An insightful look at the technology behind e-business success reveals how Microsoft converted cutting-edge information technology into financial gain and explains how other businesses can incorporate the latest in technology into their own business plans. 25,000 first printing.

Driving Digital: Microsoft and Its Customers Speak about Thriving in the E-Business Era

Business & Money

Simon, William L.

McDowell, Robert L.

Management & Leadership

HarperBusiness

Beyond the Numbers How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success William L. Simon "This book stands at the intersection of management and money, the place where modern business fundamentals and current financial principles come together. Business managers have traditionally used accounting-based financials that looked backward, at the wake--showing where the organization had been; today, they are learning to use financials that look forward toward the horizon." --from the Preface Businesses can't afford to have a financial system which only measures its past. In order to build a successful company, you need a financial system that also shows you how to plan your company's future. This must-have book for executives, managers, analysts, and other stakeholders, will show you how to refine your current financials or thoroughly overhaul them. In Beyond the Numbers, you have the opportunity to profit from the experiences of CEOs and CFOs at market leading companies in a variety of industries. You will learn how to build a truly effective corporate financial system--one that: * Ensures accurate financial reporting that emphasizes necessary details * Educates key business managers about the refined financial measures needed to reach strategic goals * Enables financial and operating managers to communicate key data analyses effectively * Empowers key personnel throughout the company with a clear understanding of the links between financial measurements and overall business strategies * Emphasizes the right themes when reporting financial health to investment analysts and the business press. Numbers are meaningless unless they are gathered, interpreted, and utilized in the right way. The methods and methodologies captured in Beyond the Numbers will help you to better recognize your company's strengths, maximize its opportunities, and optimize its future.

Beyond the Numbers: How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success

Van Nostrand-Reinhold

This book is based on Lebow's patented Shared Values Process, a powerful tool for creating a totally new "operating system" for businesses. Their system is based on eight basic people values that get staff members to work together more effectively. The authors provide pragmatic consensus-building and decision-making tools based on Shared Values, and step-by-step guidelines for designing and rolling out implementation Pub: 9/97.

Lasting Change: The Shared Values Process That Makes Companies Great

LeBow, Rob

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security Kevin Mitnick's exploits as a cyber-desperado and fugitive form one of the most exhaustive FBI manhunts in history and have spawned dozens of articles, books, films, and documentaries. Since his release from federal prison, in 1998, Mitnick has turned his life around and established himself as one of the most sought-after computer security experts worldwide. Now, in The Art of Deception, the world's most notorious hacker gives new meaning to the old adage, "It takes a thief to catch a thief." Focusing on the human factors involved with information security, Mitnick explains why all the firewalls and encryption protocols in the world will never be enough to stop a savvy grifter intent on rifling a corporate database or an irate employee determined to crash a system. With the help of many fascinating true stories of successful attacks on business and government, he illustrates just how susceptible even the most locked-down information systems are to a slick con artist impersonating an IRS agent. Narrating from the points of view of both the attacker and the victims, he explains why each attack was so successful and how it could have been prevented in an engaging and highly readable style reminiscent of a true-crime novel. And, perhaps most importantly, Mitnick offers advice for preventing these types of social engineering hacks through security protocols, training programs, and manuals that address the human element of security.

Mitnick, Kevin D.

wiley

Beyond the Numbers How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success William L. Simon "This book stands at the intersection of management and money, the place where modern business fundamentals and current financial principles come together. Business managers have traditionally used accounting-based financials that looked backward, at the wake--showing where the organization had been; today, they are learning to use financials that look forward toward the horizon." --from the Preface Businesses can't afford to have a financial system which only measures its past. In order to build a successful company, you need a financial system that also shows you how to plan your company's future. This must-have book for executives, managers, analysts, and other stakeholders, will show you how to refine your current financials or thoroughly overhaul them. In Beyond the Numbers, you have the opportunity to profit from the experiences of CEOs and CFOs at market leading companies in a variety of industries. You will learn how to build a truly effective corporate financial system--one that: * Ensures accurate financial reporting that emphasizes necessary details * Educates key business managers about the refined financial measures needed to reach strategic goals * Enables financial and operating managers to communicate key data analyses effectively * Empowers key personnel throughout the company with a clear understanding of the links between financial measurements and overall business strategies * Emphasizes the right themes when reporting financial health to investment analysts and the business press. Numbers are meaningless unless they are gathered, interpreted, and utilized in the right way. The methods and methodologies captured in Beyond the Numbers will help you to better recognize your company's strengths, maximize its opportunities, and optimize its future.

