Information Management category: 2540 books
Terrorism and Homeland Security
An Introduction with Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Terrorism and Homeland Security: An Introduction with Applications provides a comprehensive introduction to the problem of terrorism and to its solution, Homeland Security. In addition to its extensive treatment of terrorism, the book describes public and private sector counterterrorism as well as...
From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence
Assessing Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
There continues to be much interest in the business and academic communities in the concept of strategic competencies or core capabilities, in other words, how organisations define and differentiate themselves. More recently, this field has fragmented into a number of related disciplines with subtle...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2015
This book shows how business process management (BPM), as a management discipline at the intersection of IT and Business, can help organizations to master digital innovations and transformations. At the same time, it discusses how BPM needs to be further developed to successfully act as a driver for...
Designing Organizational Systems
An Interdisciplinary Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
This book is dedicated to the memory of Professor Alessandro (Sandro) D'Atri, who passed away in April 2011. Professor D'Atri started his career as a brilliant scholar interested in theoretical computer science, databases and, more generally information processing systems. He journeyed far in various...
Swarm Creativity
Competitive Advantage through Collaborative Innovation Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2006
Swarm Creativity introduces a powerful new concept-Collaborative Innovation Networks, or COINs. Its aim is to make the concept of COINs as ubiquitous among business managers as any methodology to enhance quality and competitive advantage. The difference though is that COINs are nothing like other...
ITIL Version 3 at a Glance
Information Quick Reference
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2008
ITIL® Version 3 At a Glance takes a graphical approach to consolidating the information of ITIL® version 3. ITIL® is an internationally-recognized set of best practices for providing IT service management. IT organizations worldwide are implementing ITIL® as a vehicle for improving IT service...
Knowledge Management in Digital Change
New Findings and Practical Cases
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
This book features both cutting-edge contributions on managing knowledge in transformational contexts and a selection of real-world case studies. It analyzes how the disruptive power of digitization is becoming a major challenge for knowledge-based value creation worldwide, and subsequently examines...
Business Process Management Cases
Digital Innovation and Business Transformation in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book is the first to present a rich selection of over 30 real-world cases of how leading organizations conduct Business Process Management (BPM). The cases stem from a diverse set of industry sectors and countries on different continents, reporting on best practices and lessons learned. The book...
by Jessica Feng Sanford, Hosame Abu-Amara, William Y Chang
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
The broad scope of Cloud Computing is creating a technology, business, sociolo- cal, and economic renaissance. It delivers the promise of making services available quickly with rather little effort. Cloud Computing allows almost anyone, anywhere, at anytime to interact with these service offerings....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2015
This textbook addresses the conceptual and practical aspects of the various phases of the lifecycle of service systems, ranging from service ideation, design, implementation, analysis, improvement and trading associated with service systems engineering. Written by leading experts in the field, this...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This contributed volume presents the experiences, challenges, trends, and advances in Service Science from Japan’s perspective. As the global economy becomes more connected and competitive, many economies depend the service sector on for growth and prosperity. A multi-disciplinary approach to...
by Helen Rothberg, G. Scott Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2007
In the New Economy, intelligence will be essential for firms to gain competitive advantage—not just information or knowledge. Competitive intelligence, or the strategic gathering of knowledge about competitors, climate, trends, new products, has a long and successful history of generating competitive...
by Curtis Reese
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
In today's competitive market, data management requirements are more complex and diverse than ever before. Transactional and business intelligence data must be managed efficiently while providing enhanced security, availability, reliability, manageability, integration, performance, and data integrity....
A Real-Time In-Memory Discovery Service
Leveraging Hierarchical Packaging Information in a Unique Identifier Network to Retrieve Track and Trace Information
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The research presented in this book discusses how to efficiently retrieve track and trace information for an item of interest that took a certain path through a complex network of manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, and consumers. To this end, a super-ordinate system called "Discovery Service"...