Public Transport Optimization
This textbook provides a comprehensive step-by-step guide for new public transport modelers. It includes an introduction to mathematical modeling, continuous and discrete optimization, numerical optimization, computational complexity analysis, metaheuristics, and multi-objective optimization. These tools help engineers and modelers to use better existing public transport models and also develop new models that can address future challenges. By reading this book, the reader will gain the ability to translate a future problem description into a mathematical model and solve it using an appropriate solution method.The textbook provides the knowledge needed to develop highly accurate mathematical models that can serve as decision support tools at the strategic, tactical, and operational planning levels of public transport services. Its detailed description of exact optimization methods, metaheuristics, bi-level, and multi-objective optimization approaches together with the detailed description of implementing these approaches in classic public transport problems with the use of open source tools is unique and will be highly useful to students and transport professionals.
Digitized Product Management
The principles of human evolution and change apply to technology as much as they do to our inner and outer worlds. Digitized Product Management examines the masculine milieu of tech innovation through a feminine lens, offering insights gleaned over 25 years. Agathe Daae-Qvale wishes that every one of her consulting clients had read this insight before commencing their work together in digital product and service development. This book represents a subjective overview of the technological dimensions that individuals, businesses, and organizations alike need to pay attention to in order to succeed in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.Each section offers the keys to unlocking the barriers to disruptive innovation, helping to maneuver through the shifting marketplace. It serves as the ultimate guide to reinventing your business through navigating the evolution of use cases and tech distribution. Here you will learn how to become the director of innovation as opposed to reacting to its fast-paced evolution-analyzing the more frequent blind spots encountered when creating something truly new. Choose this book as your companion as you step into the digital future. Don't let your business get left behind in this fast-changing digital world!
Driven to Succeed
Are you Driven to Succeed? Is your pilot light lit? Is there a hunger for growth burning inside you to become your best self personally and professionally? In Driven to Succeed, Scott Biehl challenges you to get your fire burning white-hot so that you won't want to miss a workout, you won't want to miss a meeting at work, and you won't want to miss a monthly goal. You'll become so focused that the opportunity to be sabotaged becomes almost zero. You will be so busy crushing work and life that you simply will not have time for anything less than success. About Scott Biehl Scott Biehl resides in beautiful Lake Tahoe with his wife of 30 years. Scott spent the last 35 years in the retail automotive business rising from a 21-year-old salesperson to becoming the Owner, CEO, and Dealer Principal of the #1 Jaguar Land Rover dealership in the USA. Although Scott sold his dealerships in 2022 he is far from retired. Scott's passion has always focused on helping others succeed. Scott has a successful consulting and coaching business for both individuals and organizations through the Driven to Succeed network where he not only coaches and consults but also delivers multi-day training events. Scott is easily reachable via email (found within the book). Explore the Driven to Succeed website for details on upcoming events, and browse our online store for workbooks, notepads, and clothing. Stay in the loop about upcoming events and receive Scott's monthly Driven to Succeed Newsletter by registering on our blog.
The Technological Emergence of AutoML
The Technological Emergence of AutoML presents a comprehensive snapshot of how AutoML has permeated into mainstream use within the early 2020s. This work surveys both their implementation and application in the context of industry. It also defines what a 'performant' AutoML system is - HCI support is valued highly here - and assesses how the current crop of available packages and services lives up to expectations. To do so in a systematic manner, this survey is structured as follows. Section 2 begins by elaborating on the notion of an ML workflow, conceptually framing AutoML in terms of the high-level operations required to develop, deploy and maintain an ML model. Section 3 uses this workflow to support the introduction of industry-related stakeholders and their interests/obligations. These requirements are unified into a comprehensive set of criteria, supported by methods of assessment, that determine whether an AutoML system can be considered performant. Section 4 launches the survey in earnest, assessing the nature and capabilities of existing AutoML technology beginning with an examination of open-source AutoML packages. The section additionally investigates AutoML systems that are designed for specific domains, as well as commercial products. Subsequently, Section 5 assesses where AutoML technology has been used and how it has fared. Academic work focusing on real-world applications is surveyed, as are vendor-based case studies. All key findings and assessments are then synthesized in Section 6, with commentary around how mature AutoML technology is, as well as whether there are obstacles and opportunities for future uptake. Finally, Section 7 provides a concluding overview on the technological emergence of AutoML.
Lead!
