Why Is Corporate IT Never Fast Enough?

Despite the quantum leaps that information technology has made in the past decades, the corporate function does not get any better at delivering business solutions at an acceptable pace?

A System that Yields Lower Quality, continuously.

This book shows how and why your IT team is systematically delivering lower-quality systems with increasing complexity, instead of spearheading the drive for business agility. Yet, have no fear; this is no techy treatise....

This textbook covers the entire Business Process Management (BPM) lifecycle, from process identification to process monitoring, covering along the way process modelling, analysis, redesign and automation. Concepts, methods and tools from business management, computer science and industrial engineering are blended into one comprehensive and inter-disciplinary approach. The presentation is illustrated using the BPMN industry standard defined by the Object Management Group and widely endorsed by...

Ecodesign wordt bij de implementatie van de circulaire economie gezien als een van de cruciale hefbomen voor succes. Met dit boek bieden de auteurs inzicht in het vakgebied ecodesign en de relatie met de circulaire economie en moedigen ze ontwerpers aan om duurzame producten te ontwikkelen.

Ecodesign staat voor het integreren van ecologie in het ontwerpproces van alle mogelijke producten, gaande van speelgoed, verpakkingen, huis-tuin-en-keukenproducten tot technische producten zoals vorklifte...

Materials: Engineering, Science, Processing and Design is the essential materials engineering text and resource for students developing skills and understanding of materials properties and selection for engineering applications. Taking a unique design-led approach that is broader in scope than other texts, Materials meets the curriculum needs of a wide variety of courses in the materials and design field, including introduction to materials science and engineering, engineering materials, mate...

This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this book will help you to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting your data.

Protect your organization's security at all levels by introducing the latest strategies for securing DevOpsKey FeaturesIntegrate security at each layer of the DevOps pipelineDiscover security practices to protect your cloud services by detecting fraud and intrusionExplore solutions to infrastructure security using DevOps principlesBook DescriptionDevOps has provided speed and quality benefits with continuous development and deployment methods, but it does not guarantee the security of an enti...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`A supremely practical and useful book.' Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck. A revolutionary system to get 1 per cent better every dayPeople think when you want to change your life, you need to think big. But world-renowned habits expert James Clear has discovered another way. He knows that real change comes from the compound effect of hundreds of small decisions - doing two push-ups a day, waking up five minutes early, or holding a single shor...

The definitive guide to Java programming language best practices from Josh Bloch Each chapter of Effective Java, Third Edition, consists of several "items," each presented in the form of a short, stand-alone essay that provides specific advice, insight into Java platform subtleties, and code examples. The comprehensive descriptions and explanations for each item illuminate what to do, what not to do, and why. While coverage is through Java 9, this guidance covers core Java features every prog...

Bringing this best-selling textbook right up to date, the new edition uniquely integrates the theories and methods that drive the fields of biology, biotechnology and medicine, comprehensively covering both the techniques students will encounter in lab classes and those that underpin current key advances and discoveries. The contents have been updated to include both traditional and cutting-edge techniques most commonly used in current life science research. Emphasis is placed on understandin...