This edited book brings together international insights for raising rich discussion on industrial growth in the twenty-first century with a focus on the Industry 4.0 drive in the global marketplace, which is driven by innovations, technology, and digital drives. It delineates multiple impacts on business-to-business, business-to-consumers, the...
This upper level textbook provides a coherent introduction to the economic implications of individual and population ageing. Placing economic considerations into a wider social sciences context, this is ideal reading not only for advanced undergraduate and masters students in health economics and economics of ageing, but policy makers,...
The economic crisis of 2008 has shown that the capital markets need new theoretical and mathematical concepts to describe and price financial instruments. Focusing almost exclusively on interest rates and coupon bonds, this book does not employ stochastic calculus - the bedrock of the present day mathematical finance - for any of the derivations....
All leaders know people are critical to the success of organizations. Executives just don’t act that way sometimes. Why? Because they lack the facts. Too often they don’t know which workforce practices create the greatest value or which attributes of a workforce are critical to business strategy.
"Dilip Naik's Inside Windows Storage is an invaluable reference for developers and customers alike and is a must-read for anyone wishing to implement Windows-based storage networking." —Tom Clark, Director, Technical Marketing, Nishan Systems
"Don DePalma has provided us with the most comprehensive guide for corporations to compete in the era of globalization. Business Without Borders is an outstanding contribution to managing in the global era, with practical information on the skills and knowledge needed to become an effective...
People retiring in the early years of the 21st century, the so-called baby boom generation, have witnessed a
revolution in the world of finance and investment during their working years. The forces of globalization assure that
their children, now in their earning years, face a future just as dynamic.
Gain practical skills in machine learning for finance, healthcare, and retail. This book uses a hands-on approach by providing case studies from each of these domains: you’ll see examples that demonstrate how to use machine learning as a tool for business enhancement. As a domain expert, you will not only discover how machine...
This book brings together cutting-edge research on consulting in a single volume, thus helping to make the state-of-the-art in the field of consulting research more accessible, to promote better practices in business, and to spark further research. The respective articles approach consulting from very different angles, taking into account...
Over the past two decades, my colleagues and I have helped many businesses create shareholder value primarily through process improvement. But we often found that clients who restricted their efforts to improvement approaches such as Lean and/or Six Sigma would hit a ceiling in profit generation: though progress was significant,...
Exporting Essentials: Selling Products and Services to the World Successfully is for entrepreneurs and small business owners—the makers, movers, and shakers in our world—interested in taking their businesses to the next level of growth through exports. This short, hard-hitting book covers just the essentials,...