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In this new full-color edition, you will find the original book enhanced by the addition of a full-color photo that clearly shows the fingering of each and every chord as well as a full-color diagram illustrating the fingering in detail and the relationships among the notes of the chord.

This classic, essential reference for all guitarists is now available with full-color photos and diagrams. Chords grouped by key makes it easy to find the chords you need, no page flipping! Fits in you guitar case-carry it everywhere! Millions sold worldwide, the most popular chord book ever, still at a popular price.

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Babylon 5: The Centauri Republic (Babylon 5 (Mongoose Publishing))
August Hahn , and Chris Quilliams
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ASIN: 1904577466

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This Babylon 5 sourcebook contains exhaustive information on the proud and arrogant race of Centauri.

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Hire an editor.......2004-07-20

Mongoose Publishing deserves a lot of praise for the detail and eagerness with which they have attacked the Babylon 5 universe. This book is but one of a dozen that the company has put out in the new Babylon 5 role-playing game.

The book is a veritable treasure trove of information about the Centauri race as portrayed in the Babylon 5 series, delving deeper into there history and society and providing a wealth of background and rules for using Centauri in the new game.

Mongoose has a big problem with there editing. Misspelled or misused words. Text obviously copied from other books or sections of this book, and not modified to fit in the place it has been put. They need someone to go through these books with a read pen. It will look like someone sacreficed a chicken over it.

Another complaint is that it is not clear what is considered canon in the B5 universe. JMS, the creator of the series, has posted information online which directly contradicts the information provided in the shows. The role-playing books rely heavily on the online material in these cases, resulting in the books being "wrong" when you watch the series. As an example from this book, it states that centauri woman are bald, and do not grow hair. In the second season of the series, however, Emperor Turhan talks about how the Centauri woman shave their heads rather than participate in the competition that the men have. In addition, we see several Centauri women in the series who have left a lock of hair on their heads, rather than be completely bald (Adira for one). These inconsistancies between the books and the series are common.

In depth, if anything.......2004-05-27

The fact that this book goes into fine detail about the Centauri is what stands out the most. If you've ever wondered anything about the Centauri, more than likely you will find it in this book. Biology, technology, history -- it's all here.

But for whatever reason, the book just didn't rub me in the right ways. I was excited when I first heard about it, ordering it two months ahead of its release. I don't know if it's the lack of artwork -- and don't get me wrong, the production photos and stills are great -- or the exclusion of information from the continuation novels or the fact that it's more geared towards roleplaying than reference -- a charge I can hardly fault the authors and editors for, given the primary purpose of the book.

Maps, graphics of rank insignia, computer generated depictions of many classes of ships and little sidebars with writings from the perspectives of characters on the show round this book out.

All in all, well worth the money. If you like the Centauri or Babylon 5 in general, and if you have the means, you should buy this book.

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Babylon 5 Wars 2nd Edition (Centauri Republic Fleet, [Boxed Miniatures Set])
Agents of Gaming
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Box contains: 1 Primus battlecruiser, 4 Vorchan warships, and 2 Sentri light fighters.

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Babylon 5: Centauri Republic Fleet
M. Sprange
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ASIN: 1904854737

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A truly heavyweight box set, Centauri Republic Fleet comes packed with everything a budding Admiral needs to begin waging war in space. With ships carefully selected for use within A Call to Arms, this box set includes the following; 2 Primus battlecruisers, 2 Centurion attack cruisers, 6 Vorchan warships and 48 Sentri fighters. Also included is a booklet containing new rules and variant ships for Centauri players in A Call to Arms.

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Comprehensive catalog of portfolio management techniques

Portfolio Management

Actionable approach and excellent reference

No theory behind an incomplete collection of case studies!!

An analysis of current thinking in portfolio management

Portfolio Management for New Products
Robert G. Cooper , Scott J. Edgett , and Elko J. Kleinschmidt
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ASIN: 0738205141

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The definitive guide on how to manage your company's product portfolio for maximum long-term growth-fully updated and expanded.

In this fully updated edition of Portfolio Management for New Products, the authors present a rigorous and practical approach to managing a company's product portfolio as you would a financial portfolio-investing for maximum long-term growth. With its field-tested, step-by-step framework, the book provides corporations and managers with the strategies they need to assess and realign their current R&D operations; determine which products are most worthy of resource allocation; design and implement a portfolio management process; maximize the value of their portfolios; and recognize and solve challenges as they arise. This book will be an essential resource for any company whose profitability, and very existence, relies on the products it chooses to develop and the speed with which it brings them to the market.

