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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by William C. Norris -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Habitats for Innovation and Their Inhabitants -- 1. The Once and Future Company -- 2. On the Edge of the Possible -- 3. Meeting Vital Needs -- 4. Fostering the Courage to Innovate -- 5. Building a Framework for Innovation -- Part Two: Technology, Innovation, and Strategy -- 6. Journeys in Strategic Space -- 7. The Care and Feeding of Strategy-The Technology Food Chain -- Part Three: Forging a Strategic Journey: The Decision Trichotomy -- 8. Collaborate to Compete -- 9. The Art of Acquisition -- 10. "Make": Relying on Internal Resources -- 11. Accepting Daring and Unusual Challenges -- Part Four: Strategies for the Unexpected and the Unusual -- 12. When It Hits the Fan: Perilous Journeys-Innovation in Times of Crisis -- 13. Innovating Beyond the Walls -- 14. Extraordinary Innovation, Extraordinary Collaboration -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: Control Data Timeline -- Appendix 2: Organization Charts (1957-1986) -- Appendix 3: Robert Price Presentation to the Control Data Corporation Board of Directors (March 14, 1985) -- Appendix 4: Seymour Cray Letters -- Appendix 5: Robert Price Speech to CBEMA Panel-"Microelectronics:'The Crude Oil of the '80s'" (April 7, 1981 -- Appendix 6: New York Times article: "Computer Accord Signed by Soviets" -- Appendix 7: Memoirs of Carolyn Firouztash, -- Appendix 8: Spin-offs and Start-ups by Former Control Data Employees (partial list) -- Notes -- Index.

Includes abstract. ; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 29-32). ; This paper examines the relationship between tariffs and antidumping (AD) within the political economy of trade protection in South Africa. Using graphs, tables, panel data regressions and an application of the Grossman-Helpman model I build an understanding of the relationship between tariffs and AD. Findings are that AD has increased with the decrease in tariffs. However this relationship is not a clear-cut substitution from one trade remedy to another.

Politics is an aspect of everyday life within organizations, and is a force that inhibits individual and collective behaviour. If not fully understood, it can impede organizational change and development. In order to minimise the political aspects of organizational dynamics there is a need to understand the extent to which organizational culture brings about politicised conformance and how individuals shape their behaviour through self-interest to conform--sense-giving and sense-making nexus--thus moderating the degree of change initiatives. The Politics of Organizational Change explores the relationship between self-interest, power, politics and managing organizational change from a theoretical perspective. It encourages the fundamental questioning of the relationship between self-interest, power and control inherent within organizational change, and discusses the attendant implications for managing change. It will be of value to those who require a text that goes beyond set patterns of coverage found in textbooks dealing with managing change.

Good public health depends on regular monitoring of water quality as faecal contamination is a serious problem due to the potential for contracting disease. Bacterial contamination in water is measured using indicator organisms, notably Escherichia coli and Enterococci which are used as primary indicators of contamination in fresh and marine water quality, respectively, rather than the total coliforms present. Although most E. coli and Enterococci strains cause only mild infections, their presence is indicative of the potential presence of other more pathogenic organisms which are a danger to human health. The acceptable levels of indicator organisms are defined in legislation and are set for drinking, river, well and marine water. This chapter will consider current gold standard culture methods of analysis for E. coli and compare them with molecular DNA procedures. Established culture methods use β‐D-glucuronidase to identify E. coli and β‐D-galactosidase to detect coliforms. Emphasis will be placed on newer procedures that can be used onsite supported by laboratory procedures used for confirmation. Available rapid fluorimetric procedures which have been developed for use in the field, based on the assay of β‐D-glucuronidase, will be discussed. The rapid advances in procedures using a molecular approach will be considered and compared with the more established methods for determining E. coli in water. It is essential that all these methods should be quantitative in order to comply with legal norms, and in this regard, the potential involvement of biosensor technology will be of great value in successfully transferring laboratory procedures to the field.