Production Operations Management category: 1955 books
Adoption of Innovation
Balancing Internal and External Stakeholders in the Marketing of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This edited volume brings together academics from both innovation and marketing fields to explore the additional value for companies that can be generated with the innovations in marketing and the marketing of innovations.
If ideas need to reach the marketplace, then marketing strategies, concepts...
Nursing and Midwifery in Ireland
A Strategy for Professional Development in a Changing Health Service
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Over the past ten years, nursing and midwifery in Ireland have experienced a considerable number of changes, driven principally by the Report of the Commission on Nursing, published in 1998, and the health service reform programme, announced in 2003. In the same period, Irish society has become wealthier...
Go With the FLO
Accelerated Business Process Documentation for Growing Companies
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Every company and their employees daily rely on business process documentation in order to work effectively, efficiently, and to continue to improve work productivity. When not properly managed, these internal processes not only have a negative impact on their employee’s welfare, but it also directly...
Sustainable Learning in Higher Education
Developing Competencies for the Global Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In an era of globalization, technological innovation, and social transformations, universities face the challenge of training students with the competencies needed to meet the demands of the market and to successfully integrate into today’s workforce. This book looks at the university as a dynamic...
International Space Station
The Next Space Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
G. Haskell, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, Vice President, Administration and Programme Development, International Space University e-mail: Haskell@isu.isunet.edu M. Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: Rycroft@isu.isunet.edu The theme of the fourth annual symposium...
by Juping Shao, Yanan Sun, Bernd Noche
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2015
The subject of this book is supply chain logistics planning optimization under multiple uncertainties, the key issue in supply chain management. Focusing on the strategic-alliance three-level supply chain, the model of supply chain logistics planning was established in terms of the market prices...
Collaborative Innovation Networks
Building Adaptive and Resilient Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This unique book reveals how Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINs) can be used to achieve resilience to change and external shocks. COINs, which consist of 'cyberteams' of motivated individuals, are self-organizing emergent social systems for coping with external change. The book describes how...
Productivity in Singapore's Retail and Food Services Sectors
Contemporary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The Retail and Food Services sectors play an important role in Singapore. They add to the vibrancy of the economy and contribute to the social well-being of Singaporeans. At the same time, they are often highlighted and scrutinised for their low productivity performance and high reliance on manpower....
Team Building inside n°5 - Gerenciamento de recursos e tempo
Criar e viver o espírito de equipe!
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Gerenciar recursos e tempo de uma forma divertida. A sério?
Você acha que você não pode criar e avançar uma equipe enquanto se diverte?
É perfeitamente possível e você pode fazer por sua própria equipe!
Nossa coleção de guias práticos "Team Building inside" vai provar isso...
Innovation in the Family Business
Succeeding Through Generations
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Schmieder shares a broad range of tools and pathways that family businesses across sectors use to stimulate, execute, measure, and reward innovation. The 50-plus family stories cited in this book will inspire any family enterprise to create a strategy and environment that can stimulate success for many generations to come.
by Pawel Zajac
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
This book focuses on guidelines for reducing the energy consumption in warehousing processes. It presents a model of formal assessment for energy consumption in the context of storage-system logistics, as well as a computational model consisting of three sub-models: energy consumption models for forklifts...
Spinning into Control
Improvising the Sustainable Startup
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Could everything we’ve learned about entrepreneurship simply be wrong?
There is no shortage of how-to books with ‘manual’ in the title, and articles promising ‘The 7 [or 6 or 10] key traits of successful entrepreneurs’, which breed an infectious optimism all too often quashed as startups...
Quality Beyond Borders
Dantotsu or How to Achieve Best in Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2019
Perceptions as to the nature of the Quality Sciences and disciplines vary across the world depending on local industrial history. This can cause problems for global organisations who often want to retain the quality policies of the parent company whilst attempting to embrace the approaches familiar...
Problem Solving for New Engineers
What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
This book brings a fresh new approach to practical problem solving in engineering, covering the critical concepts and ideas that engineers must understand to solve engineering problems. Problem Solving for New Engineers: What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know provides strategy and tools...