Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Digital Transformation in Journalism and News Media
Media Management, Media Convergence and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This book analyzes various digital transformation processes in journalism and news media. By investigating how these processes stimulate innovation, the authors identify new business and communication models, as well as digital strategies for a new environment of global information flows. The book...
Computational Morphologies
Design Rules Between Organic Models and Responsive Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book represents an invaluable and up-to-date international exchange of research, case studies and best practice to tackle the challenges of digital technology, computer-aided design, 3D modeling, prototyping machines and computational design. With contributions from leading experts in the field...
The Knowledge of Culture and the Culture of Knowledge
Implications for Theory, Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Knowledge of Culture and the Culture of Knowledge explores the construct of information and information culture and its relationship to the prevailing culture. The author provides an analysis of the relationship of media to the core constructs in the book by explaining why they have been put together to form one single idea.
Value-ology
Aligning sales and marketing to shape and deliver profitable customer value propositions
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book offers both marketing and sales professionals a rare combined insight into both worlds to continuously capture customer intelligence and create value, by blending detailed research with academic rigor and commercial experience of the authors in both Europe and North America.
It...
Conquering Global Markets
Secrets from the World’s Most Successful Multinationals
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Conquering Global Markets offers assessments of the issues, statistics, cases, and best practices of mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and alliances throughout the world. Using information gleaned interviews with CEOs, the book provides insights into making global M&As successful.
Contemporary Logistics in China
Consolidation and Deepening
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
While logistics has caught on as a vital component in China’s national development plan, both government agencies at all levels and various types of enterprises have put considerable effort into propelling logistics to a new height. Recent logistics developments in China have witnessed a scene...
Manufacturing Outsourcing
A Knowledge Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily through lower costs, greater reliability and improved efficiency. Successful outsourcing decisions have an important knowledge dimension, where the outsourcing...
Green Growth, Green Profit
How Green Transformation Boosts Business
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Green business is here. It is a multi billion business with enormous growth potential, driven by megatrends such as demographic change, climate change and urbanization. It is driving the transformation of existing businesses and changing the way customers and suppliers act, forcing them to rethink their business strategy.
Contemporary Logistics in China
New Horizon and New Blueprint
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book is the sixth volume in a series entitled “Contemporary Logistics in China,” authored by researchers at the Logistics Center, Nankai University. In the spirit of the five preceding volumes, published annually in previous years, this book carries on the ideal of providing a systematic...
Contemporary Logistics in China
Transformation and Revitalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
This present report, as a second volume of the series entitled “Contemporary Logistics in China: an Introduction,” follows the same general conceptual organization, yet with updated analysis and discussion of logistics development, under the backdrop of the aftermath of the international financial...
by The Blokehead
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The agile practice is only one of the many iterative methods devised by development leaders in the past. Fundamentally speaking, iterative methods opposed the overly-incremental approach of the waterfall method by using a multitude of smaller phases. These phases encompass the main parts of the waterfall...
Sustainable Transport Development, Innovation and Technology
Proceedings of the 2016 TranSopot Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This proceedings volume presents current research on transport sector development, with particular emphasis on sustainable transport development, innovation and transport enterprise growth and survival. Derived from the 2016 TranSopot Conference held in Sopot, Poland, this book aims to show the possibilities...
Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey
Carving Out a Global Niche
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
This book presents hidden champions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Turkey that have been studied as a joint project between CEEMAN and IEDC-Bled School of Management, Slovenia. This is an outcome of extensive research undertaken by over 30 researchers and covers 15 countries from Russia...
Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains
A Guide for Innovation and Growth
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012
The most obvious form of entrepreneurship is that of starting a new business; however, in recent years, the term has been extended to include other forms of entrepreneurial activity. Corporate entrepreneurship is the process by which teams within an established company conceive, foster, launch, and manage...