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Lean and Six Sigma initiatives are designed to enable sustained
improvements in your company or organization's efficiency and
competitiveness. As with other improvement strategies they are
dependent on two things, effective management and your ability to
automate or digitize elements of your business process. Lean and
Digitize provides you with a convincing picture of each of these
elements (process improvement, digitization and the management of
both) to help you eliminate waste, improve process and service, and
better align your information and communications technology with
your strategic objectives. Bernardo Nicoletti analyses and reviews
the development of automation and telecommunications systems in the
context of quality management and process improvement. He uses case
examples to illustrate organizational and management approaches to
implementation. These, along with his practical guidance, will help
you make sense of the complexity, benefits and interrelations
between these different elements. The text shows you on the one
hand, how to integrate information and communication systems into
your process improvement projects and, on the other, how to align
information and communication projects with your quality strategy.
Without a holistic approach to technology and quality improvement,
your initiatives run the risk of being misdirected or simply
running out of steam. Changes of this kind will never be easy but
at least if you follow the advice in Lean and Digitize you will
significantly increase your chances of success.
Lean and Six Sigma initiatives are designed to enable sustained
improvements in your company or organization's efficiency and
competitiveness. As with other improvement strategies they are
dependent on two things, effective management and your ability to
automate or digitize elements of your business process. Lean and
Digitize provides you with a convincing picture of each of these
elements (process improvement, digitization and the management of
both) to help you eliminate waste, improve process and service, and
better align your information and communications technology with
your strategic objectives. Bernardo Nicoletti analyses and reviews
the development of automation and telecommunications systems in the
context of quality management and process improvement. He uses case
examples to illustrate organizational and management approaches to
implementation. These, along with his practical guidance, will help
you make sense of the complexity, benefits and interrelations
between these different elements. The text shows you on the one
hand, how to integrate information and communication systems into
your process improvement projects and, on the other, how to align
information and communication projects with your quality strategy.
Without a holistic approach to technology and quality improvement,
your initiatives run the risk of being misdirected or simply
running out of steam. Changes of this kind will never be easy but
at least if you follow the advice in Lean and Digitize you will
significantly increase your chances of success.
Industry 4.0 has spread globally since its inception in 2011, now
encompassing many sectors, including its diffusion in the field of
financial services. By combining information technology and
automation, it is now canvassing the insurance sector, which is in
dire need of digital transformation. This book presents a business
model of Insurance 4.0 by detailing its implementation in
processes, platforms, persons, and partnerships of the insurance
companies alongside looking at future developments. Filled with
business cases in insurance companies and financial services, this
book will be of interest to those academics and researchers of
insurance, financial technology, and digital transformation,
alongside executives and managers of insurance companies.
Bill Gates' quote, "Banking is necessary, but banks are not,"
showcases the opportunity for financial services digital
transformation. The next transition from industry 4.0 to 5.0 will
impact all sectors, including banking. It will combine information
technology and automation, based on artificial intelligence,
person-robot collaboration, and sustainability. It is time to
analyze this transformation in banking deeply, so that the sector
can adequately change to the 'New Normal' and a wholly modified
banking model can be properly embedded in the business. This book
presents a conceptual model of banking 5.0, detailing its
implementation in processes, platforms, people, and partnerships of
financial services organizations companies. The last part of the
book is then dedicated to future developments. Of interest to
academics, researchers, and professionals in banking, financial
technology, and financial services, this book also includes
business cases in financial services.
We are living in the middle of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, with
new technology leading to dramatic shifts in everything from
manufacturing to supply chain logistics. In a lively, developing
field of academic, procurement is often neglected. Despite this,
procurement plays a vital role, connecting the organization with
its ecosystem. At a time of change and economic crisis, a new
business model is called for, which this book aims to define. Based
on the applications of Industry 4.0 concepts to procurement, this
book describes Procurement 4.0 as a method and a set of tools,
helping businesses to improve the value of their products, reduce
waste, become more flexible, and address the business needs of the
future. It will appeal to academics in the area, as well as
practitioners.
Industry 4.0 has spread globally since its inception in 2011, now
encompassing many sectors, including its diffusion in the field of
financial services. By combining information technology and
automation, it is now canvassing the insurance sector, which is in
dire need of digital transformation. This book presents a business
model of Insurance 4.0 by detailing its implementation in
processes, platforms, persons, and partnerships of the insurance
companies alongside looking at future developments. Filled with
business cases in insurance companies and financial services, this
book will be of interest to those academics and researchers of
insurance, financial technology, and digital transformation,
alongside executives and managers of insurance companies.