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Comprehensive catalog of portfolio management techniques.......2007-08-17

Three professors, Robert G. Cooper, Scott J. Edgett and Elko J. Kleinschmidt, wrote this book. The good news is that they really know their stuff; the less-than-great news is that they write like, well, professors. The book is hampered by academic prose, qualifiers, tangents and a scholarly, if balanced, reluctance to commit completely to most propositions. We find that readers seeking a comprehensive catalog of product portfolio management techniques will benefit from the detailed initial chapters. Meanwhile, readers who are in search of practical, applicable information will find more of what they want in the later chapters.

Portfolio Management.......2007-04-11

Great guide for those with multiple NPD projects in the pipeline. Best when used in conjunction with "The PDMA Handbook of New Product Development, Second Edition."

Actionable approach and excellent reference.......2004-03-30

The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with an actionable approach for implementing a product-oriented project portfolio management process which corporate leaders can use to ensure that the organization's portfolio delivers value, is balanced, and is aligned with strategy.
While the book addresses product-oriented projects, it seems well suited to limited generalization to aid the non-product based project portfolio.

The Thesis
The authors state that a portfolio process is key to success since projects operationalize strategy. To determine how well organizations manage their product project portfolio, they evaluate leader satisfaction with the process the organization uses along six metrics:
* Projects aligned with business's objectives
* Portfolio contains very high value projects
* Spending reflects the business's strategy
* Projects are done on time (no gridlock)
* Portfolio has good balance of projects
* Portfolio has right number of projects

While I think this is a good list for any project portfolio manager to begin using, I note that this survey is simply a ranking of leader satisfaction with leaders in organizations which use portfolio management. The authors did not try to link leader satisfaction with business success. It is difficult to prove that portfolio management led to business success, but one might assert that a measure of portfolio management on business is not fair because what one is really measuring is strategy success. The goal of portfolio management then might be stated as alignment with strategy, not business success. I think an organizational survey asking senior leaders to rank satisfaction along the six metrics might be interesting - how many of the questions can they answer at all? Presumably, knowing the answers and being dissatisfied with them might be better than not knowing the answers.

Actionable Information
This book is well organized and appears well researched. This is not surprising given that it was written by academic professionals. What is a little surprising, given the authors' profession, is that is so thoroughly action-oriented. The authors never seem to loose sight of the fact that if portfolio management is to help an organization it must be implemented. Over and over again, they point out pitfalls, limitations, cautions, and implementation steps for overcoming these. I expect to use this book often to fill in the gaps in other approaches, leaning heavily on the best-practice implementation suggestions they authors recommend in suggestions tailored to specific goals.

Among the useful, researched insights was this one: "Those businesses that use financial models as the dominant portfolio selection method end up with the poorest-performing portfolios!" (p 169). One reason for this (in product portfolios) is that the sophistication of the financial tools exceeds the quality of the predictive value data. Conversely, businesses that rely principally on strategic models outperform the rest. Allocating resources to strategic areas seems to work well, and we are reminded that "strategy begins when you start spending money" (Ibid).

Conclusion
Many books are over-blown magazine articles. This is not one of those books. The authors did a lot of plain hard work bringing this book together and it shows. They authors never forget that someone must sell the notion of portfolio management to senior leaders, then provide them with specific, relevant and actionable information to make difficult and important project decisions with strategic impact. I appreciate the fact that the authors frequently provide suggestions on how to keep thinks simple, starting small and scaling sophistication as processes are prototyped, then refined and adapted in specific organizations.

There is a possible limitation in how appropriately one may generalize these approaches to non-product-oriented project portfolios. This book does such a good job talking about project portfolio management that the reader can forget at times that the book is about product project portfolio management. It may be that some of the research findings do not apply or cannot be generalized with validity to other types of project portfolios. The reader should keep his grain of salt handy. However, there are still too few project portfolio management books available, especially books based on research, so this is a very useful reference. By way of balance, it does not seem too far a stretch to use this book for other, non-product project portfolio management since the aim of the process is to align projects with strategy, obtain high value from projects, and obtain a balanced portfolio of projects. These are good goals for any portfolio, and organizations are free to define and measure dimensions however they wish.
Possibly the highest compliment I can pay the authors is to say that having read the book, my copy is full of underlined passages and pages encumbered with sticky-notes. This book will not gather much dust on my shelf - at least not for quite some time.

No theory behind an incomplete collection of case studies!!.......1999-03-18

Huge disappointment. Chapter 1, page 1 starts with "Those
companies that succeed at new product dvelopment are the future
Mercks, HPs, 3Ms, and Microsofts; those companies that fail to excel
at developing new products will invariably disappear or be gobbed up
by the winners. .....". Despite this quite promising catch
phrase you will not find a single word on how the above mentioned
companies develope new products.

