Knowledge management Books

This book demonstrates that innovative ideas are systematically constructed in the creative space spanned by the dimensions of systems thinking and knowledge management. Readers will be introduced to this proposition in the final chapter, after learning...

This book focuses on 'research on research methodologies' - an area rarely addressed in social entrepreneurship. Methodological debates are integral to the quest for knowledge and to advancing theories and practices in any field, and, as a...

The book focuses on key emerging areas concerning flexible systems management as an approach for transforming organizations. It is divided into three parts, discussing Enterprise Flexibility and Performance Management; Transformational Strategies and...

The book discusses the concepts of E-Governance from the understanding of a naïve user. While providing introduction to the concept, it shows the status of E-Governance in India through various measures, and its progress through different case studies...

This book discusses how systems thinking and approaches can aid management consultants in navigating the complexities of client advisory in current realities. It thereby brings to the forefront aspects of holism, flexibility and responsibility - the keys...

This book provides a framework and real case analyses concerning business architecture strategy and platform-based ecosystems. Firstly, the book introduces a framework of business architecture strategy and suggests an engineering process that employs a...

This book considers and builds on the main propositions regarding body similarity and the principles of nature versus artifacts in science. It also explores the design (matrix) power of the human, Material/Machine, Money & Information (3M&I) body with...

The 6th International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution and organized by Tianjin University. The conference aims to share and disseminate information on the...

This book presents intellectual, innovative, information technologies (I3-technologies) based on logical and probabilistic (LP) risk models. The technologies presented here consider such models for structurally complex systems and processes with logical...

The broad scope of Cloud Computing is creating a technology, business, sociolo- cal, and economic renaissance. It delivers the promise of making services available quickly with rather little effort. Cloud Computing allows almost anyone, anywhere, at...

The need for enterprise flexibility in an era of rapidly advancing technology, increasing competition, and globalization, is apparent. Flexibility can be thought of as an ability of the enterprise to quickly and efficiently respond to market changes and...

In this book, the functions and dynamics of enterprises are explained with the use of anthropological methods. The chapters are based on anthropological research that has continued mainly as an inter-university research project, which is named Keiei...

This is an academic book that explains in reahty, examines theoretically, and analyzes statistically information system investment in the banking industry with regard to the process of the information technology revolution. This kind of comprehensive...

Cybernics plays a significant role in coping with an aging society using state-of-the-art technologies from engineering, clinical medicine and humanities. This new interdisciplinary field studies technologies that enhance,...

Blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrencies: Discover the many possible uses for your companyIn this practice-oriented book, the basics of blockchain technology are presented and the reader learns where and how this technology can be usefully applied...

Professional data management is the foundation for the successful digital transformation of traditional companies. Unfortunately, many companies fail to implement data governance because they do not fully understand the complexity of the challenge...

Dieses Buch beschreibt die häufigsten Fallstricke bei der Beschaffung von IT-Anwendungssystemen. Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele stellt es auch für Nichtjuristen anschaulich dar, wie durch eine entsprechende Vertragsgestaltung und die Auswahl eines...

Blockchain-Technologie jenseits von Krypto-Währungen: Entdecken Sie die vielfältigen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten für Ihr UnternehmenIn diesem praxisorientierten Fachbuch werden die Grundlagen zum Thema Blockchain-Technologie vorgestellt und der Leser erfährt,...

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of David Kahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn's 80th birthday. The title of this books leans on the title of a serious history of cryptology named "The...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2015, held in Saint Malo, France, in September 2015. The 34 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed...

The book describes the K-Method which has been developed by the authors. The purpose of the K-Method is to negotiate and administrate a complex portfolio of customised materials, all belonging to the same purchasing group (e.g. labels). The underlying...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to implementing SAP and HANA on private, public and hybrid clouds. Cloud computing has transformed the way organizations run their IT infrastructures: the shift from legacy monolithic mainframes and UNIX platforms...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third CCF Internet Conference of China, ICoC 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in July 2014. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Data-Driven Process Discovery and Analysis held in Riva del Garda, Italy, in August 2013.The six revised full papers were carefully selected from 18...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Process-Aware Systems, PAS 2014, held in Shanghai, China, in October 2014. The 5 revised full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 14...

This book analyzes extensive data on the world's rapidly changing and growing access to, use and geographies of information and communications technologies. It studies not only the spatial differences in technology usage worldwide, but also examines...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS 2014, held in conjunction with CAiSE 2014 in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2014. Tools and methods for modeling and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP WG 5.5 Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises, PRO-VE 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2014. The 73 revised papers were carefully selected from 190 submissions. They...

This book illustrates how goal-oriented, automated measurement can be used to create Lean organizations and to facilitate the development of Lean software, while also demonstrating the practical implementation of Lean software development by combining...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IFIP WG 11.3 International Working Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2014, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2014. The 22 revised full papers and 4 short papers...

In a comprehensive approach this book covers the end-to-end process from request management to change management, error management and migration management to acceptance testing and final data clean up. It is based upon nearly twenty years of experience...

Mit diesem kompakten Fachbuch geben die Autoren einen prägnanten Einblick in die zeitgemäße Bereitstellung und den agilen, aber dennoch sicheren Betrieb von IT-Services. Andreas Kohne und Kollegen beschreiben wie moderne IT-Leiter und Betreiber von...

Marc Marheineke explores the phenomenon of boundary objects in the process of virtual collaboration. Virtual collaboration is an interactive act that connects jointly and voluntarily collaborating individuals that are electronically linked and he...

Ökonomische Zusammenhänge der medienwirtschaftlichen Algorithmisierungsdiskussion.- Algorithmisierung in der Medienbranche .- Algorithmische Initiierung, Konzeption und Formatentwicklung von Mediengütern - Demand Driven Content Production...

Matthias Bertram aims to develop a deeper understanding of software customization and its strategic role for software product management. Drawing on the conceptual foundation of the resource-based view of the firm, such as resources, capabilities, and...

Herausforderungen des Wissensmanagements in Projekten.- Gamification zur Motivation von Technologienutzern.- Wie Gamification die Welt des Wissensmanagements ändern kann.- Die ProjectWorld in der Movilitas.

SebastianGörg introduces social workflows as a new application domain for Process-AwareInformation Systems and draws the design of a social workflow platform thatenables private individuals to make use of workflow technology in theireveryday lives...

Mayank Kumar Golpelwar analyses why Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) units and their young employees found themselves to be the target of severe criticism from India's middle classes. Using social and organizational psychological frameworks as well as...

Michael Nofer examines whether and to what extent Social Media can be used to predict stock returns. Market-relevant information is available on various platforms on the Internet, which largely consist of user generated content. For instance, emotions...

Sven-Michael Wundenberg discusses the development of a reference architecture for the Learning Management System's (LMS) selection-process aimed at the system's implementation in a polytechnic-knowledge-transfer organization. The focus lies on the...

​Christoph Samitsch investigates whether decision-making efficiency is being influenced by the quality of data and information. Results of the research provide evidence that defined data quality dimensions have an effect on decision-making performance as...

While traditionally sequential approaches have been used to deal with the cyclic/non-cyclic crew rostering problem in public transit, Lin Xie focuses on several solution approaches based on a novel network design to solve this task within one step. This...

​Using the domain of crisis management, Christian Reuter explores challenges and opportunities for technology design in emergent environments. He therefore empirically analyzes collaborative work in inter-organizational crisis - such as the police, fire...

​Business Process Management (BPM) has become a widely adopted management approach, prompting significant investments by private and public companies since 2000. Since neither the concept of BPM nor the factors leading to successful BPM initiatives are...