Equipment Management in the Post-Maintenance Era
Recent advancements in information systems and computer technology have led to developments in equipment and robotic technology that have permanently changed the characteristics of manufacturing equipment.
Dynamics of Information Systems
The contributions of this volume stem from the "Fifth International Conference on the Dynamics of Information Systems" held in Gainesville, FL in February 2013, and discuss state-of the-art techniques in handling problems and solutions in the broad field of information systems. Dynamics of Information Systems: Computational and Mathematical Challenges presents diverse aspects of modern information systems with an emphasis on interconnected network systems and related topics, such as signal and message reconstruction, network connectivity, stochastic network analysis, cyber and computer security, community and cohesive structures in complex networks. Information systems are a vital part of modern societies. They are essential to our daily actions, including social networking, business and bank transactions, as well as sensor communications. The rapid increase in these capabilities has enabled us with more powerful systems, readily available to sense, control, disperse, and analyze information.
From Idea to Innovation
Introduction.- Creative Destruction.- Innovation.- Business Models.- Innovation Culture and Innovation Management.- Invention.- Creativity.- Outlook.- Indices.
Managing Complexity and Creating Innovation Through Design
The book proposes design and design research as a solution to the complexities associated with the intensifying and rapid changes in societies, technological fields and environments. It collates high-level research and the latest scholarship on this topic and many of the case studies draw on rich experiences and applications in practice.
Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy
This book focuses on the use of farm level, micro- and macro-data of cooperative systems and networks in developing new robust, reliable and coherent modeling tools for agricultural and environmental policy analysis. The efficacy of public intervention on agriculture is largely determined by the existence of reliable information on the effects of policy options and market developments on farmers' production decisions and in particular, on key issues such as levels of agricultural and non-agricultural output, land use and incomes, use of natural resources, sustainable-centric management, structural change and the viability of family farms. Over the last years, several methods and analytical tools have been developed for policy analysis using various sets of data. Such methods have been based on integrated approaches in an effort to investigate the above key issues and have thus attempted to offer a powerful environment for decision making, particularly in an era of radical change for both agriculture and the wider economy.
Crowdsourcing
This book presents the latest research on the software crowdsourcing approach to develop large and complex software in a cloud-based platform. It develops the fundamental principles, management organization and processes, and a cloud-based infrastructure to support this new software development approach. The book examines a variety of issues in software crowdsourcing processes, including software quality, costs, diversity of solutions, and the competitive nature of crowdsourcing processes. Furthermore, the book outlines a research roadmap of this emerging field, including all the key technology and management issues for the foreseeable future. Crowdsourcing, as demonstrated by Wikipedia and Facebook for online web applications, has shown promising results for a variety of applications, including healthcare, business, gold mining exploration, education, and software development. Software crowdsourcing is emerging as a promising solution to designing, developing and maintaining software. Preliminary software crowdsourcing practices and platforms, including Apple's App Store and TopCoder, demonstrate the advantages of crowdsourcing in terms of software ecosystem expansion and product quality improvement.
Hidden Champions in Cee and Turkey
1.Introduction.- 2.Research Methodology.- 3.Leadership of Hidden Champions from Vision to Communityship.- 4.Three Bivalent Performance Factors of Hidden Champions Ownership, Organizational Culture and Organizational Governance.- 5.Innovation Behaviour of Hidden Champions.- 6.International Marketing.- 7.In Search of Sustainable Business in Central and Eastern Europe.- 8.Financial Aspects of HCs Business Models.- 9.Hidden Champions of Albania.- 10.Hidden Champions of Belarus.- 11.Hidden Champions of Bosnia and Herzegovina.- 12.Hidden Champions of Croatia.- 13.Hidden Champions of Estonia.- 14.Hidden Champions of Hungary.- 15.Hidden Champions of Latvia.- 16.Hidden Champions of the Republic of Macedonia.- 17.Hidden Champions of Romania.- 18.Hidden Champions of Russia.- 19.Hidden Champions of Serbia.- 20.Hidden Champions of Slovakia.- 21.Hidden Champions of Slovenia.- 22.Hidden Champions of Turkey.- 23.Hidden Champions of Ukraine.
