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Автор: Mullins, Edwin Название: Avignon of the popes : city of exiles ISBN: 190993058X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781909930582 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 2757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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At the beginning of the fourteenth century, anarchy in Italy led to the capital of the Christian world being moved from Rome for the first and only time in history. It was a critical moment, and it resulted in seven successive popes remaining in exile for the next seventy years. The city chosen to replace Rome was Avignon. And depending on where you stood at the time they were seventy years of heaven, or of hell opinions invariably ran to extremes, as did the behaviour of the popes themselves. It was during this period of exile that the city witnessed some of the most turbulent events in the history of Christendom, among them the suppression of the Knights Templar and the last of the heretical Cathars, the first onslaught of the Black Death, the final collapse of the crusading dream, and the first decades of the Hundred Years War between England and France, in which successive Avignon popes attempted to mediate. The papal flight from Rome was fiercely castigated by Dante in The Divine Comedy, while during the later years of papal Avignon the enigmatic figure of Petrarch, the most celebrated poet and scholar of his day, loomed angrily over the city. In a dramatic denouement, Avignon became home to the anti-popes, rivals and enemies of the re-established Roman papacy. This is a portrait sketch of that era. And at the centre of the picture is Avignon itself, as it grew from being a relatively insignificant town on the Rh ne to become, albeit briefly, one of the great capitals of the world.
Описание: This management guide offers an introduction to the IT Capability Maturity Framework (IT-CMF), 2nd edition. The IT-CMF offers a comprehensive suite of tried and tested practices, organizational assessment approaches, and improvement roadmaps covering key IT capabilities needed to optimize value and innovation in the IT function and the wider organization. It enables organizations to devise more robust strategies, make better-informed decisions, and perform more effectively, efficiently, and consistently.IT-CMF is:¢ An integrated management toolkit covering 36 key capability management disciplines, with organizational maturity profiles, assessment methods, and improvement roadmaps for each. ¢ A coherent set of concepts and principles, expressed in business language, that can be used to guide discussions on setting goals and evaluating performance.¢ A unifying (or umbrella) framework that complements other, domain-specific frameworks already in use in the organization, helping to resolve conflicts between them, and filling gaps in their coverage. ¢ Industry/sector and vendor independent. IT-CMF can be used in any organizational context to guide performance improvement.¢ A rigorously developed approach, underpinned by the principles of Open Innovation and guided by the Design Science Research methodology, synthesizing leading academic research with industry practitioner expertise`IT-CMF provides us with a structured and systematic approach to identify the capabilities we need, a way to assess our strengths and weaknesses, and clear pathways to improve our performance.` Suresh Kumar,Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, BNY Mellon`To successfully respond to competitive forces, organizations need to continually review and evolve their existing IT practices, processes, and cultural norms across the entire organization. IT-CMF provides a structured framework for them to dothat.` Christian Morales, Corporate Vice President and General Manager EMEA, Intel Corporation`We have successfully applied IT-CMF in over 200 assignments for clients. It just works. Or, as our clients confirm, it helps them create more value from IT.` Ralf Dreischmeier, Senior Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group`By using IT-CMF, business leaders can make sure that the tremendous potential ofinformation technology is realized in their organizations.` Professor Philip Nolan, President, Maynooth University`I believe IT-CMF to be comprehensive and credible. Using the framework helps organizations to objectively identify and confirm priorities as the basis for driving improvements.`Dr Colin Ashurst, Senior Lecturer and Director of Innovation, Newcastle University Business School
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