Industries Professions category: 12443 books
The British Electricity Experiment
Privatization: the record, the issues, the lessons
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In 1990, energy in the UK underwent a unique and fundamental transformation, with the privatization of the electricity supply industry. This is the first book to fully assess the experiment. It first explains how – and why – the British electricity supply industry was privatized. It then identifies...
by Dennis P. Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles for the Oil, Gas, Chemical, and Related Facilities, Fourth Edition, discusses high-level risk analysis and advanced technical considerations, such as process control, emergency shut-downs, and evaluation procedures. As more engineers...
Asia's Computer Challenge
Threat or Opportunity for the United States and the World?
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 1998
How did the computer industry evolve into its present global structure? Why have some Asian countries succeeded more than others? Jason Dedrick and Kenneth L. Kraemer delve into these questions and emerge with an explanation of the rapid rise of the computer industry in the Asia-Pacific region. Asia's...
by Michael L. George Sr., Dan Blackwell, Michael L. George Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
The world’s leading expert on Lean Six Sigma provides the missing link for reducing waste and taking operations to the next level: Artificial Intelligence
“Whatever the industry, there is an executive with the grit and determination to apply AI to attain the fastest growth, the highest...
Travel Marketing, Tourism Economics and the Airline Product
An Introduction to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to travel marketing, tourism economics and the airline product. At the same time, it provides an overview on the political, socio-economic, environmental and technological impacts of tourism and its related sectors.
This publication covers both...
by Frank Crawley, Brian Tyler
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
HAZOP: Guide to Best Practice, 3rd Edition describes and illustrates the HAZOP study method, highlighting a variety of proven uses and approaches. This updated edition brings additional experience with which to assist the reader in delivering optimum safety and efficiency of performance of the HAZOP...
by Jay Liebowitz
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Successes and Failures of Knowledge Management highlights examples from across multiple industries, demonstrating where the practice has been implemented well—and not so well—so others can learn from these cases during their knowledge management journey.
Knowledge management deals with...
Mining Your Own Business
A Primer for Executives on Understanding and Employing Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016
Data mining and predictive analytics are the 21st century’s most valuable new management tools. In this practical guide for organizational leaders and top-level executives, industry experts Jeff Deal and Gerhard Pilcher explain in clear, understandable English…
what data mining and predictive...
by S Medlik
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2009
'Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century' is a collection of essays which consider the future of tourism and hospitality. The international team of contributors represent a wide range of interests involved in tourism and hospitality.
Divided into three parts, this book analyses:
·...
Arts Governance
People, Passion, Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Since the crisis in governance which led to a shortage of capable board members, recent years have seen the emergence of the enterprising arts organisation – a development which has led to the need for new types of board members who have a greater understanding of 'mission, money and merit' within...
by Pramod Thakur
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Advanced Reservoir and Production Engineering for Coal Bed Methane presents the reader with design systems that will maximize production from worldwide coal bed methane reservoirs. Authored by an expert in the field with more than 40 years of’ experience, the author starts with much needed introductory...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
This book, written by global experts, provides a comprehensive and topical analysis on the economics of chocolate. While the main approach is economic analysis, there are important contributions from other disciplines, including psychology, history, government, nutrition, and geography. The chapters...
Creating Wine
The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound....
Out of the Present Crisis
Rediscovering Improvement in the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2012
Today, organizations have achieved an overall failure rate above 80 percent with Lean, Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and continuous improvement in general. This is certainly not due to a shortage of books, consultants, and other online resources about the methodologies and tools, or the success stories...