The Open Group IT4IT™ Reference Architecture, Version 2.1, an Open Group Standard, provides a vendor-neutral, technology-agnostic, and industry-agnostic reference architecture for managing the business of IT.

The Open Group IT4IT Reference Architecture standard comprises a reference architecture and a value chain-based operating model.

The IT Value Chain has four value streams supported by a reference architecture to drive efficiency and agility. The four value streams are:

* Strategy to P...

MINOAN LINEAR A, VOLUME I, HURRIANS AND HURRIAN IN MINOAN CRETE, PART 1.

The author has reviewed previous attempts to decipher Minoan Linear A concluding that none can be accepted as presenting consistent phonological and morphological evidence, which is required for identification of an idiom written with an undeciphered script. Using phonological and morphological evidence, he has shown that Linear A may well be the notation of an idiom with specific phonological features and a morphology o...

Note to you:

You are the author of your own life, so make sure you write a f*cking novel!

Now or Never is about the entrepreneurial power and persistence of two lifetime friends who had a lot of fun along the way.

It recounts about the first three years of StuComm, the fastest growing start-up in the Netherlands, who build bespoke mobile apps.

They had a flying start, with half a million users by January 2017. Read how one bright idea of the two founders Ronald and William came to life over two pints in a pub. How they both accepted the exceptional challenge of setting up their li...

White-collar crime is globally shattering in its effect, and there is no doubt enforcement is a necessity in rooting it out. In his inaugural lecture, Sharon Oded raises the question of whether enforcement policies currently emerging in the U.S. and other jurisdictions are suitable to serve this purpose. He is particularly concerned with the intoxication of force - that is, the very real situation where the main goal of the enforcement system is to sanctify harsh enforcement, rather than to e...

If you want to accelerate your business and career and stand out like a tall giraffe surrounded by tiny field mice, now is the time to get serious and get going.

In this book, high performance expert Paul Rulkens offers the best ideas, insights and techniques to get everything you can out of everything you have -- from business growth to maximizing your own performance.

In 'The Power of Preeminence' you will learn the critical skills and inside secrets to:

- Focus on the few things necessary...

For almost twenty years the Dutch artists Jan Dietvorst and Roy Villevoye have been exploring issues as diverse as anthropological representation, the conventions of documentary filmmaking and culture as a means of adaptation and re-enactment.

The publication EVIDENCE is published on the occasion of their first major solo exhibition EVIDENCE in Belgium, which was from 13 May to 16 July 2017 in Argos, Brussels. The method of editing used in their collective film work has been applied in this...

The Lure of the Biographical onderzoekt de veronderstelde relatie tussen het werk en het persoonlijke imago van kunstenaars. Het boek onderzoekt hoe kunstenaars hun persoonlijke geschiedenis inzetten om bekendheid te verwerven, en hoe zij de manier waarop hun artistieke werk wordt geïnterpreteerd proberen te beïnvloeden. Tegelijkertijd onderzoekt het boek hoe andere partijen, zoals critici, biografen, fotografen, filmmakers, kunsthistorici en handelaren verbindingen leggen tussen het privé...

Preparation for fossil fuel substitution in the building sector persists as an essential subject in architectural engineering. Since the building sector still remains as one of the three major global end energy consumer - climate change is closely related to construction and design.We have developed the archetype sun space to what it is today : a simple but effective predominant naturally ventilated sun trap and as well as living space enlargement. With the invention of industrial glass orang...