Three Domain Modelling and Uncertainty Analysis
Introduction.- Energy infrastructure planning in cities and territories, quality factors of methods for infrastructure planning.- 3-domain modelling.- Conceptual basis of uncertainty in IEPCT.- Multi-method approaches for uncertainty Analysis.- Implementation of discussed uncertainty analysis approaches in case studies.- Evaluation and discussion.- Overall conclusion and future research.
Multichannel Commerce
This book takes an in-depth look at consumer behavior in the context of multichannel commerce and explores how the convergence of physical and electronic channels influences consumer decision-making in a multichannel environment. In this regard, it goes far beyond explaining choices between online and offline sales channels, instead providing insights into how the interplay between different channel types is valued by different consumer types and for different products. The book extends previous conceptualizations of multichannel commerce to reflect and incorporate recent technological advances. The results provide valuable guidelines on how, why and when multichannel integration services can be exploited by classical retailers, helping them to compete with their purely online competitors on the internet.
Multicriteria and Clustering
Introduction.- Methodologies.- Applications in Various Agricultural, Food and Environmental Issues.
A Course in In-Memory Data Management
Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts of enterprise data. Professor Hasso Plattner and his research group at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, have been investigating and teaching the corresponding concepts and their adoption in the software industry for years.This book is based on an online course that was first launched in autumn 2012 with more than 13,000 enrolled students and marked the successful starting point of the openHPI e-learning platform. The course is mainly designed for students of computer science, software engineering, and IT related subjects, but addresses business experts, software developers, technology experts, and IT analysts alike. Plattner and his group focus on exploring the inner mechanics of a column-oriented dictionary-encoded in-memory database. Covered topics include - amongst others - physical data storage and access, basic database operators, compression mechanisms, and parallel join algorithms. Beyond that, implications for future enterprise applications and their development are discussed. Step by step, readers will understand the radical differences and advantages of the new technology over traditional row-oriented, disk-based databases.In this completely revised 2nd edition, we incorporate the feedback of thousands of course participants on openHPI and take into account latest advancements in hard- and software. Improved figures, explanations, and examples further ease the understanding of the concepts presented. We introduce advanced data management techniques such as transparent aggregate caches and provide new showcases that demonstrate the potential of in-memory databases for two diverse industries: retail and life sciences.
Understanding the Lean Enterprise
An Implementation Model for Lean and Green.- Lean and IT - Working Together? An Exploratory Study of the Potential Conflicts Between Lean Thinking and the Use of Information Technology in Organisations Today.- Lean Thinking and Organisational Learning: How Can They Facilitate Each Other?.- Flow Accounting: The Next Challenge for 21st Century Lean Businesses.- Changing an Organisation's Culture with Systems Thinking - A case study from the Financial Services Industry.- Understanding Effective Problem Solving.- Completely Taktless! What Is Pull in the Context of the Process Industries?.- Internationalisation of Lean Manufacturing: The Influence of Environmental Conditions.- Lean Supply Chain Model and Application in an Italian Fashion Luxury Company.- Strategic Planning for Lean Production, Comparing Hoshin Kanri with Balanced Scorecard.- Lean Management and Product Innovation: A Critical Review.- Introducing a Value Improvement Model for Manufacturing (m-VIM).
Sustainable Green Development and Manufacturing Performance Through Modern Production Techniques
The book evaluates industry performance through sustainable green development while adopting advanced production techniques including their proper and effective selection. It discusses the application of Multi Criteria Decision Making, fuzzy and quantitative techniques, and includes case studies leading to a qualitative model.
Principles of Management for Medical Professions
Management is essential for any organization. Hospitals and other healthcare facilities are businesses that rely on good management and administration to keep them running. A healthcare administrator is a high-level employee who manages various aspects of a healthcare facility. Being a healthcare administrator is typically a stressful job working to provide both quality services to patients and assuring the financial viability of the facility. The authors address important issues including the basics of managements including functions of managements, communications, time management, leadership, staffing, decision making, corporate meetings, conflict management and effective report writing as the healthcare administrator is responsible for planning, coordinating and supervising the delivery of healthcare services in clinics, hospitals, public health agencies and managed care organizations.
