Management Science category: 4086 books
Social and Community Informatics
Humans on the Net
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
As a discipline, Informatics has developed over the years from its initial focus on data processing and software development, towards a more recent emphasis on people’s use of technology and its impact on their working and private lives. Gunilla Bradley, an internationally recognized expert in this...
If Only We Knew What We Know
The Transfer of Internal Knowledge and Best Practi
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
While companies search the world over to benchmark best practices, vast treasure troves of knowledge and know-how remain hidden right under their noses: in the minds of their own employees, in the often unique structure of their operations, and in the written history of their organizations. Now, acclaimed...
by I. Mitroff, C. Alpaslan, E. S. O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Everybody's Business is a succinct analysis of the factors that led to the founding of American business schools and why they are the way they are. Mitroff, Alpaslan, and O'Connor consider why current business schools do not give students the knowledge and the tools they need to deal with today's complex, messy problems and systems.
Productivity Improvement in Manufacturing SMEs
Application of Work Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book focuses on the application of workstudy in productivity of manufacturing SMEs locally and abroad and also explores various industrial problems which face manufacturing SMEs in developing and underdeveloped countries in the rest of the world. Low productivity is currently a serious challenge...
Security Surveillance Centers
Design, Implementation, and Operation
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Unlike current books on the market that focus primarily on the technical aspects of surveillance and protection, Security Surveillance Centers: Design, Implementation, and Operation focuses on the operation of a security surveillance center. This text explains in detail the role of security surveillance,...
Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road
Strategy, Performance, and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Historically important trade routes for goods of all kinds for more than 3000 years, the Silk Road has once again come to prominence. Managing Supply Chains on the Silk Road: Strategy, Performance, and Risk present emerging supply chain practices from the Silk Road regions that include China, Hong...
Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation
A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
International and global in nature, Dubai - The Epicenter of Modern Innovation: A Guide to Implementing Innovation Strategies provides a roadmap for the successful implementation of innovation for companies and businesses currently working in the Middle East, the UAE, and more specifically, Dubai....
Microsimulation Modelling of the Corporate Firm
Exploring Micro-Macro Economic Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
My interest in microsimulation started to develop when I was exposed to the works of Guy Orcutt and his associates on microsimulation of households in the USA, and those of Gunnar Eliasson and his associates on simulatio~ of Swedish firms. Their approaches promised the exciting possibility to represent...
Making in America
From Innovation to Market
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
How America can rebuild its industrial landscape to sustain an innovative economy.
America is the world leader in innovation, but many of the innovative ideas that are hatched in American start-ups, labs, and companies end up going abroad to reach commercial scale. Apple, the superstar of innovation,...
Managing Country Risk
A Practitioner’s Guide to Effective Cross-Border Risk Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
What would you do if a law that enabled your investment to operate successfully abroad suddenly changed, and your business could no longer operate profitably there? Imagine exporting goods to a government buyer only to discover after the fact that your home country, or the United Nations, has just...
Eliminating Waste in Business
Run Lean, Boost Profitability
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Redundant employees. Storerooms full of extra stock "in case we need it." Marketing money sprayed in all directions in the vain hope it will create customers. Duplicate IT systems. HR policies that fatten the corporate waistline rather than keeping it trim. Budgeting exercises that result...
Big Data and Cloud Computing for Development
Lessons from Key Industries and Economies in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book provides a framework for evaluating big data and cloud computing based on how they evolve to fit users’ needs in developing countries in key areas, such as agriculture and education. The authors discuss how this framework can be utilized by businesses, governments, and consumers to accelerate...
Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction
Turning Serendipity into Capability
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Innovation, Strategy and Risk in Construction integrates insights from business and government leaders with contemporary research, to help built environment professionals turn serendipity to their own advantage by building greater innovative and adaptive capacity into their operations. Accessible...
Leading processes to lead companies: Lean Six Sigma
Kaizen Leader & Green Belt Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity. Through both its theoretical concepts and practical examples it is a pocket book for a quick consultancy. Authors idea comes from companies needs in...