Modern consumers carry many electronic devices, like a mobile phone, digital camera, GPS, PDA and an MP3 player. The functionality of each of these devices has gone through an important evolution over recent years, with a steep increase in both the number of features as in the quality of the services that they provide. However, providing the...
Tackles the mismatch of business expectations and IT activities
Business expectations of their IT departments are simple: Deliver IT without fuss, get involved in achieving business results, and provide leadership. But while business emphasis is on business results and leadership, IT is focused on the technology.
Unlike many of the management movements of the last half century knowledge management has no
single origin or unambiguous instantiation. Business Process Reengineering, the Balanced Score Card
and the Learning Organisation (to mention but a few) all originate with a single book which then defines
the field. In Knowledge Management...
Progress in space safety lies in the acceptance of safety design and engineering as an integral part of the design and implementation process for new space systems. Safety must be seen as the principle design driver of utmost importance from the outset of the design process, which is only achieved through a culture change that moves all...
The Simula Research Laboratory, located just outside Oslo in Norway, is rightly famed as a highly successful research facility, despite being, at only eight years old, a very young institution. This fascinating book tells the history of Simula, detailing the culture and values that have been the guiding principles of the laboratory throughout...
Scientific criminology has its roots in crime mapping. The first great systematic
studies of crime were cartographic exercises made possible by recordkeeping
systems created to track criminal convictions in France and England
during the early part of the 19th century. Compared with maps of demographic,
economic, and social...
Mit der Globalisierung rückt die Logistik als Wettbewerbsfaktor für Produktionsunternehmen zunehmend in den Vordergrund. In dem Band wird erstmals ein ganzheitlicher, sozio-technischer Ansatz für das Auftragsmanagement in der industriellen Produktion vorgestellt, der die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Systemfunktionen, Nutzern und...
We are all increasingly familiar with modern business terms such as total quality management, just-in-time production, e-business, lean manufacturing and teleworking. But what really lies behind these terms and what effect do these and other new practices have on productivity and performance and, crucially, what is their social and psychological...
Mark Weisers vision of computers moving out of our focus of attention and becoming oblivious devices that occur in large numbers and provide smart computing und communication services to individuals as needed is still far from being reality.
This book puts the larger vision of ubiquitous computing in the context of todays mobile and distributed...
This inspiring handbook will help you assess your organization's current claim to greatness and make the business case for creating the sort of truly great company atmosphere that will attract great people who will deliver great results.
Being an 'employer of choice' is not just an HR buzzword--it makes a huge difference to your...
Nowadays, there is software everywhere in our life. It controls cars, airplanes, factories, medical implants. Without software, banking, logistics and transportation, media, and even scientific research would not function in the accustomed way. Building and maintaining software is a knowledge-intensive endeavour and requires that specific...
This book addresses core recommendations by the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences - an umbrella organisation consisting of sixteen professional societies in the United States - regarding the mathematical preparation of the teachers. According to the Board, the concept of a capstone course in a mathematics education program...