Business Books: The driven culture of UPS
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If you ever wanted to learn more about UPS, the U.S. package delivery company, then 2007 is the year to do it.
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Another book publisher makes inroads toward the digital side of content.
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Twenty five years after it was  published, &quot;In Search of Excellence&quot; is one of the most widely  read business books ever, but its value and the value of its  successors may lie purely in its anecdotes.
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I got an interesting teaser in the e-mail this week: âStudy Suggests Nearly Half of All Leaders See a Disconnect Between Strategy and Execution.â I wonât say who sent it because they blew the execution: The so-called study wasnât posted anywhere online, and when I called the number, theyâd already left for the weekend.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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"Nation of Rebels: Why Counterculture Became Consumer Culture" is not your typical business book. Instead, it's a wide-ranging work of social criticism peppered with examples from the movies and rock music. The authors focus more on the psychology of consumers than the inner workings of the boardroom, which is not surprising, considering that both come from backgrounds in philosophy. Each ...
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Financial PR: Soft talk, hard profits
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I noted yesterday that there seems to be some media fanfare surrounding Amazon's launch of a digital book tablet. It occurred to me that the markets surrounding media such as books, music and movies bear more than a passing resemblance to financial markets, and as such, perhaps they were amenable to a similar method of analysis. Being the owner of a sizable collection of paper books, this led me to consider the drawbacks one faces when Digital Rights Management restrictions are put in place.
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Busting the small-cap risk myth once and for all.
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New report on offshoring's implications from the British Computer Society.
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When office supplies find their way home, is it stealing? Or strategic investment of your time?
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Company's drive is not just for OEMs anymore.
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How to analyze a company's inventory as a measure of performance.
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A veteran of the dot-com boom, Wayne McVicker, offers a few tips for business owners in a new book, Starting Something: An Entrepreneur&#39;s Tale of Control, Confrontation &amp; Corporate Culture.
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Business publishers have turned out a steady torrent of books about outsmarting, out-hustling, and outmaneuvering -- not to mention smashing, trouncing, and pulverizing -- the competition.
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Organizations face increasing pressures to optimize IT performance while reducing IT costs.  Until now, few organizations had tools to increase Service Level Compliance, adopt ITIL and convince C-level executives that the IT department aligns with business priorities.  Magnum Technologies' Business Service Management whitepaper explores these issues offering client-proven solutions to current problems facing IT organizations.
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It's hardware upgrade time for this company's remote sites, and the server team is getting pressure to use a new brand of UPS -- by the company's network group.