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Sustainability: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Global Grand Challenge (Analytics and Control)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Tina AgustiadySustainability is one of the most embraced topics nowadays. Everybody is affected by issues of sustainability. Every organization needs to pay attention to these issues. As long as more people and more organizations are engaging in business and industry activities, there will always be a need for sustainability. This book presents tools such as lean six sigma to help sustain results by using process focused decisions. This book covers tools and techniques of industrial engineering to promote sustainability. It discusses a systems approach, the evolution of new products, development of sustainability alliances, and highlights the role of sustainability in advancing organizational goals. The book also addresses sustainability as a coordinated project using a project management approach. It includes the interface of humans and technology and presents an integration of analytics. The book is ideal for all engineering, business, and management fields.
Sustainability: A Systems Engineering Approach to the Global Grand Challenge (Analytics and Control)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Tina AgustiadySustainability is one of the most embraced topics nowadays. Everybody is affected by issues of sustainability. Every organization needs to pay attention to these issues. As long as more people and more organizations are engaging in business and industry activities, there will always be a need for sustainability. This book presents tools such as lean six sigma to help sustain results by using process focused decisions. This book covers tools and techniques of industrial engineering to promote sustainability. It discusses a systems approach, the evolution of new products, development of sustainability alliances, and highlights the role of sustainability in advancing organizational goals. The book also addresses sustainability as a coordinated project using a project management approach. It includes the interface of humans and technology and presents an integration of analytics. The book is ideal for all engineering, business, and management fields.
Operational Excellence in the New Digital Era (Analytics and Control)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Lauralee CromartyOperational excellence, as a quest in the prevailing digital era, is predicated on a systems view of the operating environments in business, industry, government, academia, and other organizational entities. This book uses a systems-based approach to show how operational excellence can be pursued, achieved, and sustained. It offers a systems perspective for operational excellence and discusses the evolution of products from the classical operation era to present day digital operations. It covers the role of global markets on domestic operations, presents operational work design and ergonomics, and combines industrial engineering, advanced research, and practical experience. This book is a useful guide for scholars, practitioners and those involved in engineering, management, and business fields.
Operational Excellence in the New Digital Era (Analytics and Control)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Lauralee CromartyOperational excellence, as a quest in the prevailing digital era, is predicated on a systems view of the operating environments in business, industry, government, academia, and other organizational entities. This book uses a systems-based approach to show how operational excellence can be pursued, achieved, and sustained. It offers a systems perspective for operational excellence and discusses the evolution of products from the classical operation era to present day digital operations. It covers the role of global markets on domestic operations, presents operational work design and ergonomics, and combines industrial engineering, advanced research, and practical experience. This book is a useful guide for scholars, practitioners and those involved in engineering, management, and business fields.
Industrial Control Systems: Mathematical and Statistical Models and Techniques
by Adedeji B. Badiru Oye Ibidapo-Obe Babatunde J. AyeniIssues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult when dealing with large, complex projects. Yet all these activities have common elements and can be represented by mathematics. Linking theory to practice, Industrial Control Systems: Mathematical and Statistical Models and Techni
Innovation Fundamentals: Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques (Systems Innovation Book Series)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Gary LamontThe book uses a systems-based approach to show how innovation is pervasive in all facets of endeavors, including business, industrial, government, the military, and even academia. It presents chapters that provide techniques and methodologies for achieving the transfer of science and technology assets for innovation applications. By introducing Innovation, the book and offers different viewpoints, both qualitative and quantitative. It includes the role that systems can play and discusses approaches along technical and process issues. There is a showcase of innovation applications, and coverage on how to manage innovation individually as well as within a team and it also includes how to develop, manage, and sustain innovation in various organizations. Open-ended questions and exercises are included at the end of chapters with no need for a solutions manual. Written for the advance-level textbook market as well as for the professional reader, it targets those within the engineering, business, and management fields.
Innovation Fundamentals: Quantitative and Qualitative Techniques (Systems Innovation Book Series)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Gary LamontThe book uses a systems-based approach to show how innovation is pervasive in all facets of endeavors, including business, industrial, government, the military, and even academia. It presents chapters that provide techniques and methodologies for achieving the transfer of science and technology assets for innovation applications. By introducing Innovation, the book and offers different viewpoints, both qualitative and quantitative. It includes the role that systems can play and discusses approaches along technical and process issues. There is a showcase of innovation applications, and coverage on how to manage innovation individually as well as within a team and it also includes how to develop, manage, and sustain innovation in various organizations. Open-ended questions and exercises are included at the end of chapters with no need for a solutions manual. Written for the advance-level textbook market as well as for the professional reader, it targets those within the engineering, business, and management fields.