Welcome fellow leaders! Welcome to the never-ending journey of an evolving career and management focus on personal leadership development and coaching. A striking change in global perspective has placed a new focus and pressure on finding and applying more productive uses of your assets and updating your team members' skills to compete successfully. Taking personal leadership in your own career growth and success is worth the investment. This is where you apply leverage to dynamically succeed! Too many leaders are blind to the opportunities and responsibilities of creating and nurturing those who would follow them. Too many miss the opportunity (are blind) to play an active part in the selection, growth, and success of those who would succeed them; those who would help them succeed as leaders. "Avoid being the blind leading the blind ... leave behind a 'Legacy of Leadership'." Bob 'Idea Man' Hooey Leadership can be a lonely and frustrating road to walk. There will be times when you wonder if it is worth the effort. I know I have! 'LEAD! - 12 idea-rich leadership success strategies' is my small contribution to helping you work through the frustrations, challenges, and lessons; to see your efforts bear positive fruit. Being a persuasive and effective leader is a lifetime commitment and we need you. LEAD! was written to share a few ideas, tips, and techniques we felt would be helpful in your quest for leadership significance.In recent history, workplace coaching has taken on a new, more effective focus. Leading edge employees, managers, and successful executives have experienced positive results from enlisting the help of a leadership coach to help them improve in specific areas or to achieve specific goals. Striving for significance as a leader follows this path. People have been going outside the typical corporate arena and enlisting or recruiting personal or leadership coaches. They want to change, to improve their performance, and to enhance their ability to win! Strive for significance - lead on purpose! Many world leaders, executives, and innovative managers have also seen the wisdom and a positive return on their investment of time and resources in training and coaching their employees and future leaders for optimal results. Things are changing in the boardrooms, factories, and on the sales floors of businesses across North America and the globe. Are you? Leaders are changing as well, with more women taking on important leadership roles and proving themselves worthy as they inspire other women to follow their lead. Bravo!People generally experience problems and challenges in their performance for four major reasons: Poor or inadequate training Inadequate equipment or support servicesTime constraints and poor time management Motivation Unfortunately, many of these reasons can be traced back to poor or uninspired leadership.
Generative AI Security
This book explores the revolutionary intersection of Generative AI (GenAI) and cybersecurity. It presents a comprehensive guide that intertwines theories and practices, aiming to equip cybersecurity professionals, CISOs, AI researchers, developers, architects and college students with an understanding of GenAI's profound impacts on cybersecurity. The scope of the book ranges from the foundations of GenAI, including underlying principles, advanced architectures, and cutting-edge research, to specific aspects of GenAI security such as data security, model security, application-level security, and the emerging fields of LLMOps and DevSecOps. It explores AI regulations around the globe, ethical considerations, the threat landscape, and privacy preservation. Further, it assesses the transformative potential of GenAI in reshaping the cybersecurity landscape, the ethical implications of using advanced models, and the innovative strategies required to secure GenAI applications. Lastly, the book presents an in-depth analysis of the security challenges and potential solutions specific to GenAI, and a forward-looking view of how it can redefine cybersecurity practices. By addressing these topics, it provides answers to questions on how to secure GenAI applications, as well as vital support with understanding and navigating the complex and ever-evolving regulatory environments, and how to build a resilient GenAI security program. The book offers actionable insights and hands-on resources for anyone engaged in the rapidly evolving world of GenAI and cybersecurity.
Perspectives on Paradata
This open access book examines a rapidly 'datafied' society, reminding us that it is crucial to know what data is about and where it originates. This insight has led to an embryonic stage of new theorizing, empirical research, and the formation of new technologies, standards, practices, and concepts to ensure the availability of adequate 'paradata' - data on the making and processing of data. This edited volume aims to provide a cross-disciplinary overview of perspectives on the concept and phenomenon of paradata and its implications for research and practice.
Tax Resolution Systems
Completely revised and expanded second edition. New for 2016!This comprehensive checklist manual is your key to the gates of tax practice efficiency. Contains complete, step-by-step checklists covering the marketing, selling, and working of tax resolution cases.From daily marketing checklists to specific checklists for obtaining Installment Agreements and other IRS tax debt resolutions, this systems manual drastically short cuts the time it will take you to implement proven, effective procedures into your tax practice.
Conversations of Change
A practical guide to implementing workplace change. Managing change in a workplace can be a difficult process. Your focus should be on the opportunity it presents, not the problem that's been created. Conversations of Change is a practical guide that navigates experienced and inexperienced managers alike through the process of identifying, creating and measuring real and effective change. The book covers how to make sense of organizational change, how to set up your change initiative for success and what you need to know to implement change well. Structured in three easy to read parts. Part 1: Shaping up - the decisions you need to make - Clarity on 4 universal points of confusion in change - Who's who in the zoo! Easy to understand explanations of 10 necessary roles in change - Change success - a three-legged stool, pull one element away and it falls over - 6 most commonly used change models explained Part 2 Moving forward - the 5 pillars of change success - 6 elements of change capable organisation - Change readiness and how to assess if you are ready for change - Dealing with change resistance - three key considerations - From the trenches - 5 pitfalls of change communication to avoid - 12 truisms of change leadership Part 3 Check the peripherals - things that you should be aware of - 5 Future of Work practices and how they can be used in your change efforts - 6 myths of change management that can get in the way - The ultimate information on how to develop your knowledge in change management - including associations, formal knowledge, communities of practice, self-study with 11 change experts to follow on twitter and 17 change management blogs to bookmark Bonus chapter! A full summary of all four adventures.
New trends in cost accounting
Accounting has undergone major changes throughout history. Until the early 19th century, the balance sheet and income statement were basically the only accounting tools available to management. However, over the years, companies began to become aware of the importance of adding new quantitative and even qualitative variables to the management of their companies. Cost accounting has evolved over the decades, introducing new management systems to achieve greater control of business costs and help achieve better results. To adapt to the dynamic and competitive environment of the business world, new trends in cost accounting have been developed; however, there is no model par excellence, each company, depending on its economic or technical capacity, will apply one model or another given its characteristics and needs. For this reason, the main existing systems have been presented throughout the work, in order to know their usefulness and importance, as well as the most important advantages and disadvantages.
