1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00389564

Autore

SIMENON, Georges

Titolo

14.: Oeuvre romanesque : La prison ; Maigret hésite ; La main ; L'ami d'enfance de Maigret ; Il y a encore des noisetiers ; Novembre ; Maigret et le tueur ; Maigret et le marchand de vin / Georges Simenon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Presses de la Cité, 1991

ISBN

22-580-3304-7

Descrizione fisica

887 p. ; 20 cm.

Disciplina

B843

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814072903321

Autore

Hugos Michael H

Titolo

Business in the cloud : what every business needs to know about cloud computing / / Michael H. Hugos, Derek Hulitzky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Wiley, 2011

ISBN

9786612859892

9780470917046

0470917040

9781119200253

1119200253

9781282859890

1282859897

9780470917022

0470917024

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HulitzkyDerek <1961->

Disciplina

004.3/6

Soggetti

Electronic commerce

Cloud computing

Web services

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Business in the Cloud: WHAT EVERY BUSINESS NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT CLOUD COMPUTING; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: The Evolution and Future of Corporate Business Structures; Chapter 2: The New Economics of Business; Chapter 3: Key Technologies Used in Cloud Computing; Chapter 4: Data Security and Service Reliability; Chapter 5: Moving to the Cloud: When and Where; Chapter 6: The Transition from Managing Technology to Managing Business Processes; Chapter 7: The New Role of Information Technology; Chapter 8: Five Profit Enablers Driving Business to the Cloud

Chapter 9: The Business Impact of Cloud ComputingChapter 10: Global Implications of the Cloud; About the Authors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"A close look at cloud computing's transformational role in business Covering cloud computing from what the business leader needs to know, this book describes how IT can nimbly ramp up revenue initiatives, positively impact business operations and costs, and how this allows business leaders to shed worry about technology so they can focus on their business. It also reveals the cloud's effect on corporate organization structures, the evolution of traditional IT in the global economy, potential benefits and risks of cloud models and most importantly, how the IT function is being rethought by companies today who are making room for the coming tidal wave that is cloud computing. Why IT and business thinking must change to capture the full potential of cloud computing. Topics including emerging cloud solutions, data security, service reliability, the new role of IT and new business organization structures. Other titles by Hugos include: Business Agility: Sustainable Prosperity in a Relentlessly Competitive World and Essentials of Supply Chain Management, 2nd Edition. Practical and timely, this book reveals why it's worth every company's time and effort to exploit cloud computing's potential for their business's survival and success."--



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968324303321

Autore

Grindle Merilee <1945->

Titolo

Jobs for the boys : patronage and the state in comparative perspective / / Merilee S. Grindle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012

ISBN

9780674070035

0674070038

9780674065185

0674065182

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

324.2/04

Soggetti

Civil service

Public officers - Selection and appointment

Patronage, Political

Civil service reform

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Weber's ghost -- A system for all seasons -- Politics in the construction of reform -- Apres reform: deconstruction and reconstruction -- Latin America: patterns of patronage and politics -- Roots and branches -- Crafting reform: elite projects and political moments -- Ambiguous futures: the politics of implementation -- Conclusion: the politics of institutional creation and re-creation.

Sommario/riassunto

Patronage systems in the public service are universally reviled as undemocratic and corrupt. Yet patronage was the prevailing method of staffing government for centuries, and in some countries it still is. In Jobs for the Boys, Merilee Grindle considers why patronage has been so ubiquitous in history and explores the political processes through which it is replaced by merit-based civil service systems. Such reforms are consistently resisted, she finds, because patronage systems, though capricious, offer political executives flexibility to achieve a wide variety of objectives. Grindle looks at the histories of public sector reform in six developed countries and compares them with contemporary struggles for reform in four Latin American countries. A historical,



case-based approach allows her to take into account contextual differences between countries as well as to identify cycles that govern reform across the board. As a rule, she finds, transition to merit-based systems involves years and sometimes decades of conflict and compromise with supporters of patronage, as new systems of public service are politically constructed. Becoming aware of the limitations of public sector reform, Grindle hopes, will temper expectations for institutional change now being undertaken.