e-Business Intelligence: Turning Information into Knowledge into Profit

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It is widely acknowledged that businesses today must harness the Net to effectively utilize the myriad details they glean from--and then pass around to--their various stakeholders. But how best to do that? e-Business Intelligence, by the head of a global company that helps others develop such efforts, lays out a variety of interrelated methodologies already in use by pioneering corporations around the world. In doing so, author Bernard Liautaud explains how to move from data (the extensive raw stats to which most contemporary firms are privy) to information (the proper context in which they must be applied) to intelligence (the collective knowledge from which appropriate actions are initiated). Liautaud shows how companies like Eli Lilly, MasterCard, and British Airways have created electronic relationships among employees, suppliers, consumers, and business partners to boost marketing, customer service, quality control, purchasing, and other activities. He explains how internal "information democracies" allow them to instantaneously distribute pertinent details throughout their organizations, while external "information embassies" facilitate the rapid transfer of pertinent facts to outside constituencies. To help readers develop their own individualized strategies, he presents specifics on gathering "customer intelligence," sharing product information, optimizing supply chains, and performing other critical tasks. --Howard Rothman

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Internationally celebrated ebusiness innovator, Bernard Liautaud, explains why the key to ebusiness success is knowing how to transform the vast reservoir of raw data found in every company into a corporate intelligence gold mine.

This book focuses on the three main areas of ebusiness intelligence—intranets, extranets, and business-to-business ecommerce. He describes cutting-edge strategies for accessing, analyzing, and sharing corporate data both internally and externally with customers, partners, and suppliers. With the help of case studies from Lucent, Dow Chemical, Disney, Go Network, and other ebusiness giants, Liautaud explains the what, why, and how of ebusiness intelligence in the new information economy.

Bernard Liautaud (Palo Alto, CA) is CEO of Business Objects, the world's leading provider of ebusiness solutions, and, according to Intelligent Enterprise magazine, one of the "12 Most Influential Companies in the Information Technology Industry." In 1996, five years after founding Business Objects, Liataud was named one of BusinessWeek's "Hottest Entrepreneurs of the Year."

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very good.......2006-02-03

Great for someone who is looking to expand his knowledge of what is BI and how to use it to improve his performance results.
Buy it, worth the money!

Exactly to the point.......2005-03-12

This book goes exactly to the point that hurts most of the companies even in this days of year 2005. It will take some time to define the standards in this BI industry but definitely this book marks the beginning of it. Other more detailed more sophisticated books might be written by others but the most difficult is to write the first one. Others inspired by this book will probably write new ones.

Not enough details to be useful.......2003-08-19

I found this book to be very weak in details and concepts. It's easy to say that companies need business intelligence and throw around some very vague and general facts and examples. And that's what this book does. The case studies offer no details at all. If you've never heard of e-business or intelligence (basically if you've been living in a cave) then this book will introduce the topic at a high level. But if you're looking for more information you'd better look some place else. I know the author is the founder of Business Objects, but I just expected more from this book and was very disappointed.

No business intelligence, just business promotion.......2002-11-27

While doing periodical research on the business intelligence subject, I found this book as a new acquisition at the university library; sorry, but it is a long white paper on the advantages and why to use a software tool for doing business intelligence, never minding about any data/facts that may be found out of the bits and bytes world: Informal sources? External data? Competitor intelligence? Who cares, if you want a 360° view of your customer, don't need more than a computer and some software--at the end, culture, attitude and pure business sense seem like a waste of time. Suddenly, I discovered why this bothered me: The autor is one of Business Objects' top executives! Now, it all made sense: It is like other books written by people who need to sell a product (and Business Objects is a good seller indeed) so writting down their way of seeing the world gets them a guruesque position in front of their customers and prospects. If you need to really learn about business intelligence, don't bother reading it: you can find lots of free white papers that cover the same subject in the BI software vendors web sites. Trying to understand business intellingence as something that needs nothing more than a software tool, leaving behind all the intelectual and analytical work to do, is equivalent to define mathematics as the use of a scientific calculator.

