Phil Simon: 16 books
Too Big to Ignore
The Business Case for Big Data
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Residents in Boston, Massachusetts are automatically reporting potholes and road hazards via their smartphones. Progressive Insurance tracks real-time customer driving patterns and uses that information to offer rates truly commensurate with individual safety. Google accurately predicts local flu...
The Visual Organization
Data Visualization, Big Data, and the Quest for Better Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The era of Big Data as arrived, and most organizations are woefully unprepared. Slowly, many are discovering that stalwarts like Excel spreadsheets, KPIs, standard reports, and even traditional business intelligence tools aren't sufficient. These old standbys can't begin to handle today's increasing...
Analytics
The Agile Way
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
For years, organizations have struggled to make sense out of their data. IT projects designed to provide employees with dashboards, KPIs, and business-intelligence tools often take a year or more to reach the finish line...if they get there at all.
This has always been a problem. Today, though,...
The Age of the Platform
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2011
Buoyed by the success of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, thousands of companies of all sizes are fundamentally rethinking how they do business. They are creating vibrant ecosystems and, in the process, reaping big rewards. In the tradition of The Long Tail, The Age of the Platform demonstrates how...
The New Small
How a New Breed of Small Businesses Is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2010
A small seafood restaurant attracts new customers with virtually no marketing budget. An iPad case manufacturer generates more than $1M in revenue in four months with only four employees. A voiceover company is able to connect thousands of artists with opportunities, all without expensive hardware...
The Next Wave of Technologies
Opportunities in Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2010
Your all-inclusive guide to all the latest technologies
Providing you with a better understanding of the latest technologies, including Cloud Computing, Software as a Service, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source, Mobile Computing, Social Networking, and Business Intelligence, The...
Message Not Received
Why Business Communication Is Broken and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Get your message across the right way with clear communication
Message Not Received provides the tools and techniques that make an effective writer and public speaker. Particularly on topics related to data and technology, effective communication can present a challenge in business settings....
by Rick Sanders, Jeffrey Belanger, Barbara Cohea
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Grab a cuppa and enjoy the ride on the short road to big fiction.
***This multi-genre anthology features over 40 flash-fiction pieces by 17 authors, who are as diverse as these exceptional stories. ***Consider this anthology a chocolate sampler filled with “verve-alicious” bite-sized reads,...
A Medieval Manor House Rediscovered
Excavations at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset by Simon Flaherty, Phil Andrews and Matt Leivers
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Excavations in advance of housing development at Longforth Farm, Wellington revealed limited evidence for late prehistoric settlement, but the principal discovery was the remains of a previously unknown high status medieval building complex. This is thought to have been a manor house and though heavily...
Technology Tools for Students With Autism
Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate...
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry
Localising Oil and Gas Operations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: Localising Oil and Gas Operations, Volume Four in the Getenergy series will set out the case for localising the oil and gas operations within hydrocarbon-producing countries. The focus of this final Volume in the series will be to explore the value...
Education and Training for the Oil and Gas Industry: The Evolution of Four Energy Nations
Mexico, Nigeria, Brazil, and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
The third book in the Getenergy Guides series, The Evolution of Four Energy Nations considers how four very different countries have evolved as oil and gas-producing nations and how the interventions of government, industry and the education and training sector have addressed workforce and skills...
by Phil Vickery, Simon Boddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
This celebration of all that is great about pork showcases its fantastic versatility. Chapters cover Shoulder & Ribs, Belly, Loin & Fillet, Ham, Bacon, Sausages and Oddbits (offal), and cover the recipes and techniques needed to make everything from Dry-cured Ham, Chorizo and Salami to Smoked...
Psychiatry in Prisons
A Comprehensive Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Psychiatry in Prisons provides a comprehensive overview of the history, problems and development of psychiatric health care in prisons, focusing particularly on the UK. The contributors tackle a broad range of issues, from familiar mental health issues such as substance misuse, self-injury and health...
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