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Powerful new approaches and advances in medical systems drive
increasingly high expectations for healthcare providers
internationally. The form of digital healthcare - a suite of new
technologies offering significant benefits in cost and quality -
allow institutions to keep pace with society's needs. This book
covers the need for responsible innovation in this area, exploring
the issues of implementation as well as potential negative
consequences to ensure digital healthcare delivers for the benefit
of all stakeholders. This book offers a considered view on what a
responsible innovation process might involve and how this will
enable multiple stakeholders - users, medics, businesses and
policymakers - to create a system of delivering better care at
lower costs. Illustrated by international case studies, the
contributing authors explore the dimensions of responsible
innovation with patient engagement and the ways in which this can
lead to better design, enhanced diffusion of knowledge and
improvement in healthcare. A much-needed exploration of the role of
innovation in healthcare with patients in mind, this book will be
essential for academics in innovation, ethics, social
entrepreneurship and healthcare studies.
- Uniquely combines sound academic theory with practical
application, enabling students to develop creative and innovative
practices for real-world employment. - 2nd edition has been fully
updated throughout, including fresh case studies and activities,
further coverage of human-centred design, crowdsourcing and
collaboration platforms, and a new chapter exploring the impact of
emerging technologies on creativity. - Updated online resources
with access to key tools, techniques, and activities, as well as
supporting video and audio material and cases, support learning and
teaching.
Creativity for Innovation Management is a rigorous yet applied
guide which illustrates what creativity is, why it matters, and how
it can be developed at both individual and group levels. Unlike
many technique-oriented books, this book will combine theory and
practice, drawing on the latest research in psychology,
organizational behaviour, innovation and entrepreneurship. This
exciting new text outlines the necessary skills and competences for
innovative and creative processes. It provides opportunities to
explore these and also to develop them via a wide variety of
activities linked to relevant tools and techniques, as well as a
range of case studies. By working through key competence areas at
personal and then team levels, students then have an opportunity to
practice and enhance these skills. This will be complemented by
online resources which will provide students with access to key
tools and techniques plus activities to help develop their
creativity. This textbook is ideal for students of innovation,
management and entrepreneurship, as well as professionals in those
industries that want to excel by developing and applying their own
creativity at work.
- Uniquely combines sound academic theory with practical
application, enabling students to develop creative and innovative
practices for real-world employment. - 2nd edition has been fully
updated throughout, including fresh case studies and activities,
further coverage of human-centred design, crowdsourcing and
collaboration platforms, and a new chapter exploring the impact of
emerging technologies on creativity. - Updated online resources
with access to key tools, techniques, and activities, as well as
supporting video and audio material and cases, support learning and
teaching.
Learn about the future of CIE learning and how to build your
capacity to design an innovative and creative learning landscape.
Whether you are a student who wants to learn and acquire new
capabilities for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE),
a teacher or lecturer trying to pass on the skills and capabilities
of CIE to a new generation, or an industry professional responsible
for skills development as part of a talent management strategy,
learn how to create a supportive and useful learning environment
for the future world of CIE. The Future of Learning Playbook
provides a rich set of easy-to-use canvases, specific examples, and
invites readers to begin a journey of reflection to design their
own futures. In an easily accessible and visually appealing way, De
Gruyter playbooks offer practical concepts for improving business
performance. They are an extremely valuable resource for a wide
range of business professionals.
Strategic Operations Management, 4th Edition, shows how vital it is
to have world-class operations management in any organisation. In
the past, where organisations tended to be more hierarchical than
today, the words, "strategy" and "operations" were almost mutually
exclusive. In today's highly competitive environment, though,
strategic operations capabilities must be in place for
organisations to provide goods and services that meet and exceed
customer requirements. Key issues such as cost, speed, quality,
flexibility and constant innovation are all part of strategic
operations. However, achieving such capabilities does not come by
chance - instead a range of factors need to be put in place. This
new edition pays equal attention to manufacturing and service
sectors. It includes numerous references to, and discusses, major
changes taking place in the business world, including 3-D printing;
virtual organisations; Cloud - Big Data and the Internet of Things;
Servitization, global markets, ongoing innovation and managing
within complex supply networks. Cases are included from a range of
settings across the globe. Students taking MBA, MSc and MBM classes
on operations management, advanced operations management, and
strategic operations management will find this textbook fulfills
all their requirements whilst advanced undergraduate classes in
these areas will also find the book an essential read.
