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The Dust Bowl Orphans
Suzette D. Harrison
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This book examines issues related to the alignment of business
strategies and analytics. Vast amounts of data are being generated,
collected, stored, processed, analyzed, distributed and used at an
ever-increasing rate by organizations. Simultaneously, managers
must rapidly and thoroughly understand the factors driving their
business. Business Analytics is an interactive process of analyzing
and exploring enterprise data to find valuable insights that can be
exploited for competitive advantage. However, to gain this
advantage, organizations need to create a sophisticated analytical
climate within which strategic decisions are made. As a result,
there is a growing awareness that alignment among business
strategies, business structures, and analytics are critical to
effectively develop and deploy techniques to enhance an
organization's decision-making capability. In the past, the
relevance and usefulness of academic research in the area of
alignment is often questioned by practitioners, but this book seeks
to bridge this gap. Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics:
Bridging Between Theory and Practice is comprised of twelve
chapters, divided into three sections. The book begins by
introducing business analytics and the current gap between academic
training and the needs within the business community. Chapters 2 -
5 examines how the use of cognitive computing improves financial
advice, how technology is accelerating the growth of the financial
advising industry, explores the application of advanced analytics
to various facets of the industry and provides the context for
analytics in practice. Chapters 6 - 9 offers real-world examples of
how project management professionals tackle big-data challenges,
explores the application of agile methodologies, discusses the
operational benefits that can be gained by implementing real-time,
and a case study on human capital analytics. Chapters 10 - 11
reviews the opportunities and potential shortfall and highlights
how new media marketing and analytics fostered new insights.
Finally the book concludes with a look at how data and analytics
are playing a revolutionary role in strategy development in the
chemical industry.
The contributions to this volume aim to stimulate discussion about
the role of assessment in the learning experiences of students in
music and other creative and performing arts settings. The articles
offer insights on how assessment can be employed in the learning
setting to enhance outcomes for students both during their studies
at higher education institutions and after graduation. An
international group of leading researchers offers an exciting array
of papers that focus on the practice of assessment in music,
particularly in higher education settings. Contributions reflect on
self-, peer- and alternative assessment practices in this
environment. There is a particular emphasis on the alignment
between assessment, curriculum structure and pedagogy.
The contributions to this volume aim to stimulate discussion about
the role of assessment in the learning experiences of students in
music and other creative and performing arts settings. The articles
offer insights on how assessment can be employed in the learning
setting to enhance outcomes for students both during their studies
at higher education institutions and after graduation. An
international group of leading researchers offers an exciting array
of papers that focus on the practice of assessment in music,
particularly in higher education settings. Contributions reflect on
self-, peer- and alternative assessment practices in this
environment. There is a particular emphasis on the alignment
between assessment, curriculum structure and pedagogy.
"Since singing is so good a thing,I wish all men would learne to
sing" (William Byrd, 1588) Over the centuries, there has been
reluctance among boys and men to become involved in some forms of
singing. Perspectives on Males and Singing tackles this conundrum
head-on as the first academic volume to bring together leading
thinkers and practitioners who share their insights on the
involvement of males in singing. The authors share research that
analyzes the axiomatic male disinclination to sing, and give
strategies designed to engage males more successfully in performing
vocal music emphasizing the many positive effects it can have on
their lives. Inspired by a meeting at the Australian symposium
'Boys and Voices', which focused on the engagement of boys in
singing, the volume includes contributions from leading authorities
in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Europe.
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Interactive Systems. Design Specification, and Verification - 12th International Workshop, DSVIS 2005, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, July 13-15, 2005, Revised Papers (Paperback, 2006 ed.)
Stephen W. Gilroy, Michael D. Harrison
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R1,649
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This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 12th
International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification
of Interactive Systems, DSV-IS 2005. The 20 revised full papers, 1
keynote paper, and 4 summaries of group discussions are organized
in topical sections on teams and groups, sketches and templates,
away from the desktop, migration and mobility, analysis tools,
model-based design processes and tools, and group discussions.
An increasing recognition of the role of the human-system interface
is leading to new extensions and styles of specification.
Techniques are being developed that facilitate the expression of
user-oriented requirements and the refinement and checking of
specifications of interactive systems. This book reflects the state
of the art in this important area and also contains a summary of
working group discussions about how the various techniques
represented might be applied to a common case study.
This book examines issues related to the alignment of business
strategies and analytics. Vast amounts of data are being generated,
collected, stored, processed, analyzed, distributed and used at an
ever-increasing rate by organizations. Simultaneously, managers
must rapidly and thoroughly understand the factors driving their
business. Business Analytics is an interactive process of analyzing
and exploring enterprise data to find valuable insights that can be
exploited for competitive advantage. However, to gain this
advantage, organizations need to create a sophisticated analytical
climate within which strategic decisions are made. As a result,
there is a growing awareness that alignment among business
strategies, business structures, and analytics are critical to
effectively develop and deploy techniques to enhance an
organization's decision-making capability. In the past, the
relevance and usefulness of academic research in the area of
alignment is often questioned by practitioners, but this book seeks
to bridge this gap. Aligning Business Strategies and Analytics:
Bridging Between Theory and Practice is comprised of twelve
chapters, divided into three sections. The book begins by
introducing business analytics and the current gap between academic
training and the needs within the business community. Chapters 2 -
5 examines how the use of cognitive computing improves financial
advice, how technology is accelerating the growth of the financial
advising industry, explores the application of advanced analytics
to various facets of the industry and provides the context for
analytics in practice. Chapters 6 - 9 offers real-world examples of
how project management professionals tackle big-data challenges,
explores the application of agile methodologies, discusses the
operational benefits that can be gained by implementing real-time,
and a case study on human capital analytics. Chapters 10 - 11
reviews the opportunities and potential shortfall and highlights
how new media marketing and analytics fostered new insights.
Finally the book concludes with a look at how data and analytics
are playing a revolutionary role in strategy development in the
chemical industry.
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Trust Management VI - 6th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2012, Surat, India, May 21-25, 2012, Proceedings (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Theo Dimitrakos, Rajat Moona, Dhiren, Patel, D. Harrison McKnight
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R1,590
Discovery Miles 15 900
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG
11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2012, held in Surat, India,
in May 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 8
short papers and the abstracts of 4 keynote talks were carefully
reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. Building on the
traditions inherited from the iTrust and previous IFIPTM
conferences, IFIPTM 2012 is a multi-disciplinary conference
focusing on areas such as: trust models, social, economic and
behavioural aspects of trust, trust in networks, mobile systems and
cloud computation, privacy, reputation systems, and identity
management.
""Since singing is so good a thing, I wish all men would learne
to sing"" (William Byrd, 1588)
Over the centuries, there has been reluctance among boys and men
to become involved in some forms of singing. "Perspectives on Males
and Singing" tackles this conundrum head-on as the first academic
volume to bring together leading thinkers and practitioners who
share their insights on the involvement of males in singing. The
authors share research that analyzes the axiomatic male
disinclination to sing, and give strategies designed to engage
males more successfully in performing vocal music emphasizing the
many positive effects it can have on their lives.
Inspired by a meeting at the Australian symposium 'Boys and
Voices', which focused on the engagement of boys in singing, the
volume includes contributions from leading authorities in
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States and Europe.
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