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CLOSE Membership

18 Aug 2008 05:55:27 GMT

Join the coalition to Leverage and Optimize Sales Effectiveness "CLOSE".

On-Demand Security Audit - Free 14-Day Trial

4 Aug 2008 05:39:17 GMT

Qualys helps organizations secure their networks & conduct automated audits to achieve & maintain compliance.

Download a FREE, 30-Day Trial of SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor!

11 Jul 2008 06:08:50 GMT

SolarWinds Orion Network Performance Monitor (Orion NPM) is an award-winning, Web-based network performance monitoring solution trusted by thousands of network engineers worldwide. It is a cost-effective, easy to use and scalable solution that addresses the day-to-day problems faced by network professionals in the enterprise.

WebEx MeetMeNow - the greener solution to meetings!

10 Jul 2008 06:55:45 GMT

WebEx Meetings can help reduce CO2 emissions by travelling less, as well as having productivity and cost saving benefits - Start your free trial today!

Web Conferencing Imperative for Collaboration, Productivity, and Training

9 Jul 2008 06:54:24 GMT

Virtual meetings can be a great alternative to traveling to a meeting or training session, but how can you be sure people are getting the most out of these Web-based events? The Web Conferencing Imperative for Collaboration, Productivity, and Training, by Henry E. Liebling, offers planners tips and techniques to optimize webconferencing.

Managing Green Issues

8 Jul 2008 06:52:33 GMT

The management of environmental or green issues has become a key concern for many companies. Not only do green issues influence how an organization is seen and how its reputation is judged, it has huge implications for the organization's success, brand values and the sales decisions of consumers towards its products.

Managing Information Technology Projects

7 Jul 2008 06:19:06 GMT

Applying Project Management Strategies to Software, Hardware, and Integration Initiatives

Ebook - Operations & Technology Express

4 Jul 2008 10:18:31 GMT

Covers the key areas of operations and technology, from operating systems and managing resources to quality and environmental awareness. Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Egg, Nissan, easyJet, Ford, British Airways and Nestle, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including W Edwards Deming, Joseph Juran, Kaoru Ishikawa, Philip Crosby, Tom Peters and Charles Handy.

Process Automation Handbook: A Guide to Theory and Practice

2 Jul 2008 11:09:01 GMT

To be an effective engineer in process automation requires knowledge of a range of disciplines: chemical engineering, instrumentation, electrical engineering, control theory, mathematics, computing and management.

Efficiency Measurement in Health and Healthcare

30 Jun 2008 11:00:38 GMT

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much of the literature in this area is confusing and impregnable, Hollingsworth and Peacock show the logical links between the economic theory underlying efficiency, the methods used in analysis and practical application of measurement techniques including Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontiers Analysis.

The Carbon Footprint Calculator

26 Jun 2008 12:17:27 GMT

Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) generate approximately 110 million tonnes of carbon emissions each year, according to new calculations published today by AXA. In an effort to help small businesses reduce their environmental impact AXA, one of the UK�s leading insurers of SMEs, today launched a carbon footprint calculator

Looking for a Project Management Process?

24 Jun 2008 08:37:10 GMT

If so, then you've come to the right place. MPMM includes the complete set of project management processes needed to manage projects.

Business Process Automation: ARIS in Practice

23 Jun 2008 06:21:08 GMT

Enterprises have to adapt their business processes quickly and efficiently to new business environments to ensure business success and long term survival. It is not sufficient to apply best business practices but new practices have to be developed and executed.

Sales and Inventory Manager - Download

20 Jun 2008 11:56:27 GMT

The Easy Way to Manage Sales, Orders & Shipping. Sales & Inventory Manager provides you with the tools to easily and efficiently manage your inventory, sales and shipping. It saves you time by automating your sales operations and reliably recording all your transactions.

Project Planning Templates

19 Jun 2008 11:51:31 GMT

The Project Planning Templates provide you with all of the project management planning documents needed to plan a project by helping you to schedule time, cost and resources.

Business Process Management: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations

18 Jun 2008 20:22:19 GMT

A book by practitioners for process practitioners shows how to ensure projects are implemented successfully.

