Business innovation

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.

This book provides a timely overview of the impacts of digitalization from the perspective of everyday life, and argues that one central issue in digitalization is the development of new types of services that digitalization enables, but which are often overlooked due to the focus on new technologies and devices.

This book is the first to approach healthcare informatics from the perspective of innovation.

"Claudina hace un maravilloso mashup.

Somos herederos de un sentido común respecto del liderazgo basado en el mando y control.

¿Es la innovación algo mágico y azaroso, restringido a actos de inspiración de seres tocados por el destino o hay formas de hacerla accesible al resto de los mortales?

Mientras el mercado busca conocimiento en las aulas y los claustros de las universidades, en las páginas interiores de este libro encontrarás una empresa que busca talento donde nadie lo está mirando.

Este libro original, a partir de la serie famosa El último baile (Last Dance), intenta profundizar y bucear en aspectos fundamentales del alto rendimiento deportivo y organizacional como son el liderazgo, la creatividad, la motivación, la comunicación, la innovación y la resiliencia.

Digital transformation in organisations can improve business agility, operational efficiency, customer service, and contribute to sustainability initiatives.

El aliento a la actividad emprendedora necesita integrar urgentemente mecanismos de financiamiento y capacitar a la población para que, accediendo a los recursos, a partir de las ideas, se logre la generación de producción y empleo que los jóvenes de América Latina necesitan.

Una sola idea puede transformar tu vida, una sola idea puede resolver tu situación financiera de por vida, pero ¿dónde encuentro esa idea?

"Luis María Cravino nos aporta cuatro ejes para describir los modelos existentes y agrega un factor clave para el futuro de todas las instituciones en el siglo XXI: la incorporación de la tecnología.

Service innovation is a concept that, for the last decade, has received increased attention both among academics as well as practitioners.

Through a series of short stories and brief case studies about great innovators, this book will help managers and entrepreneurs rethink their innovation processes, using the tools outlined in the book.

Living Innovation: Competing in the 21st Century Access Economy explores how the digital revolution has empowered customers, and how organizations have to innovate to gain a deeper understanding of user needs.

Open Innovation: A Multifaceted Perspective unveils research on open innovation from multidisciplinary perspectives and with practical insights from leaders and policy-makers.

Does business model innovation look the same in Asia as it does in the Western world?

This book of proceedings collects fifty-one papers presented at the inaugural Colloquium of Administrative Science and Technology (CoAST 2013) event, held at Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.