Warranty and Preventive Maintenance for Remanufactured Products
This book is concerned with the practice and theory of warranty management and preventive maintenance, particularly in relation to remanufactured products' warranties.
Model-Driven Engineering of Information Systems
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Model-driven engineering (MDE) is the automatic production of software from simplified models of structure and functionality. It mainly involves the automation of the routine and technologically complex programming tasks, thus allowing developers to focus on the true value-adding functionality that the system needs to deliver. This book serves an overview of some of the core topics in MDE. The volume is broken into two sections offering a selection of papers that helps the reader not only understand the MDE principles and techniques, but also learn from practical examples. Also covered are the following topics: - MDE for software product lines- Formal methods for model transformation correctness- Metamodeling with Eclipse eCore- Metamodeling with UML profiles- Test cases generation This easily accessible reference volume offers a comprehensive guide to this rapidly expanding field. Edited by experienced writers with experience in both research and the practice of software engineering, Model-Driven Engineering of Information Systems: Principles, Techniques and Practice is an authoritative and easy-to-use reference, ideal for both researchers in the field and students who wish to gain an overview to this important field of study.
Strategic Management of Research Organizations
This entry-level text describes a tested top-down enterprise-wide approach to managing organizations with a predominant portion of their product being scientific or technological research. It focuses on executive performance and strategic forecasting and planning; goal-setting; communications and marketing, and operations management to realize strategic objectives. This book will be of interest to entrepreneurs, established scientists and engineers and to those studying toward an MBA with specialization in research institutions and major research infrastructures, preparing them to move from research or academia into their first managerial position. It also provides valuable advice and guidance for established middle and senior management in established research enterprises.Features: Provides an accessible and easy to follow introduction to strategic management methodologies Explores best practices for communication, marketing, and risk management Discusses workforce management as related to realizing strategic goals and plans
Industrial Design Engineering
From this new book, researchers, practitioners, and students will get an easy access to a wide range of effective industrial engineering tools and techniques in a concise format that will provide in-depth coverage emphasizing new thinking paradigms, tools, techniques, and models for industrial engineering problem solving.
The CISO Handbook
The CISO Handbook: A Practical Guide to Securing Your Company provides unique insights and guidance into designing and implementing an information security program, delivering true value to the stakeholders of a company. The authors present several essential high-level concepts before building a robust framework that will enable you to map the concepts to your company's environment. The book is presented in chapters that follow a consistent methodology - Assess, Plan, Design, Execute, and Report. The first chapter, Assess, identifies the elements that drive the need for infosec programs, enabling you to conduct an analysis of your business and regulatory requirements. Plan discusses how to build the foundation of your program, allowing you to develop an executive mandate, reporting metrics, and an organizational matrix with defined roles and responsibilities. Design demonstrates how to construct the policies and procedures to meet your identified business objectives, explaining how to perform a gap analysis between the existing environment and the desired end-state, define project requirements, and assemble a rough budget. Execute emphasizes the creation of a successful execution model for the implementation of security projects against the backdrop of common business constraints. Report focuses on communicating back to the external and internal stakeholders with information that fits the various audiences. Each chapter begins with an Overview, followed by Foundation Concepts that are critical success factors to understanding the material presented. The chapters also contain a Methodology section that explains the steps necessary to achieve the goals of the particular chapter.
Set Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Server
The need for every professional to have a solid presence on the Internet is more important than ever before. Having a presence beyond an email account, such as a custom web page or web application, usually requires a clumsy assortment of outside services or hiring a dedicated administrator. Thus it is more sensible for the average professional to become adept at managing their own private server. In Set Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Server, author Jon Westfall expertly designs interesting, understandable lessons for professionals such as teachers, doctors, lawyers, and more to deploy their own virtual private server. He walks you through choosing the right service and customizing it for your specific business or personal needs, and does this with great ease while instilling invaluable knowledge. Basics such as setting up users, managing security and firewalls, installing and updating software, and troubleshooting by reviewing log files, backing up data, and so much more. Set Up and Manage Your Virtual Private Server equips you with the power of knowledge to set your web presence apart from the rest. You now have complete control over your virtual brand that is your own--separate from any employer or affiliate. Your career mobility is in your hands with the ability to run your own private server at your fingertips. The digital era centers this technical literacy and independence as a critical skillset.What You Will LearnUnderstand basic server terminology and the way servers operate and are networked togetherSee how software is used on a server and its role (for example, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, and so on)Get comfortable with the basic command-line operation of a virtual private server to set up users, manage security and firewalls, install software, update software, and troubleshoot by reviewing log filesStore and back up importantinformationIdentify, analyze, and deploy open-source software products that can enhance productivityWho This Book Is ForNon-tech professionals, individuals who have an established professional career, looking to understand more about how to set up and manage a private server.