Healthcare Informatics

17 Jun 2008 14:08:08 GMT

This resource offers a concise, plain-language review of all the major technologies and applications of informatics in health care today, including essentials such as clinical databases, billing, electronic patient records, lab tests, electronic prescriptions, and much more.

Cooperative Process Management: Cognition and Information Technology

16 Jun 2008 09:45:57 GMT

Covering analysis, field studies, micro-world studies, training and the creation of computer artefacts under the Co-operative Process Management umbrella.

What Business Really Wants from IT: A Collaborative Guide for Business Directors and CIOs

13 Jun 2008 08:43:05 GMT

Business expectations of their IT departments are simple: Deliver IT without fuss, get involved in achieving business results, and provide leadership. But while business emphasis is on business results and leadership, IT is focused on the technology.

Consulting, Contracting and Freelancing

11 Jun 2008 09:18:32 GMT

Use the skills and experience you have gained in the workplace to move on to the next stage of your working life-as a consultant, contractor or freelancer.

77 1/2 Public Relations Tips: things everyone in business should know about PR

10 Jun 2008 09:17:22 GMT

Puzzled by how you can get greater public recognition for your product? Would you like to reduce your marketing spending by getting FREE publicity for your company? If so, then 77 1/2 Public Relations Tips: Things Everyone in Business Should Know about PR is for you.

Knowledge Management and Risk Strategies

9 Jun 2008 10:34:30 GMT

This book deals with knowledge management with an emphasis on knowledge risk, i.e., a general trend of knowledge value getting shorter and becoming temporary. The shortening of knowledge value lifespan will have a profound impact on companies' employment policies, and employees' strategies for gaining knowledge.

Choosing & Using Consultants & Advisors

5 Jun 2008 08:48:38 GMT

A Best Practice Guide to Making the Right Decision and Getting Good Value

Change Management Masterclass: A Step-by-step Guide to Successful Change Management

4 Jun 2008 08:56:43 GMT

Change management, handled badly, can create problems for business. This e-book explains the process and looks at why organizations need to change, the different ways change can be approached and what makes this process successful.

Cooperative Communication in the Workplace - Helpcard

3 Jun 2008 09:18:24 GMT

Guidelines and specific tips on communicating co-operatively to prevent and solve conflict situations in the workplace. An ideal resource for team members to encourage harmony, reduce tension.

Business Process Management Systems: Strategy and Implementation

2 Jun 2008 09:13:38 GMT

This ebook discusses business management practices and the technology that enables them. It analyzes the history of process management practices and proposes that BPM practices are a synthesis of BPR (radical change) and TQM (continuous change) practices.

Web Conferencing Software and Audio Conferencing Solutions - FREE DEMO

30 May 2008 10:57:39 GMT

iLinc provides Web and audio conferencing solutions that are secure, reliable, and incredibly easy to use.

Legal Contract:s: 15% Discount for Consultants United Members

29 May 2008 11:54:08 GMT

Protect Yourself with Proper Business Contracts - Lawyers have been recently criticised for their ever-rising fees, and Spectator (5 May) reported how senior partners routinely were taking take home �1 million a year or more.

Deltek Vision Consulting Edition

28 May 2008 10:32:32 GMT

For today�s consulting leaders, success is a balance between selling and marketing their services and managing the daily operations of the consulting firm. Deltek Vision Consulting Edition is specifically designed for Consulting firms and encompasses all of the processes within the organization.

Internet Answering Machine & Fax-To-Email - Free Trial

27 May 2008 11:07:36 GMT

Get a CallWave fax number located in any area of your choice. When someone sends a fax to your CallWave Fax Number, faxes are converted to Adobe PDF files and are delivered directly to your email inbox as an attachment.

Cisco Unified Communications IP Telephony, Part 1

23 May 2008 07:01:58 GMT

Cisco Unified Communications IP Telephony, Part 1 (CIPT1 v6.0) is a book about Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.x configuration and administration.

