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Innovation from Information Systems
An Ambidexterity Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Relying on the extensive study of a multi-national Company, this work proposes a process view of the way firms balance tensions between exploring new knowledge and exploiting old one. First, ideas are generated throughout the organization. These ideas are funneled towards specific project teams...
Design Thinking
Understand – Improve – Apply
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
“Everybody loves an innovation, an idea that sells.“ But how do we arrive at such ideas that sell? And is it possible to learn how to become an innovator? Over the years Design Thinking – a program originally developed in the engineering department of Stanford University and offered by the two...
Design Thinking Research
Studying Co-Creation in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2012
This book summarizes the results of the second year in the Design Thinking Research Program, a joint venture of Stanford University in Palo Alto and Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. The authors have taken a closer look at the issue of co-creation from different points-of-view. The concept of co-creation...
A Course in In-Memory Data Management
The Inner Mechanics of In-Memory Databases
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Recent achievements in hardware and software development, such as multi-core CPUs and DRAM capacities of multiple terabytes per server, enabled the introduction of a revolutionary technology: in-memory data management. This technology supports the flexible and extremely fast analysis of massive amounts...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Methods of Clinical Epidemiology” serves as a text on methods useful to clinical researchers. It provides a clear introduction to the common research methodology specific to clinical research for both students and researchers. This book sets out to fill the gap left by texts that concentrate...
Microsimulation Modelling of the Corporate Firm
Exploring Micro-Macro Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
My interest in microsimulation started to develop when I was exposed to the works of Guy Orcutt and his associates on microsimulation of households in the USA, and those of Gunnar Eliasson and his associates on simulatio~ of Swedish firms. Their approaches promised the exciting possibility to represent...
Megacity Mobility Culture
How Cities Move on in a Diverse World
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
What determines how cities move on? The ever-increasing challenges to urban mobility come in many forms, and approaches to address them range from the technically ingenious to attempts to change travel behaviour. Key amongst factors essential to the success of any such approach is whether the urban...
by Roberta Capello, K. Bithas, R. Camagni
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The aim of this book is to highlight the great potential of decentralized (i.e. local or urban) energy policies in achieving environmentally-benign developments for modern cities. Urban sustainability is placed in the context of the debate on global sustainable development. A wide array of policy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
As cities are rapidly expanding and encroaching into agricultural and natural areas, a question of primary concern is how this expansion affects surrounding agriculture and natural landscapes. This book presents a wide spectrum of both theoretical and empirical approaches to simulation and assessment...
Desert Problems and Desertification in Central Asia
The Researchers of the Desert Institute
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since 1962 the Desert Institute of the former Academy of Science of the USSR has been conducting research work in the arid and semi-arid zones of central Asia. This outstanding experience in desert and desertification problems, and the possibilities of sustainable land use under difficult environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning. They present case studies - from North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa - that ground the exploration of ideas in the realities of sustainable urban...
Globalization and Urban Implosion
Creating New Competitive Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
In the past twenty years, globalization has rendered many economic and social urban functions obsolete. Large cities face a form of implosion, which necessitates a rethinking of both contents and containers. This book will mainly concentrate on the latter aspect. Thus, the need to replace old functions...
Ways Towards Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources
Annual Report 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
atmosphere and vegetation. In what ways can key ural and cultural functions of water, primarily elements of the water balance and the hydrological through direct interference by agriculture and cycle be altered by climate change? To answer this through pollutant loads emanating from point and question,...
Resource Curse or Cure ?
On the Sustainability of Development in Western Australia
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Globalisation and rapid social and environmental change in recent decades have brought into sharper focus not only the benefits but also the costs of economic development. The once assumed link between economic development and societal well-being is being increasingly questioned in the face of growing...