Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies

Jump the Curve: 50 Essential Strategies to Help Your Company Stay Ahead of Emerging Technologies Review

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"Jump the Curve" will show how exponential trends in eight areas - computers, data storage, bandwidth, software development, gene sequencing, robotics, nanotechnology, and the advance of knowledge itself - are transforming the global economy and altering our future. The book then proceeds in a easy-to-understand (non-technical) style to describe the eight essential elements that business executives and their organisations can - and must - incorporate into their planning in order to deal with today's explosive and emerging economy including: leveraging today's technology to meet tomorrow's needs; developing counter-intuitive thought skills; tapping into the power of diversity; and, "Learning to unlearn."While scores of books from "The World is Flat" to "The Tipping Point" have done excellent jobs of explaining the effect of accelerating technologies, "Jump the Curve" defines the nature of technological change itself and shows readers how they, and their organisations can benefit from the knowledge.

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Data Mining: High-impact Strategies

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Data mining (the analysis step of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases process, or Kdd), a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science, is the process of extracting patterns from large data sets by combining methods from statistics and artificial intelligence with database management.

With recent technical advances in processing power, storage capacity, and inter-connectivity of computer technology, data mining is seen as an increasingly important tool by modern business to transform unprecedented quantities of digital data into business intelligence giving an informational advantage. It is currently used in a wide range of profiling practices, such as marketing, surveillance, fraud detection, and scientific discovery. The growing consensus that data mining can bring real value has led to an explosion in demand for novel data mining technologies.

This book is your ultimate resource for Data Mining. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Data Mining right away, covering: Data mining, Able Danger, Accuracy paradox, Affinity analysis, Alpha algorithm, Anomaly detection, Apatar, Apriori algorithm, Association rule learning, Automatic distillation of structure, Ball tree, Biclustering, Big data, Biomedical text mining, Business analytics, Canape, Cluster analysis, Clustering high-dimensional data, Co-occurrence networks, Concept drift, Concept mining, Consensus clustering, Correlation clustering, Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining, Cyber spying, Data Applied, Data classification (business intelligence), Data dredging, Data fusion, Data mining agent, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery,

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Blogs: High-impact Strategies

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A blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

This book is your ultimate resource for Blogs. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Blogs right away, covering: Blog, Blog award, Corporate blog, List of blogs, Online diary, Spam blog, Tumblr, 1000 Awesome Things, 25 Magazine, 9rules, Adland, Afrosphere, Air Users Blog, All Things Digital, ArabCrunch, Areapal, The Art Life, Baseball Prospectus, Baseball Think Factory, Bestiario del balón, The Big Lead, Black Weblog Awards, Bliki, Blog fiction, BlogCn, Blogdex, BloggerCon, Blogging in Burma, BlogHer, Blogosphere, BlogScope, Blogswara, BlogTv, Blue Kaffee, Boing Boing, Bossip, Boy Genius Report, Brog, Business Insider, Buzzgrinder, Calculated Risk, Pete Cashmore, Yuen-Ying Chan, Character blogging, Chinadialogue.net, Classical music blog, Cnbloggercon, Colalife, Collaborative blog, Communities @ State, Couric & Co., Women in Crime Ink, The Critical Badger, Cute Overload, The Daily Man, The Daily Nightly, Daring Fireball, The Dark Visitor, Deadspin, Derivative Dribble, DesiPundit, Diabetes Mine, Digg, DigitalJournal.com, DistrictCut.com, Dlisted, Dont Party, Down By The Hipster, DrugWarRant, The Dugout, EastSouthWestNorth, Elastic Path, Emergent democracy, Engadget, Epic Fu, Equal Justice for Troops blog, Escribitionist, Esowatch, ExtremeTech,

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Data Warehousing: High-impact Strategies

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A data warehouse (Dw) is a database used for reporting. The data is uploaded from the operational systems for reporting. The data may pass through an operational data store for additional operations before it is used in the Dw for reporting.

A data warehouse maintains its functions in three layers: staging, integration, and access. Staging is used to store raw data for use by developers (analysis and support). The integration layer is used to integrate data and to have a level of abstraction from users. The access layer is for getting data out for users.

This definition of the data warehouse focuses on data storage. The main source of the data is cleaned, transformed, catalogued and made available for use by managers and other business professionals for data mining, online analytical processing, market research and decision support (Marakas & Obrien 2009). However, the means to retrieve and analyze data, to extract, transform and load data, and to manage the data dictionary are also considered essential components of a data warehousing system. Many references to data warehousing use this broader context. Thus, an expanded definition for data warehousing includes business intelligence tools, tools to extract, transform and load data into the repository, and tools to manage and retrieve metadata.

This book is your ultimate resource for Data Warehousing. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

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Getting to the Top: Strategies for Career Success

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You're ambitious and want to progress in your career. Learn career tips and strategies that will enable you to climb to the top of your career ladder. In today's job market, you've encountered a huge, fundamental shift in the corporate world: many companies are no longer routinely grooming employees for senior-level executive positions. Career development is now up to the individual. You must chart your own roadmap for career development in order to be resilient when the job market fluctuates wildly. You have to define your own success and career strategy, and invest time in creating an effective action plan if you're going to become a VP or CEO. What are the career paths and must-have leadership skills you need to ascend to the ultimate position in your field? Getting to the Top was especially written for employees to take responsibility for their own career success by Silicon Valley executive recruiter Kathryn Ullrich. From thousands of interviews she conducted as an executive recruiter and leader of Getting to the Top® career programs at UCLA Anderson School of Management and Stanford Graduate School of Business, Ullrich has learned and analyzed career path categories for marketing, sales, product and brand management, corporate communications, strategic alliances, business development, and CEOs. In this book, Ullrich shares success stories of executives from companies such as Adobe, Cisco, eBay, and Yahoo!; findings of her groundbreaking career path research; essential skills for career advancement in a career pyramid of skills at the top; and a customizable Career Action Plan that guides readers to career success. You will reach the career success you desire by putting into action the guidelines you'll learn in Getting to the Top!

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