Industries Professions category: 12443 books
Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth
The Norwegian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Managing Resource Abundance and Wealth: The Norwegian Experience describes the sundry and significant challenges, both economic and political, facing petroleum-producing countries. The volume outlines the pitfalls that policymakers encounter in the aftermath of a major resource discovery, and what...
Perspectives on Supplier Innovation
Theories, Concepts and Empirical Insights on Open Innovation and the Integration of Suppliers
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Hardly anybody outside a company knows its products and processes better than its suppliers. Research confirms that intensive integration of suppliers in the value creation process positively influences the success of the company, particularly in highly competitive industries. This is a result of...
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How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
As we dig, drill, and excavate to unearth the planet’s mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams, and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being squandered in just centuries–or sometimes...
by David Fagan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Your essential guide to the biggest revolution of the past century. David Fagan was at the forefront of this revolution as he helped take one of Australia’s largest media organisations from print to digital. In Wake Up, he explores the challenges and opportunities of the digital age from his position...
by Bikash Chatterjee
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Bikash Chatterjee emphasizes the criticality of applying the principles of Lean and Six Sigma within the paradigm of the drug development process. His guide to operational excellence in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries is a focused summary of the application of Lean Six Sigma theory to the...
Process Risk and Reliability Management
Operational Integrity Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2010
In the last twenty years considerable progress has been made in process safety, particularly in regard to regulatory compliance. Many companies are now looking to go beyond mere compliance; they are expanding their process safety management (PSM) programs to improve performance not just in safety,...
The Internet of Things: The Critical IOT Players
The Internet of Things, #2
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2015
Want to uncover the mystery of the Internet of Things? Do you want to feel like you have an insiders knowledge of the IOT? Then you want to read this book.
With Internet of Things Volume II – you'll get a clear understanding about the building blocks used to make the Internet of Things....
The Conscious Closet
The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
From journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you'll love.
Clothing is one of the most personal expressions of who we are. In her landmark investigation...
Competitive Advantage of Nations
Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Now beyond its eleventh printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter’s The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter’s groundbreaking study of international competitiveness...
Inclusive FinTech
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and ICO
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Cryptocurrency market has been growing fast since its emergence in recent years. Moreover, digital finance has forged the convergence of profit motives with social objectives creating a class of large FinTech companies. In addition, the underlying technology innovation may be applied to a wide range...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2015
Information is considered both an essential element of organizational design and an asset to be processed and managed. Further research on and application of topics relating to the architecture, management, and use of information is imperative to organizational success. The Handbook of Research on...
by Enrique Ochoa Reza, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
The electricity sector is one of the most important industries in the country. Based on that, and due to advances in this area around the world it was necessary to enact an energy reform initiative to establish a competitive environment, encourage renewable energy, and to increase the quality of electricity...
by Marina Nicoli
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni known to audiences around the world. But by the end of the 1980s, the Italian film industry was all but dead. The Rise and Fall of the Italian...
Sustainability Assessment
A Rating System Framework for Best Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Concerns about environmental, social, economic, health, and other impacts in the building industry have led to the development of a number of environmental and sustainability assessment approaches, strategies, models, appraisals, and methodologies. Green technology and practices have been implemented...