Navigating New Cyber RisksHow Businesses Can Plan, Build and Manage Safe Spaces in the Digital Age
This book is a means to diagnose, anticipate and address new cyber risks and vulnerabilities while building a secure digital environment inside and around businesses. It empowers decision makers to apply a human-centred vision and a behavioral approach to cyber security problems in order to detect risks and effectively communicate them. The authors bring together leading experts in the field to build a step-by-step toolkit on how to embed human values into the design of safe human-cyber spaces in the new digital economy. They artfully translate cutting-edge behavioral science and artificial intelligence research into practical insights for business. As well as providing executives, risk assessment analysts and practitioners with practical guidance on navigating cyber risks within their organizations, this book will help policy makers better understand the complexity of business decision-making in the digital age. Step by step, Pogrebna and Skilton showyou how to anticipate and diagnose new threats to your business from advanced and AI-driven cyber-attacks.
Making Better Decisions
Different Paradigms of Decision-Making.About the Role of Intuition.Towards Analytic Decision-Making.How Do Humans Make Choices?.Beware of Decision Traps: The World of Certainty.Beware of Decision Traps: The World of Uncertainty.The Devil is in the Details.A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.Choosing Among Known Alternatives.Designing Potential Solutions.Solving Design Problems.Need for Decision Support Systems.Use Scenarios Instead of a Crystal Ball.Making Operations More Efficient.Real-World Problems.Negotiating a Deal.In Conclusion.
Technical, Economic and Societal Effects of Manufacturing 4.0
Chapter 1 - Industry 4.0 in retrospect and in context Karl-Erik Michelsen (LUT University) Coming to terms with the concept of industrial revolution Unde venis Industry 4.0 ? Implications of Industry 4.0 beyond technology References I Technical Perspectives Chapter 2. Additive Manufacturing - Past, Present, and the Future Markus Korpela (LUT University), Niko Riikonen (LUT University), Heidi Piili (LUT University), Antti Salminen (LUT University), and Olli Nyrhil瓣 (EOS Finland Ltd.) Introduction Additive manufacturing materials and processes Metal additive manufacturing Powder-bed fusion Other metal additive manufacturing technologies Technology readiness level On the new possibilities AM offers Challenges for AM Future Trends and development References Chapter 3. Additive manufacturing from the point of view of materials research Ville Laitinen (LUT University), Mehdi Merabdene (LUT University), Erica Stevens (University of Pittsburgh), Markus Chmielus (University of Pittsburgh), Jan Van Humbeeck (KU Leuven), and Kari Ullakko (LUT University) Introduction Additive manufacturing of stimuli-responsive materials Additive manufacturing of shape memory alloys Additive manufacturing of magnetic shape memory alloys Additive manufacturing of magnetocaloric materials Future aspects of additive manufacturing for novel metallic materials Summary References Chapter 4. Robotics in Manufacturing - The Past and the Present Ming Li (LUT University), Andrija Milojevic (LUT University), and Heikki Handroos (LUT University) Robots - from myth to industry favorite New trends in industrial robotics - cobots and advanced logistics robots Supporting technologies behind modern robotics Conclusions References Chapter 5. Maintenance management in light of manufacturing 4.0 Michele Urbani (University of Trento), Dario Petri (University of Trento), Matteo Brunelli (University of Trento), and Mikael Collan (LUT University) Introduction Maintenance-Management: an Overview Time-Based Maintenance Condition-Based Maintenance More about condition-based maintenance Fault Detection Fault Diagnosis Prognostics and Health Management - towards Industry 4.0 Digital twins and their connection to maintenance Conclusion References II Manufacturing 4.0 Business Models and the Economic Feasibility of Additive Manufacturing Chapter 6. Industrial additive manufacturing business models - what we know from the literature? Jyrki Savolainen (LUT University) and Mikael Collan (LUT University) Introduction Short-term implications of additive manufacturing and incremental business model development Generally on Current Applications Additive Manufact
It-Gest羹tzte LogistikSysteme - Prozesse - Anwendungen
Dieses Buch vermittelt die Grundlagen und praktischen Anwendungen der IT-gest羹tzten Logistik. Anhand der logistischen Prozesskette - von der Beschaffungs - und Produktionslogistik bis zur Distributionslogistik - werden die wichtigsten Konzepte und Tools vorgestellt. Zahlreiche anschauliche Fallbeispiele geben einen strukturierten Einblick in das Management IT-gest羹tzter Logistik, die Erfolgsfaktoren sowie Rahmenbedingungen f羹r eine effiziente Steuerung logistischer Abl瓣ufe durch IT.In der 4. Auflage wurden neben zahlreichen Aktualisierungen neue Themen aufgenommen, wie Anforderungen an IT-Architekturen, digitaler Zwilling, Blockchain, K羹nstliche Intelligenz und maschinelles Lernen. Au?erdem erfolgte eine Erweiterung des Kapitels zur IT-Sicherheit.
