Chapter 6: Getting the Right Agile Business Analyst for Your Team -- Building the ideal Agile business analyst -- Qualifications -- Attitude -- Skills -- Knowledge -- If you are a traditional business analyst... -- The bottom line -- Chapter 7: Moving Your Agile Team Forward -- Where are you in the project timeline? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A phenomenologically guided bottom-up account -- 4. Misattribution of agency -- 5. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Generalization -- Top Down vs. Bottom Up -- Product -- Good vs. Great -- Bundling vs. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Digital Imaging in the Medium FormatHasselblad's Advantages in Digital Imaging; Photography's Two-stage Process; Recording a Perfect Image in the Camera; Helpful Computer Manipulations; Hasselblad Digital Cameras and Camera Backs; Hasselblad Digital Cameras; The Different Hasselblad Digital Backs; Hasselblad Film Cameras; Recording the Digital Image in the Camera; Lenses for Digital Recording; Digital Recording Media; File Formats; Digital Black and White Photography; 4 Operating the H Cameras for Digital and Film Photography; The H Camera System Concept; Removing the Bottom Plate…”