Economics

"Rob Lebow and William Simon are on the money. Lasting Change is the only way to go and it can only happen through shared values. Lasting Change is just great-a must read!"- Ken Blanchard, Chairman and CEO, Blanchard Training &amp; Development, Inc. and coauthor of The One Minute Manager. "Don't miss this book! You'll come away with some extraordinary insights into how great companies make the Shared Values Process an essential principle of their strategy."- John Sculley, principal, Sculley Brothers and former CEO, Apple Computer. "The concepts and examples are extraordinary. Lebow's Shared Values Process will prove to you that the tired old prescription of 'fixing people' is flawed. To improve performance, you must change the 'context.' This formula will work for any organization that wants lasting change!" -Paul Horgen, President and CEO, IBM Mid-America Employees Federal Credit Union. "Today's leaders will need shared values simply to meet the challenges ahead. The next generation will demand those shared values. Lasting Change offers inspired yet practical advice for those who seek to build organizations guided by a moral compass." - Dick Capen, author of Finishing Strong/Living the Values That Take You the Distance, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Publisher of the Miami Herald. "The book is well written, straightforward, and no-nonsense. It holds your attention. It is a book I will certainly require in the MBA courses I teach." - Four-star general Warren D. Johnson, USAF (Ret.), Adjunct Professor, Wake Forest University. "Lasting Change is packed full of the stuff that makes great people and great companies-a well-packaged postgraduate education that is sure to have a lasting impact on those who have the good fortune to read it. It's a must read for entry-level neophytes and seasoned CEOs."- Harold Burson, Chairman, Burson-Marsteller. "A great collection of anecdotes and experiences that will help a manager develop into a leader. The book has a lot of information and is well written." -Philip Crosby, CEO of Philip Crosby Associates II, Inc., author of Quality Is Free and The Absolutes of Leadership.

Lasting Change: the Shared Values Process That Make Companies Great

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Biography & History

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

iCon takes a look at the most astounding figure in a business era noted for its mavericks, oddballs, and iconoclasts. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Jeffrey Young and William Simon provide new perspectives on the legendary creation of Apple, detail Jobs’s meteoric rise, and the devastating plunge that left him not only out of Apple, but out of the computer-making business entirely. This unflinching and completely unauthorized portrait reveals both sides of Jobs’s role in the remarkable rise of the Pixar animation studio, also re-creates the acrimony between Jobs and Disney’s Michael Eisner, and examines Jobs’s dramatic his rise from the ashes with his recapture of Apple. The authors examine the takeover and Jobs’s reinvention of the company with the popular iMac and his transformation of the industry with the revolutionary iPod. iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers.

Icon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

Young, Jeffrey S.

Children's Books

Hacker extraordinaire Kevin Mitnick delivers the explosive encore to his bestselling The Art of Deception Kevin Mitnick, the world's most celebrated hacker, now devotes his life to helping businesses and governments combat data thieves, cybervandals, and other malicious computer intruders. In his bestselling The Art of Deception, Mitnick presented fictionalized case studies that illustrated how savvy computer crackers use "social engineering" to compromise even the most technically secure computer systems. Now, in his new book, Mitnick goes one step further, offering hair-raising stories of real-life computer break-ins-and showing how the victims could have prevented them. Mitnick's reputation within the hacker community gave him unique credibility with the perpetrators of these crimes, who freely shared their stories with him-and whose exploits Mitnick now reveals in detail for the first time, including: <ul>
<li>A group of friends who won nearly a million dollars in Las Vegas by reverse-engineering slot machines</li> <li>Two teenagers who were persuaded by terrorists to hack into the Lockheed Martin computer systems</li> <li>Two convicts who joined forces to become hackers inside a Texas prison</li> <li>A "Robin Hood" hacker who penetrated the computer systems of many prominent companies-andthen told them how he gained access</li> </ul> With riveting "you are there" descriptions of real computer break-ins, indispensable tips on countermeasures security professionals need to implement now, and Mitnick's own acerbic commentary on the crimes he describes, this book is sure to reach a wide audience-and attract the attention of both law enforcement agencies and the media.

The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

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Driving Digital: Microsoft and Its Customers Speak about Thriving in the E-Business Era

Beyond the Numbers: How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success

Lasting Change: The Shared Values Process That Makes Companies Great

The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security

Beyond the Numbers: How Leading Companies Measure and Drive Success

Lasting Change: the Shared Values Process That Make Companies Great

Lasting Change: The Shared Values Process That Makes Companies Great

Icon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

The Art of Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders and Deceivers

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business