Battle-tested techniques for successfully integrating technology and business You need to overhaul your company’s technology infrastructure, but you lack the technical know-how or vocabulary. You need to communicate with your IT personnel, but everything they say sounds like Greek (or “geek.”) You need to do everything efficiently, effectively, and successfully. Dr. Bob Spencer and Randy Johnston offer sound, time-proven advice. Designed for managers who nevertheless must be technologically aware, Technology Best Practices provides an easy-to-follow road map to selecting, implementing, and managing technical systems. Spencer and Johnston explain that sound management principles are as relevant in the technology arena as they are anywhere else. This reader-friendly study covers a host of hot topics, including: Software and hardware selection Security Remote access Managing IT staff Emerging technologies IT managers need not hold a de… More >>

Technology Best Practices

Providing a comprehensive framework for a sustainable governance model, and how to leverage it in competing global markets, Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook presents a readable overview to the political, regulatory, technical, process, and people considerations in complying with an ever more demanding regulatory environment and achievement of good corporate governance. Offering an international overview, this book features contributions from sixty-four industry experts from fifteen countries…. More >>

The Governance, Risk, and Compliance Handbook: Technology, Finance, Environmental, and International Guidance and Best Practices

Digital Practices offers a description of a range of art and performance practices that have emerged within the context of a broad-based technological infiltration of all areas of human experience. They are integral to alternative and also to mainstream performance and culture, and demand perceptive strategies that can address the interface between the physical and the virtual. In this pioneering study, Susan Broadhurst explores the aesthetic theorisation of these practices and extends her analysis to include other approaches, including those offered by recent research into neuroesthetics…. More >>

Digital Practices: Aesthetic and Neuroesthetic Approaches to Performance and Technology

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” When executed well, e-learning is a powerful way for organizations to save money while providing the kind of up-to-date training and information that will help employees perform better and more efficiently. Unfortunately, all too often, companies are finding that they’re spending a huge amount of money for less return than they had hoped. In e-Learning 2.0, Anita Rosen explains what works and what doesn’t, offering businesses a best-practices guide for making their investment pay off. Using examples of successful companies like National SemiConductor, Telefonica, and the Texas Department of Transportation who have made the most of e-learning, Rosen shows companies how to: define an e-learning strategy – identify the best technologies and processes to effectively implement an e-learning strategy – manage large, complicated, or new e-learning initiatives – get buy-in from trainers, managers and learners – measure and evaluate training – calculate an ROI Complete with up-to-date inform… More >>

e-Learning 2.0: Proven Practices and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Real Results

In many organizations, information technology (IT) has become crucial in the support, sustainability, and growth of the business. This pervasive use of technology has created a critical dependency on IT that calls for a specific focus on IT governance. Implementing Information Technology Governance: Models, Practices and Cases presents insight gained through literature reviews and case studies to provide practical guidance for organizations who want to start implementing IT governance or improving existing governance models, and provides a detailed set of IT governance structures, processes, and relational mechanisms that can be leveraged to implement IT governance in practice…. More >>

Implementing Information Technology Governance: Models, Practices and Cases

In recent years, virtual communities have attracted the attention of scientists and researchers across a variety of disciplines as the cross-disciplinary nature of the field creates the potential for a wider impact than initially intended or anticipated. Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis provides an analysis of virtual communities, explaining their lifecycle in terms of maturity-based models and workflows. An authoritative reference source valuable to academicians, practitioners, and researchers, this book reflects upon key results of research and development projects within online groups…. More >>

Virtual Community Practices and Social Interactive Media: Technology Lifecycle and Workflow Analysis

“The LESI Guide to Licensing Best Practices, to which I was proud to contribute, has found solid acceptance in the international licensing community. The new volume of Licensing Best Practices maintains this high standard. It was designed to be complementary to its predecessor and broadens the scope of the scholarship. Standing alone, Licensing Best Practices is a valuable source of contemporary information. In combination with The LESI Guide to Licensing Best Practices, we have a very valuable source of insights and practical knowledge.”
—Heinz Goddar Partner Boehmert & Boehmert “Few if any other intellectual property references lay the required geographic foundation for the scientific, business, and legal issues presented. Goldscheider and Gordon demonstrate that tech transfer occurs in a global arena. The book lives up to its title: Licensing Best Practices.”
—James E. Malackowski President & CEO, Ocean Tomo, LLC past president, LES-USA & Canada An… More >>