Leave piecemeal strategic change approaches behind and learn how to plan, facilitate, and integrate your change efforts for lasting success. Enterprise-Wide Change takes you through the "Rollercoaster of Change," showing you how to deal with resistance, regard skeptics as your best friends, and build a buy-in and stay-in strategy among your employees. The authors use the science of "Systems Thinking"--a comprehensive, yet simple and integrated way to analyze and build synergy from all key organizational elements needed for enterprise-wide and transformational change. This seminal book integrates what is needed to effectively transform any organization including: scanning of the environment and marketplace, clarifying the vision and core values, targeting marketplace value-added positioning, building key outcome success measures and goals, identifying critical business and human issues and opportunities, and developing the shared core strategies and action plans.

With this one-of-a-kind integrated resource, you will

• Learn to make smart decisions based on the only integrated change and OD systems model and science that builds on all the outstanding concepts, interventions, and techniques introduced by experts in the OD field over the past fifty years
• Understand how to transfer these change and OD interventions and applications to any sector, be it public, private, or not-for-profit
• Improve any type of change processes and structures using an incredible tool chest of practical questions, summaries, case studies, examples, and worksheets as well as system tools, tips, and techniques found nowhere else

"Steve Haines and his fellow authors’ practical handbook for leading change in an organization is a godsend to any executive and consultant. Their years of experience, research, and observation are distilled into logical steps for the executive and consultant alike to follow. The examples they give throughout the book bring each step alive. The environment for all enterprises is continually changing, and Steve Haines’ book will aid leaders in keeping their enterprises ahead of change and growing profitably."
--Admiral Dennis Blair, USN (Retired), former Four-Star Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command, and president of the Institute for Defense Analysis

About the Author

Stephen G. Haines is founder and CEO of The Centre for Strategic Management and Systems Thinking Press. A well-known consultant and trainer and experienced CEO at University Associates and large corporations, he is also a distinguished author with 13 books in print, including The Systems Thinking Approach to Reinventing Strategic Planning and Management.

Gail Aller-Stead is the Change Management Practice Leader and a partner in the Centre for Strategic Management, a global strategic alliance of consultants and trainers in Canada and the United States, with 38 offices in 20 other countries.

James McKinlay is the cofounder of the Centre for Strategic Management and its managing partner for Canada.

John Alexander and bestselling author Billy Hollis show programmers how to develop enterprise-level Web applications using Microsoft's popular programming language--Visual Basic.NET.

* Features the incomparable insights and programming know-how of two popular Microsoft insiders, arming developers with proven tips and workarounds to use in their own projects
* Provides step-by-step instruction for creating business Web applications using ASP.NET and VB.NET
* Companion Web site contains all the code for the sample application

The must-have book for experienced Visual Basic developers who need to build enterprise-level Web applications

Written by two well-known and respected Microsoft insiders, this book is essential for today’s VB developer who is tasked with building enterprise-level Web applications using the core .NET technologies–– ASP.NET and VB.NET. After a brief overview of the .NET technologies, they launch right into practical information on how to be immediately productive within ASP.NET from an experienced VB programmer’s point of view. They also walk you through an enterprise prototype application that accesses an enhanced version of Microsoft’s NorthWind Database.

They arm you with tips, tricks, and workarounds that can be used in your own projects, including:

• Changes to ASP.NET development
• Object-oriented changes and enhancements to VB.NET
• Using DHTML and server-side controls
• ASP.NET Pages and Web forms
• Page navigation, validation, data access, and client-event handling using ASP.NET WebControls
• Creating and testing Web services
• Scalable data access with XML Designer and ADO.NET Data Set Designer

The companion Web site contains all the codes described in the book.

Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable.

About the Author

JOHN ALEXANDER is a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD), as well as a Microsoft Regional Director. He currently works as a marketing technologist at G.A. Sullivan.

BILLY HOLLIS is a Microsoft Regional Director and an independent consultant. He is also an author and frequent speaker at COMDEX and VBITS.

