Bøger af Jim Anderson

As the world has become more and more digital, the importance of the role of a CIO within a firm has increased. No longer can CIOs be content to focus exclusively on technical topics. Instead, we now have to consider what the company's goals are and how technology can be used to help the company achieve those goals. What You'll Find Inside: GETTING & KEEPING IT TOP MANAGEMENT'S ATTENTION WHAT CIOS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 3 WAYS TO BRING BUSINESS AND IT TOGETHER IT VALUE: HOW TO MEASURE THE REVENUE OF IT In order for both a CIO and an IT department to be successful, they are going to have to have the attention of the company's upper management. Getting that attention and then holding on to it is the job of the CIO. If you can get the attention that you need, then you'll have a much better chance of being able to secure the funding that your IT department is going to need in order to implement its programs. Once you've been able to secure the funding that your department needs the hard work really begins. You are going to have to find ways to maximize the value that you'll be able to get out of the funding that has been allocated to you. One way to make this happen is to attempt to align what the IT department is doing with what the rest of the company is doing. Easy to say, hard to do. One of the daily jobs of any IT department is to work with the rest of the company in order to better understand how they go about doing their jobs. This knowledge can then be used to identify new products that the IT department can create in order to simplify tasks that the company has to perform. The tasks that an IT department performs at any given company are often quite similar. This means that the CIO would like to know what the industry best practices are. Traditionally, ITIL has been the standard definition of how to run an IT department. However, times are changing and now BDIM is starting to emerge on the scene. At the end of the day, a CIO is going to be evaluated based on how well he or she is able to bring the business and IT together. In order to determine how well you've been able to do this, you are going to have to get comfortable with how to measure the revenue value of your company's IT department.

The success of a product manager is judged by the success of their product. This of course leads to the question, what does it take to have a successful product? One of the most important things is how a product manager chooses to look at their market: do they take the short term view or the long term view? What's Inside: PRODUCT MANAGERS KNOW THAT EVERYBODY MUST BE GREEN WHAT A PASTRY STORE CAN TEACH PRODUCT MANAGERS PERFORMANCE BASED PRICING - IS IT RIGHT FOR PRODUCT MANAGERS IN TOUGH TIMES? NEW COKE: A PRODUCT MANAGER CAMPFIRE STORY One of the biggest decisions that modern product managers have to make these days is if they want their product to "go green". Becoming environmentally aware and perhaps modifying how your product is made or sold can be an expensive undertaking. However, if your customers are the type that are looking for products that won't harm the environment, then perhaps this is a step that you are going to have to investigate taking. No product manager has all of the answers. What this means for us is that we need to keep our eyes open and go looking for success stories that we can find. These successful products have a lesson to teach us if only we'd be willing to listen to them. No matter if we're looking at successful pastry shop or an online company in China, there are lessons for all of us here. One of the most difficult tasks associated with being a product manager is coming up with the right price for your product. There are a number of different ways to go about doing this and performance-based pricing is one of them. However, you're going to have to ask yourself if this is the right thing to do in tough times. Another approach to solving the pricing puzzle that some product managers take is to go cheap. This can have an impact on your product and how your customers view both your product and your company. If you choose to take this route, you'll need to move carefully. In the world of product mangers there are many stories that we tell amongst ourselves whenever product managers get together. One of the most famous of these stories is the tale of "New Coke". What should have been a big success turned into a massive failure and why this happened is important to all of us. For more information on what it takes to be a great product manager, check out my blog, The Accidental Product Manager, at: www.TheAccidentalPM.com

