Business process and operations management Books

This book explores the methodological and application developments of network design in transportation and logistics. It identifies trends, challenges and research perspectives in network design for these areas. Network design is a major class of...

This book discusses the design of textile production within the framework Industry 4.0. Relevant research topics in the textile industry are identified and solutions are conceptualized, developed and implemented. This is followed by an evaluation of the...

This book covers topics such as digitalization of production, operations, logistics and supply chains leading to new requirements for human capabilities and collaboration. The content is relevant for research as well as industry as digitalization is...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of role of entrepreneurship, technology commercialisation and innovation policy for the achievement of economic development and prosperity in African societies. It adopts a broad innovation systems approach...

This book presents the proceedings of the IDEAS Conference, which is intended as a forum for a new generation of researchers. IDEAS is an arena that encourages researchers to defy their field's boundaries, leveraging disciplinary mindset into...

Providing evidence of the role of human capital on innovation in the Middle East, this edited collection closely examines the unique nature of the workforce in this region. It highlights the challenges that the United Arab Emirates faces in becoming more...

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the 6th European Lean Educator Conference (ELEC), held in Milan, Italy, on November 11-13, 2019. The conference topics include the following: lean trainings in university and industry...

This book deals with methodological issues in the field of management and industrial engineering. It aims to answer the following questions that researchers face every time they look to develop their research: How can we design a research project? What...

Κατανοήστε την ουσία του κύκλου ζωής του προϊόντος σε μόλις 50 λεπτά με αυτό το πρακτικό και συνοπτικό βιβλίο. Ο κύκλος ζωής του προϊόντος είναι ένα μοντέλο που χρησιμοποιείται από τον τομέα του μάρκετινγκ και του εμπορίου για τη βελτιστοποίηση και την...

Compreender a essência do ciclo de vida do produto em apenas 50 minutos com este livro prático e conciso. O ciclo de vida do produto é um modelo utilizado pelo sector de marketing e comércio para optimizar e desenvolver produtos. É um modelo simples que...

Compreender a essência da lei da diminuição do retorno excessivo (também conhecida como a lei dos rácios variáveis, princípio da diminuição da produtividade marginal ou da diminuição do retorno marginal) em apenas 50 minutos com este livro prático e...

Prepare for your SIAM™ Foundation exam and understand how SIAM can benefit your organization!SIAM (service integration and management) is an evolution of how to apply a framework for integrated service management across multiple service providers. It has...

Details ways to optimize various industrial systems and processes using evolutionary methodologies. Covers, statistical, multi-criteria decision-making, and evolutionary strategies for single- and multi-objective optimization with relevant theoretical...

In the digital economy, businesses need to adapt quickly to satisfy customers’ constant demands for new and updated products. But too many organizations are held back by antiquated IT mindsets that separate developmental groups from the rest of the...

Whether you are a CEO, CFO, board member, or an IT executive, From Business Strategy to Information Technology Roadmap: A Practical Guide for Executives and Board Members lays out a practical, how-to approach to identifying business strategies and...

Most of the current literature on healthcare operations management is focused on importing principles and methods from manufacturing. The evidence of success is scattered and nowhere near what has been achieved in other industries. This book develops the...

This book examines 'knowledge friction' within an institutional environment based on a change management perspective. It presents a framework that differentiates types of digital knowledge assets and emerging organizational and technological capabilities.

Healthcare is very much dependent on the model of the patient that is assumed by healthcare providers. The current model derives from a chemical/mechanical view of the patient body. Simply put: we are healthy if all of our mechanical parts are working...

Many companies limp along from day-to-day treating the quality side of the business as a necessary evil, and doing only what is minimally necessary for compliance to regulations. This kind of approach to compliance almost always results in inefficiencies...

This book provides comprehensive coverage of enterprise mobility. It emphasizes the value and impact of enterprise mobility, discusses the technology that backs this business change, and explains how enterprise mobility will be used in different...

