Books by Dimitris N. Chorafas

A guide to how the financial world got risk so badly wrong - and how it might avoid doing so again. It helps to manage risk through the correct pricing of exposure embedded in financial products.

Focuses on information technology, enterprise computing, and the Internet as the 21st Century's answer to merchandising. This book is suitable for practitioners in computer technology, telecommunications and software development, who are interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of advanced applications, tools, and methods.

A guide to managing cloud projects, Cloud Computing Strategies provides the understanding required to evaluate the technology and determine how it can be best applied to improve business and enhance your overall corporate strategy. Based on extensive research, it examines the opportunities and challenges that loom in the cloud. It explains exactly what cloud computing is, what it has to offer, and calls attention to the important issues management needs to consider before passing the point of no return regarding financial commitments. Illustrated with numerous examples and case studies, the book examines security, privacy, data ownership, and data protection in the cloud. It also: Explains how and why your company can benefit from Open Software and onDemand ServicesIdentifies various cloud providers, their services, and their content as a basis for evaluating cost effectivenessProvides authoritative guidance on how to transition from a legacy system to the cloudIncludes helpful tips for managing cloud vendor relationships and avoiding vendor lock-inWhether youΓÇÖre already in the cloud or just considering it, the text provides the unbiased understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of cloud computing needed to make informed decisions regarding its future in your organization. The bookΓÇÖs strength is that it supplies authoritative insight on everything needed to decide if you should make a transition to the cloud.

In order to achieve long-term profitability and assure survival for their companies, managers must be informed, imaginative, and capable of adapting to shifting circumstances. Practical decisions rather than theories hold the upper ground. Business, Marketing, and Management Principles for IT and Engineering supplies the understanding required to effectively manage an organization in an increasingly competitive global market.　Using case studies, the book illustrates the principles, policies, and management practices used by some of the most successful companies around the world. The real-world case studies supply valuable insight into the range of issues that confront decision makers in business. By explaining how to develop effective strategies and business plans, the text supplies both the concepts and the tools to stay on track with those plans. It also:Explains how to evaluate the pros and cons of your organizational policies and how to effect policies for maximum synergyCovers product development, sales, marketing, pricing, and financial analysisIllustrates the right and wrong ways to implement the principles discussed, with case studies of hi-tech companies such as Apple, Google, Cisco, IBM, Microsoft, Toyota, ITT, and BloombergDimitris N. Chorafas provides valuable insight garnered over half a century of advising financial institutions and multinational industrial corporations. Dr. Chorafas explains how to develop competitive products and use pricing strategies to achieve an edge over your competition. He also includes case studies that examine the price wars in the computer industry. This book supplies a realistic look into the positive and negative aspects of various policies and whether or not current practices related to forecasting, planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling have produced th

Intelligent Networks: Telecommunications Solutions for the 1990s addresses the telecommunications perspective of the 1990s and the problems involved in the transition from where we are now to where we should be within the next decade.

Education, employment policy, and pensions are inextricably linked and critical to any sort of business or economic revival, let alone success. This book addresses all three. It argues that European educational standards, from primary schools through to universities, leave much to be desired. It then turns to employment.

Alert people can see we are going to leave our children and grandchildren with a nearly unsolvable test of energy supplies; waste polluting the air and water; and, the appalling problem of a huge and uncontrollable explosion in world population. This book reviews Europe, America and Asia's energy needs.

What is it that threatens competitiveness and produces obstacles to providing a vibrant business landscape in the European Union? This book, offers insight into the particular nature of the European cocktail of business and politics, explaining how that bears on trade and relations between continental Europe and the UK, the US, Russia and Asia.

A guide to managing a cloud project, this book illustrates how to take advantage of cloud computing and align it with business and IT strategies. It assesses cloud computing technologies and demonstrates how to determine requirements and implement cloud to meet the goals and objectives of IT and business.

This guide to the financial risks and opportunities to be found in foreign exchange markets includes insights into the new global and electronic networks. Topics discussed include dealing in various currencies, risk management, market data filtering and pattern recognition.

Focuses on how to create business opportunities and reap savings by restructuring and updating ERP and CRM software as it integrates supply chain management and delivers various killer applications.

Many professionals in the technology industry are seeking new solutions beyond the confines of the more traditional type software tools, network design solutions and distributed systems applications.

Based on extensive research undertaken in Europe, US and Japan, Dimitris Chorafas identifies new domains of applications, presents the breakthroughs which have currently been achieved and outlines the systems solutions necessary to fruitfully exploit new technology.