Part I: Introduction -- Part II: Driving Innovation Through Emerging Technologies -- Part III: Driving Innovation Through Advanced Process Analytics -- Part IV: Driving Innovation Through New Generation Process Modeling -- Part V: Driving Innovation Through Organizational Capabilities.

This book presents strategies and practices to allow everyday companies to cope with the fundamentally changing landscape of business models and to take advantage of the huge business opportunities arising from the advent of big data. It develops several case studies from companies in...

Part 1: Critical Factors for Successful Global IT Service Organizations -- Part 2: Industrial Reformation -- Part 3: Tools for Immediate Optimization and Greater Efficiency -- Part 4: Structural Changes -- Part 5: Innovation Ecosystem -- Part 6: A Route for Industrial IT Production.

Chinese companies have been increasingly active in outbound investment in recent years, with Germany the third largest destination in Europe. Adopting an analytical approach and utilizing case studies and expert interviews, this book examines Chinese mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in Germany,...

The world of M&A has always been complex and nuanced. Corporations encounter their toughest business problems during a divestiture or a merger. At the same time, optimal execution of divestitures can also create high value for the seller as well as the buyer. This book is a collection of leading...

This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors introduce a framework that helps organizations develop core capabilities to enable them to shift direction rapidly and proactively shape future...

Introduction -- Transaction Cost -- Transaction Interface: Organization, Process, System -- Standard as an Interface -- Module and Interface -- Co-evolution of Markets and Organizations -- Design and Operation Methodologies of Interfaces -- Transaction Costs in Economics -- Applications of...