entrepreneurs in many small firms could not be experts in only one specific functional area but are required to operate across the range of management competencies; the applicability of competence-based mtd (management training and development) to the broader roles of entrepreneurs in small businesses is likely to be greater than to the roles of many entrepreneurs in large organizations. compet...

Entrepreneurs in many small firms could not be experts in only one specific functional area but are required to operate across the range of management competencies; the applicability of competence-based MTD (management training and development) to the broader roles of entrepreneurs in small businesses is likely to be greater than to the roles of many entrepreneurs in large organizations. Compet...

a Unidad de Epidemiología Clínica y Estadística Médica, Departamento de Ciencias Biomédicas, Universidad de Sassari, Unidad de Investigación, Formación Médica y Desarrollo Profesional, AOU Sassari, Sassari, Italy b Centro Colaborador con la OMS para la Tuberculosis y Trastornos Pulmonares, Fondazione S. Maugeri, Centro de Asistencia e Investigación, Tradate, Italy c IdISPa-FISIB, Hospital Unive...

Ambient Intelligence aims at pushing forward a user centric vision of Pervasive Computing, where the environment better serves our need. This paper describes our current work on modelling and managing context information for smart environments.

Section 2 presents a vision of cardiovascular health (CVH) that is achievable through a comprehensive public health strategy. Such a strategy will guide the needed action, from preventing heart disease and stroke among healthy people to treating and managing these conditions when prevention has failed. To develop the strategy, an action framework was developed that outlines the present reality,...

Executive Overview While we have learned a great deal about the necessity of strategic vision and effective leadership, we have overlooked the critical link between vision and the leader's ability to powerfully communicate its essence/In the future, leaders will not only have to be effective str(tiegists, but rhetoricians who can energize through the words they choose^he era of managing by dict...

Software development suffers from a lack of predictability with respect to cost, time, and quality. Predictability is one of the major concerns addressed by modern manufacturing execution systems (MESs). A MES does not actually execute themanufacturing (e.g., controlling equipment and producing goods), but rather collects, analyzes, integrates, and presents the data generated in industrial prod...

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