Lean Management and Kaizen
​Chapter 1 Basics in Lean Management .- Chapter 2 The cultural Change towards Lean Management.- Chapter 3 Kaizen: Continuous Improvements in small Steps.- Chapter 4 Waste and Value-added.- Chapter 5 Lean Management as part of the corporate Strategy.- Chapter 6 Leadership and Empowerment.- Chapter 7 Lean Management in Operations.- Chapter 8 Lean Management in the Product Development.- Chapter 9 Principles of a Lean Production System.- Chapter 10 Lean Management on the Upstream (Supply side).- Chapter 11 Lean Management on the Downstream (Demand side).- Chapter 12 Lean Management KPI and OKR.- Chapter 13 The Human Side of Lean Management.- Chapter 14 Lean Management and Artificial Intelligence (AI).- Chapter 15 Sustainability and of Lean Management.- Chapter 16 Lean Management in the Service Industry.- Chapter 17 Lean Management in Health Care Sector.- Chapter 18 Lean Management in the Education Sector.- Chapter 19 Lean Audits and Quality Management Systems (QMS).- Chapter 20 Outlook of Lean Management.- Glossary of Lean Management Terms.- Index.
Contemporary Logistics in ChinaInterconnective Channels and Collaborative Sharing
Chapter 1 Development of China's Logistics Market.- Chapter 2 Logistics Facilities and Technological Development.- Chapter 3 Development of Transportation Logistics in China.- Chapter 4 Development Status of China's Manufacturing Logistics.- Chapter 5 Development of Commerce Logistics in China.- Chapter 6 Development of Agricultural Products Logistics in China.- Chapter 7 Service Models and Innovation of China's Highway Freight Platforms.- Chapter 8 Development and Innovation of the Belt and Road Cross-Border Logistics Service System.- Chapter 9 China's Logistics Development and Prospect under the Sharing Economy.
Nachhaltig Verhandeln Im Technischen Einkauf
Dieses Buch gibt einen praktisch orientierten ?berblick 羹ber die Verhandlungsf羹hrung im Rahmen des industriellen Beschaffungswesens. Es bildet sowohl f羹r Neulinge als auch f羹r erfahrene Eink瓣ufer und F羹hrungskr瓣fte eine wertvolle Arbeitsgrundlage f羹r die Beschaffung von Maschinen und Anlagen, Hilfstoffe und Dienstleistungen zu g羹nstigen Konditionen.Der Blick ist auf nachhaltige Erfolge im Gegensatz zu kurzfristigen Ergebnissen gerichtet. Die wichtigsten Einfl羹sse auf den Verhandlungserfolg werden 羹ber die ERFOLGsformel erl瓣utert. Das Akronym steht f羹r die kritischen Faktoren, die f羹r g羹nstige Beschaffungsergebnisse relevant sind: E = Eink瓣ufer, R = Regelbefolgung (Compliance), F = F羹hrung, O = Organisation, L = Lieferant (bzw. Legal) und G = Gesch瓣ftsmodell. Der Einfluss dieser Faktoren wird anhand von Regeln, Tipps und konkreten Beispielen sowie an einem realit瓣tsnahen Verhandlungsfall anschaulich aufgezeigt. Nicht nur strategische und operative Eink瓣ufer sowie Leiter von Beschaffungsabteilungen, sondern auch Mitarbeiter in Disposition und Logistik sowie Bedarfstr瓣ger erhalten wertvolle Anregungen f羹r die Beschaffung erkl瓣rungsbed羹rftiger Verhandlungsobjekte. F羹r Vertriebsingenieure und Account Manager d羹rften die Inhalte ebenfalls hilfreich sein.
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.
Toward a Better Understanding of Rule-Breaking Market BehaviorInsights from Performance Breakthroughs in Sports
This book analyzes how companies and employees can endogenously, i.e., without hiring external experts or consultants, achieve competitive advantages by deviating from behavioral standards in a productive way. The study explores eight transformative behavioral innovations that shaped the development of sports and, by analogy, uses the findings to advance solutions for prevalent problems in business. By developing triggers to creativity and applying mechanisms on how to overcome innovation resistance, the book gives concrete advice on how to manage the difficult quest of human transformation beyond the imperative of technological innovation.