Unity Conscious Leadership(TM) (Interdependent Growth and Transformation)
Overcome and transform crises for personal, cultural and professional growth using the lens of Unity Conscious Leadership(TM).Have you ever wondered;- Why are people and organizations falling back into old habits and patterns?- Why is it so difficult to transcend mutual differences?- How to break through obstructive situations in life and business?These were the questions Joyce Z. Wazirali has been asking herself, ever since childhood. She discovered that the answers were already in the questions. On the other hand, Health, Happiness, and Peace are the deep-rooted human values people are longing for in life. These values have occupied us for many centuries. Without these values, people are suffering, and enduring violence in various ways. The undercurrent of collective trauma makes it still quite a quest to uncover them.The only way to find the answers and solutions and to grow health, happiness and peace, is by changing our perspective on life. New paradigm on leadershipThe world we are in now has been created over the centuries from an old paradigm of Dualism; seeing life and acting in separation in a dynamic order of hierarchy and inequality. Here lies the root cause of obstructive patterns and paradoxes, the source of conflicts and crises.To make a deep sustainable change we need to change the paradigm on life from Dualism to Unity Conscious Leadership(TM).In this book Joyce takes you on a journey with the opportunity to perceive situations with the lens of Unity Conscious Leadership(TM); a new paradigm on leadership, to overcome and transform crises, and unlock potential, for; sustainable personal growth and development, cultural transformation and professional growth; and thus more health, happiness and peace in the world. The book is full of wise and inspiring advice with numerous practical examples showing how Joyce has used Unity Conscious Leadership(TM) not only to explore problems by using relational intelligence, but also to resolve them together with her clients. To best explain the complexity of life in an easy way, Joyce has merged; The Eastern wisdom of the Lotus Sutra (created 2,600 years ago by Shakyamuni Buddha), the Western knowledge of system dynamics, quantum physics and collective field, with The layers of suffering and transformation (which she has obtained through 30+ years of experience in the field of; people and business growth from the perspective of Unity Conscious Leadership(TM)). Interdependent growth and transformationOur growth is an interdependent process and is also the key point of Unity Conscious Leadership(TM) and the Lotus Sutra.Toxic relationships are often the cause of health problems, affecting people's feeling of happiness and sense of peace. This also applies to relationships within organizations. As a result affecting the health of the people, the culture and customer base and thus the health of the organization in many aspects. Transformation is the result of interacting with others with the intention of fostering mutual growth. Using obstacles for growth.
Leading Lean Six SIGMA
Leading Lean Six Sigma: Research on Leadership for Operational Excellence Deployment assesses the impact of organizational leadership on the deployment of Lean Six Sigma in organisations. This book details what leadership traits are needed for a successful deployment, presenting a ground-breaking leadership dependency model.
Enabling Collaborative Governance Through Systems Modeling Methods
Presents different approaches to public management problem-solving that applies systemic principles, conceptual and simulation modelsExamines how public sector organizations are adopting system modeling methodsHighlights the need to foster collaborative governance and the design of consistent and robust policies to deal with problems at both inter-institutional and agency levels
A Development Strategy for Hybrid Products
Significance and Purpose of This Book.- Review of Prior Research on Corporate Behavior during the Emergence of New Technologies.- History of Japanese Animation Industry and New Technology.- Evaluation of New Technology by Existing Engineers.- Attributes of Engineers with High Receptivity to Other Technologies.- Utilization of New Technology in Incumbents - Development of Hybrid Products through Insourcing of 3DCG Production.- Utilization of New Technology in Incumbents - Development of Hybrid Products by Outsourcing 3DCG.- Conclusions.- Supplementary chapter: Environmental influences on the recognition of new technologies.
Garden Lovers Any Year Planner
For those who adore their gardens, and want to add some joy to their year, this any year planner is not only useful, practical and helpful. It is also beautiful, jam packed with stunning images of gardens, and also containing bonus recipes to get you all fired up in the kitchen.
Modeling and Simulating Complex Business Perceptions
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Data Analysis.- Chapter 3. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.- Chapter 4. Data Modeling.- Chapter 5. Network analysis, accuracy and stability of the job-satisfaction structures.- Chapter 6. The proposed data-driven glassoFCM method.- Chapter 7. Thesis Conclusions.