Free Video and Voice Calling

22 May 2008 07:23:05 GMT

SightSpeed offers the world�s best suite of instant video and audio services enabling consumers and small businesses to make the best quality video and voice calls and to send video mail over the Internet.

Skype Small Business Pack

20 May 2008 07:27:52 GMT

- Skype solution for small and medium-sized businesses
- Everything you need to get started on Skype
- Skype Business Edition software, Business Control Panel, 10 Skype Pro subscriptions and voucher for €50 of Skype Control Panel Credit

Project Management Consulting Tools

19 May 2008 07:07:38 GMT

If you want to succeed as a Project Management Consultant, IT Consultant or Business Consultant then MPMM is for you...

Helpcard - Making Strategic Planning Work

16 May 2008 08:25:53 GMT

Tips on how to make the strategic planning process a living, dynamic process that adds value to your organization. Also includes a diagram of the process. Keep that plan out of the back of the desk drawer.

Project Management Solutions

15 May 2008 07:34:49 GMT

Whether you're a manager, team member, consultant, trainer or student, MPMM provides the complete project management solution for delivering projects. Read on to learn how Method123 Project Management Methodology helps you in your role...

Designing Legally Compliant RFID & Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes & Beyond

14 May 2008 08:41:01 GMT

Legal Programming: Designing Legally Compliant RFID and Software Agent Architectures for Retail Processes and Beyond provides a process-oriented discussion of the legal concerns presented by agent-based technologies, processes and programming.

Implementing Value-Added Telecom Services

13 May 2008 15:18:15 GMT

Value-added services - messaging, mobile-commerce, location services, content provisioning are the money-makers in today's telecommunications market. This book shows you how to commercially offer these services without having to own network infrastructure.

RFID Security

12 May 2008 08:45:03 GMT

Discusses the motives for someone wanting to hack an RFID system and shows how to protect systems. This work includes coverage of topics such as: security breaches for monetary gain; how to protect the supply chain; and how to protect personal privacy.

The Great Telecom Meltdown

9 May 2008 10:22:37 GMT

RFID in the Supply Chain

8 May 2008 09:22:02 GMT

Helping readers bring their organizations into the future, this book explains RFID technology, its applications, data storage and retrieval, business processes, operational and implementation problems, risks, security and privacy, facility layout, handling systems and methods, and transportation costs.

Ten Telecom Guidelines Status Review - Ebook

7 May 2008 10:13:17 GMT

Trans-European Networks (TENS), in transport, telecommunications and energy, support projects of common interest with uncertain immediate commercial prospects and benefits. This document presents a technology foresight study to assess the future needs and prospects for the TEN Telecom Action.

Skype is now mobile!

6 May 2008 14:35:48 GMT

You don�t need a computer to make free calls anymore. Use 3 Skypephone instead. It�s a stylish mobile phone that calls, texts and takes pictures like you�d expect it to - but wait, there�s more - you can call and instant message your friends on Skype, free.

Simplifying the Move from VoicetoVideo Conferencing Improves Unified Communications

2 May 2008 09:50:43 GMT

Enterprises can now move easily and affordably from "voice and data only" net conferences to professional, web-based video-conferencing, messaging and collaboration. With the launch of the latest version of ICU Live! from leading Unified Communications consultancy ICU Global, organisations can bypass traditional hurdles to making the move.

Free SpamCheck Tool

1 May 2008 12:15:32 GMT

Spam is a bigger and bigger problem nowadays. Recently Ralph Wilson, Paul Myers, and other Net marketing gurus have written about the problems that spam is causing honest, hard working Net marketers.

Dictionary of e-Business

30 Apr 2008 12:47:57 GMT

In a fast-moving technical and business environment like the Internet only exactitude can guarantee success. An 'almost correct' specification is a wrong specification. Make total accuracy your signature with this invaluable guide. It offers detailed definitions of the bewildering array of terms and phrases relating to e-Business and the Internet, plus short articles to explain more complex topics.

E-book: The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting

29 Apr 2008 15:09:52 GMT

Talks about what effective consultants do, and how they do it. This book provides a step-by-step process that provides successful outcomes for consultants and their clients.

