Management Savvy
Management Savvy

Author: Robert E. Levinson

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 1490744398

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How to become a savvy manager and effective and exciting leader. Robert E. Levinson After completing three years in the U.S. Navy, Robert E. Levinson earned a bachelor's degree in business from Miami University, Ohio. Following graduation, he joined his father and brother in their family business, Steelcraft Manufacturing Company in Cincinnati, Ohio. The company was the largest manufacturer of steel doors and frames in the country. Over the years, he became primary executive of 14 additional family businesses. In 1969, the company was sold to American Standard, Inc., where he became a Group Vice President in charge of 12 companies. During this time he developed, owned and operated three hotels in Broward and Palm Beach Counties, Florida. In 1974, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Miami University of Ohio. After 10 years with American Standard, Levinson joined Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida as Senior Development Officer.

Climate Savvy
Climate Savvy

Author: Lara J. Hansen

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2010-10-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1597269883

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Climate change demands a change in how we envision, prioritize, and implement conservation and management of natural resources. Addressing threats posed by climate change cannot be simply an afterthought or an addendum, but must be integrated into the very framework of how we conceive of and conduct conservation and management. In Climate Savvy, climate change experts Lara Hansen and Jennifer Hoffman offer 18 chapters that consider the implications of climate change for key resource management issues of our time—invasive species, corridors and connectivity, ecological restoration, pollution, and many others. How will strategies need to change to facilitate adaptation to a new climate regime? What steps can we take to promote resilience? Based on collaboration with a wide range of scientists, conservation leaders, and practitioners, the authors present general ideas as well as practical steps and strategies that can help cope with this new reality. While climate change poses real threats, it also provides a chance for creative new thinking. Climate Savvy offers a wide-ranging exploration of how scientists, managers, and policymakers can use the challenge of climate change as an opportunity to build a more holistic and effective philosophy that embraces the inherent uncertainty and variability of the natural world to work toward a more robust future.

Savvy Manager
Savvy Manager

Author: Jane Flagello

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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The Savvy Manager challenges readers to develop the five core strengths all great managers possess. Savvy managers; self-manage (recognize their own core values; reflect (quietly contemplate and think without judgment; act consciously (wisely choose their actions); collaborate (extend respect to all employees); and evolve (constantly grow and learn). Put learning into action with a companion website and dozens of included worksheets and exercises.

The Business Savvy Project Manager
The Business Savvy Project Manager

Author: Gary R. Heerkens

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 2005-12-14

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 0071788069

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Valuable business skills from a leading project management expert To make the leap from average to superior, you must develop the skills to manage each project like a small business. The Business-Savvy Project Manager thoroughly explains key concepts, principles, and tools for project managers to provide organizations with superior return-oninvestment and top performance. From portfolio management and strategic alignment to calculation of economic metrics and effective use of both financial and nonfinancial criteria in project proposals, it gives you the business savvy for top-level performance and certain career success.

Semantics in Business Systems
Semantics in Business Systems

Author: Dave McComb

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9781558609174

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The book illustrates how this applies to the future of application system development, especially how it informs and affects Web services and business rule-based approaches, and how semantics will play out with XML and the semantic Web. The book also contains a quick reference guide to related terms and technologies.

Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence

Author: David Loshin

Publisher: Newnes

Published: 2012-11-27

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0123858909

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Business Intelligence: The Savvy Managers Guide, Second Edition, discusses the objectives and practices for designing and deploying a business intelligence (BI) program. It looks at the basics of a BI program, from the value of information and the mechanics of planning for success to data model infrastructure, data preparation, data analysis, integration, knowledge discovery, and the actual use of discovered knowledge. Organized into 21 chapters, this book begins with an overview of the kind of knowledge that can be exposed and exploited through the use of BI. It then proceeds with a discussion of information use in the context of how value is created within an organization, how BI can improve the ways of doing business, and organizational preparedness for exploiting the results of a BI program. It also looks at some of the critical factors to be taken into account in the planning and execution of a successful BI program. In addition, the reader is introduced to considerations for developing the BI roadmap, the platforms for analysis such as data warehouses, and the concepts of business metadata. Other chapters focus on data preparation and data discovery, the business rules approach, and data mining techniques and predictive analytics. Finally, emerging technologies such as text analytics and sentiment analysis are considered. This book will be valuable to data management and BI professionals, including senior and middle-level managers, Chief Information Officers and Chief Data Officers, senior business executives and business staff members, database or software engineers, and business analysts. - Guides managers through developing, administering, or simply understanding business intelligence technology - Keeps pace with the changes in best practices, tools, methods and processes used to transform an organization's data into actionable knowledge - Contains a handy, quick-reference to technologies and terminology

Future Savvy
Future Savvy

Author: Adam Gordon

Publisher: AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

Published: 2008-09-24

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0814412866

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In order to succeed in their industries, decision-makers today need to anticipate the future outcomes not only in their own industry but also in society and technology as well. The better their view of the future, the better their decisions--and the bigger their profits–will be. Future Savvy is a hands-on, how-to book on evaluating the business, social, and technology forecasts that appear in everyday communications such as newspapers and business magazines, as well as in specialized sources like government and think-tank forecasts, consultant reports, and stock-market guides. Futures analyst Adam Gordon has spent his career deciphering changes and trends in a variety of industries. Now, he shows business leaders how to gain a clearer view of the future, as well as: • Recognize potential trends and outcomes more effectively • Discount poor and biased forecasts more confidently • Anticipate relevant opportunities and potential threats earlier

Survival of the Savvy
Survival of the Savvy

Author: Rick Brandon

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2004-12-06

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0743262549

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Discusses how to eliminate unethical behavior at the workplace, demonstrating how to master corporate politics ethically through an understanding of political styles and an application of strategies in such areas as networking and idea promotion.

IT Savvy
IT Savvy

Author: Peter Weill

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2009-07-07

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1422136566

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Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed. These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with IT-savvy managers are 20 percent more profitable than their competitors. In IT Savvy, Peter Weill and Jeanne Ross-two of the world's foremost authorities on using IT in business-explain how non-IT executives can acquire this savvy. Concise and practical, the book describes the practices, competencies, and leadership skills non-IT managers need to succeed in the digital economy. You'll discover how to: -Define your firm's operating model-how IT can help you do business -Revamp your IT funding model to support your operating model -Build a digitized platform of business processes, IT systems, and data to execute on the model -Determine IT decision rights -Extract more business value from your IT assets Packed with examples and based on research into eighteen hundred organizations in more than sixty countries, IT Savvy is required reading for non-IT managers seeking to push their company's performance to new heights.