Facility Security Principles for Non-Security Practitioners
As more and more companies outsource their physical security function non-security managers with minimal security training or experience are finding themselves with responsibility for direct oversight of their company or facility physical security program. Designed for the non-security manager responsible for managing a facility security program, Facility Security Principles for Non-Security Practitioners provides the facility manager, plant manager, property manager and others with the foundational knowledge necessary to plan and implement an effective facility security program.The book is a best-practices guide that provides detailed information on the essential elements of a facility physical security program. Designed for the non-security manager responsible for managing a facility security program, the book provides the facility manager, plant manager, property manager and others with the foundational knowledge necessary to plan and implement an effective facility security program. Written in an easy to read format, it contains detailed information on physical security principles and concepts, policy and procedure development, security systems infrastructure, lock and key systems, risk and security assessments, contract security guidelines, emergency preparedness, influencing corporate security culture and much more.
Konfliktkultur (Weiter-)Entwickeln
Dieses essential besch瓣ftigt sich mit der Implementierung einer konstruktiven Konfliktkultur. Im Fokus stehen die Konfliktwahrnehmung, die Konfliktf瓣higkeit und die Sichtweise auf Konflikte. Es wird dazu eingeladen, Konflikte funktional zu betrachten und f羹r die Organisations- und Unternehmensentwicklung konstruktiv zu nutzen. Letztlich wird die Bedeutung der Konfliktmentalit瓣t im Rahmen des Change-Managements herausgearbeitet und m繹gliche Bedingungsfaktoren f羹r die Ver瓣nderung der Konfliktmentalit瓣t in Unternehmen werden aufgezeigt.
Who decides who decides? How to start a group so everyone can have a voice
So many groups form. And so many groups fade. What distinguishes those groups that grow and flourish from those that fade and fail? The success factors are well-studied, even though the lessons learned hardly make it into the design of those who start groups. That makes sense -- groups form because people feel the urgency for change in an area of their attention, not because they are experts in how to start a group. With intentional processes, we can establish an inclusive group culture early on to grow and flourish without governance troubles getting in the way - keeping our eyes on our shared purpose. This book offers a step-by-step process of how to start a self-managed group in three meetings. The processes in this book are based on tools and principles from sociocracy, a consent-based, decentralized governance system that supports every voice to be considered and valued, while allowing groups to work efficiently towards the shared purpose.
Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection: Models, Methods and Applications
Green Supply Chain Management.- Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection: Literature Review.- GSES based on Intuitionistic Fuzzy VIKOR Method.- GSES based on Picture Fuzzy VIKOR Method.- GSES using Interval 2-tuple Linguistic Distance Operators.- GSES using Interval 2-tuple Linguistic VIKOR Method.- GSES with Interval-valued Intuitionistic Uncertain Linguistic AQM.- GSES with Interval-valued Intuitionistic Uncertain Linguistic GRA-TOPSIS.- GSES with Large Group Uncertain Linguistic MULTIMOORA Method.- GSES using Double Hierarchy Hesitant Linguistic Sets and Decision Field Theory.- GSES using Linguistic Z-numbers and AQM.- GSES with Cloud Model Theory and QUALIFLEX Method.- GSES with Heterogeneous Information and MABAC Method.
Fuzzy Decision-Making Methods Based on Prospect Theory and Its Application in Venture Capital
This book gives a thorough and systematic introduction to the latest research results about fuzzy decision-making method based on prospect theory. It includes eight chapters: Introduction, Intuitionistic fuzzy MADM based on prospect theory, QUALIFLEX based on prospect theory with probabilistic linguistic information, Group PROMETHEE based on prospect theory with hesitant fuzzy linguistic information, Prospect consensus with probabilistic hesitant fuzzy preference information, Improved TODIM based on prospect theory and the improved TODIM with probabilistic hesitant fuzzy information, etc. This book is suitable for the researchers in the fields of fuzzy mathematics, operations research, behavioral science, management science and engineering, etc. It is also useful as a textbook for postgraduate and senior-year undergraduate students of the relevant professional institutions of higher learning.
