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Statsnotes: Some Statistics For Management Problems (Hardcover): Alan Jessop Statsnotes: Some Statistics For Management Problems (Hardcover)
Alan Jessop
R2,723 Discovery Miles 27 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Managers need access to some statistical advice from time to time to help in solving business problems. Students need access to statistical methods to support work in non-statistics courses, case studies and projects. What is needed will depend on the demands of the problem and how much statistics the manager or student already knows. The requirement is for flexible decision support.This unique book presents statistical ideas and models in easily accessible form describing both methods and issues of application.statsNotes are organized as a set of over one hundred notes rather than as a number of chapters. This enables managers and students to locate just what they need for the problem they have. Each note consists of a description of what to do, an example, the rationale, links to other notes.Managers and students can choose to use as many notes as necessary, which might be just one note or a set of linked notes.Deciding which method will be helpful depends not just on finding an appropriate statistical method but on the business context too. statsNotes provide advice at three levels: While the range of topics covered is similar to those in introductory textbooks and courses, the focus is on management decision and the methods for dealing with risky decisions and management judgment in this book are usually found in more specialist texts.

Methodology for Digital Transformation - Implementation Path and Data Platform (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Xiaodong Ma Methodology for Digital Transformation - Implementation Path and Data Platform (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Xiaodong Ma
R2,678 Discovery Miles 26 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on why and how to achieve digital transformation for enterprises and organizations by introducing cases in China. Its purpose is to highlight the importance and improve the understanding for digital transformation and related issues, like human resource allocation, and how to improve the efficiency and success rate in a low-cost and low-risk way. In this way, the cases in the book avoid the most common traps during the digital transformation process, enabling R&D and business personnel, and data practitioners in the organization to figure out the implementation and processes involved, and hence better understand how to work with senior management team when implementing the transition plan. The middle and senior level managers such as company executives, presidents in banks and universities,  and officials in government, are also the target audience.

Managing Innovation Adoption - From Innovation to Implementation (Paperback): Majharul Talukder Managing Innovation Adoption - From Innovation to Implementation (Paperback)
Majharul Talukder
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When Innovation is considered one of the key drivers of corporate success, why do organisations struggle to implement it? Research suggests that innovations fail due to a lack of acceptance by employees; therefore an understanding of potential adopters and the factors influencing their decisions is essential. Despite much research on adoption of innovation by an organization, very little is known about its acceptance by individuals within it. Managing Innovation Adoption is about managing technological innovation implementation at work in an effective way by presenting a new theoretical framework. Based on the theory of reasoned action (TRA), the technology acceptance model (TAM) and other conceptual frameworks, Dr Talukder's enhanced model combines factors from existing and original models to create a coherent new model. The data collected proves that it can be used to assist a broader understanding of how people in an organization adopt and use innovations. As well as contributing to academic knowledge, the author's discoveries have practical implications for organizations, managers, administrators and employees.

Entrepreneurship in China (Paperback): Keming Yang Entrepreneurship in China (Paperback)
Keming Yang
R1,379 Discovery Miles 13 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The emergence of China as a major world economy is of great importance to the global political economy and to international business. There has been much research on the macro level of institutional reform but little detailed work on the grassroots level of entrepreneurship in China. This innovative book addresses this gap by investigating how an economic system dominated by central plans, communist ideologies and suppressing bureaucracies could generate such energy from the bottom of society, fuelling the country's economic growth. Keming Yang's theory of entrepreneurship is based on two interrelated concepts: double entrepreneurship and institutional holes. He argues that the two concepts bridge a gap between the neo-classical institutionalism of economic development and entrepreneurship studies that emphasize individual choice. The rigorous theoretical framework is supported by substantial empirical research, offering statistical analyses of survey data as well as detailed case studies. This timely book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership in sociology, economics, business studies and Chinese and Asian Studies.

International Entrepreneurship - A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover): Susan Freeman, Ying Zhu, Malcolm Warner International Entrepreneurship - A Comparative Analysis (Hardcover)
Susan Freeman, Ying Zhu, Malcolm Warner
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the importance of entrepreneurs in driving economic growth as the world economy grows and becomes more integrated and more challenging. It examines the situation in both advanced and developing countries and shows how the entrepreneurial orientation of the founders of small and medium sized enterprises has resulted in phenomenal growth, often fuelled by innovation and new technologies. It contrasts the experiences of Chinese family business in China and among the overseas Chinese with the experiences of family businesses in the United States and Europe. One important conclusion is that there has been a noticeable fall in entrepreneurial proclivity in the advanced economies, in contrast to the position in emerging economies.

