Systemen zum Enterprise Resource Planning, kurz ERP-Systemen, geht der Ruf voraus, enorme Kosten zu verursachen. Hingegen bleibt der Nutzen von ERP-Systemen fur Unternehmen oftmals unklar. Das Buch geht der Frage nach, wie Unternehmen den Einsatz von ERP-Systemen durch das Generieren signifikanter Kosten- oder Nutzenvorteile optimieren konnen. Konkrete Erfahrungsberichte aus der Praxis beleuchten verschiedenartige Aspekte der Kosten-/Nutzenoptimierung von ERP-Systemen: Vom Architekturmanagement (z.B. ERP-Konsolidierung) uber die Implementation (z.B. Adaptive Computing) bis hin zum Betrieb von ERP-Systemen. Das Buch wendet sich an Praktiker und IT-Leiter, die ihr ERP-System optimieren wollen. Es wendet sich zugleich an Unternehmensleitungen, die mit ihren IT-Verantwortlichen nach Wegen der Kosten-/Nutzenoptimierung suchen. Ein Buch von Praktikern fur Praktiker!

Economic theory predicts that unconditional intergovernmental grant income and private income are perfectly fungible. Despite this prediction, the literature on fiscal federalism documents that grant and private income are empirically non-equivalent. A large scale school finance reform in New Hampshire--the typical school district experienced a 200 percent increase in grant income--provides an unusually compelling test of the equivalence prediction. Most theoretical explanations for non-equivalence focus on mechanisms which produce public good provision levels which differ from the decisive voter's preferences. New Hampshire determines local public goods provision via a form of direct democracy--a setting which rules out these explanations. In contrast to the general support in the literature for non-equivalence, the empirical estimates in this paper suggest that approximately 92 cents per grant dollar are spent on tax reduction. These results not only document that equivalence holds in a setting with a strong presumption that public good provision decisions reflect the preferences of voters, but also directly confirm the prediction of the seminal work of Bradford and Oates (1971) that lump-sum grant income is equivalent to a tax reduction. In addition, the paper presents theoretical arguments that grant income capitalization and heterogeneity in the marginal propensity to spend on public goods may generate spurious rejections of the equivalence prediction. The heterogeneity argument is confirmed empirically. Specifically, the results indicate that lower income communities spend more of the grant income on education than wealthier communities, a finding interpreted as revealing that the Engel curve for education is concave.

The inmates of Natrona County Detention Center have painful stories, filled with substance abuse, violence, broken relationships, and risky lifestyle choices. Injured by their pasts, their pain drives them to continue making bad decisions. Many of them can see no way out of a cycle of self-destruction.

Volunteer jail chaplain John F. Lutz, Jr. offers inmates a solution through Christ. In a series of moving stories, Lutz describes how inmates' lives changed by asking God for spiritual healing and forgiveness. The men he ministers to-Andrew, Kenny, Bill, and others-all share difficult and challenging lives as young men, and are all transformed through a renewed relationship with Christ.

Through each man's inspirational story, Lutz reveals what it truly means to be" Created in the Image of God," and why this profound truth is so important in everyday life. Using simple language and Scripture, Lutz guides both inmates and readers to a new understanding of God, and how to ask Him for spiritual healing.

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