By analyzing functions such as marketing, production, operations, and finance, Business Policy and Strategy: The Art of Competition demonstrates how to formulate, implement, and evaluate corporate strategy. This new edition reviews basic and alternative strategy policies and illustrates concepts through a case study. Merging operational tactics with strategy, the book blends theory with practicality to define the business environment, resulting in a text that provides students with the necessary background for making strategic decisions.
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Jorge Luis Borges siempre señaló las bases autobiográficas de sus escritos, y afirmó incluso que la fantasía era «un modo de confesión». Basada en fuentes inéditas, esta biografía definitiva, de Edwin Williamson, desvela los misterios que aún rodean la vida de Borges, y relaciona esta nueva información con sus textos literarios, transformando radicalmente las maneras establecidas de considerar al maestro contemporáneo.
Borges aparece aquí como un hombre de emociones turbulentas, apasionadamente enamorado. Williamson descubre los episodios hasta ahora desconocidos que lo condujeron al borde del suicidio y lo cambiaron como escritor, hecho que se manifiesta en muchas de las más famosas páginas de su madurez creativa, y analiza también sus ideas políticas: el apoyo a las juntas militares argentinas de los años setenta y el pacifismo del final de su vida.
«Asombrosamente intensa y original. Lleva al lector un paso más allá a la hora de entender al maestro argentino y su compleja relación con la vida» (Harold Bloom).
«Una biografía de Borges, amena y rigurosa, por uno de los mejores críticos de literatura latinoamericana», (Mario Vargas Llosa).
«Lejos de reducir su talla como hombre de letras, esta biografía transmite la sensación de un triunfo final» (Edgardo Cozarinsky, "The Spectator").
«Una biografía de primer orden en todos los aspectos» (Christopher Hitchens, "The Atlantic"),

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Make the most of completely revamped administration tools in WebSphere Version 5

IBM WebSphere Version 5 offers a completely rewritten, radically improved infrastructure for administering servers and applications. Now, its creators have written the definitive WebSphere Version 5 administration reference and tutorial: everything you need to manage WebSphere to the highest levels of performance and efficiency.

The authors systematically cover all four WebSphere administration toolsets: command-line utilities, the new Administrative Console, scripting tools, and Java management APIs. You’ll find a complete library of code examples, plus powerful new insider’s tips for maximizing your productivity as a WebSphere administrator.

Whether you’re managing WebSphere Version 5 or incorporating administrative support into new WebSphere applications, this book provides you with the techniques, examples, and tips you need to do it right.

• Fundamentals of WebSphere administration: servers, nodes, node agents, cells, clusters, and the deployment manager
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• Using Java administrative APIs to manage WebSphere applications from other products
• Sum Includes extensive code examples, real-world scenarios, and best practices

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Developing Spatial Data Infrastructures: from Concept to Reality provides an overview of SDI policies, concepts, and standards and practices associated with the design, implementation, and operation of an SDI. It identifies key factors, such as socio-political, economic, and cultural issues that influence the success of SDI initiatives and introduces the concept of an SDI hierarchy based on hierarchical spatial reasoning. It builds on an International Symposium on Spatial Data Infrastructure held in Melbourne by presenting a series of alternative long-term visions and identifying many of the forces for change. Both professionals and students will find this book useful.
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The definitive guide to designing and deploying Cisco IP multicast networks

• Clear explanations of the concepts and underlying mechanisms of IP multicasting, from the fundamentals to advanced design techniques
• Concepts and techniques are reinforced through real-world network examples, each clearly illustrated in a step-by-step manner with detailed drawings
• Detailed coverage of PIM State Rules that govern Cisco router behavior
• In-depth information on IP multicast addressing, distribution trees, and multicast routing protocols
• Discussions of the common multimedia applications and how to deploy them

Developing IP Multicast Networks, Volume I, covers an area of networking that is rapidly being deployed in many enterprise and service provider networks to support applications such as audio and videoconferencing, distance learning, and data replication. The concepts used in IP multicasting are unlike any other network protocol, making this book a critical tool for networking professionals who are implementing this technology.

This book provides a solid foundation of basic IP multicast concepts, as well as the information needed to actually design and deploy IP multicast networks. Using examples of common network topologies, author Beau Williamson discusses the issues that network engineers face when trying to manage traffic flow. Developing IP Multicast Networks, Volume I, includes an in-depth discussion of the PIM protocol used in Cisco routers and detailed coverage of the rules that control the creation and maintenance of Cisco mroute state entries. The result is a comprehensive guide to the development and deployment of IP multicast networks using Cisco routers and switches.