Should be read by all managers!.......2002-08-26

This book was written for managers in mind. This book does not cover technical details of data warehouses or data mining. Given its scope this book accomplishes its task efficiently, with no real wasted anecdotes and personal opinions. The author a well-known expert on business objects really displays his ability to convey the information accurately and illustrates his points well. This will aid any manager get up to speed on the missing information sources that can occur in any business and apply them to their own business. Overall, this book accomplishes what it intends to do and that is to inform the reader on the various methods a business can utilize information to gain efficiency and a competitive advantage in the marketplace.

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A new type of highly customized job enrichment was studied for its impact on job performance, by comparing its impact on job performance to those resulting from classical job enrichment. The study was conducted on participants comprised of employees of a financial institution and a small section of a residential population. Participants (n=38) were Human Resources staff in the financial institution and of mixed professional occupations in the other group. The Job Diagnostic Survey was used to measure job enrichment, and performance ratings were used to measure job performance. Correlations between job enrichment and job performance were studied for those participants categorized in classically enriched jobs vs. those in jobs that had customized job enrichment. Certain limitations of this study did not allow for conclusive indications of job performance differences between the two groups. New concepts relating Growth Need Strength to job characteristics and increased job performance are also discussed. New categorizations of various types of Growth Need Strength are discussed as they relate to increased job performance.

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Galileo to Jupiter. Probing the planet and mapping its moons
NA
Manufacturer: NASA
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Binding: Paperback
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Probing the Planets (What a Wonderful World!)
Thomas-Cochran
Manufacturer: Longman Publishing Group
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Fine journalism.......2000-04-16

In what appears to be, sadly, Bruce Stutz's only book, Stutz introduces the reader to those who scratch noble livings out of a river that yields not much more than a few shad each spring. He journeys south from Hancock, NY, to Philadelphia, PA, to present the lives of riparian denizens fighting to maintain their source of income against our (federal and state) government's struggles to protect our beautiful, valuable, and fragile Delaware River Valley. Neither side in Stutz's book comes across as "right" or "wrong" because, well, both sides care deeply about this stunning river. The one lack in "Natural Lives, Modern Times" is the lack of photos or illustrations, beyond some attractive woodcuts heading each chapter.

Natural lives, modern times : people and places of the Delaware River

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Natural lives, modern times : people and places of the Delaware River
Bruce Stutz
Manufacturer: CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP INC
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Natural Lives Modern Times People and Places of the Delaware River
Bruce Stutz
Manufacturer: Crown
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The Green Road Home: Adventures and Misadventures as a Caddie on the PGA Tour
Michael Bamberger
Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1560257598

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Today Michael Bamberger is one of the top sportswriters in the world, but twenty years ago, at the tender age of twenty-four, he reached the summit of another field—professional golf. He set no course records, made no monstrous putts, and no television cameras followed him around. But the writer received a golf education most fans only dream about: He spent six months caddying on the PGA Tour.

Part sports book, part travel-adventure, The Green Road Home is the book that launched Bamberger’s career. For six months he carried the bags of some of the game’s finest, most promising, and most colorful characters—from legends such as Al Geiberger (“Mr. 59”) and George Archer, to up-and-comers like Brad Faxon and Steve Elkington—in tournaments ranging from the Byron Nelson Classic to the British Open to the PGA Championship.

The Green Road Home is an entertaining and insightful behind-the-scenes account of days and nights on the PGA Tour; a true classic of sports writing.

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WHOA- A whealth of info!

A Compilation Full of Good Advice

Alot of very smart information, for anyone who wants to write!

The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing: Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work

Inspiration For Would Be Writers

The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing: Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work

Manufacturer: Writer's Digest Books
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Binding: Paperback

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The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing is a compilation of the best articles and interviews from Writer's Digest magazine, books, and annuals. Aspiring authors will find articles on the craft, art, and process of fiction writing from such authors as: Sue Grafton, Terry Brooks, Richard Russo, Janet Fitch, Octavia Butler, Tom Clancy, John Updike and more.

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WHOA- A whealth of info!.......2006-12-29

I'm not sure where to start when describing this book. This book is awesome- I think that I'll be a Pulitzer prize winner before I know it. (A man can dream........) This book offers everything from the idea of writing to the publication of what you write. I'll have it faithfully beside me during every step of my writing process; all the way to that Pulitzer. Unbelievable buy-

A Compilation Full of Good Advice.......2006-11-04

I generally don't care for compilations, especially about the writing business. I was forced to read this one for a class I took and I found it to be surprisingly helpful in some ways. Don't expect all the answers here.

