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What is Dot Peen Marking?
Description: Dot peen marking is a unique way to mark metal tags and equipment. This article covers the basics of dot peen marking. ...
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What is MetalPhoto?
Description: Photo anodization aka MetalPhoto is a highly customizable and durable solution. This article covers the basics of this unique process. ...
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What is MIL-STD-130?
Description: MIL-STD-130 is a government specification which mandates the use of metal identification including the UID method. This article covers the basics of this mil spec. ...
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What is the Best Material for Nameplates?
Description: Want to get nameplates but not sure what material to select? This guide will give you some insight into what material is right for your application. ...
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What is UID and IUID?
Description: UID and IUID are specifications mandated within MIL-STD-130. Learn more with this quick guide. ...
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How Are Tags Used in the Energy Industry?
Description: This article focuses on some of the ways the energy industry utilizes custom identification. ...
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MetalPhoto vs. Screen Printing: What's the Difference?
Description: This article contrasts and compares the MetalPhoto and Screen Printing marking processes. ...
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Top 5 Ways to Secure Your Company's Assets
Description: There are many different ways organizations utilize identification products to track and manage their assets. This guide narrows the field down to the top 5 in the industry. ...
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What Are California Proposition 65 Warning Labels?
Description: This article discusses some of the guidelines and rules of California Prop 65, and the impact this has on organizations in regards to identification. ...
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How Do Utility Pole Tags Work?
Description: This article covers utility and telephone pole tags, as well as how metal identification is used within the telecommunications and energy industries. ...
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What are the Top 6 Processes for Nameplates?
Description: This guide covers the top 6 processes for nameplate marking. ...
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What Are Valve Tags?
Description: This guide covers the basics of using metal tags to identify industrial valves. ...
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Choosing the challenge
Description: Delphine Biscaye - a woman in motor sports There are very few women in tech, but there is another area with even fewer women: motor sports ...
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Mission: HVAC - Mission 6: Skilled Labor Shortage (Part 1)
Description: The shortage of skilled labor in trades such as HVAC has become a hot topic in the industry - as seasoned pros reach retirement age; many positions are left unfilled due to a lack of qualified ...
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Mission: HVAC - Mission 7: Skilled Labor Shortage (Part 2)
Description: The skilled labor shortage has had a major impact on HVAC businesses, but the future of the trades isn't all "doom and gloom." The opportunities to get involved and make an impact are abundant, and ...
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Mission: HVAC - Mission 8: The Future of HVAC
Description: Technology is always changing - and HVAC pros need to stay informed of the latest and greatest equipment and trends that will have an impact on the future of the trade. That's why we asked our ...
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What are the Consequences of Spreading Dust during Hospital Remediation Jobs?
Description: We've reached the end of our Under the Microscope series - and today's topic may be one of the least taken seriously despite posing a threat severe enough to be deadly. ...
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Packaging that Defies The Ordinary
Description: Weathered, disintegrating boxes left customers unhappy, bike tubes unsecured & Stephen Cuomo without brand recognition. Looking for improved branding, functionality and re-usability led him to ...
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The Laser Marking Alternative to Screen Printing
From: AccumetDescription: Product manufacturers may wish to consider laser marking as an alternative to screen printing (also called silk screening) when looking to permanently mark a surface such as with a bar code, a serial ...
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Leverage operator training for more efficient water analysis
Description: Industry-specific and applicationspecific training modules prepare end users to learn about everyday interactions and actual circumstances in which they will use specific equipment. ...
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What's Going on in the World of SBIR & STTR Grants?
Description: SBIR & STTR Grant Awards by State ...
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Best Practices For Marking And Traceability
Description: Marking and traceability requirements can be an intimidating process. Lack of compliance may lead to liability issues, increased costs, steep penalties, federal prosecution, and/or counterfeiting ...
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FDA UDI Marking: Are You Prepared?
Description: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is establishing a Unique Device Identification (UDI) system to adequately identify and track devices through their distribution and use. When fully ...