Knowledge-Based Dynamic CapabilitiesThe Road Ahead in Gaining Organizational Competitiveness
This book provides a knowledge-based view to the dynamic capabilities in an organization. The author integrates two existing views on gaining competitive advantage: the Knowledge View which suggests that the capability of organizations to learn faster than competitors is the only source of competitiveness; and the Dynamic Capability View which speculates that a firm's competitive advantage rests on dynamic capabilities which enable a firm to constantly renew the stock of ordinary organizational capabilities in accordance with the changes in the business environment. Using the IT sector in India as a case study, this book provides and tests a new framework--Knowledge-Based Dynamic Capabilities-in the prediction of competitive advantage in organizations.
Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, EuroSPI conference, held in D羹sseldorf, Germany, in September 2020*. The 50 full papers and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on ​visionary papers, SPI manifesto and improvement strategies, SPI and emerging software and systems engineering paradigms, SPI and standards and safety and security norms, SPI and team performance & agile & innovation, SPI and agile, emerging software engineering paradigms, digitalisation of industry, infrastructure and e-mobility, good and bad practices in improvement, functional safety and cybersecurity, experiences with agile and lean, standards and assessment models, recent innovations, virtual reality. *The conference was partially held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Technology and CreativityProduction, Mediation and Evaluation in the Digital Age
Introduction: Technology and Creativity in Creative Industries.- Innovators' Acts of Framing and Audiences' Structural Characteristics in Novelty Recognition.- The Alchemy of Painting: How the Technology of Oil Paint Transmuted Art.- Industry or Field? The Value of the Field Construct to Study Digital Creative Industries.- The Internet as Liberating Space for the Visual Arts: Political Hopes and Sociological Realities.- Evaluation and Producers' Attention to Ratings in the Chocolate Confectionery Markets.- Alone or in Concert? Creative Entrepreneurs and the Role of Multiple Institutional Logics in Crowdfunding Pitches.- Museums and Technology for Value Creation.- Reassembling Cultural Journalism in the Digital Age.- Digital Transformation and Business Model Innovation in the Film Industry: The Case of Movieday.it.- Afterword.
Law and Economics in Japanese Competition Policy
This book demonstrates how economics is used in cases of competition in Japan. Competition between firms is usually the most effective way of allocating economic resources and achieving consumer and producer welfare. At the same time, a balance must be struck; firms must not be over-regulated, but neither must they be completely free to create a monopoly or oligopoly. Therefore, the role of competition policy is to maintain a balance by using the collaborative economics of industrial organization. The book uses economic analysis to evaluate case studies on Japanese anti-monopoly law, the Act Concerning Prohibition of Private Monopolization and Maintenance of Fair Trade (AMA), and enforcement in e.g. cartel cases, private monopolization cases, and merger cases. The Japan Fair Trade Commission implements a competition policy, primarily through the enforcement of the AMA, which promotes ingenuity and innovation in business by guaranteeing and enhancing fair and free competition, thereby ensuring economic vitality and consumer benefit. This book is the first authoritative and compact work on competition policy in Japan, which has a more-than-70-year history and is based on solid legal principles. In addition, the book seeks to promote law enforcement based on economic analysis, and includes studies describing the enforcement mechanisms used. It provides comprehensive yet concise information on the structure of the AMA, recent cases, and economic analysis. It also explains the circumstances regarding recent cases and analyzes how the economic policy has been applied to actual cases.
Time Management
Time Management: Managing Time is Managing Everything proficiently, efficiently, accurately, scrupulously and effectively is a book designed and written to prepare, build, and strengthen individual practicing managers, aspiring and anticipating managers, upcoming managers, entrepreneurs, business people, skilled workers, employers, lecturers, and management students. The book is developed as a path finder to everyone who intends to manage and administer their time, resources and operation wisely to avoid meandering & wastage and increase maximization. It is further preparing everyone, the potential reader to increase understanding that success of their managerial responsibilities and duties hinges on the prudent employment of time. The more they manage their time wisely the more they utilize their resources and manage operations scrupulously, efficiently, accurately, proficiently and effectively and the more they increase the profits and maximize the wealth of their firms. Many factors in the chain of command & operation happen, some are strength, a threat, some are motivation, and some are demotivation. The book has been written as a guide, a tool, an inspiration, and education.
Dynamic Capabilities and Competitive Advantage of TVET Institutions
To develop Kenya's social and economic advancement, skill training is intended to play two critical roles: one, offer training prospects and occupation growth for school graduates; and two, provide experienced labour for all levels of the country's economy and TVET holds the key to building this type of workforce. This institutions have little option other than building dynamic Capabilities as internal competencies to transform the sector and nation.
Barriers of Supply Chain & Improvement Initiatives in Public Hospital
This book provides insight in to the barriers faced by Healthcare organizations in Supply chain Management and analyses the best improvement initiatives in the Supply chain in Healthcare Industry. The Book emphasizes on practices followed in Public Hospitals of Odisha and initiatives taken to improve the Supply Chain Process. Also the author has given his perspectives from his own experience in Supply chain processes followed in Public Hospitals.
