Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Open Tourism
Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing and Co-Creation Challenging the Tourism Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Thisbook examines the concepts of open innovation, crowdsourcing and co-creation from a holistic point of view and analyzes them considering their suitability to the tourism industry. Methods, theories and models are discussed and examined regarding their practical applicability in tourism. The bookillustrates...
Developing Innovative Organizations
A roadmap to boost your innovation potential
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Combining insights from leading academic research and experienced managers, this book provides a systematic framework to understand what innovation is, why it matters, how it can be managed and how it can help your organization to reach its objectives.
by John S. Bircham, Heather J. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Take a journey down into the inner-workings of organizations as they strive to meet the addiction-fuelled expectations of their stakeholders - what they do and what they don't do. Moveover, don't just look through the eyes of success, but look also through the eyes of failure and learn, both from...
Leading Medicaid Managed Care Plans
A State Relationship Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Leading Medicaid Managed Care Plans examines leadership actions necessary to successfully operate a Medicaid managed care plan with emphasis on the relationship with the state Medicaid agency the health plan is contracted with. With appropriate operational and governance oversight, and with solid...
The 4th Industrial Revolution
Responding to the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Business
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
This book helps decision makers grasp the importance, and applicability to business, of the new technologies and extended connectivity of systems that underlie what is becoming known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and systems such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 3D...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
This book discusses emerging themes in the area of humanitarian logistics. It examines how humanitarian logistics and supply chains play a key role, focusing on rapidly delivering the correct amount of goods, people and monetary resources to the locations needed to achieve the success of relief efforts...
Membership in Service Clubs
Rotary's Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.
Service Innovation
Novel Ways of Creating Value in Actor Systems
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This is the first book that summarizes the 20-year history of service innovation research and combines it with the future need to adopt a systems view in the field of service research. The book emphasizes that the most urgent issues of today’s economies – the development of welfare and sustainability...
by United States Government US Army
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
This publication, Army Regulation AR 700-127 Logistics Integrated Product Support October 2018, prescribes the Department of the Army (DA) policy for implementing performance-based life cycle product support, including performance-based logistics, through the Army’s Integrated Product Support (IPS)...
Physical Hazard Control
Preventing Injuries in the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
People deal with physical hazards every day at the workplace, in their homes, on the roadways, and in many other areas. In any situation, people face potential hazards-often more than one hazard in each situation-and these hazards often lead to serious injury. But it is possible to mitigate the effects...
Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams
How to ‘Build the Beginning’
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2012
Development projects that span different disciplines and groups often face problems in establishing a shared understanding of the project’s purpose, deliverables, and direction. Creating Shared Understanding in Product Development Teams: How to ‘Build the Beginning’ uses research-based cases...
Scenario Planning - Revised and Updated
The Link Between Future and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Recent research in the field of business strategy has shown that strategic flexibility can be achieved through a scenario planning perspective for long-term competition and performance. The authors have drawn upon examples and case studies to develop a new model for scenario planning that is closely integrated with strategy and innovation.
by G. Dummer, Mike Tooley, BA; Advanced Technological and Higher National Certificates
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 1997
This classic text has now been completely revised and updated, making it an ideal introductory course in reliability for a wide range of engineering qualifications, including City & Guilds 8030 and HNC/Ds. A new chapter focuses on the role of the microprocessor and microcomputer controller, and...
The Practice of Outsourcing
From Information Systems to BPO and Offshoring
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
A close look at the main developments in IT, business processes and offshore outsourcing. This book studies these topics in both theory and practice, exploring the rising prominence of outsourcing with a multi-dimensional, contextual perspective.