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Service Innovation
Novel Ways of Creating Value in Actor Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This is the first book that summarizes the 20-year history of service innovation research and combines it with the future need to adopt a systems view in the field of service research. The book emphasizes that the most urgent issues of today’s economies – the development of welfare and sustainability...
Innovative ICT Industrial Architecture in East Asia
Offshoring of Japanese Firms and Challenges Faced by East Asian Economies
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book aims to shed light on the potentially innovative ICT (information and communication technology) architectures from an East Asian regional perspective. The business environment brought about by the development of ICT intensified global competition and caused dramatic changes in the industrial...
Handbook on Continuous Improvement Transformation
The Lean Six Sigma Framework and Systematic Methodology for Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
This handbook provides a comprehensive and detailed framework for the implementation of "Continuous Improvement" and Lean Six Sigma in a professional project management environment. For this purpose the book brings together Lean Six Sigma and the PMBOK standard for project management....
Out of the Lab and On the Market
How Sony Computer Science Labs (SonyCSL) Turn Research into Profits
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Tetsu Natsume of Sony Computer Science Labs (Sony CSL) has been pioneering technology promotion for a decade. As he seeks marketplace opportunities for ground-breaking research, he plays the role of a Technology Producer -- a role that will be increasingly important as organizations seek optimally...
Reinventing Innovation
Designing the Dual Organization
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Based on research findings and detailed, original cases, this book charts the new innovation imperative, where organizations must deliver on dual goals: an efficient return on current operations, and a burgeoning pipeline of new products. It argues that the two pursuits cannot be achieved through...
Fostering Innovative Cultures in Sport
Leadership, Innovation and Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Analysing the trends that are emerging in sport enterprises such as advancements in technology and social media, the authors of this illuminating book tackle the issue of how to create new opportunities in such a changing industry. Providing valuable reading for sports business scholars, this book...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
Presents recent breakthroughs in the theory, methods, and applications of safety and risk analysis for safety engineers, risk analysts, and policy makers
Safety principles are paramount to addressing structured handling of safety concerns in all technological systems. This handbook captures...
Procurement Management in the Supply Chain Environment
A Practical Guide to Understanding Procurement Management and Enhancing Procurement Effectiveness and Efficiency
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
This book focuses on how to increase operational efficiency and lower total cost through improving the whole process of procurement and supply chain. The book represents new research on process reengineering. It focuses on how to increase operational efficiency and lower total cost through improving...
by Clarence Barber
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1958
This study falls into two parts. Part I contains a theoretical analysis of the relation of inventories and inventory fluctuations to the business cycle. It begins with a brief survey of the treatment of inventories in the literature of business cycles. Then a theoretical model of the economic system...
The Body and the Screen
Female Subjectivities in Contemporary Women’s Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Winner of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Best Book Prize 2018
Since the 1980s the number of women regularly directing films has increased significantly in most Western countries; in France, Claire Denis and Catherine Breillat have joined Agnès Varda in gaining...
Shoot Me
Independent Filmmaking from Creative Concept to Rousing Release
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
When the script says "shoot me" and Hollywood says no, your only alternative is to raise the money and do it yourself. Here's how screenwriters Roy Frumkes and Rocco Simonelli used digital video to do just that. Witty, original, and ruthlessly on the mark, this unvarnished look at independent film-making...
The Charley Chase Talkies
1929-1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Charley Chase began his film career in early 1913 working as a comedian, writer, and director at the Al Christie studios under his real name, Charles Parrott. Chase then joined Mack Sennett's Keystone studio in 1914, costarring in early films of Charlie Chaplin and Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, as...
Inventory Strategy: Maximizing Financial, Service and Operations Performance with Inventory Strategy
Inventory Strategy: Maximizing Financial, Service and Operations Performance with Inventory Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
An executive-level strategic guide to maximizing financial, service, and operations performance using the proven RightStock model of inventory management In most organizations, highly qualified professionals are required to respond to a barrage of typically uncoordinated initiatives from across...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2013
This field manual provides ready reference and guidance for units and soldiers that handle munitions items. It is not a comprehensive manual, but it does provide useful data on important points of munitions service support. Also, it is a training tool for munitions units and soldiers.
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