It turns out that most negotiations are over even before they begin. The team that has spent the most time planning for the negotiation, doing their homework, and collecting the data that they'll need is the one that's going to walk away from the table with the best deal and a sense of winning. Wouldn't you want that team to be your team? What You'll Find Inside: THE 7 DEADLY SINS OF PREPARING TO NEGOTIATE DEALS THAT MAKE MONEY: HOW TO PLAN YOUR CONCESSIONS CLOSE MORE DEALS: UNDERSTANDING BUYER POWER & WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT SINGLE VS TEAM NEGOTIATION: WHICH IS BETTER? Planning is what happens before a Coach or Scout sits down at the negotiating table. There are no negotiating tactics or tricks at play here. It's just a matter of you doing your homework. At the same time you hope that the other side is NOT doing their homework so that you'll show up at the negotiation more prepared then they are. Just committing to doing the planning that your next negotiation is going to require is not enough, you also have to know just exactly how to go about doing it - you have to run the plays that you've created. That's what this book is going to teach you. Every negotiation is different and so the planning that you'll have to do for each negotiation will be different also. The planning that is required for a successful negotiation takes on many different forms. These can include planning where and when the negotiations will be held, what concessions you'll be willing to make to the other side, and understanding who has what power in the negotiations. The end result of doing the planning that a negotiation requires is that when you sit down at the negotiating table, you'll have a sense of being prepared. You'll know what you need to know about the other side of the table, what their goals are, what their constraints are, and what they hope to be able to get out of the negotiations. This is exactly the type of knowledge that every person who lives in the world of sports is going to need in order to be able to reach the type of deal that will allow you to walk away from the table with a sense of having taken the field and won the game.

Every time we give a speech, we all want the same thing to happen. We want to change the world. However, in order to do that we are going to have to find ways to connect with our audience. The challenge that we are facing is that it turns out that this is not an easy thing to do. What You'll Find Inside: How Boys Can Talk To Girls (And Visa Versa) 10 Professional Speaking Tips That You Need To Know Counterstrike: How To Deal With Hecklers When Disaster Strikes: 3 Ways To Avoid A Crash While Speaking For one thing, our audience are not all made up of the same person. In fact, in just about every audience that you'll be presenting to there will be both boys and girls. What this means for you is that you are going to have to craft your speech to appeal to both of them. In order to give a really good speech, you are going to have to get creative. The good thing is that there are other speakers out there who do this speaking thing for a living. They are more than willing to share their best tips with us in order to help us become better. As speakers we need to understand that not every time that we give a speech will it be well received by all members of our audience. In fact. Some members of our audience may take it upon themselves to start to heckle us even as we speak. It then becomes our obligation to know how to respond when this happens. We're giving a speech for our entire audience, the actions of a one or a few members of that audience cannot be allowed to ruin our speech. In order to become better speakers we need to be looking for examples of how we can become better. Television shows such as American Idol can provide us with the insights that we are looking for. We need to keep in mind that during every speech that we give, we want to find a way to include our audience. What our audience thinks about us can be formed from the moment that we take the stage. This is why first impressions can be so important. During our speech, in order to keep our audience engaged in the speech we need to master the art of using hand gestures. Although we'd like to think that we are in control of how our speech goes, the reality is that disaster can strike at any time. We need to be prepared and ready to deal with it when it comes.

This book explains everything there is to know about making a fiberglass runabout into a showpiece for a fraction of the cost of a new model. Jim Anderson leads readers through the whole renovation process.

Who was it that said "It take a village..."? They may not have been talking about being a product manager, but they might as well have been. Life has become so complex that product managers can no longer make their product a success just by their own efforts. Today it takes the help of one or more partners to get your product to where it needs to be. Are you going to be ready to work with those partners? What You'll Find Inside: FORCE MAJEURE: WHAT IS IT AND WHY CARE?4 THINGS PRODUCT MANAGERS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BUYING ANOTHER COMPANYNETFLIX TEACHES PRODUCT MANAGERS A LESSONPARTNERSHIPS THAT DON'T WORK OUT FOR PRODUCT MANAGERSOne of the first things that product managers learn about working with partners is that we always need to have a signed contract with them. An often overlooked part of such contracts is the "force majeure" clause - product managers need to know what this really means. Product managers can learn by watching how other firms, such as Netflix, work with partners to become successful. Product managers need to decide if they are going to be willing to work with other firms. Yes, they will be giving up some control of their product. However, like Taylor Swift and her battles with partners, they may be gaining more control over the product's success in the end. What product managers need to realize is that not all partnerships will work out. Even at giant companies like Amazon, there will be partnerships that initially appear to be a good idea but which go bad. Learning how to use partners to tap into new markets, like India's Paytm mobile payment system has done, is the key to making your partnerships work out for you.

