Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Computational Intelligence in Business Analytics
Concepts, Methods, and Tools for Big Data Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
Use computational intelligence to drive more value from business analytics, overcome real-world uncertainties and complexities, and make better decisions. Drawing on his pioneering experience as an instructor and researcher, Dr. Les Sztandera thoroughly illuminates today's key computational intelligence...
Low-tech Innovation
Competitiveness of the German Manufacturing Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
This book highlights the economic relevance of the so-called low-tech industries and firms. Non R&D intensive firms continue to be the economic backbone of several developed industrial countries. They form the core of National Innovation Systems and contribute significantly to growth and employment....
Universities in Change
Managing Higher Education Institutions in the Age of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Universities find themselves in dynamic change. They are confronted with growing expectations from their stakeholders, increasing international competition, and new technological challenges. Featuring insights and in-depth case studies from leading researchers and university decision makers from...
Agent-Based Approaches in Economics and Social Complex Systems IX
Post-Proceedings of The AESCS International Workshop 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book includes many cases that provide new perspectives in developing agent-based modeling and simulation. The real problems are complex, and sophisticated methodology is needed to handle them. Agent-based modeling and simulation is one methodology that provides a bottom-up experimental approach...
Decision Support Systems III - Impact of Decision Support Systems for Global Environments
Euro Working Group Workshops, EWG-DSS 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece, May 29-31, 2013, and Rome, Italy, July 1-4, 2013, Revised Selected and Extended Papers
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2014
This book contains extended and revised versions of a set of selected papers from two workshops organized by the Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems (EWG-DSS), which were held in Thessaloniki, Greece, and Rome, Italy, in May and July 2013.
From a total of 45 submissions, 15 papers...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Operational Research (OR) deals with the use of advanced analytical methods to support better decision-making. It is multidisciplinary with strong links to management science, decision science, computer science and many application areas such as engineering, manufacturing, commerce and healthcare....
Dynamics in Logistics
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference LDIC, 2014 Bremen, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
This contributed volume brings together research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Dynamics in Logistics, held in Bremen, Germany in February 2014. The conference focused on the identification, analysis and description of the dynamics of logistics processes and networks. Topics...
Bridging the Innovation Gap
Blueprint for the Innovative Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book offers fresh insights into innovation management and its prerequisites. Based on these insights, the authors present a new and proven innovation system, which is being used in practice and has the potential to significantly increase the ability of enterprises to innovate. Starting with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2014
This book of proceedings collects fifty-one papers presented at the inaugural Colloquium of Administrative Science and Technology (CoAST 2013) event, held at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It has been reviewed by 750 experts world-wide and covers three main areas – Administrative Science and Technology,...
Don't Spook the Herd!
How to Get Your Agile Projects Running Smoothly
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2017
The word Agile has grown to mean many things. You're not alone if you have ever found yourself thinking: "What is agile, really? Does agile work? How can I use agile on my projects?" It seems every man and his dog has an interpretation these days. There is a world of confusion about what...
The Foundations of Information Systems
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Why does information technology disappoint or enslave us? Why do so many information systems projects collapse? How can we do better? There are many technical, social, economic and other aspects to consider. How do we ensure we take all these into account as we research ITC or employ them? ICT affects...
The Age of Agile
How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
An unstoppable business revolution is under way--and it is Agile. Sparking dramatic improvements in quality, innovation, and speed-to-market, the Agile movement has helped companies both large and small learn to connect everyone and everything . . . all the time.With rapidly evolving consumer needs...
by Frederic Laloux
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Dé moderne managementklassieker Moderne organisaties lijken vast te zitten in een verouderd stelsel. Werknemers raken gedemotiveerd, ondernemers zoeken naar een ander soort management, vertrouwde modellen schieten tekort. Kunnen we op die manier eigenlijk nog wel verder? Reinventing organizations...
Domino Effects in the Process Industries
Modelling, Prevention and Managing
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Domino Effects in the Process Industries discusses state-of-the-art theories, conceptual models, insights and practical issues surrounding large-scale knock-on accidents—so-called domino effects—in the chemical and process industries. The book treats such extremely low-frequency phenomena from...