We are living in the middle of a Fourth Industrial Revolution, with
new technology leading to dramatic shifts in everything from
manufacturing to supply chain logistics. In a lively, developing
field of academic, procurement is often neglected. Despite this,
procurement plays a vital role, connecting the organization with
its ecosystem. At a time of change and economic crisis, a new
business model is called for, which this book aims to define. Based
on the applications of Industry 4.0 concepts to procurement, this
book describes Procurement 4.0 as a method and a set of tools,
helping businesses to improve the value of their products, reduce
waste, become more flexible, and address the business needs of the
future. It will appeal to academics in the area, as well as
practitioners.
This book presents a business model on how to structure the
relationship between financial services and procurement. The need
for new models is particularly important to support small and
medium enterprises (SMEs) where there is an evident difficulty in
accessing credit. Due to this context, innovative solutions must be
introduced. The objective of this book is to determine how
innovation can support the dynamic and volatile international
context and the increasingly relevant function of procurement. It
is becoming more and more important to take into account complex
international transactions with notably long payment terms.
Organizations need to manage the best way to handle the financial
relationships and the risks related to credit provision and
payments. This book presents an end-to-end support to procurement,
including trade finance, supply chain finance, and related
payments. In addition, the enterprises need to keep sufficient
liquidity levels in the short and medium term. This is a constant
challenge today, with the turbulence of financial markets and a
continuing climate of economic uncertainty making it harder to
obtain external funding. Businesses need to optimize the working
capital. This can be done through the innovative concept of
procurement finance, which allows SMEs to benefit by the new vision
of collaborative procurement. This book provides several practical
examples of advanced procurement finance solutions. It demonstrates
how the use of process improvement and technology can help in
overcoming the current financially difficult situation. In
addition, based on the business model presented, the integrated
approach to procurement finance allows sustainable solutions which
will be of interest to academics, researchers, managers, and
practitioners in both buyer and vendor companies, as well as in
banks and other financial institutions.
This book is the first of two volumes presenting a business model
to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of
successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing
complexity of the business environment requires a significant
intervention on the management of processes and information within
individual organizations and through inter-company relations. Agile
Procurement presents the application of the Agile method which
optimises and digitizes processes in order to reduce wastage and
defects. As a method, tool and a culture aimed at effectiveness,
efficiency and economy of organisations, agile procurement requires
a change of paradigm. This volume examines these areas of
improvement and presents best practice in improving processes. Each
chapter of the book presents and substantiates the costs and
benefits of process improvement through agile procurement. This is
is seen as the integration of Lean Six Sigma and digitization.
This book provides an introduction to the state of the art in
financial technology (FinTech) and the current applications of
FinTech in digital banking. It is a comprehensive guide to the
various technologies, products, processes, and business models
integral to the FinTech environment. Covering key definitions and
characteristics, models and best practice, as well as presenting
relevant case studies related to FinTech and e-Business, this book
helps build a theoretical framework for future discussion.
This book is the first of two volumes presenting a business model
to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of
successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing
complexity of the business environment requires a significant
intervention on the management of processes and information within
individual organizations and through inter-company relations. Agile
Procurement presents the application of the Agile method which
optimises and digitizes processes in order to reduce wastage and
defects. As a method, tool and a culture aimed at effectiveness,
efficiency and economy of organisations, agile procurement requires
a change of paradigm. This volume examines these areas of
improvement and presents best practice in improving processes. Each
chapter of the book presents and substantiates the costs and
benefits of process improvement through agile procurement. This is
is seen as the integration of Lean Six Sigma and digitization.
This book is the second of two volumes presenting a business model
to add value through Procurement. Including several case studies of
successful implementation, it demonstrates how the increasing
complexity of the business environment requires a significant
intervention on the management of processes and information within
individual organizations and through inter-company relations. Agile
Procurement presents the application of the Agile method which
optimizes and digitizes processes in order to reduce wastage and
defects. As a method, tool and a culture aimed at effectiveness,
efficiency and economy of organizations, Agile Procurement requires
a change of paradigm. This volume examines these areas of
improvement and presents best practice in the digitization of the
processes. The last chapter examines the near future developments
of the procurement, which the author labels Procurement 4.0. It
presents also how new solutions, like Blockchain, could
revolutionize procurement.
