Information, Knowledge and Agile Creativity will enlighten entrepreneurs, and is ideal for facilitating an organization’s ability to react and adapt to its environment. Creativity is a system that engenders innovation. While integral at the...
In response to the rise of various forms of the extreme in economies, organizations and societies (such as disruptive innovation, climate emergency, financial crisis, high-risk sport, etc. ), an ambitious 21st century program sets the agenda of...
The status of knowledge management (KM) as a mature science has long been recognized in the academic world. However, in the economic arena, its connection with companies and organizations has been more gradual. Jean-Louis Ermine established a...
Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how recent developments build upon classic models. The authors focus on...
В сборнике статей, написанных экспертами Комитета Совета Федерации по промышленной политике, комплексно анализируется зарубежный опыт организации государственного регулирования всех видов транспорта: железнодорожного, авиационного,...
„What makes an engineering firm successful, and what can other firms learn from the champions in this industry? In a nutshell, that is the question we set out to answer in this book. We believe that our observations and conclusions have a...
Worldwide child and youth poverty and deprivation remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the...
This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking...
The world has changed. It is more complex and much faster-paced than it used to be. New communication technologies have changed the business world entirely, and the demands have risen considerably. Unfortunately, most time management approaches...
"Das Schwerste an einer Idee ist nicht, sie zu haben, sondern zu erkennen, ob sie gut ist." – Chris Howland (*1928), engl. Entertainer Wie viele gro?artige Ideen verwerfen Sie, weil sie zu riskant erscheinen? Weil es keine anschauliche...
Unternehmen und Multiprojektorganisationen sind t?glich mit Multitasking, Ressourcenplanung, Planung von Liefer- und Abgabeterminen und dem Erstellen von Projektpl?nen konfrontiert. Etablierte Kennzahlen und Managementmethoden erzeugen dabei...
Цель данного пособия – ознакомить студентов с понятийными и теоретическими основами интегрированной логистической поддержки продукции на этапах жизненного цикла как аспекта CALS-технологии; помочь получить знания, навыки и умения применять...
‘Governments should spend no more than their tax income.’ Most people in Europe and North America accept this statement as simple common sense. It resonates with the deeply engrained economic metaphors that dominate public discourse, from...
Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and...
Pertinent to modern industry, administration, finance and society, the most pressing issue for firms today is how to reapproach the way we think and work in business. With topics ranging from improving productivity and coaxing economic growth...
Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of...
Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this? Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill argue for an approach that uses the power...
The idea that healthcare and education should be provided as universal public services to all who need them is widely accepted. But why leave it there? Why not expand it to more of life’s essentials? <br /><br />In their bold new...
Learn how to get your business oversubscribed in a crowded marketplace to make your business stand out and get people lining up to do business with you Are you constantly chasing customers? Why does it seem like some businesses have their...
The idea that the people have a right to shape political decisions through democratic means is widely accepted. The same cannot be said of the decisions that impact on our everyday economic life in the workplace and beyond.<br /> <br...
No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that «stability is destabilizing» – that the seeds of the bust are sown in the boom. This financial instability...
More than 100,000 entrepreneurs rely on this book for detailed, step-by-step instructions on building successful, scalable, profitable startups. The National Science Foundation pays hundreds of startup teams each year to follow the process...