Key figures related to sustainability
For many companies, defining a sustainability strategy and integrating a functioning sustainability management system has become a guiding principle. Sustainability controlling and the corresponding analysis tools play a decisive role in this. This study examines the effects of sustainability-related key figures on strategic decisions in companies. The empirical study and the literature research have shown that the transformation to a sustainable company is essential for its continued existence. Legal regulations and the expectations of stakeholders should be taken into account when setting sustainability targets. Suitable key figures must be defined to measure target achievement in order to present the company's sustainability performance on the market and to enter into dialogue with stakeholders. It also became clear that in times of global crises and ever stricter legal regulations, key figures as a control element of sustainability targets have a significant influence on strategic decisions within the company.
Feasibility Project for the Creation of a Microenterprise
It is a research project with the purpose of knowing the reality of the environment and create a micro enterprise to generate employment in the rural area in which there are no companies that provide services to the civil society. It is a necessity since there is raw material and to elaborate the final product for national export; the present project will find the budget, investment, profitability and the final result.
Digital marketing in wholesale travel agencies
Tourism is an activity that generates development and economic growth to countries, articulating the different sectors and companies, whether airlines, resorts, transportation, lodging establishments, food, among others. Every day the activities of the tourism sector are expanding and involving different agents to provide and make possible tourism services, integrating economic activity in the population. As in developed countries, working hours have been reduced and free time for rest and leisure has increased, giving rise to trips, visits to family or friends, promoting recreational activities. Travel agencies present a very competitive market, due to the demands between companies in the same field and the consumer is becoming more skilled and has an essential tool which are the media and social networks that facilitate information and can compare prices and services offered by travel agencies, therefore, the consumer has the ability to seek sufficient information to stop going to the intermediary services of travel agencies.
Advances in Computational Mathematics for Industrial System Reliability and Maintainability
This book is a comprehensive exploration of computational mathematics and its impact on enhancing the reliability and maintainability of industrial systems. With its careful blend of theoretical foundations, practical applications, and future perspectives, this book is a vital reference for researchers, engineers, and professionals seeking to optimize industrial systems' performance, efficiency, and resilience.
Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation
The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatisation of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterised an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci's theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatisation process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatisation of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatisation and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies.It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology, and political science.
SAP S/4HANA Retail
This book is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to delve into the world of retail management using SAP S/4HANA Retail. It is crafted to facilitate a seamless transition for retail professionals into the new system, focusing on end-to-end retail processes. The handbook offers a deep dive into setting up and customizing the purchasing, warehousing, and sales operations within SAP S/4HANA Retail, ensuring that readers can optimise their retail projects successfully.The book is not just theoretical; it includes practical elements such as screenshots, menu paths, and detailed overviews of Fiori apps, which provide a hands-on understanding of the software's capabilities. Readers will learn not only the possibilities offered by SAP S/4HANA Retail but will also gain practical, actionable knowledge on how to effectively use the software.Furthermore, the book discusses the new functions of SAP S/4HANA Retail that can enhance the user experience. It explains strategic data analysis and how to leverage omnichannel tools to engage customers both online and offline. Praised by both newcomers and seasoned professionals in the retail industry, this handbook stands as an invaluable resource for anyone aiming to excel in the modern retail environment, backed by the power of SAP technology.
The CareFull Supervisor
Learn real frontline leadership in The CareFull Supervisor. Acclaimed business educator Kevin Burns shatters the traditional view of supervisory roles, exposing a profound understanding: your team doesn't work for you - you work for them.The CareFull Supervisor dismantles the complexities of leadership, equipping supervisors with practical techniques and resources to lead with confidence. While many supervisors may have been promoted due to their exceptional individual achievements, transitioning from standout employee to empathetic leader demands an entirely new skill set.The CareFull Supervisor is not just another book on supervision; it's a game-changer for anyone in a leadership role. This book takes you on a transformative journey equipping you with the tools to excel as a supervisor, and the skills to create a workplace that inspires loyalty and teamwork. The CareFull Supervisor offers insights into building genuine connections with your team and creating an environment of trust and collaboration. Whether you're a seasoned supervisor or just starting out, this book will show you how to lead with confidence and care - qualities that are essential for success in today's ever-changing workplace. Take the first step towards a fulfilling path of self-improvement and become the supervisor employees want to have.
The CareFull Supervisor
Learn real frontline leadership in The CareFull Supervisor. Acclaimed business educator Kevin Burns shatters the traditional view of supervisory roles, exposing a profound understanding: your team doesn't work for you - you work for them.The CareFull Supervisor dismantles the complexities of leadership, equipping supervisors with practical techniques and resources to lead with confidence. While many supervisors may have been promoted due to their exceptional individual achievements, transitioning from standout employee to empathetic leader demands an entirely new skill set.The CareFull Supervisor is not just another book on supervision; it's a game-changer for anyone in a leadership role. This book takes you on a transformative journey equipping you with the tools to excel as a supervisor, and the skills to create a workplace that inspires loyalty and teamwork. The CareFull Supervisor offers insights into building genuine connections with your team and creating an environment of trust and collaboration. Whether you're a seasoned supervisor or just starting out, this book will show you how to lead with confidence and care - qualities that are essential for success in today's ever-changing workplace. Take the first step towards a fulfilling path of self-improvement and become the supervisor employees want to have.