Instructional Media and Communication
Instructional Media encompasses all the materials and physical means an instructor might use to implement instruction and facilitate students' achievement of instructional objectives. This may include computer labs, classroom technology, Blackboard, and audio and video conferencing. Instructional Communication is the study of how communication relates to learning within any environment. This includes traditional (and nontraditional) teaching in schools, educational television, training in companies, and distance learning. Effective instruction builds bridges between students' knowledge and the learning objectives of the course. Using media engages students, aids student retention of knowledge, motivates interest in the subject matter, and illustrates the relevance of many concepts. Furthermore, Instructional Media assist teachers to transmit the knowledge in an impressive way making learning more effective as they help learners in greater acquisition of knowledge. They also help to draw pupils' attention and improve classroom discipline. There are six essential components of this model of instruction. This research involved four of these: teachers, students' perceptions of teachers' verbal and nonverbal communication behaviors, students' perceptions of the teachers' source credibility and task attractiveness, and instructional outcomes.
Opportunities and Challenges of African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA)
Ethiopia is one of the Sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries which is experienced for Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which allows SSA countries to export qualified products to the U.S market free of tariff and quota. Since 2001, Ethiopia has been utilizing this opportunity by exporting different products, including the textile and apparel products, to US market. And yet, the textile and apparel sub-sector has not been fully able to utilize the AGOA like other some SSA countries. In other words, the sub-sector has still existing in lowest level of competitiveness. This study has analyzed the opportunities & challenges of the sub-sector that affect the competitiveness of Ethiopian foreign trade development and pinpoint suggestions for intervention that will enhance the sub-sector's competitiveness. Six respondents among those textile exporters under AGOA, five respondents from Ethiopian Textile and Garment Association, Ethiopian Textile Industry Development Institute, Ministry of Trade (AGOA Representative), AGOA Wega Plus and Ethiopian Inland and Custom Authority (Preferential Trade Desk) were chosen and interviewed and secondary source of data were also applied.
Elementary Statistical Quality Control
Maintaining the reader-friendly features of its popular predecessor, this second edition illustrates fundamental principles and practices in statistical quality control for improved quality, reliability, and productivity in the management of production processes and industrial and business operations. Presenting the key concepts of statistical qual
Decision Sciences
This reference book is an attempt to consolidate the whole gamut of tools, techniques and methodologies developed and used in different areas of Decision Sciences.
Parallel Programming for Modern High Performance Computing Systems
This book describes the state-of-the-art computing devices and systems available, including multi-core CPUs, accelerators, such as GPUs, coprocessors, and clusters. It introduces approaches to parallelization using important programming paradigms, and covers the useful elements of the most popular APIs for programming parallel HPC systems.
New Concepts and Trends of Hybrid Multiple Criteria Decision Making
With the rising trend of big-data analytics in supporting decision making, multiple criteria decision making is more powerful when combined with state-of-the-art analytics and machine learning. This book introduces a new framework of MCDM and includes several real-world cases to illustrate the new hybrid approaches.
Strukturmodell Zum Datenaustausch Im Facility Management
Im Facility Management (FM) bilden Daten die Grundlage f羹r die Erbringung verschiedenster FM-Services und sind damit Basis f羹r kosten-, qualit瓣ts- und zeitoptimierte Dienstleistungen. Voraussetzung f羹r den lebenszyklus羹bergreifenden Datenaustausch sind neutrale Datenformate. Niels Bartels beschreibt ein validiertes Strukturmodell, das einen immobilienbezogenen und neutralen Austausch von Daten des FM durch Erweiterung des IFC-Datenformats auf Basis von Property Sets erm繹glicht. Die Grundlage der Property Sets bilden mithilfe von Expertenbefragungen evaluierte Standardprozesse zu den FM-Services und Erfahrungen aus exemplarischen Anwendungen.
Edemocracy & EgovernmentStages of a Democratic Knowledge Society
This textbook reviews and systematically presents the use of the Internet in public administration and politics. Further, it employs a process-oriented layer model to define the opportunities for exchange and participation for all stakeholder groups, covering the following topics: eAssistance, eProcurement, eService, eContracting, eSettlement, eCollaboration, eDemocracy, and eCommunity. In turn, real-world case studies demonstrate the practical applications in industry, administration and research.The second edition of this book has been completely revised and extended, and includes several new case studies. It offers a valuable asset for students in Business, Economics and Political Sciences courses, as well as practitioners interested in emerging opportunities for digital exchange and participation in the knowledge society.
