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Mass Customization: Opportunities, Methods, and Challenges for Manufacturers
Mass Customization examines the business opportunities, considerations, and challenges manufacturers in various industries must weigh before committing to the significant investment in machinery and software needed to go to mass customization. For manufacturers who decide that it’s time to take the plunge, the author describes the proven methods and latest technologies for making mass customi…
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- 978-1-4842-1007-9
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The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
Edited by two leading academics in this area, and with contributions from 25 prominent market practitioners and academics over 16 chapters, this Handbook covers shipping finance and banking, maritime financial management and investments. As such, it includes: shipping markets; asset backed finance; shipbuilding finance; debt finance; public and private equity and debt markets; structured financ…
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- 978-1-137-46546-7
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- XLII, 430, 20 b/w illustrations, 86 illustrations in colour
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- The International Handbook of Shipping Finance
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Design for Experience Where Technology Meets Design and Strategy
Presents a strategic perspective and design methodology that guide the process of developing digital products and services that provide?real experience? to users. Only when the material experienced runs its course to fulfilment is it then regarded as?real experience? that is distinctively senseful, evaluated as valuable, and harmoniously related to others. Based on the theoretical background of…
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- 9783319143040
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- 338.71
The Profitable Supply Chain
The book addresses situations found in such industries as consumer electronics, healthcare, telecommunications, consumer goods, industrial equipment, building materials, and many others. No matter the industry, all firms trading products face operational challenges in producing and/or moving goods in a geographically dispersed global network while fulfilling customer demand in a timely and cost…
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- 978-1-4842-0526-6
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- VIII, 296
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The Impact of Mobile Phones on Poverty and Inequality in Developing Countries
This book investigates at both the micro- and macroeconomic levels the impact of mobile phones on poverty and inequality in developing countries. To gauge the effects of mobile phones on these aspects, the author refers to the standard concept of technology adoption and also analyses the actual utilization of mobile phones as a means of communication and the degree to which they have supplanted…
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- 978-3-319-27368-6
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- VIII, 93, 4 illustrations in colour
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- SpringerBriefs in Economics
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The Handbook of Service Innovation
Bringing together some of the world’s leading thinkers, academics and professionals to provide practitioners, students and academicians with comprehensive insights into implementing effective service innovation. This book presents service innovation holistically and systemically across various service areas, including health, education, tourism, hospitality, telecommunications, and retail. It…
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- 978-1-4471-6590-3
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- XL, 842, 109 b/w illustrations
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- The Handbook of Service Innovation
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The Principles of Geotourism
The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys, evaluation and aesthetic value assessment. It also discusses about the principles behind geopark establishment and management. …
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- 978-3-662-46697-1
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- XXIII, 264
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- Springer Geography
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The Principle of Profit Models
This book mainly focuses on defining profit models, on how many main kinds of profit models there are, how profit models can change a company, and how to tailor a profit model to the needs of a certain company. In this context, profit models are classified as fixed-income, remaining-profit and profit-sharing, admission, toll, parking, fuel and sharing fees, profit sources, customer pricing, auc…
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- 978-3-662-44714-7
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- XIV, 184
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Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services
Business Intelligence with SQL Server Reporting Services helps you deliver business intelligence with panache. Harness the power of the Reporting Services toolkit to combine charts, gauges, sparklines, indicators, and maps into compelling dashboards and scorecards. Create compelling visualizations that seize your audience’s attention and help business users identify and react swiftly to chang…
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The Practice of Enterprise Modeling
The 23 short papers accepted were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions and are organized in eight sections on Evolving Enterprises, Securing Enterprises, Making Empirical Studies, Investigating Enterprise Methods, Acquiring User Information, Managing Risks and Threats, Engineering Methods, and Making Decisions in Enterprises.
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- 978-3-319-25897-3
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- XIII, 389
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- Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
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