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Managing Customer Value

Creating Quality and Service That Customers Can See

By: Bradley Gale,Robert Chapman Wood

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Managing Customer Value

Creating Quality and Service That Customers Can See

By: Bradley Gale,Robert Chapman Wood

Argues that companies that offer what their customers consider superior quality products and services will be most successful, and provides advice on reaching that end

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Simon and Schuster

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0029110459

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9780029110454

Integrated Management Systems

A Practical Approach to Transforming Organizations

By: Thomas H. Lee,Shoji Shiba,Robert Chapman Wood

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Integrated Management Systems

A Practical Approach to Transforming Organizations

By: Thomas H. Lee,Shoji Shiba,Robert Chapman Wood

Dieses Buch entstand in Zusammenarbeit mit einigen der größten Konzerne, und zwar auf der Grundlage einer fünfjährigen Forschungsstudie, die vom Center for Quality Management finanziert wurde. Anhand von Beispielen aus 13 Organisationen - darunter Hewlett Packard, Eastman Chemical, Ritz Carlton und die U.S. Navy - demonstriert der Autor, wie diese Firmen ihr Ergebnis verbessert und nach einer drastischen Wende nachhaltige Rentabilität erreicht haben. Der Grund für diesen Erfolg liegt darin, daß sich die Unternehmen auf das Operations Management konzentriert haben sowie auf Planung und Durchführung von Veränderungen. Hier lernen Sie, mit welchen Verfahren und Techniken Sie Betriebsprozesse harmonisieren und integrieren können. (10/99)

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362

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471345954

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9780471345954

Flexible Regression and Smoothing

Using GAMLSS in R

By: Mikis D. Stasinopoulos,Robert A. Rigby,Gillian Z. Heller,Vlasios Voudouris,Fernanda De Bastiani

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Flexible Regression and Smoothing

Using GAMLSS in R

By: Mikis D. Stasinopoulos,Robert A. Rigby,Gillian Z. Heller,Vlasios Voudouris,Fernanda De Bastiani

This book is about learning from data using the Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS). GAMLSS extends the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to accommodate large complex datasets, which are increasingly prevalent. In particular, the GAMLSS statistical framework enables flexible regression and smoothing models to be fitted to the data. The GAMLSS model assumes that the response variable has any parametric (continuous, discrete or mixed) distribution which might be heavy- or light-tailed, and positively or negatively skewed. In addition, all the parameters of the distribution (location, scale, shape) can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables. Key Features: Provides a broad overview of flexible regression and smoothing techniques to learn from data whilst also focusing on the practical application of methodology using GAMLSS software in R. Includes a comprehensive collection of real data examples, which reflect the range of problems addressed by GAMLSS models and provide a practical illustration of the process of using flexible GAMLSS models for statistical learning. R code integrated into the text for ease of understanding and replication. Supplemented by a website with code, data and extra materials. This book aims to help readers understand how to learn from data encountered in many fields. It will be useful for practitioners and researchers who wish to understand and use the GAMLSS models to learn from data and also for students who wish to learn GAMLSS through practical examples.

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549

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CRC Press

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1351980386

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9781351980388

Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe

Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season

By: Robert C. Cottrell

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Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe

Baseball's Crucial 1920 Season

By: Robert C. Cottrell

Nineteen-twenty was a crucial year not just for the Chicago White Sox but for the game of baseball, in the aftermath of the 1919 World Series scandal. This work is both a collective biography of four individuals whose careers in baseball were forever altered in 1920 and an examination of the 1920 baseball season as a whole. It highlights four legendary personalities--Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the longtime commissioner of Major League Baseball; Babe Ruth, the great pitcher and slugger who changed the game forever; Buck Weaver, the true lone innocent among the Black Sox players who threw the 1919 World Series; and Rube Foster, the fine pitcher, imaginative manager, and great administrator of blackball who founded the Negro National League. Key events that affected the season and the history of baseball are discussed. Nineteen-twenty was the year that Ruth shattered his own home run record and began a hitting spree that brought in record numbers of fans to the ballparks. It was the year that Rube found a way for large numbers of African-Americans to play the game meaningfully, before loyal crowds, despite Jim Crow laws that kept them out of the majors and minors. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

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McFarland

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0786411643

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9780786411641

Forestry in the U.S. South

A History

By: Mason C. Carter,Robert C. Kellison,R. Scott Wallinger

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Forestry in the U.S. South

A History

By: Mason C. Carter,Robert C. Kellison,R. Scott Wallinger

During the second half of the twentieth century, the forest industry removed more than 300 billion cubic feet of timber from southern forests. Yet at the same time, partnerships between public and private entities improved the inventory, health, and productivity of this vast and resilient resource. A comprehensive and multilayered history, Forestry in the U.S. South explores the remarkable commercial and environmental gains made possible through the collaboration of industry, universities, and other agencies. This authoritative assessment starts by discussing the motives and practices of early lumber companies, which, having exhausted the forests of the Northeast by the turn of the twentieth century, aggressively began to harvest the virgin pine of the South, with production peaking by 1909. The rapidly declining supply of old-growth southern pine triggered a threat of timber famine and inspired efforts to regulate the industry. By mid-century, however, industrial forestry had its own profit incentive to replenish harvested timber. This set the stage for a unique alliance between public and private sectors, which conducted cooperative research on tree improvement, fertilization, seedling production, and other practices germane to sustainable forest management. By the close of the 1990s, concerns about an inadequate timber supply gave way to questions about how to utilize millions of acres of pine plantations approaching maturity. No longer concerned with the future supply of raw material and facing mounting global competition the U.S. pulp and paper industry consolidated, restructured, and sold nearly 20 million acres of forests to Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMOs) and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), resulting in an entirely new dynamic for private forestry in the South. Incomparable in scope, Forestry in the U.S. South spotlights the people and organizations responsible for empowering individual forest owners across the region, tripling the production of pine stands and bolstering the livelihoods of thousands of men and women across the South.

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407

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LSU Press

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0807160555

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9780807160558

Her Finest Hour: Shipbuilding in the Portland Area during World War II

By: Robert La Du

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Her Finest Hour: Shipbuilding in the Portland Area during World War II

By: Robert La Du

This work describes the monumental accomplishments of the World War II shipyards in Portland, Oregon, and Vancouver, Washington. Working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, they built and launched thousands of vessels—Liberty ships, Victory ships, tankers, aircraft carriers, submarine chasers, and many kinds of landing craft—to help defeat the Axis powers and preserve the way of life of the free world. Robert La Du viewed firsthand these activities from his home overlooking shipyards on the Willamette River. His father worked at Albina shipyard, his sister worked at Henry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard, and he himself, as a high school student, worked nights at Commercial Iron and Steel shipyard. These experiences inform and enhance the pages of Her Finest Hour.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1683488016

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Book's by Robert Chapman Wood

Managing Customer Value

Managing Customer Value

Integrated Management Systems

Integrated Management Systems

Flexible Regression and Smoothing

Flexible Regression and Smoothing

Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe

Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe

Forestry in the U.S. South

Forestry in the U.S. South

Her Finest Hour: Shipbuilding in the Portland Area during World War II

Her Finest Hour: Shipbuilding in the Portland Area during World War II

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