Lean Six Sigma for the Office
Historically, the integration of manufacturing methodologies into the office environment has proven to be problematic. Part of the difficulty lies in the fact that process workflows tend to be globally dispersed and thus rely heavily on information technology.
Inventory Management and Purchasing
This book is a practical guide to inventory management for wholesale distributors and stores that supply "hard goods". It deals with merchandise classification and selection, forecasting, safety stocks, replenishment purchasing, promotions, forward buying, stock adjustments, and supply chain topics. It includes many formulas and over 50 tables and charts that cover all areas of inventory management. Industry data and examples from the author's auto parts distribution company and other automotive aftermarket firms illustrate each topic. Many of the formulas are from IBM, JDA, and other inventory management software packages, and are reprinted with their permission. All of these techniques were used to manage inventories in the author's company for more than 20 years. The automotive aftermarket deals with hundreds of thousands of different items and a very high service level requirement, so these techniques should cover a wide range of hard goods distribution. The book also has many anecdotes and case histories to illustrate the key points. It offers a valuable blend of strong, proven mathematical techniques and real life examples and experiences.
Reliability Analysis with Minitab
Many of the product recalls that we see daily are due to unexpected failures resulting from poor reliability analysis during the product design stage. Minitab is a statistical software package that has a highly useful set of "Reliability/Survival" tools, but those tools are barely explored or explained in literature. This new book illustrates th
Purchasing Guidebook
The purchasing function has a dramatic impact on the profitability of a business, and so must be carefully managed. The Purchasing Guidebook is an essential tool for doing so, since it shows how the department's performance can be fine-tuned. The course focuses on supplier selection and management, the competitive bidding process, negotiations, and contract management. It also addresses the many ways in which purchasing can be used to control costs in the areas of inventory management, logistics, and quality, while also providing the financial tools to improve a number of purchasing decisions. In short, the Purchasing Guidebook is a required toolkit for the purchasing professional.
?konomische Erkenntnisse Verst瓣ndlich Vermitteln
?ffentliche Diskurse und die dort diskutierten Probleme haben vielfach eine 繹konomische Dimension und die Erkenntnisse 繹konomischer Forschung k繹nnen in vielen Bereichen tragf瓣hige Erkl瓣rungs- und L繹sungsans瓣tze liefern. Ein 繹konomisches Grundwissen ist in ?ffentlichkeit und Politik aber nicht immer gegeben. Dies mag nicht zuletzt auch daran liegen, dass sich Wirtschaftswissen-schaftler*innen mit einem verst瓣ndlichen Erkenntnistransfer zuweilen schwertun. Die Beitr瓣ge in diesem Sammelband er繹rtern den Status Quo und die Perspektiven der Kommunikation 繹konomischer Erkenntnisse aus wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher, wirtschaftsdidaktischer und - exemplarisch - aus wirtschaftsethischer Sicht.​
Spieltheorie - Erfolgreich Verhandeln Im Einkauf
Die angewandte Spieltheorie im Einkauf hat sich in vielen Unternehmen zu einem wichtigen Instrument entwickelt, um in Verhandlungen systematisch Erfolge zu erzielen. Der zentrale Baustein spieltheoretisch optimierter Vergaben sind Einkaufsauktionen. Ein Grundwissen 羹ber Auktionen und Spieltheorie ist deshalb insbesondere f羹r Eink瓣ufer von Bedeutung. Dieses Buch beschreibt sehr anschaulich viele hilfreiche Methoden sowie deren Anwendung in der Praxis. F羹r den Einsatz der Spieltheorie im Einkauf eignen sich besonders Vergabesituationen, die 羹ber ein hohes Volumen verf羹gen, die interessant f羹r Lieferanten sind und deren Leistung sich gut spezifizieren l瓣sst. Au?erdem wird dargestellt, wie Kartelle oder zur羹ckhaltender Wettbewerb zwischen Lieferanten anhand eines rein datenbasierten Verfahrens identifiziert werden k繹nnen. Zu jedem Einkauf geh繹rt ein Verkauf. Das Buch richtet sich deshalb nicht nur an Eink瓣ufer. Auch f羹r Verk瓣ufer spielen Auktionen in der Beschaffung unddie zugrunde liegenden spieltheoretischen Prinzipien eine gleicherma?en bedeutsame Rolle.