E-business Process Management

28 Apr 2008 13:43:46 GMT

Enterprise systems packages have long been associated with process change. However, it was assumed that most organizations would simultaneously design and implement process change while implementing the systems. A survey of 163 organizations and detailed interviews with 28 more suggests that enterprise systems were still being implemented even among early adopters of the technology, and that process change was being undertaken on an ongoing basis.

Finding Your Way in the Consulting Jungle: A Guidebook for Organization Development Practitioners

25 Apr 2008 12:52:43 GMT

Stand out in the consulting jungle! In a landscape cluttered with would-be consultants who lack the requisite competencies to deliver organization development services effectively, how does a true professional stand out from the crowd?

Business Consulting: A Guide to How it Works and How to Make it Work

24 Apr 2008 12:13:56 GMT

A guide for those using or planning to use business consultants - and for consultants themselves.

ebusiness or Out of Business: Oracle's Roadmap for Profiting in the New Economy

23 Apr 2008 11:53:54 GMT

E-Business or Out of Business tells you how Oracle, a global leader in technological innovation and eTransformation, transformed itself to avoid being swallowed by the revolution it helped to launch.

The Service Sellers Master Course: Leverage Your Income...Sell Your Service Online! - Free E-book

22 Apr 2008 10:17:47 GMT

In order to effectively sell your services online, you must have a Web site that... introduces you as the expert, and builds your credibility with your visitor...

Site Build It! - E-business Success

21 Apr 2008 14:16:12 GMT

It is the only, all-in-one, site-brainstorming-and-building-and-hosting-and-marketing, step-by-step system of software tools that delivers thriving, profitable business... and more.

Plunkett's E-commerce and Internet Business Almanac 2008

18 Apr 2008 10:50:48 GMT

E-commerce and Internet Business Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies

Principles of Retailing

17 Apr 2008 06:19:00 GMT

Principles of Retailing is a comprehensive text covering the core aspects of modern retail management and operations in a fast moving competitive sector.

E-Business and E-Commerce Management

16 Apr 2008 12:08:25 GMT

Dave Chaffey brings his trademarks of authority, clarity of expression and teaching expertise to bear on a subject in which he actively lectures and consults.

Online Marketing: A Customer-Led Approach

15 Apr 2008 11:14:32 GMT

Online Marketing: A Customer Led Approach provides an excellent and stimulating balance between theory and practice by recognising the advantages and drawbacks of doing business online. The text is deeply embedded in traditional marketing concepts and examines their evolution as we understand more from online customer experiences.

Retailization: Brand Survival in the Age of Retailer Power

14 Apr 2008 11:15:28 GMT

Retailization illustrates how brand power is slowly and inexorably being replaced by retail power - whether we like it or not, retail is now central to all our business decisions. Unfortunately many brands lack the tools needed to prevent themselves becoming trapped between massive, global retailers and well-informed, demanding shoppers.

Marketing the E-business

11 Apr 2008 12:22:43 GMT

E-marketing is rapidly growing in significance and is having a direct impact upon traditional marketing strategy and operations. It requires planning and innovation to make it work, implying organisational commitment and effective management, supported by appropriate technology, process and structure.

Performance Management - Why It Doesn't Work

10 Apr 2008 10:32:13 GMT

This short quick read book is about 60 pages and walks you through the reasons why most performance appraisal and performance management systems don't work and can't work. Suggests an alternate way of carrying out the process.

WebEx PCNow - Free 1 Month Trial

9 Apr 2008 11:30:42 GMT

Access your PC or Mac remotely from any computer or your mobile phone.

The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy: Classic Concepts and New Perspectives

8 Apr 2008 09:16:58 GMT

A collection of the best thinking from one of the most innovative management consulting firms in the world. For more than forty years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business...

Microsoft Project 2007 Professional

7 Apr 2008 15:54:42 GMT

Office Project Professional 2007 gives you robust project management capabilities. You can stay informed�control project work, schedules, finances � and keep project teams aligned...

