Collection of essays explore shared services in the human resources environment.

Infrastructure resources are the subject of many contentious public policy debates, including what to do about crumbling roads and bridges, whether and how to protect our natural environment, energy policy, even patent law reform, universal health care, network neutrality regulation and the future of the Internet. Each of these involves a battle to control infrastructure resources, to establish the terms and conditions under which the public receives access, and to determine how the infrastructure and various dependent systems evolve over time. Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources devotes much needed attention to understanding how society benefits from infrastructure resources and how management decisions affect a wide variety of interests. The book links infrastructure, a particular set of resources defined in terms of the manner in which they create value, with commons, a resource management principle by which a resource is shared within a community. The infrastructure commons ideas have broad implications for scholarship and public policy across many fields ranging from traditional infrastructure like roads to environmental economics to intellectual property to Internet policy. Economics has become the methodology of choice for many scholars and policymakers in these areas. The book offers a rigorous economic challenge to the prevailing wisdom, which focuses primarily on problems associated with ensuring adequate supply. The author explores a set of questions that, once asked, seem obvious: what drives the demand side of the equation, and how should demand-side drivers affect public policy? Demand for infrastructure resources involves a range of important considerations that bear on the optimal design of a regime for infrastructure management. The book identifies resource valuation and attendant management problems that recur across many different fields and many different resource types, and it develops a functional economic approach to understanding and analyzing these problems and potential solutions.

Collaborative consumption is a new way of living in which access is valued above ownership, experience is prized over material possessions, and "mine" becomes "ours," allowing everyone's needs to be met with minimum waste. Bursting at the seams with hundreds of helpful tips and valuable resources, Sharing is Good is a practical guide to this new and exciting "sharing economy."

Teams around the world are adding kanban around their existing processes to deliver greater business agility. This book answers the questions: What is the Kanban Method? Why would I want to use Kanban? How do I go about implementing Kanban?

A variety of positive change has recently taken place in the DNN ecosystem, code base, and underlying technology. Professional DNN7: Open Source .NET CMS Platform provides thorough coverage of all aspects of DNN including the latest features, API’s, and updates. Looking to ramp up your knowledge of DNN7? If so, this book is for you! In this book, you'll learn how to install, configure, administer, develop modules, and much more! DNN has undergone a significant transformation over the past 4 years. The rebrand from DotNetNuke to DNN was just the start. The entire platform was migrated from VB to C#, the user interface was overhauled providing a much-improved user experience, dramatic improvements in functionality & performance were made including support for social collaboration and mobile devices. Recently API’s that make modern, client-side development easy have been introduced as well. The underlying technology platform has migrated from ASP.NET 2.0 to ASP.NET 4.0 and DNN has also integrated Microsoft’s Web API as the service framework at the core of the DNN solution. All of these enhancements provide developers with a lot of power in one solution. In previous Professional DotNetNuke books, DotNetNuke founder Shaun Walker authored a popular introductory chapter covering the evolution of the DNN open source project. He will expand this initial chapter with information about venture capital funding, commercialization, and software business insights – which will be of interest to DNN enthusiasts, as well as technology entrepreneurs. DNN site builders, administrators, and developers will learn how to: determine if they have met the installation requirements and install DNN administer and host a DNN site and install and configure modules manage users and keep a DNN installation secure localize a DNN site for multiple languages build custom DNN modules in C# using the model of separation of database, business logic, and presentation layers customize the DNN look with skinning make their site social with EVOQ

This book from the NATO ASI on "Overexploitation and Contamination of Shared Groundwater Resources Management, (Bio)technological, and Political Approaches to Avoid Conflicts" is written by authors from different disciplines and regions of the world. The aim of the book is to contribute to the knowledge of shared groundwater resources management to avoid conflicts by considering multi-disciplinary approaches based on effective and equitable water sharing for all water users.