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Managing Sustainable Innovation
The Driver for Global Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Ian Maxwell applies decades of research and application to present a novel approach to innovation, with an emphasis on sustainable and renewable practices that benefit many, and not just a handful of executives and shareholders. Featuring examples from a wide range of innovators around the world,...
Logistics and Supply Chain Innovation
Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
This contributed volume presents state-of-the-art advances in logistics theory in various fields as well as case studies. The book reports on a number of recently conducted studies in the Dinalog and the EffizienzCluster LogistikRuhr, thus bridging the gap between different perspectives of theoretical...
Logistics Management
Products, Actors, Technology - Proceedings of the German Academic Association for Business Research, Bremen, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2014
This book gathers papers presented at the Logistik-Management-Konferenz 2013, which was organized by the VHB Wissenschaftliche Kommission Logistik and held in Bremen, Germany. The papers reflect the current state-of-the-art in logistics and supply chain management, focusing on environmental sustainability...
Quality Management in Reverse Logistics
A Broad Look on Quality Issues and Their Interaction with Closed-Loop Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Quality Management in Reverse Logistics intends to develop, collect, examine and evaluate a number of quality management (QM) tools and techniques, which can be applied in practice in order to understand, review and improve any closed-loop supply chain process. In other words, the book aims to examine...
Social and Environmental Dimensions of Organizations and Supply Chains
Tradeoffs and Synergies
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This book focuses on environmental and social factors in international supply chains and industry networks. It explores whether socially-responsible and environmentally-conscious operations are complementary or conflictive to economic targets. The book elaborates on innovative approaches to manage...
Valuing Corporate Innovation
Strategies, Tools, and Best Practice From the Energy and Technology Sector
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
This book presents tools for valuing and controlling corporate innovation. It combines a well-established theoretical framework with case studies at Siemens that illustrate the practice of valuing and controlling innovation and underline the strong link between theoretical concepts and practical application....
Mass Customization and Sustainability
An assessment framework and industrial implementation
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
To adapt to global competitive pressures, manufacturers must develop methods and enabling technologies towards a personalized, customer oriented and sustainable manufacturing. Mass Customization and Sustainability defines the two concepts of mass customization and sustainability and introduces a...
Growth Through Innovation
Managing the Technology-Driven Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Capitalism produced entrepreneurs and property rights, the two basic pillars of innovation and growth. As the speed of technology is steadily increasing only radical innovation can be the name of the game. This book discusses technology and innovation trends by looking into historical examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
This book is an invaluable repository of knowledge that brings clarity to key issues and trends for practitioners, academics and students of luxury brands. It sets out to decode the luxury markets in the primary emerging markets (BRICs) and provide a rich resume of the key factors that influence the effectiveness of luxury brand strategies.
Hospital Operations
Principles of High Efficiency Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
By one estimate, the U.S. wastes $480 billion annually on healthcare expenditures that don’t improve care. Worse, because of faulty systems – not personnel – up to 98,000 people die every year due to preventable medical errors – and that doesn’t count non-terminal events such as hospital-acquired...
Infrastructure and Technology Management
Contributions from the Energy, Healthcare and Transportation Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
This book presents emerging technology management approaches and applied cases from leading infrastructure sectors such as energy, healthcare, transportation and education. Featuring timely topics such as fracking technology, electric cars, Google’s eco-friendly mobile technology and Amazon Prime...
Trendology
Building an Advantage through Data-Driven Real-Time Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
In this, the first data-driven guide to real time marketing, Chris Kerns outlines the value of RTM via a comprehensive social data performance analysis. He lays out best practices for measuring RTM, injects a data-driven mindset into every step of its methodology, and shows how marketers can grow RTM into a daily win for brands across the globe.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lean Six Sigma
Get the Tools You Need to Build a Lean, Mean Business Machine
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The perfect prescription for any organization
Increasingly popular with large and mid-sized companies around the world, Lean Six Sigma is the new hybridization of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies, and there is no better approach for achieving operational excellence in an organization. But how...
From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap
A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Whether you are a CEO, CFO, board member, or an IT executive, From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members lays out a practical, how-to approach to identifying business strategies and creating value-driven technology roadmaps in your...