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Big Data and Analytics
Strategic and Organizational Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015
This book presents and discusses the main strategic and organizational challenges posed by Big Data and analytics in a manner relevant to both practitioners and scholars. The first part of the book analyzes strategic issues relating to the growing relevance of Big Data and analytics for competitive...
Management Training in High-Tech and R&D
Concept for Enterprises under Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Innovative actIvItIes on the development of which Russia puts its hopes for the preservation and successful reconstruction of the former USSR applied science are based on three key factors: funding, infrastructure and management. These factors are of equal significance, however, under today's economic...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This book provides essential insights on the adoption of modern software engineering practices at large companies producing software-intensive systems, where hundreds or even thousands of engineers collaborate to deliver on new systems and new versions of already deployed ones. It is based on the...
Innovation from Information Systems
An Ambidexterity Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Relying on the extensive study of a multi-national Company, this work proposes a process view of the way firms balance tensions between exploring new knowledge and exploiting old one. First, ideas are generated throughout the organization. These ideas are funneled towards specific project teams...
Product Development in the Socio-sphere
Game Changing Paradigms for 21st Century Breakthrough Product Development and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
This book provides a broad overview of a number of game-changing paradigms that are anticipated to reshape 21st century product development. Topics including cloud computing-based design, cloud manufacturing, crowd-sourcing and mass collaboration, open source and social product development will be...
by Elizabeth Fife, Francis Pereira, Ann Majchrzak
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
The use of social media tools in the enterprise is expanding rapidly and yet, firms are still unclear about the overall value of this activity and how best to facilitate useful outcomes. The focus of this book is, from a managerial standpoint, the control of information, the extent to which such tools...
Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks
Software Services Outsourcing in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing (SSO) industry, focusing on one of its main players as a key case study. Two sets of research findings are presented: first, the knowledge management and communication processes inherent...
Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations
ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The book examines a wide range of issues that characterize the current IT based innovation trends in organisations. It contains a collection of research papers focusing on themes of growing interest in the field of Information System, Organization Studies, and Management. The book offers a multi-disciplinary...
Fourth Generation Mobile Communication
The Path to Superfast Connectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This book deals with the development of so-called fourth generation mobile communications or 4G. It covers all aspects of the technology in a form comprehensible to the general reader, a history of its implementation on a worldwide basis and information on how it will be used to improve business...
Design Thinking Research
Building Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Design thinking as a user-centric innovation method has become more and more widespread during the past years. An increasing number of people and institutions have experienced its innovative power. While at the same time the demand has grown for a deep, evidence-based understanding of the way design...
Design Thinking
Understand – Improve – Apply
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
“Everybody loves an innovation, an idea that sells.“ But how do we arrive at such ideas that sell? And is it possible to learn how to become an innovator? Over the years Design Thinking – a program originally developed in the engineering department of Stanford University and offered by the two...
Design Thinking Research
Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works. Researchers have identified metrics, developed...
Design Thinking Research
Taking Breakthrough Innovation Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Offering readers a closer look at Design Thinking, its innovation processes and methods, the book covers topics ranging...
Urban Innovation Networks
Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for corporate innovation. The main...