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The ability to find and remove barriers between people and their systems in R&D can almost guarantee a doubling in performance, and often delivers multiples of that. R&D teams that have smooth handoffs deliver 100 percent of the required knowledge at those handoffs. As a result, such teams do not lose critical information, have unexpected knowledge gaps appear in their projects, or have uncoordinated knowledge transfers that waste minutes, days, and even months every year.

Creating a Lean R&D System: Lean Principles and Approaches for Pharmaceutical and Research-Based Organizations lays out the logic of why Lean implementation isn’t strictly for manufacturing and describes why it can be just as effective in R&D organizations. Terence Barnhart, former senior director of continuous improvement at Pfizer R&D, describes the theoretical and physical underpinnings of creating a Lean transformation in any R&D organization, as exemplified by the Lean transformation initiated within the R&D division of a global pharmaceutical company.

Describing how to merge Lean principles with the cultural virtues inherent in R&D, the book presents Lean approaches that can be easily applied in pharmaceutical and research-based organizations. It takes a strategic approach to solving two problems unique to the Lean field. The first is in noting the key distinctions between R&D and manufacturing, and developing a Lean approach specific to the R&D environment. The second is that it proposes a systematic middle-out (merger/maneuver) strategy to help you initiate and sustain a Lean culture within your pharmaceutical R&D organization that will help you immediately engage all stakeholders involved.

When you master Joomla! programming, you can customize websites in ways that simply aren’t possible by tweaking parameters or installing someone else’s extensions. Now, there’s an authoritative, “soup-to-nuts” programming guide for every Joomla! user: from beginners with no Joomla! development experience to long-time coders seeking a quick start with Joomla!’s powerful new versions, 1.6, 1.7, and 2.5.

 

Joomla!â„¢ Programming presents proven best practices for getting the job done right. Written by Mark Dexter and Joomla! design architect Louis Landry (who wrote much of the new Joomla! framework), the text is packed with detailed examples and sample code, in-depth reference-style explanations available nowhere else, and fascinating sidebars revealing why Joomla! works the way it does.

 

Both a tutorial and reference, this title brings together step-by-step instructions for everything from simple tasks (such as template overrides) to cutting-edge techniques involving components, MVC, and the Joomla! framework. You’ll learn how to 

• View Joomla! from a programmer’s perspective
• Extend Joomla! with layout overrides, plugins, and modules
• Take full advantage of Joomla!’s improved new MVC implementation
• Build front-end and back-end components, from start to finish
• Secure your websites with Joomla!’s powerful, flexible new Access Control Lists
• Work with databases and use the new JDatabaseQuery to write complex queries
• Program Joomla! with JavaScript via the lightweight MooTools framework
• Develop custom category structures for your own websites and extensions
• Enable one-click updates for your own custom extensions
• Use the Joomla! platform as an application framework 

All example code, updates, and more information on Joomla! programming are available at the companion website, joomlaprogrammingbook.com.

• Recognizing how microservices architectures are different, and when they make sense
• Understanding Docker containers in the context of microservices architectures
• Building, pulling, and layering Docker images
• Working with Docker volumes, containers, images, tags, and logs
• Using Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, and Docker Networks
• Creating Docker hosts using the Azure portal, Azure Resource Manager, the command line, docker-machine, or locally via Docker toolbox
• Establishing development and DevOps environments to support microservices applications
• Making the most of Docker’s continuous delivery options
• Using Azure’s cluster and container orchestration capabilities to operate and scale containerized microservices applications with maximum resilience
• Monitoring microservices applications with Azure Diagnostics, Visual Studio Application Insights, and Microsoft Operations Management Suite
• Developing microservices applications faster and more effectively with Azure Service Fabric
• An extensive sample application demonstrating the microservices concepts discussed throughout the book is available online
  

 

Author Experience focuses on the value of managing the communication process effectively and efficiently. It deals with this process from the point of view of those who create and manage content.

This book defines author experience, outlines the challenges that stand in the way of a good author experience, and provides a set of design patterns that will help you define and implement an author experience that improves content quality and author efficiency.

About the Author

Rick Yagodich has experience with most aspects of web technology, from front-end design to back-end development. His consultancy, Excolo, has served clients in industries ranging from financial services to retail to business services to communications.

Sitecore was recently recognized as one of the most reputable/reliable web content management solutions (WCMS) in the marketplace. Thousands of companies use Sitecore to help manage their web and mobile digital properties. Sitecore is a very large, complex platform that performs many robust functions and capabilities.