Innovation, Sustainability, and Technological Megatrends in the Face of Uncertainties
This edited book focuses on the multidimensional aspects of the technological megatrends shaping our global economic system's social, economic, and geopolitical order in the face of uncertainties. With continued shocks, economic downturns, socio-political crises, climate change, and waves of pandemics that pose an existential threat, technological forces have significant effects in defining our path. In this book, by focusing on recent innovations and technological megatrends, the authors assess the sustainability of such human developments in the face of uncertainty. The book analyses the core developments, and trending tech solutions that pause challenges and bring opportunities for businesses and the economies as our global economy emerges from the devastating economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. The book appeals to professionals wanting to assess how technological developments and innovation will impact their areas, but also to researchers interested in the impact on businesses, industries and economies.
Artificial intelligence and Industry 4.0
The future of artificial intelligence is a very interesting and complex topic, which generates many expectations, opportunities and challenges. AI applied to different sectors and problems, such as health, industry, education, security, environment or scientific research. AI can help improve the quality of life, efficiency, innovation and knowledge in these areas. AI and the future of work, education and leisure, raises questions about the role of humans, the skills that will be required, the opportunities and threats that will arise, and how to adapt and harness the potential of AI. AI is being applied in industry to: Automate routine and repetitive tasks, which can improve efficiency, reduce errors and free employees to focus on more important tasks. Improve the quality of products and services by analyzing large amounts of data and detecting patterns and problems that might go unnoticed by humans. Customize offerings and adapt to individual customer needs by using customer data to create tailored solutions.
Emotional pay and job satisfaction
The purpose of this research is to determine the influence that the emotional salary has on the job satisfaction of the administrative and operational personnel of the Intercultural Education District 15D01 Tena. It also seeks to identify the factors that stimulate workers within an organization to improve their quality of life and their production capacity, through the implementation of labor policies that help to promote a good working environment. In chapter one, the problem of the object of study is described and the objectives that will help to solve it are described. In chapter two, the theoretical framework is explained with a bibliographic base, which allowed understanding the necessary concepts such as salary and job satisfaction to carry out the research. Chapter three describes the methodology applied in the research, which was of a deductive-inductive type that helped to obtain the necessary information to detect the shortcomings of the problem and to be able to establish conclusions for its solution. Chapter four details the analysis, interpretation and discussion of the results obtained from the questionnaire.
An Operations Management Perspective on Design Thinking
An Operations Management Perspective on Design Thinking provides a map of what is known about mechanisms of design thinking when looking through an operations management lens and identifies areas where knowledge gaps still exist. In applying the operations management lens, the author constructs a simple framework for how to assess progress in design thinking activities. To provide improved design thinking progress measures, the author expands this framework by considering multiple dimensions of these measures in greater detail: the outcomes of an operation and its transformation function. Applying the reference set to these multiple dimensions of the expanded framework identifies contributions from other disciplines that can help explain the conditions under which design thinking operations can be managed successfully and pinpoints unexplained gaps that are worthy of future research. The monograph first prepares the methodological ground by putting the attempt to search for better design thinking process measures in the context of existing research approaches. The next section summarizes the origins and characteristics of design thinking and provides an overview of the progress measures that have been proposed for design thinking. The monograph then introduces an operations management perspective for design thinking as an innovation production process. The next section expands this perspective by introducing multiple dimensions and finer grained measures and apply this extended framework to the data set from earlier sections to pull together the current understanding of design thinking and to identify future research opportunities. The monograph concludes with some broader reflections.
Relationship marketing strategies among coffee franchisees
The objective of the research is to identify the marketing strategies implemented between a foreign franchise and a local coffee business, which allow them to maintain lasting and profitable relationships with their consumers. The research is descriptive, as it involves the description, recording, analysis and interpretation of the current nature and composition of the phenomena that describe the population through the use of relationship marketing. A total of 384 surveys were applied to consumers who regularly attend the Starbucks and Degas Caf矇 franchise. The results show that customers consume coffee more than three times a month, they go for the variety of products offered and the customer service. It is concluded that in coffee franchises the services and/or products that are marketed, the new offers, and customer satisfaction are of utmost importance to create a relationship of loyalty to the brand.
Sustainability Analytics Toolkit for Practitioners
This book solicits meaningful contributions from key experts and practitioners that have been dealing with the emerging area of sustainability analytics. In doing so, readers would understand the cost, impact and performance of their sustainability initiatives. The book covers current analytical tools (eg: frameworks, standards, ESG indexes) to measure sustainability, and how these tools embed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In addition to that, a part of the book is also dedicated to the application of sustainability analytics, highlighting key challenges as well as the importance of engagement and communication in shaping the future direction of sustainability assessments. This book will be extremely useful to both researchers and practitioners who are looking for best--in-class practices to create value from their sustainability initiatives.
The Quality Toolbox
This book provides tools that are less commonly used and some tools that the author, Nancy Tague, created. Inside you'll find tools for generating and organizing ideas, evaluating ideas, analyzing processes, determining root causes, planning, basic data handling, and statistics. In this third edition, six new tools were added (i.e., DFMEA and PMFEA) along with a section on Quality 4.0 and suggested quality tools that can help facilitate practitioners looking to implement Quality 4.0 concepts. The use of icons with each tool description tells the reader at a glance what kind of tool it is and where it is used within the improvement process.
