Real Options Analysis Tools and Techniques for Valuing Strategic Investment and Decisions

Real options analysis has become a key management tool for many of today's businesses. It is an accurate method for estimating the value of corporate investments, and it can be effectively utilized in situations where management has flexibility in large c...

 Making Smart Decisions Make Touchs Calls - Solve Problems Quickly - Learn From Mistakes

Today's manager must make crucial decisions under mounting time pressure and with little information. How to cope? This invaluable guide provides an array of proven strategies-including ways to: Select the right decision-making process Expand your ran...

 Enhanced Visualization Making Space for 3-D Images

This book builds on a previous work ('Creative 3-D Display and Interaction Interfaces') but may be read as a stand-alone book. A trans-disciplinary approach is adopted thereby making the content accessible to wide-ranging audiences from both the sciences ...

 Skype for Dummies Get set up, choose contacts, even make conference calls

See how to use Skype for secure chats and connect SkypeOut and SkypeIN. Here's the fun and easy way (r) to understand all the hype about Skype and make this cool alternative communication system work for you! You'll get great advice about hardware, direct...

 MIS Cases Decision making with application software

Appropriate for any introductory, intermediate or advanced MIS course where cases are used. This casebook serves as an ideal supplement to most MIS/CIS textbooks where students complete Excel, Access, and web projects. Designed to demonstrate how softw...

 Digital cinema The Hollywood insider's guide to the evolution of storytelling

Now that cutting-edge technology and the age-old desire to tell a story hove come together in the form of Digital Cinema, what do you do? Informative and hip, this book addresses the needs of independent filmmakers while also offering a perspective from t...

 Making IT Governance Work in a Sarbanes-Oxley World

This book discusses a dilemma common to many corporation's IT departments--the tension between top-down governance directives and the challenge to get everything properly functioning on a bottom-up basis. Making IT governance work does not simply mean adh...

 Treo Essentials Get the Most from your Treo 650

Make your Treo smartphone live up to its name. Treo Essentials will show you how to get the most out of your Treo 600 or 650 smartphone without making you feel anything but smart. You already know the basics and this book will take you beyond them. You'll...

 Making DVDs A Practical Guide to Creating and Authoring Your Own Discs

Perfect for first-timers who demand professional results This easy-to-use guide can help any savvy computer user master DVD creation, from zero to done. Making DVDs covers the process from planning to development to burning a disc. Through real-world c...

  $30 Music School

Making art your full-time job is a full-time job." If you're ready to take on this job, then you're ready to follow the advice that you'll find inside $30 Music School. Do-It-Yourself recording, distribution, and promotion have made it easier than eve...

 iLife '05

In the only Apple-certified guide to iLife '05, digital pioneer Michael Rubin has you making miracles with iLife within the first few pages. Using real-life material and practical lessons that you can apply immediately to your own projects, this book/DVD ...

 The art of Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is the world's leading image manipulation software. Used by both professional and amateur graphic designers, it is the de facto standard for print and Web publishing. Photoshop Imaging Workshop centers on a suite of 20 digital images crea...

 InDesign CS2 for Dummies

Over the last few years, Adobe InDesign has made significant inroads against QuarkXPress, with adoptions by major media companies such as Meredith Corporation and Hearst Magazines; it is now the only desktop publishing program taught at many art schools...

 Stiquito Controlled! Making a truly autonomous robot

The first book to describe building an inexpensive, small-legged robot; even includes the robot kit Provides advanced assembly instructions for making a life-like walking robot using a microcontroller Introduces readers to "Stiquito Controlled," an ...

 Making a Movie with Windows XP

You've seen your friends' camcorder-shot, digitally edited home movies-and you're pretty sure you can do better! However, that doesn't mean you want to spend days (or even weeks) learning everything there is to know about the free video editing software a...

 How great decisions get made 10 easy steps for reaching agreement on even the thoughest issues

All too often, solving tough work issues can become a tug of war as clashing departments, priorities, personality styles, and other concerns threaten to destroy any possibility of a successful conclusion. But by sharing hopes, and focusing on information ...

  PhotoShop Elements 2 Solutions The Art of Digital Photography

Adobe's original version of Photoshop Elements quickly became a huge software hit, bringing the power of Photoshop to anyone with a computer. The first version of this book became an instant classic, too, using inspiring images and real-world examples to ...

 Office 2003 for Dummies

Teaches readers how to work with Word, play the numbers game with Excel, make presentations with PowerPoint, get organized with Outlook, store data in Access, and make Web pages with FrontPage. Offers instruction in many Internet and related utilities. ...

 Building J2EE applications with IBM WebSphere

This comprehensive reference shows Java developers how to combine the power of J2EE with WebSphere to build business applications Covers versions 3.5 through 5.0 of WebSphere and all aspects of J2EE development, from servlets and JSPs to more complex de...

 Dan Gookin's Naked Office

Is it the best thing since sliced bread? A bug-riddled piece of junk? Here, best-selling author Dan Gookin skillfully navigates between these two extremes, laying bare the best and worst of Office in order to help you achieve a single, all-important goal:...

 Leveraging Web services Planning, Building, and Integration for Maximum Impact

Making the most of IT's newest and most exciting area! Web services are a group of closely related, emerging technologies based on an open, Internet-centric infrastructure. They are the driving force that makes corporate portals work, and the best, mos...

 Satisficing games and decision making With applications to engineering and computer science

In our day-to-day lives we constantly make decisions which are simply 'good enough' rather than optimal. Most computer-based decision making algorithms, on the other hand, doggedly seek only the optimal solution based on rigid criteria and reject any othe...

 ERP and its impact on decision making (Journal of decision systems Vol.10 n°1/2001)

Stakeholder Involvement Framework for Understanding the Decision Making Process of ERP Selection in New Zealand – Liaquat Hossain and Maha Shakir. A Delphi Examination of Public Sector ERP Lifecycle – She-I Chang and Guy G. Gable. Organizat...

 AMA Handbook of E-learning Effective Design, Implementation, and Technology Solutions

Best Practices from 30 Leading Experts Including Brandon Hall, Elliott Masie, Clark Aldrich, Vicky Phillips, Carole Richardson, John Hartnett This authoritative sourcebook is a timely decision-making tool for companies making the transition to (or alread...

 EDGAR: The investor's guide to making better investments

Techniques of the pros for getting fast, free, and valuable data using the SECs Web-based EDGAR system More than one million investors each week rely on the SECs EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) system to learn what is really go...

 The Little iDVD book

The latest generation of Macintosh computers come equipped with a DVD burner and Apple's iDVD software. Cool, you say, but what can you do with that? Of course, you can quickly and easily archive your important files to DVD-but why stop there? Impress yo...