The Democratic Organisation - Democracy and the Future of Work (Hardcover): Thomas Diefenbach The Democratic Organisation - Democracy and the Future of Work (Hardcover)
Thomas Diefenbach
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Prevailing models of organisation divide people into owners, managers and employees, forcing especially the latter to obey, to behave, and to function well within a hierarchical and managerial pecking order. However, there is no natural law suggesting the need for such organisations, not in market economies and definitely not in modern democratic societies - and there is no justification for such types of organisation. Arguing that most current organisations are orthodox, hierarchical, anti-democratic, oppressive, unfair, and unjust, this book presents a viable alternative, a better type of organisation - the democratic organisation. Diefenbach develops and provides step by step a systematic, comprehensive, thorough, and detailed general model of the democratic organisation. He describes the democratic organisation's fundamental principles, values, governance, management, structures, and processes, and the ways it functions and operates both within the organisation and towards others and the environment. Crucially, and most importantly, the democratic organisation provides the institutions and organisational context for individuals to maintain and pursue their fundamental freedoms, inalienable rights, and dignity; to manage organisations in democratic, participative, and cooperative ways; and to conduct business in considerate, balanced, and sustainable ways. This book will be of interest to researchers, academics, practitioners, and students in the fields of management, organisation studies, strategic management, business ethics, entrepreneurship, and family business.

Capital, Systems, and Objects - The Foundation and Future of Organizations from a South Asian Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed.... Capital, Systems, and Objects - The Foundation and Future of Organizations from a South Asian Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Richard Thomas Watson, Saji K. Mathew
R1,516 Discovery Miles 15 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a set of integrated frameworks-capital, systems, and objects-that transcend managerial or technology hype by focusing on the long-term fundamentals that sustain organizational success, and it contains cases from South East Asia to elaborate this concept. Many organizations are currently addressing two important transformational issues: ecological sustainability and digitization. Sustainability is a goal, an end, and digitization is a process, a means to achieve a goal. This book introduces a flexible model that can be applied to current and future organizational challenges, including sustainability and digitization, because the fundamentals are constant. This book is designed to serve two purposes for the readers: first, to present three conceptual foundations for designing and operating organizations (capital, systems, and objects (section 1)); and second, to provide a reference source for implementing these ideas in your organization (sections 2 and 3). The first section of the book, chapters 1 through 7, sets forth the conceptual foundations. The chapters mix concepts and practical examples to give a new way of thinking about the setting in which one may work many days each year. The second section provides details and associated examples of every one of the thirty-six forms of capital conversion. It also illustrates how the five foundational systems support capital conversion in a variety of ways. Finally, the third section is about measuring capital and systems. The book covers measurement of all types of capital and systems performance and has been written for current and future organizational leaders to change the game and play it more effectively. The book will thus resonate with students of organizational behaviour and leadership strategy, organizational leaders, industry experts, and general readers.

Entrepreneurial Innovation and Leadership - Preparing for a Digital Future (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Nancy Richter, Paul... Entrepreneurial Innovation and Leadership - Preparing for a Digital Future (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Nancy Richter, Paul Jackson, Thomas Schildhauer
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Taking the themes of entrepreneurship, start-ups, innovation and collaboration, this book seeks to answer the urgent question of how countries and companies can stay competitive in an ever-changing digital environment. The authors determine which entrepreneurial processes will work for whom and under what circumstances, presenting methodological implications for business research, start-ups and policy making. Examining the success of Germany as an innovation powerhouse, and comparing this with the USA, this edited collection provides valuable ideas for improving practice, facilitating start-up activity, and ultimately ensuring a country's competitive edge.

The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs - Benefits and Business Opportunities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Andy Phippen, Hazel... The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs - Benefits and Business Opportunities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Andy Phippen, Hazel Lacohee
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on research conducted over the last 3 years in Cornwall, UK, this new book explores the impact of the EU/BT funded introduction of fibre broadband on rural SMEs. Including a qualitative methodology and in depth focus groups with over 200 companies, The Impact of Fibre Connectivity on SMEs provides a detailed, in depth, analysis to challenge conventionally held beliefs in the value of subsidy and policy pressure in the deployment of such projects. With focus on regional development in the UK as well as exploration of the wider EU context, the book presents a genuine insight into the technology adoption and technology provision.