Procurement Analytics
This unique textbook explicitly addresses the intersection of advanced analytics and procurement. It is motivated by one core question: How can firms generate (economic) value from procurement data? It demonstrates that procurement is one of the major functions within a firm where data analytics, artificial intelligence, and operations research can successfully be leveraged to reduce cost and risk and to achieve resilience and sustainability goals.The book provides a methods-based overview of data-driven optimization of purchasing decisions. Besides presenting key concepts and applications, it particularly focuses on implementation, so as to help (future) procurement managers and data scientists quickly evaluate the value generated by a given data-driven solution. What sets this textbook apart is its combination of rigorous, state-of-the-art methodologies from academic research and first-hand experience from various application-oriented consulting projects in a range ofindustries. Though primarily intended for graduate students with a major in procurement and supply chain management, the book will also benefit purchasing managers with and without specific knowledge of advanced analytics techniques, and data scientists with and without specific experience in procurement.
Making Universities Matter
In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and international contexts, this volume delves into the multifaceted interactions between universities and various knowledge users, emphasizing the need for scholars to reflect on how their knowledge can become useful and applicable to wider society. Organized into three compelling themes, collaboration, engagement, and impact, this book explores the concept of "mattering". Together and jointly, they point at the fluid movement of scholars and scholarly knowledge across academic, political, and public spaces, and the intentional actions of scientists to leverage their expertise for real-worldimpact. Essential reading for social science and humanities scholars, university management professionals, and individuals keen on a critical understanding of the evolving role of universities, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of how universities have mattered, continue to matter, and can shape the future.
Making Universities Matter
In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia. Drawing upon insightful inquiries from both the Swedish and international contexts, this volume delves into the multifaceted interactions between universities and various knowledge users, emphasizing the need for scholars to reflect on how their knowledge can become useful and applicable to wider society. Organized into three compelling themes, collaboration, engagement, and impact, this book explores the concept of "mattering". Together and jointly, they point at the fluid movement of scholars and scholarly knowledge across academic, political, and public spaces, and the intentional actions of scientists to leverage their expertise for real-worldimpact. Essential reading for social science and humanities scholars, university management professionals, and individuals keen on a critical understanding of the evolving role of universities, this volume offers a comprehensive examination of how universities have mattered, continue to matter, and can shape the future.
The Digital Supply Chain Challenge 2nd Edition
The challenges facing supply chain professionals are changing rapidly. Today, far from focusing on capital expenditures and logistics such as warehousing and distribution, supply chain executives are expected to understand all aspects of the business, appreciate the constraints and expectations of upstream and downstream partners, and possess sufficient technological savvy to navigate the bewildering array of options presented by Industry 4.0 and supply chain digitalization (SCD). This book is for them.The Digital Supply Chain Challenge: Breaking Through 2nd Edtion is a distillation of the authors' 50+ years of combined supply chain experience, both at the coal face and in the classroom. Their insights and observations - captured in short articles and best-practice case studies - are brought together in one place for supply chain executives to consult at different times during their SCD voyage, to find benchmarks, relevant insights or even just to help formulate the right questions along the way. It is a sort of handbook to the essentials of digital supply chain transformation.This new edition contains additional chapters on AI, an evaluation of Industry 4.0, why the promised fourth industrial revolution hasn't happened yet and new cases studies on Tesla, Heineken, L'Oreal and Zalando.
Infinite Impact
In the ever-evolving landscape of a complex corporate world, true leadership is the rare gem that has the power to create infinite impact.Every leader needs a compass to navigate through modern challenges, faced within an organisation, in turbulent economic environments. Enter Infinite Impact, a comprehensive playbook that equips leaders with the mindset, tools, and strategies necessary to thrive in the era of swift turnarounds and immediate action.Infinite Impact provides simple, practical solutions to cultivate high-performing teams, develop a growth mindset, transform cultures, navigate corporate politics, overcome burnout, prioritize wellness, and distinguish leadership with authenticity and empathy.Abdalla Nasr draws from his vast international experience in guiding top leaders and gaining game-changing insights from some of the largest organizations, in multiple industries. Nasr goes beyond mere theory, offering tangible solutions for the mostpressing challenges faced by leaders today.If you are ready to break free from the shackles of traditional leadership and embark on a journey of Infinite Impact, then this book is your definitive guide. Upskill your role as an agent of change-the corporate world is waiting for its next generation of infinite leaders-will you step up to the challenge?Abdalla Nasr is a best-selling author and an award-winning certified trainer in talent assessment and development who has spent over a decade transforming organizations worldwide. Born and raised in the Middle East, Nasr has been a globe-trotter, carving a career path that has given him the edge in guiding executive leaders to achieve their true potential.His bestselling book, The Corporate, captured the interest and enthusiasm of readers keen to thrive in a competitive talent market. Abdalla is passionate about propelling people to become the best version of themselves, personally and professionally.
The Transformation Curve to World Class
In "The Transformation Curve," Steven Leuschel and Rodger Lewis unveil a revolutionary approach to organizational transformation. Drawing from his rich experiences at Volkswagen, Toyota Georgetown, and General Motors, Rodger introduces the Transformation Curve-a systematic framework for achieving lasting change. The book is co-authored with a consultant who has witnessed the curve's impact firsthand, Steven Leuschel.Readers gain insights into the evolution of the Transformation Curve, its adaptability to diverse industries, and its emphasis on culture, mutual trust, and respect as the bedrock of successful change. The book explores how this approach addresses North America's Lean implementation challenges.Rodger B. Lewis's life journey shapes "The Transformation Curve," a groundbreaking approach to complete organizational transformation. From his early days at Volkswagen to his transformative experiences at Toyota Georgetown and General Motors, Rodger's unique path informs his perspective on the Toyota Production System's North American application.The book outlines the journey that led to the Transformation Curve's development and its expansion across industries. Emphasizing culture as the key driver for sustainable change, it offers organizations a roadmap to shift from tool-focused approaches to comprehensive, culture-driven transformation."The Transformation Curve: A Systematic Approach to Organizational Change" challenges organizations to adopt a systematic, repeatable approach, positioning them for world-class performance across industries.
