Until the late 1950s residents of Vancouver and Victoria negotiated a shopping landscape that would be unrecognizable to today's consumers: most stores were closed for at least half the day on Wednesdays, prevented from opening during the evenings, and were banned from operating on Sundays.
This book presents the theory and practice of product lifecycle management, chiefly focusing on modern approaches suitable for digitalized enterprises.
Circularity is one of the most promising innovative business models for tackling the challenges posed by climate protection, resource conservation and biodiversity conservation.
Presents an ultimate theory of knowledge-based management and organizational knowledge creation based on empirical research and an extensive literature review.
Advertising Confluence offers a unique blend of both traditional and contemporary social media thinking about advertising and integrated brand promotions throughout the world.
The Survivor's Guide to Enterprise Architecture equips you with the knowledge and strategies to conquer the complexities of EA and build a successful, fulfilling career.
A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets?
Flying in the face of current thinking, this book suggests that we do not need to think outside the box in our quest for creativity, rather we should rethink the way we look inside the box .
How to Use Behavioural Design to Create Change in the Real WorldIn this ground-breaking book, author Morten M nster presents a set of rules that individuals and companies can follow to bring about necessary change.
From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following his top lieutenants-Jony Ive, the Chief Design Officer, and Tim Cook, the COO-turned-CEO-and how the fading of the former and the rise of the latter led to Apple losing its soul.
Since the pioneering work scholars such as Joseph Schumpeter and Peter Drucker, the fields of innovation and entrepreneurship have evolved to become two separate and distinct disciplines.
Games are the most engaging medium of all time: they harness storytelling and heuristics, drive emotion and push the evolution of technology in a way that no other platform has or can.
Dive into the fascinating world of digital disruption and discover the transformative power of open and digital ecosystems, which will constitute one-third of global trade by 2030.
Employs microeconomic analysis and comparative institutional analysis to help provide answers to the challenges facing policymakers in regulating innovation.
Operations Research and Cyber-Infrastructure is the companion volume to the Eleventh INFORMS Computing Society Conference (ICS 2009), held in Charleston, South Carolina, from January 11 to 13, 2009.
This book presents a collection of research papers that aim to elucidate the pivotal role of digital systems in driving the formation and evolution of digital ecosystems, thereby shaping new scenarios for organizing in the digital age, by considering people practices, organizational processes, and system design issues.
The complexity and tensions of industrial innovation processes are fleshed out through the analysis of an intriguing case study from the food industry.
The successful implementation of health information systems in complex health care organizations ultimately hinges on the receptivity and preparedness of the user.
Presenting an integrated and holistic perspective on innovation management and product design and development, this monograph offers a unique and original understanding of how these two perspectives are interconnected.
Innovation, often tempered by the language of inclusion, has become an indispensable element of contemporary development policy and practice in the so-called Global South.
A fascinating guide to surviving and thriving in the corporate C-SuiteThe Suite Spot is not a single-idea book but rather a compendium of wisdom that has been sourced from hundreds of leading executives over a period of 20 years and has been collated into a portfolio of tools and anecdotes.