As such, marketers and end users often have a hard time coming up to speed on the technology. Practical Sitecore 8 Configuration and Strategy: A User Guide for Sitecore's Content and Marketing Capabilities provides that opportunity. The flow of the book will take newbies step-by-step on how to configure Sitecore content, personalization, and marketing automation capabilities. Sprinkled in through the book will be callouts that highlight strategies and best practices―taking the book beyond just the “how to” step-by-step procedures that can be found elsewhere. Practical Sitecore 8 Configuration and Strategy:

• Brings you up to speed on Sitecore without requiring a training class.
  
• Provides the information in a clear, logical outline that takes users from simple, foundational concepts to more advanced concepts at the end.
  
• Rounds out existing sources of documentation with strategies and best practices from real-world experience.

• How to manage content in Sitecore
  
• How to create web forms and landing pages
• How to optimize the site through personalization and A/B/N testing
• How to use Sitecore for your marketing campaigns
  
• How to leverage analytics for custom measurement/engagement strategies
  
• How to create a robust governance plan for your Sitecore properties
  

The key target audience for this book are content administrators (content authoring, forms development, etc.) and digital marketers (campaigns, analytics, marketing automation, experience optimization, etc.) using the Sitecore platform.       

Today, everything is marketing. All of the content we produce affects the customer experience. Therefore, all content is marketing and all content producers are marketers.

Intelligent Content: A Primer introduces intelligent content: how it works, the benefits, the objectives, the challenges, and how to get started. Anyone who wants to understand intelligent content will get a clear introduction along with case studies and all the reference information you could ask for to make the case for intelligent content with your management.

Intelligent Content: A Primer is written by three leaders in content strategy and content marketing. Ann Rockley is widely recognized as the mother of content strategy. Charles Cooper, co-author with Ann Rockley of Managing Enterprise Content, has been been involved in creating and testing digital content for more than 20 years. And Scott Abel, known as The Content Wrangler, is an internationally recognized global content strategist. Together, they have created the definitive introduction to intelligent content.

This book collects ECM research from the academic discipline of Information Systems and related fields to support academics and practitioners who are interested in understanding the design, use and impact of ECM systems. It also provides a valuable resource for students and lecturers in the field.

“Enterprise content management in Information Systems research – Foundations, methods and cases” consolidates our current knowledge on how today’s organizations can manage their digital information assets. The business challenges related to organizational information management include reducing search times, maintaining information quality, and complying with reporting obligations and standards. Many of these challenges are well-known in information management, but because of the vast quantities of information being generated today, they are more difficult to deal with than ever.

This sentence is something you might hear again and again from people who make their living building websites. Do not waste your hard-earned money on such offers!

Do you repeatedly hear horror stories from competitors who spent thousands of dollars on a website and need to dish out another hundred for every small change?

Don't listen to these so-called internet specialists. Starting with just ten dollars per month for good web hosting, you can create your very own website all by yourself. All the necessary tools—like the WordPress software described in this book—are available for free. All you need are a computer and access to the internet.

The topics covered in this book are:

- Hosting your website

- Installing the WordPress software

- Security information

- The layout of your site (WordPress themes)

- The extra functions that you can add (WordPress plugins)

- How to operate your site on a daily basis

- How to create and customize new pages

- How to create and design new posts (e.g. News)

- Basic settings

Hosting? Websites? Is it all Greek to you?

Don't worry! This book for beginners meets you where you’re, at your current level of knowledge, and leads you toward being an internet professional. This is not a small step. It is a crucial step because once you start to acquire some hands-on experience, you will succeed with your website very fast.

Read how you can set up and design your website with just a little time and personal engagement, and without spending an arm and a leg for software and service providers. Creating a page is no harder than writing an email, and you will see how it works in this book.

This is the first book in a series that will show you how to build the optimal internet presence for your business. For each industry and profession, you can get specialized modules (plugins) and pre-designed layouts (themes), which can either be purchased for very little money or downloaded for free. Where to find these themes and plugins, will be explained in detail later in this book series.

This first volume of "WordPress Step-by-Step" teaches you the first steps that you need to take to transform yourself from beginner to webmaster.

The Author

Marian Heddesheimer has worked as a programmer and IT-trainer since 1988.

In 2010 he became a freelance web developer, and specializes in programming, design, and modification of WordPress sites for international clients all over the world.

He is available for hire through job platforms like UpWork and Codeable.