Careful Interventions
In 2015 and 2016 more than a million people sought refuge from conflict and hardships in Germany. While the response was ambivalent, across the country large networks of supporters formed, offering various kinds of assistance to the arriving persons. This book takes these developments as a starting point. It reports on an HCI project, building on the emancipatory traditions of Participatory Design and the Socio-Informatics approach, aiming to develop assistive technologies for forced migrants as well as their supporters. It focusses on the design process and reflects on the nature of intervening through participatory design in matters of migration and arrival. The work draws on feminist conceptualisations of care and outlines how care and participation interacted in this context to support the longterm maintenance of the design results, but also how care relations between the different participant groups undermined the democratic aims of participation. It draws out preliminary lessonsfor an interventionist HCI practice.
Executive Assistant Mastery
Are you ready to become an invaluable asset to your manager in just 90 days? "Executive Assistant Mastery" is your roadmap to a game-changing journey with 43 essential steps, meticulously crafted for corporate executive assistants.Drawing from her 20 years of EA expertise, including 10 years of trusted support to CEOs, Maria Fuller shares her unparalleled step by step process to EA success.Inside, you'll uncover: Proven Productivity Hacks: Unleash your efficiency with proven techniques for EAs.Seamlessly Manage Business Travel: Ensure your executive's trips are smooth and stress-free.Calendar Mastery Exposed: Discover the secrets to mastering calendars and optimising schedules.Grasp the Rhythms of Business: Stay one step ahead by decoding the unique rhythm of your organisation.Boost Recurring Meetings: Take control of recurring meetings and eliminate time-wasting habits.Build Solid Calendar Foundations: Create a robust framework for your manager's success.More than just a guide, "Executive Assistant Mastery" is your comprehensive toolkit for success, containing phenomenal insights from a CEO level assistant.If you currently hold the title of Executive Assistant, Administrator, or Personal Assistant, this step-by-step manual will empower you to enhance your boss's effectiveness and truly master your craft in just 90 days.
Strategic Sourcing
This book provides a methodology, grounded in prior research, for analyzing supply chain vulnerabilities and determining appropriate strategic sourcing approaches firms can adopt for managing risk and ensuring supply chain resilience. Supply chain risk affects firms in a multitude of ways. The detrimental results of failing to manage supply chain risk includes, but is not limited to, disruptions that lead to the inability of firms to meet customer requirements, increased costs due to holding excessive inventory, paying employee overtime and expediting orders, financial losses due to increases in commodity prices and unfavorable exchange rates, and tarnishing firm reputation due to poor performance. Although supply chain risk can detrimentally affect firms in many ways, there are approaches organizations can implement for identifying, assessing, and managing risk in order to foster resiliency. This work focuses on strategic sourcing approaches for identifying, assessing and managing supply chain risk. It provides readers with insight into strategic sourcing and risk management approaches for managing supply chain risk and attaining resilience and will appeal to researchers in supply chain management, sourcing, and procurement.
Reverse Social Innovation
This book presents important insights into Social Innovation and Reverse Innovation. It introduces a unique perspective by merging Social Innovation with the emerging concept of Reverse Innovation. Addressing the scarcity of Reverse Innovation knowledge, the book starts with a comprehensive literature review, establishing a solid theoretical framework.By leveraging the core contributions of both concepts, a new idea is developed: Reverse Social Innovation. This unexplored notion is rigorously examined through a novel conceptual model and validated via mixed-method research. Case studies showcase instances of Reverse Social Innovation, while content analysis refines the model. The book is valuable for practitioners, researchers, and students. Practitioners can explore the potential of Reverse Social Innovation for impactful change. Researchers delve into the uncharted territory of Reverse Innovation and its intersections. Students engage with a cutting-edge research field, opening doors for future exploration.
The Silicon Valley Model
The first edition of The Silicon Valley Model, published in 2016, addresses the need for a fundamentally new approach to managing and developing large firms with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. This second edition validates, extends, and updates these original findings. While still encompassing the observations and analysis featured in the first edition, this new edition addresses new developments in management and in the global business environment. Further, it presents Dr. Steiber's research identifying more companies in Asia, Europe, and the USA that are implementing management approaches that parallels the Silicon Valley Model, and in some respects, advanced upon it. New material, appearing mainly in the "Recent Developments" sections in each chapter, includes both real-life events and new research findings related to the management principles for entrepreneurship. In some cases, elements of innovation and development of the Silicon Valley Model have taken new forms in response to changing times or the desires of the companies involved. The Silicon Valley Model, Second Edition is beneficial to executives from the board and CEO level on down, consultants, researchers, and others who study or work with new developments in management.
