This is the purpose of Values Sell: Transforming Purpose into Profit Through Creative Sales and Distribution Strategies. Our goal is to share ideas and techniques that have proved successful for other small businesses and to provide you with strategies that will help you develop your own “creative game plan” for increasing sales and more efficiently distributing your product.
The goal of having computers automatically solve problems is central to artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the broad area encompassed by what Turing called “machine intelligence” (Turing, 1948). Machine learning pioneer Arthur Samuel, in his 1983 talk entitled “AI: Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going” (Samuel, 1983), stated that the main goal of the fields of machine l…
This book will show you how to: • Identify your Advocates by asking a single question, the Ultimate Question for customer loyalty. Yes, it really is that simple! • Energize your Advocates to recommend your brand and products plus drive sales. Advocacy isn’t a one-time event or marketing tactic. It’s a strategic and sustainable approach to building your brand and business. • Tra…
A network architecture is a blueprint of the complete computer communi- cation network, which provides a framework and technology foundation for designing, building and managing a communication network. It typically has a layered structure. Layering is a modern network design principle which divides the communication tasks into a number of smaller parts, each part accomplishing a particular sub…
We can view the concept of type in many ways.Perhapstheeasiestisthattypeprovidesaguarantee of operations on data, so that the expression 42 + "life" is meaningless. Be warned, though, that the safety net is not always 100% secure. From a compiler’s perspective, a type also supplies important optimization clues, so that data can be best aligned in memory to reduce waste, and improve efficiency…
This handbook provides the growing number of people who are developing networks for social change with practical advice based on the experiences of network builders, case studies of networks small and large, local and international, and emerging scientific knowledge about “connectivity. ” It is intended to join, complement, and spur other efforts to capture and make widely available what i…
Network security appears (at least to the author), in some respects, to have come full circle. Many of today’s so-called innovations in network security can in fact, at least in part, be traced back to having originally been implemented in one form or another in the decades-old Orange Book standards. Th e author, having worked with a firewall vendor that in the early 1990s had developed the f…
Eighty percent or more of major marine accidents are caused or influenced by humans and organizations. Research has identified characteristics of high reliability organizations (HRO), organizations which have had few accidents while involved in operations where failure would result in severe consequences. These characteristics have important effects on the safety of marine systems. Assessing …
Welcome to Information Systems for Business and Beyond. In this book, you will be introduced to the concept of information systems, their use in business, and the larger impact they are having on our world.