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Executive Order -- Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Description: The nation's critical infrastructure provides essential services for the functioning of the both the American society and its economy. NEMA and MITA member companies interface with several of the 16 ...
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TPP Carries Benefits for Pacific-Rim Smart Cities
Description: Among the 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member economies,[1] Singapore may be the best known for its ambitions to apply smart-city technologies to improve the wellbeing of its citizens. According ...
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Isostatic Pressing
Description: Isostatic pressing is a powder metallurgy (PM) forming process that applies equal pressure in all directions on a powder compact, thus achieving maximum uniformity of density and microstructure ...
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Metal Additive Manufacturing
Description: Metal additive manufacturing (AM), or 3D printing, has the potential to profoundly change the production, time-to-market, and simplicity of components and assemblies. Unlike conventional or ...
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Metal Injection Molding
Description: Metal injection molding (MIM) offers a manufacturing capability for producing complex shapes in large quantities. The process utilizes fine metal powders (typically less than 20 micrometers) that are ...
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Conventional Powder Metallurgy Process
Description: The powder metallurgy (PM) process, depicted in the diagram below, consists of mixing elemental or alloy powders, compacting the mixture in a die, and then sintering, or heating, the resultant shapes ...
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The Essential Guide to Product Testing & Certification: 2014/2015 North American Edition
From: IntertekDescription: You've designed your equipment in line with the relevant Standards governing your product. Now you have a responsibility (in many cases a mandatory requirement) to get your product tested and ...
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Health Care Emergency Management: Preparing for All Hazards
Description: Emergencies occur in health care facilities in a variety of different forms. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, or blizzards; or technological disasters such as loss of computers, loss ...
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NFPA 101® 2015 20 Frequently Asked Questions
Description: The Technical Questions Service is free with your NFPA Membership. Our Technical Questions Service provides a convenient way to receive timely and consistent technical assistance when you need to know ...
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SBB: Fequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
From: Standards Boost BusinessDescription: FAQ about SBB and standardization/conformance ...
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ISO: Today's State of the Art Global Solutions for CEOs
From: Standards Boost BusinessDescription: ISO's state of the art global solutions for CEOs. ...
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A Smarter VMI System
Description: Field Executed a Seamless Transition and Reduced Procurement Time by 90% ...
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Hardware Redesign & KANBAN System
Description: Field Redesign Part and Procurement Improvement Yields Total Savings of $206,500 ...
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US Standardization Strategy
Description: Are standards important? The quotes on the previous page show that while the details have changed over time, standards are more essential today than at any time in our nation's history. Voluntary ...
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GSA/TAA Compliance Guide to Government Procurement (.pdf)
From: Tripp Lite by EatonDescription: If you are supplying products for GSA Schedules and other government contracts, those products must comply with TAA.1 TAA requires that products originate from the United States or another approved ...
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Tips for Selecting the Best Direct Marking Method for Your Part (.pdf)
Description: The most direct way to ensure complete quality control of the production process is to mark objects with a machine-readable symbols and track them through the entire life cycle. There are many methods ...
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Knowing Your Material: Achieving Successful Process Design (.pdf)
Description: Often system hang-ups are caused by the cohesive nature of bulk material. The paper discusses guidelines for reducing the cohesive nature of bulk materials and using this information to achieve ...
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Complying with Americans with Disabilities Act and ASHRAE Standard 62-1989
Description: The Americans with Disabilities Act is a Civil Rights Law that, in part, defines the maximum allowable force required to open doors. This section of the law affects not only the door closer ...
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The Commercial Engineer's Desktop Guide
Description: The Commercial Engineer's Desktop Guide Detailing how to combine successful design and innovation with effective business skills and insight, this guide is a practical source of reference, guidance, ...
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Career Success in Engineering: A Guide for Students and New Professionals
Description: Career Success in Engineering: A Guide for Students and New Professionals A guide and a tool for the engineering student and the recently graduated engineer, this book deals with the conventional ...