IT for Business
IT for Business: A Student's Guide to the Technology of Business provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the role and application of information technology in the business world. Each chapter in the book focuses on a different aspect of IT as it relates to business. The opening chapter sets the stage by discussing the importance of developing a keen understanding of business technology to be competitive within the job market, businesses, and organizations. The following chapter introduces the basics of computer science, including a brief history of computers, how they work, and how they communicate. Additional chapters cover hardware, different types of software and operating systems, the differences between native and web-based applications, software licensing, and database basics, development, and management, including structured query language (SQL), business intelligence, and artificial intelligence. In closing chapters, students learn about organizational strategy, business processes, IT governance, cybersecurity, IT service delivery, project management, e-commerce, the human aspect of IT, and more. Developed to provide students with a holistic understanding, IT for Business is an exemplary resource for courses and programs in business, management, and computer systems technology.
Supply Chains in Reverse Logistics
Currently, it is obvious that new types of production (Industry 4.0) are accompanying new ways of distribution, which advance logistics, physical distribution science, and even supply chain management. The changing environment for carrying out logistics activities is also important for the development of the supply chain. Care for ecology, the recent pandemic, and the situation in Ukraine are other reasons to adapt logistics to the needs of an individual customer/recipient. It would be impossible without developing an appropriate strategy and applying appropriate tools for managing supply chains in the national and international dimensions. This book specifically addresses these issues.When analyzing the needs and structure of modern supply chains, in the context of their safety and risk reduction, it is impossible to ignore the problem of digitization, which allows for logistic analysis of the company, determining optimal routes, designing logistic systems, optimizing storage processes and costs, and predicting possible threats (crisis situations) and their effects (losses). IT support, automatic data exchange, e-logistics, telematics, traceability, and chatbots between various departments of the company along the upper and lower parts of the supply chain improve the flow of material and accompanying information through automation, robotization, proactivity, and document digitization. These new trends make it possible to define logistics as modern logistics using new achievements of science and technology.Modern logistics must also consider ecological aspects in line with assumptions about protecting the environment and improving our climate. Efficiently organized reverse logistics is not without significance for ecology. It is supported by renewable energy, electric vehicles, proper education in the field of a closed economy, cleaner production, waste minimization, the use of passive infrastructure, and proper waste management that allows us to positively influence environmental protection and human health. To meet the needs of creating modern supply chains, the authors developed this powerful book in which they analyze and present current and future solutions that influence the development of these issues in modern reverse logistics.
Lean Productivity and Efficiency (Book 3 Beyond Success Series)
Lean Productivity and Efficiency is a collection of essays on streamliningprocesses to maximize efficiency while minimizing waste and unnecessary steps.The book includes practical advice on applying these principles in yourworkplace or home. Topics include defining the problem and identifying its rootcause, the importance of data and metrics in measuring success in Leanworkflow, considerations for analyzing the current situation, and bestpractices for maintaining improvements. The book also explores continuousimprovement and employee empowerment and engagement. Lean Productivity and Efficiency will help individuals and organizations optimizetheir productivity and efficiency by continuously honing and refining theirprocesses.
Lighting Up the Blackbox - Digital Transformation in German Lobbying
Digital transformation, alongside social media channels, influences policymaking. The aim of this research is to build knowledge of the consequences of digital transformation on lobbying at German federal level. This analysis uncovers how digital lobbying works in Germany and how it changes classic lobbying communication within the political sphere. Taking a grounded theory approach, the study addresses both communicating sides: lobbyists, on the one hand, and members of the German Bundestag and their employees, on the other. A profound understanding of, and differentiation between, lobbying and digital lobbying is gained through a first data-gathering step of 15 interviews with representatives of both the political and lobbying sides. The study extends previous analyses by supplementing the findings with ethnographic data from the researcher's experience of working as an employee of a member of the German Bundestag. Final conclusions were drawn by presenting these results in the second data-gathering step, during four (digital) focus groups with the political side and three with agency, association, and corporate lobbyists from Berlin. The analysis uncovers a power shift in lobbying communication and a novel communication direction.
Digital Transformation in South Africa
This book examines the adoption of digital technologies in different sectors in South Africa. The authors investigate how digital innovation impacts development in various areas in the public and private sectors. Chapters in the book cover digital transformation in authorities and government bodies and how this transforms governance, this includes digital transformation for good governance in the public sector, tax authorities, local government, and traditional authorities. The second set of chapters emphasizes the digital transformation of business corporations, such as digital transformation lessons for small businesses, digital transformation of finance, and the banking sector. Other chapters delve into enterprise processes such as auditing, corporate reporting, good corporate reputation, enterprise risk management, and marketing environment. The book will appeal to an audience of scholars and professionals wanting to understand more about the role of digital transformation in emerging economies and how innovation influences economic growth.
Decision-Making in Design, Maintenance, Planning, and Investment of Wind Energy
This book demonstrates how decision-making models can be applied to solve specific real-life problems, with a particular emphasis on wind energy. In a step-by-step manner, it guides the reader through decision-making, the formulation of optimization models, and the methods for solving them. After providing an overview of various models for the design of wind farms, it presents an optimization model for deciding which economy (country) to invest in and models for selecting suppliers. A dedicated chapter focuses on different models for monitoring and predictive maintenance for wind turbines (farms) due to the construction of turbine blades and vibration. It shows how combinatorial optimization models can help to make optimal decisions for one-dimensional cutting stock of blanks, their processing, and determining the optimal composition for production. Moreover, it discusses how the energy consumption balance index formed by conventional and renewable sources can be determined and presents a means of identifying the relative share of wind energy consumption among the other renewable sources. Operations research professionals, students, and decision-makers alike will find this book to be a valuable resource for tackling real-world challenges and driving sustainable advances in wind energy solutions.