The SamWise Gaffer's Guide
The Gaffer's Guide is the mentor's companion to The Quest for Work. Together, the two books form the curriculum for SamWise Work Apprenticeships, a work training and certification program. In the past, teaching young people about the Judeo-Christian work ethic was accomplished through adults who worked alongside adolescents as they held various entry-level jobs before settling on a career path. As culture changed, this apprentice approach was neglected, negatively impacting our businesses, communities, faith institutions, and most of all, our young adults. The SamWise Work Training System is a modern, mentor-driven, train-the-trainer approach to reviving a certifiable method of investing in the next generation of reliable, American workers. SamWise apprenticeships hinge upon experienced adults who care enough--about the American culture, the workforce, and the spiritual-vocational challenges facing twenty-somethings--to assist these emerging adults in understanding and appreciating what makes work work. www.SamWise.works
Financial Accounting
Financial accounting is a specialized branch of accounting that keeps track of a company's financial transactions. Using standardized guidelines, the transactions are recorded, summarized and presented in a financial report or financial statement such as an income statement or a balance sheet. The two types - or methods - of financial accounting are cash and accrual. Although they're distinct, both methods rely on the same conceptual framework of double-entry accounting to record, analyze and report data transnational at the end of a given period - such as a month, quarter or fiscal year. Financial accounting serve the following purposes: producing general purpose financial statements. producing information used by the management of a business entity for decision making, planning and performance evaluation. producing financial statements for meeting regulatory requirements. The difference between finance and accounting is that accounting focuses on the day-to-day flow of money in and out of a company or institution, whereas finance is a broader term for the management of assets and liabilities and the planning of future growth. Accounting is the bookkeeping method involved.
Coopetition-Management in Intraorganisationalen Produktionsnetzwerken
Im Gegensatz zu interorganisationalen Netzwerken besteht bei intraorganisationalen Netzwerken noch weitestgehend Unklarheit dar羹ber, wie "Coopetition" - das gleichzeitige Auftreten von Kooperation und Wettbewerb - zu handhaben ist. Die vorliegende empirische Studie nimmt sich dieser Forschungsl羹cke an und zeigt auf, wie Coopetition in intraorganisationalen Produktionsnetzwerken gehandhabt werden kann. Es zeigt sich, dass Coopetition entlang von Phasen variiert und auf Basis unterschiedlicher Praktiken erfolgreich gesteuert werden kann. Hierdurch wird ein theoretisch fundierter sowie zugleich f羹r die Unternehmenspraxis relevanter Beitrag zum Coopetition-Management in intraorganisationalen Produktionsnetzwerken geliefert.
The Innovation Shift in Higher Education
This book provides evidence as to how human resources management practices influence the knowledge management processes and the influence of knowledge management processes on innovation in higher educational institutes.The book suggests means to reinforce the human resource management practices and knowledge management processes in encouraging the innovativeness in Higher Education. The knowledge management-based innovation model developed which can be directly applied in the higher educational institutes.
M羹ndliche Pr羹fung Bestanden!
In einer m羹ndlichen Pr羹fung kommt es nicht nur auf eine gute Darlegung von Fachwissen an. Es spielen noch viele andere Dinge eine Rolle, die entscheidend den Erfolg bestimmen. Dieses Buch gibt dem Pr羹fling Hinweise und praktische Tipps, wie er durch seine Pers繹nlichkeit 羹berzeugen kann. Es enth瓣lt praxiserprobte Methoden, wie die Pr羹fungsvorbereitung gestaltet werden sollte, was bei einem Vortrag vor dem Pr羹fungsausschuss beachtet werden sollte und wie der Pr羹fling das Pr羹fungsgespr瓣ch steuern und typische Fehler vermeiden kann.
The Economics of Platforms
Digital platforms controlled by Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Tencent and Uber have transformed not only the ways we do business, but also the very nature of people's everyday lives. It is of vital importance that we understand the economic principles governing how these platforms operate. This book explains the driving forces behind any platform business with a focus on network effects. The authors use short case studies and real-world applications to explain key concepts such as how platforms manage network effects and which price and non-price strategies they choose. This self-contained text is the first to offer a systematic and formalized account of what platforms are and how they operate, concisely incorporating path-breaking insights in economics over the last twenty years.
