Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics

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Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics
Hazel Hendeson
Manufacturer: Knowledge Systems Inc
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ASIN: B000TQ6EPK

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Paradigms in Progress: Life Beyond Economics
Hazel Henderson
Manufacturer: Knowledge Systems, Inc? Resources for CP &SC
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Yemen has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners. This report puts these executives on the fast track. Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources). Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given.

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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on September 22, 2003. The length of the article is 698 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: FINANCIAL MARKETS AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN GREATER CHINA.(Book Review)
Author: Vibha Kapuria-Foreman
Publication: Pacific Affairs (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 2003
Publisher: University of British Columbia
Volume: 76 Issue: 3 Page: 456(3)

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Great starting point

Good Resource, Especially for Small Groups

A Must for a New Technical Writer's Bookshelf

Starting a Documentation Group: A Hands-On Guide
Peter J. Hartman
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Starting a Documentation Group is the only book devoted to getting a new group up and running in a small company. Drawing on the author's 20 years of experience in starting, rebuilding, and managing documentation groupsas well as input from many of his peersthis book provides a detailed collection of techniques, processes, and guidelines to help you quickly set up an efficient and professional documentation operation.

In addition, the appendixes include a description of the product development process, sample templates and job descriptions, and questions to ask during the hiring process.

Although Starting a Documentation Group was designed and written with new group leaders in mind, it is also full of relevant and useful information for veterans.

Focusing on the needs of small companies, Starting a Documentation Group provides information on:

How the experience of a start-up/small group is different from that of a large group/company The role of the documentation manager

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Great starting point.......2005-07-20

This book is a great companion to Managing Your Documentation Projects by Dr. Hackos. It describes a concise, straightforward approach for publications managers or technical writers interested in advancing their skills or taking their department in a more focused direction. And, it provides a clear blueprint for how to position the publications group in the software development lifecycle. I highly recommend this book.

Good Resource, Especially for Small Groups.......2001-04-17

When I asked a colleague if he would recommend this book, he said, "Well, there's a lot in there you already know." He's right. After 13 years as a tech writer, there's a lot I already know, but there's also a lot I might have forgotten. Hartman's readable book is a gentle reminder, among other things, of processes we may have forgotten, and of the big picture of writing documentation.

Another reason I found it useful was that it is tailored to small and startup organizations. In small companies, processes are trimmed and schedules are more compressed. If you've worked in large companies during your career and are thinking of joining a smaller company, Hartman's book tells you what to expect.

Hartman's suggestions on how to start, schedule, and staff projects may seem obvious to someone who's done it for years, but I found it interesting to see how someone else did it. My manager, who has not managed a doc group before, also read this book so she could see what the processes are in a well-run doc group. She's also going to try his suggestions for setting up a doc project in Microsoft Project: she and I have spent quite a few days trying to get it right, and we're hoping his suggestions help.

My only disagreement with him is in his statement where documentation groups belong in the organizational structure. Hartman is firm in his suggestion that documentation groups belong under Engineering. He overlooks reporting to Support, which can work extremely well. Nor does he mention that some Engineering groups treat doc personnel as second class citizens because they are not as technical as the Engineers. In extreme cases, they're treated as little more than technical typists; at best, they are not given the respect, authority, and freedom to act that they need to be true user advocates.

All in all, Hartman appears to follow widely accepted rules of good practice and presents his ideas in readable, enjoyable form.

I think it's a great resource for new managers or those who find doc managers in their reporting structure. As I said, it's also very valuable for people who worked in large organizations and are now working for smaller ones. Managers of organizations that are downsizing or spinning off smaller companies might also find it useful.

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I bought this book with an Amazon Christmas gift certificate from my supervisor. It was one of the wisest investments of my career! Hartman takes you through every step to develop a successful technical writing group.

You are taken through the development process and project planning; the tasks of naming your group and getting necessary resources. You learn how to hire new employees, develop a style guide, write functional specs, and an information plan. The product development process is outlined with a summary and definition of the stages involved and the deliverables required at each stage.

Project planning is covered quite well, but I would advise purchasing "Managing Your Documentation Project" (JoAnn Hackos), "Developing Quality Technical Information" (Gretchen Hargis), and "One Minute Designer" (Roger C. Parker). This combination is like having an entire technical writing curriculum at your fingertips.

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A waste of time.......2006-11-05

If you are a true procrastinator, don't waste your time by reading this book. While the author has good suggestions for those who have trouble making decisions, she fails miserably at helping those who know what to do and simply can't take action. If suggestions such as "start sooner" is what you're looking for, then this is the book for you. If you'd be motivated by calling yourself a "smart little snuffle-bunny," as the author suggests, then this is the book for you! However, if you are over the age of 10 and don't appreciate being patronized, I would not suggest wasting your time and money. After I read the book, I was so distraught that I had wasted 10 hours of my time that I could never get back. If you are struggling with procrastination, you'd be better off with another book choice.

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Previous studies of online stores have concentrated on identifying various attribute and benefit dimensions important to customers and neglected delving into underlying motives of customers engaging in shopping online. The current study identified personal values as underlying motivations, which have received less attention but carry important meanings in explaining customers' loyal behavior. From the perspective of means-end chain theory, a hierarchical cognitive structural model consisting of personal values, attribute evaluations, and loyal behavior has been proposed. 353 questionnaire data were collected from the experienced online shoppers in South Korea and put into structural equation model to investigate the hierarchical effects of personal values, evaluations of online store attributes, and loyalty. The results show that three customers' values such as matured society, happiness, and esteem life are the underlying beliefs motivating and/or deterring customers to shop online. But their impacts were diverse. Even though esteem life value had a positive effect on attribute evaluations, values for matured life and happiness had negative influences on loyalty. In addition, the results also demonstrated that customers' favorable evaluation of product assortment eventually guides customers to be loyal to an online store.

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Title: "Current Issues in Monetary Policy in the United States and Japan: The Predictability of Money Demand." (book reviews)
Author: Anthony Pappas
Publication: Mid-Atlantic Journal of Business (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1992
Publisher: Stillman School of Business
Volume: v28 Issue: n3 Page: p286(2)

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