Business innovation

The innovation economy sets new standards for global business and requires efficient innovation management to plan, execute and evaluate innovation activities, establish innovative capability and coordinate resources and capacities for innovation on an intra- and inter-organizational level.

This book investigates the existing situation of photovoltaic systems regarding environmental questions and energy efficiency in the European Industry, particularly the industrial units at the Greek area.

Within manufacturing, Lean has lead to significant results throughout the world.

This book focuses on the need to develop sustainable supply chains - economically, environmentally and socially.

The book examines the conditions for successful high-technology policy from theoretical and empirical perspectives.

In today's dynamic business environment, IT departments are under permanent pressure to meet two divergent requirements: to reduce costs and to support business agility with higher flexibility and responsiveness of the IT infrastructure.

Product management is challenging, complex, and often misunderstood.

Modern economies depend on innovation in services for their future growth.

Software testing is traditionally seen as a difficult and time consuming activity that is hard to embed in the software development process.

Pharmaceutical giants have doubled their investments in drug development in the past decade only to see new drug approvals remain constant.

At a time when business demands urge companies to innovate and CIOs face increasing cost pressures, offshore delivery offers the opportunity to industrialize the implementation processes for system harmonization, consolidation, and enhancement, thereby realizing substantial cost savings and quality improvements.

Software product lines represent perhaps the most exciting paradigm shift in software development since the advent of high-level programming languages.

If R&D and innovation in the 1990s were about more internationalization, more corporate entrepreneurship, and more information-integration, then the 2000s have been about consolidating and expanding these trends further: more globalization including the technology mavericks of China and India, more open and inbound innovation integrating external technology providers, and more web- and Intern- enabling of innovation processes by involving R&D contributors regardless of their location.

The public information available on the Web today is larger than information distributed on any other media.

This is a practical guide to solutions for a case study of forecasting demand for services and products in international markets - and so much more than just another listing of dry theoretical methods.

At the same time, I was a junior Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble w- ried about a much more mundane problem: how to keep my products on the shelf.

What Makes this Book Unique?

Economic needs as well as ecological demands are major driving forces in improving chemical processes and plants.

This contributed volume features state-of-the-art research from ten different countries on implementation, institutionalization and the future prospects of social entrepreneurship.

Im Zentrum steht die aktuelle Frage: Warum verfallen Teams und Organisationen in Krisenzeiten in alte Muster, obwohl sie sich zuvor zur Agilität bekannt haben?

Im Zentrum steht die aktuelle Frage: Warum verfallen Teams und Organisationen in Krisenzeiten in alte Muster, obwohl sie sich zuvor zur Agilität bekannt haben?

Das Buch zeigt, wie Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter ein Mindset entwickeln, um die Chancen der Künstlichen Intelligenz zu erkennen und aktiv und zukunftsorientiert zu denken.

Digitale Technologien prägen längst unser Arbeiten, Wirtschaften und Zusammenleben.

Innovationen sind der Schlüssel zu Wohlstand und Wachstum – doch gerade der deutsche Mittelstand tut sich schwer, neue Geschäftsmodelle erfolgreich umzusetzen.

Innovationen sind der Schlüssel zu Wohlstand und Wachstum – doch gerade der deutsche Mittelstand tut sich schwer, neue Geschäftsmodelle erfolgreich umzusetzen.

Das Buch zeigt, wie Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter ein Mindset entwickeln, um die Chancen der Künstlichen Intelligenz zu erkennen und aktiv und zukunftsorientiert zu denken.

Dieses Buch verbindet betriebswirtschaftliche Theorie und Methodik mit konkreten industriellen Anwendungen.

Dieses Buch verbindet betriebswirtschaftliche Theorie und Methodik mit konkreten industriellen Anwendungen.

Retail is undergoing profound change, driven by digitalization, shifting consumer behavior, and recurring crises.

Retail is undergoing profound change, driven by digitalization, shifting consumer behavior, and recurring crises.

This book offers a toolbox of models and methods that make innovative ideas successful.

This book offers a toolbox of models and methods that make innovative ideas successful.

The book examines the adoption of different innovative technologies and explores the behavioral intention of both consumers and companies of using these technologies.

The book examines the adoption of different innovative technologies and explores the behavioral intention of both consumers and companies of using these technologies.

In einer zunehmend volatilen, unsicheren und komplexen Welt stehen Unternehmen vor der Herausforderung, ihre Geschäftsmodelle laufend auf externe Stressfaktoren zu prüfen und gezielt weiterzuentwickeln.

In einer zunehmend volatilen, unsicheren und komplexen Welt stehen Unternehmen vor der Herausforderung, ihre Geschäftsmodelle laufend auf externe Stressfaktoren zu prüfen und gezielt weiterzuentwickeln.

Dieses Buch bietet eine fundierte und praxisorientierte Analyse der Blockchain-Technologie als digitale disruptive Business-Innovation im Kontext kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen.

Dieses Buch bietet eine fundierte und praxisorientierte Analyse der Blockchain-Technologie als digitale disruptive Business-Innovation im Kontext kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, its potential role in online mental health therapy is gaining increasing interest.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve, its potential role in online mental health therapy is gaining increasing interest.

Digitale Technologien prägen längst unser Arbeiten, Wirtschaften und Zusammenleben.

Digital transformation (DT) has emerged as a distinctive and evolving phenomenon that is reshaping individuals, organizations, and societies.

Digital transformation (DT) has emerged as a distinctive and evolving phenomenon that is reshaping individuals, organizations, and societies.

The use of information and communication technologies to support public administrations, governments and decision makers has been recorded for more than 20 years and dubbed e-Government.

The Internet transformed the landscape of world economy.

Technologies develop rapidly and reach hurricane levels of velocity but quality E-Content and innovative applications lag behind.

Undeniably widespread and powerful as it is, the Internet is not almighty: it can reach as high as the skies (cloud computing), but it cannot escape competition.