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Software Product Management
The ISPMA-Compliant Study Guide and Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book gives a comprehensive overview on Software Product Management (SPM) for beginners as well as best practices, methodology and in-depth discussions for experienced product managers. This includes product strategy, product planning, participation in strategic management activities and orchestration...
by Dieter Uckelmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The “EPCglobal Architecture Framework” is currently the most accepted technical approach to the Internet of Things and provides a solid foundation for building Business-to-Business information networks based on unique identifications of ‘things’. Lately, the vision of the Internet of Things...
Software for People
Fundamentals, Trends and Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current boundary conditions, it is critical to continuously increase time-to-market and reduce development costs. In parallel, driven by private life experiences with mobile computing devices,...
Business Networking
Shaping Collaboration Between Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
This book proposes a process-oriented model for business networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprises relationships in the Internet economy. It formulates key success factors and management guidelines which are developed in close co-operation between research and practice.
Corporate Governance
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
This book brings together a representative collection of perspectives on the way how corporate governance is being aligned with the social responsibility of an organization and the accountability of its management both in large corporations and in medium sized businesses. Examples are given from...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The financial crisis prompted financial supervisors to take a critical look at their own performance. The "toolkit" available to supervisors is considerably more varied than it was a few years ago. Supervision has become more forward-looking, taking into account also soft controls, such...
Green Information Systems in the Residential Sector
An Examination of the Determinants of Smart Meter Adoption
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Given rising electricity consumption, coupled with finite resources, and a growing awareness surrounding sustainable energy, ICT-enabled electrical networks such as smart grids are increasingly being deployed by energy companies. One aspect of smart grids is smart meter technology (SMT), which...
Green Business Process Management
Towards the Sustainable Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant part of our society, have always...
Life Cycle Assessment in Industry and Business
Adoption Patterns, Applications and Implications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
1.1 Life Cycle Assessment (LeA): a fascinating and sophisticated tool The greening of the economy is not a new task, but it is a challenge for which a lot of tasks still have to be done. It is known that the main source of environ mental deterioration by industry is not any more the chimneys and...
International Environmental Management Benchmarks
Best Practice Experiences from America, Japan and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book shows what sustainable development means for the business community and presents best practice approaches in environmental management from Japan, the USA, Brazil and seven European countries. It stresses that international competitiveness depends on the effective use of innovative management...
by Jean J. du Plessis, Bernhard Großfeld, Claus Luttermann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2012
Corporate governance encompasses the free enterprise system, which is treated comprehensively in this book from a German perspective. This distinguishes the book from other books written in English in this subject area, not only because of the comprehensive way it covers German corporate law and corporate...
Econometric Evaluation of Socio-Economic Programs
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book provides advanced theoretical and applied tools for the implementation of modern micro-econometric techniques in evidence-based program evaluation for the social sciences. The author presents a comprehensive toolbox for designing rigorous and effective ex-post program evaluation using the...
by Vithala R. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Conjoint analysis is probably the most significant development in marketing research in the past few decades. It can be described as a set of techniques ideally suited to studying customers’ decision-making processes and determining tradeoffs. Though this book is oriented towards methods and applications...
The Supply Chain Differentiation Guide
A Roadmap to Operational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2012
The importance of supply chain management has increased over the last few decades. Today, entire supply chains are competing with each other instead of individual companies. As such, supply chain management has become a way for companies to set themselves apart from competing companies and their supply...