Digital Transformation of the Supply Chain
This book unravels the complexities of supply chain process transformation by explaining step-by-step, in simple terms, the requirements for success from the basics to the implementation of this complicated task. The book provides insights into how to lead the transformation project and how to manage the change internally and externally. The authors' hands-on experience in the field via applied research is clearly illustrated in the case studies, which provide the reader with practical examples of the challenges and benefits of implementing a digital supply chain transformation project. This is a must-have book for all supply chain and operations professionals.
Leadership Transition Coaching
Want to know how your executive clients feel during coaching? This book is a practical guide for any coach and coach trainer who wants to hear the voices of leaders as they convey what is valuable to them when moving into a new role. This book provides a framework for practising coaches who want to understand the impact of coaching on leaders as they transition. The framework is grounded in research that reflects the practice and real-life experiences of several leaders. This book also provides insight to leaders, where specific topics may resonate as they reflect on the progress of their own transition. "This book provides very relevant, usable advice and examples well-suited to practitioner-level coaches and to those training them."Stephen Murphy, VP Development, EMCC Global"Mary Valette Devine and Inge Nieuwstraten have provided an engaging new take on one of the central topics leaders bring to coaching conversations: 'transitions'."Prof Jonathan Passmore, Professor of Coaching & Behavioural Change, Executive Director Henley Centre for Coaching, Henley Business School, UK"Leadership Transition Coaching is a timely and valuable contribution to the literature on leadership, particularly for those navigating the challenges of changing leadership roles. A key strength of this book is the seamless blend of an evidence base from existing and original research with a focus on practical advice for leaders and coaches."Professor Carol Linehan, School of Applied Psychology, University College CorkMary Valette Devine is an HR Consultant, Executive Coach and Mentor. She is Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a member of the Coaching Psychology Special Interest Group at the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) and a member of the EMCC.Inge Nieuwstraten divides her time between being a College Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University College Cork, Ireland, and being a Practicing Psychologist and Psychotherapist (private practice and on a primary care team).
Forecasting
Forecasting is required in many situations. Deciding whether to build another power generation plant in the next five years requires forecasts of future demand. Scheduling staff in a call centre next week requires forecasts of call volumes. Stocking an inventory requires forecasts of stock requirements. Telecommunication routing requires traffic forecasts a few minutes ahead. Whatever the circumstances or time horizons involved, forecasting is an important aid in effective and efficient planning. This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to forecasting methods and presents enough information about each method for readers to use them sensibly. Examples use R with many data sets taken from the authors' own consulting experience. In this third edition, all chapters have been updated to cover the latest research and forecasting methods. One new chapter has been added on time series features. The latest version of the book is freely available online at http: //OTexts.com/fpp3.
Supply Chain Processes
Supply Chain Processes　introduces readers to the view that genuine supply chain competitive advantage is achieved via supply chain excellence which in turn is underpinned by supply chain process excellence. The ultimate supply chain goal is to deliver the right product, of the right quality, in the right quantity, to the right place, at the right time and for the right cost. The author identifies four core supply chain processes - strategy, design, execution and people - to which the process　improvement　techniques explained can be applied to ensure superior supply chain performance. Key topics are addressed, including supply chain risk, resilience, sustainability, challenges confronting modern-day supply chains and developing an elegant supply chain design. Each chapter starts with a section that explores learning opportunities and is followed by detailed chapter content. Carefully explained examples are provided, as well as end of chapter case studies, review questions and written assignments. A full suite of teaching aids is also provided for lecturers and tutors. Providing both management expertise and technical skills, which are essential to decision-makers in the supply chain, this textbook should be essential reading for undergraduate and post-graduate students, post-experience students studying for professional qualifications, and operating supply chain leaders and supply chain professionals. Online resources include chapter-by-chapter PowerPoint slides, tutorial exercises, written assignments and a test bank of exam questions.
Real-Time Simulation for Sustainable Production
This book provides a comprehensive overview of potential opportunities and the business value position related to implementing physics-based real-time simulation to production.
