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The Future of Digital Business Innovation
Trends and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2016
This book identifies and discusses the main challenges facing digital business innovation and the emerging trends and practices that will define its future. The book is divided into three sections covering trends in digital systems, digital management, and digital innovation. The opening chapters...
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
This book aims to meet the needs of education and training in modern techniques of innovation and entrepreneurship, and focuses on the detailed presentation of successful business practices. As today's global economic landscape is changing rapidly, the ability of businesses to introduce new products...
Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Across Cultures
Theory and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The aim of this volume is to further develop the relationship between culture and manifold phenomena of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in order to promote further and better understanding how, why, and when these phenomena are manifested themselves across different cultures.
Currently,...
From Agriscience to Agribusiness
Theories, Policies and Practices in Technology Transfer and Commercialization
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume presents a state-of-the-art overview of the rapidly evolving field of agribusiness, highlighting the most current issues, concepts, trends and themes in research, practice and policy. With a particular emphasis on technology, product and process innovation, the authors cover a wide array...
The Satisfaction of Change
How Knowledge and Innovation Overcome Loyalty in Decision-Making Processes
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book analyzes the impact of the digital economy on customer satisfaction, shopping experience, resistance to change, script theory, and loyalty. The model introduced assumes that online markets have led to a redefinition of the concepts of loyalty and shopping scripts as a way to reduce customers’...
The Internationalisation of Young High-Tech Firms
An Empirical Analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is now a certain tradition of Anglo-German comparative research on new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Two of the most influential studies in this area have both been sponsored by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of In dustrial Society (AGF). Starting in 1977, the first AGF project...
by Michael L. George Sr., Dan Blackwell, Michael L. George Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
The world’s leading expert on Lean Six Sigma provides the missing link for reducing waste and taking operations to the next level: Artificial Intelligence
“Whatever the industry, there is an executive with the grit and determination to apply AI to attain the fastest growth, the highest...
Service Management, Student Workbook
An Integrated Approach to Supply Chain Management and Operations
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
With this hands-on study guide to accompany the reference on integrating the many disciplines that comprise service operations management, authors Haksever and Render help students master all aspects of the field. Fully aligned with Service Management, this workbook-style book includes chapter learning...
Smartphone Start-ups
Navigating the iPhone Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book provides detailed examination of start-up companies which entered the smartphone industry following the revolution triggered by Apple with its iPhone in 2007. Analytical case studies explore the rationale behind the business models, financing cycles, and factors that helped start-ups sustain...
Big Data Analytics Beyond Hadoop
Real-Time Applications with Storm, Spark, and More Hadoop Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Master alternative Big Data technologies that can do what Hadoop can't: real-time analytics and iterative machine learning. When most technical professionals think of Big Data analytics today, they think of Hadoop. But there are many cutting-edge applications that Hadoop isn't well suited for, especially...
Web and Network Data Science
Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Master modern web and network data modeling: both theory and applications. In Web and Network Data Science, a top faculty member of Northwestern University’s prestigious analytics program presents the first fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of web and network...
Discover Excellence
An Overview of the Shingo Model and Its Guiding Principles
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
A facility-wide improvement initiative is expensive in terms of both time and money. Perhaps the most disappointing thing about them is that they often end up as temporary measures that may produce early results but are unsustainable in the long run. The unseen cost is that after they see such initiatives...
Designing the Future: How Ford, Toyota, and other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Business
How Ford, Toyota, and other World-Class Organizations Use Lean Product Development to Drive Innovation and Transform Their Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
How companies are using lean development to revolutionize their product and service offerings—vital lessons any business leader can use as an engine of innovation
How did Ford Motors use Lean Development to pull off one of the most impressive corporate turnarounds in history? Largely by avoiding...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Adapting the development of information systems for operations management is essential for the effectiveness of an organization’s business strategy. Optimizing, Innovating, and Capitalizing on Information Systems for Operations presents research on the applications of information systems and its influence...