Data Analytics and Decision Support for Cybersecurity - Trends, Methodologies and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Ivan... Data Analytics and Decision Support for Cybersecurity - Trends, Methodologies and Applications (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Ivan Palomares Carrascosa, Harsha Kumara Kalutarage, Yan Huang
R4,286 Discovery Miles 42 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book illustrates the inter-relationship between several data management, analytics and decision support techniques and methods commonly adopted in Cybersecurity-oriented frameworks. The recent advent of Big Data paradigms and the use of data science methods, has resulted in a higher demand for effective data-driven models that support decision-making at a strategic level. This motivates the need for defining novel data analytics and decision support approaches in a myriad of real-life scenarios and problems, with Cybersecurity-related domains being no exception. This contributed volume comprises nine chapters, written by leading international researchers, covering a compilation of recent advances in Cybersecurity-related applications of data analytics and decision support approaches. In addition to theoretical studies and overviews of existing relevant literature, this book comprises a selection of application-oriented research contributions. The investigations undertaken across these chapters focus on diverse and critical Cybersecurity problems, such as Intrusion Detection, Insider Threats, Insider Threats, Collusion Detection, Run-Time Malware Detection, Intrusion Detection, E-Learning, Online Examinations, Cybersecurity noisy data removal, Secure Smart Power Systems, Security Visualization and Monitoring. Researchers and professionals alike will find the chapters an essential read for further research on the topic.

Digitally Deaf - Why Organizations Struggle with Digital Transformation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Steven M. Stone Digitally Deaf - Why Organizations Struggle with Digital Transformation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Steven M. Stone
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Companies across all industries are leveraging digital technologies to transform outdated processes and build new business models to compete in the information age. For all the publicity and hype, successful digital transformation has proven to be elusive. Numerous studies have found more than half of all digital transformation efforts fail. Digitally Deaf explores the obstacles and inhibitors that derail transformation efforts and outlines the steps organizations should take to establish an environment for success. Written by a highly experienced CIO, Digitally Deaf illustrates symptoms and underlying issues through the author's experiences at large, Fortune 250 organizations. Digitally Deaf establishes a framework for digital transformation execution beginning with the development of a common definition and language for transformation. Learn the roles of the board of directors and leadership in establishing the appropriate messaging, governance, and organizational structure to drive digital efforts. Realize how digital transformation efforts amplify common problems encountered in typical technology projects. Discover how the IT organization must transform to enable the agility needed to fuel new digital business models. Finally, learn to spot the symptoms of issues that undermine transformation success and how to address them. "On the topic of digital transformation, Steve addresses the mind set shift that is needed to be successful, leveraging relatable examples across multiple industries. Digitally Deaf offers a very relevant perspective on what it takes to move a traditional organization into the digital age." Boris Sherman, CTO Tailored Brands "Stone, as a former CIO, accurately outlines the challenges associated with new technologies and the benefits of implementing a digital-first culture. This book helps business and technology leaders understand the landscape and how to embrace digital to create new sources of value in their organizations." Jonathan Brassington, Head, Capgemini Invent North America

The Edupreneur's Side Hustle Handbook - 10 Successful Educators Share Their Top Tips (Hardcover): Lisa Dunnigan, Tosha... The Edupreneur's Side Hustle Handbook - 10 Successful Educators Share Their Top Tips (Hardcover)
Lisa Dunnigan, Tosha Wright
R2,815 Discovery Miles 28 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Find out how you can use your talents as an educator to make extra money on the side! In this helpful book, top Instagram influencers share how they've had success with selling lesson plans, handouts, t-shirts, and more, while maintaining careers as teachers and school leaders. You'll hear from these inspiring educators: Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright @thewrightstuffchics Jen Jones @hellojenjones Michelle Ferre @pocketfulofprimary Kisha Mitchell @bethelightinc Bryce Sizemore @theteachingtexan Kristen Donegan @easyteachingtools Cynthia Frias @followsocialone Kayse Morris @kaysemorris Eric Crouch @adventureswithmrc If you've always dreamed of having a side hustle but weren't sure you had the time or the know-how, this is the book for you. Each chapter offers tons of practical tips to help you get started, along with humorous anecdotes and words of wisdom to keep you motivated on your journey.

Trump @ Work - Really Huge Lessons on Leadership, Believe Me (Paperback): Richard Moran Trump @ Work - Really Huge Lessons on Leadership, Believe Me (Paperback)
Richard Moran
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Unprecedented" is the adjective most often ascribed to everything about Donald Trump. Trump @ Work is about the unprecedented impact that Donald Trump and his Presidency and style has had on attitudes and perceptions of leadership and management. This book brings a unique perspective about what has changed and what has not changed through humorous and true "bullets" and observations. Why do some leaders get fired for things that other leaders boast about? In spite of controversy, why do some initiatives still get implemented? Is implementation all that matters? Is empathy and credibility still critical to success? Why aren't there any instruction manuals about how to navigate the new workplace? These are not questions raised by just a few. These are questions everyone in the workplace is asking. Trump @ Work explores these questions and many more. It reveals how the rules of the game have changed for everyone seeking success or at least, to survive. It's hard enough to keep up with leadership and management trends. Donald Trump is making it more difficult, not intentionally, not through the tweets he writes, but by how he is challenging the long existing norms. Who knew that tweeting would become an established way of communicating to an organization? Who knew that in spite of constant searing criticism, one can disregard it and continue to follow an agenda? Who knew that preaching to supporters and ignoring naysayers is a way to manage? Whether you appreciate Donald Trump or not, he has had an impact on the thinking about leadership and management and the author precisely explores that impact in this book.

Make Success Measurable! - A Mindbook-Workbook for  Setting Goals & Taking Action (Hardcover): D. K Smith Make Success Measurable! - A Mindbook-Workbook for Setting Goals & Taking Action (Hardcover)
D. K Smith
R1,480 R1,216 Discovery Miles 12 160 Save R264 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Performance begins with focusing on outcomes instead of activities. In my experience, most people in most organizations most of the time do the reverse. They concentrate their efforts on the pursuit of activities instead of outcomes. As a result, they rarely set or achieve performance results that matter."

Today's performance challenges demand outcomes—both financial and nonfinancial—that must simultaneously benefit customers, shareholders, employees, and management. Therein lies a cycle of sustainable performance that functions as a framework to ensure your organization's goals are set, met, and balanced for today's business world.

Make Success Measurable! enables you to avoid activity-based goals that can go on indefinitely, and articulate aggressive outcome-based goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound.

This is a how-to book, emphasizing outcomes as opposed to actions in setting goals. You'll learn how to: Set goals that matter to customers, shareholders, and funders. Set nonfinancial as well as financial goals and link them together. Understand and use outcome-based goals that support success while avoiding activity-based goals that produce failure. Select and use management disciplines needed to achieve your goals. Smith provides the what's and why's behind today's performance challenges and shows how to convert them into measurable concrete achievements.

Using an innovative approach, Smith divides each chapter into an explanatory Mindbook section and a practice Workbook section. The Mindbook sections provide descriptions and explain key concepts, frameworks, tools, and techniques. They seek to build your intellectual understanding of how to set and achieve the performance goals that matter.

The Workbook sections include detailed examples and exercises that you and your colleagues can use to practice the concepts, tools, and techniques put forth in the Mindbook section. Workbook exercises allow you to convert understanding into action—and action into results! "Doug Smith's work on performance and measurement has been an invaluable management resource for us. We believe that if you can't measure it, you can't improve it. Thanks to Doug, we can focus on the right measures to drive performance against today's many new and different challenges throughout our enterprise."—Leon Gorman, President, L.L. Bean, Inc.

"Make Success Measurable! is a practical and powerful step-by-step guide to setting and achieving the goals we all need to accomplish in a constantly changing and challenging world."—Charles Dolan, Chairman, Cablevision Systems Corporation.

"No one writes as clearly about today's key management issues as Doug Smith. Whether you're in a small eCommerce startup or a large, already established organization, the frameworks, tools, techniques, and exercises contained in this book are the only things you'll need to manage the performance that matters to your customers, your people, and your shareholders."—Steve Goldstein, CEO, eChores and former CEO, American Express Bank.

"Achieving results that matter—to donors and clients—is the true measure of success for any nonprofit organization. This book provides a thoughtful and extremely practical guide for setting goals and effectively meeting them. It is an absolutely indispensable tool for leaders and a model for good management."—Jenna Dorn, President, National Museum of Health.

Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 for Sustainable Supply Chain Performance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023): Sachin S. Kamble,... Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 for Sustainable Supply Chain Performance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Sachin S. Kamble, Rahul S. Mor, Amine Belhadi
R3,205 Discovery Miles 32 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides the interplay between digital transformation, industry 4.0 technologies, and sustainable supply chain performance. The book mainly focuses on presenting case studies and empirical studies demonstrating how the industry 4.0 technologies interact with the conventional manufacturing practices such as lean manufacturing, circular economy practices, total quality management, and maintenance management, while achieving enhanced sustainable supply chain performance. The book guides the practitioners to consider the status of conventional supply chains in their organisations while designing industry 4.0 systems. This book is a useful resource for researchers and academicians to understand the interplay between existing technologies, industry 4.0 technologies, and sustainable performance in the digital transformation journey.

Business Applications and Computational Intelligence (Hardcover): Kevin E. Voges, Nigel Pope Business Applications and Computational Intelligence (Hardcover)
Kevin E. Voges, Nigel Pope
R2,625 Discovery Miles 26 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Computational intelligence has a long history of applications to business - expert systems have been used for decision support in management, neural networks and fuzzy logic have been used in process control, a variety of techniques have been used in forecasting and data mining has become a core component of customer relationship management in marketing. While there is literature on this field, it is spread over many disciplines and in many different publications, making it difficult to find the pertinent information in one source. ""Business Applications and Computational Intelligence"" addresses the need for a compact overview of the diversity of applications in a number of business disciplines, and consists of chapters written by leading international researchers. Chapters cover most fields of business, including: marketing, data mining, e-commerce, production and operations, finance, decision-making, and general management. ""Business Applications and Computational Intelligence"" provides a comprehensive review of research into computational intelligence applications in business, creating a powerful guide for both newcomers and experienced researchers.

Foundations of Decision Analysis, Global Edition (Paperback, Global ed): Ali Abbas, Ronald Howard Foundations of Decision Analysis, Global Edition (Paperback, Global ed)
Ali Abbas, Ronald Howard
R2,838 Discovery Miles 28 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For courses in Decision Making and Engineering. The Fundamentals of Analyzing and Making Decisions Foundations of Decision Analysis is a groundbreaking text that explores the art of decision making, both in life and in professional settings. By exploring themes such as dealing with uncertainty and understanding the distinction between a decision and its outcome, the First Edition teaches students to achieve clarity of action in any situation. The book treats decision making as an evolutionary process from a scientific standpoint. Strategic decision-making analysis is presented as a tool to help students understand, discuss, and settle on important life choices. Through this text, students will understand the specific thought process that occurs behind approaching any decision to make easier and better life choices for themselves.

Health Data Quest - How to Find and Use Data for Performance Improvement (Hardcover, 1st ed): J Schilp Health Data Quest - How to Find and Use Data for Performance Improvement (Hardcover, 1st ed)
J Schilp
R2,247 Discovery Miles 22 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Improve clinical performance and demonstrate value to health care purchasers and insurers by becoming a "data detective" within your organization. Health Data Quest is the practical guide to the most current and promising emerging measurement tools, and provides guidance for effectively and efficiently finding, interpreting, presenting, and using data.

This much-needed book is filled with the essential information, instructive models, and useful tools managers and executives need to create a program that can clearly demonstrate how a health care organization offers quality care in a cost-effective manner, including how to build a data warehouse.

Computers in Company Training (Paperback): David Hawkridge, Wendy Newton, Carole Hall Computers in Company Training (Paperback)
David Hawkridge, Wendy Newton, Carole Hall
R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When this book was originally published in 1988, this book was the first to include a large number of reports on British and US companies' experience with computers in company training in such areas as banking, finance, insurance, manufacturing, IT, the retail industry, transport, telecommunications and energy. It provided a critical analysis of the situation and discusses company experiences, development, testing and implementation as well as cost-effectiveness and future trends.

Making Computers Pay (Paperback): John Graham Making Computers Pay (Paperback)
John Graham
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Originally published in 1976, this book discusses the management skills needed to evaluate, implement and control computer-based operation. Every chapter contains detailed check lists which guide the reader to formulate policies to deal with real situations. It provides a practical look at an indispensable tool of management, with a set of guidelines to help get the most out of the available technology.

Management Information Systems: The Technology Challenge - The Technology Challenge (Paperback): Nigel F. Piercy Management Information Systems: The Technology Challenge - The Technology Challenge (Paperback)
Nigel F. Piercy
R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book, originally published in 1984, established the need for a strategic managerial response to the new technology, which relies on an understanding of the real effects of technology - on organisational structure, manageemnt style and employee relations. It assesses the impact of the new information technology on manufacturing systems, employment levels and types, industrial relations and finally on marketing and external relationships.

The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Business and Society - Digital Transformation and the Rise of Platform Businesses... The Impact of the Sharing Economy on Business and Society - Digital Transformation and the Rise of Platform Businesses (Hardcover)
Abbas Strommen-Bakhtiar, Evgueni Vinogradov
R4,469 Discovery Miles 44 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The emergence of new platform business models, notably the sharing economy, is impacting the economy in various ways, altering the structure of many industries, and raising a number of economic and political issues. This book investigates the widespread influence of the sharing economy on businesses and society, as well as examining its underpinning economic principles and development. This volume presents an exhaustive review of the existing knowledge on the sharing economy and addresses several major areas of concern for incumbent businesses. It also explains the business models for those who are interested in embarking on their own ventures and provides an excellent source for further research. It takes an in-depth look at controversial labour policies, such as using labour as self-employed contractors or using regulatory grey areas to expand in markets. It is highly multidisciplinary, establishing links between economics, finance, marketing and consumer behaviour. This contribution on the sharing economy will enable researchers and graduate and doctoral students to expand and improve their understanding of this topic and identify new research problems in all of these areas. The book will also appeal to policy makers, regional and local government decision makers, and those interested in labour markets transformation.

Beauty of Crowdfunding - Blooming Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Era (Hardcover): Sunghan Ryu Beauty of Crowdfunding - Blooming Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Era (Hardcover)
Sunghan Ryu
R4,462 Discovery Miles 44 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Crowdfunding is emerging as a new source of financing for creativity and innovation. It promotes the launching and scaling of new projects for different types of creators by providing networked platforms and handy digital tools. This book provides insight into crowdfunding and how crowdfunding contributes to our communities and society. The book includes an overview of existing discussions across different disciplines, i.e. entrepreneurship, information systems, marketing, and correlates the literature to the best crowdfunding practices. The book begins with origins, basic notions, and antecedents of crowdfunding. In the main parts, it demonstrates the five distinguished facets of crowdfunding: Creativity, diversity, balance, connection, and change. It also addresses the drawbacks of crowdfunding and subsequent outcomes of crowdfunding success. Finally, it provides a perspective on the future of crowdfunding.

Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs - Minimal Humanity (Hardcover): Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Kuanchin Chen,... Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs - Minimal Humanity (Hardcover)
Joanna Paliszkiewicz, Kuanchin Chen, Markus Launer
R4,919 Discovery Miles 49 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, set a minimalist version of humanity - both in the sense that they are narrow in what they compare, and that they set a low bar for satisfaction. The book argues that we cannot understand humanitarian governance if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made human suffering commensurable across borders in the first place. The book identifies four basic elements of needs: As a concept, as a system of classification and triage, as a material apparatus, and as a set of standards. Drawing on a range of archival sources, including the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF), and the Sphere Project, the book traces the concept of needs from its emergence in the 1960s right through to the present day, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's call for "evidence-based humanitarianism." Finally, the book assesses how the international governmentality of needs has played out in a recent humanitarian crisis, drawing on field research on Central African refugees in the Cameroonian borderland in 2014-2016. This important historical inquiry into the universal nature of human suffering will be an important read for humanitarian researchers and practitioners, as well as readers with an interest in international history and development.

Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2010 (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): Michael Gunther, Andreas Bartel, Markus Brunk, Sebastian... Progress in Industrial Mathematics at ECMI 2010 (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Michael Gunther, Andreas Bartel, Markus Brunk, Sebastian Schoeps, Michael Striebel
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

ECMI, the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, is the European brand associated with applied mathematics for industry and organizes highly successful biannual conferences. In this series, the ECMI 2010, the 16th European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, was held in the historic city hall of Wuppertal in Germany. It covered the mathematics of a wide range of applications and methods, from circuit and electromagnetic device simulation to model order reduction for chip design, uncertainties and stochastics, production, fluids, life and environmental sciences, and dedicated and versatile methods.

These proceedings of ECMI 2010 emphasize mathematics as an innovation enabler for industry and business, and as an absolutely essential pre-requiste for Europe on its way to becoming the leading knowledge-based economy in the world.

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