Shadan Malik "Enterprise Dashboards - Design and Best Practices for IT"
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ISBN: 0-471-73806-9 | 222 Pages | PDF | 6.6 Mb

The term dashboard brings to mind that panel under the windshield of a vehicle that contains indicator dials, various compartments, and control instruments. Its beauty lies in its functionality. It brings together all of the relevant data and functions within easy accessibility to the driver. It allows us to monitor important, even lifesaving data while performing the vital day-to-day task of driving. In addition, it provides an ease of use and comfort so as to make the multitude of decisions necessary during the driving task almost automatic, and certainly effortless.
For corporate decision makers, the amount of data that must be monitored and analyzed on a given business day is anything but effortless. Hunting through spreadsheets, calling in elite information specialists, and experiencing costly delays in the synthesis process—managing information is becoming more complicated by the day. Certainly, the time has come for a new vision of the dashboard that will meet the needs of today’s business professionals.
The term dashboard has acquired a vibrant new meaning in the field of information management as leading organizations worldwide embrace the idea of empowerment through improved real-time information systems. In the current corporate vocabulary, a dashboard is a rich computer interface with charts, reports, visual indicators, and alert mechanisms that are consolidated into a dynamic and relevant information platform.

Richard B. McKenzie, "Microeconomics for MBAs - A Economic Way of Thinking for Managers"
English | PDF | 8.6 Mb

Frank Knight was a wise professor. Through long years of teaching he realized that students, even those in advanced business programs, beginning a study of economics, no matter the level, face a difficult task. They must learn many things in a rigorous manner that, on reflection and with experience, amount to common sense.
To do that, however, they must set aside – or “unlearn” -- many pre-conceived notions of the economy and of the course itself. The problem of “unlearning” can be especially acute for MBA students who are returning to a university after years of experience in industry. People in business rightfully focus their attention on the immediate demands of their jobs and evaluate their firms’ successes and failures with reference to production schedules and accounting statements, a perspective that stands in stark contrast to the perspective developed in an economics class.

Mark Stamp, "Information Security - Principles and Practice"
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | ISBN: 0-471-73848-4 | 390 Pages | PDF | 4.3 MB

I hate black boxes. One of my goals in writing this book was to illuminate some of those black boxes that are so popular in information security books today. On the other hand, I don’t want to bore readers to death with trivial details (if that’s what you want, go read some RFCs). As a result, I sometimes ignore details that I deem irrelevant to the topic at hand. You can judge whether I’ve struck the proper balance between these two competing goals.
Another goal of mine was to present the topic in a lively and interesting way. If any computing subject should be exciting and fun, it’s information security. Security is happening now, it’s in the news; it’s clearly alive and kicking.
Some security textbooks offer a large dollop of dry useless theory. Reading one of these books is about as exciting as reading a calculus textbook. Other security books offer nothing but a collection of apparently unrelated facts, giving the impression that security is not really a coherent subject at all. Then there are books that present the topic as a collection of high-level managerial platitudes. These books may have a place, but if your goal is to design and build secure systems, you’d better understand something about the underlying technology. Finally, some security books focus on the human factors in security. While it is certainly critical to understand the role that human nature plays in security, I would argue that a security engineer must have a solid understanding of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of the technology before the human factors can be fully appreciated.

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