Learn how to scale your business or organization and overcome the
challenges in moving innovation to scale. The Scaling Value
Playbook provides an overview of the challenges in moving
innovation to scale, offering practical guidance on managing this
process. It explores creating new ventures and discusses the road
to realizing value at scale. It also provides a framework for
developing and implementing a strategy for scaling up and scaling
out of innovation, together with tools and templates to enable the
reader to create a fit-for-purpose scaling strategy. In an easily
accessible and visually appealing way, De Gruyter playbooks offer
practical concepts for improving business performance. They are an
extremely valuable resource for a wide range of business
professionals.
This book illustrates that, although innovation has always mattered
in economic development, simply increasing expenditure in creating
knowledge may not be the answer: we need to look at the whole
system through which such knowledge translates to value creation.
The contributors explore the implications of the changing
twenty-first century context of networked, global and increasingly
open innovation - a world in which knowledge flows become as
important as knowledge creation. In so doing, they address four key
questions: what is the context within which innovation occurs in
the UK? How do new firms form on the basis of knowledge and its
deployment? How do established firms access and use knowledge to
improve their current activities and generate new directions? What
technical and organizational infrastructures enable these
activities? Drawing out lessons for future research, this book will
be of great interest to academics concerned with science and
innovation policy and its implementation. Managers and policy
makers involved in innovation and technology strategy, and with
developing responses to new challenges such as 'open innovation',
will also find much to interest them within this book.
Innovation matters - being able to create value from ideas is
crucial to survival and growth. But while any organization might
get lucky once being able to repeat the trick requires learning and
developing particular ways of working which enable the process.
Over a hundred years of research and practical experience now
provides a knowledge base from which we can draw to help develop
such approaches. But how do we move from prescription to
implementation? And how does the innovation challenge play out over
the lifetime of an organization? How does it renew its capability
to innovate and do so against a background of dramatically changing
markets, technologies and social trends? This book draws on a
detailed history of a large German company (HELLA ), now active in
over 35 countries, employing 34,000 people. It didn't start out
that way, it began as an entrepreneurial start-up in the late 19th
century in the (then) uncertain early days of the car industry. It
moved from selling whips and other buggy accessories for
horse-drawn carriages to horns and lamps for the new-fangled motor
cars beginning to appear on the roads of north-western Germany. The
journey since then has been one of innovation - in products and
processes, in entering new markets, in adding services to its
products, and in changing its underlying business models. Survival
for over a hundred years is not an accident - it has been built on
learning how to innovate and on constantly challenging and updating
those models.
Creativity for Innovation Management is a rigorous yet applied
guide which illustrates what creativity is, why it matters, and how
it can be developed at both individual and group levels. Unlike
many technique-oriented books, this book will combine theory and
practice, drawing on the latest research in psychology,
organizational behaviour, innovation and entrepreneurship. This
exciting new text outlines the necessary skills and competences for
innovative and creative processes. It provides opportunities to
explore these and also to develop them via a wide variety of
activities linked to relevant tools and techniques, as well as a
range of case studies. By working through key competence areas at
personal and then team levels, students then have an opportunity to
practice and enhance these skills. This will be complemented by
online resources which will provide students with access to key
tools and techniques plus activities to help develop their
creativity. This textbook is ideal for students of innovation,
management and entrepreneurship, as well as professionals in those
industries that want to excel by developing and applying their own
creativity at work.
In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is
a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of
organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be
"productive", but it is far less clear what this exactly means. In
this book, we invite you on a journey that explores the ways, tools
and options for driving service productivity. We take an
innovator's perspectives and look at the tricky challenge of
service productivity as a landscape of options for designing the
future of services. Case examples, from the airport, hotel,
healthcare, and professional service industry, offer insights in
the methods used and approaches taken in business practice.
