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Measuring National Innovation Performance
The Innovation Union Scoreboard Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
This book provides a critical re-examination of the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) as the main tool used by the European Commission and other policy-making bodies to measure national innovation capacity. Given that contemporary societies and economies are to a great extent characterised by the...
Enterprise Governance
Driving Enterprise Performance Through Strategic Alignment
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
This book is written for business leaders and those that govern organisations. All high performing organisations excel in achieving 7 organisational outcomes: Accountability, Awareness, Adaptability, Agility, Alignment, Action and Achievement. The enterprise governance framework must deliver on these...
Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Practical Ideas for Moving Towards Best Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially. This book is not about a wish list of impractical choices, but the reality of decisions faced by all those involved in supply chain management today. Our definition of sustainable supply...
by Ulrich Gellert, Ana Daniela Cristea
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Web Dynpro ABAP, a NetWeaver web application user interface tool from SAP, enables web programming connected to SAP Systems. The authors’ main focus was to create a book based on their own practical experience. Each chapter includes examples which lead through the content step-by-step and enable...
The Seven Principles of WOM and Buzz Marketing
Crossing the Tipping Point
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2009
Why are word-of-mouth campaigns effective for some products, while failing for others? Which group of consumers should be the target of viral marketing efforts, and how can you turn word of mouth into buzz? Panos Mourdoukoutas and George J Siomkos provide the answers!
The transformation of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book addresses two main questions, namely how to prepare high-quality teachers in the 21st century and how the East and the West can learn from each other. It addresses the different challenges and dilemmas that eastern countries, especially China, and western countries are facing with regard...
Strategic Human Resource Development
A Journey in Eight Stages
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
In an era that has brought new and unexpected challenges for virtually every company, one would be hard-pressed to find any responsible manager who is not thinking about what the future will bring. In the wake of these challenges, strategic planning has moved from being the reserve of large corporations...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Ectomycorrhizal fungi play multifunctional roles during symbioses with higher plants. They can serve as bioprotectors, biofertilizers, bioremediators and stress indicators. Further, they are the true “mycoindicators” of forest ecosystems, where an enormous diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi can...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book describes the strategy used for sequencing, assembling and annotating the tomato genome and presents the main characteristics of this sequence with a special focus on repeated sequences and the ancestral polyploidy events. It also includes the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes. Tomato...
Macroeconomic Analysis of Monetary Unions
A General Framework Based on the Mundell-Fleming Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
The book develops a general framework for the macroeconomic modeling of monetary unions. The starting point of the analysis is the standard two-country Mundell-Fleming model with perfect capital mobility, extended to incorporate the supply side in a context of rigid real wages, and modified so that...
International Mineral Economics
Mineral Exploration, Mine Valuation, Mineral Markets, International Mineral Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
International Mineral Economics provides an integrated overview of the concepts important for mineral exploration, mine valuation, mineral market analysis, and international mineral policies. The treatment is interdisciplinary, drawing on the fields of economics, geology, business, and mining engineering....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2010
An ontology is a formal description of concepts and relationships that can exist for a community of human and/or machine agents. The notion of ontologies is crucial for the purpose of enabling knowledge sharing and reuse. The Handbook on Ontologies provides a comprehensive overview of the current...
Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis
Third IFIP WG 2.6, 2.12 International Symposium, SIMPDA 2013, Riva del Garda, Italy, August 30, 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in August 2013.
The six revised full papers were carefully selected from 18 submissions. Following the event, authors were...
A Guide to Continuous Improvement Transformation
Concepts, Processes, Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2013
This book enables enterprise business leaders - from CEOs to supervisors - to understand what "Continuous Improvement" is, why it is probably the best answer to improved business performance in years, and how to put it to work in the unique environment of a specific organization. The book...