Profit Mapping A Tool for Aligning Operations with Future Profit and Performance

A wise manager knows that success only comes with operational excellence that is properly aligned with strategy. The challenge is knowing what actions to take and when to take them-navigating without knowing the impact of your actions on the bottom line i...

 Strategic Product Creation How to Deliver Customer Satisfaction at Every Level of Your Company

Create and market the right product-fast Strategic Product Creation is a true working guide to developing market-savvy, cost-effective products and services. Delivering expert guidance in the five key stages of product development, authors Ronald Kerber ...

 First in Thirst How to Gatorade Turned the Science of Sweat into a Cultural Phenomenon

Before America even knew what "deep-down body thirst" was, four University of Florida scientists had invented something to quench it. Remember the Cola Wars, with Coke and Pepsi battling it out year after year for supremacy in the soft drink market...

 Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL E-Commerce From Novice to Professional

The PHP language and PostgreSQL database server have long offered an ideal blend of practicality and power for both the novice and experienced programmer alike. Yet the continued evolution of both technologies makes them better suited to drive enterprise-...

 Foundations of Biztalk Server 2006 Empowering Productivity for the New BizTalk Developer

Since Microsoft's release of BizTalk Server 2006, there is a serious need for more documentation on this product. Foundations of BizTalk Server 2006 fills that void. The book will take you from novice to professional, equipping you with the tools you'll n...

 Practical Perforce Channeling the Flow of Change in Software Development Collaboration

When developers build software, they're able to keep track of all the different versions and all the components they use with software configuration management (SCM) systems. One of the more popular SCM products is Perforce. Authored by Perforce's ow...

 Design Software Product Lines with UML From Use Cases to Pattern-based Software Architectures

Long a standard practice in traditional manufacturing, the concept of product lines is quickly earning recognition in the software industry. A software product line is a family of systems that shares a common set of core technical assets with preplanned e...

 Reality Macromedia ColdFusion MX Intranets and content management

The Reality ColdFusion series is your invitation to be part of real-world ColdFusion development teams as they tackle real-world problems. Sit in on the application-design process, listen in as the engineers discuss development problems and brainstorm pos...

 Domain Oriented Systems Development

Domain Oriented Systems Development is the sixth volume in the Advanced Information Processing Technology series of the Information Processing Society of Japan. It draws together a collection of research papers on domain analysis and modeling written by a...

 Implementing and integrating product data management and software configuration management

Because today's products rely on tightly integrated hardware and software components, system and software engineers, and project and product managers need to have an understanding of both product data management (PDM) and software configuration management...