Computational Economic Analysis for Engineering and Industry
by Adedeji B. Badiru Olufemi A. OmitaomuRecent global anxiety indicates that more focus needs to be directed at economic issues related to industry. Conventional techniques often do not adequately embrace the integrated global factors that affect unique industries and industry focused computational tools have not been readily available. Until now. Computational Economic Analysis for Engi
Systems 4.0: Systems Foundations for Industry 4.0 (Analytics and Control)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Olufemi A. OmitaomuThe underlying premise for Industry 4.0 is a systems approach. This book introduces the concept of Systems 4.0 as a foundational requirement for the success of Industry 4.0 in the same way that Quality 4.0 has emerged to advance Industry 4.0. Systems 4.0: Systems Foundations for Industry 4.0 discusses the role of the professional engineer in advancing commerce and industry. It offers an introduction to Industry 4.0 and how to leverage the digital era to improve industrial operations. The book presents and describes the first industrial revolution on through to the fourth revolution and provides general systems engineering principles that can be used with Industry 4.0. This is a practical guide for professional engineers and consultants involved in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management and can also be used as a reference for students.
Systems 4.0: Systems Foundations for Industry 4.0 (Analytics and Control)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Olufemi A. OmitaomuThe underlying premise for Industry 4.0 is a systems approach. This book introduces the concept of Systems 4.0 as a foundational requirement for the success of Industry 4.0 in the same way that Quality 4.0 has emerged to advance Industry 4.0. Systems 4.0: Systems Foundations for Industry 4.0 discusses the role of the professional engineer in advancing commerce and industry. It offers an introduction to Industry 4.0 and how to leverage the digital era to improve industrial operations. The book presents and describes the first industrial revolution on through to the fourth revolution and provides general systems engineering principles that can be used with Industry 4.0. This is a practical guide for professional engineers and consultants involved in Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Operations Management and can also be used as a reference for students.
Project Management for Research: A Guide for Graduate Students (Systems Innovation Book Series)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Christina F. Rusnock Vhance V. ValenciaGraduate research is a complicated process, which many undergraduate students aspire to undertake. The complexity of the process can lead to failures for even the most brilliant students. Success at the graduate research level requires not only a high level of intellectual ability but also a high level of project management skills. Unfortunately, many graduate students have trouble planning and implementing their research. Project Management for Research: A Guide for Graduate Students reflects the needs of today’s graduate students. All graduate students need mentoring and management guidance that has little to do with their actual classroom performance. Graduate students do a better job with their research programs if a self-paced guide is available to them. This book provides such a guide. It covers topics ranging from how to select an appropriate research problem to how to schedule and execute research tasks. The authors take a project management approach to planning and implementing graduate research in any discipline. They use a conversational tone to address the individual graduate student. This book helps graduate students and advisors answer most of the basic questions of conducting and presenting graduate research, thereby alleviating frustration on the part of both student and advisor. It presents specific guidelines and examples throughout the text along with more detailed examples in reader-friendly appendices at the end. By being more organized and prepared to handle basic research management functions, graduate students, along with their advisors, will have more time for actual intellectual mentoring and knowledge transfer, resulting in a more rewarding research experience.
Project Management for Research: A Guide for Graduate Students (Systems Innovation Book Series #42)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Christina F. Rusnock Vhance V. ValenciaGraduate research is a complicated process, which many undergraduate students aspire to undertake. The complexity of the process can lead to failures for even the most brilliant students. Success at the graduate research level requires not only a high level of intellectual ability but also a high level of project management skills. Unfortunately, many graduate students have trouble planning and implementing their research. Project Management for Research: A Guide for Graduate Students reflects the needs of today’s graduate students. All graduate students need mentoring and management guidance that has little to do with their actual classroom performance. Graduate students do a better job with their research programs if a self-paced guide is available to them. This book provides such a guide. It covers topics ranging from how to select an appropriate research problem to how to schedule and execute research tasks. The authors take a project management approach to planning and implementing graduate research in any discipline. They use a conversational tone to address the individual graduate student. This book helps graduate students and advisors answer most of the basic questions of conducting and presenting graduate research, thereby alleviating frustration on the part of both student and advisor. It presents specific guidelines and examples throughout the text along with more detailed examples in reader-friendly appendices at the end. By being more organized and prepared to handle basic research management functions, graduate students, along with their advisors, will have more time for actual intellectual mentoring and knowledge transfer, resulting in a more rewarding research experience.
