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Enterprise Governance of Information Technology Achieving Alignment and Valu…
Featuring numerous case examples from companies around the world, this second edition integrates theoretical advances and empirical data with practical applications, including in-depth discussion on the COBIT 5 framework which can be used to build, measure and audit enterprise governance of IT approaches. At the forefront of the field, the authors of this volume draw from years of research and …
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- 978-3-319-14547-1
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9th WCEAM Research Papers: Volume 1 Proceedings of 2014 World Congress on Eng…
Engineering asset management encompasses all types of engineered assets including built environment, infrastructure, plant, equipment, hardware systems and components. Following the release of ISO 5500x set of standards, the 9th WCEAM addresses the hugely important issue of what constitutes the body of knowledge in Engineering Asset Management. Topics discussed by Congress delegates are grouped…
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- 978-3-319-15536-4
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- Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
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- 658 NIN n
Engineering Asset Management - Systems, Professional Practices and Certificat…
This proceeding represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Eight World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM). The Proceedings of the WCEAM 2013 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as: Asset con…
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- 978-3-319-09507-3
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- 212 b/w illustrations, 543 illustrations in colour
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Enforcing and Trading Patents Evidence for Europe
Applying novel datasets, Fabian Gäßler analyzes how key aspects of the current patent system in Europe and Germany, respectively, affect patent enforcement and patent trade. In particular, he shows what factors determine court selection in patent litigation and how the jurisdictional separation of validity and infringement questions favors the patent holder. The author further provides empiri…
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- 978-3-658-13375-7
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National Innovation Efficiency During the Global Crisis
What effect did the Great Recession have on innovation efficiency and the effectiveness of scarce resource management? Did countries with high GDPs and GDPs per capita sustain efficient innovation? How did the recession affect the time lag between innovation development and implementation? This book presents the most comprehensive data set in current economic literature to measure and compare t…
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- 978-1-137-58254-6
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- XVII, 184
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New Perspectives on Internationalization and Competitiveness
This volume showcases contributions from leading academics, educators and policymakers derived from two workshops hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University on internationalization and competitiveness. It aims to present key areas of current research and to identify basic problems within the field to promote further discussion and research. …
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- 978-3-319-11978-6
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- XV, 185
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Multimedia Data Mining and Analytics
This book provides fresh insights into the cutting edge of multimedia data mining, reflecting how the research focus has shifted towards networked social communities, mobile devices and sensors. The work describes how the history of multimedia data processing can be viewed as a sequence of disruptive innovations. Across the chapters, the discussion covers the practical frameworks, libraries, an…
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- 978-3-319-14997-4
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- XIV, 454
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The Smart City and the Co-creation of Value A Source of New Competitiveness …
The original point that differentiates this text from otherwise similar texts is that it looks at the building of smart cities from the viewpoint of an interchange of knowledge among companies in different industries, or “Ba” as shared context in motion, and emphasizes that the resulting value becomes a source of new corporate competitive advantage. In recent years numerous publications hav…
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- 978-4-431-55846-0
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Emerging Economies Food and Energy Security, and Technology and Innovation
This volume brings together research on development in three major areas of contemporary global relevance: agriculture and food security, energy, and the institutions of national innovation. Covering six of the largest emerging and developing economies (EDEs) in the world, three Asian (China, India and Malaysia), two Latin American (Brazil and Mexico), and one African (South Africa), the book …
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- 978-81-322-2101-2
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Emergent Collaboration Infrastructures Technology Design for Inter-Organizat…
Using the domain of crisis management, Christian Reuter explores challenges and opportunities for technology design in emergent environments. He therefore empirically analyzes collaborative work in inter-organizational crisis – such as the police, fire departments, energy network operators and citizens – in order to identify collaboration practices that reveal work infrastructure limitat…
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