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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
This book consists of a collection of articles describing the emergingand integrated area of Energy,Natural Resourcesand EnvironmentalEconomics.A majority of the authors are researchers doing applied work in economics, nance, and management science and are based in the Nordic countries. These countries...
The Economics of Evaluating Water Projects
Hydroelectricity Versus Other Uses
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
This book presents research on a kind of water use conflicts that is becoming more and more common and important: How to best manage moving water in times of increasing demand for electricity as well as environmental services. How should decisions be made between water use for electricity generation...
Sustainability and Human Resource Management
Developing Sustainable Business Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The role of HRM in developing sustainable business organizations is increasingly attracting attention. Sustainability can be used as a principle for HRM itself and the tasks of Sustainable HRM are twofold. On the one hand it fosters the conditions for individual employee sustainability and develops...
Performance Management Systems
Design, Diagnosis and Use
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
This book presents an analysis and a critical discussion on performance management systems. It seeks to advance the current state of knowledge in the subject by introducing a holistic performance management system - the loosely coupled performance management system. This new system presents a framework...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
To err is human, yet nobody wants to accept this fact. This is especially true in medicine! This book focuses on how human failures can be avoided in the medical context. Experts from different disciplines discuss the underlying causes of such failures and explain the techniques required to reduce...
Agile Kaizen
Managing Continuous Improvement Far Beyond Retrospectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Agile teams have been struggling with the concept of continuous improvement since the first Agile frameworks were developed, and still very little has been written about the practice of continuous improvement in Agile environments. Although team retrospectives have been prescribed and some practices...
by Andrea Janes, Giancarlo Succi
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
This book illustrates how goal-oriented, automated measurement can be used to create Lean organizations and to facilitate the development of Lean software, while also demonstrating the practical implementation of Lean software development by combining tried and trusted tools.
In order to be...
Global Communication and Collaboration
Global Project Management, Global Sourcing, Cross-Cultural Competencies
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Speed, social change, historical inheritance and cultural gaps are key factors which have significant impact on global collaboration and global sourcing. The author explains how working in virtual teams in a global, multicultural environment requires a significant amount of organizational and behavioral...
Practitioner's Knowledge Representation
A Pathway to Improve Software Effort Estimation
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
The main goal of this book is to help organizations improve their effort estimates and effort estimation processes by providing a step-by-step methodology that takes them through the creation and validation of models that are based on their own knowledge and experience. Such models, once validated,...
Project-Management in Practice
A Guideline and Toolbox for Successful Projects
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2016
This practice-oriented book explores a variety of cross-project topics and specific aspects of different project phases. It also offers tips, examples, templates and checklists, and discusses concrete problems and solutions from project practice in IT and the automotive industry.
The authors...
Software Cost Estimation, Benchmarking, and Risk Assessment
The Software Decision-Makers' Guide to Predictable Software Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Software effort estimation is a key element of software project planning and management. Yet, in industrial practice, the important role of effort estimation is often underestimated and/or misunderstood.
In this book, Adam Trendowicz presents the CoBRA method (an abbreviation for Cost Estimation,...
Urban China in the New Era
Market Reforms, Current State, and the Road Forward
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental...
Collaborative Promotions
Optimizing Retail Supply Chains with Upstream Information Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2010
Promotions are at the same time beloved and feared by both food retailers and branded goods manufacturers in today’s retail environment. Beloved because they attract smart customers and generate an immediate effect on a brand’s sale. Feared because there is uncertainty about the competitors’...
The Integrated Architecture Framework Explained
Why, What, How
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
This book captures and communicates the wealth of architecture experience Capgemini has gathered as a member of The Open Group – a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium formed by major industry players – in developing, deploying, and using its “Integrated Architecture Framework” (IAF)...