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The Complete Business Process Handbook

1st Edition
June 1, 2029
Mark Von Rosing + 1 more
English

The Complete Business Process Handbook: Leading Practices of the Outperformers, Volume 3, is the first of its kind to unveil how those who are ready can re-use and replicate award winning real-life examples from many of the Fortune 500 and public sector organizations that apply BPM to stand out. Learn how the leaders outthink, outcompete, and outperform the market. Volume 3 is a practical guide for executives, practitioners, and students alike, with plenty of hands-on descriptions. This book offers pragmatic instructions and a structured approach to using repeatable sequences of best practices required to achieve the best results. Written by authorities and industry leaders that shape the way we think and work with business processes today. Discover well-defined patterns of success and how to innovate, improve competitive advantage, drive digital transformation, and rethink your processes. Contains real-life examples and award winning cases from innovators, pioneers, and industry outperformers who show how early adopters of BPM practices improved their business.

Training, Staff Development and Skills Shortages in China

1st Edition
January 1, 2029
Doug Davies + 2 more
English

Creating a Competitive Intelligence Capability

1st Edition
January 1, 2029
Deonie Botha
English

This book examines establishing a Competitive Intelligence (CI) capability within organisations. Many CI practitioners are confronted with the reality of having to make the transition from the ‘what’ to the 'how' and need guidelines on establishing a CI capability. Creating a Competitive Intelligence Capability provides CI practitioners and students at all levels with an overview of the challenges in terms of establishing a CI capability as well as the best practices in terms of addressing CI challenges within an organisational context.

Digital Scholarship

1st Edition
January 1, 2029
Paul Logasa Bogen II
English

Digital scholarship is the incorporation of computational techniques and digital tools to traditional scholarly research. Digital scholarship has shown great potential for transforming humanities studies, and humanities researchers have long used computer technology to support their work. However, the application of computational techniques is far less common. Applying computational techniques would enable humanists to solve problems that historically have been too difficult. Archivists can now consider ways to allow researchers access to rare materials, and Librarians can provide personalized help and recommendations for subjects they themselves may not be familiar with. Digital Scholarship provides a brief grounding in the history of digital scholarship by introducing several of the main areas in which digital techniques can enhance scholarly information processing. Subsequent chapters cover metadata and issues of born-digital artefacts. The remaining chapters move on to text analytics, analyzing information and conclude with social issues of digital scholarship.

Encyclopedia of Marketing

1st Edition
September 1, 2026
Satish Kumar + 1 more
English

Encyclopedia of Marketing is a comprehensive compendium that offers a deep dive into the dynamic and diverse field of marketing. It is grounded in the fundamental concept of marketing as a complex discipline that operates at the intersection of business, psychology, sociology, and data analytics. This work encapsulates this multidisciplinary aspect in a single, accessible, and authoritative source, rendering it a valuable resource for researchers, students, educators, and practitioners alike. In a world where consumer behaviors and business landscapes are continuously evolving, the work addresses the acute need for a reliable reference that mirrors this dynamism. It solves the problem of fragmentation of knowledge by providing a holistic view of the marketing discipline. From traditional areas such as advertising, branding, and consumer behavior, to emerging realms like digital marketing and sustainability, it covers a broad spectrum of topics pertinent to contemporary marketing. One of the new developments this work brings to the field is the integration of cutting-edge research and trends, particularly in digital marketing and marketing analytics. The work underscores the importance of sustainable and ethical marketing practices, resonating with the growing societal concerns around business impacts on the environment and communities.

Encyclopedia in Operations Management

1st Edition
August 3, 2026
Tsan-Ming Jason Choi
English

Encyclopedia of Operations Management is an indispensable reference guide that offers a comprehensive and authoritative exploration of the field of operations management. Designed to cater to both students and professionals, this encyclopedia provides a wide range of knowledge, insights, and best practices for optimizing operations within diverse industries and organizations. The encyclopedia incorporates numerous case studies and examples drawn from a diverse range of industries, including manufacturing, services, healthcare, logistics, and e-commerce. These real-world illustrations enable readers to grasp the practical implications of various operations management concepts and techniques. Recognizing the evolving nature of operations management, this encyclopedia incorporates the latest trends, emerging technologies, and industry practices. It addresses topics such as Industry 4.0, digital transformation, sustainability, agile methodologies, and data analytics, ensuring that readers are equipped with up-to-date knowledge.