Shale Energy Revolution
Chapter 1 Analysis on the Structural Changes in the Global Oil and Gas Industry and Its Trend.- Chapter 2 The Development and Implication of Nature Gas Market in the Context of the Shale Revolution.- Chapter 3 The Development and Implication of Crude Oil Market in the Context of the Shale Revolution.- Chapter 4 Current Situation, Challenges and Countermeasures of Shale Industry in China.- Chapter 5 Multi-dimensional Interactions in the Oilfield Market: A Jackknife Model Averaging Approach of Spatial Productivity Analysis.- Chapter 6 The Shale Technical Revolution -- Cheer or Fear? Impact Analysis on Efficiency in the Global Oilfield Service Market.- Chapter 7 Different Behaviors in Natural Gas Production between National and Private Oil Companies: Economics-Driven or Environment-Driven?.- Chapter 8 Total-Factor Spillovers, Similarities, and Competitions in the Petroleum Industry.
Successful Innovation Systems
Part I: Introducing the Framework.- 1. Launch Pad.- 2. Human Capital.- 3. Finance Capital, Market, and Policy.- 4. Infrastructure and Institutions.- 5. Management of Resources and Lessons Learned.- Part II: Learning from Successful Innovation Regions.- 6. Bangalore Innovation System.- 7. Berlin Innovation System.- 8. Medell穩n Innovation System.- 9. Moscow Innovation System.- 10. Nairobi Innovation System.- 11. New York Innovation System.- 12. Shanghai Innovation System.- 13. Shenzhen Innovation System.- 14. Silicon Valley Innovation System.- 15. Sofia Innovation System.- 16. Tel Aviv Innovation System.- 17. Zurich Innovation System.
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The Social Intranet
Few things are as fundamental in business as communication. At a time when routines are being displaced by automation and everything is just "a project," employees often feel uninformed, and companies feel like piles of chaos. Face-to-face meetings, emails, and phone calls are holding the enterprise together in a makeshift way, as if tied together with twine. Internal politics is not only the order of the day, but a fundamental tool for effectiveness. Board members as well as employees who simply want to get meaningful work done are becoming more and more frustrated. You're saying to yourself that there must be a better way! Others are coping, so, yes, you can too. You don't have to master the entire New Work toolbox to ensure that all employees know what's going on. Your business doesn't have to depend on meetings, emails, and telephone calls. You don't have to "abuse" these three things in your company for every use case. Yes, you can try to drive a project using an Excel spreadsheet and daily meetings. You can try, but it won't work and you'll have to bear the entire effort alone. This book will show you how every day we help all sorts of organizations, from small companies to really big corporations, to escape from the seemingly simple but toxic communication traps. It presents use cases that will help your projects to become effective and successful while still paying attention to sustainability and the health and well-being of your employees. These are not magic formulas. And it takes effort to break the ingrained routines of toxic communication. But doing so is worth it. This book is practical. It names products. It praises and criticizes. It talks about costs. It guides. It is transparent. It has video demonstrations and examples. It includes customer interviews. You don't need to know anything about technology, and you don't need any prior knowledge. The book will appeal to IT professionals as well as internal corporate communications experts and business analysts.
Blockchain and Supply Chain Logistics
This book introduces blockchain technology applications in supply chains. Blockchain is a relatively new tool, nevertheless, there have been considerable advances over the last five years, and blockchain is now poised to revolutionize the conventional supply chains with the offering of accountability and quality to the wider complex supply networks. Based on literature reviews and original research, this book serves as an essential introduction to blockchain and its applications in supply chain. The unique features of the book are empirical studies to demonstrate the application of blockchain technology in food, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation and retail sectors. Each chapter includes research framework and open research questions. Simple narration of concept and detailed insights from primary research information. Use case narrative will provoke the readers to demystify the myths in application of concepts in the supply chain . Overall, the book demystifies blockchain technology, reviews evolution and outlines its future applications by blending contents to meet the expectations of both academic and practice community.
Erp-Systeme
F羹r Unternehmen aller Gr繹?en und Branchen sind ERP-Systeme nach wie vor unverzichtbar und k繹nnen die Leistungsf瓣higkeit des Unternehmens erheblich steigern. In diesem auf umfassender Erfahrung aus Forschungs- und Beratungsprojekten aufbauenden Buch wird die Vielzahl der in ERP-Systemen angebotenen Funktionen anbieterneutral betrachtet. Die 4. Auflage wurde didaktisch 羹berarbeitet, aktualisiert und korrigiert.
