This book helps readers understand the basic concept of asset management; explains systems, tools, and procedures; and provides models and guidance for strategically managing assets, establishing systems and asset registers, and applying life-cycle-based asset operation and maintenance.

Discourse-based approaches to studying organizations have grown in significance over the last 25 years. This accessible and insightful book exemplifies how to use a discursive approach to study organizations. By drawing on her own empirical research, Cynthia Hardy aligns key theoretical assumptions with a range of case studies to demonstrate the value and adaptability of a discursive approach. The book presents the key theoretical assumptions associated with a discursive approach and shows how to align them with the design of specific empirical studies. Cynthia Hardy also illustrates how data collection and analysis can be customized to suit the issues under investigation. By reviewing empirical settings that range from older workers to refugees, from businesses to voluntary organizations, from strategy making to inter-organizational collaboration, and from environmental regulation to chemical risk, the author shows the value and adaptability of this approach. Forward-thinking, the book concludes with a look towards the future challenges of the discursive approach, covering specific issues of resistance to and reflexivity in research on discourse. Demonstrating the importance of empirical work, data collection, and analysis, this book will be a useful guide on discursive approach for students of organization and management studies. It will also prove useful for researchers studying HIV/AIDS organizations, refugees, and environmental regulation, which are particularly focused on in the book.

As technology continues to be a ubiquitous force that propels businesses to success, it is imperative that updated studies are continuously undertaken to ensure that the most efficient tools and techniques are being utilized. In the current business environment, organizations that can improve their agility and business intelligence are able to become much more resilient and viable competitors in the global economy. Achieving Organizational Agility, Intelligence, and Resilience Through Information Systems is a critical reference book that provides the latest empirical studies, conceptual research, and methodologies that enable organizations to enhance and improve their agility, competitiveness, and sustainability in order to position them for paramount success in today's economy. Covering topics that include knowledge management, human development, and sustainable development, this book is ideal for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, IT specialists and consultants, academicians, researchers, and students.

There is no industry left where AI is not being used. The application of this technology has already stretched across domains such as law, political science, policy, and economics; it will soon permeate areas of warfare, autonomous transportation, education, and space exploration to name a few. Technology giants such as Google, Apple, and Facebook are already investing their money, effort, and time towards integrating Artificial Intelligence. These companies have also taken initiatives to evangelize the mass about AI's capabilities and limitations. Currently there are about 400 start-ups working on AI and machine learning domains. Therefore, it is important for everyone to know about the applications of AI. This book provides a deeper understanding of the relevant aspects of AI in Industry 5.0. The authors bring this exciting field to life by presenting a substantial and robust introduction to artificial intelligence in a clear and concise course book form. Designed to provide an understanding of the foundations of artificial intelligence, it examines education powered by AI, entertainment and AI, home and service robots, healthcare re-imagined, predictive policing, space exploration with AI, weaponry in the world of AI, and many more critical applications.

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