Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Sustainable Smart Cities
Creating Spaces for Technological, Social and Business Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This volume provides the most current research on smart cities. Specifically, it focuses on the economic development and sustainability of smart cities and examines how to transform older industrial cities into sustainable smart cities. It aims to identify the role of the following elements in the...
Development Evaluation in Times of Turbulence
Dealing with Crises That Endanger Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The presence of turbulence in multiple areas of our society--food, fuel, and finances-being but three critical areas presently being impacted means that long-held assumptions are no longer true, that the past is not prologue, and that the future is not clear. And enter into this unstable present the...
Techno-Diplomacy
US-Soviet Confrontations in Science and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2013
by Terry Critchley
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book on performance fundamentals covers UNIX, OpenVMS, Linux, Windows, and MVS. Most of the theory and systems design principles can be applied to other operating systems, as can some of the benchmarks. The book equips professionals with the ability to assess performance characteristics in unfamiliar...
Lead Market India
Key Elements and Corporate Perspectives for Frugal Innovations
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
India is still perceived by some as a developing country that has yet to create world-class products of its own. However, this book shows that in recent years India has emerged as a lead market for frugality-driven innovations that are affordable, robust and successful even outside its geographic...
Responsible Research and Innovation in Industry
The Case for Corporate Responsibility Tools
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Responsible research and innovation (RRI) is a governance framework promoted by influential policy makers such as the European Commission and academics from the fields of science and technology studies and management. This book is the first text to serve industry. Inspired by existing Corporate Responsibility...
The Smart City and the Co-creation of Value
A Source of New Competitiveness in a Low-Carbon Society
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
The original point that differentiates this text from otherwise similar texts is that it looks at the building of smart cities from the viewpoint of an interchange of knowledge among companies in different industries, or “Ba” as shared context in motion, and emphasizes that the resulting value...
Market Oriented Product Innovation
A Key to Survival in the Third Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Market-Oriented Product Innovation differs from most other titles, written either from a marketing or technical perspective, by giving a holistic view of the product innovation process. It has a product perspective, written from a managerial point of view, recognizing that product innovation, or new...
Knowledge-Driven Entrepreneurship
The Key to Social and Economic Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The Springer book series Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management was launched in March 2008 as a forum and intellectual, scholarly “podium” for global/local, transdisciplinary, transsectoral, public–private, and leading/“bleeding” -edge ideas, theories, and perspectives on these...
by Taylor Haskins
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Have you ever wondered why you aren't as productive as you could be? Odds are, your inbox is to blame.
When we're monitoring our inboxes or thinking about our emails at the same time we're trying to complete a task, we're forced to constantly (and sometimes unconsciously) shift our attention...
Energie für nachhaltige Mobilität
Trends und Konzepte
Language: German
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Der Straßenverkehr des 21. Jahrhunderts steht vor schwerwiegenden Herausforderungen: Es gilt, Strategien zur Begrenzung der CO2-Emissionen sowie zum langfristigen Ersatz des endlichen Energieträgers Erdöl zu entwickeln. Im Hinblick auf eine nachhaltige Mobilität der Zukunft ruhen neben Effizienzsteigerungen...
Industrie 4.0 konkret
Ein Wegweiser in die Praxis
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Dieses essential weist Produktions- und Geschäftsleitern im Maschinen- und Anlagenbau konkrete Wege zur Digitalisierung und Umsetzung von Industrie 4.0. Ein anschauliches und detailliertes Praxisbeispiel, das das gesamte Buch durchzieht, zeigt einen der möglichen Wege in der Supply Chain auf. Um...
Conceptions of Leadership
Enduring Ideas and Emerging Insights
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
An exploration of both classic and contemporary conceptions of leadership, focusing on social psychological approaches to central questions such as the way people think about leaders and leadership, the personality attributes of leaders, power and influence, trust, and the qualities that sustain positive relationships between leaders and followers.
The Social Organization
Managing Human Capital through Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
The Social Organization sheds light on how social media usage is transforming the way organizations make sense of their identity and processes. By adopting a human capital perspective and merging research from communication studies and management, it argues that social media could be fruitfully exploited by organizations as a competitive advantage.