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The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the adoption of new forms of
working and new working arrangements largely enabled by technology.
The Future of Work is a projection of how work, working, workers
and the workplace will evolve in the years ahead from the
perspective of different actors in society, influenced by
technological, socio-economic, political, and demographic changes.
This open access Pivot is a timely exploration of some of the
challenges and prospects for the future of work from two main
perspectives: how work is changing and how to prepare for work in
the future. An evidence-based assessment of these topics
offers some critical perspectives that challenge old assumptions
and opens up emerging trends and possibilities for work in the
future. As part of the Palgrave Studies in Digital Business &
Enabling Technologies series, this book is an essential resource
for academics of Business, Human Resource Management,
Organisational Psychology and Industrial Relations, as well as
practitioners and policy makers.
This open access book brings together perspectives from multiple
disciplines including psychology, law, IS, and computer science on
data privacy and trust in the cloud. Cloud technology has fueled
rapid, dramatic technological change, enabling a level of
connectivity that has never been seen before in human history.
However, this brave new world comes with problems. Several
high-profile cases over the last few years have demonstrated cloud
computing's uneasy relationship with data security and trust. This
volume explores the numerous technological, process and regulatory
solutions presented in academic literature as mechanisms for
building trust in the cloud, including GDPR in Europe. The massive
acceleration of digital adoption resulting from the COVID-19
pandemic is introducing new and significant security and privacy
threats and concerns. Against this backdrop, this book provides a
timely reference and organising framework for considering how we
will assure privacy and build trust in such a hyper-connected
digitally dependent world. This book presents a framework for
assurance and accountability in the cloud and reviews the
literature on trust, data privacy and protection, and ethics in
cloud computing.
This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND license. It addresses
the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the
Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management,
and discusses the business implications of cloud computing
adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud
computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery
architecture based on the principles of self-organisation and
self-management. This focus shifts the deployment and optimisation
effort from the consumer to the software stack running on the cloud
infrastructure. It also outlines validation challenges and
introduces a novel generalised extensible simulation framework to
illustrate the effectiveness, performance and scalability of
self-organising and self-managing delivery models on hyperscale
cloud infrastructures. It concludes with a number of potential use
cases for self-organising, self-managing clouds and the impact on
those businesses.
This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND license. It addresses
the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the
Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management,
and discusses the business implications of cloud computing
adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud
computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery
architecture based on the principles of self-organisation and
self-management. This focus shifts the deployment and optimisation
effort from the consumer to the software stack running on the cloud
infrastructure. It also outlines validation challenges and
introduces a novel generalised extensible simulation framework to
illustrate the effectiveness, performance and scalability of
self-organising and self-managing delivery models on hyperscale
cloud infrastructures. It concludes with a number of potential use
cases for self-organising, self-managing clouds and the impact on
those businesses.
The world’s extant building stock accounts for a significant
portion of worldwide energy consumption and greenhouse gas
emissions. In 2020, buildings and construction accounted for 36% of
global final energy consumption and 37% of energy related CO2
emissions. The EU estimates that up to 75% of the EU’s existing
building stock has poor energy performance, 85–95% of which will
still be in use in 2050. To meet the goals of the Paris Agreement
on Climate Change will require a transformation of construction
processes and deep renovation of the extant building stock. It is
widely recognized that ICTs can play an important role in
construction, renovation and maintenance as well as supporting the
financing of deep renovation. Technologies such as sensors, big
data analytics and machine learning, BIM, digital twinning,
simulation, robots, cobots and UAVs, and additive manufacturing are
transforming the deep renovation process, improving sustainability
performance, and developing new services and markets. This open
access book defines a deep renovation digital ecosystem for the
21st century, providing a state-of-the art review of current
literature, suggesting avenues for new research, and offering
perspectives from business, technology and industry domains.This is
an open access book.
This open access book explores the digital transformation of small
and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and
development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources,
competition from urban and global markets, and population trends,
rural communities present lesser access and use of digital
technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than
their urban counterparts. Consequently, they experience less
beneficial outcomes from increased digitalisation than urban areas.
This book defines what a digital town is and explores
digitalisation from the perspective of the four basic economic
sectors in towns - individuals and households, businesses, the
public sector, and civil society - and three types of enabling
infrastructure - digital connectivity, education, and governance.
