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Logistic Core Operations with SAP
Procurement, Production and Distribution Logistics
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
“Logistic Core Operations with SAP” not only provides an overview of core logistics processes and functionality—it also shows how SAP’s Business Suite covers logistic core operations, what features are supported, and which systems can be used to implement end-to-end processes in the following...
Transaction Cost Management
Strategies and Practices for a Global Open Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
All organizations, institutions, business processes, markets and strategies have one aim in common: the reduction of transaction costs. This aim is pursued relentlessly in practice, and has been perceived to bring about drastic changes, especially in the recent global market and the cyber economy....
Designing Service Machines
Translating Principles of System Science to Service Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
This book presents a general conceptual framework to translate principles of system science and engineering to service design. Services are co-created immaterial, heterogeneous, and perishable state changes. A service system includes the intended benefit to the customer and the structure and processes...
Neuroleadership
A Journey Through the Brain for Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
This book takes you on a journey through the brain, its function and its impact on leadership. The young business field of neuroleadership is founded on the belief that understanding the brain can give leaders new and powerful insights into human behaviour and how to effectively tap into that knowledge...
Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers
Current Reality, Future Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
This book promotes an understanding of ageism, discrimination and mistreatment of older adult workers, incorporating an international human rights perspective. The impact of ageism on the mistreatment of older adult workers has not to date been examined in depth through the lens of international human...
Computer Security – ESORICS 2016
21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Heraklion, Greece, September 26-30, 2016, Proceedings, Part I
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The two-volume set, LNCS 9878 and 9879 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2016, held in Heraklion, Greece, in September 2016.
The 60 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions....
by Ronnie Donaldson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming. The contents of the book resonate with the intersection of the power elite and their impacts on small town tourism.
Because the...
Service Business Model Innovation in Healthcare and Hospital Management
Models, Strategies, Tools
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
This book demonstrates how to successfully manage and lead healthcare institutions by employing the logic of business model innovation to gain competitive advantages. Since clerk-like routines in professional organizations tend to overlook patient and service-centered healthcare solutions, it challenges...
Managing Organizational Diversity
Trends and Challenges in Management and Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive overview of organizational diversity management, intended to help readers implement effective strategies and maximize the value of organizational diversity. Written by experts from a range of disciplines, it presents cutting-edge research and best practices in this...
Information Security Applications
15th International Workshop, WISA 2014, Jeju Island, Korea, August 25-27, 2014. Revised Selected Papers
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Information Security Applications, WISA 2014, held on Jeju Island, Korea, in August 2014. The 30 revised full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The European economy is still in recession, even though there are some weak indications of stabilization. This book examines important aspects of the crisis in selected countries of Southern Europe, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The intensity of the crisis and its economic and social repercussions...
Testing Software and Systems
27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference, ICTSS 2015, Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, November 23-25, 2015, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on Testing Software and Systems, ICTSS 2015, held in Sharjah and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in November 2015. The 14 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected...
Agent Technology
Foundations, Applications, and Markets
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The first book to provide an integrative presentation of the issues, challenges and success of designing, building and using agent applications. The chapters presented are written by internationally leading authorities in the field, with a general audience in mind. The result is a unique overview...
Back to the Future: Using Marketing Basics to Provide Customer Value
Proceedings of the 2017 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This proceedings volume presents timely research and insights on the advancement of marketing’s basic premise—providing greater levels of customer value. In recent years, both marketing scholars and practitioners have witnessed great advancements in technology and methodologies associated with...