Bøger af Michael Brackett

A cute little girl rabbit named Pixie, who first introduced Bunny and Hare, decide to collect tales about Bunny and Hare, so that other animal can remember them. She doesn't know all the tales about Bunny and Hare, and decides to collect as many additional tales as she can from all the animals that knew Bunny and Hare. Since winter is fast approaching, Pixie needs to start collecting the tales right away. Pixie makes a list of animals she knows, and travels up and down East Trail, West Trail, and Ocean Trail collecting all the animals on her list. She asks them to collect their tales about Bunny and Hare, and the tales from other animals that they know, and bring the tales to her by spring. When the tales start coming back to her, she realizes she did not know very much about Bunny and Hare. Thus begins The Tales of Bunny and Hare as remembered by all of their animal friends.

When the Four Adventurers venture into the North Mountains, strange things happen they can't explain. They hear voices, see things move, get bumped in the right direction, and get help they don't expect. These strange happenings continue with the Young Adventurers during their activities in the West Mountains, with the Wilderness Explorers on their venture in the Wicked Mountains, and with the Wilderness Explorers during their effort to save the Forlorn Rabbits. The strange happenings continue with Logan and Fraley on their journey out of the Wicked Mountains, and with the Rabbits Four on their sailing trip north on Big Water and their venture to the Dreadful Land east of Snow Cap Mountain.The Spirits of Bunny and Hare explains how Bunny's spirit watches over Hare as he gets older, and how the spirits of Bunny and Hare watch over and help other animals. But, the spirits of Bunny and Hare also encounter strange happenings they can't explain.

The Young Adventurers--Justin, Heather, Trevor, and Arlene--decide they want a bigger venture, like Morgan and Tidbit had on their Venture North. They hike to Great Ridge and look at the rugged mountains to the north where Hare never travelled, and decide to go on a venture into those mountains. They call themselves the Wilderness Explorers and plan to leave in the spring. Their venture begins hiking over endless ridges and across valleys, without trails, with little food to forage, and no animals to meet. They finally see several animals that tell them to turn back and not go any farther north. However, they decide to keep going and are threatened by wolves. They find young rabbits that won't survive the winter and decide to turn back with the rabbits. They face many problems and near disasters trying to get themselves and the rabbits out of the Wicked Mountains and back to the West Mountains.

Morgan and Tidbit live in Notch Valley in the North Peaks. They enjoy a quiet life with other Weebitty Bears, but long for a new adventure. While hiking one summer day in the North Peaks, they decide to venture north and explore country where they have never been, and where Hare has never been. Korbin and Vernese join them on their venture. The four Weebitty Bears call themselves The Four Adventurers. The four adventurers plan their venture and practice their skills through the fall and winter, and leave in the spring. Their venture takes them deep into rugged mountains. The few animals they see warn that a bad winter is coming, with bitter cold and deep snow. They find shelter and prepare for winter, but the winter is far worse than they expected. They are alone and struggle to survive the winter and near disasters.

The Datamatic Cycle follows five professionals through their discussions at an international conference. The discussions begin with horror stories and basic problems about traditional data management. The discussions evolve through observation of the business environment where an organization operates, development of a Datamatic Cycle, supported by laws and rules, to development of a data resource that suppo0rts the organization's business activities. The Datamatic Cycle promotes formal data resource management that manages data as a critical resource. Thee book begins a series of speculative business fiction books. Like science fiction, business fiction is based on existing business fact, and presents scenarios that are speculative business fiction today, but will ultimately become established business fact.

A beautiful and intelligent little girl rabbit named Bunny, and a rugged but compassionate boy hare named Hare, go hiking together after being introduced by a mutual friend. From that point on, their exciting adventures begin, in the mountains, on the prairie, and at the ocean. The stores in The Adventures of Bunny and Hare describe their different experiences and the joy of sharing those experiences. Bunny and Hare make many animal friends during their journeys. They help other animals with their problems, and other animals help Bunny and Hare. Together, they face problems that arise and resolve them by working together. Each story has a message about the good and bad things in life, and evolve through ever more challenging situations to a surprise ending.

After returning from their grueling venture north, Morgan and Tidbit decide to leave Notch Valley in the East Mountains and return to Huckleberry Ridge in the West Mountains where they were raised. Four young Weebitty Bears from Notch Valley ask if they can go with Morgan and Tidbit to find new adventurers. Morgan and Tidbit agree. The young bears--Justin, Heather, Trevor, and Arlene--are excited and call themselves The Young Adventurers. All six bears pack their belongings and hike to Huckleberry Ridge. Morgan and Tidbit stay in Hare's Lair, and help the Young Adventurers find dens. The Young Adventurers learn many things from Morgan and Tidbit, and from their own adventurers. They have successes, failures, and disagreements. They have happy times and sad times. But they always pull together to help each other through their problems. They learn how to survive and enjoy the rugged West Mountains.

