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Universities in Change
Managing Higher Education Institutions in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from...
Supply Chain Risk Management
Advanced Tools, Models, and Developments
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
This book covers important issues related to managing supply chain risks from various perspectives. Supply chains today are vulnerable to disruptions with a significant impact on firms’ business and performance. The aim of supply chain risk management is to identify the potential sources of risks...
Hands-on Project Management
Practice your Skills with Simulation Based Training
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Teaching project management is not an easy task. Part of the difficulty is the one-of-a-kind nature of projects. This book and the software that comes with it (Project Team Builder) present a unique approach to the teaching and training of project management — an approach based on a software tool...
by Susan M. Houston
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This book focuses on providing information on project management specific for software implementations within the healthcare industry. It can be used as a beginners’ guide as well as a reference for current project managers who might be new to software implementations. Utilizing the Project Management...
Agent-Based Approaches in Economics and Social Complex Systems IX
Post-Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book includes many cases that provide new perspectives in developing agent-based modeling and simulation. The real problems are complex, and sophisticated methodology is needed to handle them. Agent-based modeling and simulation is one methodology that provides a bottom-up experimental approach...
Financing Life Science Innovation
Venture Capital, Corporate Governance and Commercialization
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Financing Life Science Innovation reviews the literature on venture capital, corporate governance, and life science venturing and presents a study of the Swedish life science industry and the venture capital investors being active in financially and managerially supporting life science start-up firms.
Problem Solving for Healthcare Workers
How to Get Better - Lessons Can Be Learned
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
While most healthcare facilities have an extremely high success rate at the most challenging lifesaving work and we all know of friends and relatives who have had supreme care, mistakes are still made and patients’ lives have been put at risk and lost.
How often have we heard politicians...
The Patient Centered Value System
Transforming Healthcare through Co-Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Imagine: You are a hospital Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, medical or nursing director, patient safety specialist, quality improvement professional, or a doctor or nurse on the front lines of patient care. Every day you’re aware that patients and families should be more engaged...
by Hari Singh
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Medical care is an industry and private providers and hospitals are the major service providers. They operate on business principles. Hospitals are getting highly specialized and complex. The diagnostics and therapeutics are technology intensive. Private establishments have to compete with one another...
Decision Support Systems III - Impact of Decision Support Systems for Global Environments
Euro Working Group Workshops, EWG-DSS 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 29-31, 2013, and Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013, Revised Selected and Extended Papers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two workshops organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Rome, Italy, in May and July 2013.
From a total of 45 submissions, 15 papers...
Reshoring of Manufacturing
Drivers, Opportunities, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring – the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas. The aim is to equip readers with a full understanding of the current extent of reshoring, its drivers, and the associated...
Interfirm Networks
Franchising, Cooperatives and Strategic Alliances
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The organization of interfirm networks, such as alliances, cooperatives, franchise and retail chains, has become an important research topic in the field of economics, marketing, strategic management, and organization theory. This book contributes to the literature on formal and informal inter-organizational...
Advanced Analytics Methodologies
Driving Business Value with Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Advanced Analytics Methodologies is today's definitive guide to analytics implementation for MBA and university-level business students and sophisticated practitioners. Its expanded, cutting-edge coverage helps readers systematically "jump the gap" between their organization's current analytical capabilities...
Real-World Data Mining
Applied Business Analytics and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Use the latest data mining best practices to enable timely, actionable, evidence-based decision making throughout your organization! Real-World Data Mining demystifies current best practices, showing how to use data mining to uncover hidden patterns and correlations, and leverage these to improve...