Performancemessung Schlanker Produktionssysteme
Valentin Schmidt pr瓣sentiert differenzierte Ergebnisse 羹ber die Auswirkungen des Konzepts der Lean Production auf die Performance eines Produktionssystems. Mit der vorgestellten Methodik zur Messung der Performance werden sowohl Aussagen 羹ber die Effizienz als auch Effektivit瓣t einer Produktion erm繹glicht. Zudem kann die Frage beantwortet werden, ob sich ein Produktionssystem in einem (optimal) schlanken Zustand befindet. Die modelltheoretische Untersuchung umfasst mehrere Szenarien und legt offen, unter welchen Bedingungen der Einsatz dieses Konzepts sinnvoll ist, welcher Nutzen damit erzielt werden kann und welche Risiken bestehen.
Analytics in Supply Chain Management und Produktion?bungen und Mini-Fallstudien
Dieses ?bungsbuch enth瓣lt eine Sammlung von Mini-Fallstudien und ?bungsaufgaben sowie Diskussions- und Verst瓣ndnisfragen aus den Bereichen des Supply Chain Managements und der Produktion. In der Terminologie der Business Analytics geht es hier um Fragestellungen der Prescriptive Analytics und z.T. auch um Predictive Analytics. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende der Betriebswirtschaftslehre, der Wirtschaftsinformatik und des Wirtschaftsingenieurwesens sowie an alle Personen, die in der betrieblichen Praxis mit Fragen des Supply Chain Managements und der Produktionkonfrontiert sind.
Apprenticeship: Towards a New Paradigm of Learning
In the light of changes the government has launched as part of its welfare to work initiatives, this text explores apprenticeship. The authors set the historical context and discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of acquiring the necessary knowledge and skills for competence.
Experiencias En Gesti籀n Y Manufactura De Procesos Industriales
Los cuerpos acad矇micos de las Instituciones Superiores de los Estados de Tlaxcala y Puebla tales la Universidad Tecnol籀gica de Tlaxcala, Universidad Tecnol籀gica de Tehuac獺n, Universidad Tecnol籀gica de Tecamachalco, Universidad Tecnol籀gica de Xicotepec de Ju獺rez, Instituto Tecnol籀gico Superior de la Sierra Norte de Puebla, Instituto Tecnol籀gico Superior de San Martin Texmelucan. Instituto Tecnol籀gico Superior de la Sierra Negra de Ajalpan. reflejan los esfuerzos realizados por Cuerpos Acad矇micos que gracias a la tecnolog穩a y a la voluntad buscan integrarse en Redes de Colaboraci籀n, con el prop籀sito de intercambiar experiencias y conocimientos; sabedores de que el trabajo conjunto enriquece, se ha participado en publicaciones y proyectos a pesar de los escasos apoyos. Ya que se tiene la certeza de que el trabajo en Red repercute en el desarrollo profesional de los docentes, estos a su vez en sus alumnos y el futuro de M矇xico.
MANAGER In SHORTS
Discover the secrets to supercharging your management skills with this powerful guide.Are you a manager, team leader, tech leader or entrepreneur? Want to uncover real, practical business principles and tools to help you develop your leadership skills and succeed in the startup or corporate world? Then this is the book for you!Management skills are essential in business, but far too many people underestimate them and don't know how to lead effectively. But inside this book, you'll discover a profound and actionable formula for taking your management skills to the next level.Join manager and team leader Gal Zellermayer as he reveals the fundamentals of team leadership, arming you with the knowledge you need to become a more effective manager while challenging you to transform your mindsets and see the world of managing in a different way. As a self-described "manager in shorts", Gal believes that anyone can become a better manager by shaping and refining the way they approach this important skill.Here's what you'll discover inside: - Understanding The Principles of Management- Why Management Is Really All About The People- Developing Your PUPPET Principles- Why Good Company Culture Is Essential For Productive Employees- Creating Company Values That Mean Something- Strategies For Identifying (and Implementing) Your Mission and Goals- The Single Most Important Tool In a Manager's Toolbox- The Power of Decision-Making- And So Much More!So if you're looking for a practical guide which will supercharge your management skills and challenge you to take your business to the next level, then this is the book for you! Packed with a wealth of vital tips and tricks, as well as down-to-earth advice about company values, goals, culture, frameworks, and so much more, now you can succeed with the world of managing.Buy now to uncover the secrets to great management skills today!
