Information technology is changing healthcare in numerous wide-ranging aspects, including significantly improving the overall quality of patient care and therefore helping to reduce limitations in people's daily lives. The Digital Pill reflects on how digital technologies can combat chronic diseases including diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, respiratory and neurodegenerative diseases as well as mental disorders. Chronic diseases touch every family, generate infinite suffering and cause the lion's share of every countries' healthcare spending across the world. The authors carefully study a broad selection of contemporary companies and healthcare organizations that are shaping digital healthcare. They report pioneering cases from large and small technology, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies as well as healthcare providers of all sorts across the globe and bring forward patterns and corner stones of an affordable and patient centric digital healthcare. The Digital Pill is essential reading for anyone working in, engaged with or interested in understanding the future of healthcare.

Electronic commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other forms of Business Networking will fundamentally change the way business will be conducted in the information age. We will see close collaboration between processes of different enterprises, and above all, new enterprises and new processes. Business Networking offers exceptional opportunities for innovators and harbors fundamental risks for slowpokes. This book proposes a process-oriented model for Business Networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprise relationships in the Internet economy. It formulates key success factors and management guidelines which were developed in close cooperation between research and practice.

The book constitutes a unique combination of in-depth insights into the counterfeit market, best-practice strategies, novel management tools, and product protection technologies. It provides both the insights required to develop effective brand and product protection strategies, and the insights that are required to effectively respond to counterfeit trade. Key benefits are the unbiased analysis of the counterfeit market, the strong focus on assisting practitioners to deal with the challenge, and the high standard of research that supports the presented findings.

This book provides the know-how that is required to successfully respond to counterfeit trade. It constitutes a unique combination of in-depth insights into the counterfeit market, best-practice strategies, novel management tools, and product protection technologies. The book thereby aids the definition and implementation of market monitoring, reaction, and prevention strategies. Key benefits are the unbiased analysis of the supply- and demand-side of the illicit market, the strong focus on assisting practitioners to deal with the challenge, as well as the high standard of research that supports the presented findings.

ThisvolumecontainstheproceedingsoftheInternetofThings(IOT)Conference 2008, the ?rst international conference of its kind. The conference took place in Zurich, Switzerland, March26-28,2008. The term 'Internet of Things' hascome to describe a number of technologies and researchdisciplines that enable the - ternet to reach out into the real world of physical objects. Technologies such as RFID, short-range wireless communications, real-time localization, and sensor networks are becoming increasingly common, bringing the 'Internet of Things' into industrial, commercial, and domestic use. IOT 2008 brought together le- ing researchersand practitioners, from both academia and industry, to facilitate the sharing of ideas, applications, and research results. IOT 2008 attracted 92 high-quality submissions, from which the technical program committee accepted 23 papers, resulting in a competitive 25% acc- tance rate. In total, there were over 250 individual authors from 23 countries, representing both academic and industrial organizations. Papers were selected solely on the quality of their blind peer reviews. We were fortunate to draw on the combined experience of our 59 program committee members, coming from the most prestigious universities and research labs in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia. Program committee members were aided by no less than 63 external reviewers in this rigorous process, in which each committee member wrote about 6 reviews. The total of 336 entered reviews resulted in an average of 3. 7 reviews per paper, or slightly more than 1000 words of feedback for each paper submitted.

This book proposes a process-oriented model for business networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprises relationships in the Internet economy. It formulates key success factors and management guidelines which are developed in close co-operation between research and practice.

Electronic commerce, supply chain management, customer relationship management, and other forms of Business Networking will fundamentally change the way business will be conducted in the information age. We will see close collaboration between processes of different enterprises, and above all, new enterprises and new processes. Business Networking offers exceptional opportunities for fast innovators and harbors fundamental risks for slowpokes. Business Networking proposes a process-oriented model for Business Networking and the concept of networkability to develop realistic strategies for managing enterprise relationships in the Internet economy. It is written to serve academic and professional audiences and formulate key success factors and management guidelines. All ideas were developed in close cooperation of research and practice and are documented in numerous original case examples.

Die Vielzahl scheinbar neuer betriebswirtschaftlicher Konzepte rund um das e-Business steigert sich schon zur "e-Manie." Anders dieses Buch: Das hier prasentierte Modell des Netzwerkunternehmens integriert die vielfaltigen Formen der uberbetrieblichen Zusammenarbeit wie Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Electronic Commerce, Distributed Engineering in einem einfach handhabbaren Modell, das erstmals die Ableitung von gesamtheitlichen e-Business-Strategien zulasst. Der Leser erhalt konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfahigkeit in Unternehmensnetzwerken auf den Ebenen Produkt/Dienstleistung, Prozesse, Informationssysteme, Mitarbeiter, Fuhrungskrafte, Organisationsstruktur und Kultur. Ein reichlich illustriertes Buch uber e-Business, das ohne e-Buzzword-Schlacht auskommt und sich auf das wirklich Neue im e-Business konzentriert: die zwischenbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit auf Basis des Internets."