The first guide to tackle security architecture at the software engineering level

Computer security has become a critical business concern, and, as such, the responsibility of all IT professionals. In this groundbreaking book, a security expert with AT&T Business's renowned Network Services organization explores system security architecture from a software engineering perspective. He explains why strong security must be a guiding principle of the development process and identifies a common set of features found in most security products, explaining how they can and should impact the development cycle. The book also offers in-depth discussions of security technologies, cryptography, database security, application and operating system security, and more.

Tackling security architecture from a software engineering perspective
With the growth of the Internet, computer security is rapidly becoming a critical business concern. In turn, as security becomes the responsibility of all IT professionals, companies must rethink the way software is built to have confidence that their mission-critical applications are protected and the privacy and integrity of their data is maintained. In this groundbreaking book, Jay Ramachandran, a security expert with AT&T’s renowned Network Services organization, explores system security architecture from a software engineering viewpoint. He explains why strong security must be a guiding principle of the development process, describes how to weave security into a system’s architecture, and identifies common patterns of implementation found in most security products. This book is an essential reference for software architects and engineers integrating security products into their applications to satisfy corporate security requirements.

Offering in-depth discussions of security principles, software process, and security technologies for cryptography, application, database, and operating system security, this book covers:

• The integration of architecture reviews and security assessments into the software development process, explaining application architecture as a collection of protected components communicating over secure channels and operating under constraints
• Security principles and architecture basics, including the impact of security products and security infrastructure components on applications
• Middleware, application, database, and operating system security
• Architectural tensions, describing how to balance security against other architectural goals such as high availability and reliability
• Enterprise security management, including a case study on how to build financial business cases to justify security costs

Wiley Computer Publishing
Timely. Practical. Reliable.

About the Author

JAY RAMACHANDRAN is a certified architect and security expert at AT&T, involved in enterprise security architecture and development. Over the past eight years, he has developed software and evaluated tools for security assurance, auditing, and management for many mission-critical network systems. He coordinated architecture reviews for operations support systems for AT&T’s core network for two years, and currently teaches workshops on systems architecture and network security. Jay holds a PhD from Ohio State University.

Neuroscience comprises increasingly diverse fields ranging from molecular genetics to neurophilosophy. The common thread between all these fields is the structure of the human nervous system. Knowledge on the structure, connections and function of the brain of experimental animals is readily available. On the other hand the structure of the human brain was studied by the classical anatomists and their work is difficult to retrieve. With the current intense interest in the structure of the human brain engendered particularly by imaging studies, groups of scientists familiar with the classical works, but who are also versed in modern neuroscience technologies, have commenced human brain studies.

The present book gives an authoritative account of the structure of the human brain tempered by functional considerations. The task of describing all parts of the nervous system in the context of modern hypotheses of structural and functional organization would be overwhelming for a single individual. We have, therefore, asked scientists with knowledge and affection for their research areas to contribute to this edited volume. We trust that the combined effort of contributors to The Human Nervous System 2e will do justice to the data and concepts available in our field while stimulating the readers’ brains, arousing curiosity and providing a framework for thinking.

Many engineers familiar with analog television broadcast systems are now faced with designing, operating, and maintaining digital television systems. A major reason for this introductory book is to make the transition from analog to digital television broadcasting as painless as possible for these engineers. The emphasis is on radio-frequency (RF) transmission, those elements of the system concernedwith transmitting and propagating the digitally modulated signal. I begin with the digital signal as it emerges from the transport layer and end with the RF signal as it arrives at the receiver. The emphasis is on factors affecting broadcast system performance.

The scope of this book is necessarily limited; some topics, such as studioto-transmitter links and receivers are not covered. It is intended as a self-study resource by the broadcast system engineer, as well as a reference for the design engineer, system engineer, and engineering manager. An index is included to make it a more useful resource for future reference. It may be used as a text for a formal training class.

Most people would agree that a useful engineering tool must include some mathematics. For this reason, and to make the presentation as clear as possible, concepts have been described verbally, mathematically, and in many cases, graphically. The mathematics used include algebra, trigonometry, and a small amount of calculus. For those not interested in the mathematical formulation, the charts and graphs should be sufficient to grasp the key points.

