Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship Across Cultures
Theory and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The aim of this volume is to further develop the relationship between culture and manifold phenomena of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in order to promote further and better understanding how, why, and when these phenomena are manifested themselves across different cultures.
Currently,...
The Internationalisation of Young High-Tech Firms
An Empirical Analysis in Germany and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
There is now a certain tradition of Anglo-German comparative research on new technology-based firms (NTBFs). Two of the most influential studies in this area have both been sponsored by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of In dustrial Society (AGF). Starting in 1977, the first AGF project...
Smartphone Start-ups
Navigating the iPhone Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
This book provides detailed examination of start-up companies which entered the smartphone industry following the revolution triggered by Apple with its iPhone in 2007. Analytical case studies explore the rationale behind the business models, financing cycles, and factors that helped start-ups sustain...
Web and Network Data Science
Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2014
Master modern web and network data modeling: both theory and applications. In Web and Network Data Science, a top faculty member of Northwestern University’s prestigious analytics program presents the first fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of web and network...
Marketing Data Science
Modeling Techniques in Predictive Analytics with R and Python
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Now***,*** a leader of Northwestern University's prestigious analytics program presents a fully-integrated treatment of both the business and academic elements of marketing applications in predictive analytics. Writing for both managers and students, Thomas W. Miller explains essential concepts, principles,...
by Thomas Kaiserfeld
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Beyond Innovation counter weighs the present innovation monomania by broadening our thinking about technological and institutional change. It is done by a multidisciplinary review of the most common ideas about the dynamics between technology and institutions.
Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle
Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Optimize supply chains throughout their entire lifecycle: creation, growth, maturity, and decline! Reflecting up-to-the-minute "in-the-trenches" experience and pioneering research, this book illuminates the complex transformational processes associated with managing complex supply chains that incorporate...
Your 60 Minute Lean Business - Volume 1
The Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Your 60 Minute Lean Business – Volume 1 is a collection of the first four books in the series. This volume, titled the foundations contains the complete individual books titled: 5S Implementation Guide Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Standardized Work Kaizen Mindset Why foundations?...
Manufacturing Cost Policy Deployment (MCPD) Transformation
Uncovering Hidden Reserves of Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
Achieving a long-term acceptable level of manufacturing profitability through productivity requires the total commitment of management teams and all staff in any manufacturing company and beyond.
Awareness and continuous improvement of manufacturing costs behind losses and waste is the core...
The Handbook for Market Research for Life Sciences Companies
Finding the Answers You Need to Understand Your Market
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
As innovation moves from the lab to the market, a new research phase begins for the entrepreneur: the market research phase.
Inspired by a new technology that can change the world, critical questions need to be addressed. Is there a market for my innovation? Who are my clients? What do they...
The Comprehensive Teacher (EFL & TEFL Companion)
Optimal Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
Because all teachers at one time or another feel that need for taking it further, reaching deeper into the course options…
What material, what approach, and for what course, can we find the suitable material and support ?
Students need to be taught what they need… with the best possible...
Creating a Sustainable Organization
Approaches for Enhancing Corporate Value Through Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Organizations that prioritize environmental, health, and safety (EHS) issues are well placed to attract better customers, better talent, and today's growing number of socially responsible investors. But, to gain these benefits, companies must choose the right sustainability strategies, and then manage...
The Decentralized Energy Revolution
Business Strategies for a New Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
The global energy system stands at the verge of a far-reaching paradigm shift. The established model of centralized supply services will be challenged by new, decentralized technologies, with Germany being an international role model for energy efficiency and renewable energy generation.
Successful Integrated Planning for the Supply Chain
Key Organizational and Human Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Managing changes to the supply chain comes with its unique challenges. Supply chain planning presents an especially complex challenge for the change practitioner as multiple stakeholders and functions are involved. Successful Integrated Planning for the Supply Chain evaluates different approaches...