Variational Methods in Partially Ordered Spaces
This book discusses basic tools of partially ordered spaces and applies them to variational methods in Nonlinear Analysis and for optimizing problems. This book is aimed at graduate students and research mathematicians.
A Leader’s Guide to Designing High Performing Quality Management Systems
The genesis of this book is over two decades of experience working with leaders who struggle with the concept of Quality Management System (QMS). Often, leaders fail to understand this concept, implement ineffective QMS models and subsequently are disrupted from their roles. More important and even more impactful are the consequences a poorly designed and executed QMS model has on organizational stakeholders including customers.The purpose of this book is to provide a simple leadership quick guide for designing high-performing Quality Management System models. This guide will focus on Quality Management System assessment, structure, process and achieving outcomes through practical real-world tools, templates, and models. The test of any model is its outcomes. This book will provide decades of insight so leaders ensure their QMS model Solves Problems, Achieves Outcomes, Sustains Wins, and Transforms Organizational Outcomes in High-Risk Environments.The intended audience for this book includes but is not limited to: top executives, governance members, leaders of any rank, thought leaders, strategists, students, performance improvement leaders, change agents, teachers, and anyone interested in quality, improvement, strategy, and leadership. Regardless of role, organization type, or industry, quality matters and is a focal point for customers. Thus, those leading the charge for excellence in this arena must have a good structure, process, and measurable outcomes sustained over time.So, why is this topic important? In today's world, change is the new normal and only constant. In many industries, such as healthcare for example, the foundations of the industries themselves are shaking greater than at any other time in history. As change grows, so does the associated risk and disruption. How will leaders and their organizations succeed in high-risk environments without a good foundation? The short answer is they won't. The starting point for success is the Quality Management System.By reading this book, readers will learn: How to construct a well-defined Quality Management System (QMS) How to identify and counter common misperceptions of QMS Techniques to engage other leaders in crucial conversations related to QMS gaps, illusions of success, perceived and real shortcomings, and measures of success How to conduct a basic and advanced assessment of Quality Management System models to determine what is working, what is not working, and high-risk areas to improve The required structural elements of high-performing QMS models A wholistic approach to the QMS process What measures constitute QMS success
Operations Management and Logistics
Operations management and logistics lies at the heart of every organization, whether manufacturing or services, large or small, public or private, multinational or SMB. It is thus essential for all managers and business school graduates to master the fundamental concepts of operations management and logistics and to be capable of choosing and applying the best methods for the situation throughout their career.This textbook aims to present the essentials of operations management and logistics and to explain them in sufficient detail for the reader to apply them. The authors have deliberately stayed away from the latest trends in OML, not only because they will soon be outmoded anyway, but also because they are all rooted in the same timeless set of principles that can be applied to a variety of different contexts. A good manager should thus be like a chef who first masters the basics of his craft and can then combine them to make any recipe.Finally, though much space is devoted to the quantitative tools essential to operational system design and logistics management, these tools are always subordinate to the management decisions they are meant to support. The central theme running through all the chapters is the need to make choices. In logistics and operations management, there is rarely a simple, clearly marked path. Every decision the manager makes involves give and take. In fact, a good subtitle for this book could have been "The Art of Compromise".
Cognition and Business Models
This book explores how theories of cognition inform our theoretical understanding of business models and business model innovation. A business model can either be viewed as an objective description of an activity system, or as an abstract, conceptual, and perceptual construct, that is the result of cognition. From this second point of view, the business model becomes a schematic mental model that is created, shaped, and shared over time. In other words, managers hold in their mind perceptual constructs that constitute schemas of the business model.This book examines how the underlying processes of the creation, shaping, and sharing of business (mental) models take place at individual, organizational, and even inter-organizational levels. Theories of managerial and organizational cognition are explored to inform our understanding of business modelling and business model innovation. The reader is thus provided with an overview of existing literature and reflections on future avenues of research to explore the cognitive foundations of business modelling.
Cybersecurity Training
Organizations face increasing cybersecurity attacks that threaten their sensitive data, systems, and existence; but there are solutions. Experts recommend cybersecurity training and general awareness learning experiences as strategic necessities; however, organizations lack cybersecurity training planning, implementation, and optimization guidance. Cybersecurity Training: A Pathway to Readiness addresses the demand to provide cybersecurity training aligned with the normal flow of IT project delivery and technology operations.Cybersecurity Training combines best practices found in standards and frameworks like ITIL technology management, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO risk, quality and information security management systems, and the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Trainers will appreciate the approach that builds on the ADDIE model of instructional design, Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Thought, and Kirkpatrick's Model of Evaluation, a trilogy of training best practices.Readers learn to apply this proven project-oriented training approach to improve the probability of successful cybersecurity awareness and role-based training experiences. The reader is guided to initiate, plan, design, develop, pilot, implement and evaluate training and learning, followed by continual improvement sprints and projects.Cybersecurity Training prepares trainers, project managers, and IT security professionals to deliver and optimize cybersecurity training so that organizations and its people are ready to prevent and mitigate cybersecurity threats leading to more resilient organizations.
