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Balanced scorecard step-by-step : maximizing performance and maintaining results
Call No. 658.4013 N734b 2006
"In Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step, Second Edition, Paul Niven provides an intuitive and incredibly effective blueprint for transitioning strategic ambition to execution. Paul's pragmatic approach provides leaders with a tool for managing a company's journey from strategic ideas to world-class performance. The Balanced Scorecard is a masterful tool for guiding companies through transformation, and I speak from personal experience when I say Paul's blueprint works! It is the most effective guide I have seen. Balanced Scorecard Step-by-Step will serve any leader well if their ambition is to efficiently engage their teams in achieving a set of strategic goals."
—Allan A. MacDonald, Vice President, Sales and Customer Solutions Bell Canada National Markets
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Robust control design with MATLAB
Call No. 629.8312 G896r 2005
"Robust Control Design with MATLAB" helps you learn how to use well-developed robust control design methods in practical cases. Realistic control design examples from teaching-laboratory experiments, such as a mass 'damper' spring assembly, to complex systems like a flexible-link manipulator are detailed. Design exercises are conducted with MATLAB Robust Control and Control Systems Toolboxes and Simulink. The features include: hands-on tutorial presentation giving you the opportunity to repeat the designs presented and easily modify them for your own programs. On the CD-ROM: M-files help you to understand the essence of robust control system design portrayed in the text-based examples; MDL-files for simulation of open- and closed-loop control in Simulink; and full-color interpretations of all suitable figures for extra clarity. This textbook is for graduate students and practising engineers to learn how to deal with robust control design taking advantage of MATLAB 7.0.1's power and flexibility.
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Competition demystified : a radically simplified approach to business strategy
Call No. 658.4012 G816c 2005
Since 1980, Michael Porter’s classic Competitive Strategy has provided the methodology that most big companies use for strategic analysis. But now, distinguished Columbia Business School professor Bruce Greenwald offers a bold new theory of competition—a theory that is far simpler than Porter’s and much easier for strategic planners to apply in the real world.
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Space to work : new office design
Call No. 725.23 M996s 2006
This is the first comprehensive analysis of emerging office design practice to support and enhance the performance of knowledge workers. It explains how the office is being reinvented to respond to the imperatives of knowledge work, as well as the changing social imperatives and technology of the new millennium. A wide range of international workplace architecture and interior schemes that are leading the way in this important area is showcased. The book sets its 43 international case studies within a unique conceptual matrix that provides a framework for thinking about new strategies for reinventing office space. It identifies four /'/realms/'/ for knowledge work the learning campus (ACADEMY); the professional cluster (GUILD); the public workplace (AGORA) and the live-work setting (LODGE). The authors argue that only by finding an entirely new equilibrium at work between the opposing forces of family, colleagues, customers and professional peers can knowledge workers in the 21st century achieve the same productivity gains as manual labour in the 20th century.
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