Data Science for Decision Makers & Data Professionals
Learn how to embed data science, Big Data and AI in your organization's decision-making process and make your organization more data-driven, profitable, and intelligent in 10 steps.Book descriptionThis book covers every aspect of the implementation of data science, from the algorithms that make your decisions more refined, effective and faster to the people, skills, culture, and mindset required to make it happen. How do you set the right KPIs and targets? How are the best data-driven organizations structured? Why do you need a data warehouse or data lake? How do you manage a data science project? This book tackles every question relevant to implementing data science. Many organizations start by collecting data without a goal, but that data science approach is doomed to fail. This book takes you through the process of implementing data science from the ground floor all the way to the top. It all starts with the question: what do we want to achieve? It covers all the subsequent steps on a macro and micro level, from the process of registering data, to processing it, to the organization's response. All the relevant data science techniques and technologies are discussed, from algorithms and AI to the right management strategies. Based on many practical case studies and best practices, this book reveals what works and what doesn't. Benefit from the author's many years of experience in making organizations more intelligent and data-driven as a consultant and an educator.What you will learn- The most important benefits of data science.- The essential aspects of decision making and the role of data science.- How to determine the right KPIs and use them to manage effectively.- How to turn data into knowledge and information.- How to make your organization more agile.- The many types of algorithms that can be used to make more effective decisions on every level.- How to manage data science projects - who and what do you need to effectively implement data science?- How to design a data science roadmap.- And much, much more.Who is this book forThis book is for every manager or professional, and all those who want to learn how to embed the effective use of data science in every facet of the organization. This comprehensive management handbook is a must-read for (business) consultants, business managers, Chief Data Officers (CDOs), CIOs, and other executives, project managers, Data Science consultants, Data Scientists, AI consultants, (business) controllers, quality managers, and BI consultants.
?lterwerden in Krisenzeiten
Dieses Buch spricht junge und 瓣ltere Menschen an, die sich nicht nur mit einer Krise wie der Corona-Pandemie, sondern gleichzeitig auch mit dem ?lterwerden in unserer Gesellschaft auseinandersetzen m繹chten. Wie k繹nnen Geduld, Gelassenheit und Hoffnung sowie die psychische Widerstandskraft gest瓣rkt werden? Inwieweit k繹nnen Belastungen und Schmerz als Teil des Lebens verstanden, wie kann damit umgegangen werden? Ziel des Buches ist es, die Chancen und Lernm繹glichkeiten des Einzelnen st瓣rker in den Mittelpunkt zu r羹cken. Warum gerade eine Krise wie die Corona-Pandemie eine Chance im ?lterwerden sein kann, zeigt die Autorin mit vielen Beispielen und Denkanst繹?en auf. Dabei werden Aspekte des guten Lebens und ?lterwerdens vorgestellt sowie M繹glichkeiten zur Alltagsgestaltung - auch in einer Krise.
Applying Data Governance practices in the Oil & Gas Upstream
Applying and adopting a Data Governance program is not a simple task. This paper summarizes in a structured way the strategy with which we approach a project that seeks to accelerate the cultural transformation of the organization, through the implementation of a data management program. The result of what is exposed in this book is the product of the effort and work of a team of people who had the capacity to transform their traditional structure of thought.The project focuses on an Oil & Gas industry Asset, takes critical processes from the E&P area and, based on a data management framework, proposes a roadmap that builds the foundations to positively impact them, facilitating and accelerating the achievement of business objectives.The book presents in its content experiences developed between 2010 and 2012, although its validity remains latent. This publication seeks to guide those who have the need to work on these issues, to reinforce concepts and forms for those who already have a path to follow and finally to awaken the interest of those who are still skeptical.
The Roaring 2020s
The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what's really coming. The mainstream forecasts fall into three camps. One considers today as the "new normal," where ordering a ride or food on a smartphone or trading in bitcoins is as good as it's going to get. Another foresees a dystopian era of widespread, digitally driven job- and business-destruction. A third believes that the only technological revolution that matters will be found with renewable energy and electric cars. But according to Mills, a convergence of technologies will instead drive an economic boom over the coming decade, one that historians will characterize as the "Roaring 2020s." It will come not from any single big invention, but from the confluence of radical advances in three primary technology domains: microprocessors, materials, and machines. Microprocessors are increasingly embedded in everything. Materials, from which everything is built, are emerging with novel, almost magical capabilities. And machines, which make and move all manner of stuff, are undergoing a complementary transformation. Accelerating and enabling all of this is the Cloud, history's biggest infrastructure, which is itself based on the building blocks of next-generation microprocessors and artificial intelligence. We've seen this pattern before. The technological revolution that drove the great economic expansion of the twentieth century can be traced to a similar confluence, one that was first visible in the 1920s: a new information infrastructure (telephony), new machines (cars and power plants), and new materials (plastics and pharmaceuticals). Single inventions don't drive great, long-cycle booms. It always takes convergent revolutions in technology's three core spheres--information, materials, and machines. Over history, that's only happened a few times. We have wrung much magic from the technologies that fueled the last long boom. But the great convergence now underway will ignite the 2020s. And this time, unlike any previous historical epoch, we have the Cloud amplifying everything. The next long boom starts now.