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Baldrige Award Winning Quality: Eleventh Edition Covers the 2001 Award Criteria
Description: Baldrige Award Winning Quality: Eleventh Edition Covers the 2001 Award Criteria This is an essential reference for managers planning to apply for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. ...
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Building a Successful Construction Company
Description: Building a Successful Construction Company Offering insightful anecdotes from top experts in the field, this practical, easy-to-read guide will help contractors avoid common pitfalls and build a ...
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Business Development: A Guide To Small Business Strategy
Description: Business Development: A Guide To Small Business Strategy Providing a readable and practical book for the growth and development of businesses, this guide examines the personnel and staffing ...
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Planning Training and Development, Fourth Edition
Description: Planning Training and Development, Fourth Edition By introducing the training cycle, this well-structured guide workbook sets out the steps that should be taken to ensure that the right training is ...
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Positive Recruitment and Retention CMIOLP
Description: Positive Recruitment and Retention CMIOLP Featuring the latest management concepts and methodologies, this book explores the changing legal framework in which managers operate and the impact of ...
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Working in Teams, Fourth Edition
Description: Working in Teams, Fourth Edition Every team is a collection of unique human beings each with a contribution to make. This workbook looks at the characteristics of workteams, their problems, strengths ...
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CIMA Exam Practice Kit: Business Law
Description: CIMA Exam Practice Kit: Business Law Designed with the needs of home study and distance education candidates in mind, this kit contains hints, questions, and answers from some of the best-known ...
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Strategic Technology Management: Building Bridges Between Sciences, Engineering and Business Management
Description: Strategic Technology Management: Building Bridges Between Sciences, Engineering and Business Management Bridging the gap between business management and scientific management practices so as to ...
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Technology-Rich Learning Environments: A Future Perspective
Description: Technology-Rich Learning Environments: A Future Perspective Based on the authors' extensive research data, this instructive text provides practical models, ideas and exemplars for educators to ...
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Achieving Sustainable Communities In A Global Economy: Alternative Private Strategies And Public Policies
Description: Achieving Sustainable Communities In A Global Economy: Alternative Private Strategies And Public Policies Presenting writings of leading scholars and practitioners working in the private and public ...
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Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance And Accounting: New Series, Volume 1
Description: Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance And Accounting: New Series, Volume 1 Designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting, this book promotes ...
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Corporate Cultures and Global Brands
Description: Corporate Cultures and Global Brands Covering the development of 19 prominent companies from their origins to their current status as global operators, this book reviews the changes of their ...
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Islamic Banking & Finance in South-East Asia: Its Development & Future
Description: Islamic Banking & Finance in South-East Asia: Its Development & Future Through an understanding of Islamic thought and practices, readers will learn of financial products and services ...
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Knowing China
Description: Knowing China Based on over five decades of accumulated knowledge, this invaluable book offers an insight into China through its history, culture, people, economy, education, science and technology, ...
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Strategic Marketing: Planning and Control, Second Edition
Description: Strategic Marketing: Planning and Control, Second Edition Covering contemporary issues, this comprehensive book explores current developments in marketing theory and practice including the concept of ...
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Strategic Sports Event Management: An International Approach
Description: Strategic Sports Event Management: An International Approach Providing an insight into the strategic management of sports events, this book offers a planning process that can be used to understand ...
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Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor
Description: Success Strategies for Women in Science: A Portable Mentor Drawing upon the experience of successful female scientists in academia, industry and research institutes across North America and Europe, ...
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Tourism Management Dynamics: Trends, Management and Tools
Description: Tourism Management Dynamics: Trends, Management and Tools With contributions from world leaders in tourism research and academia, this book identifies key trends in the tourism industry and ...
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Tourism Marketing for Cities and Towns: Using Branding and Events to Attract Tourists
Description: Tourism Marketing for Cities and Towns: Using Branding and Events to Attract Tourists Containing practical international examples, discussion questions, and strategic planning worksheets, this guide ...
