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This book offers key insights into how to manage software
development across international boundaries. It is based on a
series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms
from North America, the UK, Japan and Korea with Indian software
houses. In these case studies, which have typically been compiled
over a 3-4 year timespan, the authors analyse the multi-faceted
challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances
(GSAs). These challenges range from the conflicts that managers
face when dealing with distance, to the tensions of transferring
knowledge across time and space, to issues in trying to establish
universal standards in a context of constant change, and the
problems of identity that developers and clients experience in
having to deal with different organizations and countries.
Throughout the book, the authors draw on their extensive research
and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs
more effectively.
Offering key insights into how to manage software development across international boundaries, this book is based on a series of case studies looking at the relationships between firms from North America, the U.K., Japan and Korea with Indian software companies. The authors analyze the multi-faceted challenges encountered in managing these Global Software Alliances (GSAs). They draw on extensive research and experience to offer constructive advice on how to manage GSAs more effectively.
Socially Responsible Outsourcing is an edited collection that focus
on the topic of socially responsible outsourcing (SRO) including
research frameworks, rich case studies, and an SRO agenda for the
future.
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Shoot (Paperback)
Brian Nicholson
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R388
Discovery Miles 3 880
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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For a "dare," two small boys climb over the wall into the Duke of
Cranborne's estate in Hampshire. Both boys are armed with air guns,
but what starts as a dare ends in blind terror for one of them as
he stumbles in the dark across the body of a man whose head has
been blown off. The man is a BID agent, and his death jeopardizes
the security of a shoot organized for the prime ministers of
several countries before the G20 Summit in London. John Gunn
replaces the murdered agent and has to unravel a conspiracy
involving nuclear weapons and drugs. From the lush grounds of the
Cranborne estate in Hampshire to the bleak and inhospitable
mountains of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, Gunn's
assignment moves at breakneck speed to prevent the nuclear weapons
reaching the Taliban and the heroin reaching the streets of the UK.
Through a series of case studies and surveys, the authors examine
current sustainability trends in outsourcing and recommend how
providers should prepare for increasing buyer demands in this area,
suggesting buyers and providers can work together to build
successful outsourcing relationships through collaborative
sustainability projects.
Through a series of case studies and surveys, the authors
examine current sustainability trends in outsourcing and recommend
how providers should prepare for increasing buyer demands in this
area, suggesting buyers and providers can work together to build
successful outsourcing relationships through collaborative
sustainability projects.
The discovery by a rookie police officer of the headless and
mutilated body of a middle-aged woman in the residential area of
Indianapolis triggers a joint CIA/British Intelligence Directorate
(BID) investigation to reveal highly placed moles in both agencies.
John Gunn from BID and Doyle Barnes from the CIA are sent to Russia
to find evidence identifying the moles and to verify the contents
of a message on a CD found at the crime scene of the murdered
woman. The CD informs the CIA and BID that all the pasengers on the
South Korean KAL flight shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983
survived the crash and are alive in Russian gulags. Did anyone
survive the shoot-down of the KAL flight? Has a South Korean
scientist who was a passenger on the flight escaped with plans for
a revolutionary fuel cell? John Gunn and Doyle Barnes have the
formidable task of searching the wild Russian Taiga for the
scientist while being pursued by the brutal, sadistic and
self-styled 'Assassin' who has left a trail of decapitated bodies
across the USA and Europe.
The discovery by a rookie police officer of the headless and
mutilated body of a middle-aged woman in the residential area of
Indianapolis triggers a joint CIA/British Intelligence Directorate
(BID) investigation to reveal highly placed moles in both agencies.
John Gunn from BID and Doyle Barnes from the CIA are sent to Russia
to find evidence identifying the moles and to verify the contents
of a message on a CD found at the crime scene of the murdered
woman. The CD informs the CIA and BID that all the pasengers on the
South Korean KAL flight shot down by the Soviet Union in 1983
survived the crash and are alive in Russian gulags. Did anyone
survive the shoot-down of the KAL flight? Has a South Korean
scientist who was a passenger on the flight escaped with plans for
a revolutionary fuel cell? John Gunn and Doyle Barnes have the
formidable task of searching the wild Russian Taiga for the
scientist while being pursued by the brutal, sadistic and
self-styled 'Assassin' who has left a trail of decapitated bodies
across the USA and Europe.
The betrayal of his fellow prisoners by a British officer in a
Japanese POW camp in Hong Kong in 1941 returns to haunt the 21st
Century on the streets of London. The son of one of the POWs has
been murdered by a hit-and-run driver to prevent him from finding
the traitor who condemmed 1,200 men to die, locked in the hold of a
sinking ship while being transported as slave labour toJapan. The
hit-and-run victim leaves behind a briefcase containing his
research into the identity of the traitor......and a letter. A
letter adressed to John Gunn, an agent in the British Intelligence
Directorate. This forcess John Gunn into a deadly conflict, not
only with the Japanese, Albanian and Russian Mafias, but also with
his own Direcdtorate.
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Shark (Paperback)
Brian Nicholson
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R635
Discovery Miles 6 350
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The desert south of the 34 Latitude in Syria down to the 26
Latitude in Saudi Arabia is shown as Badiyat ash Sham in Syria,
Jordan, and Iraq and An Nafud in Saudi Arabia. It is one of the
bleakest and most inhospitable places on Earth. It is a barren,
featureless wilderness - bitterly cold and wet in winter and raging
hot in summer. Even the Bedouin have to struggle to survive as they
roam, stateless, across the borders of all four countries. It's the
desert in which the 1991 Gulf War was fought to remove Saddam
Hussein's Iraqi Forces from Kuwait.
That Gulf War spawned a number of accounts about Special Forces'
missions, but perhaps, none so poignant as that of the eight-man
SAS patrol, tasked to identify Scud missile launchers, of which
only two men returned - one severely wounded and the other
decorated for gallantry. After leaving the Army, one joined the
British Intelligence Directorate and the other followed a career in
commercial security which led to his appointment as Head of
Security at Number 10 Downing Street. But the Syrian Desert hid the
secret of what really happened to that eight-man SAS patrol. That
secret would not be uncovered until a BID agent is shot and the
dying gunman utters part of a name that makes no sense to anyone.
Fruitful is a trip to the local orchard, overflowing with ripe,
seasonal produce,and it's not just desserts! From sweet to savoury,
including fresh juices, every chapter is devoted to the produce of
the moment: rhubarb, strawberries, apples, plums, apricots,
peaches, quinces, pears, and more. This delectable cookbook
showcases the bounty from New York's favourite orchard, illustrated
with gorgeous full-colour photography throughout,but all of the
fruit can be found wherever you live. Pies and cobblers are only
the beginning of four seasons of recipes celebrating fruit:
Strawberry-Black Pepper Granita, Spicy Roast Chicken with Rhubarb
Chutney, Scallop and Blueberry Ceviche, Grilled Peach, Shrimp, and
Prosciutto Skewers, and Rustic Apricot and Raspberry Crostada offer
a taste of the juicy dishes inside. And twenty-five recipes will
come from fruit-loving chefs who count themselves among Red
Jacket's devoted customers: a few of the contributors include Dan
Barber, Jonathan Waxman, Karen DeMasco, and Melissa Clark. Whether
it's a bushel of peaches or a bundle of rhubarb, you'll find plenty
to dish up here.
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