Product Description: In this classic article from January 1992, authors Robert Kaplan and David Norton proposed a way of measuring an organization's performance from several perspectives at once. During a year-long research project with 12 companies at the leading edge of performance management, the authors developed a "Balanced Scorecard," a new performance measurement system that gives top managers a fast but comprehensive view of their business...read more

This proceedings issue contains a collection of 11 papers presented during the 33rd International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, January, 2009. Papers in this proceedings were presented from one of the three symposia listed below: Symposium 6 - Key Materials and Technologies for Efficient Direct Thermal-to-Electrical Conversion; Symposium 11 - Symposium on Advanced Dielectrics, Piezoelectric, Ferroelectric, and Multiferroic Materials; Focused Session 2 - Materials for Solid State Lighting.

Product Description: In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area--not with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans...read more

Product Description: Book by Kaplan, Robert, Norton, David

Product Description: A collection of the best practices in organizational communication, this text outlines ways to create a new management system that puts strategy at the center of the company's most important operations.

Product Description: Presents a multidimensional approach to measuring corporate performance that includes both financial and nonfinancial factors.

Provides assistance to businesses in moving from ideas to action, achieving long-term goals, and obtaining feedback about strategy

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Product Description: The unique feature of laser beams to deliver intense light at a specific photon energy makes lasers useful and enabling in the processing of advanced materials. The availability of high-intensity laser sources over a wide spectral and temporal range has inspired advances in both the fundamental understanding of laser-solid interactions and the application of lasers in materials processing and characterization...read more