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Executive Coaching: It Works!

Outcomes of this empirical study demonstrated that executive coaching is an effective method of leadership development. One hundred fourteen executives and 42 coaches were surveyed using instruments designed to gather both quantitative and qualitative data. Results indicated that executive change occurred in 5 areas: people management, relationships with managers, goal setting and prioritizatio...

How It Works and Why It Matters

This paper provides simulation practitioners and consumers with a grounding in how discrete-event simulation software works. Topics include discrete-event systems; entities, resources, control elements and operations; simulation runs; entity states; entity lists; and entity-list management. The implementation of these generic ideas in AutoMod, SLX, and Extend is described. The paper concludes w...

How it acts, how it works

Interferon beta (IFNβ) and glatiramer acetate (GA) were the first immunomodulators approved to the treatment of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (MS) and clinically isolated syndromes. Despite the enlargement of the therapeutic armamentarium, IFNβ and GA remain the most widely drugs and the therapeutic mainstay of MS. Objective: To review the mechanisms of action of IFNβ and GA and main c...

Seeing It All at Once with Barry

Improving data visualization paradigms for performance management is an orphaned area of tool development. Tool vendors avoid investing in development if they see no demand, while capacity planners and performance analysts do not demand what they have not conceived. We attempt to cut this Gordian knot with ’Barry’; a 3D performance visualization suite based on barycentric coordinates. Potential...

At the Root of It All.