Encyclopedia of Monetary Policy, Financial Markets and Banking

1st Edition
June 1, 2025
Nicholas Apergis
English

The 4 sections of this work cover: ECONOMICS 1: The Future of Monetary Policy = Central banks in leading advanced economies have undergone several fundamental transformative changes, especially after the global financial crisis and the recent pandemic crisis era. The key issue for decision-makers remains to consider which fundamental direction monetary policy ought to take next; this section offers insight into this issue. ECONOMICS 2: Climate Change and Sustainability = This section explores how climate change and its impacts exert additional pressure on natural resources available for global economies’ economic growth. Exploration and exploitation of countries’ resources negatively affect ecological systems. This necessitates a societal sustainable balance between resource use, socio-economic growth and the environment. FINANCE 1: Financial Markets = This section focuses on a new framework for financial markets, consistent with the functional view of the financial system design, anchored in exploring the incentives facing the key players in financial markets: market participants, policymakers, and regulators-whose actions determine whether and how markets develop. While different instruments and strategies embody different concessions by stakeholders, the framework should be used to analyse the sequencing of financial market development. FINANCE 2: Banking Developments = While ongoing changes in global banking influence its overall benefits, the crises also revealed the need for a consistent framework for supervising and resolving globally active banks. This section explores where banking stands now, post pandemic and financial crisis.

Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

1st Edition
May 23, 2024
Sanjoy Kumar Paul + 1 more
English
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Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management presents state-of-the-art computational intelligence techniques and applications for supply chain sustainability issues and logistic problems, filling the gap between general textbooks on sustainable supply chain management and more specialized literature dealing with methods for computational intelligence techniques. This book focuses on addressing problems in advanced topics in the sustainable supply chain and will appeal to practitioners, managers, researchers, students, and professionals interested in sustainable logistics, procurement, manufacturing, inventory and production management, scheduling, transportation, and supply chain network design.

Ethics in Online AI-Based Systems

1st Edition
April 1, 2024
Santi Caballé + 2 more
English
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Ethics in Online AI-Based Systems: Risks and Opportunities in Current Technological Trends creates a space to explore the ethical relevance that new technologies under development may have. Stimulating reflection and considerations with respect to the design, deployment, and use of technology helps readers guide current and future technological advancements from an ethically informed position to ensure that such advancements contribute towards solving current global and social challenges that we, as a society, have today. This will not only be useful for researchers and professional engineers, but also for educators, policy makers, and ethicists.Recent technological advancements have deeply transformed society and the way people interact with each other. Instantaneous communication platforms have allowed connections with other people, forming global communities and creating unprecedented opportunities in many sectors, making access to online resources more ubiquitous by reducing limitations imposed by geographical distance and temporal constrains. These technological developments bear ethically relevant consequences with their deployment, and legislations often lag behind such advancements. Because the appearance and deployment of these technologies happen much faster than legislative procedures, the way these technologies affect social interactions have profound ethical effects before any legislative regulation can be built in order to prevent and mitigate those effects.

Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures

1st Edition
September 1, 2023
Bedir Tekinerdogan + 4 more
English
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Management and Engineering of Critical Infrastructures focuses on two important aspects of CIS, management and engineering. The book provides an ontological foundation for the models and methods needed to design a set of systems, networks and assets that are essential for a society's functioning, and for ensuring the security, safety and economy of a nation. Various examples in agriculture, the water supply, public health, transportation, security services, electricity generation, telecommunication, and financial services can be used to substantiate dangers. Disruptions of CIS can have serious cascading consequences that would stop society from functioning properly and result in loss of life.Malicious software (a.k.a., malware), for example, can disrupt the distribution of electricity across a region, which in turn can lead to the forced shutdown of communication, health and financial sectors. Subsequently, proper engineering and management are important to anticipate possible risks and threats and provide resilient CIS. Although the problem of CIS has been broadly acknowledged and discussed, to date, no unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques and tools exist for such CIS.