Continuous Improvement
In this third book of the Shingo Model series, Continuous Improvement focuses on five of the Shingo Guiding Principles: seek perfection, embrace scientific thinking, focus on process, assure quality at the source, and improve flow and pull. Each chapter in Continuous Improvement is designed to enhance your comprehension of one or more aspects of the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and to increase your understanding of how the dimension interrelates with and complements the other principles in the Shingo Model. Ultimately, this explanation grounds the technical science of continuous improvement with a powerful social science that focuses on people development. It is this combination that creates the opportunity for improvement to be truly continuous. Because tacit learning is critical to deepening your continuous improvement knowledge, "Reader Challenges" are included throughout the text to encourage you to apply what you have read within the context of your own organization. This hands-on practice is necessary to understand the interrelatedness of principles, systems, and tools that are inherent in the Shingo Model. The Shingo Institute recognizes that "the transformation from traditional philosophy and practices to organizational excellence does not occur without the courage, creativity, and persistence of everyone in the organization-from executives to managers to team members on the frontline."
Data Science and Multiple Criteria Decision Making Approaches in Finance
1. Introduction to Data Science and Machine Learning Algorithms.- 2. Identifying Indicators of Global Financial Crisis with Fuzzy Logic and Data Science: A Comparative Analysis between Developing and Developed Economies.- 3. Determining the Ways to Increase Economic Growth of Developing and Developed Economies: An Application with Data Mining and Fuzzy TOPSIS.- 4. Profitability Prediction of Turkish Banking Industry: A Comparative Analysis with Data Science and Fuzzy ANP.- 5. The Influence of the Politicians on Macroeconomic Performance: An Analysis of Donald Trump's Tweets.- 6. How is the Stock Exchange Index Affected by the Disclosures of Politicians?.- 7. Defining the Significant Factors of Currency Exchange Rate Risk by Considering Text Mining and Fuzzy AHP.- 8. Emerging Applications and the Future of Data Science.
Digitalization
What do vehicle manufacturers like Rosenbauer, logistics companies like DB Schenker, a compressor manufacturer such as Bauer, an elevator manufacturer such as ThyssenKrupp, and a hygiene goods manufacturer like Hagleitner all have in common? They all use the potential of digitization to offer smarter and faster services to customers and to actively shape the digital transformation of their business models. This book provides valuable insights with concise and established guidelines for the successful digital transformation of business models. Professionals in management, strategic planning, business development, as well as researchers and students from the fields of innovation/technology management, strategic management, and entrepreneurship would particularly benefit from this book.
Asset Maintenance Management in Industry
This book introduces readers to essential strategies, practices, and benchmarking for asset maintenance in operations intensive industries. Drawing on a case study from the oil and gas sector, it offers a methodology and practical solutions to help maintenance practitioners select and formulate an asset maintenance strategy, and to establish best maintenance practices at an organizational level using the frameworks developed here. It is intended for industry practitioners, young maintenance professionals, and students of engineering management who aspire to a career in operations intensive industries.
Artificial Intelligence
The rediscovery of the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes has led to an increasing application of AI techniques such as deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics in the healthcare domain. Many governments and health authorities have prioritized the application of AI in the delivery of healthcare. Also, technological giants and leading universities have established teams dedicated to the application of AI in medicine. These trends will mean an expanded role for AI in the provision of healthcare. Yet, there is an incomplete understanding of what AI is and its potential for use in healthcare. This book discusses the different types of AI applicable to healthcare and their application in medicine, population health, genomics, healthcare administration, and delivery. Readers, especially healthcare professionals and managers, will find the book useful to understand the different types of AI and how they are relevant to healthcare delivery. The book provides examples of AI being applied in medicine, population health, genomics, healthcare administration, and delivery and how they can commence applying AI in their health services. Researchers and technology professionals will also find the book useful to note current trends in the application of AI in healthcare and initiate their own projects to enable the application of AI in healthcare/medical domains.
