The vision of the networked enterprise is now a reality. This cutting-edge book illustrates how to implement a new breakthrough business process management (BPM) technology that will change the competitive business landscape. BPM gives businesses the means to manage processes across systems, people, and organizations, providing visibility and control over each instance of those processes right across the supply chain network. Key features include: -Supplies concrete examples of how BPM technology has helped firms of varying size in industries as diverse as automotive, aerospace, banking, consumer products, defense, healthcare, industrial products, insurance, manufacturing, and retailing -Discusses the role of BPM technology in providing visibility and control over business processes that span systems, people, and linked businesses -Provides a practical guide for transforming a company from a stand-alone supply chain entity to a member of a flexible network with a market adv… More >>

The Networked Supply Chain: Applying Breakthrough BPM Technology to Meet Relentless Customer Demands

This timely handbook represents the latest thinking in the field of technology and innovation management, with an up-to-date overview of the key developments in the field.

The editor provides with a critical, introductory essay that establishes the theoretical framework for studying technology and innovation management
The book will include 15-20 original essays by leading authors chosen for their key contribution to the field
These chapters chart the important debates and theoretical issues under 3 or 4 thematic headings
The handbook concludes with an essay by the Editor highlighting the emergent issues for research
The book is targeted as a handbook for academics as well as a text for graduate courses in technology and innovation management… More >>

The Handbook of Technology and Innovation Management

This book’s methodological approach familiarizes readers with the mathematical tools required to correctly define and solve problems in continuum mechanics. The book covers essential principles and fundamental applications, and provides a solid basis for a deeper study of more challenging and specialized problems related to elasticity, fluid mechanics, plasticity, materials with memory, piezoelectricity, ferroelectricity, magneto-fluid mechanics, and state changes. Key topics and features: * Concise presentation strikes a balance between fundamentals and applications * Requisite mathematical background carefully collected in two introductory chapters and two appendices * CD-ROM containing Mathematica-based exercises, examples, and programs related to the text; this user-friendly software is unique in the literature and allows readers to quickly solve complex, time-consuming problems related to the application areas covered  * Recent developments highlighted through cov… More >>

Continuum Mechanics using Mathematica®: Fundamentals, Applications and Scientific Computing

• ISBN13: 9780262101172
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand’s experiment in “controlled schizophrenia” and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller’s uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman’s uncanny night visions and François Roche’s destabilized architecture. The art in Sensorium—which accompanies an exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center—captures the aesthetic attitude of this hybrid moment, when modernist segmentation of the senses is giving way to dramatic multisensory mixes or transpositions. Artwork by each artist appears with an analytical essay by a cur… More >>

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art

Leading experts in the field have come together to share their insights in a single volume, explaining the past, present, and future of all the DSL technologies. Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology covers the entire DSL family, from ISDN at 144 kb/s to VDSL at 52 Mb/s; details DSL at all layers of protocol, with special emphasis on the physical layer; discusses applications from both provider and end-user points of view; and gives an insider’s view of the telecommunications standards process. Key standards are explained, including transmission line characteristics, data rates, modulation and coding methods, operations procedures, transconvergence layers, protocols, and network architectures. With its inside track and extensive level of detail, Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology will be indispensable to telecom and datacom engineers at every level. It also offers a comprehensible explanation of issues in this growing field to managers, marketing experts, and c… More >>

Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology

Now you can implement the groundbreaking ideas and research findings of Jean Casey’s Early Literacy to help students become successful readers and writers. The almost 90 flexible, engaging activities can be used across the grade levels to motivate students to design their own projects, create their own written products, and above all, be in control of their learning…. More >>

Creating the Early Literacy Classroom: Activities for Using Technology to Empower Elementary Students

George Grant’s comments on technology, religion, the university, political structures, and the significance of modern life are perhaps the most disturbing and enlightening to come from any Canadian philosopher…. More >>

Technology and Empire: Perspectives on North America

The book is a coaching guide for anyone interested in intellectual property and those wanting to embark on or develop patent creation. It draws on the authors’ extensive experience and insights from change projects, management and leadership at Nokia. The book guides the reader through each stage of setting up a successful unit, inviting active involvement by asking vital questions about their needs and aims. Focusing on key issues and themes involved, it provides examples, diagrams and models to illustrate how they can be out in to practice. Critical chapters include the core activities of patent creation, possible organisational models, costs, quality and the comparison of external and internal allocation of tasks. Discussion concentrates on how to such define roles and responsibilities and the management techniques of external resources. The book encourages the reader to challenge their current organisational structure and strategy by introducing various methods and … More >>

Inside the Patent Factory: The Essential Reference for Effective and Efficient Management of Patent Creation

Most textbooks on this subject focus heavily on the mathematical perspective of communication. Today’s managers do not need to know how to figure out the quantization process of an analog sample, they simply need to understand how the theory works-in plain English. Introduction to Communications Technologies: A Guide for Non-Engineers is a quick-read tutorial on telecommunications and network technologies for graduate and undergraduate students in management information systems and telecommunications management courses.While dealing with the engineering aspects of communication, the book provides a basic understanding of how things work, not how to design systems. Topics include systems, electricity, signaling, telephony, switching, wireless, CTI, and video. It also explains the important relationship between the two major languages spoken in the industry, voice and data, something not done in other texts. The material covered is the same as that presented in a graduate-level core tech… More >>

Introduction to Communications Technologies: A Guide for Non-Engineers

Since centuries foods have been preserved by heating, chilling, drying, salting, conserving, acidification, oxygen-removal, fermenting, adding various preservatives, etc., and often these methods were applied in combinations. More recently the underlying principles of these traditional methods have been defined (i.e., F, t, aw, pH, Eh, competitive flora, various preservatives), and effective limits of these factors for microbial growth, survival, and death were established. Food preservation and also food quality depends in most cases on the empirical and now more often on the deliberate and intelligent application of combined preservative factors, i.e. on so-called hurdle technology. It also became obvious that futuristic food preservation methods (e.g., high hydrostatic pressure, high-intensity pulsed electric fields, high-intensity pulsed light, oscillating magnetic fields as well as food irradiation) are most effective in combination with additional hurdles. Thus, hur… More >>

Hurdle Technologies: Combination Treatment for Food Stability, Safety and Quality