Logistics Systems Analysis

4 Apr 2008 12:28:17 GMT

This book describes how to plan and design efficient logistics systems considering simultaneously all integral aspects of their operation, and how to evaluate economically existing or proposed systems. The approach, more physical than mathematical, requires little data.

Microsoft Office 2007 Professional

2 Apr 2008 11:48:26 GMT

Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is a complete suite of productivity and database software that will help you save time and stay organized. Powerful contact management features help you manage all customer and prospect information in one place. Develop professional marketing materials for print, e-mail, and the Web, and produce effective marketing campaigns in-house.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

1 Apr 2008 11:43:34 GMT

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity is a simple book designed to explain business recovery in an easy, self-study manner. The entire book is written in a question and answer format for easy comprehension.

Microsoft Windows Vista Business

31 Mar 2008 12:01:21 GMT

Windows Vista Business is the first Windows operating system designed specifically to meet the needs of small businesses. You'll empower your entire business to work more efficiently with a stunning and improved, simple-to-use interface that makes it easier to search and find the information you need quickly and easily, both on your PCs and on the web. With powerful new safety features, you're in control and can better protect the key information that is the life of your business and that builds the trust of your customers.

Become a Top Consultant: How the Experts Do It

28 Mar 2008 10:26:26 GMT

Ten of today�s top consultants explain why and how they left the 9-to-5 grind behind, built new careers, and became the best in their field!

Why Should the Boss Listen to You?: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor

27 Mar 2008 09:55:52 GMT

This is a book about gaining influence and becoming a key trusted advisor. It is for everyone who advises leaders and senior managers (accounting, finance, human resources, IT, law, marketing, public relations, security, and strategic planning) and for outside consultants in these functional staff areas. It's also for operations people yearning to finally be heard and heeded by their boss.

Skype - the whole world can talk for free!

26 Mar 2008 12:20:03 GMT

Skype aims to delight you by offering free global telephony, to make unlimited, superior quality voice calls via its next-generation peer-to-peer software. Skype�s mission is providing a simple, reliable and friendly communications tool that just works. We aim for people to communicate with friends, families, and colleagues more flexibly, more cost effectively, and with better sound quality than ever previously imagined.

The Information System Consultant's Handbook: Systems Analysis and Design

25 Mar 2008 07:34:08 GMT

The Information Consultant's Handbook familiarizes systems analysts, systems designers, and information system consultants with underlying principles, specific documentation, and methodologies.

Managing successful programmes (Office of Government Commerce)

20 Mar 2008 11:29:14 GMT

Combining rigour and flexibility, MSP helps all organisations - public sector and private, large and small - achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again...

How to Handle Your Recruitment Consultant

19 Mar 2008 09:43:48 GMT

Brilliant insider tips, tricks & secrets to maximise the performance of your recruitment consultant and secure that perfect job and knock out salary you know you want and deserve...

Reform and Leadership in the Public Sector: A Political Economy Approach

18 Mar 2008 09:21:49 GMT

The authors provide a fresh and accessible multi-disciplinary perspective on public management reform in this study. The work includes a broad survey of the paradigms and patterns that have shaped and differentiated the reform process in different countries...

Getting the Most From Performance Appraisal

17 Mar 2008 09:19:32 GMT

The only way performance reviews work to improve performance is if employees are active, informed partners in the entire procedure...

Recording time and project activities

17 Mar 2008 09:18:36 GMT

Consultancy firms need to record hours worked and activity, to ensure that they are paid correctly and in order to bill their clients. The SCM Microsystems, Chipdrive Time Recording software provides an affordable, solution, which can be used either as a stand-alone tool, using a hand-held terminal, or fully networked into the office IT...

Project Management Kit

14 Mar 2008 12:41:34 GMT

The Project Management Kit includes all of the project management templates and project management forms needed to successfully deliver projects...

Risk Management Templates

13 Mar 2008 11:40:16 GMT

The Project Risk Management Templates contains a set of project risk management documents needed to identify, quantify, track and mitigate risks within a project. Each project risk management template will help you prevent risks from occurring, as well as reduce their impact on the project...