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Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management
Description: Value at Risk and Bank Capital Management Containing concise, expert analysis of the latest technical VaR measures, this book discusses practical applications of these measures in the real world of ...
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Value Innovation Portfolio Management: Achieving Double-Digit Growth Through Customer Value
Description: Value Innovation Portfolio Management: Achieving Double-Digit Growth Through Customer Value Supported by various case studies and examples, this book explains how to create a robust and thorough ...
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Value-Driven IT Management
Description: Value-Driven IT Management Setting out a detailed, pragmatic framework for commercialising the internal IT Function and measuring its value to the business, this book explains how huge sums are ...
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Viable Vision: Transforming Total Sales into Net Profits
Description: Viable Vision: Transforming Total Sales into Net Profits Packed with proven principles of research and real-life application, readers will learn about the holistic implementation of constraints ...
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Accounting in a Nutshell: Accounting for the Non-Specialist, Second Edition
Description: Accounting in a Nutshell: Accounting for the Non-Specialist, Second Edition Covering the basic principles and techniques of both financial and management accounting, this book provides fully worked ...
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Addressing the Human Capital Crisis in the Federal Government: A Knowledge Management Perspective
Description: Addressing the Human Capital Crisis in the Federal Government: A Knowledge Management Perspective This text outlines how managers can develop a successful human capital strategy, drawing on lessons ...
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An Introduction to Executive Compensation
Description: An Introduction to Executive Compensation This text analyzes package elements and, drawing upon practitioner and academic literature, leads readers through the development of optimal plans under ...
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Business Law in the Global Market Place
Description: Business Law in the Global Market Place Equipping managers with a basic understanding of how law impacts business activity, this book can help them avoid legal pitfalls in the first place or at least ...
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Corporate Governance and Regulatory Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions: Research and Analysis on Activity Worldwide Since 1990
Description: Corporate Governance and Regulatory Impact on Mergers and Acquisitions: Research and Analysis on Activity Worldwide Since 1990 Offering guidelines for decision makers in investment banks, private ...
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Corporate Governance: How to Add Value to Your Company
Description: Corporate Governance: How to Add Value to Your Company Aimed at senior managers and directors of ambitious small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), this book can be your guide in helping you run ...
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Corporate Reputations, Branding and People Management: A Strategic Approach to HR
Description: Corporate Reputations, Branding and People Management: A Strategic Approach to HR A practical guide to developing appropriate HR policies and practices, this book helps HR practitioners understand ...
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Cost-Justifying Usability: An Update for an Internet Age
Description: Cost-Justifying Usability: An Update for an Internet Age Written for usability professionals and others who serve in this role, this book offers techniques, examples, cases, and tools that will ...
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Customer Service Training
Description: Customer Service Training Presenting dozens of field-tested exercises, games, activities, icebreakers and assessment instruments, this practical, hands-on guide will help you teach employees the ...
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Cyber Crime Investigations
Description: Cyber Crime Investigations Examining the difficulties, misconceptions, and flaws in the cyber investigative methodology, this guide provides you with all the information necessary to make educated ...
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Cyber Marketing: How to Use the Internet to Market Your Goods and Services, Second Edition
Description: Cyber Marketing: How to Use the Internet to Market Your Goods and Services, Second Edition No-nonsense structured guide to using the Internet for marketing. ...
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Cyberstrategy
Description: Cyberstrategy Business strategy for extranets, intranets and the internet. ...
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Demand Management Best Practices: Process, Principles and Collaboration
Description: Demand Management Best Practices: Process, Principles and Collaboration Give your organization a competitive edge by utilizing the effective demand management model process tied to an integrated ...
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Demystifying Marketing: A Guide To The Fundamentals For Engineers
Description: Demystifying Marketing: A Guide To The Fundamentals For Engineers Written for those wanting clarification of marketing s purpose, role and methods, this comprehensive book can provide major influence ...
