Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Design Thinking Research
Building Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Design thinking as a user-centric innovation method has become more and more widespread during the past years. An increasing number of people and institutions have experienced its innovative power. While at the same time the demand has grown for a deep, evidence-based understanding of the way design...
Design Thinking
Understand – Improve – Apply
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
“Everybody loves an innovation, an idea that sells.“ But how do we arrive at such ideas that sell? And is it possible to learn how to become an innovator? Over the years Design Thinking – a program originally developed in the engineering department of Stanford University and offered by the two...
Design Thinking Research
Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works. Researchers have identified metrics, developed...
Urban Innovation Networks
Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2015
This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen – and used – as a resource for corporate innovation. The main...
Business Modelling in the Dynamic Digital Space
An Ecosystem Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This Springer Briefs volume guides the reader in a comprehensive form to design new digital business models. The book provides strategic roadmaps for enterprises in the digital world, and a comprehensive framework to assess new business models. It aligns both, research and a practical perspective...
Modern Analytics Methodologies
Driving Business Value with Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Create a complete roadmap for capitalizing on analytics to grow topline revenue and build shareholder value in your unique organization! Modern Analytics Methodologies goes far beyond the classic Analytics Maturity Model to help you overcome the gaps between your current analytics capabilities and...
by Namjae Cho
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2012
Recent increases in uncertainty and speed of market change are driving the adoption of new intelligent mobile office systems. Organizational information systems paradigm suggests that a right match between organizational characteristics and the use of technology is critical in producing desired results....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Open innovation increases the profit of companies and organizations via the input and the adoption of new ideas that are transformed into new processes, products, and services. Yet, how do we ensure that adopters of such innovations focus on relevant problems and use appropriate methods? How should...
Model-Driven Risk Analysis
The CORAS Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
The term “risk” is known from many fields, and we are used to references to contractual risk, economic risk, operational risk, legal risk, security risk, and so forth. We conduct risk analysis, using either offensive or defensive approaches to identify and assess risk. Offensive approaches are...
Knowledge Perspectives of New Product Development
A Comparative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2011
New Product Development (NPD) is about the ideation, formulation, and implementation of new and superior solutions in the market. Beyond the obvious need for organizations to innovate in order to compete, embedded in any NPD program are knowledge, technological expertise, and the social networks that...
Deploying Foresight for Policy and Strategy Makers
Creating Opportunities Through Public Policies and Corporate Strategies in Science, Technology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
This book develops foresight techniques to turn future societal challenges into opportunities. The authors present foresight approaches for innovation policy and management. Future developments in fields such as education, energy, new materials, nanotechnologies are highlighted for different...
by A. Coskun Samli
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This book argues that the strength of our dynamic society is a market economy, which functions well only if positive and constructive marketing practices are performed. It offers innovative alternatives for achieving economic progress and outlines strategies to create conditions for equal opportunity....
Supply Chain Coordination in Case of Asymmetric Information
Information Sharing and Contracting in a Just-in-Time environment.
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Information sharing is frequently promoted as a mean to improve the supply chain performance. This work shows the results of behavioral experiments, in which the participants share private information in order to influence the contract terms in a Just-in-Time environment. It is shown that the impact...
Human Capital and Innovation
Examining the Role of Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The second title in the Palgrave Studies in Global Human Capital Management series, this book explores how human capital contributes to innovation within the context of an inter-connected and globalized world. Investigating globalization as a phenomenon reflected within increasing cross-border flows...