Generalized Intuitionistic Multiplicative Fuzzy Calculus Theory and Applications
Chapter 1. Basic operations between generalized intuitionistic multiplicative fuzzy information.- Chapter 2. Derivatives and differentials for generalized intuitionistic multiplicative fuzzy information.- Chapter 3. Indefinite integrals of generalized intuitionistic multiplicative fuzzy functions.- Chapter 4. Definite integrals of generalized intuitionistic multiplicative fuzzy functions.- Chapter 5. Several applications based on the definite integral models for (generalized) intuitionistic (multiplicative) fuzzy information.
From Industry 4.0 to Business Model 4.0
Useful tools for sketching and testing new business modelsSensible combination of Industry 4.0 and business model innovationAppropriate questions about transfer and implementation in your organization
Income Diversification in the Chinese Banking Industry: Challenges and Opportunities
This book provides an overview of the historical financial reforms and regulatory changes in China, highlighting the background to and causes of changes in the income structure of China's banks. It also investigates ongoing concerns with regard to banking diversification in China, and its consequences, amid the global trend of banks' shift to non-traditional businesses. Focusing on three critical aspects of bank-income diversification, namely the effects on profitability, risk level, and efficiency, it employs the concept of systemically important banks, which describes the scale and degree of influence a bank has in global and domestic financial markets. More importantly, rather than replicating techniques employed in the research on developed markets, it applies several improved methodologies to address bank diversification in the specific context created by China's unique institutional background and data characteristics, such as GMM-type threshold models and stochastic frontieranalysis with the within maximum likelihood estimation. Shedding new light on the current status of income diversification in the Chinese banking sector, this book is a valuable resource for readers in fields such as banking and financial stability. It will also help banking professionals and financial regulatory authorities to better understand the reform of China's financial industry and the future direction of banking.
The Sexy Side of Self-Storage
Welcome to the glamorous world of storage brokering. Think helping people buy and sell storage facilities around the world isn't sexy? Think again. - In the US alone, self-storage is a multi-billion-dollar industry. - Every day, brokers help owners buy or sell one of 55,000 facilities in the US. - Storage properties are a recession-proof commodity, with value-add opportunities ripe for buyers. - Globally, storage is a fast-growing industry, doubling in size every year since 2008. - It's an industry ready for disruption, with trends shaking it up in management, logistics, and technology. A second-generation self-storage owner, operator, developer, and broker, John C. Lindsey has been in the self-storage world his whole life. Since 2012, John has built one of the largest by volume self-storage brokerage companies in the US, with an approach that prioritizes win-wins between sellers and buyers. Now, John has compiled his approach into The Sexy Side of Self-Storage to shine a light on buying and selling, and to show where the industry is headed. Whether you are an individual owner with a single self-storage facility or an institutional investor with a portfolio of properties, this book shows you the know-how and expertise you need to successfully sell or buy a property.
The Nature of Purchasing
This book was created in the spirit of learning from nature in the field of professional purchasing. It describes real-world purchasing problems faced by companies as well as individuals and presents natural hands-on solutions that apply scientific approaches. The book answers what the core of purchasing could be, the inner structure of it or in other words the natural way. Nature masters effectiveness based on immanent laws and ensures efficiency by best results for minimal invest. Especially in complex and ambiguous situations, purchasers benefit from this book by understanding the broader context with the help of recent scientific research.Focusing on the problems that purchasers face in managerial practice rather than oversimplified generalizations, the book features step-by-step explanations, allowing readers to find tailored solutions to address challenges in key purchasing areas. The book was written in collaboration and with the help of experts in purchasingand logistics, biology, law and economics, human resource development, media and sports, and merges perspectives from theory and practice to provide natural strategies for purchasers.
Lean On!
If someone told you Domino's Pizza and Tesla might not be all that different through their manufacturing process, would you believe them?In Lean On! Mohit Gupta reinvigorates the power of Lean manufacturing and the importance of adopting optimization in a world of limited resources by sharing stories from well-known companies such as Tesla, Tata, Domino's, Boeing, Amazon and many successful operations experts and consultants. With interviews from people who work for a wide range of companies, from the automobile to the telecom industry, Lean On! provides an intersection of Lean and Agile for industries beyond manufacturing and factories.Are you new to operations excellence?Are you unsure of how to engage your IT folks in your next operations project?Are you looking for a quick intro to the world of manufacturing?Are you having trouble differentiating between Lean and Agile?Lean on! will help you answer all of these questions and more while helping you gain a clearer understanding of operations excellence and why Lean can help us all.
