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  • Digital Towns

    Accelerating and Measuring the Digital Transformation of Rural Societies and Economies

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Data Privacy and Trust in Cloud Computing

    Building trust in the cloud through assurance and accountability

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Digital Sustainability

    Leveraging Digital Technology to Combat Climate Change

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Digitalisation and environmental sustainability are two of the megatrends impacting industry and society. This open access Pivot is a timely exploration of some of the challenges and prospects related to digital sustainability from two main perspectives: how digital technologies can be used and maintained in a way that is environmentally sustainable over the long term (greening of digital ... Read more

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  • Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure

    A Self-Optimising Approach

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Digital Business & Enabling Technologies
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Cloud-to-Thing Continuum

    Opportunities and Challenges in Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Disrupting Finance

    FinTech and Strategy in the 21st Century

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Measuring the Business Value of Cloud Computing

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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  • Combating Online Abuse in Sports

    The Game Beyond the Screen

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Online abuse in sport has become a pervasive global challenge, affecting athletes, teams, officials, and sporting communities across all levels of competition. Despite growing awareness, scholarly attention has largely concentrated on hate speech, leaving other critical forms of abuse underexplored. This open access edited collection addresses this gap by offering a comprehensive examination of ... Read more

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  • The Future of Work

    Challenges and Prospects for Organisations, Jobs and Workers

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 book ... Read more

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  • Disrupting Buildings

    Digitalisation and the Transformation of Deep Renovation

    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Read more

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