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Digitization of business interactions and processes is advancing full bore. But in many organizations, returns from IT investments are flatlining, even as technology spending has skyrocketed. These challenges call for new levels of IT savvy: the ability of all managers-IT or non-IT-to transform their company's technology assets into operational efficiencies that boost margins. Companies with…

When it was published twenty years ago, Rethinking What Works with Offenders made a major contribution to criminological knowledge on why people stopped offending, and the impact the probation service had on the desistance process. Unlike other studies that had relied on official conviction data, it was the first to make use of self-reported data,…

Innovación para Cabezas Cuadradas no es un libro,es una pintura colorida de finos trazos que cuando la tenemos al frente nos invita a ser apreciada,a que seamos creativos y nunca dejemos detener capacidad de asombro en una búsqueda permanente de lo posible; en su lienzo plasma historias humanas y cotidianas que se desprenden de la…

Effective and practical coaching strategies for new educators plus valuable online coaching tools Many teachers are only observed one or two times per year on average—and, even among those who are observed, scarcely any are given feedback as to how they could improve. The bottom line is clear: teachers do not need to be evaluated…

La sociedad de la información se caracteriza, entre otros aspectos, por contener adaptaciones al desarrollo tecnológico y nuevos servicios, como parte de la convergencia entre las telecomunicaciones, la tecnología de la información y los medios de comunicación: se observa un movimiento mundial dirigido a aprovechar al máximo los servicios que la tecnología nos ofrece. Por…

Drawing on recent international developments in criminal justice, Restorative Approaches to Conflict in Schools highlights the long-term ineffectiveness of punitive models of discipline in education contexts and examines an alternative approach, underpinned by the principles of restorative justice. This approach provides an opportunity for adults and young people to engage with a range of processes…

Shortly after Langenbuch performed the first cholecystectomy in 1877 in Berlin, the first bile duct injury associated to cholecystectomy occurred and was published. For decades frequency maintained low, until the presentation of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, when the number of cases complicated with bile duct injury doubled. Nowadays, it is estimated that this injury occurs in up…

The 4th edition of this comprehensive treatise on all aspects of pediatric orthopaedics continues the tradition of excellence that began with Dr. Tachdjian in 1972. Now in full color and completely redesigned for ease of use, the New edition of this landmark reference offers you today's best knowledge on etiology � diagnosis � imaging �…

"Where there's a will, there's a way; where there's a team, there's more than one way." Rex Murphy The biggest challenge in process improvement and cultural transformation isn't identifying the problems. It's execution: implementing and sustaining the solutions. Until there is authentic respect for the people, there will not be authentic buy-in to the Lean…

El material que se presenta abarca siete capítulos, tomando como punto de partida la base conceptual necesaria para tratar el importante y complejo tema de la Gestión de la Tecnología y la Innovación pasando por la evolución y las tendencias empresariales que hoy exigen esfuerzos de I+D+i como parte de su actividad, el tema de…