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Engineering, Business and Professional Ethics
Description: Engineering, Business and Professional Ethics With practical case studies and examples throughout, this book highlights the ethical dimension of engineering while showing how values and ...
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Enterprise Planning and Development: Small Business Start-up, Survival and Development
Description: Enterprise Planning and Development: Small Business Start-up, Survival and Development Outlining the options and risks involved in setting up a business, this logical book shows how to make the most ...
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HR Strategy: Business Focused, Individually Centered
Description: HR Strategy: Business Focused, Individually Centered This book addresses key themes of translating business strategy into a workable, measurable HR strategy while simultaneously tapping into the ...
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Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Competence
Description: Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Competence Improve your bottom-line results with this handy reference guide that provides the tools and techniques fundamental to the practice of ...
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Information Assurance: Managing Organizational IT Security Risks
Description: Information Assurance: Managing Organizational IT Security Risks The authors of this text lay out a detailed strategy for defining information security, establishing IA goals, providing training for ...
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International Cultural Tourism: Management, Implications and Cases
Description: International Cultural Tourism: Management, Implications and Cases Including an analysis of the demand, profiles and motivation of tourists, this text provides a thoroughly global insight into the ...
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International Taxation Handbook: Policy, Practice, Standards, and Regulation
Description: International Taxation Handbook: Policy, Practice, Standards, and Regulation Creating new avenues of research for scholars, a new awareness for students of International Taxation, and new ...
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Leadership Training
Description: Leadership Training Containing exercises, handouts, assessments and tools, this guide will help you develop strong leaders at all levels, encourage growth of key leadership competencies, become a ...
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Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts
Description: Managing People and Organizations in Changing Contexts Covering CIPDs core management standards, this book addresses the contemporary problems faced by managers in dealing with people, organizations ...
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Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events
Description: Marketing Destinations and Venues for Conferences, Conventions and Business Events Combining an academic, theoretical approach to the subject with practical, hands-on advice for those with current or ...
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Marketing Research for Managers, Third Edition
Description: Marketing Research for Managers, Third Edition The purpose of this guide is to enable managers to become more informed research users and buyers; the more managers know about how marketing research ...
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The EDGAR Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Becoming a Savvy Investor
Description: The EDGAR Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Becoming a Savvy Investor Despite the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, navigating through a company s financial ...
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The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide: Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program, Second Edition
Description: The Information Systems Security Officer's Guide: Establishing and Managing an Information Protection Program, Second Edition This book presents a total systems approach to the all the topics needed ...
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An Introduction to Human Resource Management, Second Edition
Description: An Introduction to Human Resource Management, Second Edition Illustrated by a combination of real life case studies and examples of current research, this straightforward and accessible text takes ...
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An Investigation into the Management of Interest Rate Risk in Large UK Companies
Description: An Investigation into the Management of Interest Rate Risk in Large UK Companies Focusing on interest rate risk management, this book examines the views of UK corporate treasurers who are usually ...
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Health and Safety, Environment and Quality Audits
Description: Health and Safety, Environment and Quality Audits An informative resource for those familiar with the auditing industry, and offering interesting insight for those who are not, this book delivers a ...
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Heritage Marketing
Description: Heritage Marketing Packed with examples, cases and insights from around the world, this book systematically addresses the principles of marketing as applied to the heritage sector and provides an ...
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The Diversity Scorecard: Evaluating the Impact of Diversity on Organizational Performance
Description: The Diversity Scorecard: Evaluating the Impact of Diversity on Organizational Performance Providing step-by-step instructions, worksheets and examples to help diversity executives and managers ...
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Destination Branding: Creating the Unique Destination Proposition, Second Edition
Description: Destination Branding: Creating the Unique Destination Proposition, Second Edition By focusing on a range of global case studies, this book shows how many destinations are adopting branding strategies ...
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In Search of Hospitality: Theoretical Perspectives and Debates
Description: In Search of Hospitality: Theoretical Perspectives and Debates Bringing together an extraordinary collection of leading researchers and writers in hospitality, sociology, philosophy and social ...