Research, Development and Innovation in the Creative Industries
What does effective research and development look like in the creative industries and how might it lead to successful innovation? This book is an answer to that question.
Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2024, held in Vienna, Austria, during September 10-13, 2024. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI, ML and Agents; BPM and WFM; Business Models, Platforms and Strategic Management; Enterprise and IT Architecture; IT and Software Architecture; Modeling Methods, Data and Component; Process Mining and Monitoring; and Sustainability and Resilience.
Toyota's Improvement Thinking from the Inside
The book is written for a wide audience so that readers outside of manufacturing organizations can understand the broad applicability of the Toyota way. In addition, It is written succinctly to help readers and practitioners focus their transformation efforts.
Strategic Design and Digitalisation of the Supply Chain
Digital supply chains increase companies' competitiveness. A systematic approach describes the development of strategies to achieve challenging corporate goals with the supply chain and its digitalisation. These include better fulfilling customer requirements, increasing sales, and simultaneously reducing costs. Strategy patterns are presented, and their implementation in companies is described. Entrepreneurs, supply chain, and operations managers receive a practice-oriented guide on how to align their company for the future. The tried-and-tested methods and approaches accelerate and facilitate strategy development, implementation, and support through digital solutions. The focus is on making/buying decisions, finding solutions for skills, digital solutions in production technology (3D printing), and the impact of Industry 4.0 and environmental aspects on the supply chain. Practical examples will show how new solution concepts support the design of future-oriented supply chains. The trigger points that could jeopardise a successful supply chain will also be presented, as well as the design for time and cost optimisation in the overall chain. How must a company fundamentally question the historically grown supply chain? What is essential in supply chain optimisation? The strategies presented define the processes, architectures, the use of digital technologies and the deployment of resources - considering the overarching corporate strategy, which calls for shorter delivery times and lower costs to remain competitive.
Imagining After Capitalism
Imagining After Capitalism is the culmination of professional futurist Andy Hines's 10-year exploration of what comes next after capitalism. Arguing that the absence of compelling positive alternatives keeps us stuck in a combination of fear, denial, and false hope, he offers three "guiding images" for the long-term future: an environmentally-driven Circular Commons, a socially-and politically-driven Non-Workers' Paradise and a technology-driven Tech-Led Abundance.
Warehouse Management
Modern warehouses are capitalizing on cutting-edge technologies to maximize their role in the wider supply chain. Understand how to successfully manage these warehouses with this bestselling guide. The fifth edition of Warehouse Management is fully updated to include up to date information across the board. The latest technologies in warehousing, such as robotics and automation are explained. This new edition also explores emerging technologies, like AI and IoT, and how they are shaping new warehouse management systems There are new case studies from companies who have achieved improvements and cost savings through the introduction of new technology and equipment, leaner processes and environmental initiatives. Warehouse Management guides the reader through all aspects of successfully managing a warehouse, its operations and distribution. This bestselling book covers an extensive range of key topics from defining the modern warehouse, detailing management processes, strategies and practices to outlining how to tackle environmental challenges to ensure a sustainable supply chain. With practical insights and real-world case studies into how to improve operating costs, this is a must read for optimizing warehouse performance. Online resources include PowerPoint slides and a bonus chapter on outsourcing.
Cartels Diagnosed
Collusion remains a strong undercurrent of business practice despite anti-cartel enforcement being a top priority of competition authorities. Alongside active prosecution of cartels, the study of cartels is a vibrant area of research for economic and legal scholars. A challenge for both practice and scholarship is that cartels evolve, as colluding firms continuously devise new methods to circumvent competition. Cartels Diagnosed presents twelve gripping cartel case studies of collusion from key business sectors such as the airline industry, the gasoline industry, and big pharma. Written by renowned economists, these concise and accessible case studies deliver novel insights into cartel formation, facilitating practices, cartels' modus operandi, and the efficacy of cartels. Assisting in understanding new cartel mechanisms and their effects, developing new policies to deter and destabilize cartels, and measuring harm, this volume on cartel morphology is an invaluable reference for supporting public and private enforcers in detecting and prosecuting cartels.
Industrial Policy for the United States
The U.S. is losing the competition for good jobs and high-value industries because most of Washington believes trade should be free, the dollar should float, and that innovation comes exclusively from the private sector. In this book, the authors make the bold case that these laissez-faire ideas have failed and that a robust industrial policy is the only way for America to remain prosperous and secure. Trump and Biden have enacted some of its elements, but it needs to be made systematic and comprehensive, including tariffs to protect key industries, a competitive exchange rate, and federal support for commercialization--not just invention--of new technologies. Timely, meticulously researched, and bipartisan, this impressive analysis replaces misunderstandings about industrial policy with lucid explanations of its underlying economic theory, the tools that implement it, and its successes (and failures) in America and abroad. It examines key industries of the past and future - steel, automobiles, television, semiconductors, space, aviation, robotics, and nanotechnology. It concludes with a realistic, actionable policy roadmap. A work of rigor and ambition, Industrial Policy for the United States is essential reading.