Research results provide food for thought and valuable advice on
the path towards superior service productivity. Throughout the book
we also listen to the views and advices of interviewed experts from
academia as well as business practice on how to drive service
productivity. A forecast on how service productivity and service
innovation might evolve in the future provides us - and hopefully
you as a reader - with the necessary food for thought to develop
our own understanding of driving service productivity in different
business settings. Overall, this book is not a traditional
"academic product" that summarises the views of a few, but a
co-created offering that profited enormously from the contributions
of so many.
In a world moving towards services, driving service productivity is
a central challenge for leaders and members of all types of
organisations: for service businesses there is a clear need to be
"productive", but it is far less clear what this exactly means. In
this book, we invite you on a journey that explores the ways, tools
and options for driving service productivity. We take an
innovator's perspectives and look at the tricky challenge of
service productivity as a landscape of options for designing the
future of services. Case examples, from the airport, hotel,
healthcare, and professional service industry, offer insights in
the methods used and approaches taken in business practice.
Research results provide food for thought and valuable advice on
the path towards superior service productivity. Throughout the book
we also listen to the views and advices of interviewed experts from
academia as well as business practice on how to drive service
productivity. A forecast on how service productivity and service
innovation might evolve in the future provides us - and hopefully
you as a reader - with the necessary food for thought to develop
our own understanding of driving service productivity in different
business settings. Overall, this book is not a traditional
"academic product" that summarises the views of a few, but a
co-created offering that profited enormously from the contributions
of so many.
This book illustrates that, although innovation has always mattered
in economic development, simply increasing expenditure in creating
knowledge may not be the answer: we need to look at the whole
system through which such knowledge translates to value creation.
The contributors explore the implications of the changing
twenty-first century context of networked, global and increasingly
open innovation - a world in which knowledge flows become as
important as knowledge creation. In so doing, they address four key
questions: what is the context within which innovation occurs in
the UK? How do new firms form on the basis of knowledge and its
deployment? How do established firms access and use knowledge to
improve their current activities and generate new directions? What
technical and organizational infrastructures enable these
activities? Drawing out lessons for future research, this book will
be of great interest to academics concerned with science and
innovation policy and its implementation. Managers and policy
makers involved in innovation and technology strategy, and with
developing responses to new challenges such as 'open innovation',
will also find much to interest them within this book.
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs is about an exciting,
still emerging superpower. One that empowers you to use, repurpose
and create games that will help solve the great societal and
organisational challenges that companies, startups and nonprofits
are facing today - games that are explicitly designed and can be
iteratively improved to engage stakeholders, facilitate
experimentation and actually drive innovation. What makes
gamification a superpower is its use of powerful methods and
techniques from diverse disciplines and traditions - like futures
studies, user experience, agile management, design thinking or
business design - in a new, action-oriented and engaging framework.
Each game world is a safe, playful space, where groups are free to
experiment in innovative and inclusive forms of collaboration.
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs builds on insights
and knowledge from over 150 leading experts in the field. It
provides a rich collection of materials for innovators,
entrepreneurs and game designers that allows you to dive deep into
innovation and entrepreneurship, into games and gamification. You
can build on 36 gamification design patterns - like dilemma
solving, experiential learning, innovation markets and storytelling
- and use a game design canvas to create your own innovation games.
