Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Entrepreneurial Challenges in the 21st Century
Creating Stakeholder Value Co-Creation
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Entrepreneurial Challenges in the 21st Century analyses the traditional and contemporary issues of entrepreneurial innovation potentials for stakeholder value co-creation, and structures the entrepreneurial co-creation concept to reinforce co-creation.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2017
This edited book offers further advances, new perspectives, and developments from world leaders in the field of through-life engineering services (TES). It builds up on the earlier book by the same authors entitled: “Through-life Engineering Services: Motivation, Theory and Practice.”
This...
Business Model Pioneers
How Innovators Successfully Implement New Business Models
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Business model innovations are conceived and implemented by a special type of entrepreneur: business model pioneers. This book presents 14 compelling case studies of business model pioneers and their companies, who have successfully introduced new business ideas to the market. The examples range from...
Digital Transformation Now!
Guiding the Successful Digitalization of Your Business Model
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
Is digitalization a value-added approach? Global leaders believe so, and this book reveals how to digitally transform your business model and compete in today’s economy. It presents a roadmap consisting of five phases; Digital Reality, Digital Ambition, Digital Potential, Digital Fit, and Digital...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The broad spectrum of topics surrounding what is termed the ‘knowledge economy’ has attracted increasing attention from the scientific community in recent years. The nature of knowledge-intensive industries, the spatiality of knowledge, the role of proximity and distance in generating functional...
by Richard J. Arend
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
This book explores 'wicked entrepreneurship', or the proliferation of evil that harms our economic and social transactions, as the greatest socio-economic problem of our time and offers strategies to identify and address this phenomenon.
Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models
Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along...
by Alain Martel, Walid Klibi
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Winner of the 2016 Coup de Coeur prize at the Plumes des Achats & Supply Chain, Paris.
Focusing on the design of robust value-creating supply chain networks (SCN) and key strategic issues related to the number; location, capacity and mission of supply chain facilities (plants, distribution...
by Li-hui Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Repetitive Project Scheduling: Theory and Methods is the first book to comprehensively, and systematically, review new methods for scheduling repetitive projects that have been developed in response to the weaknesses of the most popular method for project scheduling, the Critical Path Method (CPM).
As...
Costovation
Innovation That Gives Your Customers Exactly What They Want--And Nothing More
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Wow your customers . . . with "less." Cut costs-it's a common corporate refrain. But if you constantly slash expenditures, what happens to innovation? How can you stay competitive and satisfy customers? Costovation solves the dilemma of how to spend less and innovate more. The book's revolutionary...
South Africa’s BPO Service Advantage
Becoming Strategic in the Global Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Since 2007, South Africa has been one of the world's upcoming Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) offshore destinations. This book is based on the authors' most recent research into high performance BPO globally and new research streams specifically on South Africa.
Reinventing the Product
How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2019
Digital technology is simultaneously friend and foe: highly disruptive, yet it cannot be ignored. Companies that fail to make use of it put themselves in the line of fire for disintermediation or even eradication. But digital technology is also the biggest opportunity to reposition incumbent product-making...
Employee Benefits and the New Health Care Landscape
How Private Exchanges are Bringing Choice and Consumerism to America's Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
2018 International Book Awards Finalist in "Business and Management" Category
We shop for everything else online…why not benefits?
Using private benefit exchanges (a.k.a. “online benefits marketplaces”), employers can bring a consumer-centric online shopping experience...
by Anders Hemre
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2016
Competent companies are good at what they do. But it’s when knowledge challenges generally held beliefs and when expertise challenges authority, that companies are put to the test – whether they can learn and change or whether they cannot.
The Competent Company provides a series of insights about...