Performance Management Master Checklist - Help Card

12 Mar 2008 14:32:27 GMT

Stop sabotaging your performance management and appraisal processes! When you do all of the important steps in the process, your appraisals become easier, clearer, more useful. That means better productivity and employee learning, and less time you have to spend managing employees...

FREE Break Even Calculator

11 Mar 2008 14:00:35 GMT

Break Even Analysis is an expected component of most business plans, especially for start-up companies. This calculator shows how much revenue you need to cover both fixed and variable costs...

Lean Six Sigma Professional

11 Mar 2008 10:05:34 GMT

Use a simplified Lean Six Sigma approach to improve your business and organizational processes. Five meeting modules using the DMAIC method include 35 tools and 200+ key questions. Tools include: VOC, SWOT, SIPOC, FMEA, Value Map, Balanced Scorecard, etc

Change Management Templates

10 Mar 2008 07:36:13 GMT

The Change Management Templates provide the change control documents needed to manage scope, deliverable and resource changes within a project. The Change Request template allows staff to raise a change request within the project. The Change Process can then be followed, to enable the Project...

Avanquest Software

7 Mar 2008 14:56:25 GMT

Avanquest Publishing USA publishes best selling and award-winning small business software, PC utilities and digital media products to create a powerful software line up of more than 50 products available in over 10,000 retail outlets across North America, including Wal-Mart, Staples, Office Depot...

Remote Control of Your PC Via the Web - 30 Days Free Trial

7 Mar 2008 14:55:34 GMT

You?re out of town on business; your meeting starts in fifteen minutes, and you realize you?ve forgotten a critical file. No need to panic. You?ve got Internet access in your hotel and you installed GoToMyPC on your office computer before you left...

The Ten Keys to Successful Change Management

6 Mar 2008 19:44:36 GMT

This book describes the dynamics of change, its causes, what's at stake, and the criteria for success. Then it puts forward a practical method for driving change, whether it be a simple evolution or a major transformation. The authors show how efficient businesses use change to reinforce their...

Process Mapping Software

4 Mar 2008 12:29:29 GMT

A single user version of the process mapping software of control-ES is FREE for consultants...

Resource/Project Management

4 Mar 2008 12:29:28 GMT

eTimeMachine provides leading enterprise-wide workforce management solutions to enhance and simplify project & work execution...

Document Management and Imaging

4 Mar 2008 12:29:28 GMT

Version One Limited is the author of electronic document management and imaging software. These solutions enable the electronic storage, retrieval, management, enhancement and delivery of business documents such as invoices, purchase orders and statements. This 'paperless office' technology is...

Business Process Analysis & Simulation Software

4 Mar 2008 12:29:27 GMT

Engage! Analyzer provides business process analysis, simulation and an open BPML-interface that enables business process analysts and consultants to...

Industry & Market Research Reports

4 Mar 2008 12:29:27 GMT

Have you tried writing a plan and struggled to find crucial details for your industry?...

How to Start a Consulting Service

4 Mar 2008 12:29:26 GMT

In 1997 U.S. businesses spent over $12 billion on consulting. If you have expertise in a specific field and are passionate about that field, you could be part of this lucrative business! Whatever your area of expertise, you may find a niche for your consulting business...

Free Cash Flow Calculator

4 Mar 2008 12:29:25 GMT

This free to use cash flow calculator shows you how business-to-business sales, carrying inventory, and rapid growth can absorb a business' money...

idRisk - Risk Framework Assessment - MaPS

4 Mar 2008 12:29:25 GMT

Risk Framework Assessment - MaPS is an independent, objective and fully auditable profile of your organisation?s risk framework maturity. This verifiable assessment is invaluable for providing assurance to senior management, institutional investors, rating agencies and regulators...

Marketing Channel Development & Management

4 Mar 2008 12:29:24 GMT

This 300 page book asks marketing managers at all levels to think of the whole marketing channel as the arena for exercising their management skills. These essential skills are identified and organized into methods and processes for marketing management to employ both internally and externally...

Making Sense of Change Management

4 Mar 2008 12:29:22 GMT

A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools and Techniques of Organizational Change Management (256 page book)...