The Profundity and Bifurcation of Change Part VTheProfundity and Bifurcation of Change Par
This is Part V (and Book 5) of The Profundity and Bifurcation of Change series, which details the human progression through the Intelligent Social Change Journey (ISCJ). This is a developmental journey of the body, mind and heart, moving from the heaviness of cause-and-effect linear extrapolations, to the fluidity of co-evolving with our environment, to the lightness of breathing our thought and feelings into reality. We are on this journey together. Change does not occur in isolation. In this final book of the series, we embrace the ancient art and science of Alchemy to explore the larger shift underway for humanity and how we can consciously and intentionally speed up evolution to enhance outcomes. In this conversation, we look at balancing and sensing, the harmony of beauty, and virtues for living the future. Conscious compassion, a virtue, is introduced as a state of being connected to morality and good character, inclusive of giving selfless service. We are now ready to refocus our attention on knowledge and consciousness, exploring the new roles these play in our advancement. And all of this-all of our expanding and growth as we move through the Intelligent Social Change Journey-is giving a wide freedom of choice as we approach the bifurcation. What future will we manifest?Today we are in the midst of a consciousness shift. The content of this book surfaces and connects the amazing developmental journey underway in which we all play a leading role-whether as a participant, resister or observer-in fully engaging this consciousness shift.
Emerging TechnologiesBlockchain of Intelligent Things to Boost Revenues
The convergence of blockchain and Internet of things (IoT) powered by data and artificial intelligence (AI) is on the agenda of several big companies and some of them have already started using its implementations, initiatives, and solutions in various projects. In this book, the author calls the convergence of these three technologies: the blockchain of intelligent things.This book is targeted to help a broad audience, including anyone interested in and responsible for vision, projects, and implementations of blockchain, IoT, and AI in medium-sized companies and large enterprises. This would include business and technology managers, IT professionals, and last but not least, business or technology students, looking to broadening their knowledge and expertise. This book is number two in a series of four books.The first chapters of the book take you from the convergence of blockchain and IoT, via an overview of the most important blockchain of things projects such as IOTA, and the industries, which are heavily being disrupted, into the blockchain of intelligent things, which essentially adds the business value of data science and AI. Further topics you will find in this book include chapters such as required skills, jobs and future, industrial IoT (IIoT) platforms, and opportunities, challenges, and trends of the blockchain of intelligent things. Readers looking for a methodology to engage in blockchain, IoT, and/or AI projects, can find a comprehensive description in my previous book New World Technologies: 2020 and Beyond.
Forschungsdesigns Der Wirtschaftsinformatik
In diesem Buch werden Grundlagen zur empirischen Sozialforschung erl瓣utert und Empfehlungen zur Findung eines Themas f羹r die Abschlussarbeit gegeben. Anschlie?end werden vier Forschungsdesigns vorgestellt, erg瓣nzt durch Tipps f羹r die Kooperation mit einem Praxispartner. Empfehlungen zum Umgang mit Themen wie Plagiat und Zitierweise runden das Essential ab. Die Inhalte sollen Studierenden aus dem Bereich der Betriebswirtschaft und der Wirtschaftsinformatik als Hilfestellung bei der Konzeption und Erstellung einer Abschlussarbeit dienen.
Anleitung Zum Erfolg
Universelle Gesetzm瓣?igkeiten f羹r Lebenserfolg kanalisieren und b羹ndeln sich strukturiert in einer Anleitung zum Erfolg und werden auf bestechend einfache Weise innerhalb einer leicht verst瓣ndlichen Geschichte dem Leser n瓣hergebracht. Dieser inspirierende Leitfaden holt die Essenz der komplexen Themen Erfolg, Pers繹nlichkeitsentwicklung, Wertorientierung, Sinnfindung, Gl羹ck und soziale Kompetenz aus der Theorie in die t瓣gliche pers繹nliche Praxis. Bestechend einfach und unglaublich plausibel vermittelt die bewusst schlicht gehaltene Erz瓣hlung psychologische Einsichten und entlarvt hinderliche mentale Muster. Wie selbstverst瓣ndlich wird dem Leser deutlich, worauf es in Beruf und Alltag eigentlich ankommt, um nicht nur 瓣u?erlich erfolgreich, sondern auch im Einklang mit sich selbst zu leben und zu handeln. Die vorliegende Auflage wurde ver瓣ndert und erg瓣nzt durch das Kapitel "Quintessenz", um dem Leser in einer Fortf羹hrung der Geschichte die Anleitung zum Erfolg noch plausibler werden zu lassen.
Efficacy of Human Resource Management Practices
In various organizations most of the human resource management practices are ineffective because they are not implemented in its true sense. The dilemma lies in the very fact that HRM practices in every organization are to a great extent responsible for its success or failure. The aim of respective research is to critically analyze the effects of HRM practices on organizational performance. This research will help public and private sector organizations to a great extent. It will explore multiple facets behind the deteriorating conditions of public as well as private sector organizations in a wider context.