Skills for Resilience via SDGs and Transformative Mindset
Under Covid-19, our resilience skills are put to the test, and often we need to nurture them for positive thinking, hope, helping us care for others in the community and our general wellbeing. This new book by Dr Shirley Yeung provides evidence of good practice for readers, drawing on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through a number of case study investigations. Dr Yeung elegantly draws on research from Kam Kee Restaurant, Hong Kong Architecture Centre and RDP in order to help you develop a holistic wellbeing mental mindset for meeting the challenges we face under the pressure of the Covid19 pandemic.Let's congratulate Dr Shirley Yeung for providing us with this new read and her continued leadership that is worthy of our support. Prof Bradley Dean, School of Business, Hang Seng University
Aligning Lean and Value-Based Management
Introducing the Study of Lean and Value-Based Management.- Theoretical Background of Lean and Value-Based Management.- Methodology to Align Lean and Value-Based Management.- Examining Prior Research of Lean Management.- Lean Value Creation Process: Findings from Primary Data.- Discussion of the Alignment of Lean and Value-Based Management.
Inventory Management
Inventory is expensive and difficult to manage, and yet is an essential requirement for providing great service to customers. Inventory Management provides the tools to retain enough inventory to assure high levels of customer service, while avoiding excessive inventory levels that can absorb cash and generate losses. Topics covered include inventory policies, materials planning, purchasing and the supply chain, receiving, storage, shipping, production activities, record accuracy, warehousing efficiencies, measurements, and much more. This book covers a mix of classic and advanced management techniques to help the user maintain firm control over the mix and amount of inventory kept on hand.
Connect with Your Management On-The-Go
A challenging journey for managers to succeed by following 13 paths... Visionary and curious academicians sailing to new horizons...Yes! The journey is long, tiring but how success is easily achieved? There is no change without pain! Management on the Go covers different aspects of today's management which can be both used as a handbook by executives who want to keep up with the pace of scientific advancements, as well as a road map for academics to turn towards innovative management systems. You are invited to embark on a journey from topics that have become outdated in the literature to approaches that will arouse excitement and curiosity about future. Each chapter is written based on sector experiences by 13 academicians located in 5 different universities in Turkey and now reaches you dear readers.
Estrategia 360
"Es un libro realmente apasionante e interesante, y de mucha importancia para cualquier decisor en cualquier parte del mundo que quiera formar parte del entorno organizacional ya que utilizando Prospectiva estrat矇gica integrada a Balanced Scorecard se estructura un m矇todo predictivo altamente efectivo. Esta obra constituye un aporte significativo para los profesionales de pregrado y posgrado de 獺reas de Administraci籀n, Mercadotecnia, Ventas, Planificaci籀n Estrat矇gica y afines. Te invito a leerlo y ser parte de la transformaci籀n."
The Dynamics of Intellectual Capital in Current Era
This book provides an authoritative, inter-disciplinary, and up-to-date survey of relevant concepts, research areas, and applications of intellectual capital. Until now, the literature had lacked a comprehensive analysis of intellectual capital (IC) in regard to sustainability, block chain, and other related technologies and virtual environments. This book shows the importance of intellectual capital for contemporary organizations: how it contributes to theories of the firm, how it affects organizational performance, how is it linked with the organizational ambidexterity, how it connects to the technological developments like block chain and digital technologies, and what would be its association with sustainability. Central to our thesis is the systemic nature of intellectual capital in organizations: how intellectual capital interacts with and complements other organizational resources and developments. This book also shows as to how applying the notion of intellectual capital toorganizations requires us to consider how intangible forms of capital differ from more traditional forms, implying the need for a theory of firm that accommodates a concept of dynamic, heterogeneous intellectual capital. Although a lot has been written on IC, this book proves to be the first with scholastic and action-oriented perspective on as to how a firm can manage its IC to create value. This book also demonstrates as to how the subjective aspects of IC can be measured and what can be their strategic implications. A discussion on IC disclosure also appears in the latter part of the book. In doing so, this book reveals as to how the value creation of today's businesses is driven by the IC. This book also introduces the readers to the new application of IC and its association with the contemporary disruptive technologies. This is a book for IC researchers and academicians who want to understand the diverse aspects of IC, for business managers who want to be at the cutting edge, for those early in their careers who seek a challenging new path, and for the top-level managers of the world who have their eye on the future.
