Essays on Pollution Control in Economics and Management Science
The AI Metaverse Revolution
The AI Metaverse Revolution: Transforming Multi-Business Scenarios (Volume 2) explores the profound convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Metaverse, and its transformative effects on business decision-making and strategy. As these technologies evolve, they offer businesses unprecedented tools for operating more efficiently, engaging customers in innovative ways, and responding to rapidly shifting market dynamics. By examining the role of AI in analysing vast data sets and the insights gained from virtual environments within the Metaverse, this volume provides a comprehensive guide to harnessing these cutting-edge technologies for competitive advantage. Through in-depth analysis and real-world examples, the diverse range of global contributors explore how AI and the Metaverse are driving a new era of business possibilities across industries. From AI-powered data analysis that enables businesses to make informed, real-time decisions; to personalised customer experiences created through behavioural analysis in virtual spaces, this volume presents actionable strategies for integrating AI and the Metaverse into modern business practices. It offers readers a roadmap for navigating this technological revolution, positioning AI and the Metaverse as essential components of future-proof business strategy.
L&d Order Taker No More!
Transform Your L&D Team Into Your Organization's Strategic Business PartnerMost L&D pros dream of the day when stakeholders will stop viewing them as mere order takers and consider them critical, strategic partners in shaping the future of their organization. But how do you get there? In this book, veteran talent development leader Jess Almlie introduces her formula for becoming the valued strategic business partner (SBP) that leaders in the C-suite and elsewhere in an organization need and want.Partnering effectively with stakeholders requires a new mindset and behavior, a keen understanding of the business, a willingness to collaborate, and targeted tools. Almlie provides detailed guidance on how to succeed in each of these areas and invites you to start by taking an in-depth assessment of your strengths and gaps in working as an SBP. She shares her own wins and failures along with wisdom from three dozen other L&D pros who work in small, midsize, and large organizations across a wide variety of industries.This step-by-step guide will help current and aspiring L&D leaders understand business basics, create a playbook for team collaboration, work productively with stakeholders, and teach others to work in harmony with L&D. The final chapter offers practical advice for those who need to take small steps toward becoming SBPs in organizations resistant to change.This book includes questionnaires, worksheets, and other tools that will help L&D leaders understand business terminology and needs, see a stakeholder's point of view, and develop strategies for creating effective partnerships and measuring impact. You'll be able to create a plan for developing and advocating for a team of L&D professionals who all work as strategic business partners.
Digital Transformation for Greater Customer Benefit and Efficiency
Purpose
This book intends to reveal the latent purpose required to champion, lead, and enact digital transformation. It articulates that a purposeful approach, as followed in this book, is urgently required and may help the world's population harness the power of technology. The book is based on over twenty years of the author's research, thinking, discussions, publications, and observations about how technology influences us. He also builds upon his understanding of sciences-physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and others-to bring out the notion of purpose-the purpose of digital transformation. The book is a scientific endeavor to define and address the paradox surrounding digital technologies, framing it as a problem underlined due to unclarity in purpose. The lack of understanding of purpose may hurt individuals, organizations, and societies. The book, therefore, identifies purpose as a way to lead digital transformations. In doing so, it outlines complex and interwoven linkages between life, organization, and digital technologies. Thinking about digital technologies as an element devoid of links with life is dangerous. We are intertwined with technology today. So, to digitally transform, the books espouses a new way to look at ourselves and life, using the neuroscientific lens. Unraveling the linkages between the organization, life, and digital technologies, the book outlines a model for purposeful digital transformation.
The Lean, Smart, Digital Supply Chain
Technology plays a key role in enabling Lean and Agile Supply Chain operations. For example, connecting to suppliers in real-time facilitates re-supplying parts and materials for a just-in-time production environment. However, choosing the wrong technology can create waste in terms of the time, effort, and money spent evaluating, selecting, implementing, and using it. Furthermore, Lean has been traditionally thought of as a "pen and pencil" technique as they were mostly confined to a single facility.As a consequence, while there are many books written on Lean Manufacturing, Lean Office, and to a lesser degree, Lean Global Supply Chain, most if not all barely discuss the role and impact of technology in process improvement, and there aren't many books that combine the topics of a Lean and Agile Supply Chain and Technology (Smart and otherwise) in this way.This book makes the case that technology is a key enabler of a Lean Supply Chain and is unique in that it links Lean and Agile thinking with available and affordable technologies to get the most out of improved processes. Essentially, this book details various Supply Chain and Logistics Management areas where Lean and Agile thinking in combination with existing and emerging technologies such as the Internet, e-commerce, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Robotics, IoT, AI, Data Analytics, etc., can take an organization to the next level through increased speed, accuracy, integration, and collaboration among all parties in the Supply Chain.
Leveraging Digital Mixed Model Value Stream Maps
This guide serves as a roadmap for integrating digital value stream mapping into your lean deployment to improve your production processes. Lean, with its mapping component, value stream mapping (VSM), has endured as a process improvement methodology for over twenty-five years. VSM is a metrics-based analytical mapping method with simple calculations for lean metrics such as Takt Time, VA, NVA, Capacity, OEE, and so forth, however: -- The calculations and charting associated with value stream maps can be tedious; -- It's hard to keep updating the calculations for "what-if" studies. -- Manual calculations can be prone to error. Digital VSM was then introduced as a complement to the initial paper-and-pencil map. The eVSM software has been used to create Digital VSMs for the past many years, but it has also encountered a couple of hurdles: -- Lean application has expanded and is applied to increasingly complex value streams. -- Product variants (mixed model) have proliferated so that many variants are now made with shared resources. Creating and analyzing mixed model value stream maps with only paper and pencil, however, is practically unfeasible. The eVSM program has been revamped for the mixed model production setting and is now accessible as eVSM Mix for creating and analyzing Digital Mix VSMs. The eVSM Mix software reintroduces VSM as a fundamental tool for lean practitioners working in mixed-model situations. This guide illustrates Digital Mix VSMs created with the eVSM Mix software, shows how to use them analytically for "what-if" studies, and highlights best practices for deployment.
Shelf Life
Embark on a captivating journey through the ages with Shelf Life, a meticulously crafted exploration of bookselling and publishing spanning two millennia. This engaging narrative, designed for book lovers of all kinds, unveils the resilience and innovation of key figures who shaped the literary landscape. From the pioneering days of William Caxton to the contemporary influence of Jeff Bezos, the book chronicles the stories of those who transformed the world of books.As the narrative navigates the ever-evolving terrain of book retail, it delves into the seismic changes of the past forty years and reflects on the current state of the industry.Shelf Life not only chronicles the past but also looks ahead, offering insights into the challenges and future possibilities for publishing and bookselling in the twenty-first century. A must-read for anyone passionate about books, bookshops, and the enduring legacy of the written word.