Filled with comparative charts and decision trees, this book explains exactly what it takes to build robust and highly scalable cloud computing applications in any organization. Covering the major commercial offerings currently available, it provides...

Quality management systems are essential for businesses to meet customer needs, ranging from product control to enterprise-wide process management. Effective management can elevate organizations to brand domination. This book equips quality experts with...

In this book, you will learn about: -- Lean thinking. -- Lean mindset. -- The four Lean rules and five Lean principles. -- The Lean transformation roadmap. -- Lean leadership -- Five common Lean pitfalls and how to avoid them -- Kaizen workshops -- Daily...

This book presents the application of CAE, statistics and AI in defect identification and optimization of injection molding process for quality production. It showcases CAE in determining the optimal placement of injection points, designing cooling...

This book provides comprehensive and practical information on the design and implementation of circular systems for various industries, with a focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. The scope of the handbook is to cover the...

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. It has been reviewed by 750 experts world-wide and covers three main...

Carbon footprint is one of the important environmental impacts, which has received greater attention from the public, government and media. It is one of the important topics of even any government's agenda as well and every nation is trying its best to...

This book explains the strategic behaviors of platform firms on the global market, drawing on extensive research on the mobile communication systems, semiconductor equipment, personal computer, and automobile electronics industries. The book focuses on...

This book points out that "Internet" is the means, and the digital economy is the result. Therefore, the development of digital economy will inevitably have a profound impact on traditional enterprises and Internet enterprises and become the main...

The book presents a comprehensive and incisive analysis of Structural transformation which is among the most relevant and crucial themes of contemporary economics. Structural transformation is the edifice that is the basis of the next phase of economic...

This open access book provides a clear holistic conceptual framework of CISS-F (competitiveness, inclusiveness, sustainability, scalability and access to finance) to analyse the efficiency of value chains of high value agricultural commodities in...

This book is dedicated to the analysis of the entrepreneurship in successful companies by presenting and comparing a series of case studies in the Asia-Pacific where many new companies have been growing successfully in the 21th century.  In total, 5...

The second volume of handbook explores different dimensions of the sustainable luxury textiles and fashion, broadly based on the following topics: Sustainable luxury Luxury and consumption Luxury, innovation and design potential Luxury and...

This book presents detailed discussions concerning the environmental footprints of various packaging systems and materials, life cycle assessments of packaging, sustainable design of various packaging systems and materials, as well as the...

This book includes details on the environmental implications of recycling, modeling of recycling, processing of recycled materials, recycling potential of materials, characterisation of recycled materials, reverse logistics, case studies of recycling...

This book explores China's global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national...

This book includes research presented at the Global Chinese Management Studies Conferences held in Singapore between 2011 and 2014. It covers managerial themes from China that are associated with eco-labels, institutional changes in the context of...

This book provides readers an understanding of the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for international construction operations. In an extended case study, it primarily focuses on Chinese construction firms (CCFs) based in Singapore. In...

This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in the system limiting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure. The book begins with a...

This book explores the way in which QR codes (Quick Response codes) can help the wine industry facilitate distribution and more effectively market and sell their product. It examines the interventions, invention and opportunities brought about by QR...

This book consolidates under one roof the latest research investigating the various technological advances and new managerial approaches driving innovation within wine tourism. Competition in wine tourism intensifies at a global scale, while wine tourism...

This book investigates in detail large-scale group decision-making (LSGDM) problem, which has gradually evolved from the traditional group decision-making problem and has attracted more and more attention in the age of big data. Pursuing a holistic...

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...

The book addresses the gap that exists in sustainable value chain development in the context of developing and emerging economies in meeting the sustainable development goals. The book adopts a holistic approach and discusses significant aspects of the...

This book aims at providing cases with inspiring findings for global researchers in capacity allocation and reservation. Capacity allocation mechanisms are introduced in the book, as well as the measures to build models and the ways to achieve supply...

This book highlights the applications of blockchain technologies to foster sustainable development in different fields. The concept of Sustainability has grown widespread in today's context and there are many requirements to achieve Sustainability in any...