Or you can customize some of the 70+ games featured in the book
that are already in use by innovators, entrepreneurs and
professional trainers. Additional resources are provided for
teachers and game facilitators. The superpower of gamification does
not yield simplistic solutions - but the resources from
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs will provide you with
the means and the confidence to tackle some of the great challenges
we are all facing today. An easily accessible and comprehensive
overview on gamification and games in the context of innovation and
entrepreneurship Draws on several collaborative research projects
involving partners such as Lego, Deutsche Telekom, Lufthansa
Systems, 3M, Danske Bank, and Nokia Systems. Extensive experience
of the authors in the facilitation of games, their role as an
enabler of learning and their potential to facilitate
transformation. 36 reusable gamification design patterns, a
five-step process and a game design canvas to create one's own
innovation games Summaries and references of more than 70+
customizable games that are already in use by innovators,
entrepreneurs and professional trainers Educational materials for
teachers, trainers and game facilitators
Strategic Operations Management, 4th Edition, shows how vital it is
to have world-class operations management in any organisation. In
the past, where organisations tended to be more hierarchical than
today, the words, "strategy" and "operations" were almost mutually
exclusive. In today's highly competitive environment, though,
strategic operations capabilities must be in place for
organisations to provide goods and services that meet and exceed
customer requirements. Key issues such as cost, speed, quality,
flexibility and constant innovation are all part of strategic
operations. However, achieving such capabilities does not come by
chance - instead a range of factors need to be put in place. This
new edition pays equal attention to manufacturing and service
sectors. It includes numerous references to, and discusses, major
changes taking place in the business world, including 3-D printing;
virtual organisations; Cloud - Big Data and the Internet of Things;
Servitization, global markets, ongoing innovation and managing
within complex supply networks. Cases are included from a range of
settings across the globe. Students taking MBA, MSc and MBM classes
on operations management, advanced operations management, and
strategic operations management will find this textbook fulfills
all their requirements whilst advanced undergraduate classes in
these areas will also find the book an essential read.
Butchering Small Game and Birds is essential reading for those who
have embraced self-sufficiency, and who regard small game and
birds, both domestic and wild, as an essential part of their diet.
The volume covers rabbits, hares, quail, chicken and turkey as well
as game birds and provides comprehensive guidance relating to all
aspects of the craft of butchery. Topics covered include: equipment
and how to use and maintain knives correctly; how to humanely
dispatch the animal or bird for butchering with speed, precision
and almost no suffering [this is of paramount importance]; and
butchery techniques including basic small game and bird anatomy,
meat inspection and hygiene and dealing with aged birds and
animals. There are further techniques such as paunching, removal of
offal, extraction of shot, skinning, plucking, drawing and dressing
birds, washing carcases, jointing rabbits and hares and trussing
covered as well as the preservation of meat, preparing meat for the
freezer and hanging and curing of skins is covered following the
philosophy that every part of an animal or bird that is usable is
used.
The ISO Innovation Management System (IMS) Standard (ISO 56002)
provides a much needed and well-timed input to the innovation
management discipline. While research efforts within the domain of
innovation management have vastly increased over the past decades,
research has primarily been conducted through specific
contributions to distinct areas of innovation management (e.g., top
management, culture, processes), lacking a more holistic
perspective. Practitioners know that managing innovation is
challenging. Bringing in a globally recognised standard that offers
a holistic perspective will be key in professionalising the
innovation management discipline, much like quality management and
project management standards have done in the past.This book
focuses on the ISO Innovation Management System Standard and the
links with ISPIM's Body of Knowledge (BoK) special interest group,
the ISO innovation management community, and the International
Collaboration Platform for Innovation Management System (ICP4IMS).
It covers four topics as follows:
This invaluable, well-illustrated book presents a carefully
crafted, step-by-step programme which teaches the complete novice
air pistol shooter how to attain a high level of marksmanship. The
training begins with a detailed consideration of safety procedures,
basic pistol craft, range construction and the types of air pistol
that are available (spring-powered, pneumatic and CO2) and how they
work. The author then moves on to consider holsters, targets, and
the advanced skills associated with trigger control, the hold,
presentation, the stance, the fast draw and rapid fire shooting.
Finally, detailed attention is paid to markmanship exercises but
the author emphasizes that these should only be undertaken after
all of the techniques set out in the previous chapters have been
mastered. Whether you are a novice or more experienced, if you are
interested in the fast growing pastime of air pistol shooting for
pleasure, then this is the book for you.
This fascinating and highly detailed book presents a training
programme for all those hunters who wish to push the boundaries of
airgun shooting to the very limits. The author has worked with some
of the world's leading air rifle and scope manufacturers to produce
this remarkable work. The book contains a detailed analysis of
shooting techniques and a training programme for the advanced
airgun shooter. It instructs the shooter on the mechanics of the
long-range hunting air rifle and scope, and provides instructions
on rifle servicing and maintenance. The precision alignment of the
scope with the bore of the rifle on which it is mounted is
discussed along with the use of the chronograph. The fine tuning of
hunting air rifles to improve their accuracy is analysed and the
employment of night-vision equipment and other devices for hunting
at night and in dull light is examined. Fitness training for the
shooter and the use of camouflage is covered. Finally, the mindset
of the marksman, the techniques of marksmanship and describes two
very demanding marksmanship tests is considered.