This book provides an introduction to the state of the art in
financial technology (FinTech) and the current applications of
FinTech in digital banking. It is a comprehensive guide to the
various technologies, products, processes, and business models
integral to the FinTech environment. Covering key definitions and
characteristics, models and best practice, as well as presenting
relevant case studies related to FinTech and e-Business, this book
helps build a theoretical framework for future discussion.
This book explores the ways in which the adoption of new paradigms,
processes, and technologies can lead to greater revenue, cost
efficiency and control, as well as improved business agility in the
insurance industry.
Enterprise management theories about the so-called bionic
organization currently face a significant funding gap. Bionic
theories have been mainly applied to enterprise lifecycle because
of the presence of similarities between economic organizations and
organisms. The digital transformation has offered advancements in
the bionics research field which enable us to discuss bionic
organizations for the first time as business realities in which
humans and machines, especially robotic process automation systems
and artificial intelligence tools, cooperate in executing
operations. This book determines how a bionic organization can be
defined and what are its fundamental elements in the case of
banking. Specifically, it investigates the two pillars of bionic
enterprise which are technology and humans, as well as the core
objectives and outcomes. In order to provide an exhaustive
overview, the book proposes a new conceptualization of the business
model of a bionic organization on the basis of the Business Model
Canvas framework. Ultimately, the study of bionic organizations is
aimed to discover also how they evolved in the post pandemic phase
as a result of the disruptive events generated by the spread of the
pandemic. The research on the book has been conducted through a
qualitative and descriptive methodology with the intent to build
further knowledge about the topic starting from the information
available in literature. To provide actual evidence of the reality
of bionic financial services, the book includes case studies. The
organizations observed in the study have been selected since they
present some of the key traits identified by the bionic enterprise
theory. The book demonstrates that bionic enterprise theory can be
further enriched with the conceptualization of a bionic business
model in which the paradigm of collaboration between humans and
machines is a recurring element.
Bill Gates' quote, "Banking is necessary, but banks are not,"
showcases the opportunity for financial services digital
transformation. The next transition from industry 4.0 to 5.0 will
impact all sectors, including banking. It will combine information
technology and automation, based on artificial intelligence,
person-robot collaboration, and sustainability. It is time to
analyze this transformation in banking deeply, so that the sector
can adequately change to the 'New Normal' and a wholly modified
banking model can be properly embedded in the business. This book
presents a conceptual model of banking 5.0, detailing its
implementation in processes, platforms, people, and partnerships of
financial services organizations companies. The last part of the
book is then dedicated to future developments. Of interest to
academics, researchers, and professionals in banking, financial
technology, and financial services, this book also includes
business cases in financial services.
Enterprise management theories about the so-called bionic
organization currently face a significant funding gap.Â
Bionic theories have been mainly applied to enterprise lifecycle
because of the presence of similarities between economic
organizations and organisms. The digital transformation has offered
advancements in the bionics research field which enable us to
discuss bionic organizations for the first time as business
realities in which humans and machines, especially robotic process
automation systems and artificial intelligence tools, cooperate in
executing operations. This book determines how a bionic
organization can be defined and what are its fundamental elements
in the case of banking. Specifically, it investigates the two
pillars of bionic enterprise which are technology and humans, as
well as the core objectives and outcomes. In order to provide an
exhaustive overview, the book proposes a new conceptualization of
the business model of a bionic organization on the basis of the
Business Model Canvas framework. Ultimately, the study of bionic
organizations is aimed to discover also how they evolved in the
post pandemic phase as a result of the disruptive events generated
by the spread of the pandemic. The research on the book has been
conducted through a qualitative and descriptive methodology with
the intent to build further knowledge about the topic starting from
the information available in literature. To provide actual evidence
of the reality of bionic financial services, the book includes case
studies. The organizations observed in the study have been selected
since they present some of the key traits identified by the bionic
enterprise theory. The book demonstrates that bionic enterprise
theory can be further enriched with the conceptualization of a
bionic business model in which the paradigm of collaboration
between humans and machines is a recurring element.
This book examines how Industry 5.0 can be defined and implemented
for Supply Chain Management and what essential characteristics it
has. In outlining Supply Network 5.0, it examines how humans and
machines, especially robotic process automation systems and
artificial intelligence tools, will work together in the New
Normal. To provide a comprehensive overview, it proposes a new
conceptualization of Supply Network 5.0's business model based on
the Business Model Canvas and SCOR framework and provides a
dedicated analysis of the proposed solutions and real-world
implications of its implementation. Including case studies from
several different sectors and including significant analysis on the
impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, this book will provide a
cutting-edge perspective for academics and students of supply chain
management, digital business and innovation.
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