Making decisions is certainly the most important task managers are faced with, and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a procedure for solving complex decision problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing potential solutions, and on establishing a decision-making matrix. In this fourth edition of the book, published under a new title, the authors present simplified, actionable guidelines that can be easily applied to the individual steps in the heuristic process. The book is intended for decision-makers at companies, non-profit organizations and in public administration whose work involves complex problems. It will also benefit students and participants in executive courses.

Developing future strategies for a company is an important and complex task, and forms the core issue in this book. A company's strategy defines its future direction, specifying its desired market position and key competitive advantages both at the level of market offers and of resources. This book provides clear, straightforward advice for professionals: after a brief introduction to strategic planning, a heuristic process for determining future strategies is presented. It shows how to analyze a company's current situation, develop and assess options for the future, and define implementation projects. Throughout the book, detailed recommendations are illustrated with the help of numerous concrete examples. As a result of studying applications of the book in practice, the second edition benefits from a simplified, hands-on analysis and planning process at the business level.

Making decisions is certainly the most important task managers are faced with, and it is often a very difficult one. This book offers a procedure for solving complex decision problems step by step. Unlike other texts, the book focuses on problem analysis, on developing potential solutions, and on establishing a decision-making matrix. In this fourth edition of the book, published under a new title, the authors present simplified, actionable guidelines that can be easily applied to the individual steps in the heuristic process. The book is intended for decision-makers at companies, non-profit organizations and in public administration whose work involves complex problems. It will also benefit students and participants in executive courses.

Combinatorial testing of software analyzes interactions among variables using a very small number of tests. This advanced approach has demonstrated success in providing strong, low-cost testing in real-world situations. Introduction to Combinatorial Testing presents a complete self-contained tutorial on advanced combinatorial testing methods for real-world software. The book introduces key concepts and procedures of combinatorial testing, explains how to use software tools for generating combinatorial tests, and shows how this approach can be integrated with existing practice. Detailed explanations and examples clarify how and why to use various techniques. Sections on cost and practical considerations describe tradeoffs and limitations that may impact resources or funding. While the authors introduce some of the theory and mathematics of combinatorial methods, readers can use the methods without in-depth knowledge of the underlying mathematics. Accessible to undergraduate students and researchers in computer science and engineering, this book illustrates the practical application of combinatorial methods in software testing. Giving pointers to freely available tools and offering resources on a supplementary website, the book encourages readers to apply these methods in their own testing projects.

Strategic planning is an essential task that helps companies adapt to changes in the environment and to develop proactively. Accordingly, the goal of strategic planning is to ensure companies' survival and long-term success. The strategy-planning process proposed in this book is based on the authors' many years of experience as consultants and board members. The book shows how to carry out sound analyses, how to define concrete strategic objectives, how to develop and assess strategic options and how to determine which implementation projects are necessary. Numerous practical examples serve to illustrate the proposed approach. For the third edition, the sections on corporate strategy and business strategy development have been redesigned and expanded. Throughout the book, many aspects have been clarified and simplified. The book provides practitioners the knowledge they need to develop their own strategies. In addition, it offers a valuable textbook on the complex task of strategic planning.

A completely revised and updated version of this book was published in 2015 under the title "The Strategy Planning Process". A company's strategies define its future direction, specifying not only target market positions for many years to come, but also the key competitive advantages both at the level of market offers and of resources. Developing future strategies is an important and complex task, which is the core issue in this book. After a short introduction to strategic planning, a heuristic process for determining future strategies is presented. This process is divided into eight steps, and for each of these steps, detailed recommendations for problem-solving are provided and illustrated through many concrete examples. The new edition is improved.

A completely revised and updated version of this book was published in 2015 under the title "The Strategy Planning Process". A company's strategies define its future direction, specifying not only target market positions for many years to come, but also the key competitive advantages both at the level of market offers and of resources. Developing future strategies is an important and complex task, which is the core issue in this book. After a short introduction to strategic planning, a heuristic process for determining future strategies is presented. This process is divided into eight steps, and for each of these steps, detailed recommendations for problem-solving are provided and illustrated through many concrete examples. The new edition is improved.

Anhand einer branchenunabhangigen empirischen Studie identifiziert Micha Trachsel praktisch relevante Arten von Nischenstrategien und untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen ihnen und dem Unternehmenserfolg. Er entwickelt eine Taxonomie mit sechs Nischenstrategiearten, die unter anderem zeigt, dass die bisher proklamierte nischenbezogene Kostenfuhrerschaft als realer Nischenstrategietyp nicht existiert."

Benjamin Muller erarbeitet Vorschlage zur konzeptionellen Prazisierung der generischen Wettbewerbsstrategien und entwickelt ein neuartiges Instrument zur Messung von Porters Strategietypen mittels Kauferbefragung. Dessen Qualitat wird durch eine empirische Pilotstudie bestatigt. Die erhobenen Daten nutzt der Autor zur Uberprufung eines klar definierten Ausschnitts von Porters Argumentationskette. Die Ergebnisse stutzen Porters Thesen zum uberdurchschnittlichen Erfolg reiner generischer Wettbewerbsstrategien.
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In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in which "Decameron's"sexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examines "Decameron"in the context of the nature of storytelling, its relationship to other classic works of literature, and the culture of trecento Italy.

Stories and storytelling are to be interpreted in terms of a wider cultural context that includes masks, metamorphosis, mythic themes, and character analysis, all of which Boccaccio explores with wit and subtlety. As a storyteller, Boccaccio represents himself as literary pimp, conceiving the relationship between storyteller and audience in sexual terms within a tradition that goes back as far as Socrates' conversations with the young Athenians.

As a whole, Boccaccio's great collection of stories creates a trenchant criticism of the ideas that dominated his social and cultural world. Addressed as it is to women who were denied opportunities for education, the author's stories create a university of wise and culturally observant texts. He teaches that comic, religious, sexual, and artistic themes can be seen to function as metaphors for hidden and often dangerous unorthodox thoughts.

Kuhns suggests that "Decameron"is one of the first self-conscious creations of what we today call "a total work of art." Throughout the stories, Boccaccio creates a detailed picture of the Florentine trecento cultural world. Giotto, Buffalmacco, and other great painters of Boccaccio's time appear in the stories. Their works and the paintings that surround the characters as they prepare to leave the plague-ridden city, with their representations of Dante, Aquinas, and other thinkers, are essential to understanding the ways the stories work with other works of art and illuminate and enlarge interpretations of Boccaccio's book.

Das vorliegende Buch wurde fur die Ausbildung des Funkpersonals und der Funk- techniker in der kommerziellen Technik und in anderen Fachgebieten ausserhalb der Unterhaltungstechnik geschrieben. Besonderer Wert wurde auf die Erarbeitung der Grundlagen gelegt, auf die heute weniger denn je verzichtet werden kann. Es wird jedoch vorausgesetzt, dass der Leser mit den einfachen Grundgesetzen der Elektrotechnik bereits vertraut ist. Unter weitgehendem Verzicht auf mathematische Hilfsmittel werden alle z. Z. in der Funktechnik angewendeten Prinzipien erlautert, sofern deren Kennmis fur die Praxis nutzlich erschien. Unter anderem wird gezeigt, dass sich die Vielfalt der physikalischen Vorgange auf verhalmismassig wenig grundsatzliche Erscheinungen zuruckfuhren lasst, die uberall in der Elektrotechnik zu finden sind. Neben der Vermittlung der Grundlagen werden viele praktische Hinweise fur das Arbeiten mit Funkanlagen gegeben. Diese Teile des Buches werden auch von dem bereits in der Praxis stehenden Funk- personal mit Gewinn gelesen werden, zumal die neuesten Erkenntnisse und Er- fahrungen ausgewertet wurden. In einer weiteren Veroeffentlichung sollen geratekundliehe Themen behandelt werden.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.

This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.

This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.

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Role-based access control (RBAC) is a security mechanism that has gained wide acceptance in the field because it can greatly lower the cost and complexity of securing large networked and Web-based systems. Written by leading experts, this newly revised edition of the Artech House bestseller, "Role-Based Access Control", offers practitioners the very latest details on this popular network security model.

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This book places the contribution of psychoanalysis to the understanding of art within a philosophical framework and seeks to show by argument and example the potential and unrealized power of psychoanalytic theory for a philosophy of art and culture.