Leadership Matters: An Industrial Engineering Framework for Developing and Sustaining Industry (Systems Innovation Book Series)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Melinda L. TourangeauThis book presents in-depth case studies from an industrial engineering perspective of the rise and fall of selected industries around the world. Discussing what works and what doesn’t work from a systems approach can help the industry avert problems of shutdowns and takeovers. Leadership Matters: An Industrial Engineering Framework for Developing and Sustaining Industry discusses how industries face the birth and death of new manufacturing enterprises. Many disastrous outcomes can be prevented if proper industrial engineering tools and techniques are applied throughout daily operations. This book explains how product development, advancement, and international promotion are best accomplished through the practice of industrial engineering techniques. It illustrates how the discipline of industrial engineering has a proven track record of aiding the survival of industry especially now that organizations are more vulnerable to adverse developments in the global supply chain. Real-world examples of managing products, services, and results are offered along with a range of management tools. A template for operational excellence is also provided. This practical professional book should be on the reading shelf of all industry practitioners, industrial and manufacturing engineers, business management professionals, and consultants as well as those teaching industrial, mechanical, and business leadership courses.
Leadership Matters: An Industrial Engineering Framework for Developing and Sustaining Industry (Systems Innovation Book Series)
by Adedeji B. Badiru Melinda L. TourangeauThis book presents in-depth case studies from an industrial engineering perspective of the rise and fall of selected industries around the world. Discussing what works and what doesn’t work from a systems approach can help the industry avert problems of shutdowns and takeovers. Leadership Matters: An Industrial Engineering Framework for Developing and Sustaining Industry discusses how industries face the birth and death of new manufacturing enterprises. Many disastrous outcomes can be prevented if proper industrial engineering tools and techniques are applied throughout daily operations. This book explains how product development, advancement, and international promotion are best accomplished through the practice of industrial engineering techniques. It illustrates how the discipline of industrial engineering has a proven track record of aiding the survival of industry especially now that organizations are more vulnerable to adverse developments in the global supply chain. Real-world examples of managing products, services, and results are offered along with a range of management tools. A template for operational excellence is also provided. This practical professional book should be on the reading shelf of all industry practitioners, industrial and manufacturing engineers, business management professionals, and consultants as well as those teaching industrial, mechanical, and business leadership courses.
Management Kritischer Situationen: Produktentwicklung erfolgreich gestalten (VDI-Buch)
by Petra Badke-Schaub Eckart FrankenbergerDas praxisorientierte Konzept der kritischen Situation ermöglicht eine selbstständige Übertragung von Erkenntnissen in die eigene Tätigkeit, insbesondere in der Produktentwicklung. Anleitungen zur Identifikation, Analyse und Verbesserung kritischer Situationen werden gegeben. Eine anschaulich vermittelte theoretische Fundierung verdeutlicht die Durchgängigkeit des Konzeptes. Kritische Situationen werden erstmals umfassend als Basismethode zur Analyse komplexer Tätigkeiten vorgestellt.
Human Factors - Psychologie sicheren Handelns in Risikobranchen
by Petra Badke-Schaub Gesine Hofinger Kristina LaucheIn Luftfahrt, Kernkraft, chemischer Industrie, Medizin und Militär arbeiten Menschen mit komplexen technischen Systemen. Doch in kritischen Situationen entscheidet der Mensch, nicht die Maschine – und das häufig unter Zeitdruck und hohem Risiko. Dabei können Fehler dramatische Konsequenzen haben. „Risikobranchen" benötigen deshalb Konzepte, die Fehlerquellen minimieren, sicheres Handeln fördern und den „Faktor Mensch" effektiver einsetzen. Im ersten Buchteil erklären Wissenschaftler Konzepte zu Sicherheit, Fehlern und menschlichem Handeln. Im zweiten Teil stellen erfahrene Praktiker aktuelle Herausforderungen einzelner Branchen vor und präsentieren Lösungsansätze: Wie werden Prozesse und Systeme sicherer und Kommunikation effektiver gestaltet? Wie kann Komplexität reduziert werden? Welche Rolle spielen Personalführung oder neue Formen der Zusammenarbeit? Wie kann Teamarbeit trainiert werden? Sicherheitsbeauftragte, Manager und Personaler in Risikobranchen, Ingenieure, Trainer und Psychologen finden in diesem Buch aktuelle Konzepte der Human-Factors-Psychologie anschaulich erklärt und mit spannenden Fallbeispielen verdeutlicht.
Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth
by Nikolas BadmintonA fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy. Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
Facing Our Futures: How foresight, futures design and strategy creates prosperity and growth
by Nikolas BadmintonA fascinating insight into how professionals and businesses can develop their foresight and strategy to ensure that they are prepared for an unpredictable future.Businesses, organizations and society-at-large are all subject to unforeseeable events and incidents that often have a dramatic impact upon prosperity and profit. Due to their unpredictable nature, business leaders and executive teams are unable to prepare for these specific events. But, through innovation, strategizing and an open-minded approach, they can restructure their organization and practices in order to mitigate (or even take advantage of) the impact of such events.In Facing Our Futures, Nikolas Badminton draws upon his decades of experience as a consultant and futurist to provide readers with the skillset and outlook they need to prepare their organization, team and themselves for whatever obstacles the future may hold. CEOs, executive teams, government leaders and policy makers need to gain a broader perspective and a firmer grasp on how their relevant industry, society or community is evolving and changing. Once they have acquired this foresight, they need to then discover how to fully harness it – by strengthening their foundations, forecasting and establishing a resilient and adaptable strategy. Facing Our Futures acts as a primer on the value of seeing how bad things can get and the power in imagining these futures. It also provides a proven strategic planning and foresight methodology - the Positive Dystopia Canvas (PDC) - that allows leaders to supercharge their teams to build evocative visions of futures that strengthen planning today.
Management and Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: 10th IFIP WG 6.6 International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2016, Munich, Germany, June 20-23, 2016, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #9701)
by Rémi Badonnel Robert Koch Aiko Pras Martin Drašar Burkhard StillerThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 6.6International Conference on Autonomous Infrastructure, Management, and Security, AIMS 2016, held in Munich, Germany, in June 2016.The 7 full papers presented together with 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The volume also includes 9 papers presented at the AIMS PhD workshop. They were reviewed in a separate process and selected from 21 submissions. The full papers are organized in topical sections on autonomic and smart management and security attacks and defenses. The workshop papers are organized in topical sections on management of future networks and security management. The short papers deal with methods for management and security.
Smart Digital Service Ecosystems: A Research Roadmap from Service Computing and Engineering Perspectives (SpringerBriefs in Service Science)
by Youakim BadrThis book provides a holistic overview of the major advances that have been made in the context of Service Science with a focus on IT-enabled services. To address challenges in collaborative, social-centric, ad-hoc, dynamic and open environments, the book studies IT-enabled service systems from two distinct but complementary research perspectives: service engineering and service computing. From a service engineering view, the book shows how to apply a systemic approach to tackle social problems from holistic and multi-disciplinary perspectives by focusing on service systems and developing a service design framework, including socio-technical aspects, the service reference model, data-driven collaboration processes, the incremental design method, requirement propagation, and system adaptability with feedback loops. From a service computing view, the book introduces a service-oriented aided infrastructure to support IT-enabled service systems in ICT-facilitated environments and provide access to tangible and intangible resources in a trustworthy environment. The book offers a valuable companion and comprehensive reference guide for undergraduate and graduate students who want to learn about current concepts for designing and implementing service systems; and for researchers who want to identify future directions in build smart digital service ecosystems, integrating Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cyber-security. The book also appeals to developers who need to implement advanced services and want to capitalize on corresponding business models, customer-driven interaction, and scalable architectures.
Higher Education in the Arab World: Building a Culture of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Adnan Badran Elias Baydoun John R. HillmanThis book is the first major account of innovation and entrepreneurship in the Arab higher-education sector. It provides an update of the current situation and advances reasons for the under-performance of Arab universities in international ranking tables and the weaknesses of Arab economies. Specific proposals are made for upgrading curricula and assessment procedures as well as providing an environment that fosters innovation and entrepreneurial behaviour. The roles of university-based technology and business parks are examined, with examples of successful business partnerships in the Arab region, Europe, and North America.Opportunities for innovation and entrepreneurship have never been greater with the wealth of rapidly developing transformative technologies that are driving the international knowledge economy. This book puts forward proposals for the management and exploitation of intellectual property, and for establishing businesses.