Erfolgreiche Mitarbeiterf羹hrung Und Steuerung Im Retail Business
Dieses essential richtet sich an jede F羹hrungskraft, denn es vermittelt handlungsorientiert, wie Mitarbeiterf羹hrung effektiv funktioniert. Wie gut eine F羹hrungskraft ist, h瓣ngt von ihrer F瓣higkeit ab, Leistung und Effektivit瓣t ihrer Mitarbeiter und Teams zu f繹rdern bzw. das Verhalten ihrer Mitarbeiter so zu beeinflussen, dass diese ihre Ziele bestm繹glich erreichen und noch 羹bertreffen. Mitarbeiterf羹hrung kann demnach definiert werden als "zielorientierte Verhaltensbeeinflussung". Dieses essential zeigt konkret, wie sich entsprechende Ma?nahmen in der Praxis umsetzen lassen. Das Erfolgskonzept, das Martin Fiedler selbst im filialisierten Einzelhandel zur effektiven F羹hrung von F羹hrungskr瓣ften und Mitarbeitern anwendet, wird durch empirische Auswertungen best瓣tigt. Diese F羹hrungsprinzipien sind universell 羹bertragbar und f羹r jede F羹hrungskraft, die erfolgreich f羹hren m繹chte, von Bedeutung.
The 21st Century Professionals Handbook
This book takes a fresh look at the 21st Century Managers. Being written like a story, the chapters inside provide deep insights about the values, motives and behaviors of Gen X and millennials at their work place.The 21st century defines a period where technology, independence and innovation are valued and where orthodox and old-school thoughts are banished. While Gen X, Y and Z take up cubicles and cabins in offices all over the world at the same time, clashes in ideologies and approaches are bound to happen. The book examines how, together, they can reduce work place conflicts and work more effectively. Professionals in this century face the most uncertain times. Businesses emerge or vanish overnight, world comes to a grinding halt because of a pandemic. The book gives you a road map to navigate successfully in 21st century.It talks about the emerging new careers, gig economy, the behaviors for flourishing in this century. And how Gen X can reinvent themselves in their second innings.The handbook also makes a strong case about the difficulty in implementing personal change management programs, where coaches and mentors falter and how managing change can be dealt better.Sharp, crisply-written with live cases and penned down by an expert in his field, a must read for all professionals.
The Relevance Path(tm)️TheRelevance Path(tm)️7 Steps to Give Your Organizati
For years, Marcy Eisenberg and her company, Pathoras, have seen firsthand projects that meandered with no purpose or relevance--wasting billions of dollars, years of precious time, and resources that were already limited. Quality and quantity faltered, and the downstream effects were devastating--confidence lost in an organization, reputations damaged. All because of projects that missed critical marks that actually mattered to a team or organization. In her book The Relevance Path(TM)️, Eisenberg presents her secret sauce--the seven steps on the path to relevance--that edges teams and organizations beyond the competitive odds, ensures strong organizational reputations, and builds a brand of unparalleled confidence. If you want to save time and money, identify project needs and goals with greater clarity, implement greater efficiencies and productivity, or recalibrate a project so that its ROI exceeds expectations, then this book is for you.
Outsourcing MaintenanceScaling between Top Line & Bottom Line
Scaling between top line & Bottom line. Here top line for service provider is about adding on sales and revenues by adding customers and work scope, whereas bottom line remains to be customer prerogative with focus on improving income with enhanced profitability. In simple words maintenance is profit centre for service provider, whereas cost center for any Industry. As Client and service provider both being on contrarian side, differences are obvious. Successful partnership is all about collaboration way beyond obvious.Elaborating the concise business model of outsourcing, precisely relevant to maintenance and touching all its components as evident in the current industrial scenario. There is a lot of books available for technology/ process parts and also covering other areas in isolation, but need of single book integrating all aspects of maintenance outsourcing was long felt. The objective here is to provide a holistic view of maintenance outsourcing in all dimensions from both customer and service provider perspective explaining different aspects of business in a nutshell.Outsourcing Maintenance is for: -Management of any Industry looking for outsourcing maintenance or review the existing contract.-Anyone, i.e., people in the maintenance team including shop floor personnel, contract cell, SCM, HR, safety, etc.-All people in the maintenance business, i.e., facility management, asset management, service/maintenance contract, AMC, etc.
