Strategic Management: Concepts (13th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Fred David has written an excellent and concise book on startegic management. His methods of including easy to understand and use matrices is a godsend to most students at under graduate level. The TOWS matrice developed by Fred David is one of the best tools available in strategic management, it is so simple, yet on one page you can view a company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats and devise alternative strategies to make the best use of your SWOT analysis. The cases in the book are short and to the point and the low price should ensure it is used throughout the world by management students. John McElvaney. Management Lecturer. Melbourne Australia.

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Strategic Management: Concepts captures the complexity of the current business environment and delivers the latest skills and concepts with unrivaled clarity. The Nature of Strategic Management; The Business Vision and Mission; The External Assessment; The Internal Assessment; Strategies in Action; Strategy Analysis and Choice; Implementing Strategies: Management and Operations Issues; Implementing Strategies: Marketing, Finance/Accounting, R&D, and MIS Issues; Strategy Review, Evaluation, and Control; Business Ethics/Social Responsibility/Environmental Sustainability; Global/International Issues For management professionals, small business owners, and others involved in business.

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Traffic Flow Fundamentals Review

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(More customer reviews)The title is no exaggeration: This book is the THE fundamental source of traffic flow theory.
I know no book that is that comprehensive; the extensive coverage of macroscopic and microscopic traffic flow theory is supplemented by traffic demand modeling, intersection planning, traffic simulation...
I am not aware of another publication containing such a broad content. Regardless whether you are scientist in traffic modeling or practitioner, there is no alternative to this book. Although not updated since 1990, most is still valid today. A remarkable exception is the chapter about traffic simulation since the significant progress during the last two decades is not covered (-1 star).
Plus, the physical quality is very low: Soft-cover almost as thin as any page, printed in black & white, weak binding (some pages loose after only a week of careful reading). For approximately $100, I'd expect better. (-1 star).
Regardless of these handicaps, I strongly recommend this book. There is no better. I hope, though, there will be an updated edition one day.

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Logical development of the concepts and applications of traffic stream theory and operations analysis. Includes many worked examples and homework problems.

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Power and Organization Development: Mobilizing Power to Implement Change (Prentice Hall Organizational Development Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)An Excellent Book For All The Managers In Every Organisation....... A Must Read

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A member of the AWL OD Series! Power and Organization Development argues that OD and power can and should be reconciled and integrated in the implementation of change. This book provides the reader with a solid grounding in the role of power and politics in organizations, with a specific focus on how managers use power bases and strategies to get things done, as well as provides the reader with strategies and intervention techniques for bringing about change in an organization.

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Web Services: Principles and Technology Review

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(More customer reviews)This book stands out from the vast array of contemporary SOA and Web services literature in many ways:
1) It presents business context and technical requirements for Web services design on an adequate level of detail.
2) It provides important historical insight without putting the reader to sleep.
3) It covers relevant related work such as e-business, EAI, and networking as needed, unlike most other Web services books.
4) It separates abstract concepts such as messaging from implementation technology such as JMS appropriately, but shows the connections when needed.
5) It builds up a non-trivial example that demonstrates how the various specifications fit together, many unique illustrations help to digest.
6) It has non-trivial exercises that will deepen your understanding.
7) The author's has a hype-free, vendor-neutral writing style and is very experienced in his field.
It always is a good sign if as a reader I want more... so I would also have been interested in the author's view on the ongoing WS-*/SOAP vs. REST debate, and about adoption of the presented concepts and technologies in the industry (tools and project usage); for example, UDDI does not seem to have much traction these days. Maybe something for the Website accompanying the book, which will also have additional material for students and lecturers?
As a practicing IT architect, I have helped many companies to transform their existing applications into Web services-based SOAs. As a book author, I have captured my own experience with the technology in writing. As a researcher, I now investigate many of the architecture design issues the author points out. Still, I find this book to be very educational and informative; I highly recommend it for practitioners, students, and researchers that want to understand the big picture as well as technical rationale and details behind the various concepts and technologies. Those of you that believe some WSDL-to-Java wizards or RESTful POX/HTTP calls are all that is required for successful enterprise development and integration, please do have a look as well - you will begin to appreciate that there is more to the picture!

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The first textbook to focus on Web Services – the wave of the future for Web-based distributed computing.

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Essentials of Strategic Management (5th Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)Having this be a required book in a recent doctoral course on leadership, I was plesantly surprised by the content. This book should be required reading for all who are interested in strategic management, organizational change, and the future of business and industry. The examples are right-on, useful, and very meaningful. Anyone interested in environmental and internal scanning for an organization can use the simple model provided in the book. I would say this is one of the best books I have ever read on this subject.

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Get straight to the heart of important strategic management concepts. This brief text offers a concise explanation of the most important concepts and techniques in strategic management. Further, cases and simulations are a perfect supplement to Essentials of Strategic Management, while its brevity also makes it suitable for use in corporate and executive training programs.This edition contains new information to reflect the latest changes in the discipline while remaining brief and to the point.

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