Particular attention is paid to how digitalisation efforts are
measured by intergovernmental and international organisations for
each sector and enabling infrastructure. The book concludes with a
Digital Town Readiness Framework that offers local communities,
policymakers, and scholars an initial set of indicators upon which
to develop digital town initiatives, and measure progress. For
those ready to embrace the opportunity, this book is a pathfinder
on the road to a more equitable and impactful digital society and
digital economy.
This open access book explores the digital transformation of small
and rural towns, in particular, how to measure the evolution and
development of digital towns. In addition to access to resources,
competition from urban and global markets, and population trends,
rural communities present lesser access and use of digital
technologies and have lower digital competencies and skills than
their urban counterparts. Consequently, they experience less
beneficial outcomes from increased digitalisation than urban areas.
This book defines what a digital town is and explores
digitalisation from the perspective of the four basic economic
sectors in towns - individuals and households, businesses, the
public sector, and civil society - and three types of enabling
infrastructure - digital connectivity, education, and governance.
Particular attention is paid to how digitalisation efforts are
measured by intergovernmental and international organisations for
each sector and enabling infrastructure. The book concludes with a
Digital Town Readiness Framework that offers local communities,
policymakers, and scholars an initial set of indicators upon which
to develop digital town initiatives, and measure progress. For
those ready to embrace the opportunity, this book is a pathfinder
on the road to a more equitable and impactful digital society and
digital economy.
This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies
act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial
services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under
increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google,
Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst facing pressure from investors to
reduce costs, increase agility and improve customer retention.
Technologies such as blockchain, cloud computing, mobile
technologies, big data analytics and social media therefore have
perhaps more potential in this industry and area of business than
any other. This book defines a fintech ecosystem for the 21st
century, providing a state-of-the art review of current literature,
suggesting avenues for new research and offering perspectives from
business, technology and industry.
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), combined with
greater heterogeneity not only online in cloud computing
architectures but across the cloud-to-edge continuum, is
introducing new challenges for managing applications and
infrastructure across this continuum. The scale and complexity is
simply so complex that it is no longer realistic for IT teams to
manually foresee the potential issues and manage the dynamism and
dependencies across an increasing inter-dependent chain of service
provision. This Open Access Pivot explores these challenges and
offers a solution for the intelligent and reliable management of
physical infrastructure and the optimal placement of applications
for the provision of services on distributed clouds. This book
provides a conceptual reference model for reliable capacity
provisioning for distributed clouds and discusses how data
analytics and machine learning, application and infrastructure
optimization, and simulation can deliver quality of service
requirements cost-efficiently in this complex feature space. These
are illustrated through a series of case studies in cloud
computing, telecommunications, big data analytics, and smart
cities.
The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT
investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and
Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies
such as the ever-changing complex area of cloud computing present
new challenges and opportunities for demonstrating how IT
investments lead to business value. Recent reviews of extant
literature highlights the need for multi-disciplinary research.
This research should explore and further develops the
conceptualization of value in cloud computing research. In
addition, there is a need for research which investigates how IT
value manifests itself across the chain of service provision and in
inter-organizational scenarios. This open access book will review
the state of the art from an IS, Computer Science and Accounting
perspective, will introduce and discuss the main techniques for
measuring business value for cloud computing in a variety of
scenarios, and illustrate these with mini-case studies.
The Internet of Things offers massive societal and economic
opportunities while at the same time significant challenges, not
least the delivery and management of the technical infrastructure
underpinning it, the deluge of data generated from it, ensuring
privacy and security, and capturing value from it. This Open Access
Pivot explores these challenges, presenting the state of the art
and future directions for research but also frameworks for making
sense of this complex area. This book provides a variety of
perspectives on how technology innovations such as fog, edge and
dew computing, 5G networks, and distributed intelligence are making
us rethink conventional cloud computing to support the Internet of
Things. Much of this book focuses on technical aspects of the
Internet of Things, however, clear methodologies for mapping the
business value of the Internet of Things are still missing. We
provide a value mapping framework for the Internet of Things to
address this gap. While there is much hype about theInternet of
Things, we have yet to reach the tipping point. As such, this book
provides a timely entree for higher education educators,
researchers and students, industry and policy makers on the
technologies that promise to reshape how society interacts and
operates.
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