- EPC: A Shared Vision for Transforming Business Processes
- Feb 17, 2006
- The Global Commerce Initiative (GCI) commissioned this study to understand the current experience of companies that have begun to test electronic produce codes (EPC) and evaluate the economic impact on their businesses. The study addresses the overall financial impact and value of EPC, how trading partners should approach implementation of EPC-enabled systems and processes, and how near-term initiatives will support progress toward the longer-term vision of EPC-enabled supply chains.
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- Extreme Money: Mirror of the Times
- Aug 17, 2011
- Best-selling author and global finance expert Satyajit Das reveals the spectacular, dangerous money games that are generating increasingly massive bubbles of fake growth, prosperity, and wealth--while endangering the jobs, possessions, and futures of virtually everyone outside finance.
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- Face-Off in the Gulf: Why Iraq, Why Now?
- Feb 28, 2003
- The journalists of Reuters look at the case for and against a war in Iraq, examining the Bush Doctrine, the chronology of events since the Gulf War, and why this is coming to a head now.
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- Financial Shock: Subprime Précis
- May 19, 2009
- If you're still wondering how subprime loans ended up plunging us into a global recession, this chapter by Mark Zandi lays out what happened in clear detail.
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- Green IT: The Key to Energy Efficiency
- Apr 17, 2009
- IBMers John Lamb, Chris Molloy, and Jody Cefola discuss energy management in information technology and John's new book.
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- High Availability in Outsourced IT Services
- Feb 7, 2003
- The terms "high availability" and "outsourced services" are rarely seen together, with their combined use looking more like an oxymoron or a contradiction in terms. Is it possible to get high availability levels from services rendered by a third party? This article helps you gain the right perspective in making use of outsourced services and giving up that control that is so vital in any high-availability operations setup.
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- How Sarbanes-Oxley Affects Your Disaster Recovery Planning
- Dec 29, 2006
- Unless you're trying to land your CEO in jail, your disaster recovery plan had better be good. Leo Wrobel explains how the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 ultimately means that you really need a plan that protects your data.
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- How to Internationalize your Eclipse Plug-In
- May 9, 2003
- This article is a roadmap for writing Eclipse plug-ins destined for the international market. We'll begin with a brief review of the motivations and technical challenges of internationalization, followed by step-by-step instructions of how to internationalize your Eclipse plug-in.
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- How to Test Your Internationalized Eclipse Plug-In
- May 16, 2003
- This article shows you how to validate your internationalized product and prepares you for the types of common problems you can expect during translation testing. It includes an Eclipse plug-in that defines a Properties File Compare view that can help your translation testers find errors more quickly.
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- Introduction to Emerging Markets and the New International Economy
- Sep 9, 2013
- The authors of Operating in Emerging Markets introduce their book, which offers a comprehensive account of emerging markets that can complement more conventional material and provide a useful guide to business in emerging markets.
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- Introduction to Europe's Financial Crisis
- Dec 13, 2012
- John Authers introduces his book, which tells the story of how Europe slipped into crisis, how developments in the United States and the emerging markets contributed to its problems, and why this matters for the rest of the world, notably the United States.
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- Introduction to Foreign Exchange Trading: The Truly Modern Market
- Jul 15, 2005
- With the economic world drawing together faster, the Forex market has become its most critical market. And for the new breed of global trading and investors, the opportunities in Forex are just beginning. Find out how to get on board in this sample chapter.
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- Introduction to In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China's Ascent in the Next Decade
- Sep 18, 2013
- The authors introduce their book, which explains that the crucial and intersecting challenges of scarcities, both emerging and intensifying, will consume China’s custodians over the next decade.
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- Introduction to Outsourcing
- Oct 29, 2004
- In the modern global marketplace, outsourcing is becoming increasingly popular as a way to increase productivity cheaply and efficiently. This chapter introduces the concept of outsourcing, and why it appeals to so many companies.
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- Introduction to Outsourcing at Major Software Development Project
- Sep 29, 2006
- For a company contemplating a major software development project, outsourcing the work can be a convenient and cost-effective solution. This chapter sets the stage by describing the types of projects and environments frequently encountered in outsourcing situations.
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- Introduction to the Economics of Food: What Goes Up…
- Feb 18, 2010
- Patrick Westhoff explains how understanding why food prices rise and fall can help us anticipate and react to future market developments and make important decisions as a society about how best to feed and fuel the planet.
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- Introduction to The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, Revised and Updated 5th Anniversary Edition
- Sep 26, 2009
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- Introduction to the Great Deleveraging: Economic Growth and Investing Strategies for the Future
- Sep 1, 2010
- In this introduction to their book, Chip Dickson and Oded Shenkar address why the United States took on so much debt, how the debt will be reduced, and the costs of that deleveraging.
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- Introduction to The Services Shift: Seizing the Ultimate Offshore Opportunity
- Jan 19, 2009
- A new kind of offshoring that may soon overtake its manufacturing-based cousin in scale and scope is on it's way -- the globalization of services.
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- Introduction to Trading Catalysts: How Events Move Markets and Create Trading Opportunities
- Sep 7, 2007
- Robert I. Webb examines the catalysts that spark large changes in prices.
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