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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service...
Managing Sustainable Innovation
The Driver for Global Growth
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Ian Maxwell applies decades of research and application to present a novel approach to innovation, with an emphasis on sustainable and renewable practices that benefit many, and not just a handful of executives and shareholders. Featuring examples from a wide range of innovators around the world,...
Growth Through Innovation
Managing the Technology-Driven Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2014
Capitalism produced entrepreneurs and property rights, the two basic pillars of innovation and growth. As the speed of technology is steadily increasing only radical innovation can be the name of the game. This book discusses technology and innovation trends by looking into historical examples...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lean Six Sigma
Get the Tools You Need to Build a Lean, Mean Business Machine
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
The perfect prescription for any organization
Increasingly popular with large and mid-sized companies around the world, Lean Six Sigma is the new hybridization of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies, and there is no better approach for achieving operational excellence in an organization. But how...
Design Thinking Research
Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Offering readers a closer look at design thinking, its innovation processes and methods, it covers topics ranging from how...
Knowledge, Learning and Innovation
Research Insights on Cross-Sector Collaborations
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book places knowledge, learning and innovation at the heart of cross-sector collaborations. Collaboration for innovation is a topic that has attracted widespread interest from academics, business strategists and government officials. To date the collaborations have focused on the performance...
Inventing a Space Mission
The Story of the Herschel Space Observatory
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2017
This book describes prominent technological achievements within a very successful space science mission: the Herschel space observatory. Focusing on the various processes of innovation it offers an analysis and discussion of the social, technological and scientific context of the mission that paved...
Open Innovation 2.0
The New Mode of Digital Innovation for Prosperity and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book presents the emerging paradigm and methodology, Open Innovation 2.0 (OI2), which aims to help drive significant structural changes and benefits through digital innovation to society and industry. It highlights how new services and markets can be co-created in open ecosystems and how this...
Incentives and Performance
Governance of Research Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
This book contributes to the current discussion in society, politics and higher education on innovation capacity and the financial and non-financial incentives for researchers. The expert contributions in the book deal with implementation of incentive systems at higher education institutions...
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...
Collaboration, Learning and Innovation Across Outsourced Services Value Networks
Software Services Outsourcing in China
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
This book collects and reports on the results of a study conducted on the Chinese Software and Services Outsourcing (SSO) industry, focusing on one of its main players as a key case study. Two sets of research findings are presented: first, the knowledge management and communication processes inherent...
Information Technology and Innovation Trends in Organizations
ItAIS: The Italian Association for Information Systems
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
The book examines a wide range of issues that characterize the current IT based innovation trends in organisations. It contains a collection of research papers focusing on themes of growing interest in the field of Information System, Organization Studies, and Management. The book offers a multi-disciplinary...
Design Thinking Research
Taking Breakthrough Innovation Home
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book summarizes the results of Design Thinking Research carried out at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA and at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany. Offering readers a closer look at Design Thinking, its innovation processes and methods, the book covers topics ranging...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This contributed volume presents the experiences, challenges, trends, and advances in Service Science from Japan’s perspective. As the global economy becomes more connected and competitive, many economies depend the service sector on for growth and prosperity. A multi-disciplinary approach to...