For those who wish to probe further, extensive footnotes are provided. These not only provide much more detail but are my attempt to give credit to the many workers who have brought digital television to its present state of maturity. Even with ample footnotes, I may have failed to give credit to all who deserve it. This is by no means intentional; the references included are simply those sources of which I am aware.

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of Heidegger’s “The Origin of the Work of Art” suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as it in turn is challenged by such talk, talk that is supported by the current state of the art-world. It was Hegel, who most profoundly argued that the shape of our modern world no longer permits us to grant art the significance it once possessed. Hegel’s proclamation of the end of art in its highest sense shadows this commentary, as it shadows Heidegger’s essay. Heidegger’s problematic turn from the philosopher Hegel to the poet Hölderlin is born of the conviction that we must not allow Hegel to here have the last word. At stake is the future of art. But more importantly, if we are to accept Heidegger’s argument, at stake is the future of humanity. But all who are eager to find in Heidegger’s essay pointers concerning where not just art, but we should be heading, should be made wary by Heidegger’s politicizing of art and aestheticizing of politics. Both remain temptations that demand a critical response. This commentary demonstrates the continued relevance of Heidegger’s reflections.

About the Author

Karsten Harries is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy at Yale University and is author of The Meaning of Modern Art (Evanston, Northwestern,1968), The Bavarian Rococo Church: Between Faith and Aestheticism (New Haven: Yale, 1983), The Broken Frame: Three Lectures (Washington, D.C.: CUA Press,1990), The Ethical Function of Architecture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1997), winner of the American Institute of Architects 8th Annual International Architecture Book Award for Criticism, and Infinity and Perspective(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 2001), among many other publications.

Aldol Reactions provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of aldol reactions including application of different metal enolates; catalytic aldol additions catalyzed by different Lewis acids and Lewis bases; enantioselective direct aldol additions; antibodies and enzyme catalyzed aldol additions and the recent aggressive development of organocatalyzed aldol additions.

The power of each method is demonstrated by several applications in total synthesis of natural products. The pros and cons of these methodologies with regard to stereoselectivity, regioselectivity and application in total synthesis of natural products are discussed. Great importance is set to the diverse possibilities of the manual of aldol reaction to install required configurations in complicated natural product synthesis.

The German Workshop on Robotics is a convention of roboticists from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and analysis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. Selected contributions from researchers in German-speaking countries as well as from the international robotics community compose this volume. The papers are organized in ten scientific tracks: Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling, Motion Generation, Sensor Integration, Robot Vision, Robot Programming, Humanoid Robots, Grasping, Medical Robotics, Autonomous Helicopters, and Robot Applications.

Due to an extensive review and discussion process, this collection of scientific contributions is of very high caliber and promises to strongly influence future robotic research activities.

Ada has become the language of choice for high integrity software systems, and is now used extensively in applications such as transportation, finance, aerospace and heavy industry. This book is aimed at professional software engineers making the transition to Ada, and at students using Ada for advanced undergraduate projects or graduate research. Ada for Software Engineers

• Teaches the language as it is used in practice through case studies such as a discrete event simulation
• Emphasizes the features supporting object-oriented and embedded systems programming introduced in Ada 95
• Explains the terminology of the Ada Reference Manual using selected extracts and a glossary with examples

The CD-ROM contains:

• Source code of all case-studies and quizzes
• Ada compilers for several platforms
• The Reference Manual in printable and hypertext formats
• Graphical syntax charts

"I like the book very much. It is one of the most readable programming language textbooks I have seen for a long time." S. Tucker Taft, Intermetrics (Technical Director of the Ada 95 design team)

About the Author

About the Author Prof. Ben-Ari has taught Ada for 15 years to university students and professional programmers. He has published four previous textbooks, including Understanding Programming Languages (Wiley) and the widely-used Principles of Concurrent and Distributed Programming (Prentice-Hall). 

