Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. As Six Sigma and Lean Enterprise techniques continue to evolve and become more and more engrained in the business, it is harder and harder to track the impact of savings on a project by project basis. Especially when you have more than one project concentrating on different functional areas, through the use of case studies, worked out examples, and bench marking techniques, Michael Bremer, a Senior Instructor at Motorola University, helps you to put the right infrastructure in place for project identification, project scoping, and financial reporting.

Six Sigma Financial Tracking and Reporting: Measuring Project Performance and P&L Impact (Six SIGMA Operational Methods)

Business & Money

Bremer, Michael

McCarty, Thomas

McKibben, Brian

Finance

McGraw=Hill

SimCity 2000(tm) is your ultimate challenge as a master city builder. How do you set funding levels for essential city services without over-taxing your population? What's the best mix of commercial and residential zoning? How do you keep your city from perishing during thunderous volcanic explosions? To answer these questions you need SimCity 2000(tm): Power, Politics, and Planning, Revised Edition to acquire the logic, creativity, foresight, and management skills you must have to make your SimCity a booming and lasting metropolis. This book goes far beyond the game manual, revealing the deepest secrets, mechanisms, and game-winning strategies. Now you can: maximize the capabilities if the SimCity Urban Renewal Kit (SKURK); gain vital insight into the intricate SimCity 2000(tm) political systems; utilize previously hidden tricks and tips you won't find any where else?including the $1 million Budget Trick, New Windows Easter Eggs, and how to access the new Maxis Public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) directory and web page on the Internet; and incorporate design and planning strategies for mastering disasters and all other scenarios.

SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning: Revised Edition (Secrets of the Games)

Computers & Technology

Dargahi, Nick

Games & Strategy Guides

Prima Games

UnTechnical Writing is the handbook for writers in the high-tech world. It covers the art, science and politics of writing and producing technical books and documents for the consumer audience. It helps writers do their jobs quickly and more easily. It contains hints tips, methods and procedures for working with editors, managers, graphic artists and other writers. It shows writers how to get, grow and hone the skills they need to explain technology to the consumer audience. Perhaps most importantly, it teaches writers how to add life, and even fun, to their technical writing--so it gets read.

Untechnical Writing: How to Write About Technical Subjects and Products So Anyone Can Understand (Untechnical Press Books for Writers Series)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Untechnical Pr

The User Manual Manual is a master's course on software manuals. It describes the grammar, style, techniques and tricks needed to write a manual the gets read. It explains how to understand and target readers, technicaly inclined or not--even if they're kids. Plus, it covers special topics including: dealing with rush projects, preparing for internationalization, and handling projects with multiple writers, multiple platforms and multiple bosses. The User Manual Manual is a guided tour through the entire process of creating a user manual from initial concept through writing, testing, editing and production to postmortem. It contains sample documents, worksheets and checklists to help writers work smarter and faster.

The User Manual Manual: How to Research, Write, Test, Edit and Produce a Software Manual (Untechnical Press Books for Writers Series.)

Taming the Electronic Beast: Conquering Computer Fear (Advice from the Neighborhood Nerd)

Certification

The Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop is the first place to start if you want to learn about computers. The truth is, computers can be annoying, frustrating, intimidating pains in the behind. But they can be useful once you learn to accept them for what they are—and what they aren’t. The Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop helps people get over the fear, fight the nervousness and obtain the right attitude to take advantage of today’s technology. The included workbook helps organize and review the information in the seminar, and helps you make your "plan of attack." The Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop is also available on audio cassette with workbook.

Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop (Audio CD)

The Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop is the first place to start if you want to learn about computers. The truth is, computers can be annoying, frustrating, intimidating pains in the behind. But they can be useful once you learn to accept them for what they are—and what they aren’t. The Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop helps people get over the fear, fight the nervousness and obtain the right attitude to take advantage of today’s technology.  The included workbook helps organize and review the information in the seminar, and helps you make your "plan of attack."  The Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop is also available on audio CD with workbook.

Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop (Audio Cassette)

Politics & Social Sciences

UnTechnical Press

Learn to See the Invisible

Most improvement consultants say improvement efforts must be led by the CEO, and that is certainly ideal. But the actual reality is most CEOs do not actively drive/guide improvement. They want it to happen, but they focus most of their energy on other issues. According to surveys from Gallup and others, the number one reason people say, "I am not engaged" is due to the behaviors of their direct boss! Those leaders (in the middle of an organization) have a tremendous amount of leverage; first- and second-line leaders directly touch 80% of the people in their organization. They have a tremendous amount of influence and more power than they might realize. This book focuses on that demographic. This book describes four key foundations and 25 different actions leaders can practice to become more effective in training their eyes to see things tomorrow that are currently invisible. It helps leaders and managers to become better observers of their current reality by practicing getting better at getting better. The goal is to get better in the way we lead, the way our team performs, and the results we accomplish. If done in the right way, visually posting your improvement targets is the key to driving more personal growth, as well as more cross-functional collaboration and cooperation in your work activities. The most unique aspect of this book is that it suggests leaders use visual tools. Visual Leadership is the fourth foundational element the author encourages people to practice. The primary purpose of visual performance metrics isn't to make sure things are working well in your department. It's to create a thinking environment that makes it easier for multiple departments, teams, and groups to work together. It is relatively easy to come up with performance metrics for your team, but what about metrics that help "us" to work more effectively together? Good visual reporting practices create "information democracy." They eliminate filters that obscure knowledge between layers of management and between departments. They help to create an environment that is much more robust and open, making it easier to be in touch with the "actual reality." And perhaps the most exciting of all, visual tools can help an individual learn to lead more effectively. The power of using visuals in this way is underutilized in most organizations. Whatever new behaviors a leader is trying to accomplish, visual reporting can facilitate progress and ensure accountability in developing those new habits.

Business Culture

Productivity Press

Escape the Improvement Trap

Written by two experts who have dedicated their careers to quality improvement, Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes separates itself from other improvement books by looking at why most companies rarely achieve anything more than an average level of improvement maturity. They identify five critical ingredients required for successful improvement: 1. A meaningful business value proposition and strategy that drives key improvement actions2. An engaging environment where people can do their best work3. A focus on meaningful metrics while avoiding irrelevant details4. Process improvement efforts that maximize cross-functional process performance and foster deeper process understanding, innovation, and execution of best work practices5. An executive mindset that focuses on customer value, people development, process performance, and business improvement outcomes, not solely on savings The authors consider a variety of situations at Independence Enterprise, a fictional company, based on their own very real experiences. They elaborate on the principles that should come into play, look at what Independence Enterprise is doing right and wrong, and suggest deployment actions to help you apply the principles to your own organization.

Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes

Economics

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Books by Bremer, Michael

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Six Sigma Financial Tracking and Reporting: Measuring Project Performance and P&L Impact (Six SIGMA Operational Methods)

SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning: Revised Edition (Secrets of the Games)

Untechnical Writing: How to Write About Technical Subjects and Products So Anyone Can Understand (Untechnical Press Books for Writers Series)

The User Manual Manual: How to Research, Write, Test, Edit and Produce a Software Manual (Untechnical Press Books for Writers Series.)

Taming the Electronic Beast: Conquering Computer Fear (Advice from the Neighborhood Nerd)

Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop (Audio CD)

Conquering Computer Fear Audio Workshop (Audio Cassette)

Learn to See the Invisible

Learn to See the Invisible

Escape the Improvement Trap: Five Ingredients Missing in Most Improvement Recipes