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Explaining Monetary and Financial Innovation
A Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This book discusses theories of monetary and financial innovation and applies them to key monetary and financial innovations in history – starting with the use of silver bars in Mesopotamia and ending with the emergence of the Eurodollar market in London. The key monetary innovations are coinage...
by Frank A. Tillman, Deandra T. Cassone
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
In Investment Strategy for Product Development in the Aerospace Industry, Frank A. Tillman and Deandra T. Cassone introduce a complete process for developing an investment strategy for the Air Force Material Command that develops products for the military aerospace industry. The Air Force has used Tillman...
Supply Chain Transformation
Evolving with Emerging Business Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Today, supply chain transformation for creating customer value continues to be a priority for many companies, as it enables them to gain a competitive advantage. While value creation is shaped by external drivers such as market volatility, technology, product and service offering and disruption, it...
by Lim Joo Seng
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book is presented in the way a training is being conducted, and focus on common project management principles and elements that can be found in successful project delivery. It able audience who is not a professional project manager to learn the fundamentals of project management. The audience...
Process Innovation: Enabling Change by Technology
Basic Principles and Methodology: A Management Manual and Textbook with Exercises and Review Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2018
This management manual and textbook introduces the theoretical basics of process management and provides a procedural model for process innovation. The procedural model makes it possible to develop customer-oriented processes in a structured manner and to design them in order to meet changing requirements....
9th WCEAM Research Papers
Volume 1 Proceedings of 2014 World Congress on Engineering Asset Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Engineering asset management encompasses all types of engineered assets including built environment, infrastructure, plant, equipment, hardware systems and components. Following the release of ISO 5500x set of standards, the 9th WCEAM addresses the hugely important issue of what constitutes the body...
Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
New Product Development (NPD) is about the ideation, formulation, and implementation of new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the obvious need for organizations to innovate in order to compete, embedded in any NPD program are knowledge, technological expertise, and the social networks that...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Definitions, Concepts and Scope of Engineering Asset Management, the first volume in this new review series, seeks to minimise ambiguities in the subject matter. The ongoing effort to develop guidelines is shaping the future towards the creation of a body of knowledge for the management of engineered...
Linked Innovation
Commercializing Discoveries at Research Centers
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2017
Questioning why research centers so often fail to commercialize discoveries, this book explores the concept of linked innovation, which promises to drive economic sustainability while preserving academic quality at research centers. The author examines the gaps in the innovation process and identifies...
Business Value and Sustainability
An Integrated Supply Network Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book connects business sustainability to supply network-based value creation and enhancement, and tests a number of key propositions in complex supply networks to identify key challenges. Examining practical issues such as carbon trading, green product development, worker safety, child labour...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In an era of intense knowledge-based globalization and technology-based competition, the central role of networks, alliances and partnerships is now becoming recognized. By looking at the dynamics of these strategic organizational activities, leading authors in the field examine, in this book, how...
Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers
Creating Opportunities Through Public Policies and Corporate Strategies in Science, Technology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities. The authors present foresight approaches for innovation policy and management. Future developments in fields such as education, energy, new materials, nanotechnologies are highlighted for different...
by Art Byrne, James P. Womack
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
THE C-LEVEL GUIDE TO SUCCEEDING WITH LEAN
"With 30 years of accumulated experience, Art Byrne is one of the rare few people who can speak with authority about the pitfalls of fi nancial measurement systems, the importance of respect for people, the power of Lean in the marketplace, and the leverage...
by Nick T. Thomopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This book describes the methods used to forecast the demands at inventory holding locations. The methods are proven, practical and doable for most applications, and pertain to demand patterns that are horizontal, trending, seasonal, promotion and multi-sku. The forecasting methods include regression,...