This excerpt looks at managing the consulting practice to deliver value, with a particular focus on the key factors that demonstrate recognizable value.
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In this excerpt, Neef focuses on doing business in the Big Data world, including the scope of projects already underway, the primary drivers behind initiatives, and how Big Data is changing both the organization and c-level leadership roles.
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Understanding one's own culture and the impact of culture on the actions of others is essential for effective global team interactions.
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This excerpt from chapter 2 focuses on major browser security issues, including same-origin policy, sandboxing, malicious URL intercepts, and the continuing rapid development of security.
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The excerpt contains the first two chapters of the book, focusing on planning your career – where are you today and where you are going – and judging talent and opportunity – both your own and others.
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This excerpt examines program leadership and the role it plays as a critical success factor for facilitating work integration, stakeholder engagement, objective alignment, organizational change readiness, and benefits realization.
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This chapter excerpt provides an availability primer and details the reasons why you need to be concerned with high availability.
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Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the role CRM systems play in an organization, examines the anatomy of a CRM system and the type of CRM systems available, and looks at the CRM's role as keeper of customer knowledge assets.
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The excerpt from chapter 5 focuses on the ins and outs of preparing for and running a risk management planning meeting, including necessary resources and expected outcomes.
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The chapter excerpt focuses on how effective data architecture must lay out the life cycle of data, from definition to capture, storage, management, integration, distribution, and analysis.
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