In an era in which sexual sin is destroying marriages and families, toppling government leaders, causing rampant STDs among a generation, ravaging entire nations through AIDS¿Unmasked is a book with revelation about God¿s gift of sexuality, the heart of a woman, the true role of a man, God¿s true design for men and women, a father¿s role in protecting his daughters and training his sons, the worship of sex that has saturated the nations of the earth, and the church's mandate in a culture that worships sex. Today the most searched theme or topic in Christian websites is sex. Multiple generations are searching for answers to the confusion that surrounds sexuality, relationships, morality and marriage both in and outside the church. Unmasked presents a prophetic panorama of our sexually broken and death-dominated present-day culture. It exposes the ravenous wolves of Americäs sex culture that seek to destroy a generation of young women and men. It is a manual for fathers and leaders not content with a casual and peaceful co-existence with the cultural moral direction that is ravaging sons and daughters of every nation. Unmasked has insights that offer¿ Release to women as they recognize the lies of the culture that have affected them. A challenge to men and fathers to rise up and recognize the war that is being waged against their mothers, daughters, sisters and wives and take their place as protectors instead of predators. A call to pastors and leaders to identify, confront and tear down the false ideologies that allow the worship of sex to continue, and create a culture in the church to heal and restore and train God¿s people in purity and his ways in relationships.

En una era en la cual el pecado sexual está destruyendo matrimonios y familias, causando enfermedades de transmisión sexual desenfrenadamente en esta generación, Sin Máscara es un libro con revelación que podría cambiar nuestra misma cultura.

Chipman''s African Adventure by Jim Anderson is a psycho adventure - a blackly comic tale set in the imagined country of Bomzawe in West Africa in 1972.. It also contains a tender gay love story. Though essentially satirical, some people may find the ribald sexuality confronting. Chipman Smith is still in the closet when he arrives at the Hornbill Palace Hotel at Tlula Leisure Beach , but he is well and truly out of it by the time he leaves. Or is he? Mr. Smith will never be the same again, and neither will you, after reading Chipman''s African Adventure.This blackly comic tale, set in an imagined West African country, balances throughout on the edge of laughter. Crescendos of absurdity and high camp drama supplant and transcend each other with accelerating speed. Fledgling lawyer Chipman longs for true love. Will he find it with Zach Shaler, the Nebraskan cowboy with Peace Corps dreams, with Drift, the mamba snake catcher, even though Drift is seriously obsessed with Toffee, his intoxicatingly beautiful girlfriend, or with neither?Chipman hopes he has nothing but a drinking problem when he arrives from Sydney. To his horror he finds himself dragged into the bizarre re-birthing rituals of Dr Starry Sanguini, a drug-crazed Australian psychotherapist with a shady past. These rituals rapidly metamorphose into psychedelic theatrical extravaganza. Chipman emerges in one piece, but is he more clear sighted than before or just a slave to Sanguini as guru and ringmaster? Chipman is a benighted but endearing hero, confronted by many moral and ethical dilemmas. His naivety and goodwill are offset by a shrewdness of intellect and an ability not only to observe but to participate in the beauty, brutality and seething sexual shenanigans of his seedy post-colonial environment. The satire is savage and so is the civil war which inevitably comes, but there is an unexpected and underlying tenderness shown in Chipman''s dealings with Sanguini''s troupe of international outlaws and generational refugees. It would be easy for a psycho adventure like this to fall into caricature. Instead, the protagonists have a depth of characterisation which makes it all touchingly down to earth and real. Not everyone escapes alive, sane or uncompromised from Tlula Leisure Beach. You will never guess the end.

Suitable for those who own a cherished but dilapidated fiberglass runabout, or for those who want a boat but are turned off by the high prices and often poor quality of today's offerings, this book explains everything to know about turning a rundown runabout into a real showpiece for a fraction of the cost of a new model.