Multinational Companies in Low-Income Markets: An Analysis of Social Embeddedness in Southeast Asia
by Dina Badry“Alleviating poverty through the pursuit of profit” has become a catch phrase for many entrepreneurs and business people who started to focus their businesses on the lower incomes segments of the population at the “Base of the Pyramid” (BOP). Despite such business interests, there is, as yet, insufficient theoretical and empirical work done in this emerging field. Social embeddedness, which facilitates the leveraging of local knowledge and expertise and the earning of the trust of the local people, is deemed essential for the successful implementation of a BOP strategy. What does social embeddedness mean? What does it entail for the businesses? How should businesses be embedded in the local networks? Dina Badry seeks to answer these questions in her excellent dissertation through her conceptualization and empirical research which examines the different strategic intentions of business units operation at the BOP level and their potential network partners, following social network theory. I have little doubt that this study has contributed to our understanding of social embeddedness and will prove itself to be invaluable for academics as well as practitioners. Prof. Dr. Li-Choy Chong VII Acknowledgements Writing this dissertation has been a significant academic and personal challenge in my life. Fortunately, I have received invaluable support, patience and guidance from many people to whom I want to express my sincere gratitude. I would like to thank my dissertation committee, Prof. Dr. Li-Choy Chong and Prof. Dr.
Fehlzeiten-Report: Psychische Belastung am Arbeitsplatz Zahlen, Daten, Fakten aus allen Branchen der Wirtschaft (Fehlzeiten-Report #1999)
by B. Badura M. Litsch C. VetterDer Fehlzeitenreport 1999 macht auf der Basis umfassender Datenbestände der AOK die Ausfallzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft transparent.- Statistische Daten aus den zehn wichtigsten Branchen- Tabellen und Graphiken zu typischen Krankenständen nach Branche und Betriebsgröße- Medizinische Bewertung der Krankheitsarten und deren Folgen im BetriebSchwerpunktthema 1999: Psychische Belastungen am ArbeitsplatzDer Report zeigt Ursachen und Auslöser der Fehlzeiten auf und bietet Verantwortlichen die Grundlage für rationale Lösungen.
Fehlzeiten-Report 2001: Gesundheitsmanagement im öffentlichen Sektor (Fehlzeiten-Report #2001)
by B. Badura M. Litsch C. VetterIm wachsenden Wettbewerb werden krankheitsbedingte Fehlzeiten immer mehr zu einem relevanten Kostenfaktor. Der Fehlzeiten-Report 2001 macht auf der Basis umfassender Datenbestände der AOK die Ausfallzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft transparent.- Übersichtliche Statistiken zum Krankenstand der Arbeitnehmer aus zehn ausgewählten Wirtschaftsbranchen- Anschauliche Darstellung in zahlreichen Tabellen und Abbildungen- Medizinische Bewertung der Krankheitsarten und deren Folgen im Betrieb- Zeigt die Gründe und Auslöser von Fehlzeiten auf und bietet die Basis für rationale Lösungen- Schwerpunktthema 2001:: Gesundheitsmanagement im öffentlichen SektorDer Fehlzeiten-Report erscheint jährlich mit den aktuellsten Daten und Fakten und neuem Schwerpunktthema. Er liefert Personalverantwortlichen die Basis, um sich schnell und zuverlässig über die aktuellen Befunde und den Diskussionsstand zu informieren.
Fehlzeiten-Report 2004: Gesundheitsmanagement in Krankenhäusern und Pflegeeinrichtungen (Fehlzeiten-Report #2004)
by B. Badura H. Schellschmidt C. VetterDer Fehlzeiten-Report vom Wissenschaftlichen Institut der AOK (WIdO) und der Universität Bielefeld liefert jedes Jahr umfassende Daten und Analysen zu den krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten in der deutschen Wirtschaft. Aktuelle Befunde und Bewertungen zu den Gründen und Mustern von Fehlzeiten in Betrieben werden vorgestellt. Das diesjährige Schwerpunktthema "Gesundheitsmanagement" bietet eine Analyse der Arbeitswelt in Krankenhäusern, Arztpraxen und anderen Gesundheitseinrichtungen. Namhafte Experten berichten über Arbeitszufriedenheit, Gesundheit und Produktivität an Arbeitsplätzen in der Gesundheitsbranche und über personalpolitische Maßnahmen zu deren Optimierung.