by Alain Godard and Vincent Lenhardt (2000)
"During the mid 90s Alain Godard helped to bring about a remarkable change of fortunes for the pharmaceuticals giant, Rhone-Poulenc. This is the story of how he and his team used trust, commitment and imagination and what at the time appeared to be risky tactics to turn around the company following its merger with Union Carbide Agrochemicals. With coverage of innovative new business systems including Godard's 'Simplify, Decentralise, Manage' programme, this book will be of great value to all leaders and managers facing challenges in business."--BOOK JACKET.
Deborah Lucas
This text contains new research, both empirical and methodological, on the measurement and management of the costs and risks that the US government faces in providing credit and assuming risk through direct activities.
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and David Waterman
"Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC), this volume begins with an historical survey of a quarter-century of TPRC meetings as one measure of change in and research about the telecommunications industry. Following that are 14 additional papers which reflect the ongoing pace of change in technological, economic, and policy issues.". "Collectively, these papers from the 1997 TPRC assess key issues for scholars, policy-makers, and practitioners."--BOOK JACKET.
Darius Bartlett and Jennifer Smith
"A comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date overview of state-of-the-art coastal zone GIS applications, this practical book places the science in a management context. The chapters present groundbreaking coastal applications of GIS-based decision support tools, spatial data infrastructures, remote sensing technology including LiDAR and CASI, and more. Covering a broad range of topics, the organization of this volume supplies a flow and structure that make the information easily accessible and immediately applicable."--BOOK JACKET.
James J. Alpigini ... [et al.] (eds
This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at the Third Inter- tional Conference on Rough Sets and Current Trends in Computing (RSCTC 2002) held at Penn State Great Valley, Malvern, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., 14–16 October 2002. Rough set theoryand its applications constitute a branch of soft computing that has exhibited a signi?cant growth rate during recent years. RSCTC 2002 provided a forum for exchanging ideas among manyresearchers in the rough set communityand in various areas of soft computing and served as a stimulus for mutual understanding and cooperation. In recent years, there have been a number of advances in rough set theoryand applications. Hence, we have witnessed a growing number of international workshops on rough sets and their applications. In addition, it should be observed that one of the beauties of rough sets and the rough set philosophyis that it tends to complement and reinforce research in manytraditional research areas and applications. This is the main reason that manyinternational conferences are now including rough sets into the list of topics.