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This publication provides updated best-practice advise on all aspects of managing the day-to-day operation of an organisation's IT services. It encompasses and supersedes the operational aspects of the ITIL Service Support and Service Delivery publications and covers most of the scope of ICT Infrastructure Management. it also incorporates operational aspects from the Planning to Implement, Appl…
This publication focuses on continual service improvement (CSI) from both an IT service and IT service management perspective. It expands the concept of CSI at a high level and defines its value before describing common methods and techniques. The guidance is written for managers and practitioners at all levels.
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Intended for courses in Database Management, Design, Application, or Technology, this title helps students develop immediate, practical, marketable skills. By presenting SQL SELECT early, it allows students learn immediately how to query data and obtain results.
This edition addresses the issue of organisational culture in more detail and it gives an analysis of why information system projects fail and what can be done to make success more likely.
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This book seeks to find possible answers for effective intercultural conflict management by bringing together a group of leading international scholars from different disciplines to tackle the problem. The book covers major theoretical perspectives of conflict management and harmony development in the first section. The second deals with the conflict management and harmony development in differ…
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