Business Networking in der Praxis zeigt anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele, wie Unternehmen ihren Wert mit kollaborativen Prozessen steigern. Erfolgreiche Unternehmen maximieren den Nutzen ihrer Kunden indem sie Kooperationsstrategien wie Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management und Electronic Commerce eng aufeinander abstimmen. Auf diesen Praxiserfahrungen basiert das Business-Networking-Modell, welches das Zusammenspiel zwischen Kunden, Lieferanten, Portalanbietern und eService-Providern zeigt. Das Modell liefert die stabile Grundlage zur Darstellung und Ableitung der strategischen Optionen von Unternehmen in der "Networked Economy." Dieses Buch hilft Unternehmen, ihren Ist- und Soll-Zustand im Hinblick auf ihre Netzwerkfahigkeit schnell und einfach zu erheben und entsprechende Massnahmen abzuleiten."

Die Vielzahl scheinbar neuer betriebswirtschaftlicher Konzepte rund um das e-Business steigert sich schon zur "e-Manie." Anders dieses Buch: Das hier prasentierte Modell des Netzwerkunternehmens integriert die vielfaltigen Formen der uberbetrieblichen Zusammenarbeit wie Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, Electronic Commerce, Distributed Engineering in einem einfach handhabbaren Modell, das erstmals die Ableitung von gesamtheitlichen e-Business-Strategien zulasst. Der Leser erhalt konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfahigkeit in Unternehmensnetzwerken auf den Ebenen Produkt/Dienstleistung, Prozesse, Informationssysteme, Mitarbeiter, Fuhrungskrafte, Organisationsstruktur und Kultur. Ein reichlich illustriertes Buch uber e-Business, das ohne e-Buzzword-Schlacht auskommt und sich auf das wirklich Neue im e-Business konzentriert: die zwischenbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit auf Basis des Internets."

Mit dem "Internet der Dinge" zeichnet sich ein fundamentaler Technik-Trend ab, dessen betriebswirtschaftliche Konsequenzen und Chancen hier erstmals erlAutert werden. Das Buch stellt dabei nicht nur eine klare technologisch wie Akonomisch begrA1/4ndete Vision des Ubiquitous Computing dar, sondern beschreibt darA1/4ber hinaus in mehreren Fallstudien auch deren Umsetzung in die Unternehmenspraxis unterschiedlichster Branchen, skizziert die wichtigsten Technologien und leitet unmittelbar anwendbare Handlungsanleitungen ab. Es liefert eine fundierte, in sich geschlossene und A1/4bersichtlich dargestellte Analyse fA1/4r Praktiker, Forscher und Studierende, die sich mit Gestaltung, Chancen und Risiken von RFID-Anwendungen und Ubiquitous-Computing-Szenarien auseinandersetzen.

How can manufacturers of capital goods succeed in service business development? What are the potential network approaches for manufacturing companies planning on extending their service business? Over the last decade, the business environment of capital goods manufacturers has changed dramatically. Few capital goods manufacturers are able to outrun the competition with pure product-related technologies and innovation alone. For this reason they have added services to products as a way of responding to eroding margins and the loss of strategic differentiation through product innovation and technological superiority. Based on over twelve years of research, this book provides academics and business professionals with a thorough overview of the strategies available for value creation through service business development. It features case studies and covers a wide range of topics, including emerging issues such as service business in small and medium-sized companies, business innovation through services and the impact of rapidly growing Asian markets.

How can manufacturers of capital goods succeed in service business development? What are the potential network approaches for manufacturing companies planning on extending their service business? Over the last decade, the business environment of capital goods manufacturers has changed dramatically. Few capital goods manufacturers are able to outrun the competition with pure product-related technologies and innovation alone. For this reason they have added services to products as a way of responding to eroding margins and the loss of strategic differentiation through product innovation and technological superiority. Based on over twelve years of research, this book provides academics and business professionals with a thorough overview of the strategies available for value creation through service business development. It features case studies and covers a wide range of topics, including emerging issues such as service business in small and medium-sized companies, business innovation through services and the impact of rapidly growing Asian markets.