This book is based on the findings, issues and questions related to
an ongoing decade-old research project named the Innovation Lab
(www.innovation-lab.org). The research project focuses on
discontinuous innovation in more than thirteen countries, most of
which are European, and provides useful insights into its different
challenges. It also raises several questions related to the
subject, some of which are: how do firms pick up weak signals on
emerging - and possibly radically different - innovation? What
should firms do when these weak signals hit their "mainstream"
process? What are the criteria for allocating resources to a
strategic innovation project? What actions should firms take to
avoid being left out by the "corporate immune system"? How should
firms organize projects that often break existing rules and require
new rules to be created?This book attempts to provide answers to
the above mentioned questions by gathering information from the
research project and also from firms that have tried exploring
various ideas, models and insights to tackle discontinuous
innovation. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book
will be of interest to both practitioners and academics alike.
The air rifle is a very effective weapon for the control of rabbits
and vermin. This comprehensive book is essential reading for all
those who wish to become accurate, skilled, caring air rifle
shooters who are safe and ethical in the pursuit of their quarry.
The book demonstrates how to learn to shoot an air rifle safely and
accurately and how to construct your own 40-yard range, it
discusses shooting techniques and all the firing positions, and it
considers the advantages and disadvantages of using air rifles for
pest control and rabbiting. It also analyzes and tests in the field
specific models of air rifle and considers what to look for when
deciding to purchase a rifle; covers ballistics, loading, scopes,
zeroing, range finding, windage, the difference between good and
bad mounts, ammunition, field craft, clothing, and knives; and
examines the characteristics of the various quarry species
(rabbits, wood pigeons, feral pigeon, and rats). Summarizing the
law as it relates to air rifle hunting, this guide also considers
the ethical aspects of the sport, including care of the quarry, how
to track down and dispatch injured quarry, and how to dispatch
rabbits humanely. A detailed chapter explains how to maintain your
hunting rifle in good working order. Produced with the technical
assistance of top professionals inthe field of gun and scope
manufacturing, the guide is aimed at those interested in air rifle
shooting, pest control, rabbiting, and country pursuits in general.
This book takes a more integrated approach to design, assuming it
is a core business process as opposed to a peripheral or specialist
activity. Design in Business aims for an analogous Total Design
Management making design a part of everyone's concern. It makes use
of a toolbox approach, offering in each chapter exposure to some of
the range of tools and techniques with which design can be managed.
Britain is the undisputed home of the terrier. There are over
twenty breeds and although each one is a capable hunting dog, over
the centuries some breeds of terriers have proved themselves to be
more suited to rabbiting than others. The 'rabbiting terriers' have
many common characteristics and in this fascinating book the author
analyses these attributes in order to describe the height, weight,
shape, stamina and intelligence of the 'ideal' rabbiting terrier.
'Strategic Operations Management' examines the latest thinking in
this fast-moving area.
Businesses constantly face ongoing and increased amounts of
competition. Coping with this competition demands that strategies
must be already in place which can deal with key questions such as:
* what business is the firm really in?
* what does the firm do best, and why, where, and how can it
outsource some of its activities?
* how can opportunities become quickly exploited and how can the
firm's capabilities help to ward off external threats from new and
existing players?
This text believes that successful operations management depends on
having strategies in place which combine both manufacturing and
service areas into an overall customer offering. This means that
strategic relations must be established with other players -
operations management is no longer a firm-specific matter.
'Strategic Operations Management' combines four themes; strategy,
services, innovation and management of relationships both in the
supply chain and with other players. This is done by dividing
chapters into a past/present/future scenario approach which
illustrates how these strategies affect business.
Strong team of writers of international standing
Content is thought provoking and challenging - excellent in terms
of stimulating debates
New issues explored as well as old - contrasting mass production
versus mass customisation and innovation
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