Project Management, Planning and Control
Covering the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, Project Management, Planning and Control is an established and widely recommended project management handbook. Building on its clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling and control, this eighth edition includes new case studies from industries including petrochemical and construction, as well as updates throughout to account for changes and best practice in governance and adjudication. It also now includes expanded coverage of AI, Big Data and sustainability. Ideal for those studying for Project Management Professional (PMP) qualifications, Project Management, Planning and Control is aligned with the latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) for both the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association of Project Management (APM) and includes questions and answers to help you test your understanding.
The I.T. Leaders’ Handbook
As an IT Leader, you know how tough the job is. You also know how important it is to continue getting better. Diving deep in Foundations, Business, People, and Technology, this book provides the concepts, strategies, and tactics you need to effectively lead the Information Technology department today and in the futureLong-time IT Leader, author, and speaker John Bredesen leverages decades of experience to create the book you need to raise your game. Clear explanations with a splash of humor cover a broad range of topics needed to take your IT Leadership to the next level. The job is always changing. This book will help you stay up to the challenge.
Product Lifecycle Management in the Digital Twin Era
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management, PLM 2019, held in Moscow, Russia, in July 2019. The 38 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: 3D modelling and data structures; PLM maturity and industry 4.0; ontologies and semantics; PLM and conceptual design; knowledge and change management; IoT and PLM; integrating manufacturing realities; and integration of in-service and operation.
Modellbasierte Gestaltung Von Flie?produktionssystemen Im Spannungsfeld Von Ergonomie Und ?konomie
Christian Weckenborg untersucht Fragestellungen zur Gestaltung von Flie?produktionssystemen im Spannungsfeld von Ergonomie und ?konomie. Er stellt modellbasierte Analysen zu den Potenzialen des Einsatzes unterst羹tzender Technologien, wie kollaborativer Roboter und Exoskelette, hinsichtlich erreichter Kosteneinsparungen sowie der Beanspruchungsminderung der Werker bereit. Auf Basis der Analysen leitet er Handlungsempfehlungen f羹r Entscheidungstr瓣ger aus der Industrie ab. Der Autor Dr. Christian Weckenborg promovierte bei Professor Dr. Thomas S. Spengler am Institut f羹r Automobilwirtschaft und Industrielle Produktion der Technischen Universit瓣t Braunschweig.
Introduction to Theory-Driven Program Evaluation
Introduction to Theory-Drive Programming provides a clear guide for practicing evaluation science, and numerous examples of how these evaluations actually unfold in contemporary practice. A special emphasis is placed how to conduct theory-program evaluations that are culturally responsive and strengths-focused.
Deconstructing Conflict
Deconstructing Conflict draws upon nearly fifteen years of experience in which Doug Baumoel and Blair Trippe have helped scores of enterprising families navigate the challenges of owning and managing together as family. Based upon their groundbreaking methodology known as "The Conflict Equation," the book presents five foundational concepts to help readers deconstruct conflict into its component parts. It will help you understand the reasons that underlie all conflict, what triggers active conflict, and why conflict can be so extreme and intractable in family business systems. This book will arm family business stakeholders and their advisors with the most cutting-edge thinking for achieving generational success in family enterprise.
Guest Book for visitors and guests to sign at a party, wedding, baby or bridal shower (hardback)
Perfect addition to any party, wedding, baby shower or bridal shower, a beautiful guest book for guests and visitors to sign. This book has a hardback cover with 60 pages of lined and blank pages, the book is 8.5 x 8.5 in size with a matt finish.
Market Data Downloading
A quick-start guide to automating the downloading of market data from leading data vendors such as Bloomberg, Reuters and Markit. As accurate and up to date market data has started to become available from a number of Internet sites in recent years., we also explore these important and growing new sources of information such as Google and Yahoo Finance and Qaundl. Throughout the book many useful source code examples using Excel/VBA are shown and explained. I also touch on the use of cURL and the statistical programming language R.
