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Managing Information Technology Projects

With software and hardware development techniques improving constantly, it's surprising to learn that more than half of all technology projects overrun their schedules and budgets by 200 percent or more. Computerworld magazine recently reported several surveys showing that project failure is overwhelmingly traceable to poorly defined project organization, a lack of training, weak executive support, inconsistent methods and policies, and other readily addressed factors. Managing Information Technology Projects gives systems project managers field-proven tools and step-by-step methodologies to start and complete every project
  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: American Management Association (November 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0814408117
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Persuasive Business Proposals: Writing to Win More Customers, Clients, and Contracts

Dalls, TX Morning News February 2004
"It's a sturdy little book crammed full of suggestions, tips and templates." Mr. Sant lays it out step by step.

Writing That Works
"..this book contains valuable advice for writers who have to sell either their organization's or their department's products and services
  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: AMACOM; 2nd edition (December 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0814471536
With over 40,000 copies sold, the first edition of Persuasive Business Proposals helped many readers construct dynamic, effective proposals. Now in paperback, this fully-revised second edition still gives readers simple, effective techniques for organizing, writing, and delivering proposals while updating the author's winning strategies for today's global business environment.
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Powerful Proposals: How to Give Your Business the Winning Edge

How does a company constantly win more business than its rivals? A key factor is the ability to create proposals that outshine those from even the strongest competitors. Powerful Proposals helps businesses maximize the selling power of their proposals, with proven strategies for going beyond "this is what we do" documents in favor of customer-centered offers that highlight the tangible benefits your company offers
  • Hardcover: 254 pages
  • Publisher: American Management Association; 1st edition (November 30, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 081447232X
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Accounting Demystified

For new students of accounting, entry-level accounting professionals, and business professionals whose own work relates directly to the numbers on the ledger, a basic understanding of core accounting functions and documents is critical. Accounting Demystified provides a simple and straightforward description of universal elements of the accounting process, plus accessible tutorials in creating, interpreting, and using financial statement
  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: American Management Association (October 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0814407900

 

Haber's clear language will let readers:

* understand accounting basics * find errors quickly * prepare accurate financial statements * analyze financial documents * determine the financial health of a business * prepare a financial prospectus for potential investors and lenders

From the classroom to the back room to the board room, Accounting Demystified serves as a valuable primer on the basics of accounting and the purposes they serve.
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Accounting for Managers: Interpreting Accounting Information for Decision-Making

Accounting for Managers explains how accounting information is used by non-financial managers. The book emphasizes the interpretation, rather than the construction, of accounting information and encourages a critical, rather than an unthinking acceptance, of the underlying assumptions behind accounting
 
ISBN: 0-470-01609-4
Paperback
536 pages
May 2006 
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Accounting for Payroll: A Comprehensive Guide

A one-stop resource for setting up or improving an existing payroll system! The most comprehensive resource available on the subject

"Accounting for Payroll: A Comprehensive Guide" provides up-to-date information to enable users to handle payroll accounting in the most cost-effective manner. From creating a system from scratch to setting up a payroll department to record-keeping and journal entries, "Accounting for Payroll" provides the most authoritative information on the entire payroll process
  • Hardcover: 286 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Jun 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN: 0471251089
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How to Run Successful Projects III: The Silver Bullet

Builds on the success of the first and second editions and reminds us all, in the post dot com era, just how important good project management practices are. New third edition now compares the Ten Steps of structured project management with any other methodology
  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman; 3Rev Ed edition (January 15, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0201748061
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All About Market Timing: The Easy Way to Get Started

Shell-shocked investors have lost patience with the traditional buy-and-hold approach to investing. "All About Market Timing" arms investors with simple, easy-to-use timing techniques that they can use to enter rising markets, exit (or go short) falling markets, and make consistent profits in both market environments, while protecting against catastrophic losses. Compelling arguments demonstrate the superiority of basic timing over buy-and-hold, while step-by-step instructions show how uncomplicated timing can be. Specific investment vehicles are recommended that fit well into most timing strategies
  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw Hill Higher Education (1 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN: 0071413316
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10 Minute Guide to Project Management

Reader, Lake Computer Specialists
This book is to the point. Take the author to heart, and you will glean much knowledge.