Things actually get worse. What you
will find in this book are random generated case studies on various
portfolio models the authors encountered in the few firms willing to
meet them - no theoretical framework is given on portfolio management,
criteria to be included and best practices in various industries.

As
a major disappointment I found the fact that not a single case/best
practise study came from the pharmaceutical industry and the software
industry, those industries where portfolio management/selection are at
the very heart of the strategic management process. It would have been
a huge (and logical) opportunity to cover in this book how Merck or
Pfizer steer their new product development processes. But don`t look
for clues to this questions in this book. The case studies you will
find in this book are about a small Canadian bank, a small US chemical
company, and about Hoechst US. The last case study offered at least
some ideas useful for improving the portfolio management process (that
is the main reason for the second star).

Somewhat disturbing are
platidudes widely used throughout the book (e.g. " ....Remember:
understanding the problem is the first step to a solution!
.... (p. 184)). If esclamation marks after platitudes make you
nervous, then you will probably throw this book away before reaching
page 100.

The only bright side of this book are the first 20 pages,
where the authors discribe present shortfalls of the portfolio
management process currently used in some firms (i.e. in the firms
they interview, and these firms are underperformers). It helps to get
an idea of what effective portfolio management should do - and these
points are very agreeable indeed (e.g. value creation, balance,
strategic fit). That these questions are inadequeately and only
empirically adressed in this book, is a source of frustration for its
readers. I would give only a very very weak recommendation for this
book....

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An analysis of current thinking in portfolio management.......1999-03-09

In this text, the authors thoroughly review the methods currently being practiced in companies to make decisions about their investments in new products and technologies, and the success of these various methods. They recognize the difficulties of making such decisions, especially by relying on simple processes without understanding shorfalls of the process and the robustness of the data. They focus on the goals of maximizing value, achieving a balanced portfolio and linking the decisions to business strategy. They tie this process into other key processes in the company, including the product development process and the new product strategy. By far the most valuable aspect of the book, however, is the link between process and real operation provided by the "Points for Management to Ponder" commentary which runs throughout the book. This is a current, encyclopedic and practical guide to this very difficult business process.

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Portfolio Management for New Products

Manufacturer: McMaster University
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BOC Acquires RGF's Product Portfolio.(Company Profile): An article from: Food Ingredient News

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Title: BOC Acquires RGF's Product Portfolio.(Company Profile)
Publication: Food Ingredient News (Newsletter)
Date: January 1, 2004
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Chubb launches commercial ins. plan. (Chubb Group of Insurance Companies introduces new commercial insurance portfolio): An article from: National Underwriter ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Chubb launches commercial ins. plan. (Chubb Group of Insurance Companies introduces new commercial insurance portfolio): An article from: National Underwriter ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Evelyn Gilbert
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on August 29, 1994. The length of the article is 802 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has introduced a new commercial insurance portfolio called 'Customarq' in an effort to shore up it market share of this category. Customarq uses an automated delivery and rating system and comes with enhanced coverage, including an automatic $250,000 blanket limit for personal property or building coverage. The new product has been approved in 29 states and is expected to be suitable for industries including electronics and manufacturing.

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Author: Evelyn Gilbert
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Date: August 29, 1994
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
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ConAgra adds Alexia Foods to its brand portfolio.(NEWS & TRENDS)(Company overview): An article from: Frozen Food Age
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Release Date: 2007-09-12

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This digital document is an article from Frozen Food Age, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2007. The length of the article is 484 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Gale Reference Team
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Date: August 1, 2007
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Insurer-related banks expand agent arsenal: new products expand portfolio, tighten grip on clients, provide growth capital.(New Opportunities): An article ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management

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Insurer-related banks expand agent arsenal: new products expand portfolio, tighten grip on clients, provide growth capital.(New Opportunities): An article ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Steve Tuckey
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 14, 2005. The length of the article is 1339 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Author: Steve Tuckey
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Date: March 14, 2005
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Volume: 109 Issue: 10 Page: 18(2)

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Powering up for profits: GE revitalizes its powersports brand with a new direction, a renewed focus, and an exciting new product portfolio that promises ... An article from: Powersports Business

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PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT For New Products
Robert G. Cooper: Scott J. Edgett: Elko J. Kleinschmidt
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Strategies for managing a project portfolio (Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School)

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Strategies for managing a project portfolio (Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School)
Michael D Watkins
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