Improving Healthcare Services
Building on co-author Sharon Williams' previous title Improving Healthcare Operations, this book examines the role of co-design and coproduction in health and social care. Extending current thinking on coproduction in healthcare and how this can be operationalised, this book opens a discussion around how it can contribute to improvement. Providing a number of case studies, it links previous public service management, operations management and supply chain management research by extending and translating these core design and improvement principles into health and social care. Considering the wider role of patients, communities and other stakeholders it will challenge and develop existing thinking in relation to co-design, coproduction and redesign of services.
Standards for Management Systems
This book guides readers through the broad field of generic and industry-specific management system standards, as well as through the arsenal of tools that are needed to effectively implement them. It covers a wide spectrum, from the classic standard ISO 9001 for quality management to standards for environmental safety, information security, energy efficiency, business continuity, laboratory management, etc. A dedicated chapter addresses international management standards for compliance, anti-bribery and social responsibility management. In turn, a major portion of the book focuses on relevant tools that students and practitioners need to be familiar with: 8D reports, acceptance sampling, failure tree analysis, FMEA, control charts, correlation analysis, designing experiments, estimating parameters and confidence intervals, event tree analysis, HAZOP, Ishikawa diagrams, Monte Carlo simulation, regression analysis, reliability theory, data sampling and surveys, testing hypotheses, and much more. An overview of the necessary mathematical concepts is also provided to help readers understand the technicalities of the tools discussed. A down-to-earth yet thorough approach is employed throughout the book to help practitioners and management students alike easily grasp the various topics.
Creating Innovation Spaces
Innovation Management for Artificial Intelligence.- Extracorporate Innovation Environments - An Example Lead User Approach Applied to the Medical Engineering Industry.- Innovation Management and Digitization - will Everything Remain Different?.- Raising Innovation Potential through a well Indoor Climate.- "It's not about the Room, it's about the Mind-Set!" - How to Create an Integrated Newsroom with Digital Workflows and Cross Border Collaboration.- The Role of a Leader: Transformational Efforts in Innovation and Change.- On Corporate Innovation.- Designing Innovative Ecosystems and Introducing Digital Smart Services using Examples of the Value Chain from Building Investor to Facility Management.- How to Radically Innovate while Utilizing a Firms' Capabilities - Practical Aspects of Corporate Entrepreneurship.- Experience as an Architect in an Agile Environment.- Why Emotional Intelligence is the Key to Survival in an Ever-Changing Digital World.- Professional Social Media and Innovation: How You Start Leveraging on Your Innovation through Strategic Content Creation on LinkedIn.- High Quality with Statistical Process Control 4.0 in Automation.- Digital Platforms as Drivers of Innovation.- Expatriate and Expat-Preneur Ecosystems - Innovation Spaces Away from Home.- The Role of Law in Creating Space for Innovation - An Example from the Healthcare Sector in Germany.- Start-ups Meet SMEs.- The 5 Elements of AI to Leverage Data and Dominate Your Industry.- Leveraging the Human Factor Through Holarchy - A Case Study.- Designing a Corporate Accelerator: Enabling the Collaboration of Incumbent Companies and Start-ups to Foster Innovation.- Leadership in Transformation - How to Lead in the Digital Era?.- How to Exploit Me as Much as Possible?.- An Entrepreneurial Approach to Designing Innovation Space.- Augmenting Machine-Human Intelligence with Human-in-the-Loop.- Innovation Spaces in the Global Environment.
Regulating Public Services
Regulation is one of the tools used by governments to control monopolistic behaviour in the provision of public services such as electricity, transport or water. Technological and financial innovations have changed these public services markets since the 1990s, bringing new regulatory challenges, including technological and financial ones. This book demonstrates that basic regulatory theory and tools can address these new challenges, in addition to more traditional regulatory issues, both in developed and developing economies. The theory covered in the book is robust enough to guide regulators in multiple contexts, including those resulting from the effects of financial or political constraints, evolving market structures or the need to adapt to institutional weaknesses, climate change and poverty concerns that demand regulatory intervention. A bridge between theory and an evolving global practice, this book mobilizes the lessons of the past to analyse the future of economic regulation.
Noted Pocket Notebook
COOL NOTEBOOK for school, office, home, work and travel.SIZE 4"x6" Inches, Fits nicely in a backpack, purse, tote bag, or pants pocket.48 Numbered Pages / 24 Sheets pocket journal for note taking, writing, and drawing.KRAFT BROWN MATTE COVER with our white logo design.