Alot of very smart information, for anyone who wants to write!.......2006-03-20

Despite a less than attention grabbing cover, the chapters by various published authors are information packed.

This book makes you want to write. It gives you a large scope view and then zooms into to the details in mortal english.

The Complete Handbook of Novel Writing: Everything You Need to Know About Creating & Selling Your Work.......2005-09-19

Very practical and very readable. Not at all pedantic. Chapters are generally short, but packed with information. Book is being used as a text in a Writer's Digest class. Section breakdown by number of chapters: The craft (9), The art (8), The process (8), The genres (9), The marketplace (7), plus 14 interviews with current writers. The book is great, but surprisingly, it contains more than a few typos and grammatical errors!

Inspiration For Would Be Writers.......2004-01-28

Since I have yet to write "the great American novel," I probably cannot critique a book such as THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF NOVEL WRITING, since I have yet to have a book published. I do want to write a novel one day, and I have been doing quite a bit of writing and rewriting. I have also been doing quite a bit of reading of novels and books on writing theory and have taken part in writing workshops. All of these things have been helpful, particularly the writing workshops. Yet as I write, I do have questions about what I am doing, and like to read practical advice from writers who have been published. THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF NOVEL WRITING is such a resource. It contains articles about writing theory and craft, information about genres, and the various markets. The articles have been published in WRITER'S DIGEST magazine and most are penned by well known writers. I am finding the book to be a great reference tool. I have found the book particularly helpful when I have a question about some aspect of writing or need advice and inspiration to keep writing.

In the past year I have found that nothing is as helpful as being in a workshop atmosphere, but at those times when I need the advice of an expert, quite often the answer is at my fingertips in this book.

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Fred Alan Wolf, theoretical physicist, uses an ancient Hindu meditative technique, that draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind.

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Delightfully Crazy Book.......2007-07-17

I haven't finished to read this book yet, however, it is very interesting and delightfully crazy.Excelent point of view.

a waste of time.......2007-06-19

Just finished the book. Very disappointing. The intro and first chapter which I skimmed in the store showed promise, but the book didn't deliver. The title is deceptive. Aside from some token quotes attributed to the Buddha and Patanjali, there is no yoga in this book. The writer clearly has no real personal experience with meditation or yoga of any kind, and writes about these topics as if they were mere ideas which he can fit into his personal intellectual scheme, rather than practices that millions of people devote their lives to. Aside from the living, breathing practices that people DO everyday, there are associated schools of philosophy with thousands of years of history and refinement, which he also neglects. This book is really a pop-quantum physics text in the guise of a spiritual text, and despite the self-conscious hipness (for lack of a better word) of quantum physics compared to straight science, it still comes across as parochial and Eurocentric in this regard. I'd like to read a book with the same title written by someone who has genuine knowledge of yoga and its philosophies, aimed at improving the lives of the rest of us (who arent physics nerds.)

A different angle on time.......2007-05-13

As a mental health professional, I recognized Wolf's context of going into the past, since I have led many clients into the past by recreating experiences that hurt them and gave a poor perception of the world. When I take them back, I can have them re-look at the experience from the ones who caused the hurt so they realize the context of the action, and that it was not meant to hurt them at all or as badly as it did. Wolf's concept of recreating the past event fits nicely with his proposed use of time travel into the past.

Regarding time travel in the future, Wolf talks about being open to future ideas, and reminded me of a time when I wrote "from the top of my mind," which led to ideas I had not heard of before. The experience sounded very similar to his description of future time travel.

Finally, the romantic idea of getting into a contraptions and actually going back or forward for an "in person" visit was discouraged by the book, but the realistic use of time travel became much more down to earth and usable. The experiences of reaching timelessness through meditation I have experienced and his descriptions are right on target.

The reader will be pleasantly surprised with all of what goes into making up "spacetime" and how the concept of linear time came about. I have a much fuller understanding of types of time and the beginning of an understanding of it. Very readable and interesting for the non-scientist.

