Business mathematics and systems

The ability of organisations to generate long-term value and growth depends to a very large extent on the capacity of the executive cohort to conceive and implement strategic initiatives through a well-motivated and enabled workforce.

This companion provides broad and in-depth insights into family business in Asia and how Asian family firms navigate in the digital economy.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Web Services and Formal Methods, WS-FM 2013, held in Beijing, China, in August 2013.

The first edition of Innovation Renaissance was published just before the onset of Covid-19, begging the question: can innovation stand the test of a truly global crisis, such as the pandemic?

This book provides a compendium of cutting-edge knowledge for an efficacious retailing strategy, with lessons from the organized retailing sector in India.

Practical Business Statistics, Sixth Edition, is a conceptual , realistic, and matter-of-fact approach to managerial statistics that carefully maintains, but does not overemphasize, mathematical correctness.

This book combines, for the first time, the operations management and operations research concepts in lean and agile supply chain management (SCM) for achieving decreased uncertainty, increased productivity, and sustainability through the use of quality engineering techniques (QETs).

While attention has been focused on high-level struggles over control of giant enterprises in China and the former Soviet bloc, a remarkable but underreported revolution has been occurring at the grass-roots level.

The Italian Cooperative Sector is amongst the largest in the world comprising over 60,000 cooperatives from all sectors of the economy directly employing 1.

Das Lehrbuch liefert Studierenden das relevante Basiswissen über grundlegende Methoden und Instrumente, um bestimmte Aufgabenstellungen im Bereich der Steuerung zu lösen, spezielle Informationen auswerten und aufarbeiten zu können.

This book presents selected proceedings of DEA45: International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, which was held September 4-6, 2023, at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.

This book gives a comprehensive overview on Software Product Management (SPM) for beginners as well as best practices, methodology and in-depth discussions for experienced product managers.

Preface Statistics is seldom the most eagerly anticipated course of a business student.

This book presents a comprehensive approach to protecting sensitive information when large data collections are released by their owners.

Praise for the First Edition This book is refreshing to read since it takes an important topic.

A demonstration of how time series econometrics can be used in economics and finance.

Managing Knowledge in Project Environments illustrates how knowledge management (KM) contributes to successful project work.

Be the most effective CIO you can be by learning from the best in the business Today's Chief Information Officers must be an entirely new breed of technology leader.

Constructing the Infrastructure for the Knowledge Economy: Methods and Tools, Theory and Practice is the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Information Systems Development, held in Melbourne, Australia, August 29-31, 2003.

The authors of this book alert that professional services like law, accountancy, and consultancy firms are set to face major disruption.

Komplexe DV-Projekte sind mit Vorgehensmodellen oder Phasenkonzepten ökonomischer und präziser durchzuführen.

Competencies are a component of human capital and one of the most important assets of an enterprise.

This book argues that "e;organizing"e; is a broader term than managing, as it entails understanding how people and machines interact with each other; how resources, data, goods are exchanged in complex and intertwined value chains; and how lines of action and activities can be articulated using flexible protocols and often ad-hoc processes in situated practices of use and production.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2020, which was held during November 16-18, 2020.

This book presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 5.

This book highlights the opportunities and risks of digitalization and digital transformation for our global economy at both the micro and macro level.

This book continues the discussion of the effects of artificial intelligence in terms of economics and finance.

Social capital is broadly conceptualised as consisting of resources and network ties embedded in the social structures and relationships that facilitate beneficial outcomes for the actors within those structures.

This book provides a framework and real case analyses concerning business architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems.

When dealing with the design or with the application of any technical system, which is not quite simple and trivial, one has to face to the problem to determine the allowable de- viations of the system functions and the optimal vector of system parameter tolerances.

This is the first book that summarizes the 20-year history of service innovation research and combines it with the future need to adopt a systems view in the field of service research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, SPICE 2014, held in Vilnius, Lithuania, in November 2014.

My curiosity with the economic efficiency and social benefits of provisions used by telecommunications carriers to limit their liability to customers for damages arising from service interruptions and network outages is a longstanding one.

This book explores a process perspective on design and development, grounded in research in design studies, engineering design and systems design.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the international workshops, the EDOC Forum and the Demonstration and Doctoral Consortium track, that were held at the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 19th International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, ICISC 2016, held in Seoul, South Korea, in November/December 2016.

This handbook is a comprehensive and up to date work of reference that offers a survey of the state of financial geography.