Whether one's philosophy of life turns out to be a guarantor of serenity that saves one from crippling defensive tactics, or whether it turns out to be a by-product of crippling defenses . . . cannot be approached until as much time is spent on understanding a man' s values and plrilosophy as is spent on his underlying, basic strivings, smith, bruner, and white VfllllPGV

A new simplified methodology for relational-database design overcomes the difficulties associated with nonloss decomposition. It states dependencies between data fields on a dependency list and then depicts them unambiguously as interlinked bubbles and doublebubbles on a dependency diagram. From the dependency diagram, a set of fully normalized tables is derived.

If there is any one function managers most despise, it is the art of forecasting. By its very nature it concerns guessing the outcome of future events. Do all firms forecast the same? Compares forecasting behaviour between large and small firms and examines questions such as who does the forecasting, how often do they do forecasts, what areas are forecasted, what techniques are used, why they do it, what results are like from forecasting effort, and are they satisfied or dissatisfied. Examines significant differences in forecasting behaviour and makes conclusions.

No abstract

No abstract