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“martin fransman”

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  • Innovation Ecosystems

    Increasing Competitiveness

    by Martin Fransman ...
    Martin Fransman presents a new approach to understanding how innovation happens, who makes it happen, and the helps and hindrances. Looking at innovation in real-time under uncertainty, he develops the idea of an 'innovation ecosystem', i.e. a system of interrelated players and processes that jointly make innovation happen. Examples include: how companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Apple, AT&T ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The New ICT Ecosystem

    Implications for Policy and Regulation

    by Martin Fransman ...
    The ICT sector is crucial as a driver of economic and social growth. Not only is it an important industry in its own right, but it also provides the communication and infrastructure without which modern economies could not function. How does this sector work? Why is it stronger in some countries than in others? What should companies, governments and regulators be doing to enhance its contribution? ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Design Driven Innovation

    Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean

    by Roberto Verganti ...
    Until now, the literature on innovation has focused either on radical innovation pushed by technology or incremental innovation pulled by the market. In Design-Driven Innovation: How to Compete by Radically Innovating the Meaning of Products, Roberto Verganti introduces a third strategy, a radical shift in perspective that introduces a bold new way of competing. Design-driven innovations do not ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Open Innovation

    Researching a New Paradigm

    Edited by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, Joel West ...
    Open Innovation describes an emergent model of innovation in which firms draw on research and development that may lie outside their own boundaries. In some cases, such as open source software, this research and development can take place in a non-proprietary manner. Henry Chesbrough and his collaborators investigate this phenomenon, linking the practice of innovation to the established body of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Fast Cycle Time

    How to Align Purpose, Strategy, and Structure for

    by Christopher Meyer ...
    Today, tens of thousands of companies are struggling to become "time-based" competitors, inspired by such corporations as Motorola, General Electric, Citicorp, and a myriad of others who have cut production time in half-or more. But until now, the literature has focused on the theory and philosophy of fast cycle time, rather than the tools and techniques for implementing it. Here, for the first ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Effective SOPs

    The Productivity Improvement Series, #10

    by Giles Johnston ...
    Series Book 10 - The Productivity Improvement Series
    Do your SOPs work for your business?Standard Operating Procedures, or SOPs, are an essential part of any business to ensure that quality and consistency occur like clockwork amidst the busy-ness of day to day working.Unfortunately SOPs are often neglected in terms of their importance and this short book can help you to get so much more out of your SOPs by making them part of your day to day ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theory of the Firm

    Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets, and Organizations

    by Daniel F. Spulber ...
    The Theory of the Firm presents a path-breaking general framework for understanding the economics of the firm. The book addresses why firms exist, how firms are established, and what contributions firms make to the economy. The book presents a new theoretical analysis of the foundations of microeconomics that makes institutions endogenous. Entrepreneurs play a central economic role by establishing ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Mass Customization

    by David J. Gardner ...
    Manufacturers with highly-configurable products face daunting challenges to create the flexibility, transparency, and customer experience that delights customers without undermining profits. If a company continually experiences the pain of not being able to seamlessly connect the customer to the enterprise and efficiently drive order demand across the enterprise, the business is not set up ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

    by Ricky Smith, R. Keith Mobley ...
    Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers will give the engineer the “have to have? information. It will help instill knowledge on a daily basis, to do his or her job and to maintain and assure reliable equipment to help reduce costs. This book will be an easy reference for engineers and managers needing immediate solutions to everyday problems. Most civil, mechanical, and ... Read more

    $102.39 CAD

  • Manufacturing Consent

    Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism

    by Michael Burawoy ...
    Since the 1930s, industrial sociologists have tried to answer the question, Why do workers not work harder? Michael Burawoy spent ten months as a machine operator in a Chicago factory trying to answer different but equally important questions: Why do workers work as hard as they do? Why do workers routinely consent to their own exploitation?Manufacturing Consent, the result of Burawoy's research, ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Developments in the Theory of Networks

    Franchising, Alliances and Cooperatives

    Edited by Mika Tuunanen, Josef Windsperger, Gérard Cliquet, George Hendrikse ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The theory of networks aims at developing theoretical views on the design and management of alliances, franchise chains, licensing, joint ventures, cooperatives, and venture capital relations. The current trend in economics and management of networks is twofold: First there is a strong tendency toward application of theoretical approaches developed both in organizational economics, strategic ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Economics of the Indian Steel Industry

    by Susmita Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Economics of Business and Industry
    Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world. This supply glut is reducing margins and turning steel into a sunset industry. Steel consumes as much as four times the amount of raw materials as its produced volume, and the sheer bulk of the steel makes it costly to transport. Because of this, countries ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD