Taking the best elements of a product-management approach and applying them to HR activity can transform the people function. This book shows you how. Written for all HR professionals and business leaders, Built for People explains how to improve workforce and business performance by developing people-centred ways of working, evidence-based decision making and a culture of continuous feedback and iteration. It explains everything from what this approach means for business professionals, what the benefits of it are and how to do it effectively. It covers how to proactively develop an employee experience which attracts, engages and retains the talent the business needs and supports them to operate at their full potential. There is also practical guidance on the importance of user research, sprint planning, vision development and how to encourage a continuous feedback loop in your team. This book includes the importance of testing and iteration and how to define metrics for success, as well as showing you how to handle organizational change, company culture clashes and how to build and improve overall business performance and employee experience at scale. Full of tools, case studies, exercises and advice from those who are already seeing the benefits of a product-management approach, this is essential reading for all business leaders needing to develop an agile, innovative and evidence-based approach to their people operations.

Taking the best elements of a product-management approach and applying them to HR activity can transform the people function. This book shows you how. Written for all HR professionals and business leaders, Built for People explains how to improve workforce and business performance by developing people-centred ways of working, evidence-based decision making and a culture of continuous feedback and iteration. It explains everything from what this approach means for business professionals, what the benefits of it are and how to do it effectively. It covers how to proactively develop an employee experience which attracts, engages and retains the talent the business needs and supports them to operate at their full potential. There is also practical guidance on the importance of user research, sprint planning, vision development and how to encourage a continuous feedback loop in your team. This book includes the importance of testing and iteration and how to define metrics for success, as well as showing you how to handle organizational change, company culture clashes and how to build and improve overall business performance and employee experience at scale. Full of tools, case studies, exercises and advice from those who are already seeing the benefits of a product-management approach, this is essential reading for all business leaders needing to develop an agile, innovative and evidence-based approach to their people operations.

In these times of change and disruption, HR must adapt, fast. But how can HR professionals critically assess their current processes and activities to identify what areas they need to think differently about in order to drive business results? This book provides the answers to enable all aspects of the people function to perform to their full potential. Redefining HR is a refreshing take on the evolution of the field of Human Resources and People Operations. It's an in-depth guide to the fundamental components of modern HR, and provides a tangible framework of progressive ideas and practices for HR practitioners, people leaders, and business executives. This is not a theoretical examination of HR. This is a book for practitioners, with insights from people professionals at the leading edge of HR's transformation from companies including Hubspot, Reddit, Stripe, Mastercard, Eventbrite, VaynerMedia, Asana. Written by a leading innovator in the HR industry, this book illuminates new perspectives and approaches for rethinking recruitment, talent management, performance and reward to save time, reduce costs and achieve greater business success. It covers key HR practices including diversity and inclusion, people analytics, learning and development (L&D) and employee experience and is supported by global case studies from organizations including Siemens, Upwork, CVS, Schneider Electric, Delivery Hero, and more. Redefining HR is an essential resource for all HR professionals business leaders wanting to create an exceptional people management function.

Data analysis, machine learning and knowledge discovery are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as web and text mining, marketing, medicine, bioinformatics and business intelligence. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers in the field of data analysis, machine learning and knowledge discovery presented during the 36th annual conference of the German Classification Society (GfKl). The conference was held at the University of Hildesheim (Germany) in August 2012.

Social Tagging Systems are web applications in which users upload resources (e.g., bookmarks, videos, photos, etc.) and annotate it with a list of freely chosen keywords called tags. This is a grassroots approach to organize a site and help users to find the resources they are interested in. Social tagging systems are open and inherently social; features that have been proven to encourage participation. However, with the large popularity of these systems and the increasing amount of user-contributed content, information overload rapidly becomes an issue. Recommender Systems are well known applications for increasing the level of relevant content over the "noise" that continuously grows as more and more content becomes available online. In social tagging systems, however, we face new challenges. While in classic recommender systems the mode of recommendation is basically the resource, in social tagging systems there are three possible modes of recommendation: users, resources, or tags. Therefore suitable methods that properly exploit the different dimensions of social tagging systems data are needed. In this book, we survey the most recent and state-of-the-art work about a whole new generation of recommender systems built to serve social tagging systems. The book is divided into self-contained chapters covering the background material on social tagging systems and recommender systems to the more advanced techniques like the ones based on tensor factorization and graph-based models.

In these times of change and disruption, HR must adapt, fast. But how can HR professionals critically assess their current processes and activities to identify what areas they need to think differently about in order to drive business results? This book provides the answers to enable all aspects of the people function to perform to their full potential. Redefining HR is a refreshing take on the evolution of the field of Human Resources and People Operations. It's an in-depth guide to the fundamental components of modern HR, and provides a tangible framework of progressive ideas and practices for HR practitioners, people leaders, and business executives. This is not a theoretical examination of HR. This is a book for practitioners, with insights from people professionals at the leading edge of HR's transformation from companies including Hubspot, Reddit, Stripe, Mastercard, Eventbrite, VaynerMedia, Asana. Written by a leading innovator in the HR industry, this book illuminates new perspectives and approaches for rethinking recruitment, talent management, performance and reward to save time, reduce costs and achieve greater business success. It covers key HR practices including diversity and inclusion, people analytics, learning and development (L&D) and employee experience and is supported by global case studies from organizations including Siemens, Upwork, CVS, Schneider Electric, Delivery Hero, and more. Redefining HR is an essential resource for all HR professionals business leaders wanting to create an exceptional people management function.

It is a great privilege and pleasure to write a foreword for a book honor ing Wolfgang Gaul on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Wolfgang Gaul is currently Professor of Business Administration and Management Science and the Head of the Institute of Decision Theory and Management Science, Faculty of Economics, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany. He is, by any measure, one of the most distinguished and eminent scholars in the world today. Wolfgang Gaul has been instrumental in numerous leading research initia tives and has achieved an unprecedented level of success in facilitating com munication among researchers in diverse disciplines from around the world. A particularly remarkable and unique aspect of his work is that he has been a leading scholar in such diverse areas of research as graph theory and net work models, reliability theory, stochastic optimization, operations research, probability theory, sampling theory, cluster analysis, scaling and multivariate data analysis. His activities have been directed not only at these and other theoretical topics, but also at applications of statistical and mathematical tools to a multitude of important problems in computer science (e.g., w- mining), business research (e.g., market segmentation), management science (e.g., decision support systems) and behavioral sciences (e.g., preference mea surement and data mining). All of his endeavors have been accomplished at the highest level of professional excellence."

Data analysis and machine learning are research areas at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, mathematics and statistics. They cover general methods and techniques that can be applied to a vast set of applications such as web and text mining, marketing, medical science, bioinformatics and business intelligence. This volume contains the revised versions of selected papers in the field of data analysis, machine learning and applications presented during the 31st Annual Conference of the German Classification Society (Gesellschaft fur Klassifikation - GfKl). The conference was held at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg, Germany, in March 2007.

Dem Gedanken einer Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre integrierenden Wirtschaftswissenschaft folgend setzen sich die Beitragsautoren mit den okonomischen Grundlagen des Teamsports Fussball, seinen volkswirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen und finanzwirtschaftlichen Implikationen und den Produktions- und Absatzprozessen in den am Profi-Fussball beteiligten Institutionen auseinander."

Dem Gedanken einer Volks- und Betriebswirtschaftslehre integrierenden Wirtschaftswissenschaft folgend setzen sich die Beitragsautoren mit den okonomischen Grundlagen des Teamsports Fussball, seinen volkswirtschaftlichen, rechtlichen und finanzwirtschaftlichen Implikationen und den Produktions- und Absatzprozessen in den am Profi-Fussball beteiligten Institutionen auseinander."

Das Buch ist eine Einfuhrung in die Programmiersprache Java. In den ersten Kapiteln werden die Grundlagen behandelt: Klassen, Objekte, Interfaces und Pakete. Weitere Kapitel befassen sich mit Benutzeroberflachen, der Ausnahmebehandlung, der Threadprogrammierung, mit Client/Server-Implementierung, Javas Sicherheitsmechanismen und dem Aufruf entfernter Methoden. Alle Sprachkonstrukte und die verwendeten Klassen der Java-Standardbibliothek werden an Beispielen verdeutlicht. An die einzelnen Kapitel schliesst sich eine Reihe von Ubungsaufgaben an. Die kompletten Beispielprogramme und Losungen zu den Ubungen befinden sich auf der beiliegenden CD-ROM.

