Learning WCF or Beyond HR

Learning WCF

Author: Michele LeRoux Bustamant

This easy-to-use introduction to Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is ideal for developers who want to learn to build services on a company network or as part of an enterprise system. Built into Windows Vista and Longhorn, and available for Windows XP and Windows 2003, WCF provides a platform for service-oriented architecture (SOA) that enables secure and reliable communication among systems within an organization or across the Internet. With WCF, software developers can focus on their business applications and not the plumbing required to connect them. Furthermore, with WCF developers can learn a single programming API to achieve results previously provided by ASMX, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting. Learning WCF removes the complexity of using this platform by providing detailed answers, explanations and code samples for the most common questions asked by software developers. Windows Communication Foundation (or WCF, formerly code name "Indigo") provides a set of programming APIs that make it easy to build and consume secure, reliable, and transacted services. This platform removes the need for developers to learn different technologies such as ASMX, Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting, to distribute system functionality on a corporate network or over the Internet. The first truly service-oriented platform, WCF provides innovations that decouple service design and development from deployment and distribution - creating a more flexible and agile environment. WCF also encapsulates all of the latest web service standards for addressing, security, reliability and more.

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Beyond HR: The New Science of Human Capital

Author: John W Boudreau

Is your talent strategy a unique competitive advantage? As competition for top talent increases, companies must recognize that decisions about talent and its organization can have a significant strategic impact.

Beyond HR shows how organizations can uncover distinctive talent contributions, strategically differentiate their HR practices and metrics, and more optimally allocate talent to create value. Illustrations from companies such as Disney, Boeing, and Corning describe a new decision science called Talentship, that reveals opportunities by identifying strategy pivot points and the optimal talent and organization decisions that address them.

A unique framework helps readers identify their own distinctive strategic pivot points and connect them to talent decisions, showing how today's "HR" can evolve to fulfill its potential as a source of strategic advantage.

Table of Contents:

Preface and Acknowledgments     ix
The Essential Evolution: Personnel, Human Resources, Talentship     1
A Decision Science Applied to Talent: Understanding the Necessary Components     25
The HC BRidge Framework: Pivot-Points in Impact, Effectiveness, and Efficiency     47
Impact in Strategy Analysis: Finding the Strategy Pivot-Points     71
Impact in Organization and Talent: Linking Strategic Pivot-Points to Structures and Roles     97
Effectiveness in Performance and Potential: Aligning Pivotal Interactions and Actions Through Culture and Capacity     119
Effectiveness in Policies and Practices: Creating the Strategic Portfolio of Talent Programs     141
Efficiency in Organization and Talent Investments: Acquiring and Deploying Resources to Optimize the Talent Portfolio     169
Talent Measurement and Analytics: Beyond Measures to the LAMP     187
Making Talentship Work: How the HR Evolution Becomes a Practical Reality     215
Notes     235
Bibliography     245
Index     249
About the Authors     257