A page-turner, yet inconclusive.......2007-03-01

First and foremost, I have great reverence for Dr. Wolf and am a great admirer of the cool and cooky, irreverent approach he has to explaining such high-brow stuff to those unschooled in physics, such as myself. His explanations of such complex matters as the general and special theories of relativity, wormholes, superstring theories, quantum physics and so forth are truly invaluable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, although I could not put the book down and devoured it in little over a week, it seemed to me as somewhat inconclusive. The bottom line: as body yoga helps you detach from your bodily constraints to gain awareness, "mind yoga" will help you detach your mind from the physical constraints that impede you from travelling forwards and backwards in time.

Perhaps I missed a point or two (I ought to, and probably will, read it over again), and perhaps it's assumed to be so, but I don't recall the text going over whether this form of time travel consists in an actual displacement of the traveler (or her consciousness) resulting in a difference between the external time elapsed in the system which she inhabits and the time span through which she has displaced her awareness, or just recollections of the past and anticipation of the future.

On the other hand, he stresses the use of "mind yoga" in order to acheive time travel, and makes several references to Raja Yoga and Trascendental Meditation. However, and although I've yet to bounce these specific ideas off with an extremely learned yogui I have the privilege to be acquainted with, in a previous opportunity he and I had to discuss the prospect of achieving such forms of temporal displacement through yoga, past lives therapy and even astral travel, the outcome turned out to be that it remains questionable for such an undertaking to be feasible through such means. For what I've read so far, modern trends in physics posit time travel as possible, theoretically, or at least not barred by the laws of physics, but if yoga were the way to go about it, I gather that the capitals of the world would be crawling with "mind yoga" studios more than with Ashtanga or Kundalini yoga ones; after all, a sizeable number of people would probably rather travel in time than improve their breathing, posture or self-awareness, right?

As I said, perhaps it's me, so I should go over the book again more carefully and therefor apologies are in order, but in my first reading I failed to find the formula to travel through time using mind yoga. Even so I enjoyed it loads.

Time Travel........2006-12-19

The Yoga of Time Travel is written clear enough for anyone to understand, and will answer most of your questions pertaining to time travel. Once the author explains to you the science and it's limits, when it comes building a time travel machine, he will show you the metaphysical side of time travel.

There is no way a book on time travel will satisfy everyone's beliefs. Quantum Physics can only explain so much, and when one starts to write about the spiritual side of time travel, there are just too many beliefs to be able to use the right words to keep everyone happy. In other words, read the book and enjoy the book.

Naturally there will be books that go more deeply into Quantum Physics and books that go more deeply into Yoga but this is not what the author is trying to do. He is giving the reader a clear look at where science and metaphysics is at when it comes to time travel. So do like I did, and enjoy it.

The Yoga Of Time Travel: How The Mind Can Defeat Time

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The Yoga Of Time Travel: How The Mind Can Defeat Time
Fred Alan Wolf
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Delivering Legendary Customer Service: Seven Steps to Success (Psi Successful Business Library)
Richard S. Gallagher
Manufacturer: Oasis
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Cities play a growing role in governing. This new role fits within a context that nation-states, global market forces and cities themselves continue to define. The analysis of this book focuses on how local efforts in the distinct European systems of France and Germany as well as American counterparts have provided for environmental quality and social inclusion alongside local economic development. Only in certain European settings has policy making at multiple levels accomplished all three objectives at once. In those settings, effective governance from below has relied on adequate support from higher levels of governments and a favorable position in the global economy.

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Excellent analysis of complex issues!.......2001-04-19

And excellent example of a regional study where politics and economics cannot be separated, and thus have been successfully analyzed in the context of each other. D'Anieri does a good job of combining general overview of the Ukrainian-Russian relations and their development throughout history with the detailed and in-depth study of the political and economic issues that Ukraine is currently facing as a result of a deep interdependence with Russia. I particularly enjoy the way this study ties the history of broken trust and fear of imperialistic aspirations into the process of decision making by Ukrainian leadership. The astute identification of essential areas of problems and the thoroughness in explaining their causes makes this book a great help for those interested in the future prospects of the region.

Paths for Ukraine.: An article from: Harvard International Review

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Paths for Ukraine.: An article from: Harvard International Review
Yuriy Bilenko
Manufacturer: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc.
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This digital document is an article from Harvard International Review, published by Harvard International Relations Council, Inc. on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 1169 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Paths for Ukraine.
Author: Yuriy Bilenko
Publication: Harvard International Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: Harvard International Relations Council, Inc.
Volume: 22 Issue: 2 Page: 78

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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

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