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Preparing for Progress
Whether it’s public or private sector, strategic and policy decisions are the nuts and bolts of creating direction and making progress. Such decisions must be clear, tangible and detailed enough to focus, accelerate and smooth out subsequent levels of operational decision-making. This book provides a profound analysis of the qualities which should characterise strategic and policy decision processes. It also explains why these processes sometimes don’t deliver as expected. This enlightening, thought-provoking work will take you beyond process models based on boxes and arrows, and enable you to design workflows centred on creativity and learning. The author illustrates numerous real-life ...
A Child's Christmas in Sweden and Other Memories
At age twenty-three, Goran Bixo emigrated to northern Minnesota, armed with an engineering degree from Katrineholm. His young sister, Ruth, in a memoir, remembers him and their grandfather, "Iorn Anners" (Iron Andersson), for songs and stories at Christmastime. As a child, Goran survived rheumatic fever. He almost died of Spanish flu in 1918. By day in Duluth, he repaired tracks for the streetcar company. By night, he studied English and citizenship at Denfeld High School. He was popular as a vocalist, having been taught by his father, Bengt Bixo, the "Violin King of Morsil." His goal was to be a gud nykommer, an ideal newcomer. In letters home, he recounts immigrant experiences in details that are witty, astute, and optimistic in times of adversity. In Sweden and North America, the documents in this book have circulated in the family for years. After a century, it is time to open them to the world in English translation.
Preparing for Progress
Whether it's public or private sector, strategic and policy decisions are the nuts and bolts of creating direction and making progress. Such decisions must be clear, tangible and detailed enough to focus, accelerate and smooth out subsequent levels of operational decision-making. This book provides a profound analysis of the qualities which should characterise strategic and policy decision processes. It also explains why these processes sometimes don't deliver as expected. This enlightening, thought-provoking work will take you beyond process models based on boxes and arrows, and enable you to design workflows centred on creativity and learning. The author illustrates numerous real-life case...
Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality
Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality documents the proceedings of an IIASA Workshop on Mathematical Models for Planning and Controlling Air Quality, October 1979. The Workshop had two goals. The first was to contribute to bridging the gap between air-quality modeling and management. The second was to consider an unusual air-quality control strategy: namely, real-time emission control. The book is organized into two parts, corresponding roughly to the two goals outlined above. Part One examines the role of mathematical models in air-quality planning and includes: a presentation of a decision maker's viewpoint; illustrations of various types of models (descriptive and/o...
The Socio-Economic Impact of Microelectronics
The Socio-Economic Impact of Microelectronics contains papers presented at an international conference on socio-economic problems and potentialities of the application of micro-electronics held in Zandvoort, the Netherlands, in September 1979. Organized into eight sections, this book begins with the technological evaluation of microelectronics. Subsequent sections focus on the social economic and political consequences of the widespread use of microelectronics; opportunities and problems for socialist countries brought about by microelectronics technology; effects of microelectronics on developing countries; as well as problems connected with industrial relations and organization of work. The influence of the technology on political/economic, epistemological, ethical/moral, and esthetic values and a broad concept of informatics introducing the notions of living and non-living environments as well as of human, non-human, constructed, natural, and abstract systems are explained. The last section contains the conclusions of the chairman of the conference on the application of microelectronics.
Logistics and Benefits of Using Mathematical Models of Hydrologic and Water Resource Systems
Logistics and Benefits of Using Mathematical Models of Hydrologic and Water Resource Systems is a collection of paper that details the experiences in the operational and logistical aspects of utilizing water resource models. The title provides the general report on model structure and classification; experiences of the hydrologic engineering center in maintaining widely used hydrologic and water resource computer models; and the operational experience of on-line hydrological simulation. The selection also covers the implementation and application of a suite for the simulation of complex water resource systems in evaluation and planning studies; and the use of a groundwater model in the design, performance; and the assessment, and operation of a river regulation scheme. The book will be of great use to researchers and practitioners of hydrological sciences.
Scale in Production Systems
IIASA Proceedings Series, Volume 15: Scale in Production Systems focuses on the applications of scale in the industries. The book is based on a workshop held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in June 1979 as part of the research program of the Management and Technology Area. The selection first underscores the problems of scale and revision of approaches in the evaluation of scale economies in industry. Discussions focus on empirical perspectives on improving appraisals of scale effects; analytical limitations of past theory and empirical findings; interpretation of analytical findings; and approaches to the study of scale problems. The text then takes a look at the...
Decision Support Systems: Issues and Challenges
Decision Support Systems: Issues and Challenges covers the proceedings of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) International Task Force Meeting. The book reviews papers that tackle issues about decision support systems (DSS). Comprised of 17 chapters, the book organizes the chapters according to the topic of discussion, including framework, resource discipline, application experience, and issues for the future in DSS. The opening chapter is an introduction to the main topic of the book. Chapter 2 discusses frameworks for research on decision support systems, and Chapter 3 covers the decision support systems. The fourth chapter deals with organizational science con...
Kommando Holger Meins
Ã…ret var 1975. Den 24 april klockan 23.46 exploderade tredje vÃ¥ningen pÃ¥ Västtysklands ambassad i Stockholm. Det blev slutet pÃ¥ ett drama som pÃ¥gÃ¥tt i tolv timmar och skördade tre dödsoffer. Sex unga västtyskar frÃ¥n Röda Armé-fraktionen, Kommando Holger Meins, hade barrikaderat sig i byggnaden med ambassadtjänstemän som gisslan. Deras krav: 26 fÃ¥ngar skulle friges ur västtyska fängelser. NÃ¥gra veckor tidigare hade säkerhetspolisen fÃ¥tt reda pÃ¥ att västtyska terrorister planerade att slÃ¥ till mot ambassaden, men Stockholmspolisen fick inte information om det. Dan Hansén och Jens Nordqvist berättar hela den dramatiska historien om ambassadockupationen liksom om den vÃ...
Alla känner apan
Häng med på en livsbejakande resa till Thailand! Leonard vaknar utomhus en snömättad februarimorgon i centrala Stockholm med smak av bensin i munnen och vaga minnen av kvällen innan. Han vet inte var han är någonstans och han känner inte ens igen kläderna han har på sig. Och vems är Buddhan, korset och nyckeln som Leonard hittar i fickan på den vadderade orangea västen? För att hitta svaren ger sig Leonard ut på en fartfylld och vinglig resa som tar oss från ett snöigt Stockholm till ett hett Thailand. Längs vägen återfinns många insikter om människans svagheter och styrkor, men också om de stora frågorna som ensamhet, andlighet, barnlöshet och om sökandet efter lyc...
