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The editors present essential methods and tools to support a holistic approach to the challenge of system upgrades and innovation in the context of high-value products and services. The approach presented here is based on three main pillars: an adaptation mechanism based on a broad understanding of system dependencies; efficient use of system knowledge through involvement of actors throughout the process; and technological solutions to enable efficient actor communication and information handling.The book provides readers with a better understanding of the factors that influence decisions, and put forward solutions to facilitate the rapid adaptation to changes in the business environment and customer needs through intelligent upgrade interventions. Further, it examines a number of sample cases from various contexts including car manufacturing, utilities, shipping and the furniture industry. The book offers a valuable resource for both academics and practitioners interested in the upgrading of capital-intensive products and services.
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Validation and verification are central activities of product engineering. The aim of these activities is to predict and evaluate the future system behaviour of the product in development. This is achieved by conducting tests and interpreting the generated measurement data. This work introduces an ontology-based method for increasing the efficiency and effectively of innovative automotive development projects, especially in cases where an organisational knowledge base does not exist yet.
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Through parenting, adults raise their children and introduce them into the belonging community. Parents are active determinants of their children’s well-being, but children themselves are too. The volume focuses on some relevant theoretical issues related to children’s and adolescent adjustments, adult maternal and paternal behaviors, and their self-efficacy beliefs and competence interacting with children’s characteristics. The volume also presents evidence-based treatments involving parents as key components of the intervention strategies for childhood internalizing/externalizing disorders. Parent behaviors produce changes and consequences in the child’s emotive-behavioral adjustment; thus, a modification of the parenting style may be an effective way to help children and to ameliorate the family climate. Practitioners interested in parenting will find in the updated studies here reviewed new suggestions for preventive family interventions.
Social Sciences and Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Management --- Knowledge Management
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The knowledge management concept has emerged to serve as one of the critical inputs to the strategic management process, and a common factor underpinning competitive advantage. Over the concept's development, knowledge management research has focused on the processes that enable a firm to recognize sources of data, to transform data into useful information, to disseminate the information, and to develop strategies based on its insights. More recently, the development of the concept has begun to focus on the critical antecedents that enable these knowledge management processes to be implemented more effectively and efficiently. This research book serves to highlight some of the antecedents of effective knowledge management through empirical research done by researchers all around the globe.
Social Sciences and Humanities --- Social Sciences --- Management --- Knowledge Management
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This open access book revisits common notions on how to select and recruit the right employees. It reveals that the secret of successful individuals and teams lies in a combination of talent and four important performance indicators, offering an innovative approach that companies can fruitfully adopt. Bas Kodden has studied key performance indicators among over 1,100 executives, senior staff and professionals, including 50 CEOs from leading Dutch companies. His findings put the present recruitment and selection procedures used by many prominent companies in a new light. Moreover, the book not only addresses theory; it also offers a practically applicable model for recruitment, selection and professional development. In closing, the book includes a variety of questionnaires and checklists for HR professionals and executives whose goal is to build sustainable and successful teams and organizations.
Human Resource Development --- Employee Health and Wellbeing --- Knowledge Management --- Human Resource Management --- Management --- Open access book --- HR performance indicators --- KPIs for employee productivity --- Sustainable performance indicators --- Talent recognition --- Intrinsic motivation --- Self-efficacy --- Personnel & human resources management --- Knowledge management
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This open access book is among the first cross-disciplinary works about Manufacturing 4.0. It includes chapters about the technical, the economic, and the social aspects of this important phenomenon. Together the material presented allows the reader to develop a holistic picture of where the manufacturing industry and the parts of the society that depend on it may be going in the future. Manufacturing 4.0 is not only a technical change, nor is it a purely technically driven change, but it is a societal change that has the potential to disrupt the way societies are constructed both in the positive and in the negative. This book will be of interest to scholars researching manufacturing, technological innovation, innovation management and industry 4.0.
Innovation/Technology Management --- Knowledge Management --- Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems --- Engineering, general --- Business and Management --- Management --- Software Engineering --- Technology and Engineering --- additive manufacturing --- materials research --- automation --- robotics --- analytics --- change management --- business models --- life-long learning --- societal adaption --- open access --- Research & development management --- Industrial applications of scientific research & technological innovation --- Knowledge management --- Operating systems --- Engineering: general
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»Enterprise 2.0«: how are working conditions, demands and employee consultation changing through the use of social media within businesses?