Statistical Process Monitoring and Optimization
Demonstrates ways to track industrial processes and performance, integrating related areas such as engineering process control, statistical reasoning in TQM, robust parameter design, control charts, multivariate process monitoring, capability indices, experimental design, empirical model building, and process optimization. The book covers a range o
A Practical Introduction to Supply Chain
A Practical Introduction to Supply Chain describes how to run an efficient supply chain that exceeds expectations in terms of cost, quality, and supplier delivery. Sharing powerful insights from the perspective of a supply chain manager, the book details proven techniques drawn from the author's decades of experience. It present
Applied Operational Research with SAS
Using a wide range of OR optimization examples, this book demonstrates how the OR procedures in SAS work. The text is one of the first to extensively cover the application of SAS procedures to OR problems, such as single criterion optimization, project management decisions, printed circuit board assembly, and multiple criteria decision making. T
Problems and Solutions on MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom6th Discipline of World Class Maint
This book covers the most common problems experienced in their MRO Spare Parts and Storerooms that plague most industries as well as provides solutions on how to deal with them permanently. One of the most if not the most important KPI for the storeroom is Inventory Accuracy. This book explains why most problematic storerooms have a low Inventory Accuracy. This results in a Domino of problems in the storeroom. Another highlight of this book is how to make a decision on Whether to Stock Parts of Not Inside the Storeroom. The author provides a detailed MRO Algorithm or Decision Diagram which can be used to address this problem. Case Samples are provided on how to use this MRO Decision Diagram.the problem is about managing and controlling them. There are two main goals of MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom, which are quite conflicting. First, this balances the cost of spare inventory and provides all the parts and supplies needed to keep the plant operating. It may sound conflicting or contradicting, but thinking about this thoroughly, it is really not conflicting if the MRO Storeroom is well managed. Second, the role of maintenance is to make the equipment available. Two of the main highlights of this book are to provide the reader an algorithm or MRO Decision Diagram to determine if a spare needs to be stocked or not, and the second is to determine the correct quantity of parts to be stocked in our storeroom. Some of the highlights of this book include: - Provide a decision-making process on whether to stock or not to stock parts inside the storeroom- How the MRO Algorithm or Decision Diagram is Used. Case Samples are provided.- What can we do about squirrel stores and how to eliminate them permanently- Different ways of analyzing MRO Spare parts- Learn the "Golden Law" on MRO Spare Parts that Storekeepers should abide- Learn several options on what to do for obsolete parts inside the storeroom.- What we can do about non-moving parts inside the storeroom- Understand why not all critical parts need to be stuck in the storeroom.- Factors to consider in deciding whether to store parts or not inside the storeroom- Learn a much better way of determining the minimum quantity to be stored besides min-max- How to address squirrel stores permanently- Different ways to analyze MRO Spare Parts- Provide the reader with a step-by-step roadmap on how to finally improve their MRO Storeroom- Understand who are the best people to handle the maintenance storeroom - Learn the roles and responsibilities of the storekeeper- Understand that parts stored inside the storeroom should be maintained - Different methods for Automating MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom- Detailed Step by Step roadmap on how to improve your storeroom- Why improving the storeroom should be done both inside and outside 99.99% of all the problems with MRO Spare Parts and storerooms are man-made, and they may be introduced by the different departments or functions of the organization. What the author believes is that if man created the problem, then let the man find ways to solve their problems on spare parts and storeroom problems. This book starts with a survey on the different problems common to industries in their MRO Spare Parts and Storeroom. As you read each chapter, it will provide the reader with a clear understanding of how to deal with each of these problems. On the contrary, we cannot simply stock every single part of every piece of equipment we have in the plant if your industry still wants to remain in business. Finally, this book provides a detailed roadmap on how to improve industries' storerooms and spare parts.
The Knowledge Business
This book provides a critique of the knowledge business, and describes and evaluates its different manifestations in, and impacts on, the university sector. Its focus is the social sciences and, in particular, housing and urban studies. Drawing on a wide range of experiences, both in the UK and elsewhere, it highlights the different ways in which t
The Weibull Distribution
Compiling findings from many scientific journals and research papers, this handbook focuses on the origin, statistical properties, and related distributions of the Weibull distribution. It also presents various approaches to estimate the parameters of this distribution under all possible situations of sampling data as well as approaches to param
Building Organizational Intelligence
With organizations searching for cutting-edge methods and techniques for creating, storing, capturing, managing, organizing, distributing, combining, and retrieving knowledge, never before has the need for a reference like this one been so great. Jay Liebowitz's Building Organizational Intelligence: A Knowledge Management Primer describes concepts,
A Holistic Approach to Lessons LearnedAHolistic Approach to Lessons LearnedHow Organizatio
The book presents a holistic approach to organization performance improvements through lessons learned management. It models the entire life cycle of lessons learned: starting from creating new lessons, moving on to knowledge refining and ending with smart integration into the organizational environment so future re-use of knowledge is enabled.
Shale Energy RevolutionThe Rise and Fall of Global Oil and Gas Industry
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.
Port Management and Operations
Port Management and Operations is your essential guide to port management in the twenty-first century.