Review
This book is to the point. Take the author to heart, and you will glean much knowledge. --Reader, Lake Computer Specialists
  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Alpha; 1st edition (August 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0028639669
 
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Agile Project Management

In a fast-paced environment filled with uncertainty, successfully completing projects on time can feel like running an obstacle course. An emphasis on speed often forces project teams to make decisions without crucial data, leading to frequent changes of direction once more information becomes known. If people aren't light on their feet, complicated projects can easily get tripped up. Agile Project Management gives readers the strategies they need to take charge of urgent projects that involve unique resources and elements of uncertainty. The book offers an improvement upon classical project management processes by tying project processes more directly to the ever-changing requirements of business objectives
  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: AMACOM (December 2003)
  • ISBN: 0814471765
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Building Project-Management Centers of Excellence

It's been shown again and again that business components from R & D to systems, engineering to manufacturing can benefit from a project-centered management approach. Now, organizations that have had success at the departmental or divisional level are taking the project management approach to new levels, adopting PM standards into across-the-board management philosophies and business strategies
  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: American Management Association; 1st edition (June 15, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 081440717X
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Modern Project Management Techniques for the Environmental Remediation Industry

Environmental remediation has brought significant improvements to industrial sites and surrounding communities throughout the nation. It's also become notorious for high budget overruns and frequent schedule delays, as environmental remediation's technological aspects become subject to political, managerial and economic concerns.Modern Project Management (MPM) Processes offer a new framework for remediation programs, geared to increased efficiency and precise troubleshooting
  • Hardcover: 456 pages
  • Publisher: CRC (December 3, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 157444218X
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The Ama Handbook of Project Management

A comprehensive reference, thoroughly updated with all new material, The AMA Handbook of Project Management presents the critical concepts and theories that all project managers must master. Containing definitive models, advice, and in-depth solutions to specific project management dilemmas, the book provides valuable insight and the latest techniques on how to: * establish project goals * implement planning on both the strategic and operational levels * design dependable, but flexible, organizational structures * manage the project life cycle and meet objectives * budget the project * handle the transition from project idea to project reality
  • Hardcover: 489 pages
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0814401066
 
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Your Successful Project Management Career

Those starting out in or considering a career in project management are faced with an almost endless string of questions. What experience and training do they need? What type of certification is required? What does the job consist of? And how can they best manage their careers?Your Successful Project Management Career provides all the information project management beginners need, from typical corporate hierarchy to reading requirements, developing project plans, and executing and closing the project
  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: AMACOM; 1st edition (November 30, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0814408249
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Trading Secrets of the Inner Circle

This book will give you insight into the market concepts of a trader who has operated at the highest levels of the industry. Most importantly, Goodwin has dispensed with the complex statistical tools that he is accustomed to working with and has transformed his chapters into models that you can replicate with modest effort. Tradestation users will have a virtual field day cutting through this collection of original ideas on everything from timing the VIX index to scalping the S&P futures
  • Paperback: 110 pages
  • Publisher: Traders Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 0934380406

Before he was twenty-four, Goodwin had landed a job at a prestigious Manhattan based offshore hedge fund. He was given the role of chief technical analyst in a new firm founded by the former Tiger Management Macro Trading team. This was the team that was allocated $1 billion and made $1 billion, a feat that will go down in hedge fund record books. Goodwin executed European and Asian derivatives trades for a fund that amounted to over $400 million. When the team went its separate ways, Goodwin's colleagues went to work for a virtual who's who of Wall Street hedge funds. Some went to work for Michael Steinhardt, others went to Leon Cooperman, and still more went to work for Julian Robertson.

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