Social Media --- Work --- Codetermination --- Enterprise 2.0 --- Knowledge Management --- Economy --- Sociology of Work and Industry --- Sociology of Organizations --- Sociology of Technology --- Sociology --- Arbeit --- Mitbestimmung --- Wissensmanagement --- Wirtschaft --- Arbeits- und Industriesoziologie --- Organisationssoziologie --- Techniksoziologie --- Soziologie
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This open access book presents and discusses current issues and innovative solution approaches for land management in a European context. Manifold sustainability issues are closely interconnected with land use practices. Throughout the world, we face increasing conflict over the use of land as well as competition for land. Drawing on experience in sustainable land management gained from seven years of the FONA programme (Research for Sustainable Development, conducted under the auspices of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), the book stresses and highlights co-design processes within the “co-creation of knowledge”, involving collaboration in transdisciplinary research processes between academia and other stakeholders. The book begins with an overview of the current state of land use practices and the subsequent need to manage land resources more sustainably. New system solutions and governance approaches in sustainable land management are presented from a European perspective on land use. The volume also addresses how to use new modes of knowledge transfer between science and practice. New perspectives in sustainable land management and methods of combining knowledge and action are presented to a broad readership in land system sciences and environmental sciences, social sciences and geosciences.
Sustainable Development --- Regional/Spatial Science --- Environmental Geography --- Human Geography --- Knowledge - Discourse --- Environmental Social Sciences --- Regional and Spatial Economics --- Environmental Studies --- Biotechnology --- Open Access --- Sustainable land management --- System solutions --- Governance of land --- Transdisciplinarity Interdisciplinarity --- Knowledge management --- Sustainability --- Political economy --- Regional studies --- Development & environmental geography --- Human geography --- Sociology
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This open access book examines the implications of internal crowdsourcing (IC) in companies. Presenting an employee-oriented, cross-sector reference model for good IC practice, it discusses the core theoretical foundations, and offers guidelines for process-management and blueprints for the implementation of IC. Furthermore, it examines solutions for employee training and competence development based on crowdsourcing. As such, the book will appeal to scholars of management science, work studies, organizational and participation research and to readers interested in inclusive approaches for cooperative change management and the IT implications for IC platforms.
Human Resource Development --- Knowledge Management --- Business Process Management --- Business Information Systems --- Human Resource Management --- Management --- IT in Business --- Agile organisations --- Scrum for crowdsourcing --- Future of work --- Cultural change --- Employee participation and qualification --- Collective experience and knowledge --- Open Access --- Personnel & human resources management --- Business mathematics & systems
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This open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. Nowadays it is used in many industries to allow organizations and companies to make better decisions as well as to verify or disprove existing theories or models. The term data analytics is often used interchangeably with intelligence, statistics, reasoning, data mining, knowledge discovery, and others. The goal of this book is to introduce some of the definitions, methods, tools, frameworks, and solutions for big data processing, starting from the process of information extraction and knowledge representation, via knowledge processing and analytics to visualization, sense-making, and practical applications. Each chapter in this book addresses some pertinent aspect of the data processing chain, with a specific focus on understanding Enterprise Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Big Data Architectures, and Smart Data Analytics solutions. This book is addressed to graduate students from technical disciplines, to professional audiences following continuous education short courses, and to researchers from diverse areas following self-study courses. Basic skills in computer science, mathematics, and statistics are required.
Database Management --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) --- Logic in AI --- Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing --- Business Information Systems --- Computer and Information Systems Applications --- Computer Application in Administrative Data Processing --- artificial intelligence --- big data --- data analytics --- data handling --- data integration --- data mining --- databases --- digital storage --- domain knowledge --- graph theory --- information management --- information technology --- integrated data --- internet --- knowledge management --- knowledge-based system --- ontologies --- semantics --- Databases --- Database programming --- Information retrieval --- Internet searching --- Artificial intelligence --- Public administration --- Information technology: general issues --- Business mathematics & systems
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