A Concise and Practical Introduction to Programming Algorithms in Java has two main goals. The first is for novice programmers to learn progressively the basic concepts underlying most imperative programming languages using Java. The second goal is to introduce new programmers to the very basic principles of thinking the algorithmic way and turning the algorithms into programs using the programming concepts of Java.

The book is divided into two parts and includes: The fundamental notions of variables, expressions and assignments with type checking - Conditional and loop statements - Explanation of the concepts of functions with pass-by-value arguments and recursion - Fundamental sequential and bisection search techniques - Basic iterative and recursive sorting algorithms.

Each chapter of the book concludes with a set of exercises to enable students to practice concepts covered.

For professional photographers, sports fans, proud parents, and anyone who wants to capture great sports pictures, this is the ultimate guide to sports photography. Seasoned sports photographer Peter Skinner uses 211 stunning examples from the work of Walter Ioss, Ben Chen, Bob Gomel, Duane Hart, Mark Johnson, and six other renowned photographers—as well as his personal archives—to show exactly how to take great action photos. Whether the subject is baseball or basketball, rock climbing or golf, kayaking or soccer or stickball or swimming, Sports Photography offers comprehensive, detailed, easy-to-understand information on how to get crisp, clear shots that capture the movement, grace, and mood of the moment. Special projects and self-assignments, plus detailed information on equipment, film and digital techniques, showing emotion, and more, make this the essential primer for sports fans, parents, beginners, or aspiring professionals. Get into the game with Sports Photography.  

These autobiographical memoirs of Neal Koblitz, coinventor of one of the two most popular forms of encryption and digital signature, cover many topics besides his own personal career in mathematics and cryptography - travels to the Soviet Union, Latin America, Vietnam and elsewhere, political activism, and academic controversies relating to math education, the C. P. Snow two-culture problem, and mistreatment of women in academia.

The stories speak for themselves and reflect the experiences of a student and later a scientist caught up in the tumultuous events of his generation.

About the Author

Neal Koblitz is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington in the Department of Mathematics. He is also an adjunct professor with the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at the University of Waterloo. He is the creator of hyperelliptic curve cryptography and the independent co-creator of elliptic curve cryptography. Professor Koblitz received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University, where he was a Putnam Fellow, in 1969. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1974 under the direction of Nickolas Katz.

 

Learn everything about Microsoft’s brand new MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator exam with the helpful information in MCITP: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator Study Guide (Exam 70-647, with CD). Find complete exam coverage, including exam objectives, real-world scenarios, hands-on exercises, and challenging review questions to assist you in developing your knowledge. This book offers clear and comprehensive exam coverage so that you can be one step closer to earning your title as a Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional and feel confident and prepared when you take the test.

Prepare for MCITP certification in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administration

With Microsoft's release of Windows Server 2008 and a new generation of certification exams, you have more reason than ever to certify your expertise in the world's leading server software. Become a fully credentialed Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional with the solid preparation you'll find here for Exam 70-647: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Administrator, the final exam in this job role's five-exam requirement. Inside, you'll find:

• Full coverage of all exam objectives in a systematic approach, so you can be confident you're getting the instruction you need for the exam

• Practical hands-on exercises to reinforce critical skills

• Real-world scenarios that put what you've learned in the context of actual job roles

• Challenging review questions in each chapter to prepare you for exam day

• Exam Essentials, a key feature in each chapter that identifies critical areas you must become proficient in before taking the exam

• A handy tear card that maps every official exam objective to the corresponding chapter in the book, so you can track your exam prep objective by objective

About the Author

Steven Johnson is the managing editor for PrepLogic, a leading IT training and preparation company, and he has been involved with IT since the days when “a computer” was a big deal. In addition to being MCITP certified, Steven has the A+, Network+, i-Net+, and Wireless# certifications. (If you were to ask him, he’d say there are a lot of other certifications he should probably just take the test for.) Steve got his start in IT as a salesperson for RadioShack with little knowledge or formal training in electronics or IT. From that point on, he studied more and more until he became a guru. When he’s not studying IT or computers, Steve spends most of his time either writing or flying airplanes—the two best things in life. Steve is a graduate of Texas Tech University.