The Businessmatic Architecture follows six professionals through their discussions at an international conference. The discussions include interrogatives, and frameworks, business agility, business culture, and development of a business architecture that is persistent and enduring. That business architecture provides a single unified symmetry for understanding and operating an organization's business. It includes a general symmetry applicable to all organizations and a unique symmetry applicable to a single organization. An infinite number of perspectives of that symmetry can be provided based on individual needs. The book is third in a series of speculative business fiction books. Like The Datamatic Cycle and The Processmatic Cycle, the book is based on existing fact, and presents scenarios that are speculative business fiction today, but will ultimately become business fact.

The Processmatic Cycle follows five professionals through their online discussions about improving business process management. The discussions begin by identifying basic problems with traditional business process management, and the basic needs to resolve those problems. The discussions evolve to development of a Processmatic Cycle, with supporting laws and rules, for building a process resource to support an organization's business activities. The Processmatic Cycle emphasizes the formal management of an organization's business processes as a critical resource. The book is the second in a series of speculative business fiction books. Like The Datamatic Cycle, the book is based on existing business fact, and presents scenarios that are speculative business fiction today, but will ultimately become established business fact.

Do you fully understand your business? Do you fully understand the competition in the business niche where you operate? Do you fully understand the dynamic nature of society today, with the current pandemic, raging wildfires, violent storms, changing economy and politics, and climate change? Is your business operation as effective and efficient as it could be? Is your business agile enough to adapt to constant change, be successful, and survive?Most public and private sector organizations are not. They face a huge and increasing disparity in the understanding and operation of their business. That disparity results in decreased business understanding, increased uncertainty, decreased agility, and the increased possibility of less-than-successful business operation. Many organizations are going out of business, or suffering limited business because of that disparity.An organization's business understanding and operation is contained in its data resource and processes resources. However, those two resources are typically managed separately, by a variety of different organization units, outside of any formal processes managing those resources. The result is the rampant disparity seen today.Business Understanding and Agility takes a fresh look at how an organization can achieve and maintain a thorough business understanding, remain agile, and be successful. The integrated management of all data and processes, within a single organization-wide data architecture and a single organization-wide processes architecture, provides a base for thorough business understanding, agility, and success. Formally managing data and processes as a critical resource of the organization is the only way an organization can thoroughly understand its business, remain agile, and be successful.The book presents a new paradigm with an overarching architecture construct and an underlying foundation for business understanding and agility. The paradigm consists of data and processes resource management supported by a data and processes resource culture. The paradigm emphasizes computer support of routine tasks, leaving the real hard-thinking, decision-making tasks to people.Mr. Brackett brings together the knowledge and experience from his long professional venture into a capstone book about the formal management of a combined data and processes resource as the critical resource of an organization.

Are you struggling with the formal design of your organisation''s data resource? Do you find yourself forced into generic data architectures and universal data models? Do you find yourself warping the business to fit a purchased application? Do you find yourself pushed into developing physical databases without formal logical design? Do you find disparate data throughout the organisation? If the answer to any of these questions is Yes, then you need to read Data Resource Design to help guide you through a formal design process that produces a high quality data resource within a single common data architecture. Most public and private sector organisations do not consistently follow a formal data resource design process that begins with the organisation''s perception of the business world, proceeds through logical data design, through physical data design, and into implementation. Most organisations charge ahead with physical database implementation, physical package implementation, and other brute-force-physical approaches. The result is a data resource that becomes disparate and does not fully support the organisation in its business endeavours. This book describes how to formally design an organisation''s data resource to meet its current and future business information demand. It builds on "Data Resource Simplexity", which described how to stop the burgeoning data disparity, and on "Data Resource Integration", which described how to understand and resolve an organisation''s disparate data resource. It describes the concepts, principles, and techniques for building a high quality data resource based on an organisation''s perception of the business world in which they operate. Like "Data Resource Simplexity" and "Data Resource Integration", Michael Brackett draws on five decades of data management experience building and managing data resources, and resolving disparate data in both public and private sector organisations. He leverages theories, concepts, principles, and techniques from a wide variety of disciplines, such as human dynamics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy, and biology, and applies them to properly designing data as a critical resource of an organisation. He shows how to understand the business environment where an organisation operates and design a data resource that supports the organisation in that business environment.