Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Capacity Building in Technology Transfer
The European Experience
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
This book tells the story of capacity building in Europe with respect to technology transfer offices and organizations (TTOs). The traditional underdevelopment of technology markets in Europe has often been explained in terms of lack of capacity and skills among technology transfer professionals,...
by Eric Peltz, Marc Robbins
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
The authors provide a framework for an integrated Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, associated policy recommendations, and a companion framework for management practices that will drive people to take actions aligned with this integrated supply chain approach. Building on the framework and policy...
Models of Scenario Building and Planning
Facing Uncertainty and Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Models of Scenario Building and Planning offers a unique and innovative exploration of the scenario approach. The book focuses on the analysis of the competitors' behavior; the analysis of risk and uncertainty; and the link between scenarios and strategies.
Technology and Inequality
Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the role...
Innovation in Clusters
Understanding Universities, Special Economic Zones, and Modeling
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
This book aims to bind together latest theories on creation of innovative clusters and operating modalities, empirical analysis, and several new formal models describing cluster formation and dynamics. Another objective of the book is the analysis of the role of the innovative activities on the economic...
by Oliver Gassmann, Angela Beckenbauer, Sascha Friesike
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
China is dramatically catching up and is rapidly becoming a leading technological innovator on the global scale. The number of Chinese firms with global ambitions is growing fast, more and more technological innovation is coming from China, and the number of patents in China is also growing steadily....
Adoption, Usage, and Global Impact of Broadband Technologies
Diffusion, Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
Broadband internet has the potential to profoundly impact science, business and society, while simultaneously transforming almost every aspect of everyday life. Because of broadband’s increasingly prominent role and presence, it is both appropriate and timely to understand the deployment and adoption...
Emerging Markets from a Multidisciplinary Perspective
Challenges, Opportunities and Research Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2018
This book examines prominent issues in the Emerging Markets (EM) from a variety of disciplines in order to make useful societal contributions through knowledge exchange. EMs offer enormous opportunities, but realizing them is both challenging and risky due to inherent uncertainties of such markets....
Technology and Regulation
How Are They Driving Our Markets?
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
This book is an augmented account of Technology and Regulation: How Are They Driving Our Markets?, a conference hosted by the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College on May 1, 2007. The text includes the edited transcript of the full conference: four panels and the major presentations of three...
Capital Equipment Purchasing
Optimizing the Total Cost of CapEx Sourcing
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Compared to other main groups of procurement, capital equipment features numerous characteristics that significantly impact the purchasing process. The process of purchasing capital equipment therefore requires specific attention and above all a systematic approach. To overcome these challenges,...
Real Options and Strategic Technology Venturing
A New Paradigm in Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
This book seeks to answer “why, when and how are real options used in strategic technology venturing?” This work tests for the role of real options in decision making involving three types of firms in decreasing order of technology-dependence – technology-driven (TD) (where the profit is fully...
Development Connections
Unveiling the Impact of New Information Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Development Connections takes stock of recent advances in what is broadly known as Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The authors seek to discover how information and telecommunication technologies affect both the public and private sectors in Latin America and how they can optimize ICT returns to society.
Produktionscontrolling
Wertströme und Kosten optimieren
Language: German
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Dieses Buch unterstützt Praktiker in Unternehmen, vor allem an den Schnittstellen zwischen Produktion und Controlling. Die Hauptaufgaben eines erfolgreichen Produktionscontrollings sind die Ermittlung wesentlicher Potenziale zur Produktionsoptimierung, die Ableitung geeigneter Maßnahmen zur effizienten...
Rationalisierung von Inventur und Bestandskontrolle
Weniger Aufwand und mehr Sicherheit mit Stichprobeninventur
Language: German
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Jörg Ökonomou veranschaulicht praxisnah, wie sich mit statistischen Verfahren der Zählaufwand im Vergleich zur Vollinventur erheblich verringern lässt und sich Aufnahmefehler gleichzeitig minimieren. Dieses essential zeigt die Optionen und Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten der Methoden auf, die auch für...