In der 4. Auflage wurde die Behandlung des IO-Frameworks um das New IO API (NIO), das seit JDK 1.4 neben das streambasierte API tritt, erweitert. Einige Client/Server-Beispiele wurden auf NIO umgestellt. Bei der Ausnahmebehandlung wurde das neue Java-Sprachkonstrukt der Zusicherungen (assertions) erganzt."

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich BWL - Controlling, Note: 2,0, Universitat Leipzig, Veranstaltung: Studienschwerpunkt Rechnungswesen / Controlling, 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Heutzutage besteht eine regelrechte Notwendigkeit fur eine Kosten- und Erlosrechnung im Unternehmen, diese muss transparent sein, schenkt man Basel II und KonTraG Aufmerksamkeit. Fur die Planung und Steuerung der innerbetrieblichen Leistungserstellung ist die Kosten- und Erlosrechnung massgeblich. Die Erlosrechnung dient der Erfassung der Umsatze eines Unternehmens. Sie ist ...das Pendant zur Kostenrechnung." Die Kostenrechnung steht bereits seit den Anfangen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung des internen Rechnungswesens, wahrend die Erlosrechnung mehr oder minder im Schatten der Kostenrechnung zugegen ist. Der Erlosrechnung wird in der Literatur meist eine weniger ausfuhrliche und tiefgreifende Darstellung und Erwahnung zuteil, obwohl Kosten- und Erlosrechnung gleichsam entscheidend fur die Ergebnisrechnung sind. Als oberstes Ziel dieser Arbeit versteht sich das Aufzeigen der Elemente und Bedeutsamkeit der Erlosrechnung in Hinblick auf die Einordnung in der Kosten- und Erlosrechnung. Eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der Thematik lasst der vorgegebene Umfang nicht zu, deshalb stellt diese Arbeit auf die herrschende Meinung in der Literatur ab. ...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig, Veranstaltung: Studienschwerpunkt Marketing, 33 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wirft man einen Blick auf die demografische Entwicklung unserer Gesellschaft, gelingt es nur schwer an Hand der Grosse einer Zielgruppe deren Kaufkraft und Marktpotential auszumachen. Wir werden auch zukunftig immer mehr Senioren und weniger Kinder im Land haben. Dies heisst aber im Umkehrschluss nicht, dass Kinder somit ein unattraktives Marktsegment sind. Das Gegenteil ist der Fall. Nur noch ein Drittel aller 6 bis 13-Jahrigen haben Geschwister und somit konzentriert sich die Aufmerksamkeit, nach dem vier-zwei-eins-Schema - vierer Grossmutter und -vater, dazu zweier Eltern, auf ein Einzelkind. Trotz Geburtenruckgang zeigen Studien, dass die Finanzkraft der Zielgruppe Kind jedes Jahr, im Vergleich zum Vorjahr, steigt. Dieses Jahr liegt die Summe der Finanzkraft der Kinder bei rund 5,9 Milliarden Euro. Eltern sind bereitwillig dieses Geld auszugeben. Am liebsten geben sie es naturlich aus, wenn ihnen suggeriert wird, dass sie ihrem Kind damit etwas Gutes tun - wie z.B. eine extra Portion Milch (Milchschnitte von Ferrero). Der Grossteil der Marketingmassnahmen sollte die Kinder direkt und freundlich ansprechen und nicht ebenso fur die Eltern konzipiert sein. Hat man die Kinder fur sich gewonnen, hat man die halbe Miete. Denn reprasentativen Umfragen zur Folge werden die Halfte der Kinderwunsche, meist Markenwunsche, von den Eltern erfullt. Um mit Kindern richtig zu kommunizieren, muss eine feine Segmentierung erfolgen. Alter und Geschlecht genugen bei Weitem nicht mehr als Abgrenzung. Weiterhin sollte nach Gesinnung und kognitiver Entwicklung der Kinder unterschieden werden. Kinder reifen immer fruher, sie werden selbststandiger und verfugen freier uber ihr Taschengeld..