Business innovation

Despite recent optimism and global initiatives, the implementation of corporate sustainability programs has been slow at best, with less than a third of global companies having developed a clear business case for their approach to sustainability.

This book offers comprehensive examination of research on the relevance of individual behavior and technology to financial innovations.

This book presents a rich compilation of real-world cases on digitalization, the goal being to share first-hand insights from respected organizations and to make digitalization more tangible.

Unternehmerische Entscheidungen profitieren vom Rückgriff auf wissenschaftliches Wissen.

This book provides a comprehensive and effective exchange of information on current developments in the management of manufacturing systems and Industry 4.

This edited book explores the digital challenge for cultural-creative organizations and industries, and its impact on production, meaning-making, consumption and valuation of cultural-creative products and experiences.

This book describes the development, functioning, and results of a successful binational program to promote significant scientific advances in Earth-abundant photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP), advanced process/manufacturing technologies, multiscale modeling and reliability testing, and analysis of integrated solar energy systems.

This book presents a collection of research papers that explore how ICT experts, managers, and policymakers can address sustainability issues in digital transformation (DT) by considering people practices, organizational processes, and platform design issues.

A business ecosystem may be defined as a dynamic group of largely independent economic players that create products or services that together constitute a coherent solution for customers.

Agriculture is the oldest and most traditional of economic sectors, and its business has seen major leaps in innovation over the past century.

When Entrepreneurs Meet: The Collective Governance of New Ideas challenges our understanding of how entrepreneurs crystallize opportunities surrounding new technologies.

Even though the number of working women has steadily increased over the last few years, women are still significantly under-represented in STEM activities (i.

Companies in developing countries are adopting Artificial Intelligence applications to increase efficiency and open new markets for their products.

Our networks-and how we work them-create vital ties that bind.

Customer experience engineering applied to the engineering department is rare, but needed.

Accelerate your company's growth in a disciplined fashion.

A few square miles of Northern California contain some of the world's largest companies whose products affect billions of people every single day.

This edited volume explores the learning and innovation of Chinese firms.

We all know that sustainable goals are a challenge and, specifically, firms play a key role in achieving them since they define and manage activities that impact our lives.

We need to develop a better understanding of how to generate effective strategic adaptation in times of abrupt environmental changes.

In the realm of global commerce, Europe has long been renowned for its exceptional hardware products, dominating markets with its machine tools and luxury automobiles.

In einer Welt, die von rasanter Veränderung und ständigem Wettbewerb geprägt ist, benötigen Unternehmen innovative Ansätze, um Projekte effizient zu planen und erfolgreich umzusetzen.

Allerorten werden die innovativen Kräfte in Wirtschaft, Technik, Politik und Gesellschaft beschworen - es herrscht eine regelrechte lnnovationsinflation.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are one of the key concepts of Industry 4.

This edited volume explores how the rapid development of business model innovation changes innovation management at an international level.

The book presents the first comprehensive account of how economists, engineers and industrialists mapped out the economic future of Greece in the aftermath of civil war devastation.

Process innovations - an improved way of doing things - help firms achieve higher-level performance by reducing the time and cost to produce a product or perform a service, and increasing productivity and growth.

In Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino elaborated on six concepts or memos to offer insights on the 'shapes of things to come', which were lightness, rapidity, exactness, visibility, multiplicity and consistency.

This book provides an extensive overview of family business-related topics such as context and uniqueness, lifecycle and ownership configurations, conflict management, corporate governance, succession challenges, internationalization, innovation, and socioemotional wealth.

This practical book will help you transform your business from a linear take-make-waste approach into one that is sustainable, circular, but also profitable, resilient, and competitive.

The Luxury Market in Brazil provides a holistic and practitioners approach to luxury marketing in Brazil.

In today's digital era, the significance of standards in modernization and innovation cannot be overstated.

Discover the key to digital transformation success in this comprehensive guide.

The Only Innovation Guide You Will Ever Need--from the Award-Winning Minds at Mayo ClinicA lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly--or as famously--as the legendary Mayo Clinic.

Kreativität ist eine HaltungIm Arbeitsleben mit innovativen Ideen überzeugenEs ist Freitag und Ihr Chef oder Ihre Chefin möchte, dass Sie sich kreativ in das neue Vorzeigeprojekt Ihres Unternehmens einbringen, und erwartet Vorschläge bis Montag, Punkt 10 Uhr – was machen Sie, um auf die Schnelle Ihren kreativen Motor anzuschmeißen?

Embedding CSR into Corporate Culture demonstrates that a new frontier for corporate social responsibility is possible in theory and practice.

The updated 2nd edition of Healthcare Management Engineering In Action in the Business Guides on the Go series provides a comprehensive exploration of healthcare management operations.

This book aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods.

The authors offer solutions for established corporations facing disruptive challenges.

This book contains a selection of papers from the 13th International Conference on Engineering, Project, and Production Management (EPPM) held in Auckland, New Zealand from 29 November to 1 December 2023.

The book studies the interplay between open innovation and knowledge management issues in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

This book explores how the business transformation taking place in Japan is influenced by the digital revolution.

This book offers a systematic literature review and a set of empirical studies on supply chain integration.

This book provides some new ideas on the conceptualization of a shift in technological paradigm, and it explores in depth the relevance of this concept for research on innovation systems.