Management and management techniques

This book discusses an emerging area in computer science, IT and management, i.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to implementing lean at SMEs using an approach that has been tested and fine-tuned at over a hundred organizations across India, South East Asia and the Middle East.

This book provides an overview of the burgeoning next generation of industry- Industry 4.

This book provides a solution to "e;rare event"e; problems without using the classical theory of reliability and theory of probability.

This book is the ninth volume in "e;Contemporary Logistics in China"e;, authored by the researchers in Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Takao Terano on the occasion of his retirement.

This book utilizes big data to undertake a cluster analysis of medical accidents.

This book considers and builds on the main propositions regarding body similarity and the principles of nature versus artifacts in science.

This book focuses on digital innovation and sustainability in the Asian region in the context of business and management.

This book serves as a great reference for engineering technicians and researchers in a wide range of fields, including emergency management, public safety science, risk management, emergency communication, and transportation optimization.

This book covers multiple areas such as technology and the type of application in aviation, tourism and hospitality with looking at current and future technology application, as well as in a rural tourism perspective.

This book covers three main areas, namely the pharmaceuticals industry, the telecommunications sector and the banking sector, with a focus on manufacturing and service.

This book is to presents and evaluates a way of modelling and optimizing nonlinear RFID Network Planning (RNP) problems using artificial intelligence techniques.

This book provides a systematic framework for interpreting the fertility decline in Japan.

This book analyses the organisation cultures that promote Japanese Lesson Study, identifies the soul of lesson study, which is missing in other cultures, and discusses the conditions for successfully transplanting the Lesson Study to other cultures.

This proceeding is a compilation of selected papers from the 8th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2018), held in Changzhou, China on September 25 - 26, 2018.

This research focuses on the process of growth in the automobile industries in the ASEAN region.

This book examines the characteristics of sustainable remote health workforces and how management practices influence workforce sustainability in remote regions.

This book thoroughly prepares intermediate-level readers for research in social science, organization studies, economics, finance, marketing science, and business science as complex adaptive systems.

This book is an exploration of the people analytics possibility, bringing out both theoretical frameworks and detailed practical case studies from the author's experience in industry and business across both sides of the table, with an understanding of data science models and SMAC (Social, Mobile & Cloud) technologies underpinning it.

The book focuses on the different aspects of business in India required to be taken care of by any businessperson, especially a foreigner, willing to do business in India.

This book analyses a collection of key strategic human resource management (HRM) and employment relations (ER) topics.

This book is the eighth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Research Center at Nankai University.

The proceedings gather a selection of refereed papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research 2018 (KEER 2018), which was held in Kuching, Malaysia from 19 to 22 March 2018.

To ensure the security and economy of future power system operation in the context of a high degree of renewable energy penetration, this thesis proposes a new distributed algorithm called generalized master-slave-splitting (G-MSS) theory and a new transmission-distribution coordinated energy management (TDCEM) method that is based on the G-MSS theory.

This book argues that the appropriate application of the principles and practices of corporate governance to organisational portfolio, program, and projects ('3P') governance brings about highly engaged, knowledgeable, and effective governance practices, which in turn substantially improves business case success.

The intention behind this book is to illustrate the deep relation among human behavior, data-centric science, and social design.

This book examines the risks involved in agriculture from the farmer's perspective.

This book is the first to cover the research of whole aspects of international mobility to and from Taiwan of both skilled and unskilled workers.

This book is one of the first to explore how Chinese companies are feeling the impulse of emerging business trends and seizing opportunities brought by technology innovation.

This book, compiles, presents, and explains the most important meta-heuristic and evolutionary optimization algorithms whose successful performance has been proven in different fields of engineering, and it includes application of these algorithms to important engineering optimization problems.

This book is an easily accessible and comprehensive guide which helps make sound statistical decisions, perform analyses, and interpret the results quickly using Stata.

This book investigates key developments in China's manufacturing industry from the perspectives of general evaluation, regional analysis, industrial analysis and enterprise analysis.

This book is the seventh volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers from the Logistics Center at Nankai University.

This book reveals how open innovation utilizes the developing circle of business models to establish new ones that define a unique link between technology and markets, focusing on how to develop and maintain successful business models.

This book includes many cases that provide new perspectives in developing agent-based modeling and simulation.

This book mainly addresses the Emergency Response Decision Support System (ERDSS) and its applications, making use of ten related modules and a number of key technologies, especially Disaster Assessing Technology, Adaptive Information Evaluation Technology and Knowledge Management Technology.

This thesis focuses on the design and use of software defined networking (SDN) in residential Internet service providers (ISPs), as well as innovative operational models that can be incorporated in broadband ecosystems.

This book offers an overview of knowledge management.

This book investigates the factors that lead to slip and fall incidents and establishes a relationship between the coefficient of friction (COF), floor slipperiness and floor roughness.

This book reviews forecasting data mining models, from basic tools for stable data through causal models, to more advanced models using trends and cycles.

This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials.

This book inclusively and systematically presents the fundamental methods, models and techniques of practical application of grey data analysis, bringing together the authors' many years of theoretical exploration, real-life application, and teaching.

This book presents the proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Management Science and Engineering Management (ICMSEM2016) held from August 30 to September 02, 2016 at Baku, Azerbaijan and organized by the International Society of Management Science and Engineering Management, Sichuan University (Chengdu, China) and Ministry of Education of Azerbaijan.

This book takes a process approach of identifying, evaluating, selecting, managing and developing suppliers to create more value for customers.

This book provides readers a holistic and pragmatic approach towards supply management in China.

This book studies storage policies in warehousing systems and maintenance-support strategies for critical operational systems in warehouses, which are the most important issues affecting operational efficiency of warehousing systems.

This book is the sixth volume in a series entitled "e;Contemporary Logistics in China,"e; authored by researchers at the Logistics Center, Nankai University.

This is the first book covering original information on the mathematical science of such the artifacts as 3M&I-body system, in which "e;3M"e; means human, material/machine, money, and "e;I"e; means the information/method in nature versus artifacts.

This book focuses on product design which is evolving conceptually and practically with advances in technology.