The New Beginning
This book is a sequel to the business novel, The Secret to Maximizing Profitability - A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine the Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma to Drive Profit Margins to New Levels.
Behavioral Competencies for Innovation
This book represents the first comprehensive investigation of the role of emotional intelligence in promoting innovation in the organizational context. Offering emerging insights into the human side of innovation. This book highlights how it has become strategically important for firm innovativeness to identify and evaluate those behavioral competencies that enable entrepreneurs and professionals to generate different types of innovation (product, process, marketing, organizational and strategic innovation). It illustrates a classification of behavioral competencies for innovation and provides empirical evidence collected through the application of the competency-based methodology to a sample of entrepreneurs and new product development teams. This book provides practical policy and managerial implications on how to develop and evaluate behavioral competencies in the higher education and organizational settings in order to foster individual innovation capacity.
The New Beginning
This book is a sequel to the business novel, The Secret to Maximizing Profitability - A Business Novel on How to Successfully Combine the Theory of Constraints, Lean, and Six Sigma to Drive Profit Margins to New Levels.
Remote Audit
The Remote Audit - Virtual Remote Audits From Planning to Implementation Quality management creates trust - especially in complex and specialized economic relationships across borders. Additionally, there is a demand for adjusting organizational structures and processes fast and as needed. Therefore, quality managers who are charged with such jobs and external auditors are faced with new challenges. Remote audits - also referred to as virtual remote audits over the internet - make approaches possible that offer completely new solutions here. Particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote audit solutions are frequently the only alternatives for handling audits within specified deadlines due to short-term travel warnings and very time-consuming quarantine requirements. Furthermore, remote audits can significantly reduce traveling expenses and efforts. On the one hand, this book is addressed to auditors who want to open up new clienteles through remote auditing. Yet on the other hand, it is likewise a good working basis for quality managers, controllers, and other decision-makers on the corporate side.
Amazon FBA
Amazon FBA has grown significantly over the past few years. There is a reason why so many people have jumped on board.Amazon is a multi-billion dollar company and even if you find only 1 product that sells well, you can make a full time income from anywhere around the world as long as you have an internet connection and a computer.Develop your own physical products, tap into Amazon's multi-billion dollar market, and easily replace your nine-to-five income. A proven step-by-step process to successfully private labeling products and selling them successfully on Amazon.The FBA Blueprint teaches you everything you need to succeed in importing and private labeling your own products, selling them on Amazon for high profit margins, and ultimately creating a high-value brand that could even be sold for a large sum in the near future! Whether you have previous experience in eCommerce or not, this book will guide you every step of the way.Something with the potential to replace your current income and allow you the freedom to work your own hours; buy goods in one country, have them shipped to another and sold on Amazon without having to touch the products, package them or ship them yourself.What you will learn?Amazon FBA Will Help Build Your BusinessHow Amazon FBA Helps EntrepreneursWhat Is The Amazon FBA Program All About?Amazon FBA Tutorial3 Ways To Sell Physical Products Using Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA)FBA - Fulfillment by AmazonSelling Your Product With Fulfillment by Amazon3 Reasons to Use Fulfillment by AmazonA Guide on How to Make Money Selling on AmazonStep by step instructions to Make Money Selling On Amazon - Helpful Tips To Get StartedTips on How to Make Money Selling on AmazonRead this book to find out if "Fulfilled By Amazon" could be a business for you!
Continuous Innovation with Devops
This book connects the new world of digitalization with classic IT management. With the presence of software in objects, products and processes, most businesses will become software-defined businesses. Software development and software management are thus key to stay competitive in an environment that demands continuous innovation. The authors provide a comprehensive introduction to continuous innovation, the DevOps concept and lay the foundations of an innovation-oriented IT management. The DevOps approach to continuous innovation, which combines lean and agile concepts with an automated tool chain, enables solutions that synergize fast (re)action through digital innovation on the one hand and long-term development cycles and stable operation on the other. A comprehensive case study of T-Systems MMS, a digital service provider from Deutsche Telekom in Germany, illustrates the use of this approach in practice.
